An older friend of mine worked at Gray Whale CD in Logan, Utah and my buddy Dave and I would visit all the time and check out new and old music. It was our senior year in high school, we were weird, and didn’t care about nothing. We were both big fans from the Gish and Siamese Dream eras. I remember seeing the StreetDate magazine and asking if I could have the cover. We picked up our double CDs the day of the release and made a pact to listen all the way through that day and night and to meet up and talk about it the next day at school. If I remember right, we called each other after an hour with our heads fully exploded and our horizons expanded musically. There was so much to digest and process, what an experience. The next thing for us was to learn the songs and book our tickets for the show the next year in SLC.  Long live The Smashing Pumpkins and “hail, hail rock and roll”!