SMASHING PUMPKINS' CORGAN To Fans: 'We Don't Know What The F**k You Want From Us'
November 20, 2008Greg Kot of ChicagoTribune.com reports: "After retiring the SMASHING PUMPKINS eight years ago, Billy Corgan brought the brand — if not the original lineup — back to his hometown Tuesday [November 18] for the first of four concerts.
"For part of the two-and-a-half-hour show, he kept up his end of the deal with original PUMPKINS drummer Jimmy Chamberlin at his back and an assortment of replacement PUMPKINS and backing musicians — a nine-piece band in all — playing with a road-tested roar that was spirited, lacerating, goofy and indulgent, sometimes all at once.
"And then it all ended in deflating weirdness, with Corgan ranting on the microphone while the crowd filtered out wondering what happened. After a rousing first half, the momentum ebbed and flowed, and then finally nose-dived.
"'Why are you upset with us?' Corgan said. 'It's 'cause we don't do what you want us to do. … We don't know what the [expletive] you want from us.'"
Read the entire review at ChicagoTribune.com.
Fan-filmed video footage of Corgan's onstage rant from November 18, 2008 can be viewed below (courtesy of "carapatricia").
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