Seems like someones missing ...
Seems like someone's missing ... Olivia Bee

Many old-school Smashing Pumpkins fans are up in arms that this 30th anniversary reunion tour of original members doesn’t include bassist D’arcy Wretzky. Different accounts have been circulating: It was either a cold-as-ice shaft via a rescinded invitation from Billy Corgan or a musician ghosting her old band. Whatever the case, Wretzky is not in the lineup, which features Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order) bassist Jack Bates joining Corgan, guitarist James Iha, sometime Pumpkins guitarist Jeff Schroeder, and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin.

I’ve been reading good things about the shows, and the marathon set list seems to cover a lot of ground in the alt-rock band’s storied career—from Gish to 2000’s Machina/The Machines of Gods, some rare tracks, a few actual new songs, a cover or two. If you can get over Wretzky’s absence (and that supposedly sincere-if-you-were-there, kinda-smarmy-from-afar 30th anniversary blowout in New Jersey that didn’t include her but did feature guest Courtney Love), seems like it might be a good time.

Check out a Spotify playlist below created from the 29-song set they played in Sioux Falls earlier this week. (Covers of "Space Oddity," "Stairway to Heaven," "Baby Mine" not included...)