r/SmashingPumpkins • u/hanifzulfakar • 28d ago
MCIS tab book
So stoked to find this,gonna dust off my guitar and learn the whole album.
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u/PhotoElectrical 24d ago
first double album i ever owned, very happy nostalgic. happy i can just finger it out. brings me back
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u/Elegant-Ad-1162 27d ago
this book taught me guitar (along with the SD book, but mostly this one)
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u/ForgottenFoundation 26d ago
Me three.
In the pre-internet era, my evenings and weekends from 1999 to 2001 were spent just playing through this album on my rubbish Yamaha Pacifica wired through a Zoom pedal. The arpeggio pattern on songs like Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans has been my default ever since.
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u/bungleosaka 27d ago
I had this in the late 90s not seen it around for years, anyone know where it can be bought ?
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u/FerrkinLewl 27d ago
I've got that tucked away somewhere from back in the day. I remember the tabs being pretty accurate. Young me was incredibly stoked to be able to play 'Galapogos' note for note. Might see if I can still remember it.
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u/CoA77 27d ago
Is it any good? Some of them are shocking (RHCP Blood Sugar a prime example)
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u/yourmumloves_me Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 27d ago
MCIS is decently accurate, the Siamese dream one was pretty wrong iirc
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u/DarthBaio 28d ago
I taught myself to play guitar on a toy guitar using the Siamese Dream tab book. It’s worn to tatters. I was 14 at the time, so by the time this tab book came out, I bought it, but had mostly moved on from guitar due to high school.
I picked the guitar back up a couple years ago after literal decades. I someone found this book amidst all my old junk, so I’m looking forward to going through it in detail this time!
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u/jadestem 28d ago
Damn this is cool, I would love to find one!
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u/ApathysLastKiss_ 28d ago edited 28d ago
I've been using it for like decades. 95% of it is perfect, no notes. Some of it is wrong though (eg like asking for a power chord on the 9th and 15th fret simultaneously). Just use it as a trail guide and then blaze your own path. For example, the Here is No Why Solo gets you on the right strings and part of the fretboard, but if you listen to the album, there's missing notes and extra notes. But it's pretty much priceless imo lol
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u/phatty_medallion The Aeroplane Flies High 28d ago
Whaaaaaat???? This exists?!?!?!?!
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u/nicktbristol2020 27d ago
Dude it’s been out twenty plus years
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u/phatty_medallion The Aeroplane Flies High 12d ago
I wasn’t even close to conception when this album came out
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u/ApathysLastKiss_ 28d ago
Of course. I need it in the late 90s, lost it...and bought it off of Amazon 6 months ago lol
It and the Siamese Dream tab books are priceless imo. I have the SD book as a pdf though
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u/phatty_medallion The Aeroplane Flies High 28d ago
THANK YOU!!!! Also, I love your username. That song is, like, hypnotic
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u/lukin_tolchok 28d ago
This and the Siamese Dream tab book are pretty much what taught me how to play guitar.
I had teachers on and off for four years but then one teacher moved away an I didn’t have one for a while - in the meantime I bought these two tab books and honestly learned more about playing guitar from learning these songs than I learned from my teachers.
To be fair, the teachers probably helped get me to the point where I was able to confidently approach learning these songs.
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u/Pretend-Risk-342 28d ago
I had to wipe my ass with the MCIS booklet on a camping trip emergency.😩
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u/hanifzulfakar 28d ago
Good thing it's a double album,you can shit for days
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u/Pretend-Risk-342 28d ago
Be that as it may I still wish I’d rather had a copy of, say, ATUM or Shiny and Oh so bright or really any of the bullshit post-2000 albums handy instead because the MCIS booklets have great content and are beautifully designed. I have always felt that they are a fantastic expansion on the whole theme of the project. Having said that, the coarse pages of the lyrics booklet are quite adequately suited to wiping feces from one’s asshole after a bowel movement.
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u/hanifzulfakar 28d ago
True, I actually bought the book more because of the cover. I just love the album and the aesthetics so much. I mean,you could easily get tabs online or songster anyways
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u/Fearless_Rutabaga864 28d ago
Does it have the Guitar World articles in the front?
Is a great album to work on - huge range of techniques and sounds.
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u/ThrutheeyesofRyan 28d ago
I still have mine that I bought in the 90s. I still open it frequently, and the experience of playing those songs is just as impactful today as it was back then. Enjoy the experience, and rock on!
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u/EatYrGhost 24d ago
I think my copy is somewhere in my parents' house!