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What happened in the early years of The Smashing Pumpkins?
In the early years The Smashing Pumpkins was just Billy Corgan and James Iha.
What happened after Billy Corgan and James Iha met for The Smashing Pumpkins?
After that Billy Corgan and James Iha added D'arcy Wretzky and Jimmy Chamberlin.
Did Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, and Jimmy Chamberlin of the Smashing Pumpkins start working on music together?
Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, and Jimmy Chamberlin began making music together.
Did the Smashing Pumpkins ever perform the music they wrote?
On October 5, 1988, the complete The Smashing Pumpkins took the stage for the first time at the Cabaret Metro.

Question: Did the performance go well?
Self-contained rewrite: Did the first performance of The Smashing Pumpkins go well?