Smashing Pumpkins at 930 Club Next Tuesday

[cupcakelove]

It was just announced on Tuesday, and tickets go on sale tomorrow morning for $30. I always enjoy seeing big bands at the 930 club, and I think this will be worth checking out.

930 Club's Website (http://www.930.com)

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Loved Mellon Collie, whos still left from the Original Band. I think the Drummer Died

:king:

[Don Stugots]

I loved melon collie hated infinite sadness

[Dougie Brootal]

It was just announced on Tuesday, and tickets go on sale tomorrow morning for $30. I always enjoy seeing big bands at the 930 club, and I think this will be worth checking out.

930 Club's Website (http://www.930.com)

seeyuh there budday!

[JesterOfSadness]

Loved Mellon Collie, whos still left from the Original Band. I think the Drummer Died

:king:

I believe it's just Corgan and Chamberlin(drummer).

Ginger Reyes and Jeff Schroeder are the two new members.

[cupcakelove]

Is anyone else having any luck getting tickets? What the hell is the 'Virtual Waiting Room' BS. Its just been refreshing for 20 minutes now.

[fohat]

I saw one of the last live performances of the original band, on the Mellon Collie tour with Garbage opening up. ( I think this was at the Cap Center in but it may have been the Patriot Center)

Just a couple days later they were in NY, the keyboardist they were touring with overdosed on Herion and died; the drugs were apparently obtained by Jimmie Chaimberlin. He didn't die but was immediately kicked out of the band and they stopped the tour. They eventually got the drummer from Fuel to help finish the tour if I recall correctly.

I started listening to the pumpkins after seeing the video for "Siva" from the Gish album on MTV. In my opinion, that was their best album. With the latest release, someone decided it would be a good idea to sell 4 different versions of the same album, each one containing a different bonus track and only available at "big box" type stores. (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/43795-smashing-pumpkins-to-fans-indie-stores-fuck-you)

blah. If it was the orig. lineup I would consider going, but I dunno...

[cupcakelove]

And now the tickets are sold out. What a huge load of crap that was.

[El Mudo]

Pumpkins were the first band to play the new 9:30 club when it opened. I think it was halloween night.

Im more interested in the DRIVE BY TRUCKERS show coming up!

Great band.



July 20th....fired up

[cupcakelove]

Maybe I'll go to that show. I would like to go to the 930 club one more time before I move. People already trying to sell Pumpkins tickets online, except I'm not sure how they plan on doing that, since you have to show your id at the door before they give you your tickets and immediately let you in.

[WhistlePig]

Saw the Smashing Pumpkins open for the Red Hot Chili Peppers some years back. I thought they had no stage presence and were really boring. This was the early 90s so I don't know what the line up was. They might be better in a small club, who knows.

[cupcakelove]

Saw the Smashing Pumpkins open for the Red Hot Chili Peppers some years back. I thought they had no stage presence and were really boring. This was the early 90s so I don't know what the line up was. They might be better in a small club, who knows.

Pumpkins were the first band to play the new 9:30 club when it opened. I think it was halloween night.

Im more interested in the DRIVE BY TRUCKERS show coming up!

Great band.

I saw one of the last live performances of the original band, on the Mellon Collie tour with Garbage opening up. ( I think this was at the Cap Center in but it may have been the Patriot Center)

Just a couple days later they were in NY, the keyboardist they were touring with overdosed on Herion and died; the drugs were apparently obtained by Jimmie Chaimberlin. He didn't die but was immediately kicked out of the band and they stopped the tour. They eventually got the drummer from Fuel to help finish the tour if I recall correctly.

I started listening to the pumpkins after seeing the video for "Siva" from the Gish album on MTV. In my opinion, that was their best album. With the latest release, someone decided it would be a good idea to sell 4 different versions of the same album, each one containing a different bonus track and only available at "big box" type stores. (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/43795-smashing-pumpkins-to-fans-indie-stores-fuck-you)

blah. If it was the orig. lineup I would consider going, but I dunno...

So do you guys have an extra ticket or not? Come on, help a brother out.

[JustJon]

I saw the Pumpkins back in '93 or '94. I thought it was a good show at the time, but I am only a fan of their first two albums. At this point, I forget who opened for them, though.

[WhistlePig]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/11/AR2007071102378.html

To quote the article "Billy Corgan & Co. played an excruciatingly long and self-indulgent set on Tuesday."

[El Mudo]

Yeah....i was just gonna post that...


The paper slaughtered him

[Earlshog]

not a big Pumpkins fan but I really like the Bring the Light song they are playing on Ethel....

[Gmann]

Just a couple days later they were in NY, the keyboardist they were touring with overdosed on Herion and died; the drugs were apparently obtained by Jimmie Chaimberlin. He didn't die but was immediately kicked out of the band and they stopped the tour. They eventually got the drummer from Fuel to help finish the tour if I recall correctly.



I had tickets to go to that show. It wasnt till 2-3 months later they made the date up with Buffalo Tom I think opening up instead of Garbage. I remember the Pumpkins did like 2 encours and it was almost 1am when I left and they were still on just playing anything and there was a guy in a green chicken costume on stage with them.

I also had tickets to see the Chili Peppers when Chad broke his arm in a motorcycle accident and that show got pushed back. I had tickets to see STP when Scott Weiland got busted for one of his earlier alcohol/drug stints and that show got pushed back. Wasn't a good time to go to a concert for me.

[TheMojoPin]

Just a couple days later they were in NY, the keyboardist they were touring with overdosed on Herion and died; the drugs were apparently obtained by Jimmie Chaimberlin. He didn't die but was immediately kicked out of the band and they stopped the tour. They eventually got the drummer from Fuel to help finish the tour if I recall correctly.

Dude, give them a little credit...it was the original drummer from Filter. I don't think Fuel was even around then.

Man, those first two Pumpkins' albums are still so amazing. The third suffers from double album syndrome, but there's still a single album's worth of really great music in there. I think I'm in the minority, but I really enjoyed Adore. Definitely nothing groundbreaking, but I never understood the backlash at the time and the dismissal it usually still gets now. I think that negative reaction drove Billy to move into cartoonish-metal-goth-god-mode for the last two albums, and outside of a handful of tracks, I couldn't stand either. Again, maybe I'm in the minority, but I really loved Zwan. I thought it was a really fun album with some truly great musicians, even though the whole thing was ugly and angry when it collapsed to, shocker, Billy's insane ego.

His solo album and the new "Smashing Pumpkins" are, in my opinion, almost unlistenable. They really are the sound of a man's ego raging out of control with absolutely nobody around him to suggest otherwise. He's lashing out impotently at a pop culture world that has left him behind and he ends up sounding like the weird, gothy theater kid in the back of the room he randomly screams out terrible poetry from time to time just to be artsy and loud.

Their live shows up through 1997 or so were some of the best I've ever seen. Before they got all caught up in the costumes and "uniform" outfits and makeup and shit, they were some of the best live musical artists I have ever seen or ever will see. I saw them with Catherine Wheel (who influenced Siamese Dream from beginning to end) one time and it was easily one of the best shows I'll ever go to.

[JustJon]

Like Mojo, I still enjoy the first two Pumpkins albums, but I find anything unlistenable after that. I saw the Pumpkins in '93 or '94 and thought it was a great show. I forget who opened for them at this point, though.

[TheMojoPin]

I had tickets to go to that show. It wasnt till 2-3 months later they made the date up with Buffalo Tom I think opening up instead of Garbage. I remember the Pumpkins did like 2 encours and it was almost 1am when I left and they were still on just playing anything and there was a guy in a green chicken costume on stage with them.

I also had tickets to see the Chili Peppers when Chad broke his arm in a motorcycle accident and that show got pushed back. I had tickets to see STP when Scott Weiland got busted for one of his earlier alcohol/drug stints and that show got pushed back. Wasn't a good time to go to a concert for me.

Man, I had tickets to go the DC leg of the Rage Against the Machine/Beasties Boys tour from, I think 1999. It got cancelled when Mike D broke his leg riding his stupid bike around NYC...and Rage broke up within the year. The thing basically turing into a musical fesitival with like 4-6 acts playing with them in different parts of the country. I had heard my stop would have been STP, No Doubt, Busta Rhymes and Jurassic 5. I also had tickets to two nights of Radiohead shows in northern Virginia that got flooded out...that was gonna have the Beta Band, Kid Koala and the Thievery Corporation with them.

Damn.