The Smashing Pumpkins 1991-08-06

August 6, 1991 – Carrboro, NC, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Artist	The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	August 6, 1991
Venue	Cat's Cradle
Coordinates	35°54′36″N 79°4′8″W
Location	Carrboro, NC, US
Venue type	Club
Capacity	750
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin
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The August 6, 1991 is the infamous bomb threat show Billy Corgan mentioned on February 19, 2000. The incident almost caused the show to be cancelled.

“ does anyone know that we played here once before...well the band, not me...'92 maybe? '91 ok....now do you know that there was a bomb threat that night...yes, the night that we played here at the Cat's Cradle there was a bomb threat...oh it was a different one?...Ok, so it doesn't matter, this isn't the right story...well, then, alright I'll tell you the story anyway...so uh, so we were staying at the motel 9 or whatever and uh...and uh, we'd never had a bomb threat before, so we were kinda freaked out...and this is back when we were trying to be peace-ey...Jimmy was fine with it, James was fine with it, I thought, if we're going to die then better on stage than not on stage...they're great ideas so uh, we said very kind of peace-ey like to D'arcy...alright if you don't wanna do the show we understand, you know, it's kinda gonna be hard to play if you can't concentrate and she said...alright I don't wanna do the show...and we all turned and said...what the fuck do you mean you don't wanna...and what ensued was probably one of the worst band arguments we ever had...there was lots of door slamming, we literally had to drage her on stage...and probably about the time we woulda been playing Rhinoceros, just to rub salt in the wound I started, yup, it's a visu-audio moment, I started doing this thru the mic *makes whistling bomb noises*...at which point she started to flip me off ” — Billy Corgan, banter of February 19, 2000 performance at Cat's Cradle

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