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04-17-2012, 07:55 PM | #91 |
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I understand why a lot of people may not care to see it now, after all this time, and all the various things Billy has done to tarnish the legacy these past 12 years. But to me it's just a fascinating time capsule that I'd like to re-live, especially if it's loaded up with extras like all the fan-related events.
I may feel differently if I weren't there, or if I didn't get into the club on that final night under such unlikely circumstances, but I can't be sure. There's a lot of sentimentality tied up in that week of flying to Chicago, meeting lots of new people, going to weird parties (the Lab), late night sing-a-longs taking over entire hotel floors. Hey, I was 20 years old, ya know? That shit meant something, and still does in my memory. That show signified the death of the band we grew up with and for many of us the death of our youths, so yeah, why wouldn't I want to relive such a transitional, transformational phase of life? Billy can call his current band whatever he wants but to me Smashing Pumpkins played their last show on December 2, 2000. Billy fucking around with various projects and incarnations since in no way dulls the emotional interest for me in seeing that show again, because for me, that really was their last show. It really was the "last gasp" of what the band was, and in a way that's proven to be prophetic because even if you didn't like Machina, at least that show and everything leading up to it encapsulated the energy and direction of that moment in a way that felt like a real bookend to what the band was. Zeitgeist was a total failure but at least it consciously rid itself of those old clothes, so there was no confusion for me in seeing that Billy's band in 2007 wasn't anything like Smashing Pumpkins. The muse just wasn't there, because it died in 2000. Oh, and just because some of us want to finally see this show doesn't mean we didn't move on or listen to new music over the past decade. I'd only been to a handful of shows, too, at that point in my life, and now after seeing countless others since, that show still holds my attention in memory. It's just a personal thing, I guess. I get it if others don't feel the same. |
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04-17-2012, 08:06 PM | #92 |
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04-17-2012, 10:45 PM | #93 |
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at this point i'd rather put together a bunch of different stories from that night with other attendees and write a teen movie script loosely based off it.
but i'd like to see a blu ray of the show. seeing a glint of myself in the front row when watching the fuck you performance for the first time a year after the show gave me butterflies. the whole show would just make me puke, in a good way. |
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04-18-2012, 12:57 PM | #94 |
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http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...cagoparty1.jpg
It'd be pretty rad to see the footage Becca is filming in the top picture. |
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04-18-2012, 01:29 PM | #95 |
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i disagree
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04-18-2012, 01:44 PM | #96 |
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i'm sure it's mega cringe-worthy! i'd like to see it, but definitely "among friends," y'know. not for public consumption. ha.
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04-18-2012, 04:08 PM | #97 |
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Haha, I guess you're right...
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04-18-2012, 04:18 PM | #98 |
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memories are better than videotape
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04-18-2012, 06:24 PM | #99 |
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can someone link to more info or provide more about this show with a d'arcy drug freakout?
audio of this would be particularly awesome |
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04-19-2012, 10:12 AM | #100 | ||
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Plenty of awkward D'arcy banter, dunno about a freakout though; maybe Reyngel can point out exactly what he was referring to? |
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04-19-2012, 10:35 AM | #101 | ||
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http://www.splra.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tsp1999-04-24
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if that's all she said, i wouldn't call that plenty, or a freakout. |
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04-19-2012, 10:57 AM | #102 |
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sounds like fairly normal banter
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04-19-2012, 12:52 PM | #103 |
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04-19-2012, 02:35 PM | #104 | |
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04-21-2012, 07:05 AM | #105 |
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That wasn't the freakout. After the show, Darcy stormed off swearing like crazy at the mention of Billy, said she was "done," flipped off all of us fans waiting outside after the show and was sped off alone in a white can, without Billy, James or Jimmy. People at the time all said she was drunk, but in all reality she looked pretty out of it during the show.
Since this was my first SP show, I didn't know if that's just how Darcy behaved or not. But it was cool to see Billy, James and Jimmy at least say hi for a second after the show before they got into a separate truck that came for them. |
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04-21-2012, 07:57 AM | #106 |
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04-21-2012, 08:14 AM | #107 | |
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04-21-2012, 08:32 AM | #108 |
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LOL
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04-21-2012, 10:19 AM | #109 |
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04-21-2012, 02:36 PM | #110 |
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04-21-2012, 02:53 PM | #111 | |
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Shame on you |
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04-21-2012, 02:53 PM | #112 |
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Learn how to fuckin communicate
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04-21-2012, 05:15 PM | #113 |
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04-21-2012, 05:15 PM | #114 |
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haha get it
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04-21-2012, 11:37 PM | #115 |
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04-22-2012, 12:32 AM | #116 |
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04-22-2012, 12:49 AM | #117 |
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04-22-2012, 01:08 PM | #118 |
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is htat john bo.nsor
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04-22-2012, 01:16 PM | #119 |
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the 2000 metro show will be out on Holodisc in a couple of years mates, aud and vid combined! Some blokes at EMI told me
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04-22-2012, 11:27 PM | #120 |
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