Smashing Pumpkins at the Orange Peel
Posted on June 24, 2007 at 11:55 PM EST
It’s been almost seven years since the Smashing Pumpkins played a live show since they broke up in December, 2000. Last month, they completed a 15-show tour in Europe and are started off their U.S. Zeitgeist tour with a sold-out 9-show residency at the Orange Peel in Asheville, NC, which has been dubbed Smasheville.
I was extremely lucky to have been able to purchase a pair of tickets before TicketWeb’s server crashed right after they went on sale a few weeks ago. A couple days later the tickets went up on Ticketmaster and they ended up selling out in just over two minutes.
My wife and I arrived about two hours before the show started and there was around a hundred people ahead of us in line. We ended up standing about six people back from the stage and had a really great spot.
The band took the stage at 10:00 p.m. during a Japanese music intro and played for nearly three hours. They opened with “United States”, which incorporated the national anthem in the guitar solo, and it sounded amazing. Billy Corgan barely spoke with the crowd then eventually loosened up about a third of the way through the show. He joked about a local offering him some weed about one minute after he arrived in Asheville and also said the local tried to explain that the city was built on a crystal.
Mid-set, the band left the stage and left Billy alone to play an acoustic set that included “Rocket”, “Gish”, “Daydream”, and “It’s a Song I Sing”, a tune he had written the night before the show.
The Orange Peel as well as the city of Asheville were both great locations for the Smashing Pumpkins to host their East Coast residency. I had a great time and feel very fortunate that I was able to make it to their opening show.
Setlist for June 23, 2007
- United States
- Doomsday Clock
- Bleeding the Orchid
- Today
- Bullet with Butterfly Wings
- Glass and the Ghost Children
- Home
- Hummer
- Lucky 13
- (Come On) Let’s Go
- Blue Skies Bring Tears
- For God and Country
- Daydream
- Rocket
- 1979
- Question Mark
- Translucent
- Starla
- Tonight, Tonight
- Tarantula
- Starz
- Zero
- Disarm
- Gossamer
Encore 1
- Shame
- Silverfuck > The End (tease)
Encore 2
- With Every Light
On July 10, their comeback album, Zeitgeist, debuts and I have already pre-ordered it from iTunes.
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