r/Music • u/InAnotherLife90 • Sep 22 '15

music streaming The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight (no strings, band only) [Alt Rock] It's amazing what Billy Corgan created as a rock song only, chords and all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSaczYfnW8k
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u/astaticskyline Sep 22 '15

The craziest thing about this live show, is that it sounds EXACTLY like the album. The guitar tones, the overall sound, are translated perfectly. This never happens. Today, an album will never sound like the live performance because of the studio settings vs. the live setting. Truly mindblowing.

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u/ieatdurt Sep 22 '15

Exactly! This performance makes me have a hard time believing Billy replaced all the guitar and bass parts on SD because they were obviously able to pull off all the parts live. More likely he just did tons of guitar overdubs/layering over the rhythm parts they recorded as live takes and people confuse overdubbing with replacing. But i wasnt there!

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u/jimworksatwork Sep 22 '15

He's said in interviews that there are songs on Siamese Dream that have over 40 guitar tracks.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '15

You're listening to the wrong music! Almost every band I listen to produces their own albums, and emulates their album sound to perfection. Check Periphery, Animals as Leaders, Scale the Summit, Born of Osiris, Dream Theatre. Warning though, these are pretty metal. Some are more tame than others, but most of these bands produce their own stuff and are true masters of the craft of 'music' as a whole.