The Smashing Pumpkins 2018-08-24: Difference between revisions

(Mark McGrath: Well, hello there, neighbors. Are you enjoying the show thus far?  Well, good, I am too, even though I’m not real.  Now, if I could steal a moment of your time, I’d like to introduce somebody verrry special to you.  He’s been a friend and a neighbor to each and every one of you.  He’s been the voice you might hear in the stiiill of the night or a night dog straining against the moon.  And, in fact, this young man has been with you almost every step along the way, on life’s long journey, sighing so ever soft.  He’s been a lover, a fighter, but never a cad.  A beacon, a searchlight piercing every impenetrable fog.  And he’s here, just now, to sing for you, that golden chestnut we like to call Blew Away.  So gather round, ‘cause here he is: the one, the only, Mr. Jaaaaames Iha.)

(Mark McGrath: Well, wowie zowie, papa ooh maow maow. What a wang dang and doodle of a show.  And, it ain’t over yet.  Now I don’t know about you but this next tune is one of my faaaaaaves.  Reminds me of driving down the old PCH, high out of my mind on ecstasy and I’m singing the chorus of the song you’re about to hear so hard and so on high, that one of my front teeth fell right out!  Yup, plain out right there in the dashboard.  Wow.  That dickens (?) just, just so good, wasn’t it?  I mean, here you have young wash masters rising up to start a musical and cultural revolution that was soon co-opted by the machine and driven asunder!  Gee golly.  But thankfully, what we got in return was just so much better.  I mean, let’s face it, who doesn’t want perfection in their stars above?  ‘Cause perfect people making perfect, sweet music is, well, it’s just, it’s just what a god wants for all of us!  Whoo!  Red light, stop, it’s rain.  The air is cool and the sky is gray and the year?  Well, it’s 1979!)

BC: Drove the silver van 40 hours to get to Seattle.  To open for Tad, great band.  And the Afghan Whigs, right?

BC: Where did we play?  I think we played in Sub Pop’s basement or some shit.  ''(Iha laughs)''  Heh, anyway.  I try just to play music these days and keep my mouth shut so thank you for listening.  As Frank Zappa once said, “Just shut up and play your guitar.”  That’s what I’ma do.  But before we go, this is our last song.  Thank you so much everybody, thank you, wow, what an amazing night, thank you.  Oh!  Oh!  I totally forgot, I totally forgot.  This show has been broadcast on Twitter for the last three hours around the whole entire world.

Iha: Which is Friendster.