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All The Other Kids Are Doing It
SPLASH! That's the sound of a wave of alternative-era acts hitting the surf. The Pixies' 2004 reunion tour was unexpectedly, enormously successful: a fact probably not lost on contemporaries like Dinosaur Jr., the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Smashing Pumpkins, the Happy Mondays and the many others who have since followed (or are following) suit.
Even considering all that, 2007 does have an unprecedentedly thriving throwback circuit. Why? It depends on whom you ask.
The Smashing Pumpkins' manager says in their case, it's all about the art.
"They've had some amazingly big offers — some seven-figure ones to play certain shows — and [bandleader] Billy [Corgan] has passed on several because he didn't think it was the right thing for the band," said Paul Geary, manager of Pumpkins 2.0, who are nearly finished with a new album and will begin a reunion tour with European festival dates this summer (see "Smashing Pumpkins Drummer Offers More Clues About Forthcoming LP"). But despite those big offers, Geary said Corgan's motivation is not money but his artistic vision.
"I've been involved with bands whose members can't stand each other, and over time they run out of dough and that's why they do it," he said. "But Billy's making a great record, and for the sake of a younger generation that he wants to turn on to the band's music, he is doing it with a band that will more faithfully re-create the old songs than ever before" (a pointed reference to the absence thus far of original Pumpkins guitarist James Iha and bassist D'Arcy Wretzky from this reunion).
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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/15...131/index.jhtmltraduco la parte in cui si parla degli sp....cerco di fare del mio meglio
il manager degli sp dice che nel loro caso è l'arte a far nascere la reunion.
"Gli sono state fatte grosse offerte- da sette numeri per alcuni concerti- e Billy ne ha rifiutate molte perchè non credeva fosse la cosa giusta per la band" dice paul geary manager dei pumpkins 2,che hanno quasi ultimato un nuovo album e cominceranno un tour con i festival europei di quest'estate.ma nonostante le grosse offerte,geary sostiene che la motivazione di corgan non è pecunaria ma artistica.
"ho lavorato con band i cui membri non potevano vedersi,e quando finiscono i soldi si riuniscono per questo",dice,"ma billy sta facendo un grande disco,e nell'interesse di una generazione giovane vuole spolverare la musica della band,lo sta facendo con una band che ricreerà fedelmente le vecchie canzoni,meglio che mai."(frase che punta all'assenza di james e d'arcy)