Smashing Pumpkins
Constitution Hall
Washington DC
1998-07-29
FM

**Recorded, edited and mastered** by thir13en

01 - To Sheila
02 - Once Upon A Time
03 - Ava Adore
04 - Perfect
05 - The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete
06 - Tear
07 - Annie Dog
08 - Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
09 - Tonight Tonight
10 - Blissed & Gone
11 - BWBW
12 - Shame
13 - For Martha
14 - 1979 


We were second row, right in front of James. I've never felt an impact like that before, nor since. They took the stage, ambled into "to Sheila" and we thought, cool, this is nice. Then the big part came with drums, distortion and a cement wall of sound, and I literally blew back a few inches, my body shook, swayed back and vibrated. I've worked live shows many times. I've had the venue manager shove db meters in my face saying it was too loud on a whole lot of occasions. I gaurantee I've never mixed anything that loud before, and although I've apparently tried, I tell you with complete certainty I never came close to that. 

WHFS broadcast this, and in their over 20 years of rockin' service to the community of DC, they were huge Pumpkins fans. But they botched this badly, omitting Blank Page and Transmission from the broadcast. I pleaded with them, but nothing. Somebody somewhere has these songs, probably in PRE-FM form...where are you? So then about 4 months ago, with no warning, WHFS went Latino...I guess it's karma in action.

Some FM noise during BWBW, sorry. I'm clear on the other side of DC (Oh it's only a city and burb's of over 6 million people!) from their broadcast tower, a good 30 miles of dense city, power lines and freeways. I did my best, believe me.
