Titled “A Special Acoustic Halloween Performance,” last night’s Smashing Pumpkins show in Columbus sold out in like 2 days. But judging from what people are saying in our message board, this $40 a ticket show sucked hard:
Man, did that pumpkins show really fucking suck.
It could have been epic.
Instead, billy hit me across the face with his dick.
thanks billy. for nothing.
and
the first hour was acoustic (though all the guitars were distorted) and featured covers such as “monster mash”, “wipeout” and “hang on sloopy”. there were no pumpkins songs. it was amusing for a couple songs, but wore thin when the band seemed to not really know how to play said tunes.
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(PS: Seattle is lovely and says hello.)
It was the best concert ive ever seen, after they put away the acoustics and came out in all black the place went nuts. The whole shitty acoustic thing was a joke, it was poking fun at the fact corgan is displayed as a dictatorial band leader. Seriously best show ever.
There were NO acoustic pumpkins songs? Talk about your false advertising. Fuck the lame ass Smashing Pumpkins.
They are one of the worst live bands ever. Billy can’t sing a note to save his life. Jerking fans around lately seems to be the only thing he does well.
the acoustic thing was a joke? Um I don’t think so.
If it was it was an unfunny joke that lasted an hour.
Fucking lame ass show. and I’m a pretty big pumpkins fan.
The show was ok. It was classic Corgan though. He loves to do things his way – ie, play the songs he wants, rather than what the casual radio listener would like. Ergo we got the show that we got.
are you serious??? It was a halloween show, they were all dressed up and having fun. Dont you know how lucky u were to be a part of that??? I guess you dont. The casual radio listener show??? Those fans dont belong to a SP show!!
They did 3hrs, one hour of fun songs dressed up for halloween. Screaming, throwing guitars one acoustic set and one electric set. It was a kick ass Halloween show!
Acoustic set
2. Louie Louie
3. Hang on Sloopy
4. Monster Mash
5. Wipeout
6. Gingger’s Raga
7. The Gambler
8. Lizard Blues
9. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
10. Gingger’s Rage Return
Electric Set
12. Tarantula
13. G.L.O.W.
14. Siva
15. Speed Kills
16. Superchrist
17. As Rome Burns
18. Sounds of Silence
19. A Song for a Son
20. Today
21. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
22. Heavy Metal Machine
23. Glass’ Theme
24. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
The show was bad. If you reallt step back and view it without the Billy-jaded glasses, you’d see it was lame, too bad, they once were a good band, those days are long gone.