April 15, 2008, 8:52 pm - betorro
After a mild rain and preceded by a very powerful The Mars Volta, the smashing pumpkins rocked the night,
The show did’t last enough nevertheless the played some of the best classic songs including “Mayonaise”, “Today”, “Hummer”, “BWBW”, “1979” and “Tonight, tonight”, and the amazing new songs “Tarantula” and “That’s the way (my love is)”
Other curious highlights of the show were Billy reciting some verses of a Britney Spears song during “Cash Car Star” and the Hendrix-esque rendition of “Star Spangled Banner” during “United States” (and amazing song to end the show)
The show schedule was really thight so I can’t blame the band for not returning for an encore, but I’m sure they were having a good time, Billy joked around trying to speak some Spanish and telling everyone that he was not really there “I’m a Ghost” he said, unlike the previous concert in 1998, this time the pumpkins were ready to please their fans and played a lot of classic songs all in all an amazing event which I hope reprises as soon as a new record comes out.
Godspeed!