Despite All His Rage Corgan Still A (Now Growing Welcomingly Predictable) Rat In A Cage

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Billy Corgan's Smashing Pumpkins™ are on tour and we suspect that all that time spent digging through unreleased material for their reissues has awakened some sort of nostalgia in The Bald One. The group's set in Las Vegas recently was steeped in golden oldies (and, c'mon, who out there is hoping that's still the case when the band comes through town this Friday at The Riv?) and their nascent Smashing Pumpkins Record Club is giving us glimmers of the nuggets we can expect from said reissue campaign. Last night Corgan released an early version of a classic Gish track, titled "Rhinoceros Version Two (Reel Time Sessions)," into the wild and it casts the guitar burner in a slightly different, organ dominated light.

MP3: The Smashing Pumpkins "Rhinoceros Version Two (Reel Time Sessions)"

The Smashing Pumpkins play October 14 at The Riv, 4746 N Racine, 7 p.m. $49 (?!), all ages

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By Tankboy in Arts & Events on October 12, 2011 10:00 AM 0 Comments

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bionnaki z

I'm surprised that people still care about this band.

Keith Donald

Well, if you've been following the band, you'll see that ~40% of the songs played thus far on this tour are NEW (8 of 21). The remaining 13 or so are long-time-fan-favorites, most of which have NOT been played recently (e.g. Geek, Muzzle, Ruby). For an avid fan, this is exactly what you want in a show. For a casual listener most interested in the hits, perhaps not so much. I, for one, appreciate the Pumpkins focus on the fans that continue to follow the band's evolution - it's always something new, it's exciting, but I guess you actually have to be following to notice...

Tankboy

I'm reasonably certain that's what "The group's set in Las Vegas recently was steeped in golden oldies (and,
c'mon, who out there is hoping that's still the case when the band
comes through town this Friday at The Riv?)" means, right?

Fan favorites - golden oldies. It wasn't a negative comment, Keith-eroonie.