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Gibson Interviews Jeff 10 Months, 1 Week ago
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Seems like the Pumpkins are coming out of their shell recently.
www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/ArtistsAn...rview%20with%20Jeff/
A few high points:
Gibson.com: How did you get the gig with the Smashing Pumpkins? Did your cell ring and Billy Corgan was on the other line?
Well, not exactly. What happened is, that a friend of mine send me a message saying that the Smashing Pumpkins are looking for a new guitar player. And he thought I should try out. I never tried out for any band, I never was a musician for hire, so I had no bio, no photos, I just had my band which I had for the last ten years. Because I really loved the Pumpkins, I was like well, letīs give it a try. Luckily a friend of mine was doing some webstuff for the Pumpkins, so she pushed them a bit to listen to my stuff. I talked a couple of times with Jimmy on the phone, we went to breakfast together. So Jimmy, some other bass player and me started to play around a bit. After another month, finally Billy Corgan showed up and we jammed a bit. It was like, thank you, we will call you... Another two month later I got the call that I got the gig. And it worked out really great. As a guitar team it is really hard to just create chemistry. Billy and I are at a point where we connect really good with each other.
Gibson.com: Did you have problems with old-school fans asking for former guitar player James Iha?
To be honest, I am actually suprised of the lack of it. We did around 115 shows now and I only one time heard somebody saying where is James... The support of the fans is really amazing. They give me little gifts, T-Shirts with my name on, for example. It makes me really proud to see such a reaction, because I worked really really hard to give the material justice and play to the spirit of the band. I was a fan of the band, too. But if the original band canīt be here today I feel more than happy to do it.
Gibson.com: Did you have to practise a lot to learn the material?
Since the tour started last year, we played over 70 different songs. So when rehearsals started we rehearsed for 6 ― weeks, 6 days a week, 10 hours a day. Today you witnessed the soundcheck, we soundchecked for nearly 1 ― hours. For the Pumpkins, that is quite a mellow soundcheck. We donīt even call it soundcheck, we call it rehearsal. We play a lot of music together, a lot of. Billy is definately the musical leader, and sets the direction, but we are able to flow with it very well now. It definitely doesnt feel like practising.
Gibson.com: Unfortunately you werenīt able to contribute to Zeitgeist.
We already talked about it for sure. Jimmy and Billy first of all had to get a band together. Ginger and I never did so much touring in our whole life. So the first objective was to play the shows and not worry about much else. Billy and I are now talking about guitar stuff all the time. I would see it as a very natural progression to move into that as soon as we have finished the Zeitgeist tour
If we had a Jeff emoticon, I'd put it here....Murder! |
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Re:Gibson Interviews Jeff 10 Months, 1 Week ago
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jeff seems to be an allright dude he doesn't have a chip on his shoulder like some may have if they played in a big band like the pumpkins, he needs to talk more and i hope to hear his playing on future pumpkins recordings.
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SMASHING PUMPKINS; BEST LIVE SHOW IN ROCK!!!
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i like jeff.  |
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I think it's funny that the Pumpkin Queen essentially got Jeff the gig.
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with all the spelling/gramatical errors and "haha"s, it seems as though this might have been done through email or IM or something. Actually that seems the most logical way to do it.
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Re:Gibson Interviews Jeff 10 Months, 1 Week ago
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That was ace. I really like Jeff.
I wonder who that initial "some other bassist" was that he and Jimmy jammed with before Ginger came into the picture.
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Every passing moment is a chance to turn it all around.
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Re:Gibson Interviews Jeff 10 Months, 1 Week ago
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Eric Avery, wasn't it?
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Re:Gibson Interviews Jeff 10 Months ago
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awesome interview.
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Re:Gibson Interviews Jeff 10 Months ago
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Rivers Cuomo wrote:
Eric Avery, wasn't it?
yah, but he went bye bye, cause ginger is HOT 
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Re:Gibson Interviews Jeff 10 Months ago
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superchrist wrote:
Rivers Cuomo wrote:
Eric Avery, wasn't it?
yah, but he went bye bye, cause ginger is HOT
Imagine, for a moment, a weird alternate universe where the Pumpkins tour with a male bassist...weird.
There's no justice in the world when we have a Ginger icon, but none for Jeff or Lisa.
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Re:Gibson Interviews Jeff 9 Months, 1 Week ago
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Dance, Billy, dance.
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