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

Originally posted by callat703:
so who is going this weekend?

about time this thread came back.

YES!!! didn't you see my call for its resurrection in the other thread? i'm in for sunday. pre-show snacks & drinks at the dive-bar/restaurant on ludlow just east of the Tower, please join us if you can.

i have a spare ticket for sale, Center Orchestra row PP (about 3 or 4 rows in front of the soundboard) - interested parties should PM me.

The band has added a handful of older songs to their sets since VFest: Perfect, Ava Adore, Where Boys Fear To Tread, SET THE RAY TO JERRY, Let Me Give The World To You, Rocket (electric).

Should be excited. In for all four days in Philly.

bah. i should have/ wish i could have done this.

Beyond Gossamer, that was the low-light of the DC show. An acoustic Rocket is just wrong, in my opinion.

Originally posted by Julian, good manners AFICIONADO:
Rocket (electric

hopefully no masturbatory guitar solos that lasts forever?

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
hopefully no masturbatory guitar solos that lasts forever?

Thankfully Gossamer has been cut from all recent setlists.

Originally posted by nkotb:
Beyond Gossamer, that was the low-light of the DC show. An acoustic Rocket is just wrong, in my opinion.

I didn't think it was terrible, but electric is definitely better.

I like that they're not using United States as the opener all the time… they're going back to some of the classic openings (MCIS>Rocket or Where Boys Fear To Tread>Hummer).

I was tempted to leave when the played gossamer at the end. Luckily I stuck it out. Fuck You was quite a reward.

Originally posted by DriveWay:
Luckily I stuck it out. Fuck You was quite a reward.

This is a hilarious statement in so many other circumstances.

i'm going tomorrow. i don't think i'm going to go to any of the others..

Fuck You is so 1995. It is great.

i'm done with this band.
someone would have to pay me a lot of money to get me to sit through another show. the shows have just gotten progressively worse over the years and last night was somehow even worse than the 930 club show in dc. whoever is mixing SP live needs to be fired.

I have serious doubts about going to philly tomorrow–even with front row seats. The setlist last night blew harder than the 9:30 show. I'm not done with this band yet though. They're just playing what all the fratboys and moshers want to hear. I still have a little bit of hope left in me.

Last night was basically a "let's play a smashing pumpkins greatest hits show and throw in some random zeitgeist." BLAH. No one wants to hear the songs I want to hear. Mellow pumpkins tunes obviously don't sell a show, so I'm out of luck I suppose. Drown, Set the Ray to Jerry, Stand Inside Your Love, and Let Me Give the World to You were the only highlights–and mild ones at that. I'm getting a little leery of making the trip tomorrow.

and the show start at the same time as Sox-Indians game 7… aaaarg, tough choice. right now i'm thinking that i'll catch EITS and some of the smashing billys, but if the game is remotely close i'm bailing on the show and bee-lining for the closest bar with a TV.

yes, i'll be the dork in center Orchestra checking the score on his cell phone every 10 minutes.

I had tickets to all 4 nights but only made it through 2.5. I came down with both an ulcer on my eye and uveitis and the band's light show all but blinded me. Monday night I had to leave early, my eye was bleeding and I was having photophobic spasms. I had to call an ambulance and turned up in the emergency room of Jefferson Hospital in the most pain of my entire life. I was for all intents and purposes completely blind, and have only regained a semblence of sight today.

The hospital was increasingly unprofessional. They refused me a room even though I have insurance, and shot a steroid into my eye and discharged me even though I could not see and told me to see an opthomologist ASAP. I told them I'm from Richmond, cannot see, and have no clue where anything is in Philly and they said it wasn't their problem. They offered to put em in a taxi and to tell the driver to drop me off at ahomeless shelter. The wheeled me out of the hospital and left me on the front stoop. I wandered back into the waiting room and sat there for 6 hours until my father drove down from Rochester to come get me. My car is still in DC and my luggage in Philadelphia. :(

Basically, it was a terrible last couple of days although the shows were good. I don't blame the band because if my eyes were hurting, I should've left earlier, and the doctor said even w/o the light show, I would've been in that condition within a day, it only sped it up.

One positive note about humanity: I was texting a kid from Netphoria the setlists and I told him I had to leave because of my eye and he kept calling to see how I was doing. When I was sitting in the waiting room, he apparently posted on the Pumpkins board about what had happened and another fan from a few blocks away came down and checked on me and filled my prescrition (since I couldn't walk/see). I gave him my ticket for night 4 but he didn't know I even had one, so he was just doing it to be kind. So there are still some cool people out there.

Originally posted by Julian, good manners AFICIONADO:
I had tickets to all 4 nights but only made it through 2.5. I came down with both an ulcer on my eye and uveitis and the band's light show all but blinded me. Monday night I had to leave early, my eye was bleeding and I was having photophobic spasms. I had to call an ambulance and turned up in the emergency room of Jefferson Hospital in the most pain of my entire life. I was for all intents and purposes completely blind, and have only regained a semblence of sight today.

The hospital was increasingly unprofessional. They refused me a room even though I have insurance, and shot a steroid into my eye and discharged me even though I could not see and told me to see an opthomologist ASAP. I told them I'm from Richmond, cannot see, and have no clue where anything is in Philly and they said it wasn't their problem. They offered to put em in a taxi and to tell the driver to drop me off at ahomeless shelter. The wheeled me out of the hospital and left me on the front stoop. I wandered back into the waiting room and sat there for 6 hours until my father drove down from Rochester to come get me. My car is still in DC and my luggage in Philadelphia. :(

Basically, it was a terrible last couple of days although the shows were good. I don't blame the band because if my eyes were hurting, I should've left earlier, and the doctor said even w/o the light show, I would've been in that condition within a day, it only sped it up.

One positive note about humanity: I was texting a kid from Netphoria the setlists and I told him I had to leave because of my eye and he kept calling to see how I was doing. When I was sitting in the waiting room, he apparently posted on the Pumpkins board about what had happened and another fan from a few blocks away came down and checked on me and filled my prescrition (since I couldn't walk/see). I gave him my ticket for night 4 but he didn't know I even had one, so he was just doing it to be kind. So there are still some cool people out there.

Damn. Hope everything's good with you. I still owe you some drinks from the playlist wager, so hope you can get up & running soon. Best wishes, fam . . .

Sorry to hear that, Julian. That sucks. Hope your vision improves soon.

Get better soon Julian.
And to think we were just seeing Stars Saturday night and then this…?

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
And to think we were just seeing Stars Saturday night and then this…?

Stars was good too. Is there a thread/setlist for that anywhere? Couldn't believe they played On Peak Hill – one of my all time favorite songs by anyone ever.

julian - that sounds like an absolute nightmare :eek: . so sorry you had to go through this. will your eye get better?

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
Get better soon Julian.
And to think we were just seeing Stars Saturday night and then this…?

and to think we were just seeing the pumpkins together on sunday! all seemed so good (miss p - julian mentioned how much "fun" your group had at stars… ya lushes)