March 15-16 1994 – Gravity Studios

March 15-16 1994 – Gravity Studios
Studio session of The Smashing Pumpkins
Artist	The Smashing Pumpkins
Album	Billy's Gravity Demos I, The Aeroplane Flies High
From	March 15, 1994
To	March 16, 1994
Location	Pumpkinland, Chicago Recording Company
Producer(s)	Flood, Alan Moulder, Billy Corgan
Engineer(s)	Doug McBride

The Smashing Pumpkins March 15-16 1994 sessions at Gravity Studios was booked midway through the Siamese Dream tour to record demos for Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. All tracks in these sessions were instrumental, with exception of "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", which included scratch vocals. Many were cut and pasted into what became "Pastichio Medley", including "Blast", "Jackboot", "Lucky Lad", "So So Pretty", "Disconnected", "Weeping Willowly" and "With Longing". Most of the tracks also feature extremely early working titles, some simply titled as their chord progression. While a number of the Gravity Session recordings were featured on 2013 The Aeroplane Flies High box set, an even greater number remain unreleased and can be found on bootlegs.

“ When we were still in the middle of the Siamese Dream touring, I booked us into a local Chicago studio to just put all of our ideas down on tape, without censorship of opinions, etc. "Tonight" was one of those ideas, but it was originally in the key of C instead of G. The only problem was I couldn't sing it in C, so I figured out the version on Mellon Collie to suit my limited range. ” — Billy Corgan, "King Bs", Guitar World, January 1997

Tracks recorded

Officially released

• "A/Ab/E/B/F#"
• "Blaster Caster"
• "Dizzle"
• "Germans in Leather Pants"
• "Jackboot"
• "Little Ditty"
• "Millieu" (Pretty Drop A)
• "Movers and Shakirs"
• "New Waver"
• "On The Loose"
• "Ravi Revi Roo"
• "Rings"
• "Slurry"
• "The Groover"
• "Ugly"
• "Verily I Say"

Available on bootlegs

• "A/B/G Drop A"
• "Blast"
• "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" (scratch vocal)
• "E-drone E/C#/A"
• "Galapogos" (The Innocents)
• "Jellybelly"
• "Love" (Straight Ab)
• "Lucky Lad" (Busy Downtune A/D)
• "Marquis in Spades" (Glamey Glamey)
• "Mouths of Babes" (Decsendo)
• "New Wave A to G"
• "Pennies" (And I Stumbled)
• "Set The Ray To Jerry"
• "So So Pretty"
• "Speed" (A Drone)
• "The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)" (Disconnected)
• "To Forgive"
• "Tonight, Tonight" (in C)
• "Walking Country"
• "Weeping Willowly" (No Escape)
• "With Longing"