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| Date : 16 May 1998
Country - Genova, Italy Venue : Genova Harbor |
Reviewer : Laura Prioli
Email: laurapr@tin.it |
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On last saturday I really had the time of my life: YES,I went to the Smashing Pumpkins concert in Genoa !!!! :-) I still can't believe I was there,it was totally amazing. I've never seen them live before(it was their second concert here in Italy) and they really surprised me. The setting was simply beautiful:the stand faced the harbour and we could see the masts of the boats slitherin on the sea,the gulls flyin over us and the city lites shinin behind. The place was very small : the seats slopin to the stand could contain few people (I heard of a seating capacity of 2000) ,and this was a good thing: I was just in front of Billy ,in the second row ,so I had a perfect view. The Pumpkins were beautiful: Billy all dressed in black,with leather pants and coat :on his black shirt I noticed a strange pendant,but not on a necklace ,it seemed to be sticked like a brooch and looked like a little cross.D'arcy dressed in all black too,she wore a pair of catears and a semitransparent shirt.James wore sunglasses all the time (he put them off just at the end of the show) and a funny fisherhat ! They had 3 drummer,and one of them(Kenny I guess)was even too much powerfull. Billy told they would have played mostly songs from the new album,and D'arcy said it was their first time there,the place was beautiful and we were very nice.They were in very good form and I was surprised by Billy's behaviour :he was sooo nice ,made jokes and laughted with us,he was absolutely GREAT. I didn't heard the new songs before(except Ava Adore) so these are just few titles among all the songs they played : - To Sheila,Pug ,BWBW,Shame,1979,Ava Adore(great rockin' version),Tonight Tonight and the beautiful,touchin' For Martha. At the end of the show ,they came back on the stage with some footballs and wearing the scarf of the 2 local soccer teams.Billy and James improvised a match which was won by Billy.Then they finally threw all those stuffs to the crowd (there was a bloody fight to take possession of them ,as of the picks thrown during the show).Unfortunately,I couldn't have none of those precious souvenirs,but I took some (not very good )pictures and I'm gonna have one of them enlarged ,so I'll hang it up on my bedroom wall together with my concert ticket!!! Well,that was the story of the greatest day of my life.Hope u all enjoyed it. PS : During the show and at the end
of it,Billy thanked the crowd by bowing and joining his hands ,just like
the oriental way.
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