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=== Notes === | === Notes === | ||
* Jimmy's first show | * Jimmy's first show | ||
* First performance at The Metro. The band's last concert in 2000 was at the same venue where copies of this show were handed out on CD (CD titled "CR-05" official release) | |||
* First performances of Under Your Spell, She, and Spiteface | * First performances of Under Your Spell, She, and Spiteface | ||
* The performance was a critical turning point for the band. In 2012, Billy Corgan and The Metro owner Joe Shanahan were interviewed on WBEZ 91.5 FM, recalling how the 1988 show unfolded, including Joe's persistence that they hire a drummer, which indirectly paved the way for their success. Corgan, comparing Shanahan as the "wizard behind the curtain", explained how important it was to get a show at the Metro, which he considered the cultural center for the emerging alternative rock scene. What won Shanahan over was an early Smashing Pumpkins demo cassette given to him. His only complaint was the use of a drum machine, which he felt didn't pair well with the Pumpkins' more psychedelic, guitar-driven sound. After Chamberlin was recruited, the Metro show was booked, and the rest is history. It would be less than a month later that the band performed outside Chicago for the first time. | |||
== Banter == | == Banter == | ||
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Latest revision as of 04:26, 23 October 2024
| The Smashing Pumpkins | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1988-10-05 |
| Venue | Metro |
| Location | Chicago, IL, US |
| Venue Type | Club |
| Capacity | 1100 |
| Lineup | Corgan, Iha, Wretzky, Chamberlin |
| Order of Bands | October's Child, Love and Addiction, The Smashing Pumpkins |
| Surfaced Recordings | |
| AUD #1 | |
| Source | AUD |
| Format | ANA |
| Equipment | NAK 300 or 500 > TC-D5 |
| Length | 36m |
| Complete? | No |
| Lowest Circulating Generation | "CR-05" official release |
| Live Music Archive | 16-bit download |
| Notes | The beginning of Nothing and Everything contains distortion and is cut. CR-05 is purportedly sourced from a first generation tape, with a third generation copy spliced in during Nothing and Everything. |
| Unsurfaced Recordings | |
| AMT #1 | |
| Source | AMT |
| Format | VID |
| Equipment | Unknown |
| Length | ~35m |
| Complete? | Unknown |
| AUD #2 | |
| Source | AUD |
| Format | ANA |
| Equipment | Unknown |
| Length | Unknown |
| Complete? | Unknown |
| Notes | Clips from the master cassette posted on Instagram. |
Setlist
Set:
- There It Goes
- She
- My Eternity
- Under Your Spell
- Bleed
- Spiteface
- Nothing and Everything
Notes
- Jimmy's first show
- First performance at The Metro. The band's last concert in 2000 was at the same venue where copies of this show were handed out on CD (CD titled "CR-05" official release)
- First performances of Under Your Spell, She, and Spiteface
- The performance was a critical turning point for the band. In 2012, Billy Corgan and The Metro owner Joe Shanahan were interviewed on WBEZ 91.5 FM, recalling how the 1988 show unfolded, including Joe's persistence that they hire a drummer, which indirectly paved the way for their success. Corgan, comparing Shanahan as the "wizard behind the curtain", explained how important it was to get a show at the Metro, which he considered the cultural center for the emerging alternative rock scene. What won Shanahan over was an early Smashing Pumpkins demo cassette given to him. His only complaint was the use of a drum machine, which he felt didn't pair well with the Pumpkins' more psychedelic, guitar-driven sound. After Chamberlin was recruited, the Metro show was booked, and the rest is history. It would be less than a month later that the band performed outside Chicago for the first time.
Banter
MC: ...Pumpkins.
There It Goes
Corgan: Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good evening. You can stand here all you want. Mighty cold, hoo! Shhh.
She
Iha: Thanks.
Corgan: Alright, enough of those pop songs.
My Eternity
Under Your Spell
Corgan: Huh, huh, huh, huh? I hear people shouting out neuroses. Yes, I [unintelligible] them all. Get wacky, right, yeah. Jump up and down, that'll make for a better show.
Bleed
Corgan: Alright, alright, alright. That's not alright like "Thanks a lot", this is an alright like "Okay, now it's time"— Some guy's going, "Jump around, jump around, jump around. Jump around, jump around. Make good show, make good show". Okay, time for make good show.
Spiteface
Iha: Thanks a lot.
Corgan: Last song, our last song before we disappear.
Nothing and Everything
Corgan: Thank you, good night.
Iha: Thanks a lot, take care.
Photos & Memorabilia
