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I know it's getting a late in the day. But I wanted to wish everyon e a Happy Smashing Pumpkins Day!

Yes happy SP day to all! (Wait, why is SP Day again?)

So SP day July 7, National Fried Chicken day July 6, AND Independence day July 4?

It's too much, man! My digestive system can only take so much celebration

Zeitgeist was released on July 7th 2007

DON wrote: It was supposed to be released then but they pushed it back to July 10 .

kjrain12 wrote: IIt goes back July 7, 1998 when SP played a hometown show in Chicago during the Adore charity tour. Like many other cities, the Mayor's office of Chicago announced that day would be Smashing Pumpkins Day in Chicago. I think for many fans it was a special day because it was their hometown and it wasn't declared SP day everywhere, just in certain places (charity tour cities), on certain days. It also coincided (by a couple of days) with the 10th anniversary of the first SP show on July 9, 1988, which featured of course only Billy and James. It was better I think to choose that day, as opposed SP day announced in any other city to apply to all fans (eg. Minneapolis announced it was SP day in Minneapolis on July 17, 1998).

Related to that, for Act IV we had decided to carry on that tradition of treating July 7 as International Smashing Pumpkins for our first charity show and the Mayor once again re-declared July 7 as Smashing Pumpkins Day in Chicago in 2001 (thanks to Metro). A little over a week later, Billy made a post on the old O-Boards which I think reinforced the idea many had been running with for years, that July 7 is considered SP day: "I can't say enough good things about this last week...I always felt we had the greatest fans in the world, but now I am convinced...hopefully july 7 can always be a day where we celebrate the history of the band and take time to reach out and help others...everyone here has helped make this the premier music web site in the world, and it is only because of the die-hard fans wit and intelligence hat we are kept so on our toes (all the time)...so let me say, without regret and with complete sincerity, thank you..."

Simon on Ozphoria had done an article all about July 7 on SP.com in 2007 or 2008, which goes more into the possible origins and ways other fans had embraced that day as well. Wish the article was still around.

venison wrote: Haha

Everyday is Smashing Pumpkins Day too me bitches. I'm a hardcore Pumpkin-Head!

@Eye: Ok, thanks for the reminder, now that you say it, I remember hearing about SP day. Wonder how James and Jimmy spend SP day?

Glass And The Ghost Children wrote: Haha fair enough .

kjrain12 wrote: Hmm not sure. Ruing and lamenting Billy Corgan? . Perhaps they crank call Billy or call up Sharon Osborne and tell her 'Billy Corgan made me sick too' .

Speaking of James. Today is the official anniversary of the first SP show at Chicago 21 on July 9, 1988. Just Billy, James and a drum machine (I think I heard that Ron Roesing from The Marked had programmed it but not sure if I got my facts right).

I agree, every day is SP day! But I'm happy to adopt July 7 as Pumpkins Day for Australia :P I don't care what the rest of Australia has to say, I'm asserting my right to speak for all Australians, just the way our politicians love to do so often

earthcrossing wrote: I don't think you will get any argument from your fellow Aussie SP fans haha. But while every day is SP day, this is a day to celebrate the band like an anniversary or a birthday or something .

Eye wrote:
Nah, Jimmy probably does a quick run through of Geek USA for old times sake and James...well he probably just smokes more pot. How else do you explain how chill he is all the time?!

Someone should make an cake in the shape of a heart and draw the little SP logo inside (SD era). That would be badass!

kjrain12 wrote: Hahahaha. I remember one long-time SP fan, might have even been the girl who ran Jamesiha.org back in the day had ran into James in a bar in NY. Unfortunately, James was apparently rude and drunk. This was post-Pumpkins. Hopefully I'm remembering the details right.

Yeah that would be awesome. Someone must have done that at one point. I know I have seen Tonight, Tonight cakes.