Smashing Pumpkins @ Balch Fieldhouse, Boulder CO, 2000-05-16

For todays October scare.  What strikes terror in the mind of almost all who hear it?  It's an icy shriek that pierces right to the bone in it's presence.  Is it a Banshee?  Is it a Siren? No it's more terrifying than that.  The one of a kind howl of a young female person.  Are they in danger? Is something horribly wrong?  No it's just excitement to see Billy Corgan.  I descreamafied this as best I could but there is no fully escaping the the creatures of the night.  The tag team of shriekers mostly attack in-between songs so steal yourself for that.  

This was called The Sacred and Profane tour and it was to promote the Machina album.  Jimmy Chamberlin was back in the band but Darcy was out and replaced with Melissa Auf der Maur from Hole for this tour.  The band seemed in a pretty good mood compared to other times I had seen them.  No fighting between James Iha and Billy on stage.  Lots of songs from Machina and a bunch of older classics.  Nice acoustic interlude in the middle.  Bullet With Butterfly Wings is played in a heavy doom style and it goes into the oddest cover of Talking Head's "Once in a Lifetime".  Billy announced less than a week after this show that the band was calling it quits.  That lasted until 2007 when he started playing as the Smashing Pumpkins again.

Balch is a big auditorium and sounds wasn't amazing but for that room I think they did a pretty good job and this is an enjoyable listen.  Minus the shrieking of course.  Enjoy.

Smashing Pumpkins

The Sacred and Profane tour

Balch Fieldhouse

Boulder CO (USA)

2000-05-16

Recorded: Bill Tatina

Presented: SxPxDxCx

Source: MBHO KA-200N - JK Labs DVC-V12 - DAT - CDR 

Transfer: CDR - EAC - Audition - CDWave - FLAC 

Time: (109:54.52)

01 Age of Innocence

02 Glass and the Ghost Children

03 The Everlasting Gaze

04 Heavy Metal Machine

05 - banter 1 -

06 Blew Away

07 Stand Inside Your Love

08 Blue Skies Bring Tears

09 I of the Mourning

10 To Sheila (acoustic)

11 Muzzle (acoustic)

12 Disarm (acoustic)

13 - banter 2 -

14 Ava Adore

15 Rock On (David Essex)

16 Zero

17 - banter 3 -

18 Today

19 Snail

20 With Every Light

21 Bullet With Butterfly Wings 

22 Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads)

23 - encore -

24 Raindrops + Sunshowers

25 Cherub Rock

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Smashing Pumpkins @ Ogden Theatre, Denver CO, 1993-10-10

I was at this show and a massive Smashing Pumpkins fan in 1993.  Siamese Dream had dropped earlier that year and they just took off.  I had seen them on the Gish tour in Denver in 1991.  They played at the Denver Coliseum as part of a bill with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam.  That show made me a fan.

Years later, at the end of the 90s or beginning of the aughts, while I was doing a ton a CDR trading I acquired this 1993 Smashing Pumpkins Ogden show recording.  I remembered it be good but it got filled away in the boxes.  Recently I made an effort to pull all of my own recording that I had on CDR and all other Colorado shows.  I rediscovered this one in that exercise and then it came up in conversation around the same time.  I had to get it posted on here.

I immediately ripped the CDRs to WAVs and revisited it.  I suspect that this might be another MarcR recording as I've seen sources for this show listed as audience DAT but there were a lot of tapers so who knows.  It is also posted on the LMA.    https://archive.org/details/tsp1993-10-10.flac16/

It is the same source as this but the tracking wasn't complete.  The posted comment says that this show is notable not only the first performance of Drown and also that they didn't play Cherub Rock.  That is incorrect.  It's just not split out as a track on the LMA post.  The play it after some banter that must have been encore break.  The CDR source fades out in a few spots where lulls were removed I think.  Amazing finally with Starla.  Best SP show I ever saw in retrospect.

I corrected some audio level issues and massaged it a little bit.  The vocals are nice and clear and during the quite parts it is quite nice.  I remember this show being super loud so during those parts it gets a little muddy.  Some of that is just due to the way that room sounded back then.  Very listenable I think and a hell of a setlist.  Enjoy.

Smashing Pumpkins   

Ogden Theater

Denver CO (USA)

1993-10-10

Recorded: ? - received in CDR trade in aughts

Presented: SxPxDxCx

Source: ? - CDR

Transfer: CDR - EAC - WAVs - Adobe Audition - CDWave - FLAC 

Run time: (85:59.42)

 

01 Disarm 

02 Rocket 

03 Geek USA 

04 Drown 

05 Hummer 

06 Quiet 

07 Today 

08 I Am One 

09 Soma

10 Rhinoceros (soft version) 

11 Siva 

12 Silverfuck

13 - interlude -

14 Cherub Rock 

15 Starla 

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