Now, THIS was staged
November 15th, 2008 by jjbtags: tour, amusing, criticism
Jonathan Perry reports on last night’s “Black Sunshine” concert for the Boston Globe:
You go to a Smashing Pumpkins show to bask in bitterness and confusion. It’s a place where sadness and self-loathing is plentiful, and loud. Where fragile daydreams give way - as you expect and want them to - to endless nightmares of the soul, fed through a fearsome electric machine of steel, wires, and amplifiers. It’s a bleak purgatory where, despite all your rage, you’re still just a rat in a cage.
What you don’t expect is for the purest distillation of this frustration to come after you’ve experienced 2 1/2 carefully cultivated hours of dark melodrama writ large. And the house lights come up without an encore. And then, bizarrely, an unknown guy (a comedian, perhaps?) dressed in a Los Angeles Dodgers cap, wearing mock Manny Ramirez dreadlocks and clutching a broom, comes onstage to blast Boston. He ridicules Pumpkins’ lead singer-guitarist Billy Corgan for his baldness and “whiny nasal voice” while he’s at it, before being shooed away by Corgan, the good guy in a white tiered skirt.
Given his previous In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida-Being-Manny performance on Halloween in Columbus, is it safe to assume the gentleman in question was Pumpkins tour manager Doug Goodman?
November 15th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
i liked it.
it was better than catz.
“ID” see it
again and again.
the cruz.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
..it was a pretty funny gag. You have to anticipate Red Sox ‘bashing’ and Boston sports commentary from Corgan. We all know Billy wishes he hailed from Boston. ;-) We’ll see if they trot ‘Manny’ out tonight, tonite… (Go Green!)
November 15th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
i was there and i thought this shit was hilarious. in general, everone was feeling the show. very few people sat for HOTS.
November 15th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
nice pic you found for this blog post. very apt.
November 15th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
“You go to a Smashing Pumpkins show to bask in bitterness and confusion. It’s a place where sadness and self-loathing is plentiful, and loud. Where fragile daydreams give way - as you expect and want them to - to endless nightmares of the soul, fed through a fearsome electric machine of steel, wires, and amplifiers. It’s a bleak purgatory where, despite all your rage, you’re still just a rat in a cage.”
ROFL. This guy doesn’t get the Pumpkins AT ALL.
November 15th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
He was very poetic about it, though.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
that’s not poetic, that’s a literary jack off.
November 16th, 2008 at 9:17 am
I agree with Cherub Angel. It’s such wank.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Sorry, I forgot to use the sarcasm font with my comment.
November 17th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Melanie, you made my day. Best retort ever.
reC: “metal knows”
November 18th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
yes it was Dave.. I asked why he used a broom and he said they couldnt find a bat in time.. that’s why he said the “sweep” line.. even though it wasnt true.. it was all in good fun