Billy Corgan 2019-11-12

November 12, 2019 – Lawrence, KS, US
Live performance by Billy Corgan
United States 2019 tour
Date	November 12, 2019
Venue	Liberty Hall
Coordinates	38°58′17″N 95°14′8″W
Location	Lawrence, KS, US
Venue type	Theater
Personnel	Billy Corgan
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Setlist

Set one

1. "To Scatter One's Own" (acoustic) 
2. "Cri de Coeur" (acoustic) 
3. "Hard Times" (acoustic) 
4. "Fragile, The Spark" (acoustic) (live debut)
5. "Rider" (acoustic) 
6. "Dancehall" (acoustic) 
7. "Cotillions" (piano) 
8. "Archer" (acoustic) 
9. "Half-Life of an Autodidact" (acoustic) 
10. "The Long Goodbye" (acoustic) 
11. "Aeronaut" (acoustic) 
12. "Mandarynne" (piano) 
13. "Little Maggie" [traditional] (acoustic) 

Set two

14. "Thirty-Three" (acoustic) 
15. "La Dolly Vita" (acoustic) 
16. "Spaceboy" (acoustic) 
17. "Violet Rays" (acoustic) 
18. "Endless Summer" (piano) 
19. "Will There Be Any Stars?" [Alison Krauss & The Cox Family] (piano) 
20. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 
21. "Jupiter's Lament" (acoustic) 
22. "Perfect" (acoustic) 
23. "Hangin' On" [The Gosdin Brothers] (acoustic) 
24. "Nights in White Satin" [The Moody Blues] (acoustic) 
25. "Disarm" (piano) 

Encore

26. "Black Lung" (acoustic) 
27. "Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts)" (acoustic) 

Notes

• First performance of "Jupiter's Lament" since 2017-09-16

Banter

(very incomplete due to lack of full show source)

To Scatter One’s Own
Cri de Coeur
Hard Times
BC: Thank you very much. Like to play a song for you I’ve never played before. [unintelligible] me and you tonight. À la the just reward for your venturing into the cold. Um, yeah, so hopefully my fingers will work.
Fragile, The Spark
BC: [tape cuts in] So it started me into these songs and so it’s very much the world that we grew up in, here in the Midwest. So I hope you find yourself in them when you hear the record.
Rider
Dancehall
Cotillions (piano)
Archer
Half-Life of an Autodidact
The Long Goodbye
Aeronaut
Mandarynne (piano)
Little Maggie
[set break]
Thirty-three
La Dolly Vita
Spaceboy
Violet Rays
Endless Summer (piano)
Will There Be Any Stars? (piano)
Tonight, Tonight
Jupiter’s Lament
BC: [cuts in] ...canyons of Los Angelees. Where when I was a child, I’d watch CHIPs and I’d think, that’s where I wanna be. Ridin’ in the sun, tan, beautiful. Not bald and pale. Hahahahaha. They say you shouldn’t wear your own T-shirt on stage, right, your own band’s T-shirt? You shouldn’t laugh at your own jokes.
Perfect
Hangin’ On
Nights in White Satin
Disarm
[encore break]
Black Lung
BC: [tape cuts in] There’s a crowd participation component, if you’d like to participate, ‘cause you are the crowd in this particular relationship.
Girl in crowd: Essentially, are you sure?
BC: And uh, thank you, and uh, all you have to remember is two, two and four. The first chorus you sing twice, the second chorus you sing twice, last chorus you sing four times.
Guy in crowd: Silver.
Guy #2 in crowd: Silver!
BC: Sure. I’m on the same drugs the guy in the balcony is, so I might just decide to change the name of the song in the middle of the song. Um, I have that prerogative. I got that right or is prerogative, is it...? Anyway. So um, as I’ve joked in a few previous shows, since you are technically in the band as we’re participating, you get to see a little insight into how things work with me behind the scenes, my much vaunted tyrannical behavior. And uh, so yeah, you don’t want to mess up. It’s a small hall, I can see you.
Guy #3 in crowd: Can I clap along?
BC: What’s that?
Guy #3 in crowd: Can I clap along?
BC: You can do whatever you like, bro. Just do it, we do it with love. And uh, ‘cause as we joke, you know, you don’t wanna get the look, which is if you mess up, you’re gonna get the look. And uh, the look goes something like, you know, we’re playing onstage and somebody does something wrong and I go (glares over his shoulder).... I once asked a fellow musician who’d gotten the look many times what the look - how she took the look, like, well, like, “Can you break it into words?” And her quote was something along the lines of “How could you in a million years ever play that wrong note, you fuckin’ idiot.” Yeah. And she said, “Is that accurate?” and I said, “Absolutely.” So yeah, you don’t wanna get the look.
Guy #4 in crowd: Don’t piss her off.
BC: What’s that?
Guy #4 in crowd: Don’t piss her off!
BC: Don’t piss anyone off, right? You live in a world where you’re either talking to the next internet superstar or a serial murderer, right? The erasure point between the two extremes is every day more thin. And I say that with love. So, back to the song, get you back out into the cold night. And again, thank you, I hope you had a good time. It was certainly, it was certainly my pleasure to keep you well entertained and you felt something more than just what you already knew. It’s hard to rise above the dopamine tide but occasionally, the right words and songs do it. So, last thing, since we’re in the band together in this particular moment, I will cue you when you’re supposed to come in. That’s my response but your response please is ‘course to sing along. And uh, your cue will go something like this (leans back and lifts neck of guitar). That’s all I can do ‘cause I’m doing a lot of stuff back there. Alright, everybody ready?
Silvery Sometimes