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Life After Gish: Smashing Pumpkins Play Their Generation's Blues

Gerrie Lim, Big O, December 1993

SO THIS IS Generation X, I'm musing to myself in the lobby of the Hollywood Palladium, as I contemplate the horde of kids who have come from hither and yon to pay due respect to that gnarly neo-grunge quartet from Chicago called Smashing Pumpkins.

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