Chicagoist: Point/Counterpoint: The Smashing Pumpkins Announce New Live Dates

Pizza Club

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:41:24 -0600

^They didn't play Doomsday Clock at that show. And they haven't passed over Chicago for YEARS. First show back: 5/22/07 So a year and a half of touring, they are winding up in Chicago. Don't lots of artist do this? Save the hometown shows til the last part of touring?

sigmacoder

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:15:17 -0600

Trust me, Billy still brings it. Saw them at their chicago stop of the Zeitgeist tour @ The Venue front and center. Tickets were overpriced, and the levels were crap (too low) at the new venue, but the set list, energy, lights, and just about everything Billy/Jimmy had control over was awesome. Don't care for most of the new stuff, but the only songs they played off the new disk were United States (my fave) as a 10 min centerpiece, which was awesome, and I beileve Doomsday Clock. One of the better shows I've been to.

pins

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:51:04 -0600

It's not the Gish anniversary tour, this is the 20th anniversary tour. They have talked about doing a Gish-focused tour, but that won't be until the release of the Gish expanded boxset next year. So long as they don't play any of the subpar new stuff though, it's a little more intruiging.

mike_thoms

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:41:25 -0600

So the great billy corgan finally deigns to give Chicago a few dates? This assholes passes his hometown over for YEARS, playing everywhere but here and now he's finally playing? Fuck him. Go Cubs though