![]() And the game is instantly changed overnight."īecause Gish preceded what would become the grunge explosion, it's often overlooked for its influence. He adds, "Our record starts selling like crazy and they start thinking, 'Maybe we’re onto something.' Around the time they’re trying to figure out what to do, here comes Nevermind and here comes the Pearl Jam record. They were positioning us for where they felt we could go later." "They gave us a very modest budget and wanted us to get our feet wet, so they were stuck us in the corner with this no-name producer named Butch Vig to make a record that, in their mind, was going to fly under the radar. And to take it back to our situation, we were signed to Virgin, but they didn’t want what became Gish to come out on Virgin," says the singer. "The labels severely underestimated the power of what was coming. ![]() The band was even pitched a Gish re-release after the huge success of Nirvana and Pearl Jam later in the year. The singer says that the record labels at the time did not realize what was coming, outright telling the acts that their music wouldn't sell. "Obviously that ended up not happening, and Butch produced the record himself, and even then they took the mix away from him, which is why Andy Wallace did it." Even though Kurt wanted to work with him, the label was suspicious of that and wanted him to work with a more established name producer, basically sublimating him in the process," recalls Corgan. They didn’t trust him because he wasn’t a known entity. He came in and said, 'I’ve been offered this job.' He had this glum look on his face because they wanted him to work with someone he didn’t necessarily want to work with. "You gotta remember that we were in the studio the day that he got the call to do Nevermind. I said 'Butch Vig,' and he said, 'Who? What’s a Vig?'"īut Vig would get the call to work on Nevermind while recording Gish with Smashing Pumpkins, even if it took some arm twisting to make it happen. He asked me who I wanted to produce our first album. ![]() The singer admits Vig wasn't the known entity his is today, recalling, "I remember having a record company meeting and the guy said…I think it was Donnie Ienner, who was running Sony at the time. "Obviously, the album had a lot to do with how Nevermind was recorded," says Corgan. Plus it's important to note that Gish shared a producer with Nirvana's Nevermind as Butch Vig oversaw both records. 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. Though Gish arrived in early 1991, it would have an impact on two bands that essentially blew the doors open for the genre - Nirvana and Pearl Jam - with their releases later in the year.Ĭorgan recalled, "I remember having a conversation with Eddie Vedder when we were on tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. ![]()
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