Tsp1990-01-25

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	1990-01-25
Venue	Trito's Uptown
Location	Champaign, IL, US
Venue Type	Club
Capacity	~200
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Wretzky, Chamberlin
Order of Bands	Stark, The Smashing Pumpkins

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Date confirmed through newspaper listings
From interview with Stark members: Stark opened for future rock stars Smashing Pumpkins in ’89 (note: newspaper confirming 1990) at Trito’s Uptown, when the Pumpkins’ tunes were still relatively psychedelic—Golosinski recalls some great guitar interplay between James Iha and Billy Corgan, as well as some conflict between Corgan and bassist D’Arcy Wretzky. “I remember sitting at the bar with Billy afterward, and he gave me one of their cassette demos with hand-drawn illustrations on the insert,” he says. “He really liked our set and in fact was upset at D’Arcy for flubbing a few notes in a couple songs. I don’t think anyone other than Billy noticed, but he was pretty annoyed with her—to the point where he told me, ‘I need someone like you playing bass for us. You should be in the band.’” Golosinski wasn’t about to consider leaving Stark, because he thought their music was just as viable as what the Pumpkins were doing. So he talked Corgan out of his grievance with Wretzky. “Billy grudgingly relented over a beer or two and agreed to stick with D’Arcy,” Golosinski says. “Incidentally, I sold that demo cassette on eBay circa 1996 for $800!”