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I am posting this topic because up until this point I could not find anyone who has heard of "The Church Sessions".

So for everyone's info:

Billy Corgan recorded an entire acoustic album in a studio that used to be a church. The great thing about this recording is that it was done in gront of a small intimate audience. Each day of recording they allowed different contest winners to actually sit in. (thought they had to agree to be absolutely quiet during the recording process) What an idea!!! What's even better is that the entire thing was recorded for a CD & DVD that were supposed to be released around the same time as "TFE." However at the end of the process Billy felt that it was not the right time to release the music, so it has become an urban legend of sorts. I don't know of anyone who has a copy and that why I'm writing this. Does ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND A COPY???

I know 4 a fact that they exist, the evidence is out there:

Example 1:
There was a website dedicated to chronicling the recording of this DVD. It contains photos of the actual event taking place as well as some journal entries from Billy himself that he wrote while he was working on the project. Here is the link to the site...

integralnaked.org/avantgarde/billy.shtml

Example 2:
If you go to "you tube" and type in Billy Corgan Church Sessions you will actually find clips from the rehearsals!!! They are only about 30 seconds each but there's enough footage to make you want the DVD as bad as I do.

I think that if we all try and locate this rare recording we can do it.

The tracklist for the CD / DVD is as follows....

1 Black Irish
2 Black Sox
3 Bobby Franks
4 Columbus
5 Columbus (page 2)
6 Columbus (page 3)
7 El-a-Noy
8 Friends as Lovers
9 Friends as Lovers (page 2)
10 Prairie Song
11 Riverview
12 Say Goodbye
13 White City
14 The World's Fair
15 The World's Fair (page 2)
16 White Lights

www.westernave.net/media/audio/bc2004-04-19/

Thanx Murder - Your the F*&^ing man!

Believe, where's that video you were going to email me?

well, those songs on westernavenue.net are most of the songs that were played during his 6 day recording session. but the sessions were from april 12-18. as you can see those are from the 19th the one and only concert from the group of songs at the metro. plus, you can hear quite an audience, whereas there was no cheering during the sessions. i was lucky enough to attend a recording session and thats where my avatar and other pics were taken.

oh dear...

do you have the tracknames for those 13 songs?

Always look in the text file.

01 - Intro
02 - The World's Fair
03 - Black Irish
04 - Black Sox
05 - Friends as Lovers
06 - Say Goodbye
07 - Prairie Song
08 - Bobby Franks
09 - White Lights
10 - Riverview
11 - White City
12 - El-A-Noy
13 - Columbus [cut]

oh, thanks, and how do you get the "flac" files to play in windows media player, or do i have to convert them?

You need the codec. flac.sourceforge.net/download.html

will it still work on my mps player (sorry to be a pain)

Mps?

where the hell can i get the chicago songs?
I had a cd of it then i lost it anyone know where i can get it?

I have several videos of the Church Sessions, they are pretty cool

Hey Man SHARE!!!

They will be shared in the near future, although not on this site

What do you have against this site???

Nothing, but i have promised my resources somewhere else

just inform us then.

I'll be uploading some vids at the end of the month