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Smashing Pumpkins –Automatic dcd

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Double cd

The Smashing Pumpkins have been around for 13 years, but Saturday night’s show at the Aragon Ballroom (Chicago April 16th 2000) was a debut of sorts. This was the first big Chicago bash with the new/old line-up–former Hole bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur, original Pumpkin drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, back after his three-year exile and drug problems, guitarist James Iha and frontman Billy Corgan. Any questions were answered immediately with the enormous crescendo that was The Everlasting Gaze. Corgan, clad in a black fabric-and-leather ensemble like a demon from the Hellraiser films, did indeed raise hell. Flinging his band through an artfully crafted set list that displayed the new while celebrating the old, the Smashing Pumpkins were a classic rock band in rare form. Corgan reveled in the brawny riffage of Heavy Metal Machine–he was the personification of this bombastic ditty. There was a clarity to the Pumpkins assault, partly due to the nasal bite of Corgan’s vocals, partly because they had their own sound equipment, which tamed the sonic nasties of the Aragon. Age Of Innocence rang true, Corgan’s wistfulness embedded in this song’s shimmering sonic beauty. Hunched at stage front, Corgan postured and gestured like a man in love with being a rock star, but with the chops and catalog to back up his claim. Meanwhile, the Pumpkins played with an abandon that was memorable. Iha’s graceful solos augmented rather than derailed the music, a study in dynamic subtlety as notes were allowed their full bloom. Blew Away and Stand Inside Your Love found the band phenomenally tight, Iha’s skirling guitar sound surfing their anthemic roar. Chamberlin was spectacular, buff and clearly raring to go. His jazz background showed not only in his economical style, but in the press rolls and tom-tom bombs that drove the Pumpkins. His attack during Tonight, Tonight was a tour de force, reminiscent of the late Keith Moon’s playing on Heaven And Hell from the Who disc Live At Leeds. Auf Der Maur was smooth and steady, the real bass player that the Pumpkins have been missing. She and Chamberlin were an agile, polyrhythmic Gibraltar. To Sheila and Drown were part of an unplugged segment, during which Corgan came off like a singer/ songwriter disguised as rocker. Disarm was elegant, gaining a power in the acoustic setting that elevated it from syrupy ballad. Ava Adore got a funky, hip-hop-tinged ending, and a cover of David Essex’s Rock On was a beautifully disjointed ripper. It was also a soapbox, as Corgan railed against the shallowness of contemporary music. This might be the last rock ‘n’ roll you’ll ever see, said Corgan, alluding to the disappointing sales of their new Machina album in a world of Sync’ed Backstreet Britneys. This was a sprawling tune of affirmation and protest, with Corgan rolling the rock up his mountain like a musical Sisyphus. During the encore, Bill Corgan Sr.’s bluesy guitar slinging was fantastic. It was an homage to a tried-and-true idiom, just like the set played by his son’s band, on this night when the Smashing Pumpkins could do no musical wrong.

Track list:
1. Rock On
2. Heavy Metal Machine
3. Age Of Innocence
4. Glass And The Ghost Children
5. I Of The Mourning
6. This Time
7. Blew Away
8. Stand Inside Your Love
9. To Sheila
10. Disarm
11. Try, Try, Try
12. Ava Adore
13. Mayonaise
14. The Everlasting Gaze
15. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
16. Once In A Lifetime
17. Blue Skies Bring Tears
18. Tonight, Tonight
19. Cherub Rock
20. Blank Page
21. Today
22. 1979
23. Join Together

Additional information

Label

Euro Boots Records

Release Year

2000

Catalogue Number

EB 42/2