Smashing Pumpkins Offer Subscription To Recording Process

Smashing Pumpkins founder Billy Corgan has announced that he is launching a subscription service at the band's official web site that will allow fans to track the progress of new Pumpkins music as Corgan writes and records it in the studio. Fans would receive video diary entries, photos, lyrics and inside looks at the recording process during a 12-week period, all for a price tag of $40.

Corgan said in a statement, "The goal is to create a working model that is not profit motivated but rather information and access motivated. In exchange for a fixed resource base fans will be let inside in an unprecedented way to the creative process of preparing to make the next (Smashing Pumpkins) album while also inspiring an interactive dialogue that will help shape the work."

Corgan promises at least five studio updates a week for subscribers, with each lasting at least five minutes.

The video updates will eventually be collected into a film at the end of the recording process. Fans will not get access to any completed music.

The site says that "the project will be set aside for a future time" if there is not enough subscriber demand.

Corgan recently said that the next Pumpkins albums could contain as many as 44 tracks, with segments of it released online over a two-year period.

Corgan recently auditioned drummers — including System Of A Down's John Dolmayan — to replace Jimmy Chamberlin in the band.

Thanks for the report to Blabbermouth.net.

Comments

[flambe chicken]

i have to say that i think this is an absolute con, and an awful idea.

[kranoscorp]

I disagree. While Billy Corgan is a douche, the idea of a look inside the creative process of an album is a great one. I personally would not like Billy Corgan's commentary, but if other artists took this up it would be awesome.

[psychoskin473]

why not just call it sixty and throw in a special cd dvd pack at the end of the deal?

[Hanzo Takashi]

Billy Corgan will do anything for money.

He's almost as bad as Gene Simmons.

[soapalot]

^What other evidence, besides this article, do you have that Billy Corgan is a greedy capitalist? I say none, sir. Billy Corgan is in it for the music, not the money. I think it's fine to charge for something like this. With recorded music worth very little these days musicians have to find some way to make a living off it because it is their job and livelihood.

[Hanzo Takashi]

soapalot wrote:

^What other evidence, besides this article, do you have that Billy Corgan is a greedy capitalist? I say none, sir. Billy Corgan is in it for the music, not the money. I think it's fine to charge for something like this. With recorded music worth very little these days musicians have to find some way to make a living off it because it is their job and livelihood.

Dude, you're kidding, right?

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_ news/billy_corgan_wants_broadcast_radio_to_pay_performers.ht ml

[Comeback Kiddd]

Fans would receive video diary entries .

well thats cute

[Lapidus]

Hanzo Takashi wrote:

Billy Corgan will do anything for money.

He's almost as bad as Gene Simmons.

Amen, he's pathetic, soon he'll be doing naked webcam shows (and not the musical kind I'm afraid)

[IbanezGod007]

"In exchange for a fixed resource base fans will be let inside in an unprecedented way to the creative process of preparing to make the next (Smashing Pumpkins) album while also inspiring an interactive dialogue that will help shape the work."

As a former SP fan, I might have considered paying $40 to see the whole band collaborate to make SD or MC&TIS back in my teenage years. Those were epic albums to a lot of people.

As for that last part... anyone who thinks BC is going to let his fans shape his music is delusional. His own band quit out from under him because they couldn't get him to listen to them.

He should consider doing it for FREE in an attempt to win back former fans like myself. I'd tune in to check that out, form a curiosity standpoint if nothing else.

[Jet_Black88]

"The goal is to create a working model that is not profit motivated but rather information and access motivated."

THEN GIVE IT TO US FOR FREE

[whoa_backoff]

Fans will not get access to any completed music.

So, $40 bucks to listen to BC whine on video cam. I would pay $40 NOT to have to listen to him.

[David_Bowie=GOD]

I could rant about this, but im tired of it.

This is probably his worst idea. Ever.

[SOUPerman432321]

It would be a good idea if he wasn't charging....I think artists should update fans on the recording process anyway....its just another form of promotion.

[guitar77432]

man, what's happened to SP? billy corgan is such a douche. i miss the old band, siamese dream, gish, mellon collie were friggin great albums, but now, with only him as the original member..., yea not so good.

[NGAMER9]

So it is like Metallica's thing they did for Death Magnetic, but for 40 bucks? Pass. Why not go with the Metallica pricing model instead of charging us through the nose for it?

[soapalot]

Hanzo Takashi wrote:

soapalot wrote:

^What other evidence, besides this article, do you have that Billy Corgan is a greedy capitalist? I say none, sir. Billy Corgan is in it for the music, not the money. I think it's fine to charge for something like this. With recorded music worth very little these days musicians have to find some way to make a living off it because it is their job and livelihood.

Dude, you're kidding, right?

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_ news/billy_corgan_wants_broadcast_radio_to_pay_performers.ht ml

That link goes nowhere, dude

[bluto62]

soapalot wrote:

Hanzo Takashi wrote:

soapalot wrote:

^What other evidence, besides this article, do you have that Billy Corgan is a greedy capitalist? I say none, sir. Billy Corgan is in it for the music, not the money. I think it's fine to charge for something like this. With recorded music worth very little these days musicians have to find some way to make a living off it because it is their job and livelihood.

Dude, you're kidding, right?

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_ news/billy_corgan_wants_broadcast_radio_to_pay_performers.ht ml

That link goes nowhere, dude

Copy the link and then connect the T and M in "html."

[IamGod 666]

The band died with chamerline. RIP

[pootoob]

Hanzo Takashi wrote:

soapalot wrote:

^What other evidence, besides this article, do you have that Billy Corgan is a greedy capitalist? I say none, sir. Billy Corgan is in it for the music, not the money. I think it's fine to charge for something like this. With recorded music worth very little these days musicians have to find some way to make a living off it because it is their job and livelihood.

Dude, you're kidding, right?

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_ news/billy_corgan_wants_broadcast_radio_to_pay_performers.ht ml

Yes, god forbid artists actually recieve money for their work. That's not being greedy at all.

[FireBirdKing]

Yay now we can know it sucks five minutes into the recording process..

[xcmasta91]

horrible idea

[Ticks & Leeches]

Surely it would just end up on youtube

[JimiOwnsYou21]

Anyone else smell a Rock of love: Billy Corgan edition coming soon?