The West Michigan weekend’s live music romps included tour stops by national stars and concerts spotlighting local heroes, including The Spits and The Verve Pipe. The photos at Local Spins.
Saturday Night Smashing Pumpkins Redux: Billy Corgan and band on stage. (Photo/Chelsea Whitaker)
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When Billy Corgan & The Machines of God brought their tour to The Intersection in Grand Rapids on Saturday night, it was all about reveling in the legacy of The Smashing Pumpkins.
Performing classics such as “1979” and “Zero” from 1995’s “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” and “Heavy Metal Machine” and show closer “The Everlasting Gaze” from 2000’s “Machina/The Machines of God,” Corgan and his bandmates energized longtime fans of the alt-rock band formed in Chicago in the late 1980s.
Corgan’s indoor show followed an outdoor romp on Friday featuring country star Chase Rice, who performed along with opener Tyler Halverson as part of The Intersection’s “Rock the Lot” series next to the downtown nightclub.
The Black Crowes: Performing at GLC Live at 20 Monroe. (Photo/Jamie Geysbeek)
And that followed The Black Crowes return to Grand Rapids for an appearance Thursday at GLC Live at 20 Monroe that also featured a slice of nostalgia, with live renditions of “Twice as Hard” (which opened the show) and “Jealous Again” and “Remedy” that closed out the main set.
Elsewhere, The Verve Pipe heated up the already hot outdoor stage at Warner Vineyards in Paw Paw with their own catalog of hits on Saturday night and Kalamazoo punk band The Spits returned to their hometown to rev up Bell’s Brewery Eccentric Cafe in Kalamazoo on Thursday.
View images from all of the shows below, with separate Local Spins coverage of:
• Day 1 of Electric Forest sizzles with thundering bass, escapism
• Billy Strings fires up opening day of Charlotte Bluegrass Festival
• The Revivalists romp at Meijer Gardens despite rain
PHOTO GALLERY: Billy Corgan & The Machines of God at The Intersection
Photos by Chelsea Whitaker
PHOTO GALLERY: Chase Rice, Tylor Halverson at The Intersection’s Rock the Lot
Photos by Benjamin Howell
PHOTO GALLERY: The Black Crowes, The Band Feel at GLC Live at 20 Monroe
Photos by Jamie Geysbeek
