Smashing Pumpkins announce eight more comeback shows

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The comeback for The Smashing Pumpkins, or what Billy Corgan is calling The Smashing Pumpkins, starts soon as the band announced eight San Francisco shows at the Fillmore from July 22nd to August 1st to follow up a similar set in North Carolina. Tickets will go on sale Sunday, May 20th at 10am on Ticketmaster or Live Nation's website for $25 a piece, limit two per person for the Frisco shows. According to the press release, The Smashing Pumpkins will play old favorites, songs from their new CD called Zeitgeist, which will be release on July 10th, and even tunes written on the day of the show. The set list for The Smashing Pumpkins comeback tour will vary from night to night.


The set of Fillmore shows by The Smashing Pumpkins will take place on July 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, and August 1st. Mark your calendars. The Fillmore shows will be the second set of marathon performances by The Smashing Pumpkins, but their first on the West Coast. From June 23-July 5th, The Smashing Pumpkins will play at the Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina. The Smashing Pumpkins shows at the Fillmore will be their first since April of 1994, when they played the reopening of the historic venue.


The Smashing Pumpkins broke up in 2000 when Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin and D'Arcy Wretzky went their separate ways. The new band only features Corgan and Chamberlin, which makes calling them The Smashing Pumpkins a little suspect. Iha and D'Arcy Wretzky brought a lot to the band, which made legions of fans with Siamese Dream, Gish, and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Billy Corgan announced in July of 2005 that he was reuniting The Smashing Pumpkins. He wrote in a full page ad in the Chicago Tribune, "For a year now, I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to be among the first to know that I have made plans to renew and revive the Smashing Pumpkins. I want my band back, and my songs, and my dreams."


The reunion of The Smashing Pumpkins wasn't confirmed until about a year ago in April of 2006 on the band's official website. A post read, "It's official. The Smashing Pumpkins are currently writing songs for their upcoming album, their first since 1999." The website also reports that the band worked with Roy Thomas Baker, who produced many Queen albums, and Terry Date, who worked with Pantera and Soundgarden, on Zeitgeist. The first performance by The Smashing Pumpkins will be on May 22nd in Paris, France.


Hit singles by The Smashing Pumpkins that they may now perform for the first time this millennium include "Siva," "Cherub Rock," "Today," "Disarm," "Rocket," "Landslide," "Bullet with Butterfly Wings," "1979," "Zero," "Tonight, Tonight," "Thirty-Three," "The End is the Beginning Is the End," "Ava Adore," and "Perfect." A new track called "Tarantula" was leaked from Zeitgeist. The Smashing Pumpkins are back.