Corgan, Brown, Tulin to play benefit on Nov. 8 in Los Angeles 4:39 pm // Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Posted by jjb in backwards clock society, billy corgan, business, ebay, kerry brown, mark tulin, news.trackback
Billy Corgan, Kerry Brown, and Mark Tulin have formed another one-off band to perform in Los Angeles under less-than-joyous circumstances. A press release says the three will play under the name “Backwards Clock Society” at an event to benefit Laura Ann Masura, the operator (ca. 1993) of the short-lived Smashing Pumpkins Fan Club, who suffered a severe leg injury in a motorcycle crash last month.
The benefit concert will be held at Echoplex on Sunday, November 8. The Backwards Clock Society headlines and will be joined by the Happy Stars, the Pulsars, Tim Rutili, Pity Party, and Light FM. Showtime is an early 5pm; tickets are twelve dollars and can be purchased through TicketWeb.
Also to support Masura, Corgan will be auctioning a bass guitar he used very early in the Pumpkins’ career as well as the drum kit played by Jimmy Chamberlin during the recording of Gish (currently owned by Masura herself). These will apparently be the first items to be offered through the eBay “memorabilia division” for which plans were announced in April. An eBay seller page for the band has appeared under “officialspmemorabilia”, but no items are yet listed.
UPDATE: SmashingPumpkins.com has pictures of Billy and Jimmy signing the bass and drums; the auction is to begin tomorrow.
sigh. i am going miss this
(6:43 PM) chris: so will the Backwards Clock Society be covering Spirits in the Sky songs?
(6:43 PM) jjb: oh, here we go.
(6:44 PM) jjb: what? is this post a setup to start comparing them to Spirits in the Sky?!
(6:44 PM) jjb: WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS POST
I’m starting to think all these projects were those Billy mentionned when he said he had 3-4 bands he’d play with in mind…?
Or maybe this one was totally unplanned…
(6:48 PM) jjb: i suppose anthony kiedis will be singing
(6:48 PM) chris: haha, he’ll also be the one who convinces them to play all the good covers
(6:48 PM) jjb: lol
The occasion is sad, but glad they’re helping her out with the benefit. Very sweet. Jason, you and Chris raise some (questionably) interesting points which threaten to make my brain explode.
The ticket says Backward Clock Society but the press release says Backwards Clock Society. I sense a new “The Smashing Pumpkins” vs. “Smashing Pumpkins” type debate in the works. Anyway, I’m looking forward to the BBQ if nothing else. Can’t beat $12.00
Should at least be able to get a good ribeye
@gauphil: I think that remains to be seen. Personally I think it would be really funny if every time he played with Kerry and Mark the band had a totally different name. Kind of an FU to the people who fixate on Billy’s use of the name “Smashing Pumpkins”.
@chris
True. Well said!
I’m still curious about that “multiple bands” thing of him.
Damn that’s some cool new info! I wonder what they’ll play? Hmm…
> The occasion is sad, but glad they’re helping her out with the benefit. Very sweet.
Yes, I agree with you. I hope she is okay and recovers soon.
http://www.jamesiha.org/newsdatabase.php?id=1308
So, she is a childhood friend of James and encouraged to be a drummer by Jimmy… I’m just wondering if James and Jimmy also are asked to join this benefit show…
^ That would be interesting. I also am curious as to what songs will be played seeing there is no Mike Byrne involved. Backwards Clock Society huh? Glad to hear no one died i guess. Hope some good video/audio will come out of this..ugh im spoiled by Monte.. are u sure u cant go?
I’m guessing Evelyn who runs the MySpace LA Pumpkin Fan page will attend and videotape
wish i still lived in LA
Awesome! Jimmy signed the drum set.
http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/ebay/drums_mainimage2.jpg
Cool! Wonder if those pics were taken in Billy’s house? There is some sort of animal (cat?) cage in the background.
So is this eBay memorabilia thing another one of the projects that Billy has followed through on?
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@Cagle
DUH- it’s a rat cage. :P”
Hope she’s ok… wish I could go. ;_;
Ah, the memories: http://web.archive.org/web/19961224200802/www.cae.wisc.edu/~agnew/sp/articles/LAnn.html
rC: turkish Family
(hey, I just had Turkish for dinner)
wow.. holy full justification, Batman.
I’d love to know when Jimmy signed. Anyway, that’s a cool thing!
On sale now: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270473442784 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270473438629
Ah well this letter from Jimmy answers my question. He just signed it recently. I suppose this could mean Billy and him are in correct term, which would be great news I think!
http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/ebay/jc_letter.jpg
Usually not the kind of things I think about but I would be curious to see Billy without his hat these days. I wonder if he may grow hair and play with it love live despite the fact that he probably doesn’t have that much hair left.
For some reason I think it would fit with the atmosphere of the “new” SP if he assumed his baldness in public. Anyone with me on this one? Just speculating of course.
Geez, $3049 Billy vs $1315 Jimmy. These bidders do not know sniping.
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