The Smashing Pumpkins 2018-12-08: Difference between revisions

BC: Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen, thank you!  Now, before I bring out this longtime friend of the band, I’d like to say a quick word.  We recorded our last album and I recorded my last solo album up in Malibu and James lives here and of course we were very, uh, sorrowed by [[w:Woolsey_Fire|what happened]], all the people who lost their homes and the people lost their lives.  So this being Christmas season, we certainly wanna reflect on those people and if anybody here was affected, I’m very sorry.  It’s hard to watch and uh, being so close to people in the area and this man that I’m about to introduce, he lost his home in the fire, his studio.  [[Mike Garson|Michael Garson]], longtime friend of the Smashing Pumpkins, started playing with [[w:David Bowie|David Bowie]] in about 1972 and that’s how I met Michael was through David.  And this is our way to express our sorrow and certainly for Mike’s loss of his home.  Thank god he and his family are safe.  And so please give a very warm Los Angeles welcome to Michael Garson.