Rumor: Smashing Pumpkins at 9:30 Club July 10th

as someone who was at asheville shows as well as tonight's show, asheville was better.

seeing the floor practically half empty by the time gossamer was over was fucking hilarious, though.

Definitely show of the year for me. I doubt anything else can come close.

I loved the whole political rally theme. When Billy and the other Pumpkins rode around the block in their vintage cars with the faux Secret Service security detail running alongside the cars, that was just a surreal moment for me. Definitely made the whole waiting-in-line experience worthwhile. And the barbershop quartet at the beginning of the Pumpkins set was a nice touch.

Highlights for me… pretty much every song. I thought the set list was fabulous. Starting with "United States" right off the bat was a pleasant surprise. And when the crowd went nuts with "Bullets with Butterfly Wings"? Wow, that was intense. Ditto for "Cherub Rock" in one of the encores. "Doomsday Clock" was probably my favoriite song from Zeitgeist. It rocked so hard, better than than the album version for sure.

I really enjoyed the acoustic mini-set around the halfway mark, especially the solo/acoustic "For God and Country." I thought that was really good. I had never seen or heard Corgan play acoustic guitar before, and he impressed me with his mad acoustic skillz. He should play acoustic guitar more, I think.

I thought "Gossamer" was amazing. A little self-indulgent, sure, but I didn't think it was too much. It's intended to be a concert showpiece, and it succeeds at that marvelously. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of songs they performed from Siamese Dream.

Kudos to the staff. Everything seemed to go smoothly from my perspective. My eternal thanks to Seth for booking them at the club.

It was a lot of fun meeting floyd, bnyced0, TheDirector217, and sweetcell. You guys are cool! It was nice putting faces to some of the screennames here, like miss pretentious and Julian, though we didn't actually get a chance to talk, unfortunately. Huge thanks to bnyced0 for the ride back to the College Park Metro station after the show. I hope I can return the favor one of these days! Cheers!

i didn't meet any forum members, but i did run into a guy i was friends with in high school that i hadn't seen in probably 10+ years and i thought lived on the other side of the country still.

Screw the Pumpkins and screw the setlist. Which one of you boardies hooked up with Miss P? That's all I care about!

Smashing Pumpkins
930 Club
7.10.07

SETLIST
——-

United States
Orchid
Today
Bullet
Starla
Shame
Aeroplane Flies High
Hummer
That's The Way
Doomsday Clock
Blue Skies
For God And Country
Crying Tree of Mercury
33
Rocket
If All Goes Wrong
Tonight
Tarantula
Starz
Zero
Neverlost
C'Mon Let's Go
Heavy Metal Machine
Disarm
1979
Untitled
Cherub Rock
——–
Fuck You
Silverfuck
——–
To Shelia
With Every Light
——–
Gossamer

Thanks so much for posting the set list!

There was a song after "Gossamer," wasn't there? Or was that part of "Gossamer"?

that setlist is not completely accurate. they cut a couple of songs. they left the stage and came back for cherub rock, then left again, then played gossamer, and left yet again before finishing with fuck you.

sweet mother of jayzus - the fucking thing is done with, now can we all get back to our normal lives, for the love of God!

It does seem that the ticket sales rules was a bit eff'd up though with the non-transfer rule. How was a parent supposed to buy tickets for their concert-going kids for example? I can understand two per household but not to be able to transfer to someone at the same address at least.

I'm not being one to start rumors or anything, but her and I left the club at the same time, well ahead of the rest of you jokers. Just saying… :D

Originally posted by vansmack:
Screw the Pumpkins and screw the setlist. Which one of you boardies hooked up with Miss P? That's all I care about!

Originally posted by Aphex:

Originally posted by floyd:

Originally posted by miss p…dirty pirate hooker:

Originally posted by bearman:
Here's hoping that they'll play "I Am One", which is still probably my favorite Pumpkins song. They played it in 1999 when they played the Club, actually that was what they opened with. Queens of the Stone Age were the opening band for that tour too.

i second that.

Third

Weird I just started listening to Gish. I know its bad luck to listen to the band the day of a show, but i didnt know i had a ticket until recently, so i was not about to just stop.

But yes, I am One would be unreal.

The bad luck starts 24 hours before showtime, listening to a band your going to see. Other no-no's, wearing the band's merch on show nite, and the biggie looking at the set list of the last time they played. Superstitious, yes, but having gone to a hell of a lot of shows following those few rules have served me well. BTW Gish seems to be relatively off limits so far on this tour.

Originally posted by Kevin Craig:

Originally posted by Epstein:
ummmmmmmmmm


yeah kinda a bad show

Your kidding right?

nope i'm not

a wasted opportunity , with a set list where the only real "surprise" was starla. The new songs sounded horrid, BwBW and zero both sound dated. The Aeroplane Flies High Slayed, so heavy, really great to hear live. Before anyone pans me or flames me, I used to LOVE sp, I really did, but I just cant get into it anymore. Siamese Dream kills, it really does, but to be honest everything else MCIS and after just are bad.
Maybe it was me hoping they would go back to their "my bloody valentine meets sabbath days" but thats no more. You have someone in your band from the lassie foundation (the new guitar player), who put out some of the most underrated shoegaze/pop albums in years (go check out pacifico awesome awesome record) yet you don't utilize any of if on the songs? You couldn't try to get a more "dream-y" sound? Also I think I understand why smashing pumpkins wont play mayonnaise, but some on, that was one of the best songs they ever wrote period…but yeah james co wrote that so..
Now before you think well "of course you'd hate it now", I love some of the heavy stuff they do/did, Bodies, XYU, Dross, cash (crash) car star, slunk, Jackboot all totally awesome. But most of the heavy songs off the new album, and anything off of MACHINA I suck. Oh and billy we all know you can fucking solo no shit, not every song needs one.
as for grosshamer or whatever it is, lame lame lame. what a lame excuse for a semi improv song. It was like watching the mars volta with someone who cant do the lame wank-y stuff well or at all. Close with a song that has some fucking dynamics AKA silverfuck, or even porcilina…oh wait…cant play that one either I guess..
The biggest highlight was Jimmy. He's such a great drummer, really underrated. It was like watching Rashied Ali or Ed Blackwell mixed with John Bonham. Jimmy's solo album he put out a few years back reminds me (granted a little cheesey and over produced at times) a math rock record of sorts. Jimmy really stole the show, and I would kill to see him in some weird fucked up avant-free jazz group.
Will I ever see (the) smashing pumpkins again? No, and hey, more tickets for the real fans right? The smashing pumpkins are a band I will never quite understand. There are glimps where it seems at ANY moment, billy could rip out a fucking epic, but he just holds back. I remember seeing that veauphoria video a few years ago. I remember billy talking about how what makes (the) (mighty??) smashing pumpkins different, is the Loud/soft dynamic. If anything that is something that billy has not been able to do well for years, and at this point to me, maybe never again.

PS I thought it was cool the BE SHARPS opened up, but where was the hit "baby on board" or the avant leanings of "#8"?

ahhahaha. :D

Originally posted by vansmack:
Screw the Pumpkins and screw the setlist. Which one of you boardies hooked up with Miss P? That's all I care about!

Originally posted by nkotb:
I'm not being one to start rumors or anything, but her and I left the club at the same time, well ahead of the rest of you jokers. Just saying… :D

Originally posted by vansmack:
Screw the Pumpkins and screw the setlist. Which one of you boardies hooked up with Miss P? That's all I care about!

Since you're doing your best NOT to start any rumors, I'll try to do my part to ensure your efforts are successful and say that I think Miss P navigated the sketchy situation with aplomb even though NKOTB was… shall we say very "friendly."

I was pleasantly surprised that the nerdy boardie stereotype was unfounded in most cases, everyone I met seemed well adjusted, and with few exceptions I could see hanging out with almost all in the future, for those falling into the exception area and you know who you are, you scare me, nuf said


Show was 8/10 basically because of the crowd I'm not going to make too many anti-lookiloo statements, but there was a plurality that came to see the "hits", the people around me near the soundboard were about 60/40 knowledgeable versus a little clueless as far as the catalog goes. But anyone fortunate to get in, gets a pass so to speak, thereâ??s no litmus test or prerequisite to go to a concert and I think the uninitiated have as much right as anyone else to see what all the fuss is/was about, but it was a little off putting to hear time after time â??I donâ??t really like them but my (insert significant other, or buddies name here) really does so I thought Iâ??d come out anyway.â?


The theatrics (pre-show shit, political motif, etc) were inconsequential, though it should make the extras of the DVD cool for the locals that will find themselves in the footage. I thought the set list was on par with any other on the tour thus far, nothing too surprising, really solid IMHO.

Oh and if you werenâ??t there and wondered if Miss Pâ??s pix were photographer tweaked or Photoshop enhanced to make her look goodâ?¦ if so the manipulation didnâ??t do her justice because sheâ??s far more attractive in person than on the web, but with that said she still canâ??t come close to sexiness that is NKOTB, heâ??s still the board pin-up. :eek:

WTF was "Celebration"? By the time we got in we were only able to catch the last 2 or 3 songs. Maybe that was a blessing in disguise.

Hippie drum circle + screaming chick + Hammond organ someone found at a garage sale.

Ugh.

celebration was actually quite good in some parts, and if I'm not mistaken they are from baltimore


the last song reminded me of a more dreamy take on some of the stuff liars did on DRUMS NOT DEAD, or even some of the boredoms 7/7/07 show…77 drumers, but not quite

Hey all. Despite taking up 45 minutes of my precious vacation time in Montreal to try to get tix, I failed. I stood outside the show for about two hours hoping to score some last minute tix from a fellow fan or any last minute releases from the box office. I gave up at about 9:30 (coincidentally). Did anyone get any tix after that time?

I have seen SP three times now - once at the 700 Club in Columbus, Ohio on the Gish tour, once at Lolapalooza and once at some stupid arena in Cleveland. I'm sure the show last night rivaled two of the three although it's tough to beat seeing them in what is today a lobster restaurant. Too bad it's only 1/2 the original gang.

Originally posted by bnyced0:
The bad luck starts 24 hours before showtime, listening to a band your going to see. Other no-no's, wearing the band's merch on show nite, and the biggie looking at the set list of the last time they played. Superstitious, yes, but having gone to a hell of a lot of shows following those few rules have served me well. BTW Gish seems to be relatively off limits so far on this tour.

That's funny, I go to a lot of shows too and follow the opposite rules (except for wearing the shirt). I like listening to the music beforehand and looking at setlists - gets me pumped for the show.

overall - the show was fanfuckingtastic. i would go as far as to give it an 8.5 or 9/10 again… the crowd left some left to be desired. i had a really annoying guy behind me that insisted on trying to talk to everyone about how much he loved the pumpkins but then asked where D'Arby was. *ahem* but i digress…

preshow i managed to meet up with julian and ratbastard, and got several dirty looks from folks who thought i was skipping line.

i had a fabulous time in the front, was lucky enough to be one of the first 200 folks in (and i didn't even get there till a bit after 5) and really enjoyed the preshow theatrics. highlights of the set for me were the acoustic version of 'rocket,' 'fuck you,' 'aeroplane' and of course 'starla.' i do admit that i did get a bit irritated during 'gossamer' but jimmy's drumming helped me through.

after the show it was great meeting everyone and putting names with faces - sweetcell, bnyced, nkotb, director. luckily i didn't have to invoke the creepy clause ;)

Originally posted by bizou311®:

Cherub Rock
——–
Fuck You
Silverfuck
——–
To Shelia
With Every Light
——–
Gossamer

encore was actually 3 encores / 3 songs.
1: cherub rock
2: gossmer
3: fuck you
it was diffrent than what htey had on the setlist/computer.

edit: nm/thatguy corrected it a bit already.

Originally posted by eros:
WTF was "Celebration"? By the time we got in we were only able to catch the last 2 or 3 songs. Maybe that was a blessing in disguise.

Hippie drum circle + screaming chick + Hammond organ someone found at a garage sale.

Ugh.

During the last song they brought their friends up on stage, it was like we were forced to watch a high school drama club reunion. I would've prefered to listen to the barber shop quartet for those 30 mins. Actually silence would've been better.