Summer 1989 - Reel Time Studios, Chicago
Produced by Billy Corgan; Engineered & mixed by Mark Ignoffo
- C'mon
- Daughter (extended)
- Daydream
- East
- Egg
- Love (old demo version)
- Psychodelic
- Rhinoceros
- Snap (If I Could)
- Stars Fall In
- With You
More recording sessions with Mark Ignoffo, intended to constitute the first Smashing Pumpkins album. Fortunately for the future of the band, these sessions did not produce an album as anticipated but the second demo tape Moon. Billy Corgan also compiled a tape from these sessions called Gish, used for bookings and label solicitation in 1989 and 1990. Corgan also made a number of homemade mix tapes for friends and fans that featured different configurations of material from these sessions. While about half of the sessions have appeared on various releases, the remaining half can be found on bootlegs, the highest quality as unmastered final mixes compiled on a DAT tape that had belonged to Mike Potential.
The original demo included material on the current album Gish. “Tracks were recorded on a 16-track in a guy's basement,” says James. “There's I Am One, Rhinoceros, Bury Me, Daydream, and those tapes are still out there somewhere!” “You'd only be disappointed,” replies Billy. “But, you know, it was a very important time for us when everything started to converge.”[1]
- ↑ Nick Jones, Spiral Scratch, January 23rd, 1992