This Smashing Pumpkins show was not as good as the previous one. The newness that I felt from the start of the last one was gone, the organ section in the middle was a bit dull, and the overall vibe felt more generic than psychedelic.
Fortunately, Billy Corgan was still Billy Corgan, so you left entertained. First, he blinded everyone with ultra bright lights; then, he invited everyone to “come down where the crickets love”?! At one point, he croaked “bang bang you’re dead, hole in your head;” at another point, he screeched “Sally sells seashells by the seashore”?! Most surprisingly of all, he actually pointed to and thanked the audience at the end. Way to confound expectations by doing what you expect from every other performer!
The most rewarding part of the concert was seeing it with James Oberndorf. To see a person care about the music as much as I did, to hear him describe how he’d “gone through a time warp” and reconnected with his youth, was thrilling. He eagerly explained drop d tuning, he wooo’d through “Siva,” “Soma,” and “Cherub Rock,” and when “Butterfly” came up as the last song, he flipped out. He wasn’t the only one...
Grade: B+
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