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Yesterday afternoon Billboard's website added to the Smashing Pumpkins rumors circling the globe with a possible reunion occuring at the August 4-6th Lollapalooza here in Chicago. There's no confirmation of the dates or who will be playing, but the Texas-based Capital Sports & Entertainment are in charge again. The line-up will not be announced for weeks, but Thievery Corporation told Billboard that they would be there.
Jam Productions is still in a tizzy over not being able to work with the Park District to acquire dates for their events in Grant Park and cried foul about the inability to compete. The Park District is mum on the subject so far.
All in all - this is just more fodder for the gossips in da house. Can we all agree to no longer care whether or not the Smashing Pumpkins get back together? Until we see Billy Corgan on stage with the Pumpkins - wherever it is - we won't believe it until we see it. Because we heard it's happening at the...
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Julene, I am with you. I no longer care whether the Pumpkins get back together. Billy is the boy who cried wolf at this point. :)
Am I weird for saying that I could not care less about the Pumpkins reuniting. There were great and all and I still listen to their records, but after attending Coachella the last two years, I am kind of tired of seeing my favorite bands look over the hill while replaying songs from their better years. (The pixies were the lone exception to this)
I care (and for that matter simply CARED) about the Smattering Bumpkins about as much I cared about the Flubs or the Sucks winning any baseball games in their respective hellhole/tourist traps - I mean, stadiums.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Billy Corgan is a dick. A phenomenal prick of stratasphere-reaching proportions, a pretentious windbag who's flukes have been greater than his contributions to "rock-n-roll," if it can be called that anymore.
If any one of you outr there know this twisting dickwad, please, tell him from me that I would rather volunteer to listen to Ashlee Simpson lip-synching for a full 24 hours, then finally driving a No.2 pencil right through both of my ears (thus insuring it would be the last thing I'd ever heard in my life) than to hear his whiny excuses for "music" to be further flopped out of his $300 jeans onto the public's already numbing ears.
No wonder Kurt Cobain took the top of his head off - he saw the future of music, and it was "musicians" like Billy Corgan.
JUST.MAKE.THEM.GO.AWAY (billy & the pumpkin patch)-PPULLEASSE!
Ahh...
So typical of Chicagoans are we, proudly building up our hometown heroes only to turn on them later and tear them down once we feel they've overstayed their welcome....
Sammy Sosa, Mayor Daley, Billy Corgan...
... and all three could DIE, just DIE, as far as I'm concerned! Ooooooh! ! !
Besides, all three are NOT heroes, numbnutz! A fireman or a policeman or someone who SELFLESSLY does something for their fellow citizen, THAT'S a HERO. All three of those sterling examples you listed are PAID to ENTERTAIN or DO THINGS for us, not get praise put on them!
Try shitting correctly, or get off the pot!
- A Chicagoan!
MikeH makes a good point. Corgan is so bloated from stardom but he does stick around Chicago. He did put Chicago alternative on the map for many bands to soak up a few bucks. And anonymous, chill out. Everyone who has a brain knows MikeH is not referring to Corgan and Sosa as heroes, but more in the iconic sense. And numbnutz is with an s, not a z. More importantly though, shouldn't we have an ordinance that bands can't reunite for at least 10 years?
Anonymous -
First of all, dipshit--learn to recognize sarcasm...
Secondly, don't post as anonymous if you're going to insult someone--grow a set...
Third of all, the last time I checked, dumbass, policeman and fireman are also PAID, so don't give me that "selfless" bullshit (and yes, my father was a police officer)...
So where does that leave you, Correctly-shitting Anonymous Numbnutz?
Something tells me that Corgan doesn't shit correctly.
Corgan is a pretentious asshole. Bears also shit in woods. Get over it, the music is still good. I'm down with them coming back.
What didya say, Blanche? You'd GO DOWN on them?
It figures. You starfuckers are all alike.
You skanky ho!
Hey, is it just me, or are all the others that write for Chicagoist far more prolific in their writing? How come I get a test only once a week or so? Bring on the sweet nectar (Like by the gallon, okay.)