Smashing Pumpkins - Silverfuck (live @ The Fillmore)

The first night of The Fillmore's residency. What an amazing show! Smashing Pumpkins played for 3 hours!
They built a special stage and lighting. The Fillmore looks so different.

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[friendsandenemiesofu]

c'mon he's 41. i would like to see you jumping around at his age after all he went through

[hiphopopatomous]

Billy is a musical genius..he has the ability to express every emotion through music, on top of that - he writes every note of every song and makes sure that his compositions are performed correctly...a true musical master, I hope that history compares him to the true masters...because he is a genuine composer/prodigy/genius/master of his art.

[xLordOfTheFliesx]

@MisterMisanthropy

He's old......relax.

[kevinmkr]

@ExclaimedMusic I'll admit that I haven't been completely objective (or even extremely fair) in assessing the new SP. However, my few stumbles into their material (such as a performance on Jay Leno where the drum part may as well have been pulled straight from Muzzle) haven't had the strength to give me much incentive. So, grain of salt and all that.

[kevinmkr]

@ExclaimedMusic I guess I just consider the fact that the band ended when James left to be a larger indicator of his role. SP survived the loss of D'arcy. SP survived the loss of Jimmy. But when James said "no mas", Billy shuttered the windows. There's no denying that Billy was the creative and administrative leader of the band in each era and I'd be a fool to suggest otherwise. Maybe James was simply the last straw.

[ExclaimedMusic]

@kevinmkr One more thing, I went to six shows this year, and I saw the fire in his eyes that was completely absent for most of the decade. He wants SP to work more now than ever. Every show this year felt more genuine than 2007/8. He's beginning to write SP1 quality material (Lonely Is The Name, Quasar, Zen Baby, As Rome Burns among many others). The band is tighter than it's been in a long, long time. I'm cautiously optimistic with the direction the band is headed at the moment.

[ExclaimedMusic]

@kevinmkr Yeah, I know, I was at a few. I have tons of bootlegs from the Machina tour, too. There's no doubt that the friendship between Billy and James was, for a time, the Smashing Pumpkins. Billy wrote all the words and majority of the music and James had a lot of interpretation, but I don't believe that James was the heart of the band. I believe that Corgan, when inspired, was the heart of the band. Plus, you really can't take a word Billy says seriously. . . Metro DVD, rereleases, etc. . .

[kevinmkr]

@ExclaimedMusic.... I know why you may be skeptical -- my source has been proven to be unreliable and a bit flakey -- It is, after all, Billy Corgan, himself, who said it almost EVERY SINGLE SHOW on the Machina tour before James played Blew Away (well, at least the two dozen shows that I was at). Find any recording of the tour. And then get back to me in 3 more years. Geez.

[ExclaimedMusic]

@kevinmkr Iha - heart of SP. The idea of that is hilarious.

[MisterMisanthropy]

other musicians still do. all he went through? what did he go through? he wasn't in a car accident or anything. all i'm asking for is a little spirit not this monotonous crap that made me not want to see them when they were in my town.

[MisterMisanthropy]

still low energy. Billy's just standing there.