Smashing Pumpkins Prep Anniversary Tour, Concept Album
Last week brought us the Smashing Pumpkins' "G.L.O.W." (the non-wrestling version). This week Billy Corgan's talking about the 20th Anniversary tour that launches on Halloween and, as he told Spinner, the Pumpkins "treated ... as a special one-time event," e.g. "we have horns, a violin player and we're playing a lot of songs we wouldn't normally play." There's also a Pumpkins concept album somewhere down the road.
We started writing some of the songs [for a concept album], but it's so overwhelming ... Honestly, what we're actually trying to do is create a very new media-based way to interrelate a visual and a long song cycle. That's really challenging. We're in way over our heads at this point.
Before you see that interrelated visual and song cycle (it's called Tommy, just kidding ... it's called The Wall), you'll have a better shot of spotting Corgan on his anniversary-tour stage: Certain cities will get two-night stands (New York, Boston, L.A.) with different sets each night. As BC also told Spinner:
The two-night format of playing two totally different sets is really challenging because what the hell are you gonna close Night Two with if all the best stuff is in night one? ... We're really excited about playing the song "Sunkissed" off our EP, American Gothic -- it's about a six-minute long song. It's very gentle and we're playing with the horns and everything. It sounds great, but it's the type of thing that'll totally kill the crowd and everybody starts throwing s---.
You can get the dates at the band's MySpace.
Posted at 4:22 PM by brandon
Tags: Billy Corgan | The Smashing Pumpkins
why'd spinner cut off his interview? i was just getting excited about this.
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the smashing pumpkins are a joke, sorry
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kill the crowd with Zeitgeist like boredom? I hope not.
I hope it's a bang bang your dead, hole in your head like epic. But does Billy have it anymore? We'll see.
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hint: no
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shut up
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"Hey Billy..c'mere. Psst...WE DON'T CARE ANYMORE".
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Can they really have a 20th anniversary if they were broken up for 7 of them?
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Has there ever been an SP related news posting on stereogum that doesn't descend into people insulting and bashing Billy Corgan? Great, we get it that you're a Pavement fan and you're so indie and cool and above liking any band that sold a lot of records. I like Pavement too, but I also like SP and so do many others.
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some of us care? com on guys... someone?
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I went to a Smashing Pumpkins show in August. The crowd was mostly 30ish hard rock radio listeners. They played a set consisting almost entirely of b-sides, rarities, and brand new material. I'm sure four or five people thought it was a great concert.
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