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The Smashing Pumpkins song built from dozens of guitars

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If one heavy guitar sounds good, why not record forty of them? Billy Corgan took studio obsession to terrifying new heights on 'Siamese Dream,' manually layering dozens of identical guitar tracks over each other to create a massive wall of fuzz. It was a painstaking, grueling process that nearly destroyed the band, but sounded absolutely incredible.

The Smashing Pumpkins song built from dozens of guitars
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