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I got the impression they were a bit timid at first when they came back, no interviews, not much communication at all really, they were probably just testing the waters unsure of what peoples reactions would be.
They seem to have really found their feet lately, Billy seems more like his old self, ranting about other bands and talking about music whenever anyone gives him the chance.In the end I think the Pumpkins should play whatever the pumpkins want to play, regardless of what the fans want.
Before their gig a friend of mine asked me what I hoped they would play, and I told her that I want them to play whatever their in the mood to play, because then they will be in a better humour, it will be a better performance and better gig all round IMO. (her reply was \"I hope they play Bodies\"
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It’s not as if I mind them playing the singles….I like them too, but I only want them to play them if thats what they want to play.Maybe thats the answer, we just combine it with the fan club idea and we have a solution :
Everyone who joins the fan club (after testing for SP obsession) receives a special, limited edition Smashing Pumpkins Tazer, which they are allowed bring to gigs to deal with talkers, everybody is happy then! ….well everybody but the guy on the ground with a 1000 volts going through his body
\"Look at all those Dappy’s. They really annoy me, coming over here with all their dapper apparel and dapper ways, taking our jobs and stealing our women(/men)!!!!\" perhaps?
It’s probably quite disheartening to come back as the Pumpkins to find most people couldn’t care less about anything new you create, and talk during those songs you play unless it happens to be one of the old singles.
I recall Billy saying once that they wanted to play loud just to shut everyone up, I guess only Billy really knows, we can only guess at his reasons.[edit]actually scratch \"disheartening\" if I was in Billy’s position I’d be emotionally crushed by that, after people calling for Pumpkin songs during Zwan & his solo gigs, to actually go to the trouble to revive the Pumpkins only to find they didn’t really want the Smashing Pumpkins back at all, what they wanted was Billy to play their hit’s, that’s all[/edit]
I know what you mean, eg :
\"b***hes love me cause they know that I can rock
b***hes love me cause they know that I can rhyme
b***hes love me cause they know that I can f**k
b***hes love me cause they know that I’m on time
throughout the projects
done – done – this is how it should be done
this is how it should be done
with style style style….done.
pow – muthaf***a – pow
b***hes love me
love me love me love me love me
b***hes love me
b***hes love me cause they know that I can rock
done – done – this is how it should be done
this is how it should be done
with style style style….done.\"\"B***hes\" by Mindless Self Indulgence
*sniffle* brings a tear to the eye
http://www.myspace.com/siamese_dreamer
That’s my personal one, I also have this one :
http://www.myspace.com/madeofshamrocksxyu
Which I set up to substitute the official Irish Pumpkins myspace fan page which has been completely inactive since day 1, so I added as many Irish fans as I could and try to keep the up to date on all the pumpkins happenings.
It’s not exclusively for Irish though, I’d say 50% of the people on it’s friends list are not from here.
Finally (yes I have 3, how lame is that?) is another page for me to put music up on :Yeah, let’s try and get everyone using it, who knows…in a few years it might make it into the dictionary, and we can point at it and say : \"we made that happen\"
I think he read this, as I’ve heard he’s ordered a wardrobe full of stripey tops, and proclaimed himself the most dapper of all the…eh….dappy’s….
Oh, and about raising ticket prices :
I’m all for it, but only if gigs are confirmed and advertised well in advance, to give people the chance to save up the cash, I know their gig here wasn’t advertised at all so it could have been a problem to suddenly come up with â¬100/â¬150 on the spot to get a ticket, with no prior knowledge of it happening.Also this tactic could backfire….think about it, these people complaining because they want to hear more hits at the shows, are only going to be more vocal in their disappointment if they had to fork out more money for it.
I like the idea of using a fan club with regards to getting tickets, I don’t think a quiz would work though because, well anyone could just google the answer to any question they could come up with.
I think whatever they do, they will always have that core audience of hardcore fans, but to be honest, I think we would only make up 20 to 30 percent of the people attending their gigs.
The only thing I can think of is to have 2 gigs in every place they play, 1 big and essentially a \"regular\" Pumpkins show, with the hits and some other songs too, and another smaller secret fan club show where they can do whatever the hell they want.
They’ve frequently played 3 hour shows on their touring since Zeitgeist, I think if instead of that, they split their time between the 2 shows (we don’t want to exhaust them after all) that could work.
I don’t know, their in a difficult position, there aren’t any easy answers :/I’m actually really looking forward to it!
Next to Batman, it’s Ironman & Gambit (of the X-men) for me in superheroes.
And I don’t see how anything with Robert Downey Jr. in it could be anything but fantastic!
Won’t get to see it until next week though
I don’t actually have them yet, but currently flying to me from the US is :
Posters :
~Black White subway size poster with band portraits in squares and French letters from the MCIS era~8×11 glossy print of Billy playing guitar on stage. Adore era I think, No pinholes
~SP with Garbage July 27 Cajundome art poster with WWII fighter pilots.
T-shirts :
~1996 tour shirt with yellow/orange cursive letters, silver stars and globe, black~Zeitgeist cover, back says \"Are you down with the mighty SP? grey shirt
~Machina Cover black
I’m not paying anything for these, just a trade for Irish indie/alt. rock music & some Irish herbs/incense/tea
Hey has anyone got the songs from the Glass and the machines of God animation series?
I was just rewatching them and thinking how much I’d love to hear them properlyI have 2 t-shirts I don’t see in the collection too, not sure where to put up the pics in here though, maybe the collection post?
(I can only put up pics of one of them tonight though)The gothic ones case isn’t in the greatest of conditions, but it’s actually how I found it (at the bottom of one of those \"bargain bins\")
Gothic/Industrial Tribute to
(I decided it was better to seperate the pic of the inlay so you could read what it says better.)
Front
String Tribute
Front
Nope, no flag for us, the venue was indoors and too small for them to bring the full stadium show out.
