the Smashing Pumpkins are coming to New York!

The Smashing Pumpkins are coming to New York, on October 31st!  What could be better than going to a Smashing Pumpkins show on Halloween night?  The place is Barclay's Center in Brooklyn.  To celebrate, a look back at the Smashing Pumpkins when their second album "Siamese Dreams" came out, about two decades ago!  Two decades?  I feel like this was yesterday.  Oh well...

So here's a the full Smashing Pumpkins show live at the Metro in Chicago, in 1993:

I found out recently that Billy had a little brother with a rare case of Down syndrome. At 39:00 (on the video), before playing "Spaceboy", Billy tells the audience he wrote this song about his brother, Jessie. I've listened to "Spaceboy" a million times, and I love it more every time. There was always something about it that I could relate to emotionally, like "We won't belong, we won't belong..." perhaps because I too have a little brother with Down syndrome an the truth is neither of us belong or ever will (at least not me)