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Smashing Pumpkins 07/07/1998

SHOWID 287146

Set I

To Sheila
Behold! the Night Mare
Pug
Crestfallen
Ava Adore
Once Upon a Time
Tear
Daphne Descends
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Perfect
Tonight, Tonight
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Shame
For Martha

Set II

I Want You to Want Me [Cheap Trick] (with Rick Nielsen)
1979 (with Rick Nielsen)
Summertime [Gershwin] (tease)
>Blank Page
Transmission [Joy Division]
>Let's Dance [Bowie] (tease)

Set III

 

Comment

Show was planned for Grant Park, booked Soldier Field, and then moved to Tinley Park due to slow sales.

Collectors With This Show

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Tulum (5/0) FLAC / 20 View   MiniDisc - CDR - Wav - Flacs
Notes: I went to this concert with a friend and recorded it on a small MiniDisc recorder hidden inside my baseball cap with two microphones clipped to each side of the hat's bill. We were seated about halfway back in the theater, on the right side of the venue. When I got home from the concert, I transferred the recordings from a MiniDisc player through a digital cable to a digital audio capture card in my computer and edited it into audio tracks then burned a few CDs. I gave one set of CDs to my friend and kept the others for myself. Fast forward 23 years and my teen son is getting into 1990s music, and I pulled out my Smashing Pumpkins box and found these CDs. The original MDs and data files are long gone, but the CDs remained, so I'm posting them here. The recording isn't the best quality, giant outdoor music venues like the New World Music Theater aren't known for their acoustics and we were not seated in an ideal recording location. But the recording is OK for the time, and for me being a novice concert recorder. There is of course a lot of crowd noise, and the guy in front of us that screamed almost randomly for about the first half of the concert. The audio path was all digital, and I did get most of the concert on these CDs, including the last song "The Hammer of the Gods" that I don't think I've see anywhere else. The audio quality is not as good as the other public recording of this show, but this recording does have the first half of the concert and the complete end of the concert, so now everyone can listen to all of the songs in the show. Also attached are articles and pictures that appeared in the local press at the time, and my original ticket. Enjoy!
Tulum (5/0) FLAC / 6 View   Dat - CDR - Wav - Flacs
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.
Mike Marteny (5/5) cdr / 1 A- View   MD(M)>CDR(2)
Notes: 40:03 set II only
Adam (5/4.6) flac / 1 View   Dat - CDR - Wav - Flacs
Notes: Incomplete
Jayson (1/5) Flac / 1 View   MZ-R30>MD(M)