Cupid de Locke

"Cupid de Locke" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' third studio album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Featuring a harp, salt shakers and scissors, it is an example of the rich diversity of instrumentation used on the album.

I had to challenge myself to veer away from my old standbys - which everybody has - and stretch my creativity. I think that's what helped me embrace the technology and not limit myself to just the drum kit. I used everything from hair spray to a pair of scissors - whatever was laying around - to come up with different sounds. We used a bottle of aspirin as a shaker. We'd just throw it on tape, sample it, and loop it. You can hear that kind of stuff on "Cupid..."