Well, I had been planning this concert since I got the tickets. I got
tickets a week after they went on sale, because I didn't know until
then. Thank god for netphoria. I had been telling all my friends and
counting down. I spent the night at my friend Seans house, who was my
ride there. We woke up about 8, and I wore my siamese dream black and
white SP shirt. We left and picked up another huge sp fan friend of
mine, Lauren(with her sp heart shirt). It took us 2 hours to get to
Shoreline. On they way there we listened to Pisces. We got in and
found a place on the lawn. I saw about 5 fans with shirts on as I
walked in. One of them by where we were sitting I approached and said
nice shirt(adore cover shirt). We then talked about sp for a bit. Two
more sp fans approached us, one with a 666 pumpkins shirt. We talked
and read past issues of mojo and AP with the pumpkins in it. There was
another group of about 3 pumpkins fans who didn't talk to us, but one
of them had the coolest backpack. She had clipped a lot of little
pictures of the band(mostly Billy) and put them in her transparent
plastic bag. At about 2:10 the concert started. Neil Young went on
then Emmylou Harris which was pretty boring. There was a set change
and then the who went on. They were pretty good. Then the host guy
said after a set change they would be back with a Halloween tradition.
We are gonna be smashing some pumpkins. We all screamed at the top of
our lungs in excitement. We had to wait 10 minutes(which seemed like
forever). Then he came back out and said please welcome Billy Corgan
and James Iha. It didn't seem like many people were excited, they were
mostly in there 40s. Billy was wearing all black with his hat that
covered to his eyebrows. James had a top hat and was also wearing black.
You could hear all the sp fans scream and holler their names. James
started it off with an amazing performance of 'Summer'. That is the
best I have ever heard James sing live. Billy then played 'If there
is a god' which I had hoped he would play. I was sooo thrilled he did.
He then kicked into another song, which one of my sp buddies said was
Stay by U2. Then they welcomed as special guest Jimmy ,who was
introduced as Ian Pase. It was now all the pumpkins. Billy then teased
with a Deep Purple song for 3 seconds. Jimmy was wearing a white
shirt. After that James played a cover called 'ol 55' which today I
found out was by Tom Waits. During that song Billy looked at us and
winked. I could see this through my binoculars. I confirmed it with
another sp fan who also saw it through binoculars. I froze in the
sight of godliness. Then Billy said that he was going to play a new
song. He laughed a few times before he said it was called how do you
follow the who on a sunday afternoon. And then said it was called
'The Age of Innocence'. He said if you like it we'll put it on our new
album and if you don't we won't. It was a really good song. I was very
impressed and hope they put it on the new album. He then said he was
going to play a song called 'Glass and the Infinite Children', then was
corrected(by Jimmy, I think) and it was Glass and the Ghost Children.
I thought it was better than the ones from April, but maybe I was just
impressed so much because I was there. The finale' was the best part.
They closed with 'DISARM'. When he started ,the crowd went wild.
Finally one people would recognize. I was a little teary eyed at the
seeing and hearing this powerful song being played before me. We all
agreed it was the best version of Disarm ever. Billy played the first
part solo, then James and Jimmy kicked in. It built up so much emotion.
It was amazing and viephoric. After that Billy said thanks. While he
was leaving he threw his hat in the air and caught it, took a bow and
left. We screamed til we were horse. About 3 older guys asked us
where those songs were from and how talented sp was. After that we went
to get a drink but instead found a bunch of sp fans standing by a
framed picture of the pumpkins on the wall of fame. We all took
pictures and then went out on a mission to find them. We went up to a
higher platform where more stands were and peered over to see where
backstage was. Some guy said he saw Billy but he left. He also said
he saw D'arcy and all 15 of us kind of laughed. We thought he was
lying about the whole thing until I saw Billy and Yelena(I think)
walking around and chatting. We all yelled and hollered but to no
success. After a bit he walked out of site. We stood by where VIP
people would walk in. We asked a bunch of people if they would let us
borrow there passes. No one let us. This one kid standing next to
this girl with a Remy Zero shirt(Remy Zero is a good band) got to
borrow a pass. After an hour, we went back. We had missed the Brian
Wilson and Lucinda Williams sets(oh no). We saw Green Day and Pearl
Jam, who did pretty good. We left half way through Sheryl Crow. I
don't think I will ever forget this Halloween. It was the best
Halloween, if not the best day, I have ever had. It was my first
concert. I was saving it for the pumpkins and it was worth it!
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