Rock band Smashing Pumpkins are offering fans the opportunity to attend a party that will be done in the same style as their music video for “1979.”
The veterans of the rock industry are currently preparing to embark on a US tour, which will feature the majority of their original line-up.
The “1979” house party will allow fans to relive the 1996 hit song and will take place in Los Angeles on June 28th. Fans will also have a chance to win a Yamaha guitar as well as a two-night stay at The Hilton, which includes return flights to Los Angeles.
This week, the band’s frontman Billy Corgan compared the 90’s grunge scene to a high school popularity contest.
“If everybody is sort of branded with the same brush, okay we can live that,” he said. “But you know, you’d see some people would be exalted and their sins were forgivable.
“It really reminded me of high school, which I didn’t like. So now I’m in the bigger high school and now we’re playing with millions of dollars and millions of people, and it’s just like a popularity contest. And it brought out maybe the worst or the best in my personality, which was like, ‘I’m gonna take this on and I’m gonna use myself as the battering ram so I’m gonna make it about me, knowing it’s not about me.’”
