SP: Jeff Schroeder’s Day Off
Saturday Night by The Lassie Foundation, Jeff Schroeder’s former band
New Smashing Pumpkins rhythm guitarist Jeff Schroeder posted about his day off on the band’s official blog. It’s nice that the new members are getting a forum on the site, but I’d really much rather hear from Billy or Jimmy. Anyway, here’s an excerpt from Jeff’s post:
You’d be surprised where you sometimes have the best day off. You might think that places such as New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco would be the best place to spend a day off, and that is often true, but it also some of the not so obvious places where the true fun takes place. For example last week we were had a day off in Phoenix, Arizona. Over the last couple of years I’ve been to Phoenix a bunch of times; and while I’ve never had a bad time there, I’ve never had a particularly great time either. However this was one of my best days off so far since we started touring in May. I think a lot of this has to do with where you stay and who you know. Luckily Billy and Jimmy have some very nice and generous friends in Phoenix who really made our stay there fantastic. One of these people is Bradley. He is one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet and he set up a pretty memorable night for Jimmy and I especially. He organized these two historic events in Pumpkin history and for that we are forever grateful.
If you didn’t watch the Arizona Diamondbacks play the San Francisco Giants play last week you may have missed Jimmy Chamberlin throwing out the first pitch. Unfortunately I was somewhere else that night, which I’ll get to in a second, so I didn’t get to see it. I searched YouTube for a clip but couldn’t find anything. If you have anything, please forward it to the site. But from what I heard, Jimmy’s pitch was so ferocious that Barry Bonds decided to take the night off.
Speaking of Smashing Pumpkins blogs (Hipsters United being the best of the bunch, beating even the official blog for both interesting content and consistend updates), you know what I think would be awesome? A James Iha tell-all blog.