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'Gum Drop Giveaway #69

One winner gets an 8 GB iPod Nano that includes the entire Smashing Pumpkins catalog including rarities and B-sides as well as an unreleased song, "Translucent." Not many bands release new songs via an iPod. This is in support of the Pumpkins' new double 20th anniversary DVD, If All Goes Wrong. The winner also gets a copy of that. It looks like this:

Directed/produced by Jack Gulick (Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Steve Miller Band, Godsmack) and Daniel E Catullo III (Steve Miller Band, Godsmack, Rush, Dave Matthews Band), the DVD set includes a 105-minute documentary as well as the Fillmore Residency, a full concert filmed in late July and early August of 2007 over five of the 11 sold-out nights at the famed Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, CA. It includes behind-the-scenes footage like this:

The contents:

DISC 1:
"If All Goes Wrong" documentary
"Voices Of The Ghost Children" featurette
Interview with The Who guitarist, Pete Townshend

DISC 2:
The Fillmore Residency
01 "The Rose March" *
02 "Peace + Love" *
03 "99 Floors" *
04 "Superchrist"
05 "Lucky 13"
06 "Starla"
07 "Death From Above"
08 "The Crying Tree Of Mercury"
09 "Winterlong"
10 "Heavy Metal Machine"
11 "Untitled"
12 "No Surrender" *
13 "Gossamer" *
14 "Zeitgeist"

Bonus Tracks: Live From The Floor Of The Fillmore
01 "99 Floors"
02 "Peace + Love"
03 "No Surrender"
04 "Mama"*
05 "Promise Me"*

*previously unreleased

One winner gets a copy of the DVD set and the Pumpkins-stuffed iPod. What a perfect post-Holiday gift for that Smashing Pumpkins fan on your list (i.e., you).

CONTEST ENDS 01/02/09 AT 12PM EST.

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