Absolutely underrated I Am One I never see anyone mention

[Ram27]

Lolla 94

JC killing it on the tom intro, the palm muted verse is killer:

[amoergosum]

[Funbags]

2.47 - James lol
4.32 - Is this the first time Boz did the "loneliness is emptiness" lyric?

[paranoid]

Feels like this jam is what led to the writing of an ode to no one

[T&T]

the i am one rants lead to lots of mcis material. billy explicitly says these are the source of XYU.

[meatngreet]

That one is pretty straightforward. It’s the ones where Billy tries to be a preacher that are the bad ones. He tries to make that rant actually mean something and then gets lost in his own bs. Take the ones from New York 8/05/94 and 8/06/94. The 8/05 show was largely a disaster because of that I Am One. The show never recovered. They opted to open the next show with an even more over the top version of the song, which was even worse.

Hard to take that song seriously when you also have James wearing a space helmet and making laser gun noises in the background. In that video you can also see the moment where Jimmy drops out of the song like “okay, thats enough of that shit”. He does the same thing in that video at the end of Silverfuck, immediately leaving his drum kit at the earliest possible moment, while Corgan finishes off the noise ending.

[houseofglass11]

Is that the “moustaches are out dude” performance?

[Ram27]

tank tops are out!

[Ram27]

Originally Posted by meatngreet

James wearing a space helmet and making laser gun noises in the background

that is essential to the pumpkin sound. geek usa and silverfuck live 94 especially

[Raskolnikov]

Quality upload/thread right there - haven't ever heard this version.

[Gooch]

Who is this band? I saw some band called the smashing pumpkins not too long ago and they kinda remind me of this band here.... regardless, they’re pretty good...I’m sure in 15 years they’ll still be rocking out this hard, right?!?

[Funbags]

Originally Posted by meatngreet

Take the ones from New York 8/05/94 and 8/06/94. The 8/05 show was largely a disaster because of that I Am One. The show never recovered. They opted to open the next show with an even more over the top version of the song, which was even worse.

Smashing Pumpkins Live at Downing Stadium (Randall's Island) on 1994-08-05 - This rant is awesome though

It's funny at the end of the Siva:

James: "YEAH YOU MOTHERFUCKER PLAY THAT FUCKIN' BLUES YEEAAAOOO"
Billy: "Let's face it, this whole evening's bust"

Then they do a hoedown and James goes wild with the banter. "PLAY THAT WACK-ASS DOPE BEAT AGAIN".

If you don't like this, how do you even like the Pumpkins?

[Ram27]

was it....CAIC that was at that first night? and there was a shitty storm, or lots of wind, or whatever, and they had to sit through that watching SP vamp out I Am One

[Ram27]

I always love (abandoned) songs in the archive. means fun stuff happened

"sorry i yelled at you guys with the mustaches before"

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Originally Posted by Ram27

was it....CAIC that was at that first night? and there was a shitty storm, or lots of wind, or whatever

wasn't me. but i remember someone telling that story.

[Ram27]

Originally Posted by meatngreet

That one is pretty straightforward. It’s the ones where Billy tries to be a preacher that are the bad ones. He tries to make that rant actually mean something and then gets lost in his own bs. Take the ones from New York 8/05/94 and 8/06/94. The 8/05 show was largely a disaster because of that I Am One. The show never recovered. They opted to open the next show with an even more over the top version of the song, which was even worse.

Hard to take that song seriously when you also have James wearing a space helmet and making laser gun noises in the background. In that video you can also see the moment where Jimmy drops out of the song like “okay, thats enough of that shit”. He does the same thing in that video at the end of Silverfuck, immediately leaving his drum kit at the earliest possible moment, while Corgan finishes off the noise ending.

it's hard to call any SP1 show a disaster if it's SP1 imo

like either it's a killer show, or it's a memorable one from it being so shitty

[Shallowed]

I believe it was Rider that was at the Randall's Island show.

[Modern90's]

with all the emptiness and loneliness and zero things in the live i am one, when did he started kicking around the zero idea exactly?

[reprise85]

didn't that also bring out despite all my rage etc? or maybe silverfuck?

[Ram27]

i think he got that from somewhere else. i know they did an early bullet w/ that line at an april 94 show in SC

[Funbags]

Smashing Pumpkins Live at Palmer Auditorium on 1994-03-25

The first time BWBW was played is pretty awesome

BONUS: Smashing Pumpkins Live at Memorial Hall on 1994-03-27

The second time starts off with some amazing banter lol

[Ram27]

hahahah thanks for that

love listening to them fucking up live

[Ram27]

how was d'arcy in the wrong tuning when they just did mayonnaise? isn't corgan and the bass in Eb for that?

[themadcaplaughs]

Originally Posted by meatngreet

That one is pretty straightforward. It’s the ones where Billy tries to be a preacher that are the bad ones. He tries to make that rant actually mean something and then gets lost in his own bs. Take the ones from New York 8/05/94 and 8/06/94. The 8/05 show was largely a disaster because of that I Am One. The show never recovered. They opted to open the next show with an even more over the top version of the song, which was even worse.

Hard to take that song seriously when you also have James wearing a space helmet and making laser gun noises in the background. In that video you can also see the moment where Jimmy drops out of the song like “okay, thats enough of that shit”. He does the same thing in that video at the end of Silverfuck, immediately leaving his drum kit at the earliest possible moment, while Corgan finishes off the noise ending.

I love those moments when Jimmy just ups and leaves while the rest of the band is fucking around making noise. You can see him tear out at the end of X.Y.U. in the Rio show from 1996 (my favorite Pumpkins show) when Billy is stumbling around the stage high as a kite bumping his guitar into things and James is making noises with the whammy pedal.

[RAWK]

Originally Posted by amoergosum

This is what heroin feels like