Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins attract critics, but no competition
Mark Lepage
CanWest News Service
Monday, September 24, 2007
SMASHING PUMPKINS
Monday, 6:30 p.m.
PNE Forum
Is the time right for Zeitgeist? Seldom has the term "band reunion" sounded more accusatory, more perfidious, than it has in greeting the return of Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin. Yes, it's hard out here for a Pumpkin, trying to keep body and solos together.
When the repackaged Smashing Pumpkins walk on to a stage, they are hailed by many in the crowd as conquerors, which will be a happy change: Nice to have all that audience high-fiving to go with the critical hand-wringing.
Billy Corgan should be proud: he still knows how to gall the purists.
Read the rest here.
Personally, I won't be at the Pumpkins show tonight because (a) the venue sucks, and (b) I can't afford it. If circumstances were different, I'd be happy to check it out though. The latest Pumpkins album is quite good, and as long as there are bands like the Silversun Pickups who manage to sell records and maintain indie credibility while sounding exactly like the Smashing Pumpkins, I see no reason why the originators shouldn't get the same respect as the imitators.
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