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33-452: For many years after the band's initial breakup, they had toured with a litany of members, including Chamberlin himself when the band first reformed in 2006, although he quickly departed by early 2009. In 2015 he made a return to the band as a touring member for The End Times Tour with Marilyn Manson and 2016's In Plainsong tour, which was “acoustic-electro” and saw the band reach into their catalog of rarities alongside some hits. James Iha made

66-512: A Synthesist . His first instrument was a Moog Micromoog , after which he began working with a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 , an EMS Synthi AKS , Oberheim OB-Xa and Rhodes Chroma , as well as other instruments such as a Roland TR-808 drum machine, Roland SVC-350 Vocoder , Oberheim DMX drum machine and Oberheim DSX sequencer. Later, he began using such instruments as ARP 2600 , as well as Moog modular and Serge Modular systems. He received formal training in synthesizer programming on

99-453: A "strongly worded" letter to Manson, in which he claimed that actress Rose McGowan – who Manson was engaged to at the time – would "ruin my life and my career if I stayed with her." Manson responded by telling Corgan that "it would be a good marketing idea [to sell] Charlie Brown T-shirts and bald caps at [his] concerts", due to their similarity in appearance. The pair publicly settled their rift when Manson performed his own " Third Day of

132-474: A European tour in November. Corgan and Manson's friendship dates back to the late 1990s, with Corgan serving as an unofficial consultant for the band during the early development stages of Manson's 1998 album Mechanical Animals . After playing a few of the early songs for him, Corgan advised the band that "This is definitely the right direction" but to "go all the way with it. Don't just hint at it," referring to

165-729: A Seven Day Binge " and the Smashing Pumpkin's " Ava Adore " at the Camden Palace Theatre in London on December 5, 2014. They went on to perform the latter track again, when both bands appeared at the Australian music festival Soundwave . Michael Beinhorn Michael James Beinhorn is a North American record producer , composer, author, and musician. He has produced albums for Red Hot Chili Peppers , Soundgarden , Hole , Korn , and Marilyn Manson . Beinhorn began his career as

198-426: A book called "Unlocking Creativity" (published by Hal Leonard) which outlines his personal experience with the creative process as a record producer. However, his attention consistently returned to the issue of artist development, as well as other concerns facing artists, producers and other individuals who are trying to maintain their creative ethics in the radically shifting environment of a new music industry. Being

231-399: A few surprise returns on this tour as well, marking the first time he had shared a stage with Corgan since December 2, 2000. On February 15, 2018, the band announced both Chamberlin and Iha would return on a full-member basis, alongside now longtime member Jeff Schroeder , making the band's first ever lineup with three permanent guitarists. This tour would be the band's first arena trek since

264-540: A month or two weeks, but just vocals it took me five, almost six months. With Beinhorn, sometimes I'd walk in and sing and he'd just say, "Go home, your voice ain't right." [...] It was the peak and pinnacle of everything in Korn. I still can't believe how much work went in on it. From 2003, Beinhorn went on to work with a diverse array of artists such as Fuel , Mew , The Bronx , Courtney Love , Pete Yorn , Natalie Maines , Leon Russell and Dave Grohl . In 2015, Beinhorn wrote

297-428: A perfectionist approach to recording of Untouchables : Beinhorn's whole vision was to make an amazing sounding rock record that could never be made again. [...] I wanted to shoot a documentary about that record. We spent so much money, on the drums alone we spent a whole month just getting drum sounds. There were 50 mics just on the drumset that they picked out and tested. [...] Usually, I do my vocals and it takes me

330-460: A staunch advocate of album pre-production, he also felt the need to address the changing music industry climate and the lack of reasonable budgets available to most musicians. To address these concerns and redefine the role of the music producer through the incorporation of new technology, Beinhorn started one of the world's first completely remote services for working with artists and producing music in 2018, called Beinhorn Creative. He sees this as

363-551: A time code reader so it could sync with other tape machines, consoles, etc. The system was dubbed "Ultra-Analog" by CN Fletcher of Mercenary Audio and had its maiden voyage on the 1995 Ozzy Osbourne record Ozzmosis . In 1997, Beinhorn was approached by the group Hole to produce their next recording. The resulting project was called Celebrity Skin , which took nearly a year to finish, and spawned 2 singles (" Celebrity Skin ", " Malibu ") and sold nearly 4 million records worldwide. As well as receiving two Grammy Nominations in 1999, it

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396-492: A variety of musical artists, such as Nile Rodgers , David Byrne , Sonny Sharrock , Nona Hendryx , Bernie Worrell , Patti LaBelle , Tony Thompson , etc. One ongoing collaboration was with musical luminary Brian Eno and eventually yielded the track Lizard Point from the 4th and final recording in Eno's Ambient series, Ambient 4: On Land . The following year, the duo recorded a young up-and-coming singer named Whitney Houston on

429-624: A version of the Soft Machine song "Memories" which also featured the legendary free jazz tenor sax player, Archie Shepp . That year (1981), they produced and composed " Change the Beat " by Fab Five Freddy which became the source of the infamous "Fresh Scratch" (which included the sound of a voice controlling the Oberheim OBXa synthesizer through the Roland SVC350 vocoder reciting "Ahhhh...this stuff

462-566: A weekend). After Gomelsky produced the Zu Band's first recording, the group ended their relationship with him and began self-producing. About a year following their first release and their first shows in New York City (at such legendary nightclubs as CBGB , Mudd Club , Hurrah and Tier 3 ), they changed their band name to Material . By 1980, Maher and Cultreri had left Material. As a duo, Beinhorn and Laswell collaborated on various projects with

495-452: Is number 871 in the book "1001 Records To Hear Before You Die". Celebrity Skin was still being mixed when Beinhorn moved on to his next project- Marilyn Manson iconic Mechanical Animals . Coincidentally, both records were finished and released at the same time, giving Beinhorn the distinction of being the first record producer in history to have two records debut in the Top Ten positions of

528-507: Is really frrreshh"). This led to Beinhorn's work in 1983 on Herbie Hancock 's record Future Shock which included the groundbreaking track, " Rockit " (which featured the first ever usage of the "Fresh Scratch" as a turntable scratch. Another element was its usage of programmed drum fill breaks as thematic motifs). Beinhorn co-produced, co-wrote, and programmed the Oberheim DMX drum machine, synthesizers and Lexicon M.93 Prime Time sampler on

561-545: The Buchla 200 series modular systems at Public Access Synthesizer Studio in New York City. In 1977, Beinhorn met bassist Bill Laswell and together, with his friends Fred Maher and Cliff Cultreri, they formed the Zu Band (so-named by legendary European music impresario, producer/manager Giorgio Gomelsky - whose primary claims to notoriety were as manager/owner of London's infamous Crawdaddy Club , former manager and producer of The Yardbirds and manager of The Rolling Stones for

594-681: The Oceania tour, which itself was a mixture of arenas and theaters. Before the tour kicked off its arena stops across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Italy, two warmup shows were played at The Troubadour in Los Angeles, which saw AFI's Davey Havok make a guest appearance to perform the Joy Division song " Transmission ", and a small backyard house show where the band had filmed

627-485: The " 1979 " music video years earlier. Reviews of the tour were mixed, but leaned towards positive more often. Many praised the tour for how much ground the setlist covered throughout the performance. Others pointed out the tour's focus on fans' nostalgia, and that the tour performed every hit song along with several rarities and cover songs. The band's performance of Led Zeppelin's renowned song " Stairway to Heaven " also garnered lots of attention for being authentic to

660-697: The Billboard Top 200 Album charts, sold over three million copies in the United States (as of 1993), and netted the band a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. Beinhorn's next production was for the Seattle band, Soundgarden . The result of their collaboration was the 1994 album Superunknown , which reached number one on the Billboard 200 album charts in its first week of release (directly above Nine Inch Nails ' The Downward Spiral ). Eventually spawning 5 singles, including " Black Hole Sun ", Superunknown netted

693-541: The Billboard album charts, (with Manson at number 1 and Hole at number 9) in the same week (September 15, 1998). As a result, Beinhorn was nominated for Producer of the Year at the 1999 Grammy Awards . From 1999 to 2002, Beinhorn held an Executive Vice President A&R position at Atlantic Records . During this period, Beinhorn collaborated with artists such as Pharrell Williams , André 3000 and Chad Hugo , and contributed to

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726-730: The United States and Canada. American hip hop recording artist Cage served as the opening act for the entirety of the tour. The tour's name was conceived as an amalgamation of the title of a song by each artist, the Pumpkins' " The End Is the Beginning Is the End " and Manson's " Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes ". Following its conclusion, Marilyn Manson resumed their The Hell Not Hallelujah Tour, with three dates scheduled in Japan from August 14 onwards, and

759-468: The United States as of 1995 and brought the band international renown. After his success with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beinhorn began a working streak which culminated in him producing Soul Asylum 's 1992 breakthrough record, Grave Dancers Union . The third single from this record, " Runaway Train " went to number five on the Billboard Top 100 singles chart, selling 600,000 copies, and its video received significant airplay on MTV. The album spent 76 weeks in

792-464: The album's glam rock production style. The album, produced by Manson, Sean Beavan and Michael Beinhorn , was released on September 15, 1998, and went on to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 , with first week sales of 223,000. Following the release of Mechanical Animals , the pair's personal and professional relationship soured. A fifteen-year-long feud allegedly stemmed from Corgan writing

825-531: The band two 1995 Grammy Awards ( Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance for "Black Hole Sun" and Best Rock Song for " Spoonman ") and sold over 9 million copies worldwide as of 1995. In an appearance on The Pods & Sods Network, Beinhorn shared his reaction to first hearing "Black Hole Sun" during the Superunknown sessions: I think for the rest of my entire life, until I draw my last breath, I'll never ever forget how I felt when they started playing that song. From

858-548: The city the band loved- as it was of their lives and the unlikely journey everyone went through to get the record made. Bass player Flea later referred to the album as "the 'rockingest' record" the band has ever made. The unexpected success of Uplift gave Red Hot Chili Peppers a leg up with their label, EMI , and in 1989, Beinhorn produced the group's next recording, Mother's Milk . This recording featured their first breakthrough international hit single, " Higher Ground ". Mothers Milk went on to sell over one million records in

891-430: The film Any Given Sunday . After leaving Atlantic, Beinhorn returned to independent record production, where he produced Korn 's Untouchables . The album entered the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart at number two, selling 434,000 copies in its first week of release. It also netted Korn the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance , for the song " Here to Stay ". Jonathan Davis has described Beinhorn as adopting

924-463: The international spotlight. Having the distinction of being one of the earliest videos on MTV , "Rockit" also had a much greater reach and success than any of its predecessors. The track went on to win Best R&;B Instrumental Performance at the 1984 Grammy Awards (also receiving a nomination for Best Instrumental Composition ), as well as five VMA's at the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards where Herbie

957-530: The original. Some complaints raised by some who reviewed the tour included the extensive length that the band performed, as they had a set spanning three and a quarter hours, and others pointed out the lack of any material from the band's catalog after Machina/The Machines of God . Typical setlist during the tour The End Times Tour The End Times Tour was a double bill North American concert tour , co-headlined by American rock bands Marilyn Manson and The Smashing Pumpkins , with Cage opening. It

990-512: The track. As a result of its usage in "Rockit", the "Fresh Scratch" has subsequently become the most sampled sound in the world. Along with such seminal recordings as " The Message " by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five , " Planet Rock " by Soulsonic Force and " Numbers " by Kraftwerk , "Rockit" was one of the most important recordings from the early 1980s that helped elevate the nascent form of hip hop from an underground music genre, into

1023-433: The very first few notes, I felt like I'd been hit by a thunderbolt. I was just absolutely stunned. What in the world is this? I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Over the next three years, Beinhorn produced records for Aerosmith , Ozzy Osbourne , Living Colour and Social Distortion . In 1994, he conceived of a new multitrack recording format – an analog 8-track tape recorder with a 2-inch head block that also included

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1056-574: Was launched as a supporting 'tour within a tour' for Marilyn Manson's The Hell Not Hallelujah Tour . The End Times Tour supported both Manson's ninth studio album The Pale Emperor (2015) and the Smashing Pumpkins' tenth studio release, Monuments to an Elegy (2014). The tour began on July 7 in Concord, California and concluded in Cincinnati on August 8. It spanned 23 dates and visited arenas in

1089-453: Was the show's most awarded artist. Beinhorn set out on his own, leaving Material in 1984. Two years later, he found himself in a speeding van with struggling Los Angeles band Red Hot Chili Peppers who were late to a gig in Dallas, Texas. The result of that van ride was 1987's The Uplift Mofo Party Plan , which finally put the band on the map. The record was as much a chronicle of Los Angeles-

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