i've bumped into this band a few times, and you can tell from looking at them that they're trying to be the mars volta who, in hindsight, never really developed the potential they were hinting at. i want to say something about how the genre is littered with all of this unrealized potential nowadays, but wasn't it really always the case? weren't you really always lucky for bands in this genre to fluke out on that one great record?

maybe they'll accidentally fall over it one day.

but, this isn't it.

https://atsukochiba.bandcamp.com/

so, where did corgan's often-used pentatonic pedal tone come from?

it might sound kind of "eastern". sure.

but, where it actually came from was hendrix's inhumanly large hands, and his sloppy mix of open guitar chords with killer blues licks. few people can really do what he did. look at the size of his hands, kids. but, corgan just took a small aspect of that and made it his own.

this is a good example of how hendrix worked...

this is a cover song; it's iconic, but he didn't write the track.

the original author was no slouch himself:

but, in working through this understood cover, in comparing these versions, you get a good understanding of how hendrix worked - he would often start with white music, country music, as a foundation, and then funk it up with blues, r 'n' b, funk and jazz.