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October 10, 1998
Pumpkins Tour raises more than 2.6 million for kids

the smashing pumpkins raised more than $2.6 million for youth-oriented nonprofit organizations in the 15 cities in which the group performed during its recent concert tour in support of its latest album, adore.
"talk is cheap, and our generation has had a lot of fingers pointed at it for raising a loud voice," pumpkins leader billy corgan said in a statement issued tuesday (sept. 22). "now that we have raised a loud voice, it's time to start putting that voice into action."...

August 13, 1998
Pumpkins Mini Concert

The Smashing Pumpkins will be doing an accoustic mini show (in fact only 3 songs) the next 21-08 at 13:15 pm at 'La Capilla', and old church in Recoleta (Buenos Aires), before the show at Parque Sarmiento. The accoustic show will be broadcasted by 'Rock & Pop' fm radio (95.9 mhz). The venue is very small, and only 250 will have the fortune to see them (half of them press and guess people and the other half fans). The radio started a competion (questions about SP) in order to give away the free tickets. Also the radio will be giving away 5 backstage passes for a 'Meet 'n Greep' with the band.

August 9, 1998
Pumpkins' Corgan Disappointed by Adore sales
Addicted to Noise

Senior Writer Gil Kaufman reports:

Lamenting that "not every team wins the pennant every year," Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan reportedly said he was disappointed by fan and critical reaction to his group's new album, Adore.

"It kicked us in the head," Corgan was quoted as saying in Thursday's New York Times, in reference to the album's slower-than-expected sales. The record has sold 499,000 copies since its June 2 release, 1,000 sales short of the gold record mark. In contrast, their last album, 1995's Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, a double CD, has sold 4 million copies since its release.

"I thought we had a grace period here," Corgan is quoted as saying. "I thought we could coast a little, and I think we've been reminded that there will be no coasting here."

Close to wrapping up a 13-city tour, in which the band is donating the proceeds from each show to local charities, Corgan is said to have used the stage at a July 1 show to refer to the darkly electronic Adore as the Pumpkins' "most misunderstood" album since their 1991 debut, Gish.

The bald lead singer hinted that the group, which includes bassist D'Arcy and guitarist James Iha, might scrap its original plans for 1998, which included the short charity tour and then a dash back to the studio to record the band's next album, whih Corgan says he has already written. But what his plans might be was left unclear.

"I can't try to make another album with everyone thinking I got buried on the last one," Corgan reportedly said. "So I'm going to prove everybody wrong before I go on. Or at least feel I proved them wrong."

Pumpkins publicist Gayle Fine said Friday that she could neither confirm nor deny whether Corgan's comments suggested that the band might break with its plan to minimally tour the intensely personal Adore album and then immediately return to the studio.

"In all candor, I've been really surprised how quick the world turns on you," Corgan was quoted as saying. "It's staggering."

The bandleader refused to get into specifics, but he reportedly said he felt that once things stopped going the band's way, "the wind blows cold real fast. I'm not just talking about the media. I'm talking about the inner workings of my world."

Labeling Corgan's comments as much ado about nothing, Tower Records Senior Vice President Stan Goman said Adore is doing "just fine" at his store's 99 U.S. outlets.

"What's he whining about?" Goman said of the record, which was #13 on the Tower charts this week, down from #11 last week and a first-week high of #1. "If there's a problem, it's that Mellon Collie was out in 1995 and everyone that was 16 then is 19 now, everyone that was 22 is 25, and what [Corgan doesn't] understand is that you wait three years to release an album and you lose your audience."

To date, Adore has failed to spawn a signature single on par with "1979" or "Bullet With Butterfly Wings," two of the staple alternative-radio hits from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

July 31, 1998
Smashing Pumpkins Shoot "Perfect" Video, Mull Recording Future
MTV Online

The Smashing Pumpkins were on location in Los Angeles last weekend to shoot a video for "Perfect" with the husband-wife director team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Farris.

Dayton and Farris previously helmed the award-winning videos for the Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight" [2.6MB QuickTime] and "1979" [2.1MB QuickTime], and the clip for "Perfect" is said to be a conceptual sequel of sorts to the video for "1979."

In related news, the Pumpkins are also apparently considering the possibility of not heading back into the studio to start work on a new record immediately after they finish its their charity tour.

In an interview with "The New York Times," Billy Corgan said that he didn't want to concentrate on a new Pumpkins record until he had proven nay-sayers of the band's current album, "Adore," wrong -- which may indicate a more extensive tour to support the record than originally planned.

Check out MTV News Online tomorrow for footage and a report from the band's free concert in front of the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City.

July 29, 1998
Billy on Charlie Rose
Thanks to Eve

Billy is going to be on a show called charlie rose on aug 3rd it is sort of like larry king live a one on one interview. It is on PBS around 11 pm or so check local listings...

July 28, 1998
Entertainment Weekly's Annual Hot 100 list

Music
Billy Corgan
Age:31
Why Him? As the singer/guitarist/guru of the 1990's most endearing alt band, the Smashing Pumpkins, Corgan splashes his musical canvases with emotional colors that weep, enrage,soothe, and engage. The band's new album Adore is no exception, painting an ethereal world of broken lullabies. Work Habits:
Corgan sleeps on it, keeping all sorts of creative aids by his bedside: an acoustic guitar, tape recorders, notebooks, even copies of nietzsche. "I get up at 9am and work immediately, " he notes. "I find the first hour after I wake is the most creative time that I have."
Creative Block Buster:
"If I'm having trouble writing a song, I'll just write a piece of instrumental music, or go back to some old tapes and try to find an idea that's interesting and toy around with it."
Earliest Memory:
"Getting yelled at for playing my records to loud when I was 3."
Next?
After touring the states this summer, they'll begin recording a CD that he says will be "a continued move in experimental directions."

July 27, 1998
Courtney Love and Billy.. Awww
Excerpt from Rolling Stone - November 13, 1997

I did an interview with Stevie Nicks and I asked her, "Did you ever have any rivals?" She said no, and I was like, "Boy, you missed a fun thing." Because it is fun to have a rival. When I sit down with Billy Corgan (Love has been working with Corgan on her upcoming album), and I bring him an arrangement and he makes it better, and I leave and feel shitty because he's made it better, and so I take apart everything he's done because there's no way I'm going to let him win - That's a great feeling. That's just a great tension to have and to hold. It doesn't mean I don't adore him and his talent, and it doesn't mean that he hasn't helped me a lot. It just means I'm going to better myself.

July 26, 1998
Pumpkin appearances

The Pumpkins are featured in the following magazines this month:
CMJ - College Musc Journal
Total Guitar Magazine
Teen Magazine

They will be on David Letterman July 30th. And don't forget to watch them on Regis & Kathie Lee on August 4. Should be interesting!

July 23, 1998
Looking for Extras
Q101

Attention Smashing Pumpkins fans, your time may be now. If you're going to be in Los Angeles this weekend, and you fancy hanging around a video set for up to eight hours a day, the Chicago band has a juicy proposition for you. They're looking for fans to be extras in the video for their new single, "Perfect," which is being shot this Saturday and Sunday.
Interested fans should call 310/656-4693 for further information.

July 22, 1998
PUMPKINS DISCOVER A GENERATION GAP
Detroit News

Smashing Pumpkins band members may not be as in touch with the young American audience as they thought. Meeting Friday with about 30 young children from The Family Place, a Dallas shelter for victims of domestic violence, three band members were asked to name their favorite musicians. "Puff Daddy. Do you know who that is?" asked guitarist James Iha No reply. "How about the Beatles?" Iha said. Nothing. Then band leader Billy Corgan stepped in. "Do you know who the Spice Girls are?" he asked. "Yes!" the kids hollered. "OK," Corgan said. "We don't listen to the Spice Girls."

July 21, 1998
Teen Murderer Flees Jail To Catch Pumpkins Show Like many teen-agers, Pamela D. Keary really wanted to see the Smashing Pumpkins when they came through her town. And, like many of her peers, she did. Only in this teen's case, it wasn't a matter of convincing mom and dad and coming up with the money to cover the ticket. Instead, it was a matter of escaping from her prison confines. Serving a 12-year, second-degree murder sentence for her part in the stoning/stabbing death of a Somali immigrant a year ago, Keary slipped out of the Minnesota Correctional Facility at Shakopee at approximately 10:30 a.m. on Friday, eluding police until the wee hours of Saturday morning, long enough to catch the entire Pumpkins concert. During her brief period of freedom, she joined an estimated 100,000 fans who turned out to see the multi-platinum Chicago rockers play their only free U.S. show at the Hennepin Avenue block party in downtown Minneapolis. "She walked away from a recreation area during a time of no structured activity," said Barb Hanson, associate warden of Shakopee, the only women's facility in the state. "I don't know if she told the other inmates [that she was going to see the Pumpkins], but it was certainly a source of inmate speculation." Keary was arrested at the concert sometime after 12 a.m. on Saturday, when police -- who'd been given photos of the escapee -- spotted her in the crowd at the show. Though there are guards on duty, the Shakopee facility has neither a fence nor a wall surrounding it, according to Hanson, who explained that Keary's escape was not the first one from the facility. An inmate walked away in December of last year, with the previous escape occurring in 1995. Although Keary was formerly in the minimum-security, general-population wing of the facility, Hanson said she has now been moved to the "segregation unit," where she is kept apart from many of the other inmates and subject to greater supervision. Dan O'Brien, the assistant to the Minnesota corrections commissioner, said that the 150 police officers covering the Pumpkins concert were all given a photo of Keary, as were an additional 10 corrections officers who were combing the crowded downtown area looking for the escaped convict. Pumpkins publicist Gayle Fine had no comment on the matter, but said that, as far as she knew, the band was not aware of the incident. While it is not known whether Keary is an avid fan of the band, those at the correctional facility say she was acting like any other person her age. "We don't know if she was a fan of the band or not,"Hanson said, "but she's 17 and if there were 100,000 kids at that concert, I would guess there were a lot of other 17-year-olds there too. I don't know if there was anything she said or did before she left that tipped people off, but isn't that where you would go if you were a teen-ager and it was Friday night?" The Pumpkins, who are in the midst of a charity tour, will next play Toronto, Ontario's Massey Hall on Monday night (July 20).

July 6, 1998
Random News

Ava Adore was #9 on Total Request on Mtv on Tuesday. You can e-mail Total@mtvmail.com to request it and get it back on the countdown.

NEW SINGLE - the new upcoming single from Adore will be "Perfect". It's rumored that the video is done, or will be done this month.

It's rumored that the ever so popular Puff Daddy will be remixing "Perfect" with Billy. Hmmm..

The first ever outdoor I&I will be held in the MuchMusic parking lot on July 19th, from 9:00 to 10:30. The only way to obtain tickets is to win them, or if you're a MuchAXS member you may be sent an individual invitation. You can contact the band via phone, fax, email and speakers corner.
For those of you who have no idea what an Intimate and Interactive is, it's just a little concert in the MuchMusic building where the band plays songs from their new album and answers questions from the audience from time to time. Other bands who have done this is Bush, Silverchair, No Doubt, Backstreet Boys, Live, Foo Fighters, so it's a pretty big thing.

An Adore Double LP is to be released later this year. It will be Old Style Gatefold type and the cover will feature images not found on the CD version.