Obviously, the album had a lot to do with how Nevermind was recorded.
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And through the years, I’ve talked to many, many people who really pointed to Gish as the game-changer in their mind about how to approach guitar and how to record. He told me how much of an influence Gish was on their first record. I remember having a conversation with Eddie Vedder when we were on tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Not only did it get memory-holed, but people have tended to diminish the influence of the record. Do you think because the songs weren’t on MTV and Nevermind and Ten hit just a few months later, that its success has been somewhat memory-holed? I often see Gish described as this little indie album that set the stage for Siamese Dream. I know it’s real, but I’m a little slow on accepting it. It’s as clear in my mind as if it happened a year ago. I can still see where the drums were and everything. I remember my grandmother telling me stories about things that happened and her saying, “Gosh, it doesn’t feel like that long ago.” To me as a kid, 30 years seemed like a lifetime.Īnd now I look back, and it doesn’t feel that long ago. It’s pretty wild, because it doesn’t seem that long ago. How does it feel to think it was 30 years ago this week that the album came out? I want to start on Gish, since this is the 30th anniversary. Fans can tune in for $19.91 (get it?) and portions of the money raised will be donated to PAWS, a no-kill animal shelter in Chicago. With Gish turning 30, the band is celebrating on Saturday with a two-hour livestream where Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin will take questions, spin Gish-era classics, and preview unreleased music.
Few realize it was the best-selling indie record in rock history until the Offspring outdid it in 1994 with Smash. Perhaps because the MTV crowd didn’t become aware of the Pumpkins until Siamese Dream hit in 1993, long after Nirvana and Pearl Jam broke out on the cable channel, Gish‘s impact has been somewhat obscured. At a time when most indie albums failed to reach many fans outside of an act’s small cult, Gish entered the Billboard 200, topped the CMJ chart, and connected in territories as far away as New Zealand and Australia.
And while it may be a stretch to say that Smashing Pumpkins’ 1991 debut LP was the first album of the alternative rock revolution (Jane’s Addiction, Pixies, Nirvana, and Mudhoney might have something to say about that), it was an enormous landmark nonetheless. Before Nevermind, Ten, Badmotorfinger, or Dirt, there was Gish.
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