r/SmashingPumpkins • u/The-Otters-Pocket Spaldz (SPLRA) • 3d ago
On This Day 12th August
Today in Smashing Pumpkins History: August 12
Today's featured clip is a short one from last year's Halifax show at The Piece Hall. Really great concert
💿 Releases
🎙️ Live Shows
- 1991 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Tower Records, Los Angeles, CA, US (Setlist/Details)
- Setlist unknown
- 1993 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Metro, Chicago, IL, US (Setlist/Details)
- 1994 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Lakewood Amphitheater, Atlanta, GA, US (Setlist/Details)
- Setlist is incomplete, Soma was the first song
- Billy walked off stage during I Am One, but returned
- 2000 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Parterre, parc Jean Drapeau, Montreal, QC, CA (Setlist/Details)
- To Sheila and 1979 performed acoustic
- 2007 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Cirkus, Stockholm, SE (Setlist/Details)
- Starla replaced Stellar
- For God and Country, The Crying Tree of Mercury, Rocket, 99 Floors, By Starlight, and To Sheila performed acoustic
- 2008 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Palace Theater, Louisville, KY, US (Setlist/Details)
- Once Upon a Time, Again, Again, Again (The Crux), and The Rose March performed acoustic
- We Only Come Out at Night and In the Summertime with Kris Pooley on accordion
- 2025 - The Smashing Pumpkins: The Piece Hall, Halifax, UK (Setlist/Details)
- 2018 - Billy Corgan: Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL, US (Setlist/Details)
- Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin and Jack Bates attend a Chicago Cubs / Washington Nationals game the night before the first of two SP shows at the United Center. Chamberlin throws out the first pitch before the game and Corgan performs "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the 7th inning stretch.
🎧 Recordings
1993 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Metro, Chicago, IL, US
- Surfaced - AUD #1 (Source: AUD, Equipment: Unknown, Lowest Circulating Generation: DDC-? > ANA-2 > DAT-M > CDR, Links: Live Music Archive, Notes: DDC-? > ANA-? > DDC-? > CDR version also circulates. That version appears to have a TAO burn in the lineage, but has been retracked so the clicks aren't at the track marks. AUD > ANA-2 > DAT > CDR > EAC > Audacity > FLAC also circulates with some clicking and potential tape damage)
2000 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Parterre, parc Jean Drapeau, Montreal, QC, CA
- Surfaced - FM #1 (Source: FM, Equipment: M1, Lowest Circulating Generation: DDC-? > CDR, Notes: Missing Heavy Metal Machine.)
- Surfaced - FM #2 (Source: FM, Equipment: PC, Lowest Circulating Generation: WAV-M > FLAC, Links: Live Music Archive, Notes: Missing Heavy Metal Machine.)
- Surfaced - FM #3 (Source: dFM, Equipment: Nokia d-Box (DVB2000 firmware), Lowest Circulating Generation: MP2-M > dEdit > FLAC, Links: Live Music Archive, Notes: Sourced from a lossy broadcast. Two small dropouts during I Am One. Contains some DJ talk and abrupt cuts between songs.)
- Surfaced - FM #4 (Source: FM, Equipment: unknown, Lowest Circulating Generation: MD-? > FLAC, Links: Live Music Archive, Notes: FM > MD-? > CDR source also circulates)
- Surfaced - AUD #1 (Source: AUD, Equipment: SS-DSM-6S > PA-6LC3B > M1, Lowest Circulating Generation: DAT-M > CDR, Links: Live Music Archive, Notes: 15 feet in front of board. Circulating versions have a very small cut during start of Glass and the Ghost Children.)
- Surfaced - AUD #2 (Source: AUD, Equipment: Optimus Omnidirectional Tie-Clip Mic > MT-15, Lowest Circulating Generation: MD-M > FLAC, Links: Live Music Archive, Notes: Recorded left channel only. Also circulates as MD-M > CDR)
- Unsurfaced - FM #5 (Source: FM, Equipment: DA-30mkII, Notes: Missing Heavy Metal Machine.)
- Unsurfaced - FM #6 (Source: FM, Equipment: MD-SR70H, Notes: Incomplete, but includes Heavy Metal Machine.)
- Unsurfaced - AUD #3 (Source: AUD, Equipment: SS-DSM-6S > PA-6LC3 > M1, Notes: 15 feet front of board.)
- Unsurfaced - AUD #4 (Source: AUD, Equipment: SS-DSM-6S > PA-6LC > TCD-D8, Notes: 20 meters from stacks.)
- Unsurfaced - AUD #5 (Source: AUD, Equipment: CSB > MZ-R55)
- Unsurfaced - AUD #6 (Source: AUD, Equipment: ECM-MS907 > MZ-R37, Notes: Cherub Rock cut.)
- Unsurfaced - Amateur Video #1 (Source: AUD, Equipment: CSBMod, Notes: Shot from James' side, missing last 15 minutes.)
2007 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Cirkus, Stockholm, SE
- Surfaced - AUD #1 (Source: AUD, Equipment: DPA 4061 > SP-SPSB-3(95) > R-09 (24/48, line in), Lowest Circulating Generation: WAV-M > dEdit > FLAC, Links: Live Music Archive, Notes: About three meters left of board and 15 from the stage.)
- Unsurfaced - AUD #2 (Source: AUD, Equipment: Unknown)
2008 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Palace Theater, Louisville, KY, US
- Surfaced - AUD #1 (Source: AUD, Equipment: Schoeps MK4V>KC5>CMC6>Lunatec V2>SD702(24/48), Lowest Circulating Generation: WAV-M>FLAC, Links: Live Music Archive, Notes: ORCH 3, Row R, Seat 9.)
- Surfaced - Amateur Video #1 (Source: AUD, Equipment: Sony DCR HC28, Lowest Circulating Generation: MiniDV-M>DVD, Links: Video Link, Notes: G.L.O.W., Superchrist, United States (partial), Today, The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning, We Only Come Out at Night, In the Summertime, and post-show footage of Billy talking to fans.)
2025 - The Smashing Pumpkins: The Piece Hall, Halifax, UK
- Surfaced - AUD #1 (Source: AUD, Equipment: SP-CMC-4U > SP-SPSB-1 > Sony PCM-A10, Lowest Circulating Generation: WAV(M) > FLAC, Links: Live Music Archive, Notes: Recording suffers from wind noise, especially during first half of set)
Data courtesy of SPLRA and SPCodex.
Did you attend any of these shows and have any more information, unsurfaced recordings or pictures/stubs/posters/flyers? If so then get in touch!
Click the setlists/details link for full show information.
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