Virtual Summer Concert Series: Guns N’ Roses and Smashing Pumpkins
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 12: Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses performs live on stage at Allphones Arena on March 12, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)
To make up for all the great live rock shows we’re missing due to Coronavirus, we’re spotlighting one would-be performer each week, all summer long.
Last week, we kicked off the summer-long series with a 1994 Bon Jovi bootleg from the Orpheum, since we’re missing them at TD Garden this month. And since we’re missing Guns N’ Roses with Smashing Pumpkins at Fenway in a few weeks, let’s flashback to something live and local from each.
GNR headlined the Garden on St. Patrick’s Day in 1993, so let’s start with that bootleg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdtXUbeUe_k&list=PLz0f-CAMWgoC7f6o6r_NGVjY77JMh-RU2
And for an encore? Smashing Pumpkins performing “Today” at TD Garden from just two summers ago.
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