Chicago, IL 11/18-19, 21; 12/8 Chicago Theater/Auditorium Theater; 12/7 Aragon
 

Thats right.

The pumpkins are

http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/tour

edit:
i fucked up the dates in the thread title.
Its supposed to be 18 19 21 22. Can someone fix that.

the only thing that makes me sad about this is how hard its going to be to get tickets. i wanna go to all of them!

i know, right?

Chicago what!!!!!

Chi Theatre is a superb venue. Auditorium is OK, but not as good sound IMO.

lets plan the pre-show get togethers early.

i live in the south loop. bout a 10 minute walk from the chicago theatre... i might consider letting people crash...

I've never been to Chicago - is that near O'hare or Midway airports? It looks like I can get a nonstop flight tue morning and come back thurs for like 200 bucks.. I would totally do that.

No, it's not but both airports have train stations that will take you to the Loop (Midway is closer).

I would say Midway is closer to downtown.. its definitely a shorter public transportation ride. About 30 minute train compared to an hour or so from Ohaare.

But I'm not making promises yet, so don't get your hopes up quite yet

Yeah, midway is in th south west..and O'hare is more NW.

Days Inn Lincoln Park :banging:

I'm looking at a 207/person for roundtrip flight and 2 nights @ the Marriott Chicago O' Hare

I would be considering going to friday's and saturday's shows.

so far the cheapest I have seen is 200 bucks for my flight and it looks like that Days Inn would be 200 bucks for 2 nights (100 bucks per person if someone split it with me) if I couldn't find a Chicagoan to crash with.

You Canadians remember that the weekend of the 22nd is the weekend before Thanksgiving here, so travel is going to be pretty hectic 'round these parts.

Hrrmm...I'm finding 320$ per person for flight and room.

Not the marriot, like a days inn.

Thats actually really good.

There is GA at Chicago Theatre but not at Auditorium, correct???

no GA at chicago theatre

Should we do STL again, David?

so who's going to organize a meetup? w00t

fuck tempted to fly up for a couple of shows

Oh. your flying from detroit to chicago.

no wonder why the air fare is so cheap :D

I will be doing at least 2 nights! Chicago Theatre preferably!

I want to go to the 21-22 so damn bad. Is the whole venue seats or are they going to remove them?

It's all seats, so there wont be any GA.

It also says on the Auditorium Theatre that ticket sets will be sold as well for both dates.

So davin, you too think the Auditorium is better? That's the one I was going to try for.

Fucking Chem labs and an exam are keeping me from the Theater shows but I'll be at the Auditorium!

Here’s an interesting billy article (from TOC’s cultural heroes segment) that may interest Chicagoans, he reveals his current feelings towards the city and its people.

http://www.timeout.com/chicago/blog/...-about/?p=9161

TOC: As much of a creative force as you are in Pumpkins history, you’ve taken a lot of guff for lineup changes over the years. A lot of bands change lineups: members will die and be replaced, or people will be swapped out and nobody says a word. But it seems that every time you sneeze with the Pumpkins it causes some kind of consternation. Do you have a sense of why that might be?
Billy Corgan: You know, I think it’s a pretty simple thing. When the band started, two of the musicians were good musicians, and two of the musicians were okay musicians. When we found ourselves recording, the producers that we worked with said, “These other two musicians aren’t competent; why don’t you just do it?” It put me in a really awkward position. It was basically choosing the best foot forward of the band as far as a representation musically. There was also the internal idea that everyone in the band should play their parts. That’s pretty standard, there’s nothing avant-garde about that. What happened was that we kept it a secret because we didn’t wanted people to think poorly of us. But basically Jimmy and I were making the records. When it came out, it came out of the bitterness of the other two band members portraying it as something they’d been fucked over on. That turned into a thing like I was some sort of monster who wouldn’t let anybody play on the records. Where the psychology reverses–and I think to answer the question, which is not an easy question to answer, but I’ve had a lot of time to think about it–is that it’s hard for people to understand that I’d done all that. It almost becomes this kind of suspicious thing, like there must be a catch—but there isn’t a catch. Two people pretty much made all the Smashing Pumpkins music. So when we put the band back together… we consider ourselves the rightful heirs of the musical legacy. We created it. We didn’t create it alone, but we created the majority of it. But maybe it’s not even that simple.

Just out of curiosity how do you Chicagoans feel about Billy’s comments toward the people/city and the whole “working class” ideology? Do you think his comments were justifiable?

Does anyone know how the presale is going to work for these shows?