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July 10, 2007 - New 9:30 Club - Washington, DC, US Concert review by popmartian66 Siva - Zwan : Concert Reviews artist: smashing pumpkins location: washington, dc venue: nightclub 9:30 date: 2007-07-10 opening act: celebration greets i attended the CD release party for the new smashing pumpkins album "zeitgeist" at the 9:30 club in washington dc. it was my first pumpkins show. i was one of the lucky ones who got there early enough to get placed in a holding area outside the venue. we received free t-shirts, posters, a commemorative wristband and pin. before the band arrived they staged a mock demonstration with some people across the venue entrance holding home-made signs that said "say no to the SP" and such, and then of course our group were holding posters of the zeitgeist album cover and we were chanting "yes". as i said it was all staged, but it made for good entertainment. the band arrived in these vintage cars a little after 7:30 and billy corgan walked up to one of the protestors and took his sign and faced the fans and held it up as if he joined the opposition. it was quite humourous. then we were allowed into the venue before the rest of the fans and i got right down close to the stage...about 6 or 8 deep from the barrier. it was great. the opening band sucked, so fortunately they didn't play any longer than they had to (about 40 minutes). but once the pumpkins came on stage the crowd went nuts to the opening track "united states". during the song they released a bunch of red, white & blue balloons from the rafters onto the fans below. over three hour long set followed. an incredible night… :smt020 setlist: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZCIzAvMXh0]united states[/url] bleeding the orchid [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMvvNn33CYM]today[/url] bullet with butterfly wings starla [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5SwaQVYgZM]shame the aeroplane flies high[/url] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0giY4dBRsgM]hummer[/url] thats the way doomsday clock blue skies bring tears for god and country --billy corgan solo acoustic-- the crying tree of mercury thirty-three [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1aD6SdYxpI]rocket[/url] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTmkhMGLWGQ]if all goes wrong[/url] (new song not from zeitgeist) --band returns-- tarantula tonight, tonight starz zero neverlost c’mon lets go [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOzq-cqvfu4]heavy metal machine[/url] disarm 1979 untitled encore 1: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EPzHIzVX8A]cherub rock[/url] encore 2: gossamer (zeitgeist b-side that was like 20 minutes long!!) encore 3: f#%k you video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKR74W3X-ag some pics (thanks to jeff -the guy standing next to me- for sharing): [img]http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/644/dsc00431in3.jpg[/img] [img]http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/4585/dsc00433mj5.jpg[/img] [img]http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5559/77704694947779448d5jf7.jpg[/img] [img]http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/5903/777046921206c7aaef2hj5.jpg[/img] [img]http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/5645/dsc00440xz5.jpg[/img] [img]http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5596/dsc00442yv6.jpg[/img] [img]http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1835/dsc00443fr3.jpg[/img] [img]http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/7031/dsc00444ao5.jpg[/img] [img]http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/2435/dsc00445eu4.jpg[/img] [img]http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5567/dsc00446rz7.jpg[/img] [img]http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/1803/dsc00448kb8.jpg[/img] [img]http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6562/dsc00452wp4.jpg[/img] [img]http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/5188/dsc00454kw9.jpg[/img] [img]http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/91/dsc00455wm1.jpg[/img] [img]http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8692/dsc00456vj1.jpg[/img] [img]http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/6023/dsc00460gy3.jpg[/img] [img]http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1933/dsc00461lx5.jpg[/img] [img]http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/7322/dsc00462to7.jpg[/img] [img]http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/7467/dsc00463nd6.jpg[/img] [img]http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/3729/dsc00465mw2.jpg[/img] [img]http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/5033/dsc00468bp8.jpg[/img] [img]http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/3989/dsc00469zq3.jpg[/img] [img]http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/6748/dsc00471bg8.jpg[/img] [img]http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/4809/dsc00472cd9.jpg[/img] |
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