Vig told EQ Magazine, " wanted to make everything sound amazing and see how far he could take it really spend time on the production and the performances.
The group started recording in December 1990 at Smart Studios in Madison, Wis. With a clear vision of what he wanted, Corgan joined Butch Vig as a co-producer on the band's debut disc, Gish. And it's only going to work for me if I go down this path." The Smashing Pumpkins, Live at Reckless Records - Chicago, Ill.
Like what if I took the lyricism of Bob Dylan and combined it with the riffs of Black Sabbath then the atmosphere of a Love and Rockets - can I put these things together? So I just kind of built my own world to where I had enough information and enough of a logic system that I started from a point of I don't want to do anything that anyone else is doing. So just playing a solo seemed to be worthless unless there was some context, so then I would start making these little songs. He stated, "As a guitar player in my mind, I wanted something to frame what I was doing. And when you meet someone who can articulate a vision, it's easy to buy in."Įven from the earliest days, Corgan strived for something different. Chamberlin remarked on VH1's Rock Icons, "I was very OCD when it came to my instrument and I met someone who was equally OCD about his songwriting and equally OCD about his guitar playing.