My friends and I saw Smashing Pumpkins open for Eleventh Dream Day at the Metro in Chicago and were really into them so we were excited to catch them a few months later playing at Lounge Ax. Unfortunately, our fake IDs didn’t work with the door guy. We were so determined to hear anything at all that we stood in the alley behind the club and listened to the muffled sounds coming out of the back door. After a few hours (crazy that we stayed that long) the band actually came out back to have a smoke –I think they were taking a break before their encore. When they saw us they asked what we were doing there. We told them we came to see them but we couldn’t get in. Darcy lit up and said jokingly “Our first groupies!” They gave us some broken drumsticks and some picks and then went back in to finish the show.