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Smashing Pumpkins   07/07/1998

New World Music Ampitheater, Tinley Park, IL
Source Dat - CDR - Wav - Flacs
Media FLAC   6 discs
Notes I gave the taper my address at the show and he just sent me this, the second half of the show, for free. Unfortunately I never got his contact info or found the missing half, it is exceptional quality & covers the action/newsworthyness of the event.


7-7-1998 was originally planned for Grant Park, I had third row tickets, but...
"Chicago's mayor office denied the band's offer to stage a free show at the Petrillo Band Shell in Grant Park near the city's lakefront because of fears of an overflow crowd mobbing the 60,000 capacity space, according to the Pumpkins management. Billy called it, "one of the biggest heartbreaks I've ever had in my life."
from - http://www.spfc.org/band/chronology.html?year=1998

At this show the Pumpkins donated $500,000 to Make-A-Wish Chicago, to which it was declared that...
"Mayor, Richard M. Daly, declared July 7th, 1998 "Smashing Pumpkins Day" here in Chicago. To that announcement Billy replied: "So does that mean that we can play Grant Park.....(long pause) for free?" The crowd went crazy of course. This all stems from the original idea that the Pumpkins wanted to play a Grant Park show for free on July 4th." (As heard in track 2).
news from - http://www.netphoria.org/oldnews_july1998.htm

Probably one of the most surreal moments in rock history (as far as I'm concerned), the audience was really into the Adore set & it was a sold-out crowd.
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