back in 1998 i saw THE SMASHING PUMPKINS live for the first time...an awakening. yes, really!
i knew the band because a friend recommended the "mellon collie and the infinite sadness" double album to me and i really liked the music.
there was nearly no promotion for the show...or i didn´t recognize it. i really stumbled over a poster on my dayly way to work. it said: "the smashing pumpkins, live and for free , 14. mai 1998, 19.oo uhr auf dem spielbudenplatz. " i saw that two days before the show.
so two days later i grabbed my boyfriend and we went to the reeperbahn where the show was...right in the middle of the sinful mile of hamburg :)...if you never heard about that part of my hometown...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeperbahn .
when we got out of the u-bahn we where amazed by how many people showed up to see this free show on a public place. the main area for the concert was in fences, but low ones. it looked like nobody would have thought that so many people would come.
the place was crowded but relaxed. the cars stuck in traffic where less relaxed and there was nothing they could do. traffic on one of the main-main streets of hamburg totally broke down. DER SPIEGEL wrote that about 30000 people showed up...i believe there where more. it was unbelieveable.
my boyfriend and i got pretty good places near the stage...did i mention that i hate those crowdsurfing people?
this was the most amazing live show of my life...and finally i have a decent recording of this show. a pumpkin fan-friend send it to me.
the video i share shows the last two songs of the show that i never found on the internet yet. all the other songs where uploaded by other users on you tube before.
i knew the band because a friend recommended the "mellon collie and the infinite sadness" double album to me and i really liked the music.
there was nearly no promotion for the show...or i didn´t recognize it. i really stumbled over a poster on my dayly way to work. it said: "the smashing pumpkins, live and for free , 14. mai 1998, 19.oo uhr auf dem spielbudenplatz. " i saw that two days before the show.
so two days later i grabbed my boyfriend and we went to the reeperbahn where the show was...right in the middle of the sinful mile of hamburg :)...if you never heard about that part of my hometown...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeperbahn .
when we got out of the u-bahn we where amazed by how many people showed up to see this free show on a public place. the main area for the concert was in fences, but low ones. it looked like nobody would have thought that so many people would come.
the place was crowded but relaxed. the cars stuck in traffic where less relaxed and there was nothing they could do. traffic on one of the main-main streets of hamburg totally broke down. DER SPIEGEL wrote that about 30000 people showed up...i believe there where more. it was unbelieveable.
my boyfriend and i got pretty good places near the stage...did i mention that i hate those crowdsurfing people?
this was the most amazing live show of my life...and finally i have a decent recording of this show. a pumpkin fan-friend send it to me.
the video i share shows the last two songs of the show that i never found on the internet yet. all the other songs where uploaded by other users on you tube before.
enjoy 30 minutes of the finest music
thru the eyes of ruby and a joy division cover/jam
UPDATE: Nov.22,2010:
unfortunately Twitvid deleted my video for no reason and didn´t tell me why...so...i embedded the following videos by other you tube people, to show you what i was talking about :
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twitvid deleted my video...WHY???
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