I was there. There were relatively unknown then. I only knew one song, 'Siva'. Most of the audience thought James was a woman until he spoke and said something like "How are all the gentlemen in the audience today" or something like that.
Saw em 3 times all great..Billy's voice has aged well . Oh so bright tour MSG. Was 2 months into a 1yrs dope run. Had to lie to my friends saying..i wss getting off suboxone..I was two days in withdrawal...we get there and what does Billy start the set......but with ...DISARM and I broke out in tears. I was clean for 8 yrs and my friends had to leave me in 2010.. so that night affected Ms so much. The next day my withdrawals were over...SP
@@Chris_yes it's really really crazy to realize how completely fucked he was and still played like that.. so wildly underrated only because he didn't die
@@drfuck Yeah. I used to joke with my friends he spiked his heroin shots with steroids. hell maybe he did. sad lol. Its good to see him so fit now. I think he even quit drinking.
I love the Pumpkins but I have to say I don't think they would have been as famous without Jimmy Chamberlin (which is the correct spelling btw). He's one of those rare drummers that you can identify when you hear him play.
Richardo Frankie a lot of his sound comes from the fact he’s a lefty who plays righty. Giving him a strong fretting hand and an interesting strumming. It’s why when you try playing pumpkins sounds, sometimes it doesn’t sound quite right. The cherub rock solo I could never get to sound right.
@@Duzz14 Thx for the info. Didn't know that but i think it explains a lot about his playing. It seems like even when he's going wild there's still a huge amount of control in his left hand. Since i started to take rhythm work more seriously and practice with a metronome daily, i basically can't do anything out of control like something that's out of the rhythms i can play, but the left hand still goes out of control if i get careless and starts to cramp up (yeah and also pulling strings sharp). But no matter how crazy you see Billy on stage, that left hand seems always in complete control. It also seems he's barely using any muting from the right hand these moments, yet the sound is much cleaner than you might expect. Also i think he's quite underrated as a guitar player.
Jan Doe he’s an amazingly under rated guitar player. One of the few guitar players who sing and play lead guitar with another guitarist in the band. I can only think of him, Rivers Cuomo and Cobain (obviously after when Pat Smear joined) who did that. Another thing that might help you is Billy uses a 7.25 radius fretboard. It’s funny on his sig strat he didn’t even use the neck it came with he switched it to one of those David Gilmour orange looking ones from the 60s. There’s a you tube video out there I’ll try to find it for you
Duggalo her and Billy always had a complicated relationship. I don’t think she would have dated him although she did call him one of her closest friends around 96-97 I think.
I was there!! As a drummer I'd often be at gigs watching the band and thinking "he's not all that, I could do a better job" but I watched Jimmy Chamberlain and couldn't believe it. He's still got the chops now and if anything is better than back then. Also, I know it's low hanging fruit to take digs at Billy because of a whole host of reasons but hats off to him, he's an awesome guitarist, something that is often overlooked.
Billy is an awesome guitarist, but a lot of his solos are just widdly-fast nonsense. He writes much better riffs than solos IMO and his best lead stuff is the little fills and layers he adds. His fast solos are just the same notes and phrases and modes over and over. It's not clever. PS. Jimmy is literally the messiah of drums. He's up there with any drummer that has ever lived
I loved the Pumpkins so much as a 90s teen and early 20s, but it realize later only WHAT A FUCKING MONSTER JIMMY IS . and how he shaped the sound so much.
Damn!! Remembering that youth.... anger, sadness, just lost and so overwhelmed by existence... but so happy and overwhelmed by being able to resonate on those feelings with the pumpkins... nice!!
what a great band!! I saw them in the Fall of 1991 in Seattle at a small club for like $6. What a freaking intimate and intense show!! The energy at that small club was just like this festival all crammed into a small club
6:22 Whoever edited this and/or shot this really didn't want to let us see James Iha in a sparkly white dress... He's 25% of the people on stage and has 1% of the screen-time.
@@sarahgaillaskoski406 Hahahahaha, vaccines that can alter gender?! Gender's not even biological you utter cretin! What are you talking about? And I think you'll find most people in the 90s did it because they wanted to challenge traditional conservative gender roles, and spread the idea that masculinity and femininity are not exclusive to either sex.
:( im 21 end of this month. I was i was born earlier tho with the good music and no social media and shit. I honestly dislike all social media andstuff it messes up al thing social
Yyyyyeeeeeeeeaaaaaahhsssss!!! Oh my Lord, that voice... at 7.20, f'kin yowzers!! That voice, i tell you is such a huge part of why i fell in love with Billy & the Pumpkins so very long ago as a kid. I will never forget hearing Gish for the first time in highschool, back of the bus on a buddies walkman... & it is still my most loved album to this day. To finally see them live back in '94 was my dream come true (but this gig, Oh my gawd, these kids were so lucky to be there.. i would've happily have given away (at least) one of my kidneys away 2 be at this) & then came just so much more brilliance, amazing music from SP to follow on from Gish...SD, is just an amazing album, then ..well, so much more unbelievable music still came after these..Adore, Machina, Oceania.. Thankyou, & love you always, to the genious Billy & the amazing Smashing Pumpkins! xx
Ahhhhh... I remember going to gigs in the 90’s & jumping up & down crammed between people, losing all your mates!!! No damn phones, life & music was so much better in the 90’s!! The last of the Real world. Everything since 2000 been getting more & more fucked Up steadily!!!!!
maybe stop looking at the very top of pop culture and dig down a lil... you'll find it worth your time when you see that there is still plenty of good music to go around. ;)
@@RobHalde511 Yeah, sure but I don't think that's the point he was making... maybe "dig down a lil" there, Bambi. He wasn't talking about the quality of music he was talking about the quality of EXPERIENCE. ;)
@@65neu52 But music (by SP at least) was never about technical playing, and ability to play very accurate to the studio versions Also, unlike her, James and [especially] Billy were SP songwriters, and it was Billy who wrote all those SP masterpieces
@@Faks.09 You’re definitely misinformed on what the Pumpkins were about and what MADE them ‘Smashing Pumpkins’. It wasn’t just Billy and Jimmy. It was the sum of all their parts. D’arcy was more than just some hot chick bassist who played what Billy told her. Sad you see her contributions to the group on such a strictly superficial level.
This is the real setlist: 1.Suicide Kiss (early version of Geek U.S.A.) 2.Rocket (alt. lyrics) 3.Bury Me 4.Window Paine 5.Hello Kitty Kat 6.KYP II / Siva 7.Hummer 8.I Am One / (jam)
Wow, billy and jimmy carry this band live... studio too... but seriously - I LOVE James and don’t think this band is the same without him, but live... good grief. It’s the billy and jimmy train and it’s leaving, and you better keep up with ot
According to Billy the Pumpkins nearly broke up after this gig due to malfunction of their gear and the poorly (I think it still rocks tho) performance. The outdoor circumstances made it nearly impossible to hear anything from the floor monitors making it pretty difficult to perform (there were no in-ear monitors at the time, an invention that had yet to be discovered). Of course their 1993 record Siamese Dream skyrocketed them into fame making this just a fun fact
anto hall I think that has to do with nostalgia being a factor nowadays. People want to record a concert to watch later and feel nostalgic, not to enjoy the moment while watching a concert. It's a different mindset.
Any one have any footage of the October 1996 concert in Chicago at the Rosemont Horizon. I was there my first Pumpkins concert.Hoping somehow it was taped. Thanks. Mark Keszler
I know huh, I would love to see it to. I seen SP play at a club in Denver, Co the night before Lolla 1. WOW what a show!! It was mayhem at its finest. Both Dave Nav and Perry Ferr were at that show too. Dave told me when I asked him about SP and he said, "These guys are fuckin good." Well the did end up as a headliner later. God what a show!!!
![[HQ] Smashing Pumpkins - Live at Brixton Academy 1996](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/x0lHxf4R9EU/mqdefault.jpg)
I dont care what anyone says, Jimmy is in the top 5 drummers of all time! The mans a monster!!!
I was there. There were relatively unknown then. I only knew one song, 'Siva'. Most of the audience thought James was a woman until he spoke and said something like "How are all the gentlemen in the audience today" or something like that.
Dress gave it away?
me too. the best reading ever.
Saw em 3 times all great..Billy's voice has aged well . Oh so bright tour MSG.
Was 2 months into a 1yrs dope run. Had to lie to my friends saying..i wss getting off suboxone..I was two days in withdrawal...we get there and what does Billy start the set......but with ...DISARM and I broke out in tears. I was clean for 8 yrs and my friends had to leave me in 2010.. so that night affected Ms so much. The next day my withdrawals were over...SP
@@holloify_tensa_zangetsu what a story 💙
Damn, Jimmy is a fucking beast on drums! I love it.
I just made the same exact comment! He ... His wrists are powerful as all hell. Smokin'.
beast mode
He workthhh out...... at least he used to. And WHILE doing heroin! think of that! how nice!
@@Chris_yes it's really really crazy to realize how completely fucked he was and still played like that.. so wildly underrated only because he didn't die
@@drfuck Yeah. I used to joke with my friends he spiked his heroin shots with steroids. hell maybe he did. sad lol. Its good to see him so fit now. I think he even quit drinking.
Bass amp malfunctions, broken strings...still powered through it...class
Since you brought up D'arcy's bass...never seen her with anything but a fender jazz
Man , Jimmy Chamberlain is a machine .
What a drummer . Rules the beat
Best ever i say :D and true there are more great drummers offcourse.
czcams.com/video/UrkyZCyfR2c/video.html
I love the Pumpkins but I have to say I don't think they would have been as famous without Jimmy Chamberlin (which is the correct spelling btw). He's one of those rare drummers that you can identify when you hear him play.
@@sunoverbeach who knows, maybe
But as abouy beng good, I believe that Billy proved SP IS smth good even withouy Jimmy with Adore and Oceania
Power of Heroine
When James looks better in a dress than you ever could.
I think that was one of Darcy’s dresses
Especially if you are girl
Billy had the coolest strats.
SOCIAL REJECT yeah he even swapped his sig neck with a glossy 63 neck (not sure if 63 or not)
Richardo Frankie a lot of his sound comes from the fact he’s a lefty who plays righty. Giving him a strong fretting hand and an interesting strumming. It’s why when you try playing pumpkins sounds, sometimes it doesn’t sound quite right. The cherub rock solo I could never get to sound right.
@@cuviemadeit 57
@@Duzz14 Thx for the info. Didn't know that but i think it explains a lot about his playing. It seems like even when he's going wild there's still a huge amount of control in his left hand. Since i started to take rhythm work more seriously and practice with a metronome daily, i basically can't do anything out of control like something that's out of the rhythms i can play, but the left hand still goes out of control if i get careless and starts to cramp up (yeah and also pulling strings sharp). But no matter how crazy you see Billy on stage, that left hand seems always in complete control. It also seems he's barely using any muting from the right hand these moments, yet the sound is much cleaner than you might expect. Also i think he's quite underrated as a guitar player.
Jan Doe he’s an amazingly under rated guitar player. One of the few guitar players who sing and play lead guitar with another guitarist in the band. I can only think of him, Rivers Cuomo and Cobain (obviously after when Pat Smear joined) who did that. Another thing that might help you is Billy uses a 7.25 radius fretboard. It’s funny on his sig strat he didn’t even use the neck it came with he switched it to one of those David Gilmour orange looking ones from the 60s. There’s a you tube video out there I’ll try to find it for you
D'Arcy and James broke up right before this show
Really? I thought they dated was after this
Duggalo Nope they dated from shortly after they met (1988) to right before this show like he said.
@@RandyRhoadsRules3 That must have sucked breaking up with her. She's so beautiful. I'm surprised she didn't date billy
Duggalo her and Billy always had a complicated relationship. I don’t think she would have dated him although she did call him one of her closest friends around 96-97 I think.
Billy was always with other girlfriends
The 90's was the last truly great decade for music.
I was there!! As a drummer I'd often be at gigs watching the band and thinking "he's not all that, I could do a better job" but I watched Jimmy Chamberlain and couldn't believe it. He's still got the chops now and if anything is better than back then. Also, I know it's low hanging fruit to take digs at Billy because of a whole host of reasons but hats off to him, he's an awesome guitarist, something that is often overlooked.
Nothing melts your face like a Corgan solo. Looks like he was made to hold a strat, he takes the pose and rips.
Billy is an awesome guitarist, but a lot of his solos are just widdly-fast nonsense. He writes much better riffs than solos IMO and his best lead stuff is the little fills and layers he adds. His fast solos are just the same notes and phrases and modes over and over. It's not clever.
PS. Jimmy is literally the messiah of drums. He's up there with any drummer that has ever lived
I loved the Pumpkins so much as a 90s teen and early 20s, but it realize later only WHAT A FUCKING MONSTER JIMMY IS . and how he shaped the sound so much.
Yeah. Any other drummer....they may have not made it. That serious! He is a legend.
Yes he is amazing 🙌
Damn!! Remembering that youth.... anger, sadness, just lost and so overwhelmed by existence... but so happy and overwhelmed by being able to resonate on those feelings with the pumpkins... nice!!
what a great band!! I saw them in the Fall of 1991 in Seattle at a small club for like $6. What a freaking intimate and intense show!! The energy at that small club was just like this festival all crammed into a small club
I won’t go to an outdoor show…indoor at a small spot is where it’s at
Now that's a fucking pit.
Seeing Jimmy play live always makes me chuckle..he's a fucking beast...!!!
1:03 Broken string on the first song. These boys (and two ladies) were feeling it.
two ladies 💀
This is the SP that I will always cherish and love. So near and dear to my heart and gone forever :(
dude imaging nirvana mudhoney smashing pumkins and all the other great bands on 1 festival. how fucking awesome
It was amazing
Screaming Treeeees
This band was so huge.
I love James' happy little jumps.
D'ARCY!!!
Will always be my FAVORITE BAND!
6:22 Whoever edited this and/or shot this really didn't want to let us see James Iha in a sparkly white dress... He's 25% of the people on stage and has 1% of the screen-time.
men in drag fatigue
And looks a goose.
Um, what, I'm just watching the first minute, there's loads of shots of him in his dress....
James is totally wearing a dress xD
Tights too. Fully committed to it.
dude.. shut the fuck up. the most ignorant thing i’ve read
@@sarahgaillaskoski406 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA wtf are you talking about.
@@sarahgaillaskoski406 dawg wtf are you talking about
@@sarahgaillaskoski406 Hahahahaha, vaccines that can alter gender?! Gender's not even biological you utter cretin! What are you talking about?
And I think you'll find most people in the 90s did it because they wanted to challenge traditional conservative gender roles, and spread the idea that masculinity and femininity are not exclusive to either sex.
my first festival. no mobile phones.. no internet.. no need.. happy memories. so glad I'm not 21 now hahaha
idc
@@lasquish552 I know. I grew up when ppl did n lived the dream n so fuck u. 🤣
M L stfu old man
:( im 21 end of this month. I was i was born earlier tho with the good music and no social media and shit. I honestly dislike all social media andstuff it messes up al thing social
@@lasquish552 in all fairness the world would probably be better off without the internet
James looks like Miki Berenyi from Lush here.
oh hell no
Hahaaha
Ironically he once joked in an interview that she was his celebrity crush
Oh James, you are so pretty.
I was in that crowd. Happy days.
1:23 man...the way Billy pulled that broken string....so cool haha
Billy fucking rips that solo
Yyyyyeeeeeeeeaaaaaahhsssss!!! Oh my Lord, that voice... at 7.20, f'kin yowzers!! That voice, i tell you is such a huge part of why i fell in love with Billy & the Pumpkins so very long ago as a kid. I will never forget hearing Gish for the first time in highschool, back of the bus on a buddies walkman... & it is still my most loved album to this day. To finally see them live back in '94 was my dream come true (but this gig, Oh my gawd, these kids were so lucky to be there.. i would've happily have given away (at least) one of my kidneys away 2 be at this)
& then came just so much more brilliance, amazing music from SP to follow on from Gish...SD, is just an amazing album, then ..well, so much more unbelievable music still came after these..Adore, Machina, Oceania..
Thankyou, & love you always, to the genious Billy & the amazing Smashing Pumpkins! xx
Thank you! I can't believe that I've never seen this.
"Stratocaster" love from Billy here!
You can really tell the silver sun pickups get a lot of their influence from smashing pumpkins.
@@StopTheRot It's a band, I think.
Lol even Darcy thought it was pumpkins when she heard them on the radio
Silversun Pickups is SP clearly
That's how you powerhouse drum and not piss all over it....like so many do.
JimmyC in BEAST mode.
Fucking A... Jimmy Chamberlin's snare drum work is just ... groovy shit. Smokin'.
0:00 Bury Me
4:01 Siva
They fucking rocked!
Gish is their underrated album 🤘
Is their best album IMO
I was there...thanks for the upload.
brilliant. that gave me chills.
カッコいい🤩
Ahhhhh... I remember going to gigs in the 90’s & jumping up & down crammed between people, losing all your mates!!! No damn phones, life & music was so much better in the 90’s!! The last of the Real world. Everything since 2000 been getting more & more fucked Up steadily!!!!!
you said a mouthful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amen. I HATE it. Take me back!!
So mad I was born in 99 :|
maybe stop looking at the very top of pop culture and dig down a lil... you'll find it worth your time when you see that there is still plenty of good music to go around. ;)
@@RobHalde511 Yeah, sure but I don't think that's the point he was making... maybe "dig down a lil" there, Bambi. He wasn't talking about the quality of music he was talking about the quality of EXPERIENCE. ;)
He breaks a strings, thx a lot for the vid, really incredible
A string. Une corde, sorry
you can really see the competence of D'arcy's bass playing here
She never missed a note. For all the crap she gets for her playing skill, she was never out of step or sloppy, unlike Billy or James often.
@@65neu52 But music (by SP at least) was never about technical playing, and ability to play very accurate to the studio versions
Also, unlike her, James and [especially] Billy were SP songwriters, and it was Billy who wrote all those SP masterpieces
@@Faks.09 Yea I know what the Pumpkins were about. D’arcy was still very critical to the core of what made them great as alive band.
@@65neu52 How?
She played her parts and looked hot
Just like the other SP female bassist, yes she was the first, but still
@@Faks.09 You’re definitely misinformed on what the Pumpkins were about and what MADE them ‘Smashing Pumpkins’. It wasn’t just Billy and Jimmy. It was the sum of all their parts. D’arcy was more than just some hot chick bassist who played what Billy told her. Sad you see her contributions to the group on such a strictly superficial level.
Lovin’ the dress James!
i REMEMBER BEING IN CROWDS LIKE THIS IN THE 90'S
7:37 Jimmy is a monster!
Their set was awesome that day !
beautiful sound smashing rules since the begining, rock rules great audience
Jimmy best drummer in the world
This is the best!!! Love them all!
i wonder if James is wearing one of Darcys gowns
ramiro fauno martinez I’ve heard that they broke up right before this show
its like D'arcy and Jmaes split, but, would never be apart. a parting gift!!
They broke Up because James wore her dresses and blouses
yes.
stolen.
Sigh every open this video... I miss this
♡miss
what a time tio be alive
Bring me back!!!
This is fucking brilliant! Thanks for sharing :)
This is not the whole concert, but here is the REAL setlist:
1.Geek USA
2.Rocket
3.Bury Me
4.Window Paine
5.Hello Kitty Kat
6.Siva
7.Hummer
8.I Am One
false. This is Gish era. Siamese dream was not released until mid-93
Also, they went from Bury Me into Siva in this video. If your list was correct they would have gone into Window Paine
Joe Mullin no in lots of SP concerts they sing songs that aren't out yet
There are plenty of videos online of them playing Siamese Dream songs in 1992.
This is the real setlist:
1.Suicide Kiss (early version of Geek U.S.A.)
2.Rocket (alt. lyrics)
3.Bury Me
4.Window Paine
5.Hello Kitty Kat
6.KYP II / Siva
7.Hummer
8.I Am One / (jam)
Played the whole first 2.5 minutes with a broken string O.o Great performance!
.......stilll love, love, love the pumpkin kids.....
Wow, billy and jimmy carry this band live... studio too... but seriously - I LOVE James and don’t think this band is the same without him, but live... good grief. It’s the billy and jimmy train and it’s leaving, and you better keep up with ot
It's amazing how much the Pumpkins improved in a few short years. 3 years later they were awesome....here not so much.
This was a different Pumpkins right here.
They are getting off on “Siva”! The ‘Kins in their element.........Live!!!!
Whenever someone says they don't like pumpkins clearly they don't have a clue about before "Today"! I really feel sorry for them.
yes！
yes！yes！yes！
pure unbridled energy..
Damn shame Darcy ruined her face with all that surgery. She had a lot of esteem issues. She was so pretty.
Back when Billy Coorgan had hair (Before his decision to shave it off in 1995).
Jimmy C kicking ass per usual
According to Billy the Pumpkins nearly broke up after this gig due to malfunction of their gear and the poorly (I think it still rocks tho) performance. The outdoor circumstances made it nearly impossible to hear anything from the floor monitors making it pretty difficult to perform (there were no in-ear monitors at the time, an invention that had yet to be discovered). Of course their 1993 record Siamese Dream skyrocketed them into fame making this just a fun fact
I fucking love siva
Fantastic!!!! Suberb!!!
AWESOME
not an iPhone in sight
Prolly cause there weren't any back in the 90s you idiot
Premiumm Statee That's the point. You go to a concert nowdays everyone is waving their iPhones in the air
56madguy probably because there are no high-tempo bands anymore. Especially at festivals, they're all slow and soft
anto hall I think that has to do with nostalgia being a factor nowadays. People want to record a concert to watch later and feel nostalgic, not to enjoy the moment while watching a concert. It's a different mindset.
+Sebastián Arellano go to fyf in LA my friend. everyones completely moshlusted
The good old Pumpkins
Love Iggy Pop at the Drum😄🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🖤❤
Video production team A+
Any one have any footage of the October 1996 concert in Chicago at the Rosemont Horizon. I was there my first Pumpkins concert.Hoping somehow it was taped. Thanks. Mark Keszler
czcams.com/video/wDYyGECNfz0/video.html here it is the footage from that concert
90s magic!
James and D'Arcy broke up right before this festival.
Past Me Future Me really?
Yes
JAMES!!!! xd
Te amo :'o
Billy and Jimmy are so fucking slick lol.
Darcy was killing it here too!
Jimmy is a beast
Heaven.. from 90s with smoke
By 1998, they went all electronic as with their contemporaries (R.E.M.).
8:04 quite up tempo and still comfortable
Ahhh. The good ol' days when Billy had hair.
Jimmy mullet drip
Billy drip is always on point
Billy broke a string in the first song :(
James que belleza te amo 💕🧁
where is the rest of this footage. If it exists, please post it .
I don't know if there is any, I just know that this was an 8 song concert, longer than this.
I know huh, I would love to see it to. I seen SP play at a club in Denver, Co the night before Lolla 1. WOW what a show!! It was mayhem at its finest. Both Dave Nav and Perry Ferr were at that show too. Dave told me when I asked him about SP and he said, "These guys are fuckin good." Well the did end up as a headliner later. God what a show!!!
Not a pro shot like this video, but here's the whole show czcams.com/video/Q3wY6DXIfiI/video.html
Holy shit!!!
Jimmy is a fucking beast!!
Miss these days when bands didn't need all the over the top lighting on stage to play a show
that's my kind of Pumpkins!
2021
I'm not into this but that ROCKED!!