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Old 09-08-2013, 03:47 AM   #1
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Default God Chooses Billy Corgan to Receive Cheap Trick Record at Illinois Concert

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Sometimes it just takes a record to send you back in time.

Last weekend my wife, two of our best friends, and I had the opportunity to see our friend Gingger Shankar perform with Cheap Trick at the Ravinia Music Festival just outside Chicago. The ‘70s supergroup performed The Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in its entirety (a regular act for them), then did the same for their own album At Budokan. Even more exciting, the comps Shankar provided us lay two seats down from Smashing Pumpkins frontman (and longtime raving Cheap Trick fan) Billy Corgan. It all made for quite the memorable evening. But one moment especially stood out.

About midway through the At Budokan performance, guitarist Rick Nielsen grabbed a vintage copy of the record from the back of the stage and casually flipped it into the audience with a strong, frisbee-like flick of the wrist. The updraft caught the record, and it drifted into the air—10, 15, maybe 20 feet. On the way down, it began tracing a gentle arc to the left, seemingly headed straight for us.

But another small gust of wind pushed it just over our heads and into the waiting hands of… none other than William Patrick Corgan Jr. himself. It was an impossible coincidence, akin to seeing now-retired Chipper Jones catch a home run ball at a Braves game. As you can see in the attached picture, Corgan was as giddy as a starry-eyed junior high kid.

Which, in a way, he was.
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Old 09-08-2013, 09:42 AM   #2
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haha nice

 
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Old 09-08-2013, 10:11 AM   #3
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Old 09-08-2013, 02:05 PM   #4
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Old 09-08-2013, 02:11 PM   #5
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not really buying that thing whimsically glided about the hall's underdraft and into his hands, with all the picks intact. but whatevs

 
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Old 09-08-2013, 02:24 PM   #6
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looks like a pick is missing. authentic story

 
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Old 09-08-2013, 02:48 PM   #7
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Wow, look at the smile on this dude. I can't remember a picture of him this happy in ages.

 
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Old 09-08-2013, 04:18 PM   #8
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Jimmy is looking happy, too...latest picture >>>

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...01732345_n.jpg

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Old 09-08-2013, 04:57 PM   #9
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whats that discoloration on billy's arm?

 
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Old 09-08-2013, 05:02 PM   #10
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whats that discoloration on billy's arm?
Untrooo fan alert.

 
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Old 09-08-2013, 05:54 PM   #11
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Jimmy is looking happy, too...latest picture >>>
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Old 09-08-2013, 07:22 PM   #12
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lol Byrne.

Jimmy's happy because he's free to live his personal musical/creative dream every day of his life; Billy's happy because he beat a room full of people to a record he probably already has a million copies of.

 
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Old 09-08-2013, 07:34 PM   #13
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he's happy coz of that sweet lady H

 
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Old 09-08-2013, 07:42 PM   #14
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The difference between Billy and Jimmy is that we all know Billy's happiness will be short-lived.

 
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Old 09-08-2013, 07:55 PM   #15
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billy doesn't have the comedown to worry about though

 
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Old 09-08-2013, 10:15 PM   #16
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Damn.



...is Billy doing a nude photoshoot

 
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Old 09-08-2013, 10:16 PM   #17
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Jesus Christ..

 
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Old 09-09-2013, 01:26 AM   #18
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no there's nothing wrong with this picture at all billy is totally crazy

 
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Old 09-09-2013, 10:29 AM   #19
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yes please, lets continue to blindly speculate the level and differences of what happiness is to a complete stranger.. unusual around here.. the guy has always expressed love for cheap trick, old news.. we got folks in here asking about the "strange discoloration" of his BIRTHMARKS too.. geeze this place..
You're a fucking moron.

All we need now to complete the set is a picture of James Iha freaking out when he got an iPad on that television show.

 
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Old 09-09-2013, 10:47 AM   #20
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could you please stop quoting macgayver. thanks!

 
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Old 09-09-2013, 03:24 PM   #21
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You had hours to work that up and that was really the best you could come up with. You are a moron.

 
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Old 09-10-2013, 12:08 AM   #22
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Wow, look at the smile on this dude. I can't remember a picture of him this happy in ages.
The picture looks like it came from a McMurderson video clip.

 
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Old 09-10-2013, 04:00 AM   #23
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we got folks in here asking about the "strange discoloration" of his BIRTHMARKS too.. geeze this place..
that's my bad, i got all the music and lurked for 12 years but til now i just never saw Billy without him wearing the black long sleeved zero shirt.

 
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