The Smashing Pumpkins - Rocket (Live Alternative Version)

The Smashing Pumpkins performing an alternative version of Rocket from Siamese Dreams

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Smashing
• Pumpkins
• Rocke
• Live
• Billy
• Corgan
• Alternative

[gmoney629]

I remember seeing this one Adore interview thing where Billy says something like a song has infinite possibilities and a version is just one take on a song. It makes me feel bad for people that go to live shows and pay a lot of money for the same thing they could get on the cd. Like a Britney Spears concert where she doesn't even sing haha.

[akerolee]

The greatest hits was so mediocre. It's time they released a box set of rare songs. I'm not talking rairties and b-sides on itunes. I mean like the phsyco tapes and Metro shows.

[TheseHipsDontLie87]

This version of this song seriously changed my life.

[sweetpeajunglebean]

i saw the show a couple days earlier in l.a. i waited outside for 5 hours to find a ticket on the first night and got shut out. waited outside for 5 hours on the second night and got shut out. waited outside 5 hours on the third night and finally got in. this song was the end of the acoustic set, transitioning into the electric, just as the ecstasy was kicking in. hands down, without a doubt, by far, no doubt, unquestionably the best show (out of 250+) that i have ever seen in my whole life.

[toofattoskate1]

takes one back to pumpkinland :o)

[GSnizzle77]

Is this from the old Soma in San Diego? I saw them in 96 and they came out in their pjs and played this version. F@#kin amazing.

[repelghosts]

Take me with you....it wont be long...they are just prepering us Jeff...New York ,China...its coming to fruition..God help us please..we are waiting.

[vikingwiz]

I have this video too. isn't it bridge school benefit from like 96-97? I remember the first part of this set they play acoustic in the pajamas.

[brandonedge]

whoa, i don't remember ever hearing this version. it'd be awesome if there were a studio version. we didn't get rocket when i saw em in phoenix in 12/96

[777Lateralus]

the original is way better

[EpiTone900]

never heard this version so thanks for sharing :) man i love this band so much!

[jefmered]

The shows of this era were incredible (MCIS small theatre shows in winter of 96). I saw them at the Academy in NYC on January 12, 1996 -- same version of Rocket was played there, loved how they reworked it. Still prefer the original but this was imaginative ...