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		"I caught [Smashing Pumpkins] first as they headlined Lollapalooza in Atlanta. They were pretty good there as they only had like and hour and fifteen minutes so they were reined in and there wasn't any Billy being pissy BS like Spanky had to deal with. Then I caught them in Louisville headlining on the Melon Collie tour. The first hour+ was pretty good then all of a sudden they just jammed and made up shit for the last hour plus. People started getting pissed off and leaving and Billy would mock them as they left while playing his horrible jam/noise shit. The highlight of the "jam session" was the segment where the guitar player (James Iha?) just held crap up to the pickups of his guitar to make noise like a toy laser gun. My wife went and the strobes gave her a migraine, then the noisy jam shit just made it worse, she went and worked in the Greenpeace booth while we sat there praying for the Pumpkins to play actual music. Billy Corgan also did the jackass thing where they played "Rhinocerous" from "Gish" and acted like we were witnessing the second coming because "we're never going to play this song again". I hope Courtney Love gave Corgan a painful and inconvenient STD. Luckily Garbage with Shirley Manson in a tiny red leather skirt opened for the Pumpkins. Shirley's ass, er, Garbage's music was good." Iron Chad

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