Who wants honey/As long as there's some money/Who wants that honey?

As silly as it sounds the Smashing Pumpkins album Siamese Dream is a really important album to me.  I'd never really listened to all that much music until I put that cd on and the opening drum rolls of Cherub Rock (the lyrics in the title are from that song) came on.  Ever since then I've been hooked not just on the '90s alternative rock that first grabbed me, but all good music.

I've been fortunate to see the Pumpkins in concert in both 1996 at the Target Center and in 1998 at the free outdoor show in downtown Minneapolis that drew over 100,000 people.  On Tuesday Carl and I headed to Roy Wilkins' Auditorium to see them for a third time, but the first without original band members James Iha and D'Arcy.  I was a little concerned that without them the show wouldn't measure up, but it did.  They played a ton of old stuff to go along with some of the new stuff off Zeitgeist (an album I don't own and haven't actually heard most of), and Billy Corgan (while not aging gracefully) still rocks.  The crowd wasn't fabulous, but that is too be expected when those of us who weren't in diapers when Siamese Dream first came out are a little old to be crowd surfing and in mosh pits.  We don't want to break a hip, you know.

If you have the chance to see them, do.  Below is the set list if you are interested:

1. United States 2. Rocket 3. That's The Way (My Love Is) 4. Neverlost 5. Drown 6. Bring The Light 7. Stand Inside Your Love 8. Tonight, Tonight 9. Tarantula 10. Zero 11. Glass and the Ghost Children 12. 1979 13. Perfect 14. To Sheila 15. Bullet with Butterfly Wings 16. Hummer 17. Home 18. Superchrist 19. Doomsday Clock 20. Heavy Metal Machine 21. Cherub Rock (first encore) 22. With Every Light (second encore) 23. Today (third encore)

Apart from the concert I just completed my second week at my new job and things are going very well.  My coworkers are great and I'm loving the chance to be a "real" attorney.  I actually had my first court appearance on Wednesday and even though it was a default motion where the Defendants didn't appear it was nice to get that out of the way.

Anywho, that's all for now.  It's almost time to watch the Hawkeye football team get blasted again.

Craig

 

Comments

[Aman]

It must have been fun watching smashing pumpkins. Even I like smashing pumpkins a lot. They are one of my favorite bands. I like the song 'Disarm' and also Tonight tonight