Fall-Winter 1994 – Sadlands

The Fall-Winter 1994 studio sessions at Sadlands (Billy Corgan's house) is where many Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness demos were first tracked. Upon completion of the Siamese Dream tour, Corgan began composing a new set of songs for the follow-up album, and recorded both solo acoustic and multi-tracked electric demos on his 8-track at his home. The album version of "Stumbleine" was taken from these tapes, as well as several of the "Tonight, Tonight" B-sides. While most of these demos were featured as bonus material on the 2012 Mellon Collie remaster box set, some remained unreleased and available on bootlegs Billy's Home Demos (which leaked in 1996) and MCIS Demos II (which leaked in 2000). An electric demo of "God" leaked on the MCIS Demos III demos bootleg.

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