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 Anonymous writes "Corgan Serenades Chicago
Former Pumpkins frontman films DVD at club show
"This is your chance for immortality," Billy Corgan told a sold-out
hometown crowd Monday night at the Metro in Chicago before
encouraging crowd members to sing along to a folksy chorus. "Your
part is very simple, but, as you know, I have a tyrannical
reputation," he said, joshing with fans and friends who assembled to
an experience a quiet, acoustic evening.
Performing his first-ever solo concert, Corgan unveiled a low-key
twelve-song-cycle of Chicago-themed songs (plus a three-song encore)
along with his understated sense of humor. The ninety-minute set
included two encores and Corgan performed all unreleased material.
The show was also recorded for a DVD to ostensibly accompany a solo
album he is preparing to release later this year.
Attendees were given a program when they entered which included the
lyrics to all the songs, including some handwritten margin notes.
Each song referenced something endemic to Chicago-life, from the
cross-town baseball rivalry between the Cubs and the White Sox to
Riverview, a defunct amusement park.
The Metro's stage resembled a living room, with Corgan seated in a
red velvet wingback chair flanked by flickering orange lights and a
small end-table. Performing before a set of microphones and a music
stand holding a folder of all of the lyrics, Corgan plucked delicate
notes -- typically in a minor key -- from his acoustic guitar. Often,
his clipped voice barely rose above a whisper. While the majority of
the songs offered little in the way of overt melodies or even
choruses, Corgan did vary the subdued formula to rousing effect on
several songs.
"Say Goodbye" grew more intense with its repetitive refrain
and "White Lights" featured some bluesy licks and fine finger-
picking. Corgan repeatedly thanked fans for their silence and
patience, mentioning the fact that he had never performed the songs
publicly. He explained how he'd been writing the material for about
three-and-a-half years, since even before the Smashing Pumpkins
disbanded. "This music seemed to be an escape from everything that
was going on at the time," he said. "It's been a real honor and
pleasure to play these songs for the first time . . . in public."
Corgan ended the main set with "Columbus," an expansive paean to the
explorer that swelled to languid heights with Corgan
singing, "Everything I ever loved/I loved way too soon."
The evening featured nothing from the Smashing Pumpkins or Zwan
catalog, but Corgan reminded fans of his upcoming solo album,
joking, "I'm rocking some new jams . . . and I believe it's going to
be an alternative album." Corgan began to play the Zwan outtake "For
Your Love" during the second encore, but he aborted it in favor of
unreleased material not even listed in the program.
Still, the capacity crowd left satisfied, cheering and shaking the
hometown hero's hand as he exited the stage with a polite bow.
Set list:
The World's Fair
Black Irish
Black Sox
Friends As Lovers
Say Goodbye
Prairie Song
Bobby Franks
White Lights
Riverview
White City
El-A-Noy
Columbus
Bad Driver
For Your Love
Matthew Selah
BRIAN ORLOFF
(April 20, 2004)
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=19632
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