
Smashing Pumpkins - Siva - Oakland, Live, Friday 10-7-11, front row, Fox Theater. Billy Corgan performs all the rarely played songs form the 1st 3 albums and then some! Other Tidbits: Before the concert, there was a meet up of the Smashing Pumpkins Record Club about an hour before the doors opened. They were let in early to listen to part of the sound check and talk with one of the SP administrators who asked about what merchandise they would like to see and let them listen to a few unreleased demo tracks. The administrator also let the security staff know that the organizer of the meet up had personal permission from Billy Corgan to set up an HD camera on a tripod to record the show. He was in the 1st balcony. The other 34 of the SPRC were also standing where I was standing. The guy to my left who is constantly pointing to the air is from Chicago, Corgan's hometown, and apparently was the guy who stood in front of the Fillmore in San Francisco in 2007 with no money and only a sign begging for a ticket. After many hours, Billy noticed this and put him on the guest list, thereby getting him in free to the sold out 2-week set. I guess I was one of the few fans in my area who has not met Billy Corgan personally, though at the end of 'Bullet With Butterfly Wings', the last song of the encore, Billy does point at me and do a dance for my camera, lol. The concert definitely focused on rarely played songs on the albums Gish and Pisces Iscariot, probably because those 2 and <b>...</b>
The
Smashing
Pumpkins
Siva
Oakland
San
Francisco
Live
Fox
Theater
Theatre
10-7-11
Friday
October
2011
Gish
Billy
Corgan
Other
Side
of
Kaleidyscope
Tour
HD
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