On This Day 22nd April - Happy Birthday Ginger and Yelena
Today in Smashing Pumpkins History: April 22
🎂 Birthdays
- Happy 56th birthday to the one and only Yelena Yemchuk!
- Happy 49th birthday to the one and only Ginger Pooley!
🎙️ Live Shows
- 1994 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Breslin Center, East Lansing, MI, US (Setlist/Details)
- audience members rush the floor during Geek U.S.A.
- 1996 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT (Setlist/Details)
- 2000 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Michigan State Fairgrounds Coliseum, Detroit, MI, US (Setlist/Details)
- To Sheila, Disarm, and Try, Try, Try performed acoustic
- 2016 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Saenger Theatre, New Orleans, LA, US (Setlist/Details)
- In Plainsong: An Acoustic-Electro Evening
- additional tour musicians: Katie Cole (bass, guitar, vocals) and Sierra Swan (keys, bass, vocals)
- The Cross: first performance, Sierra Swan on vocals
- Liz Phair guest appearance on Thirty-Three (vocals)
- 2023 - The Smashing Pumpkins: PICA, Port Melbourne, AU (Setlist/Details)
- The World Is A Vampire music festival
- Show venue originally announced as Hastings Foreshore Reserve but moved due to "change in council policy [that] left the event uninsurable"
- James sang the improvised vocals for "Chicken Salt Rap" which was about his newfound love for chicken salt, an Australian food seasoning.
- NWA wrestlers Mercurio and May Valentine perform a short routine during "Beguiled"
- 2003 - Zwan: Warfield Theater, San Franciso, CA, US (Setlist/Details)
- 2006 - James Iha: Ubu, Angoulemes, FR (Setlist/Details)
- Setlist unknown
🎧 Recordings
1994 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Breslin Center, East Lansing, MI, US
- Recordings:
- Surfaced:
- AUD #1 (Source: AUD, Equipment: Unknown, Lowest Circulating Generation: 16-bit download, Notes: Taped from stands. Soma cuts in, most of Snail and Window Paine missing, talkers around mic. ANA-4 > CDR transfer also circulates with a tape repeat during Cherub Rock and without Window Paine. ANA-M > DAT transfer exists, but does not circulate.)
- Surfaced:
- Recordings:
2000 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Michigan State Fairgrounds Coliseum, Detroit, MI, US
- Recordings:
- Surfaced:
- AUD #1 (Source: AUD, Equipment: SPPB > M1, Lowest Circulating Generation: DDC-? > CDR, Links: Live Music Archive, Notes: SHN filesets labeled as SPPB > M1 are actually AUD #2. DAT(X) > CDR(3) > WAV > FLAC version also circulates)
- AUD #2 (Source: AUD, Equipment: SS-DSM-6S > PA-6LC3B > M1(48k), Lowest Circulating Generation: DDC-1 > dEdit > FLAC, Links: Live Music Archive, Notes: Level adjustments during Rock On. Superior to AUD #3.)
- AUD #3 (Source: AUD, Equipment: CSB > MZ-R55, Lowest Circulating Generation: MD-M > FLAC, Links: Live Music Archive, Notes: Near soundboard.)
- Unsurfaced:
- AUD #4 (Source: AUD, Equipment: CSBMod > M1)
- Surfaced:
- Recordings:
2016 - The Smashing Pumpkins: Saenger Theatre, New Orleans, LA, US
- Recordings:
- Surfaced:
- Amateur Video #1 (Source: AUD, Equipment: Unknown, Notes: Preset: The Cross, My Life and Times.)
- Amateur Video #2 (Source: AUD, Equipment: Unknown, Notes: Preset: 3 songs and Q&A.)
- Surfaced:
- Recordings:
2023 - The Smashing Pumpkins: PICA, Port Melbourne, AU
- Recordings:
- Surfaced:
- AUD #1 (Source: AUD, Equipment: Shure WL-184-X Super Cardioid Mics>Rode AI-Micro> Samsung Android (44.1k 24bit Stereo WAV), Lowest Circulating Generation: WAV-M > FLAC, Links: Live Music Archive, Notes: 20m away from stage smack center in front satellite stack ..GA (no seating venue).)
- AUD #2 (Source: AUD, Equipment: Internal Mics > Zoom H4n, Lowest Circulating Generation: WAV-M > FLAC, Links: Live Music Archive, Notes: ~40m from centre stage)
- Surfaced:
- Recordings:
2003 - Zwan: Warfield Theater, San Franciso, CA, US
- Recordings:
- Surfaced:
- AUD #1 (Source: AUD, Equipment: ECM-MS907 > MZ-N707, Lowest Circulating Generation: MD-M > SHN, Links: Live Music Archive, Notes: Mics against rail, "weirdness" at the start of Mary Star of the Sea and between Jesus, I and Riverview.)
- AUD #2a (Source: AUD, Equipment: Schoeps CCM4 > SX-M2 > SBM-1 > M1, Lowest Circulating Generation: DAT-M > SHN, Notes: Mic stand, FOB (ortf). Mary Star of the Sea, For Your Love, Riverview, and Spilled Milk only. "Best of CA 2003" compilation.)
- Unsurfaced:
- AUD #2 (Source: AUD, Equipment: Schoeps CCM4 > SX-M2 > SBM-1 > M1, Notes: Mic stand, FoB (ortf).)
- AUD #3a (Source: AUD, Equipment: Oktava MC012 > PS-2 > Zefiro Inbox > M1, Notes: Mic stand, inside SBD area.)
- AUD #3b (Source: AUD, Equipment: Oktava MC012 > PS-2 > Zefiro Inbox > MS722, Notes: Mic stand, inside SBD area.)
- Surfaced:
- Recordings:
Data courtesy of SPLRA and SPCodex.
Did you attend any of these shows and have any more information, unsurfaced recordings or pictures/stubs/posters/flyers? If so then get in touch!
Click the setlists/details link for full show information.
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