Chicagoist: Smashing Pumpkins Turn 20, Tease With a Tour

Spook

Fri, 23 May 2008 11:48:19 -0600

what ever tank boy sayith, I agreeith cause he knowith all about this stuffith

Tankboy

Fri, 23 May 2008 10:43:47 -0600

Pizza Club, I'm old enough to remember blowing off the Gish CD release show at Metro to go to Medusa's, and back in those days D'Arcy and James were integral. It's like The Who still calling themselves The Who with only 2 guys still being alive. Sure, they're allowed to get away with it, but they'll never be as good as they were at full thrust. And the last good SP album was by this band called Zwan ... because then Corgan at least had a proper foil. I loved SP, and my history with the band goes waaaaaay back, but I've grown overly tired of Corgan's egomania. I'd prefer he and Chamberlain -- who is stil an AMAZING drummer -- just started a new project and stopped trading in on a brand name when the original product is beyond any hope of resuscitation.

Pizza Club

Fri, 23 May 2008 07:47:09 -0600

They ARE coming to Chicago, as well as proper New York and LA shows. This has already been confirmed by Billy to several fans and Billboard. Oh, and people need to get over James and D'arcy. They added little to nothing musically, but people seem to romanticize them like they were Beatles members. Shame on Chicagoist for being another media outlet that can't mention Smashing Pumpkins without bringing up James and D'arcy.

napdaddy

Thu, 22 May 2008 16:03:04 -0600

Everything will be fine as long as Jimmy Chamberlin shows up. Jimmy's the only one that Corgan knew he couldn't replace.

StephanieSays

Thu, 22 May 2008 15:21:00 -0600

I haven't liked an album he's put out since Adore, but I've seen Billy (with SP and otherwise) live 10+ times (yes, I am a loser) and he's never disappointed. I'll probably end up going. The man is insane, so it is sure to be entertaining. Plus I like the acoustic version of Rocket SP2 plays.

tc3

Thu, 22 May 2008 15:08:03 -0600

Excellent use of the "questionable relevancy" tag, though even that might be a bit of an overstatement.

charliedid

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:52:51 -0600

YAWN

xlprq

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:37:45 -0600

Come on, that's not true. Billy Corgan doesn't eat.

delta_

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:28:03 -0600

I heard Billy Corgan went into a restaurant and ate everything in the restaurant and they had to close the restaurant.

fed up

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:26:07 -0600

you just have to wonder what could have been.