Pumpkins to do 9 shows in San fran

sasoj

http://harpmagazine.com/news/detail.cfm?article=11212

Smashing Pumpkins To Do 9-show N.C. Residency, 8-shows in San Fran
Fred Mills
May 14, 2007
Now here’s a news item you don’t read every day from any band: in a nigh-on unprecedented move not witnessed except in the jamband milieu, the Smashing Pumpkins have just announced two sets of residency gigs: nine slated for the Orange Peel in Asheville, NC (June 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30 and July 2, 3, and 5) plus eight at the Fillmore in San Francisco (July 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30 and 31 and August 1).
The residencies will bookend the July 10 release of the new Pumpkins album Zeitgeist.
Acccording to band management, these “very special and intimate residencies, the band will vary set lists from night to night. They'll perform songs from Zeitgeist Pumpkins classics plus retool songs that didn't make it onto Zeitgeist and even offer tunes written the day of the show. The shows will give fans a unique opportunity to see the Pumpkins inside the process of creation and operating in the spur of the moment.”
The eight concerts in San Francisco mark the first time the band has returned to The Fillmore since April of 1994 when they were invited to be the band to re-open the historic venue. The Asheville shows mark the first time the Pumpkins will have played a residency since their four gigs at the Double Door in Chicago in 1994.
And in a neat move to pre-empt the inevitable bootleggers, the band is actively encouring fans to bring audio and video gear to record the shows in Asheville and San Fran.
Here’s the rest of the important stuff—note the admirable anti-scalping measures being instituted. Not that that won’t prevent eBay from going into overdrive shortly after the on-sale… caveat emptor.
General admission tickets for these all-ages shows go on sale Sunday, May 20.
The San Francisco tickets ($25.00 each) and will be available at 10:00 AM Pacific via http://www.ticketmaster.com and http://www.livenation.com.
For the Asheville show, tickets ($20.00 each) will go on sale at 1:00 PM Eastern at http://www.theorangepeel.net or http://www.ticketweb.com.
Tickets for both shows will be available through internet ONLY.
Tickets will NOT be available at either box offices, charge-by-phone or ticket outlets. Two-ticket limit per person. Purchaser must pick up tickets at the box office night-of-show only. Ticket-holders must immediately enter the venue. Photo ID required for ticket pick-up. Tickets are non-transferable. No refunds or exchanges. A service charge is added to each ticket price.

superdeluxe

F**King awesome.

The pumpkins are completely re-inventing themselves. Love what they are doing to battle ticket scalpers. a 9 day and 8 day residence? Bands do not do that anymore.

I really liked the part where they will be writing new music and playing it at the shows on the same day!

AWESOME.

sasoj

superdeluxe wrote:

F**King awesome.

The pumpkins are completely re-inventing themselves. Love what they are doing to battle ticket scalpers. a 9 day and 8 day residence? Bands do not do that anymore.

I really liked the part where they will be writing new music and playing it at the shows on the same day!

AWESOME.

me sooooo happy

Gremmie95

Gonna have to go see this one. Asheville is beautiful.

prytocorduroy

sasoj wrote:

nine slated for the Orange Peel in Asheville, NC (June 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30 and July 2, 3, and 5)

Acccording to band management, these “very special and intimate residencies, the band will vary set lists from night to night. They'll perform songs from Zeitgeist Pumpkins classics plus retool songs that didn't make it onto Zeitgeist and even offer tunes written the day of the show. The shows will give fans a unique opportunity to see the Pumpkins inside the process of creation and operating in the spur of the moment.”

And in a neat move to pre-empt the inevitable bootleggers, the band is actively encouring fans to bring audio and video gear to record the shows in Asheville and San Fran.

For the Asheville show, tickets ($20.00 each) will go on sale at 1:00 PM Eastern at http://www.theorangepeel.net or http://www.ticketweb.com.

[size=+5]OH MY GOD!!!!! JESUS TITTY-FUCKING CHRIST!!!!![/size]
:eek: :eek: :eek:

yosi1

Thats fucking awesome for Pumpkins fans in San Fran and Asheville.

superdeluxe

I'm in seattle, and I'm going to be making that trek if I can get tickets. This is a awesome experience. Watching the pumpkins make new music on the fly?

phatucini

I'm gonna see the Pumpkins right here in Luxembourg on May 24th. It'll be just their second concert after the Paris Gig 2 nights before! Can't wait to see Billy & whoever will turn up on the stage.

The best thing is that the venue where the concert will take place holds merely 800 people! This will be really special!!

Brisk.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

And in a neat move to pre-empt the inevitable bootleggers, the band is actively encouring fans to bring audio and video gear to record the shows in Asheville and San Fran.

!!!!!!!!!!!

facepollution

That is damn cool! Now all we need is a residency at the London astoria and I'll be happy!

Brisk.

facepollution wrote:

That is damn cool! Now all we need is a residency at the London astoria and I'll be happy!

hahaha

yeaaaaah

I wish i could go tape those shows grrr

sasoj

here is a 30 sec of the new single:

http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=16770

Brisk.

sasoj wrote:

here is a 30 sec of the new single:

http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=16770

woaw

wiicked

thanks dude!

sasoj

I BrisK I wrote:

woaw

wiicked

thanks dude!

do you like the song?
it sounds good

rhinomagic

Wildly entertaining ideas from Smashing Pumpkins. I like where their heads are right now.

Now if only I wasn't going to be in Honduras during the Asheville residency. Good for those who'll be going, though!

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Pearl Jam and toast

HOLY SHIT THEYRE COMING TO THE ORANGE PEEL

I'm gonna have a heart attack.,.

Pearl Jam and toast

I swear to god I'm gonna have a fucking heart attack


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TWO HOURS AWAY FROM ME FOR NINE FUCKING DAYS

looks like i'll be staying in asheville for a week and a half..

prytocorduroy

Tarantula sounds fucking awesome. It's pretty infectious if you ask me. And I can't fucking wait for those shows. If I miss out on tickets I'll kill a small child.

Abookamongstthemany

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

HOLY SHIT THEYRE COMING TO THE ORANGE PEEL

I'm gonna have a heart attack.,.

Me too! That's an hour and a half from me!

Pearl Jam and toast

Abookamongstthemany wrote:

Me too! That's an hour and a half from me!

I'm already planning on going to all 9 shows.

Abookamongstthemany

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

I'm already planning on going to all 9 shows.

Haha! I wish I could. I'm gonna try to make a few, though.

intodeep

Tickets are gonna be so hard to get to the Orange Peel. I'm going to try though. God that would be so awesome. Plus Ashville is the coolest southern city ever!

sadprofessor

intodeep wrote:

Tickets are gonna be so hard to get to the Orange Peel. I'm going to try though. God that would be so awesome. Plus Ashville is the coolest southern city ever!

I am gonna try too, not sure which nights, but I am planning on doing at least two... I have family in Asheville, so that should make for a pretty cheap road trip.

From the looks of this thread we may need to have a mini board meetup in Asheville.

GRIMMY

Pumpkins doing any south tour?

bharQ

very cool news!

prytocorduroy

Hey, uh....nobody buy tickets to Orange Peel for the 24th, 26th, and 27th until after me, okay? Great. Thanks.

Pearl Jam and toast

sadprofessor wrote:

From the looks of this thread we may need to have a mini board meetup in Asheville.

that'd be pretty sweet. The greatest Mellow Mushroom in the world is right down the street from the Orange Peel as a matter of fact..

Abookamongstthemany

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

that'd be pretty sweet. The greatest Mellow Mushroom in the world is right down the street from the Orange Peel as a matter of fact..

That is so true. That one beats the one in Greenville, SC times x 10!

bird jam

I'll be at Night One - see you guys there.

sadprofessor

I am looking to hit the show on the 30th and then again on the 2nd.

I confirmed this plan tonight with my cohorts. Now all we have to do is secure tickets on Sunday morning.

CJMST3K

anyone else having trouble with ticketweb now?