WOW. I can't believe this exists! My name is Cole, and I was at this show and it was INCREDIBLE. To say this was a super special show, is an understatement. It was the grand reopening of The Fillmore, which had closed after the 1989 earthquake that rocked the Bay Area. The lighting and visual show, as I herd it, was done by Pink Floyd's crew. I should say that the entire night was really special. The opening acts were 4 Non Blondes, Ry Cooder and American Music Club. Only 500 of the 1200 or so tickets sold to the public, with the rest being for friends, family, press and celebrities. I remember members of the Grateful Dead and Metallica walking around the room just as giddy as we all were to be in such a special event. I was/am a massive Pumpkins fan and I waited in line for hours in the early morning (like you used to have to do if you wanted to see a show), and I was the last person in line that got them. An acquaintance offered to buy my pair of tickets for $400 each, but I wouldn't miss this for the world. I still have the poster.... It was a show for the ages.. Last tidbit of cool about the show that I feel I should share... Right before the Pumpkins came out, the lights went dark and on the screen behind the stage they showed the infamous car chase scene from the classic movie Bullitt, which is set in San Francisco, and climaxes with Steve McQueen running the bad guys off the road, who explode in a ball of fire. At that moment, the lights came on and the band walked out.... hence the insane screaming that you hear when this video starts. God, what a show.... :)
Sounds Epic. Memories you carry throughout your life: priceless they are. The kinda thoughts that can keep you pushing through life in desperate times.
+Rance Hamilton Kurt Cobain was average at best on guitar. I'm sure even he would have admitted that. Half that list was the persons persona and popularity over pure skill and songwriting chops.
+pelleman02wb Rating a guitarist is a highly dubious game to get into. I love the Smashing Pumpkins but I would rate Kurt Cobain over Billy in terms of guitar, purely because I prefer his riffs and songs and solos and noise. Obviously Billy is a much better guitarist in terms of skill, but that's a really bizarre way of looking at the guitar IMO. For example, there's a couple of guys in every guitar shop in the world right now that can play circles around Billy from a technical standpoint, but Billy writes infinitely better music than they do, so he's the one we give a shit about. It just so happens that a lot of the best writers tend to be technically very good guitarists, but it's the writing we're really rating.
As I stand in the kitchen 45 years old stirring mac n cheese for my kids with my ear buds all the way up screaming these songs. My kids think I'm an alien. 😂. Forever a Fan ❤️🤘
You rock man! Strangely I'm just getting into them! I was too cool back in the day for stuff like this. I was into metallica, pantera and such..I feel like I missed so much great music..having fun catching up though!
I saw them on this tour too. I was also 18 and I had the same experience. I wish I would have known it back then that I was living the best times of my life.
saw them as well in 94 - on their Festival European tour ( the Pinkpop Magical show ) - one of the best gigs i have seen in the 90's - and i have seen a lot in those years ( Hundreds ) . The other Monster show i saw in 95 was Neil Young " Mirror Ball " tour with Pearl Jam members ( without E. Vedder ) ...one heaven of a show .
This video is a gem from beginning to end. Anyway, I want to tell you something. I'm in my 40s now, so I was a teen in the 90s. At the time I was crazy for Nirvana, Pearl Jam and other minor bands. I knew Smashing Pumpinks exist but didn't listen to, don't know why. Well, I started listening to them relatively recently and, it's difficult to explain but... when I listen to them it's just like I'm listening to the soundtrack of my youthness, even if I never listen to them at the time! It's just like they were able to capture exactly the vibes of that era, like no other. Or maybe it's only a joke of my mind. ps. sorry I'm not english mothertongue
i grew up on all of them just like you, even though i followed them, like alot of bands it always take me back to my youth when i close my eyes and listen to the songs, so i feel you enthusiasm never to late to become a fan of great music, i only bought all their cd's in 2000 when i could afford it, had it on dub tapes and mix tapes before that, peace brother ;)
yeah man, siamese dream and mellon collie are masterpieces. this show captures this band at such an insane time in music. the energy is off the charts and to see Billy like this is special. i was late to the pumpkin party too. but WOW, does it grab a hold of you and never let go…for twenty years now. Corgan created something truly timeless in those early nineties.
I also so totally agree. I discovered them in 2008. I can't explain it either. They're like the best of the best of the best. I wish I had taken all those invites to their shows at that time. Never went.. i could Kick myself.
I feel sorry for kids these days, they'll never know that smell and feeling of opening up a new CD that you've been waiting for forever, no leaks, no internet , just the 1 or 2 songs on the radio that you had heard,and then checking the booklet to see if you had the lyrics right.lol, and just the whole experience of everything to do with that new album, the music was almost like a bonus by the time your done looking threw everything. The 90's was truly the last decade where the music was a movement. and you felt it. and you still feel it when listening to SP, or rage, or STP or, PJ or Soundgarden or AIC... just so many of my heros gone..RIP. dont forget to smile.
i feel sorry for those who missed the real 90s bands, the fantastic underground scene ignored by monster arena bands and overblown festivals. People dont even understand the magnitude of Mudhoney, bands with no intention of being an alt rock star, bands you could actually talk to at the bar after. Oblivians, New Bomb Turks, Amphetamine Reptile...labels like Crypt, In the Red, RipOff wouldnt let you down...nurtured bands sidestepping "grunge b.s." and still fresh today. You had to dig for a Superchunk, Rocket From The Crypt Jay Reatards early raw punk, Dwarves...and youre just missing the current movement...mass marketing a band to kids...those days are over. the real stuff is under the radar
So true. Every generation gets access to things faster than the last. Now kids just open their mouths and everything is fed too them and their told it tastes good. Opinions are no longer allowed.
Spot on man. Don't forget to going to an actual record store and spending hours walking around checking out new music and talking to others doing the same. So many great memories I wish my kid would experience but never will with current times.
@@DaveAnchovies saw Mudhoney 10 miles from home in Belgium around 94 or 95 . Phenomenal underground scene at the time with Sonic Youth , TOOL , Soul Caughin , and so many others
I'd say the 80s and 90s were the best time for rock The rock today is alright (it's not the best but atleast it's not pop today, am I right?) The 60s and 70s were pretty good Anything before that, I'm not even sure about
@@colinmiller8824 Good rock today is as good as good rock in any other decade. To find it you just have to dig it more since good rock isn't in the mainstream anymore. Which is a good thing because it allows bands to be more creative than they ever were.
Jimmy Chamberlin is amazing and fast a lightening. The thing that blows me away is, even when he's playing his craziest/fastest chops with SP, it looks effortless and you can tell he has a lot more in the tank than what he's putting on display. It's almost like their songs are too easy for him. It's insane.
I'm genuinely surprised with the incredible sound quality on this '94 recording. Jimmy's kit sounds amazing and the bass/guitars are at like the perfect levels. I love the Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie era Pumpkins when they still had the original 4 members and put on unforgettable shows like this.
This was the peak! I’m glad I got to see them during the Siamese Dream Tour 1993. It was a great show and loud! I know they were playing over 120dbs. I could feel the sound waves on my chest. It was crazy! I had to put pieces of napkin paper in my ears. It was so loud and powerful, like an Airplane taking off during the fast songs. And people were smoking 🚬 Cush because there was a cloud of smoke 💨! I could smell it. I think I got a contact high from it. And I remember the girls in the audience all yelled out “I shall be free” when he sang that during Rocket 🚀. I Shall Be Free in Unison! It was incredible! 💥🔥🎸😎 Thanks to whoever fixed this video and uploaded it! Great Job!
Personally, I thought the Pumpkins peak performances were during the Mellon Collie era when they still had the original 4 members but had a couple more albums and major hit songs under their belt. Honestly I love everything they put out from the early days up until they fired Jimmy from the band, I feel like they were never the same band after that and the music went in a direction I didn't like as much.
Kurt Cobain died a couple weeks earlier before this show. Such an exciting and sad time for grunge. I was born just five months later.. Wish I could've been there during those great years for music.
I used to follow them on tour from city to city with a group of buddies through the 90s. We were in our teens, and only now realize how good grunge/rock was back then
Glad you found the music even though it was a little before you arrived! I was at this concert as a freshman in college with a few friends. Unforgettable night.
As a long time bootleg collector and fan, this is indeed a gem, Soma as an opener is reason enough to dive into this gig plus the pro shot vid and audio. James and Billy's guitars are also mixed at proper equal volumes....this is a great capture. Although I will say like most great bands from this era, this (at least it appears to me) to be an average show for the band. Their not firing on every single cylinder. When they launch into Geek USA there is a bit of a strange feeling its not at their top level. Having said that there are some stellar moments. Even on a "off night" or the band is not quite as into as other nights they would still blow almost any band off the stage. Great show.
eLi FILMS oh now... there’s quite the few times on just this leg of the tour where they top the Metro ‘93 Geek USA performance, I assure ya! Huge bootleg collector here as well and that song is w/out doubt my all-time fav of the entire SP musical catalogue. So I assure you, I have a many many diff shows of theirs audio and/or video and believe me... the Metro ‘93 performance is nowhere near the BEST show out there that many Pumpkin fans want to give it as its title!
Truly a god like band during this time. No band has been able to convey teenage angst, the heartbreak the fuzzy romantic splendor of young love, the carefree joy of no responsibility; but also the sexual frustration and burst of melodramatic anger that punctuate one's adolescence in such powerful and timelessly nostalgic way. Plus, they looked cool as fuck and had the chops and creativity to back it up. This video is truly a time machine.
+Moody Hyadd jimmy was formed as a jazz drummer :) that's one of the goals of the smashing pumpkins, brings the feel and the vibe of jazz music to rock
Lately, whenever I get a little drunk I end up watching vintage Pumpkins concerts on TH-cam. I always wanted to play the bass like D'arcy when I grew up and have been fairly uninterested in this band ever since she left.
Im literally drinking some mixed drinks and decided to watch this. So, same here. Love the Pumpkins and can't help but go back to this particular period when I've had a few. Cheers.
They've released some interesting stuff since she left. Machina I and II are pretty good records and Zeitgeist has it's moments. This line-up is pure magic tho.
Killer Show! But you had to be there to feel the power of those drums and duel guitars 🎸! It was amazing! They played at over 120 decibels! It was like a plane taking off! I was stunned! I could feel the drumbeats on my chest. It was crazy! I’m glad this was recorded for posterity so people can get a taste of SP live in their prime! Thanks! 👏🏻🎸😎
I just found my ticket stub from this show. I was a sophomore in college when I went to see the Pumpkins at the Fillmore reopening, after the big earthquake of '89. I recall tickets selling out in about two minutes to this show.
@@boofert.washington2499 that's correct. The Fillmore reopened in '94 after the big quake in '89. This was the reopening show IN 1994. I was at the show IN 1994. Sorry for confusing you.
This year was the best of the decade as far as live shows go. Pumpkins were great ambassadors of rock during this time along with so many, and I mean SO many other bands. Amazing time to be a kid and discover music, not like today
WHOA!!! This is amazing. Even though I can just click on this and watch it for free all I want if they put this out as a physical release I'd but it in an instant.
The 90's! When concerts was without all the lights from smartphones and you could actually enjoy this great music! I was hardcore fan in my youth, guess their music kept me alive in years of struggle. How Billy could just write song after song is a mystery to me, amazing pieces of music that would not even come out as a single and maybe only as a B-side. SP4EVER
i wan't even born when these songs were made and I'm just now starting to listen to them. So far I've liked every song I've listened to from the smashing pumpkins. I've been listening to them on repeat.
I'm actually so old that I remember a time when Smashing Pumpkins weren't even a band. Disarm was the song that caught my attention. There was nothing like it on the radio at the time. From today's perspective, maybe it doesn't sound all that different from other rock songs, but back then it was a pretty bold song to put out. Ever since, I've been a fan. To be honest though, I haven't listened to much of what they made after the big break up (2000?) to CYR, their latest album. I do like CYR though, even though it's a quite different sound. I'm looking forward to hearing what they're currently recording. It's supposed to be back to the heavy guitars. We'll see.
4/25/94 I was 14, with my 14 year old friend being dropped off to a rock show in Dayton Ohio !! general admission = front row if you can run fast enough, which I did!!! Yes 14 years old & front row for THE SMASHING PUMPKINS! My friend was getting smashed so she had to be pulled from front row but I held strong & stayed for the whole show, even with that barrier being smashed into me becoming part of my body 😂😂😂 My life was forever changed that day! Pumpkins will hold a special place in my heart forever!!! Thanks for sharing
Wow, so cool. I was 19 the first time i got center on the barrier at Aragon Ballroom… waited from 7am in line to get that spot. Waiting in line at a SP show is a special type of badge of honor. 💜
Sorry man, I disagree, he has still made some great music since then, every album he has done since 2007 has had at least 4 to 5 great tracks & his last album was amazing.
I like how they keep singing without small talks between each song. Like they really immerse themselves into an constant emotion. "Hush now don't you speak to me."
SM I saw them of course even if i had to die for it, but in 96 my two friends presented me with back to back shows of them so I went to 3 it still amazes me hoe bill is able to have the same voice everyday, not a scratch, so I see many of my loved ones being revered Layne Staley Chris Cornell but I thought 30 years later this guy would be a god, but no, still underrated, people this man might be the best musician of his time, best storyteller, I actually started believing in fairies when they came out! They changed my life, they changed music, no one has never ever played or attempted to sound like them! I'm hoping there are millions of fans out there he really deserves it💕
I loved the way they ended Silverfuck live. This band rocked on another level and Billy Corgan is so unfairly written off in the rock world. And he knows it. May the mob ever be fickle.
You know one of my college buddies turned me on to Smashing Pumpkins and he said listen to that which was Gish and I was blown away because to me they didn’t sound like anyone else. Billy’s vocals were very unique, his and James guitar 🎸 playing very original and inspirational, Darcy with her own ice Queen vibe, and Jimmy’s very unique approach to playing aggressively and then quietly and then amazing dexterity with ghost notes on the snare and toms with jazz flavoring! So to sum up they didn’t sound like any group at their time not grunge, soft rock, not alternative, not Progressive rock just their own unique sound which was unheard before ala Van Halen or Jimi Hendrix where right of the Shute as a listener you were going what’s this? I don’t know but I like this! Saw the Gish tour and then Siamese Dream tour as part of LOLLAPOLOOZA! Love the guys! I do miss Darcy though! Just sayin 💔
I am 68 and heard some of their songs when I was younger but didn't pay much attention. Now I have really discovered them and I can't keep from listening to them. I love Jane's Addiction and when I saw them on You Tube together I was extatic.
In a very short time I saw Alice n Chains, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Lush, Ministry, Tool, Korn, Deftones, Metallica, Megadeth, White Zombie, Pantera, 311, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Fugazi, Guns N Roses, Primus, Phish, slayer, Marilyn Manson, Ozzy Osborne, Helmet, Danzig, The Casualties, Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Portishead, Skinny Puppy, Type O Negative, Pearl Jam, and of course Smashing Pumpkins that I did see them on their first tourthese are just some bands I saw between 1991 and 1994.
So glad I got to see them live during this era. Saw them at the Charlestown Lollapoluza show and I got to see them in DC during the Mellon Collie era (the last show before Jonathon Melvoin died and Jimmy got kicked from the band :/). They were amazing both times.
They definitely played most songs significantly faster then the album. Side note, billy is an amazing grunge guitarist..a legit guitarist on any standard.
As much as I love the Pumpkins, Billy Corgan is a terrible live singer! Mostly incoherent and out of tune vocals like 90% of the time and not just judging by this performance alone but from almost all the live material here on TH-cam. He's a good guitarist to be sure but he ain't got the vocal chops to match. Great in studio but always fails live for me.
You’re right, man. He over-did-it in trying to make the live vocals sound different from studio vocals. Alot of his live vocals come off as self-deprecating & jokey. Like he’s making fun of the “corny” lyrics. instrumentally, every minute of every live performance is a goldmine of awesome
Yeh my good friend made this observation when we saw SP in ‘18. I didn’t want to believe him but when you listen to the records his voice is night and day. Interesting to see this was the case in the 90s as well. The band just slays and I hope to see them on their next tour w/ Janes Addiction.
Saw them on this tour in Williamsburg, Virginia...first concert ever and I was in the 8th grade...they blew the top off my head I went right out of my mind...my friend said he thought the show sucked...we're not friends anymore...
AGREED! They also opened with Soma when I saw them at Lollapalooza a few months later that year. Absolute GENIUS song choice to start the set with. Soma settles the crowd down for a minute or so until it positively ERUPTS at the right moment! Maybe the most I lost my mind at any concert... actually, Teen Spirit at Nirvana in '93 was better. but it was close!
What a performance! This was two days before my 14th birthday. Learned the drums blasting Gish/Siamese Dream through my old CD player in my room on my old Pearl Forum kit. Jimmy was my flippin hero on drums- Geek U.S.A and Silverfuck... Holy crap gotta get those back in the regular rotation. Tristessa as well.
The recording is so clear!!! With that said, my friends and I went to this same show in San Antonio, Tx. It was an awesome experience. Funny thing, we were in the mosh pit and my friend head butted me and I had a bloodied bruised eye for the rest of the show. Memories
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WOW. I can't believe this exists! My name is Cole, and I was at this show and it was INCREDIBLE. To say this was a super special show, is an understatement. It was the grand reopening of The Fillmore, which had closed after the 1989 earthquake that rocked the Bay Area. The lighting and visual show, as I herd it, was done by Pink Floyd's crew.
I should say that the entire night was really special. The opening acts were 4 Non Blondes, Ry Cooder and American Music Club. Only 500 of the 1200 or so tickets sold to the public, with the rest being for friends, family, press and celebrities. I remember members of the Grateful Dead and Metallica walking around the room just as giddy as we all were to be in such a special event. I was/am a massive Pumpkins fan and I waited in line for hours in the early morning (like you used to have to do if you wanted to see a show), and I was the last person in line that got them. An acquaintance offered to buy my pair of tickets for $400 each, but I wouldn't miss this for the world. I still have the poster.... It was a show for the ages..
Last tidbit of cool about the show that I feel I should share... Right before the Pumpkins came out, the lights went dark and on the screen behind the stage they showed the infamous car chase scene from the classic movie Bullitt, which is set in San Francisco, and climaxes with Steve McQueen running the bad guys off the road, who explode in a ball of fire. At that moment, the lights came on and the band walked out.... hence the insane screaming that you hear when this video starts.
God, what a show.... :)
THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS UP!!! I NEVER THOUGHT I'D RELIVE THIS MOMENT! :)
Are you for Real?
Bullit is my Dad's favorite movie. God 🙌
Sounds Epic. Memories you carry throughout your life: priceless they are. The kinda thoughts that can keep you pushing through life in desperate times.
Joe Satriani played that night as well before the pumpkins. It was a memorable night.
Jimmy Chamberlin - one of the best drummers... ever.
Neil peart tho
Owns the kit
@@unfortunatefind6923 Yes, he said chamberlin was one of the best not the best.
Chops for days.
True .... I went to see his band when "life begins again" came out... he is unbelievable live...
Corgan at 49:48 : “I think we all should have a moment of silence for the guitar.”
Dude in the back: “WOOOOOOOOOO”
Billy Corgan is a highly underrated guitarist.
Rance Hamilton I know--when I didn't see his name on Rolling Stone's list of 100 greatest guitarists I had to do a double take.
But they did include Kurt Cobain..... so twisted
Rance Hamilton its because rolling stone is a load o shit
+Rance Hamilton Kurt Cobain was average at best on guitar. I'm sure even he would have admitted that. Half that list was the persons persona and popularity over pure skill and songwriting chops.
+pelleman02wb Rating a guitarist is a highly dubious game to get into. I love the Smashing Pumpkins but I would rate Kurt Cobain over Billy in terms of guitar, purely because I prefer his riffs and songs and solos and noise. Obviously Billy is a much better guitarist in terms of skill, but that's a really bizarre way of looking at the guitar IMO. For example, there's a couple of guys in every guitar shop in the world right now that can play circles around Billy from a technical standpoint, but Billy writes infinitely better music than they do, so he's the one we give a shit about. It just so happens that a lot of the best writers tend to be technically very good guitarists, but it's the writing we're really rating.
As I stand in the kitchen 45 years old stirring mac n cheese for my kids with my ear buds all the way up screaming these songs. My kids think I'm an alien. 😂. Forever a Fan ❤️🤘
I feel ya.
You rock man! Strangely I'm just getting into them! I was too cool back in the day for stuff like this. I was into metallica, pantera and such..I feel like I missed so much great music..having fun catching up though!
This. Becuase this recording is amazing!
Kymberli Shea should play it out loud, let them be cooler than all their friends 🤘
Awesome
Man, I saw them on this tour. I was 18 and this band called the Smashing Pumpkins saved my life.
I feel you
I saw them on this tour too. I was also 18 and I had the same experience. I wish I would have known it back then that I was living the best times of my life.
eddie harman the 90s ruled
saw them as well in 94 - on their Festival European tour ( the Pinkpop Magical show ) - one of the best gigs i have seen in the 90's - and i have seen a lot in those years ( Hundreds ) . The other Monster show i saw in 95 was Neil Young " Mirror Ball " tour with Pearl Jam members ( without E. Vedder ) ...one heaven of a show .
I was 15 when I first saw them in 2000 on machina tour, first gig I ever went to. wish it had been this tour!!
This video is a gem from beginning to end.
Anyway, I want to tell you something.
I'm in my 40s now, so I was a teen in the 90s.
At the time I was crazy for Nirvana, Pearl Jam and other minor bands. I knew Smashing Pumpinks exist but didn't listen to, don't know why.
Well, I started listening to them relatively recently and, it's difficult to explain but... when I listen to them it's just like I'm listening to the soundtrack of my youthness, even if I never listen to them at the time!
It's just like they were able to capture exactly the vibes of that era, like no other.
Or maybe it's only a joke of my mind.
ps. sorry I'm not english mothertongue
i grew up on all of them just like you, even though i followed them, like alot of bands it always take me back to my youth when i close my eyes and listen to the songs, so i feel you enthusiasm never to late to become a fan of great music, i only bought all their cd's in 2000 when i could afford it, had it on dub tapes and mix tapes before that, peace brother ;)
yeah man, siamese dream and mellon collie are masterpieces. this show captures this band at such an insane time in music. the energy is off the charts and to see Billy like this is special. i was late to the pumpkin party too. but WOW, does it grab a hold of you and never let go…for twenty years now. Corgan created something truly timeless in those early nineties.
Totally agreed!
I also so totally agree. I discovered them in 2008. I can't explain it either. They're like the best of the best of the best. I wish I had taken all those invites to their shows at that time. Never went.. i could Kick myself.
That's awesome. You may like our stuff
I feel sorry for kids these days, they'll never know that smell and feeling of opening up a new CD that you've been waiting for forever, no leaks, no internet , just the 1 or 2 songs on the radio that you had heard,and then checking the booklet to see if you had the lyrics right.lol, and just the whole experience of everything to do with that new album, the music was almost like a bonus by the time your done looking threw everything. The 90's was truly the last decade where the music was a movement. and you felt it. and you still feel it when listening to SP, or rage, or STP or, PJ or Soundgarden or AIC... just so many of my heros gone..RIP. dont forget to smile.
i feel sorry for those who missed the real 90s bands, the fantastic underground scene ignored by monster arena bands and overblown festivals. People dont even understand the magnitude of Mudhoney, bands with no intention of being an alt rock star, bands you could actually talk to at the bar after. Oblivians, New Bomb Turks, Amphetamine Reptile...labels like Crypt, In the Red, RipOff wouldnt let you down...nurtured bands sidestepping "grunge b.s." and still fresh today. You had to dig for a Superchunk, Rocket From The Crypt Jay Reatards early raw punk, Dwarves...and youre just missing the current movement...mass marketing a band to kids...those days are over. the real stuff is under the radar
So true. Every generation gets access to things faster than the last. Now kids just open their mouths and everything is fed too them and their told it tastes good. Opinions are no longer allowed.
Spot on man. Don't forget to going to an actual record store and spending hours walking around checking out new music and talking to others doing the same. So many great memories I wish my kid would experience but never will with current times.
Hell yes fridays at musicland then tape world.
@@DaveAnchovies saw Mudhoney 10 miles from home in Belgium around 94 or 95 . Phenomenal underground scene at the time with Sonic Youth , TOOL , Soul Caughin , and so many others
The 90s were the Golden age of Rock.
Golden age of angst lol.
Not the only golden age.
I'd say the 80s and 90s were the best time for rock
The rock today is alright (it's not the best but atleast it's not pop today, am I right?)
The 60s and 70s were pretty good
Anything before that, I'm not even sure about
@@colinmiller8824 Good rock today is as good as good rock in any other decade. To find it you just have to dig it more since good rock isn't in the mainstream anymore. Which is a good thing because it allows bands to be more creative than they ever were.
I agree, definitely better than the 60's 🙄
So good.. From the time when Billy had something to prove and didn't think everything he made was a masterpiece..
Holy shit this footage is so clear. I could actually see the "Fender" on Billy's headstock at some points.
Opening with SOMA!!
I just had to say that. Respect.
Fucking amazing
Weird choice for opener but hey, it's an amazing song
One of my favorites!!
57:30 - There's only one Jimmy Chamberlin. Ffffffffrghhhhhwwwhoa.
Drink!
Sounds awfully similar to what he does at th-cam.com/video/M3s02WuWMt0/w-d-xo.html
One of the best bands of all time, hands fucking down... SP
They really act like the don't seem to like each other very much lol...
Corgan pretty much reminded them it was his band often
I think I lost nearly half my hearing at this concert. My ears rang for 3 days. Good show!
That drummer is s beast
Jimmy Chamberlin is amazing and fast a lightening. The thing that blows me away is, even when he's playing his craziest/fastest chops with SP, it looks effortless and you can tell he has a lot more in the tank than what he's putting on display. It's almost like their songs are too easy for him. It's insane.
Nathan Glass Yeah Jimmy Chamberlin is incredible. Might be the best rock drummer I have ever heard.
i never got that impression but people still keep saying that
Nathan Glass yeah he was till the heroin got him
thesweetleaf guess you're wrong
Wow, starting off with Soma? Beautiful.
Never seems to be enough D’arcy
I'm genuinely surprised with the incredible sound quality on this '94 recording. Jimmy's kit sounds amazing and the bass/guitars are at like the perfect levels. I love the Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie era Pumpkins when they still had the original 4 members and put on unforgettable shows like this.
I was at this, and it was stunning. I remember the my hair standing on end from the intensity of energy coming off the stage.
John Cornwell much envy, man
Jealousy 10 fold
Seriously jealous. How many pupils were dilated at that concert XP
@@neuronaut8030 many took ecstazy pills at the time , as i did too lol
Amazing
This was the peak! I’m glad I got to see them during the Siamese Dream Tour 1993. It was a great show and loud! I know they were playing over 120dbs. I could feel the sound waves on my chest. It was crazy! I had to put pieces of napkin paper in my ears. It was so loud and powerful, like an Airplane taking off during the fast songs.
And people were smoking 🚬 Cush because there was a cloud of smoke 💨! I could smell it. I think I got a contact high from it. And I remember the girls in the audience all yelled out “I shall be free” when he sang that during Rocket 🚀. I Shall Be Free in Unison! It was incredible! 💥🔥🎸😎
Thanks to whoever fixed this video and uploaded it! Great Job!
Personally, I thought the Pumpkins peak performances were during the Mellon Collie era when they still had the original 4 members but had a couple more albums and major hit songs under their belt. Honestly I love everything they put out from the early days up until they fired Jimmy from the band, I feel like they were never the same band after that and the music went in a direction I didn't like as much.
SP is the absolute loudest show I ever been to even way later in their career
That's absolutely amazing. Thank you for commenting this. I was not alive during this period of time but I can only imagine being at this show.
Kurt Cobain died a couple weeks earlier before this show. Such an exciting and sad time for grunge. I was born just five months later.. Wish I could've been there during those great years for music.
I used to follow them on tour from city to city with a group of buddies through the 90s. We were in our teens, and only now realize how good grunge/rock was back then
Glad you found the music even though it was a little before you arrived!
I was at this concert as a freshman in college with a few friends. Unforgettable night.
I was 13 and not old enough to physically be there but so obsessed with the music, it's so validating when the next generation vibes with it too 🙏♥️
Awesome. Back when the Pumpkins were a truly magical band!
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Man I miss this time. Was 18 in '94. Time flies for sure.
me to and about week after turned 18 was in jail , they don't call mom after 18 for some reason , messed everything up ! lol
I was 15. Was the best man
they were so amazing in their prime
Taylor Swift loves Lzzy Halestorm?
His first six albums were amazing, after 2000 they went downhill
They still are amazing
@@colinmiller8824 adore 🤮
@@colinmiller8824 the 3 first albums were incredible , after that , its another creative vibe .
As a long time bootleg collector and fan, this is indeed a gem, Soma as an opener is reason enough to dive into this gig plus the pro shot vid and audio. James and Billy's guitars are also mixed at proper equal volumes....this is a great capture. Although I will say like most great bands from this era, this (at least it appears to me) to be an average show for the band. Their not firing on every single cylinder. When they launch into Geek USA there is a bit of a strange feeling its not at their top level. Having said that there are some stellar moments. Even on a "off night" or the band is not quite as into as other nights they would still blow almost any band off the stage. Great show.
+Travis Travinyle They were definitely off a lot during this show but like you said, it's a great capture video and audio-wise.
Yeah Geek U.S.A. is truly slacking a bit surely doesn't measure up to the version they did at The Metro in 1993.
@@moonontheman1657 well Metro 93 is God Tier. Nothing measurea up
That is cool
eLi FILMS oh now... there’s quite the few times on just this leg of the tour where they top the Metro ‘93 Geek USA performance, I assure ya! Huge bootleg collector here as well and that song is w/out doubt my all-time fav of the entire SP musical catalogue. So I assure you, I have a many many diff shows of theirs audio and/or video and believe me... the Metro ‘93 performance is nowhere near the BEST show out there that many Pumpkin fans want to give it as its title!
No Mayonaise whaaaaaatttt
I love you and you rcute name
@@noah_pedersen oh I love you too boo
@@routineparticular7104 I love how you're still here 4 years later😊
@@elizabethstewart6767 hello people
@@phi4857 hello
Truly a god like band during this time. No band has been able to convey teenage angst, the heartbreak the fuzzy romantic splendor of young love, the carefree joy of no responsibility; but also the sexual frustration and burst of melodramatic anger that punctuate one's adolescence in such powerful and timelessly nostalgic way. Plus, they looked cool as fuck and had the chops and creativity to back it up. This video is truly a time machine.
Saw them in 96 on the Melon Collie run.... Powerful live band,,, with this line up here!!! Hell,, THIS IS The Smashing Pumpkins right here!!!!!
Look at that set list.. WOW they don't make em like that any more.
From this far away, Billy looks like Arnie on his birthday in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
Gilbert, I wanna go higher than before
So True 😂
Lolll
could I possibly love them more?!?
Man I'm not a drummer and don't know much about it, but I swear I can hear some Jazz influence in dude's drumming.
+Moody Hyadd jimmy was formed as a jazz drummer :)
that's one of the goals of the smashing pumpkins, brings the feel and the vibe of jazz music to rock
+Moody Hyadd in fact i think he's now on a self-created jazz band.
+Alex Saiz Coello Yeah The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex
the vibe of jazz music to rock .... good one :-)
Jimmy Chamberlin is so underrated as a drummer like Wtf?? It's just not right imo..
Lately, whenever I get a little drunk I end up watching vintage Pumpkins concerts on TH-cam. I always wanted to play the bass like D'arcy when I grew up and have been fairly uninterested in this band ever since she left.
lol ur kidding...
Im literally drinking some mixed drinks and decided to watch this. So, same here. Love the Pumpkins and can't help but go back to this particular period when I've had a few. Cheers.
They've released some interesting stuff since she left.
Machina I and II are pretty good records and Zeitgeist has it's moments.
This line-up is pure magic tho.
In terms of music, Oceania is frickin' amazing. The vocals seem very "Tired" on that one tho'. sadly.
The vocals put me off it
Killer Show! But you had to be there to feel the power of those drums and duel guitars 🎸! It was amazing! They played at over 120 decibels! It was like a plane taking off!
I was stunned!
I could feel the drumbeats on my chest.
It was crazy!
I’m glad this was recorded for posterity so people can get a taste of SP live in their prime!
Thanks!
👏🏻🎸😎
saw them a few days later in Holland at the Pinkpop Festival where they eclipsed any other band of the day . Incredible show
@@BlueHopi144 man that's a legendary show, so envious. Probably the definitive live versions of Drown and Hummer
@@nicolaserafini6590 indeed
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A better drummer than my man Mr Chamberlain there is not. Sublime
I just found my ticket stub from this show. I was a sophomore in college when I went to see the Pumpkins at the Fillmore reopening, after the big earthquake of '89. I recall tickets selling out in about two minutes to this show.
Cool story. But this show was in 1994, not 1989.
@@boofert.washington2499 that's correct. The Fillmore reopened in '94 after the big quake in '89. This was the reopening show IN 1994. I was at the show IN 1994. Sorry for confusing you.
@@edwardaguilar605 Question: it sounds like the crowd was just not into this show, was that the case? Seems crazy if it was, awesome set. Thanks.
Back before his lame Nasferatu meets Uncle Fester look.
Back when he dressed like a human.
Tell me if You are not shivering at 04:18
I am not. Is that helpful to you?
I am not shivering at 4:18
I’m not
I'm not shivering, but there was a time I probably would've. I've heard their songs too many times lol
1:06:00 HOLY FUCK THIS SOLO
OH my... this is a hidden Gem!!
They sound so good in this! It's cool to hear them play the songs when they were their cutting edge repertoire. The sound is so heavy, and the drums.
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@@paranoizehfxno 👎 shit 💩
Holy shit D'Arcy. 😍
I was there,on acid! Still have the poster given out at the end as you were leaving. Amazing night.
This year was the best of the decade as far as live shows go. Pumpkins were great ambassadors of rock during this time along with so many, and I mean SO many other bands. Amazing time to be a kid and discover music, not like today
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1:00:25
“I hope the rest of your acid trip goes well”
-Billy Corgan
WHOA!!! This is amazing. Even though I can just click on this and watch it for free all I want if they put this out as a physical release I'd but it in an instant.
The 90's! When concerts was without all the lights from smartphones and you could actually enjoy this great music! I was hardcore fan in my youth, guess their music kept me alive in years of struggle. How Billy could just write song after song is a mystery to me, amazing pieces of music that would not even come out as a single and maybe only as a B-side. SP4EVER
A psychedelic rock show. SP weren’t a grunge band and yet they were as powerful as any Seattle band thanks to JCs incredible drumming.
At 15:46, Jimmy's snare mat turns off. He was playing so hard that actually happened. Wow
hummer is awesome
the outro to 'Hummer' is something I could put on loop and mentally zonk out to every time
In their eyes I was alive..fools diguiseee
Good to know thatnks for tellimn me
Whoa, the sound quality on this is insane!
Saw them summer of '94. Best concert I've ever been to. This video takes me back. Great quality too
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i wan't even born when these songs were made and I'm just now starting to listen to them. So far I've liked every song I've listened to from the smashing pumpkins. I've been listening to them on repeat.
I'm actually so old that I remember a time when Smashing Pumpkins weren't even a band. Disarm was the song that caught my attention. There was nothing like it on the radio at the time. From today's perspective, maybe it doesn't sound all that different from other rock songs, but back then it was a pretty bold song to put out. Ever since, I've been a fan. To be honest though, I haven't listened to much of what they made after the big break up (2000?) to CYR, their latest album. I do like CYR though, even though it's a quite different sound. I'm looking forward to hearing what they're currently recording. It's supposed to be back to the heavy guitars. We'll see.
4/25/94 I was 14, with my 14 year old friend being dropped off to a rock show in Dayton Ohio !! general admission = front row if you can run fast enough, which I did!!! Yes 14 years old & front row for THE SMASHING PUMPKINS! My friend was getting smashed so she had to be pulled from front row but I held strong & stayed for the whole show, even with that barrier being smashed into me becoming part of my body 😂😂😂 My life was forever changed that day! Pumpkins will hold a special place in my heart forever!!! Thanks for sharing
Wow, so cool. I was 19 the first time i got center on the barrier at Aragon Ballroom… waited from 7am in line to get that spot. Waiting in line at a SP show is a special type of badge of honor. 💜
Sorry man, I disagree, he has still made some great music since then, every album he has done since 2007 has had at least 4 to 5 great tracks & his last album was amazing.
+Tank Franz was all about the sound live after mc&is
Agree
wish I was there
Roxy Burton I seen them in 96 cold chills the whole time it was one of the highlights of my life
I like how they keep singing without small talks between each song. Like they really immerse themselves into an constant emotion. "Hush now don't you speak to me."
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Holy shit, that rendition of Cherub Rock... And that guitar tone during the Today chorus. Wow, thanks for putting this up!!
Gorgeous version of Starla, might be the best I've heard.
SM I saw them of course even if i had to die for it, but in 96 my two friends presented me with back to back shows of them so I went to 3 it still amazes me hoe bill is able to have the same voice everyday, not a scratch, so I see many of my loved ones being revered Layne Staley Chris Cornell but I thought 30 years later this guy would be a god, but no, still underrated, people this man might be the best musician of his time, best storyteller, I actually started believing in fairies when they came out! They changed my life, they changed music, no one has never ever played or attempted to sound like them! I'm hoping there are millions of fans out there he really deserves it💕
I agree totally!
I loved the way they ended Silverfuck live. This band rocked on another level and Billy Corgan is so unfairly written off in the rock world. And he knows it. May the mob ever be fickle.
You know one of my college buddies turned me on to Smashing Pumpkins and he said listen to that which was Gish and I was blown away because to me they didn’t sound like anyone else. Billy’s vocals were very unique, his and James guitar 🎸 playing very original and inspirational, Darcy with her own ice Queen vibe, and Jimmy’s very unique approach to playing aggressively and then quietly and then amazing dexterity with ghost notes on the snare and toms with jazz flavoring! So to sum up they didn’t sound like any group at their time not grunge, soft rock, not alternative, not Progressive rock just their own unique sound which was unheard before ala Van Halen or Jimi Hendrix where right of the Shute as a listener you were going what’s this? I don’t know but I like this! Saw the Gish tour and then Siamese Dream tour as part of LOLLAPOLOOZA! Love the guys! I do miss Darcy though! Just sayin 💔
Melhor formação dos Pumpkins na minha opinião, e sem contar que Billy nessa época tinha mais vontade, mais gana.
Best era of pumpkins. JC is an absolute beast
jimmy. master of the rimshot.
the synergy between billy and jimmy is just unbelievable
Incredible performance, brings me way back.
Jimmy is so effing clean ALL the time!!! So damn busy!!
I am 68 and heard some of their songs when I was younger but didn't pay much attention. Now I have really discovered them and I can't keep from listening to them. I love Jane's Addiction and when I saw them on You Tube together I was extatic.
they are indeed playing together this fall . What snot to like about Perry Farrell , one of the best singers out there still alive .
Better late than never, same here 64.
In a very short time I saw Alice n Chains, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Lush, Ministry, Tool, Korn, Deftones, Metallica, Megadeth, White Zombie, Pantera, 311, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Fugazi, Guns N Roses, Primus, Phish, slayer, Marilyn Manson, Ozzy Osborne, Helmet, Danzig, The Casualties, Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Portishead, Skinny Puppy, Type O Negative, Pearl Jam, and of course Smashing Pumpkins that I did see them on their first tourthese are just some bands I saw between 1991 and 1994.
wow u have great music taste and u are so lucky. i wish i were alive and young in the 90s🥲
No Hole? Wooda loved to have seen Lush and Fugazi..
My dream "lost" encore for this show would be
Snail
Rhinoceros
Bury Me
Mayonnaise
and maybe a cover of Dream Police!
I might add "La Dolly Vita" to that list.😎
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I mean... Did Billy go to the coolest thrift store on the planet like everyday or what?
best f*****in rock drummer of all time!!!!
Those track times are all off by like 45 seconds.
Loving the unusually bass-driven version of Rocket.
Billy and Jimmy =rock and roll
The rendition of "Disarm", in this show, is absolutely stunning.
So glad I got to see them live during this era. Saw them at the Charlestown Lollapoluza show and I got to see them in DC during the Mellon Collie era (the last show before Jonathon Melvoin died and Jimmy got kicked from the band :/). They were amazing both times.
wait, charlestown, WV?? the racetrack???? and which dc date??
My best friend was at the DC show!!! I wish I had been able to go with him!
They definitely played most songs significantly faster then the album. Side note, billy is an amazing grunge guitarist..a legit guitarist on any standard.
Then?
@@kdvincent1982 then what?
As much as I love the Pumpkins, Billy Corgan is a terrible live singer! Mostly incoherent and out of tune vocals like 90% of the time and not just judging by this performance alone but from almost all the live material here on TH-cam. He's a good guitarist to be sure but he ain't got the vocal chops to match. Great in studio but always fails live for me.
You’re right, man. He over-did-it in trying to make the live vocals sound different from studio vocals. Alot of his live vocals come off as self-deprecating & jokey. Like he’s making fun of the “corny” lyrics.
instrumentally, every minute of every live performance is a goldmine of awesome
Yeh my good friend made this observation when we saw SP in ‘18. I didn’t want to believe him but when you listen to the records his voice is night and day. Interesting to see this was the case in the 90s as well. The band just slays and I hope to see them on their next tour w/ Janes Addiction.
Absolutely amazing performance and audio quality. Thanks a million times over for posting this!
I saw them on this tour, but they didn’t start with “Soma” at my show. My all-time favorite Pumpkins song. Incredible.
Yep, I saw them in Tampa in I think November '93 and they opened with Rocket.
Next year, this footage'l be 30years old. Wow 🥰
"Eulogy for James Iha's broken guitar" my new favorite SP *cough* song
Saw them on this tour in Williamsburg, Virginia...first concert ever and I was in the 8th grade...they blew the top off my head I went right out of my mind...my friend said he thought the show sucked...we're not friends anymore...
Geek U.S.A. - the best drumming performance I’ve ever seen?
its one of the best songs for Jimmy 's Higher level of drumming talent
This concert is incredible! Starla solo seals the deal!!
Nostalgia infinita!
This was the smashing pumpkins I knew. So awesome.
love the sound on this specific show. amazing
Soma is my favorite song, what a mighty fine way to open this show.
AGREED! They also opened with Soma when I saw them at Lollapalooza a few months later that year. Absolute GENIUS song choice to start the set with. Soma settles the crowd down for a minute or so until it positively ERUPTS at the right moment! Maybe the most I lost my mind at any concert... actually, Teen Spirit at Nirvana in '93 was better. but it was close!
Drown. 👌 perfection 🤘🤘❤️
i was actually at this show...it was LOUD and beautiful
I’m about to be 47
These times feel like a distant memory. A dream Long lost.
A lot of friends are gone or got families….
I miss you all
I'm 47 and feel the same...
Billy: LIAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR
This show is a cremmy, mad, loverly, pretty and weird, of the band that i love so much, and the words that almost don't make sense. Love u Billy
What a performance! This was two days before my 14th birthday. Learned the drums blasting Gish/Siamese Dream through my old CD player in my room on my old Pearl Forum kit. Jimmy was my flippin hero on drums- Geek U.S.A and Silverfuck... Holy crap gotta get those back in the regular rotation. Tristessa as well.
The recording is so clear!!! With that said, my friends and I went to this same show in San Antonio, Tx. It was an awesome experience. Funny thing, we were in the mosh pit and my friend head butted me and I had a bloodied bruised eye for the rest of the show. Memories
Sa town checking in here too! Viva Fiesta!
sunken garden. great show.
Sound tech had those drums fucking dialed! Bravo!