The Smashing Pumpkins 2018-08-28: 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.)

Iha: Woo!  Stairway to Heaven.  Sac-town.  Thank you so much.  It’s by a little known group called Led Zeppelin.  We just thought we’d just bust that out.  We just rehearsed that 10 minutes before we got on stage.  “Oh, what should we do tonight?  Highway to Hell?  Stairway to Heaven?  Oh, let’s do Stairway tonight.”  Thank you so much.  I’d like to, uh, do a quick introduction of the band.  All the way from Melbourne, Australia, home of 70 percent of the world’s most dangerous animals.  On keys, acoustic guitar, vocals, Ms. Katie Cole.  Katie Cole.  She’s very nice, very nice person.  And now, from Manchester, England, on the bass guitar, Mr. Jack Bates.

Iha: Diamond Dave.  Heh.  It’s hard to compete when you play riffs like that.  There’s Stairway, Dazed and Confused, thank you, we’re done!  And now, from Joliet, Illinois, on the drums, Mr. motherfuckin’ Jimmy Chamberlin!  On the guitar, all the way from a northwest suburb of Illinois, me, James Iha, thank you.  Thank you so much.  On vocals, lead guitar, all the way from the middle of the earth, Mr. William Patrick Corgan!

(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!)

Iha: Or maybe Journey the band was crazy.