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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#261 Post by clickie » Mon Mar 05, 2018 4:52 pm

My friend who works in the industry says these tickets aren't selling

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#262 Post by JOEinPHX » Mon Mar 05, 2018 6:12 pm

clickie wrote:My friend who works in the industry says these tickets aren't selling

It's been reported on in several places too.

Only NY, Chicago, and LA have sold well.

It's been super slow everywhere else.

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#263 Post by Hokahey » Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:52 pm

clickie wrote:You make the drive about 5 times last season to watch the chiefs play but can't muster up enough energy to see the pumpkins reunite? You have your priorities I guess.
I mean, it's not like it's 1993. I'd probably walk to KC if it was.

We'll see. I might go. But it feels a lot like seeing Jane's at this point. Some asshole you know you don't like, wearing a mask of who he used to be, playing music you know you love but without the original bass player. Ehhhhh

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#264 Post by Hokahey » Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:56 pm

There are still middle stage floor seats available in KC. Clearly no one is going.

I'll be curious who they tap as an opener. The right band could sway me.

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#265 Post by clickie » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:09 pm

Yeah I wonder who's opening, is it gonna be an old band like the pumpkins or someone new. Hopefully not the band Live that Janes brought on tour back in 2001.

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#266 Post by JOEinPHX » Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:19 pm

clickie wrote:Yeah I wonder who's opening, is it gonna be an old band like the pumpkins or someone new. Hopefully not the band Live that Janes brought on tour back in 2001.
I thought Live was great. :noclue:

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#267 Post by Mescal » Thu Mar 08, 2018 3:53 am

Six7Six7 wrote:
clickie wrote:Yeah I wonder who's opening, is it gonna be an old band like the pumpkins or someone new. Hopefully not the band Live that Janes brought on tour back in 2001.
I thought Live was great. :noclue:
Really?



I get serious nausea everytime I hear this song

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#268 Post by Mescal » Thu Mar 08, 2018 3:54 am

ok, so video unavailable.

I can see why

It was They Stood up for love

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#269 Post by Pandemonium » Fri Jun 08, 2018 1:48 pm

New song I Hate Myself For Living You... er, I mean Solara.


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#270 Post by Hokahey » Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:46 pm

Pandemonium wrote:New song I Hate Myself For Living You... er, I mean Solara.

Terrible. I thought they'd be smart enough to rehash the Siamese Dream sound for their damn reunion album. But no. Just more generic rock. I'm suddenly feeling much better about not seeing them on this tour.

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#271 Post by clickie » Fri Jun 08, 2018 5:40 pm

That would be them selling out, if they tried to rehash Siamese Dream for mass appeal.

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#272 Post by Hokahey » Sat Jun 09, 2018 7:45 am

clickie wrote:That would be them selling out, if they tried to rehash Siamese Dream for mass appeal.
I hope the overwhelming irony in this post isn't lost on you.

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#273 Post by creep » Sat Jun 09, 2018 4:54 pm

I like it :noclue:

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#274 Post by nausearockpig » Sat Jun 09, 2018 6:09 pm

At first I was being a diick and thought “It’s no Zero” but I listened to it on its own merit and enjoyed it.

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#275 Post by JOEinPHX » Sat Jun 09, 2018 9:26 pm

It sounds like Oceania

Which is fine, because that was a solid album.

But... with James and Jimmy back in the band shouldn't it sound different from when he was using fill-in musicians?

Also, those lyrics are so fucking generic and paint-by-numbers that I am shocked Rick Rubin didn't tell him to start over. Although, after 20 years of working with the RHCP, maybe he thinks this is good in comparison :noclue:

I'm still looking forward to the show, but it WILL be the one and only time I see them, because Billy shouldn't be rewarded for laziness.

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#276 Post by Matz » Sun Jun 10, 2018 12:35 am

Six7Six7 wrote: 20 years of working with the RHCP, maybe he thinks this is good in comparison :noclue:
:lol:

Not too bad a song I think, but a far cry from the Adore stuff for instance

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#277 Post by Pandemonium » Wed Jun 13, 2018 10:15 am

Solara sounds a lot better played live. BTW, who's the 3rd guitarist and bass player?


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#278 Post by Matz » Wed Jun 13, 2018 11:31 am

same guy that's played with Billy for a while in SP I think

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#279 Post by creep » Wed Jun 13, 2018 4:17 pm

Pandemonium wrote:Solara sounds a lot better played live. BTW, who's the 3rd guitarist and bass player?

I like how they make the bass player play behind everyone in the dark. Poor guy.

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#280 Post by JOEinPHX » Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:22 pm

Pandemonium wrote:Solara sounds a lot better played live. BTW, who's the 3rd guitarist and bass player?

3rd guitar player is Jeff Schroeder.

He's been Iha's replacement in the band since Zeitgeist.

Bass player is Jack Bates. He's Peter Hook's son.

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#281 Post by Pandemonium » Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:47 pm

They played a surprise warm-up show last night in Hollywood at the Troubadour club. Set looks pretty solid. The few vids are pretty crappy but the band appeared solid.

Hummer
Siva
Rhinoceros
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Muzzle
Drown
Soma
Solara
The Everlasting Gaze
Zero
Stand Inside Your Love
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Tonight, Tonight
Ava Adore
Today
Encore:
Transmission (Joy Division cover with Davey Havok)
1979

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#282 Post by Pandemonium » Fri Aug 03, 2018 8:03 pm

Pretty funny clip of Pumpkins covering Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart with a typically hammered Courtney Love, Peter Hook and Davey Havok. Apparently this was a pretty unusual, no-frills show with lots of guests that included songs they either haven't played in a while (Snail, Bodies) and first-time covers including Hole's Celebrity Skin and Malibu (with Courtney) and Judas Priest' Breaking The Law(!)


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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#283 Post by creep » Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:18 pm

Courtney is fucked up

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#284 Post by SR » Sat Aug 04, 2018 4:48 am

Pandemonium wrote:Pretty funny clip of Pumpkins covering Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart with a typically hammered Courtney Love, Peter Hook and Davey Havok. Apparently this was a pretty unusual, no-frills show with lots of guests that included songs they either haven't played in a while (Snail, Bodies) and first-time covers including Hole's Celebrity Skin and Malibu (with Courtney) and Judas Priest' Breaking The Law(!)

She'll be in the dead celeb thread soon. Painful to watch...she might be simpathetic if she wasn't CL.

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Re: The Smashing Pumpkins

#285 Post by phenobarb_bambalam » Tue Aug 07, 2018 11:55 pm

This is beyond atrocious. Really.

I wouldn't expect anything more...or anything at all, from CL. And she met that zero expectation. Just.
Corgi is an utter joke. Insert Uncle Fester quip. It's pathetic.
What's worse that both of the above is Hooky's insistence (of trying) to cash in on the JD legacy - this only detracts from it, and there is no payday for him (which is his only driver, at this point in time).

What a cluster.

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