The Smashing Pumpkins 1991-08-06

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, like uh -- well, the band, not me -- uh, ‘92 maybe? ‘90? ‘91, okay. 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. ... So we were staying at, you know, the Motel 9 or whatever and we never had a bomb threat before so we were kinda freaked out and, you know, this is back when we were trying to be PC. Jimmy was fine with it, James was fine with it, I thought “If we’re gonna die, better on stage than not on stage.” Don’t get any ideas! So we said very kind of PC-like to D’arcy, you know, “If you don’t want to do the show, we understand. You know, it’s probably going to be hard to play if you can’t concentrate” and she said, “Alright, I don’t want to do the show” and we all turned and said, “What the fuck do you mean you don’t want to do the show?” And what ensued was probably one of the worst band arguments we ever had. There was lots of door slamming, we literally had to drag her on stage. And then, uh, probably right about the time we would’ve been playing Rhinoceros, just to rub salt in the wound, I started -- yup, it’s a audio moment -- I started doing kind of this through the mic: (whistles downward, makes explosion noise). At which point, she started to flip me off and um.... Thank you, Cat’s Cradle! Now tonight the only threat of a bomb is this show.

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