Smashing Pumpkins - Chicago(Tinley Park), IL, USA - July 7, 1998 (1998-07-07) "Make a wish" Concert - Smashing Pumpkins Day Chicago MiniDisc - CDR - Wav - Flacs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I went to this concert with a friend and recorded it on a small MiniDisc recorder hidden inside my baseball cap with two microphones clipped to each side of the hat's bill. We were seated about halfway back in the theater, on the right side of the venue. When I got home from the concert, I transferred the recordings from a MiniDisc player through a digital cable to a digital audio capture card in my computer and edited it into audio tracks then burned a few CDs. I gave one set of CDs to my friend and kept the others for myself. Fast forward 23 years and my teen son is getting into 1990s music, and I pulled out my Smashing Pumpkins box and found these CDs. The original MDs and data files are long gone, but the CDs remained, so I'm posting them here. The recording isn't the best quality, giant outdoor music venues like the New World Music Theater aren't known for their acoustics and we were not seated in an ideal recording location. But the recording is OK for the time, and for me being a novice concert recorder. There is of course a lot of crowd noise, and the guy in front of us that screamed almost randomly for about the first half of the concert. The audio path was all digital, and I did get most of the concert on these CDs, including the last song "The Hammer of the Gods" that I don't think I've see anywhere else. The audio quality is not as good as the other public recording of this show, but this recording does have the first half of the concert and the complete end of the concert, so now everyone can listen to all of the songs in the show. Also attached are articles and pictures that appeared in the local press at the time, and my original ticket. Enjoy! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Set: 1. To Sheila 2. Behold! the Night Mare 3. Pug 4. Crestfallen 5. Ava Adore 6. Once Upon a Time 7. Tear 8. Daphne Descends 9. Thru the Eyes of Ruby 10. Perfect 11. Tonight, Tonight 12. Bullet with Butterfly Wings 13. Shame 14. For Martha 15. Make a Wish Speeches Encore: 16. I Want You to Want Me [Cheap Trick] with Rick Neilsen 17. 1979 with Rick Neilsen 18. Blank Page 19. Transmission [Joy Division] > Let's Dance [Bowie] (tease) 20. The Hammer of the G App\Http\Controllers\Api\FileDownloadController::download(): Return value must be of type string, none returned