

But I really dig the mics vinyl reissue, it seems like it's an expansion of the original, which I love. Gish is the debut studio album by The Smashing Pumpkins, released in May 1991 through Caroline Records. Not that I think they're bad, just prefer the originals. Then again, if Fiorentino was indeed a tot on the front of Siamese Dream, using a recycled photo from years before, it sets the stage for all kinds of other musical reunions. Gish and SD I like the original ones over the shiny, trippy reissue covers. It doesn't help that Fiorentino herself has re-tweeted the skeptical Rolling Stone article, pointing it out to her followers. As Fiorentino would have been around 14 in 1993, it's hard to imagine it could be a photo of her from that year. I Am One, Bury Me, and Tristessa blast along at break-neck pace. While cover photographer Melodie McDaniel hasn't weighed in yet, her assistant said he's "pretty sure" the photograph was taken specifically for the album – not an old shot taken from the archives and put to use. Gish (1991) is The Smashing Pumpkins debut album, and a blinder it is. Or was she? Rolling Stone has questioned Corgan's claim, suggesting that the singer is just "fucking with his fans". Fiorentino, allegedly, was just one of the cover's two grinning little girls. It was Wretzky who played bass on Siamese Dream, which sold more than six million copies worldwide, and hit number four on the UK charts. Arriving several months before Nirvanas Nevermind, the Smashing Pumpkins debut album, Gish, which was also produced by Butch Vig, was the first shot of. She was just the latest in a tradition of female bassists in the Smashing Pumpkins, following in the footsteps of D'arcy Wretzky and Ginger Pooley.
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Like new drummer Matt Byrne, the 31-year-old was discovered through a series of open auditions. Fiorentino joined the Pumpkins in May 2010, more than a year after Jimmy Chamberlin's departure left the band as a glorified Billy Corgan solo-project.
