Billy Corgan in Seatle
Monday my wife an I drove to Seatle to see Billy Corgan, then after the concert got in the car and drove back to Boise. The whole trip took just under 24 hours.
It was a great concert. The opening bands were good. the crimea www.thecrimea.net is a UK band that's got a very unique sound, I'd like to hear the CD before I judge. Doris Henson www.dorishenson.com from Kansas City was great, lots of energy and very fun. They looked like three high school students playing with two band teachers. The bassist was tall thin and balding, I think he was sporting a comb over. The other old guy looked even more out of place. He was more bald, fat, had one awkward dance move, played the trumbone, and had a mustache. But they put on on a great show and sounded great.
Billy put on a good show to a packed Moore Theatre. After the show he said he was a little disapointed in his preformance. Other than a minor sound problem for the first couple of songs, my wife and I thought it was great. He also announced that hopefully the next time he came through it would be with the Smashing Pumpkins. We wonder how the other Pumpkins feal about this. If you follow his blog at all, www.billycorgan.com or www.myspace.com/billycorgan you know that sometimes he doesn't say very nice things about his old band members, or his dad, or himself for that matter. We saw his last tour with the Pumpkins, the Zwan tour, and his solo tour, and this solo tour was by far our favorite. The Pumkins show was overshadowed by the decission to break up ( which even though it came out after the show, friction was obvious) Zwan, while a good idea, and had some good songs, just wasn't great. The solo show was the best so far, although we both felt that Linda Strawberry was extremly anoying (ditch her Billy). We can't wait for the Pumpkins to get back together. Even if they don't we hope Billy keeps making music.
Seatle is beautiful. One gripe though; How can a town that has 1-2 coffee shops have so few public restroom. Trying to find a bathroom in that town is a nightmare. The shops require you to buy something. We ate at a food court that had no bathroom, you had to go into the mall, only to find out that the downstairs bathroom closes after 6, (???) Only to use the upstairs bathroom which had patroling security.
It was a great concert. The opening bands were good. the crimea www.thecrimea.net is a UK band that's got a very unique sound, I'd like to hear the CD before I judge. Doris Henson www.dorishenson.com from Kansas City was great, lots of energy and very fun. They looked like three high school students playing with two band teachers. The bassist was tall thin and balding, I think he was sporting a comb over. The other old guy looked even more out of place. He was more bald, fat, had one awkward dance move, played the trumbone, and had a mustache. But they put on on a great show and sounded great.
Billy put on a good show to a packed Moore Theatre. After the show he said he was a little disapointed in his preformance. Other than a minor sound problem for the first couple of songs, my wife and I thought it was great. He also announced that hopefully the next time he came through it would be with the Smashing Pumpkins. We wonder how the other Pumpkins feal about this. If you follow his blog at all, www.billycorgan.com or www.myspace.com/billycorgan you know that sometimes he doesn't say very nice things about his old band members, or his dad, or himself for that matter. We saw his last tour with the Pumpkins, the Zwan tour, and his solo tour, and this solo tour was by far our favorite. The Pumkins show was overshadowed by the decission to break up ( which even though it came out after the show, friction was obvious) Zwan, while a good idea, and had some good songs, just wasn't great. The solo show was the best so far, although we both felt that Linda Strawberry was extremly anoying (ditch her Billy). We can't wait for the Pumpkins to get back together. Even if they don't we hope Billy keeps making music.
Seatle is beautiful. One gripe though; How can a town that has 1-2 coffee shops have so few public restroom. Trying to find a bathroom in that town is a nightmare. The shops require you to buy something. We ate at a food court that had no bathroom, you had to go into the mall, only to find out that the downstairs bathroom closes after 6, (???) Only to use the upstairs bathroom which had patroling security.
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