Smashing Pumpkins!

lolobugg said:

facepollution said:

goldrush said:

My first SP show was Reading Festival 95, just before Mellon Collie was released. They opened with Jellybelly into Zero, which was pretty ballsy at a festival when hardly anyone had heard them (no online leaks in 95!) I think about half the set was made up of Mellon Collie songs, but the crowd went nuts for most of it. It’s probably my favourite SP show of the 4 I’ve seen

That was mine too, I loved the fact that my parents let me go when I was 14!  The whole lineup that years was crazy, the only disappointment was Eddie not turning up with Neil Young and the rest of Pearl Jam.

damn, I really miss the 90s!!!

I'll never get tired of posting this insane line up. So many bands at their peak, and where else could you see Smashing Pumpkins, first-tour Foo Fighters, and NeilJam headlining stages?

goldrush said:

lolobugg said:

facepollution said:

goldrush said:

My first SP show was Reading Festival 95, just before Mellon Collie was released. They opened with Jellybelly into Zero, which was pretty ballsy at a festival when hardly anyone had heard them (no online leaks in 95!) I think about half the set was made up of Mellon Collie songs, but the crowd went nuts for most of it. It’s probably my favourite SP show of the 4 I’ve seen

That was mine too, I loved the fact that my parents let me go when I was 14!  The whole lineup that years was crazy, the only disappointment was Eddie not turning up with Neil Young and the rest of Pearl Jam.

damn, I really miss the 90s!!!

I'll never get tired of posting this insane line up. So many bands at their peak, and where else could you see Smashing Pumpkins, first-tour Foo Fighters, and NeilJam headlining stages?

facepollution said:

I read the book by the guy who used to own Brixton Academy - apparently, the reason the line up was so good that year is that he was going to put on a rival festival to Reading in 1994 called In Bloom festival, to be held at Highland's Park in Chelmsford, headlined by, you guessed it, Nirvana.  When Kurt died, the festival plans fell through, but the rest of the bands were all signed on, so the Reading organisers swooped in and snatched them all up for the following year.

That lineup is unbelievable. all you lucky UK bastards!!!

Damn that reading 95 line up is stellar. 

red mos said:

Dumb question but will Jeff Schroeder be playing bass?i know he took Jame’s place on guitar; but will he play bass on the tour as I see no mention of Melissa or D’arcy for bass ( I read Billy and D’arcy are cool with each other again).

Thanks all.

Yep. Jeff instead of D’arcy. 

I saw them twice back in the day.  Once at a Lollapalooza '94 in support of Siamese Dream, and once in early '97 in support of Mellon Collie.  Both were amazing shows, and its hard to believe the 2nd one.   Mellon Collie at the height of their popularity selling out arenas, and the whole crowd rocking the fuck out.

I was pretty stoked about this reunion at first.  I loved the pumpkins and we don't have that many of the big 90s bands left. 

Without D'Arcy, it feels like a continuation of where they left off before Billy went Axl.   They weren't that great anymore at the end of their initial run.   Adore was ok, and then they faded away after that.   I was pretty stoked, now I'm kind of meh about it.

I'm completely surprised that it's an Arena tour.  It seemed like Pumpkins and replacements had been relegated to theatre's and other small venues.   Other than Maybe Chicago/New York/L.A that have massive populations to support it.   Can they really sell out arenas?  Even when I was super stoked about the reunion, most other people didn't care.

Yeah, he always trips on his own ego. Had he not run his mouth about former bandmates, other bands and reunions, I think there would be a whole lot more excitement. I think most of these shows are gonna have $20 tickets the day of. I'm not even gonna look at tickets until the day before. 

No 

turrible.

The thing to know about Billy Corgan is that he is a silly ninny.

He fired a former Pumpkins' manager, only to have that manager's replacement quit shortly thereafter (her quoted reason was because Billy Corgan made her sick).

He broke up the Pumpkins, saying that he had taken pop music as far as he possibly could, and that the Pumpkins were no longer interesting to him. At one point he insulted James Iha, and called bassist D'arcy a "mean-spirited drug addict." A few years later, he paid for a full page ad in the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times, pleading for his band back (Iha and D'arcy flatly refused to come back and work with him at the time).

Aside from an uninteresting solo album, Billy also formed the band Zwan in his Pumpkins off time. After Zwan broke up, he went out of his way to insult his former Zwan bandmates, calling them "filthy", "opportunistic", "selfish" and "posers".

Billy also spent some of his humbling Pumpkins off-time appearing at professional wrestling matches. His appearances had little to do with music. In the ECW, Billy broke a guitar over someone's head.

Then of course, there was the William Corgan phase... is he still doing that? The Pumpkins redux, unsuccessful albums, the appearances on InfoWars, the WTF Swine flu theory, the insults toward many of his peers, and now... William once again finds himself at odds with a former bandmate.

I'm happy for everyone who is excited about the new shows. I'm not trying to criticize the tour, or revisiting old albums, or his art... all of that is subjective. Regardless, this guy is a clown. 

Damn. Tix are as high as $130 before fees! Anybody heard of a presale happening? So far I’ve found that their only doing a general sale this Friday. Maybe someone else has heard different? 

Corey G said:

Damn. Tix are as high as $130 before fees! Anybody heard of a presale happening? So far I’ve found that their only doing a general sale this Friday. Maybe someone else has heard different? 

Haven’t seen any presale info either.  I honestly believe Billy is overestimating these venues.  I plan on picking up StubHub tix day of show.

Not much of an urge to go especially since they're playing Chicago on a Monday night and it's the week before the 2 PJ shows at Wrigley.  I'll probably skip it.

Red Lukin said:

I'm torn on whether to buy or tomorrow or not.  2 tix for like $340...ouch.  I think Zwan was like $25 a ticket and don't remember what I paid for SP when I saw them a couple of times in the past but I don't think it was a lot.

Last time I saw them, tix were $20! Lol. That was at a club show in like 1993 though! 

Indifference71 said:

Not much of an urge to go especially since they're playing Chicago on a Monday night and it's the week before the 2 PJ shows at Wrigley.  I'll probably skip it.

That's my issue.  Plus I would be driving 3 hours.  I would basically have to take 2 days off.