Billy Corgan 2016-05-29

May 29, 2016 – Highland Park, IL, US
Live performance by Billy Corgan
Artist	Billy Corgan
Date	May 29, 2016
Venue	Madame ZuZu's
Coordinates	42°9′55″N 87°47′6″W
Location	Highland Park, IL, US
Venue type	Teahouse
Capacity	40
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jeff Schroeder
Order of bands	Billy Corgan
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May 29, 2016 was one of the In Plainsong events at Madame ZuZu's featuring only Billy Corgan and Jeff Schroeder. The show was by reservation only. It started at 6:00 PM, cost $30 per ticket, or $225 for VIP which included tea and a chat with Billy and Jeff.

Setlist

1. "Space Oddity" [David Bowie] (acoustic) 
2. "For God and Country" (acoustic) 
3. "Stumbleine" (acoustic) (final performance)
4. "Thirty-Three" (acoustic) 
5. "Double R" (acoustic) (final performance)
6. "Real Love" (acoustic) (final performance)
7. "There is a Time" [The Dillards] (acoustic) (final performance)
8. "Red Dirt" (acoustic) (final performance)
9. "Lyric" (acoustic) 
10. "Tom Tom" (acoustic) (final performance)
11. "The Spaniards" (acoustic) 
12. "Living After Midnight" [Judas Priest] (tease) (acoustic) 
13. "This Time" (acoustic) 
14. "Monuments" (acoustic) (final performance)
15. "Angie" [The Rolling Stones] (acoustic) 

Notes

• First performance of "For God and Country" since 2007-11-15
• First tease of "Living After Midnight" since 1998-08-21
• Last performance of "This Time" until 2023-07-28

Banter

Space Oddity
For God and Country
BC: Alright.
Stumbleine
Thirty-three
BC: You good?
Jeff: Yeah.
Double R
BC: Heh heh. (crowd laughs) What was that? What, he said he wasn’t going to do it. ... It’s William now, but thanks. See, that’s - when grown men started calling me Bill, I knew it was time to change my name. ... Sorry, we’re just taping.
Lady in crowd: My daughter’s a Billie.
BC: Well, hopefully she won’t have the same problem. You know it’s weird, about 38, guys started calling me Bill all the time. My father was Billy, so I was always Little Bill and then when I matured, I became Bill, which I hated. So then I was 18, then I became Billy.
Jeff: Billy?
BC: Yeah, everyone calls me Bill now.
Jeff: Yeah.
unknown guy: Alright, we’re ready.
BC: We’re rolling, okay.
Jeff: Should we get an authorization?
Real Love
BC: Thank you. ... Ready?
Jeff: I’m good.
There is a Time
Red Dirt
BC: You good?
Jeff: Ready.
Lyric
Tom Tom
The Spaniards
BC: Thank you very much.
Living After Midnight (tease)
BC: Any questions? Yeah, whatever. ...
Jeff: (whispering) Lost my memory.
BC: What’s that?
Jeff: Test my memory here.
BC: Test your memory?
Jeff: I’m blanking out at this time. It’s, it’s, got some surprises.
BC: You’re a pro, man.
Jeff: I know. Tell me so.
BC: Play “Stump Jeff”?
Jeff: Got the [1-2 unintelligible words].
BC: So we just have a few more, but thank you before we run away, appreciate it.
Girl in crowd: Don’t go.
BC: We can end right now, young lady. I’ve quit for less. Where’s that country they’re still mad at us because we quit early?
Jeff: [unintelligible]?
BC: Costa Rica?
Jeff: [unintelligible].
BC: Remember? We played a festival, they’re still mad.
Jeff: [unintelligible].
BC: Like Costa Rica or something.
Jeff: Yeah. I remember the [1-2 unintelligible words]. We’ve never been back, so I think that’s the [unintelligible]. It’s been a while [unintelligible word].
BC: I think we were playing or I was playing Disarm and I looked out in the crowd and I was just like, “That’s it” and I left.
Jeff: No, that was Manchester, that was in England. [Ed: Both Billy and Jeff are misremembering some details about the location of the show.]
BC: That was Manchester, England!
Jeff: (laughing) Yeah, you right. And remember when that British band, the Luminators, said like how and when they were mean.
BC: Oh, that was the band that said I couldn’t look them in the eye.
Jeff: Yeah.
BC: Or they couldn’t look me in the eye.
Jeff: Yeah.
(short pause)
BC: (under his breath) Whatever. Sorry. (normal volume) One, two - oh, okay, why don’t we just start it?
Jeff: That’d be you, that’d be you.
BC: Just do whatever I want?
Jeff: Do whatever you want.
This Time
BC: Ready?
Jeff: (laughing hard)
Monuments
Angie
BC: Thank you very much.