Friday, October 12, 2007

Pumpkins!

Sandy and I went the Smashing Pumpkins show in St. Paul. What a great time. They played for almost 3 hours. They included quite a bit of older stuff - Today, Cherub Rock, Rocket, Drown, Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Tonight Tonight, Zero, 1979, Perfect, Heavy Metal Machine... Nothing from Gish though. That would be my only complaint. 1979 and Perfect were acoustic – very nice. To be honest, I thought their new stuff sounded tighter than the old songs. You could see that Billy was more excited about playing those. And for the most part, Zietgeist does kick azz. They started with United States, a ten minute plus face melter from Zietgeist. In the middle he added in a guitar solo of the star spangled banner ala Hendrix. I just couldn’t stop smiling. The band is now Billy and Jimmy (the old drummer) and a couple cute new girls. James and D’arcy are not back, but they were always just background anyway. Billy and Jimmy still know how to rock hard. Worth the price of admission and then some.


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