Spirits in the Sky 2009-08-27

August 27, 2009 – Santa Barbara, CA, US
Live performance by Spirits in the Sky
Spirits in the Sky tour
Date	August 27, 2009
Venue	Muddy Waters
Coordinates	34°25′21″N 119°41′22″W
Location	Santa Barbara, CA, US
Venue type	Club
Capacity	100
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Mike Byrne, Dave Navarro, Kerry Brown, Linda Strawberry, Mark Tulin, Mark Weitz, Ysanne Spevack, Kevin Dippold
Order of bands	Spirits in the Sky
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Setlist

Soundcheck

1. "Freak" (tease) 
2. "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" [The Seeds] (tease) 
3. "Freak" (take one) 
4. "Freak" (take two) 
5. "The Fellowship" 
6. "Emerald Green is the Colour" 
7. "The Trip" (take one) 
8. "The Trip" (take two) 
9. "Astral Planes" 

Set one

1. "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" [The Seeds] (acoustic) 
2. "Circular Change" (acoustic) 
3. "Emerald Green is the Colour" (acoustic) 
4. "Widow Wake My Mind" (acoustic) 
5. "California Love" [2Pac] (tease) 
6. "West Coast" (acoustic) 
7. "Freak" (acoustic) 
8. "Morning Dew" [Bonnie Dobson] (acoustic) 
9. "The Fellowship" (acoustic) 

Set two

10. "The Time Has Come" [Anne Briggs] (acoustic) 
11. "A Stitch in Time" (acoustic) 
12. "Caroline, Yes" (acoustic) 
13. "A Song for a Son" (acoustic) 
14. "The Trip" 
15. "Astral Planes" 
16. "Femme Fatale" [The Velvet Underground] 
17. "Lucifer Sam" [Pink Floyd] 

Encore

18. "Long Haired Lady" [Quicksilver Messenger Service] 

Banter

BC: Everybody ready? Welcome.
Can’t Seem to Make You Mine
BC: The drummers are not getting any vocal. 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, why are you feeding back, 1, 2. Well, welcome to soundcheck. The gig’s gonna start about two a.m.
Guy in crowd: Party!
BC: Party. Uh, if you come back at two, there’ll be a bunch of magic brownies. (crowd cheers) Yeah. And uh, you could take those and we’ll be playing.
Circular Change
BC: Thank you.
Emerald Green is the Colour
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. Yeah, come closer. I wanna--I want you to be inside me. Um.... Anyway. Is it too hot for group participation? No? Are you up for a singalong? I’m gonna teach you this song. See how good you are. Okay, so it goes like this.
Widow Wake My Mind
BC: This is called tuning. One of the best songs I’ve ever written, tuning. Play it every night. What goes on here in Santa Barbara? I just...Morgan Fairchild, that’s how I think. I don’t know what she’s got to do with Santa Barbara, but.... This song goes out to Morgan Fairchild. Literally the hottest 60-year-old I’ve ever seen in my life. Have you ever seen her? Oh. This is a song about the west coast, California.
Girl in crowd: (to tune of California Love but off key) California.
California Love (tease)
BC: Yeah, that’s right. (singing) City of Compton. (speaking) No, it’s not that song. It’s a song called West Coast. You know all those songs.
West Coast
BC: Yes, I can see by your reaction...that the west coast has done you right. So this is our last song. Kerry said he--he saw today that during our show last night, somebody Twittered, “Oh, now we’re getting yelled at for talking.” That’s a Twitter, okay, or tweet, I don’t know what the fuck it is. I wonder what tomorrow’s gonna be.
Girl in crowd: Love, love the love.
BC: No, it won’t be. “I love Billy so much,” that won’t be your tweet. Now let’s be real, let’s be real here. It’ll be more like, “You disappoint me, Billy, why? Why, Billy, why? Why didn’t--why didn’t Billy play Alive and Jeremy Has Spoken? And uh...Daughter?” Pearl Jam and what?
Freak
BC: Alright, this is our first encore. We’d like to play a song now populized--popularized by the Grateful Dead. I think you’ve heard of them. This morning in meditation, I was visited by Jerry. And he told me that he really wants you to buy Spirits in the Sky T-shirts. Available in limited quantities, I think we’ve only made about 200 or so for the tour, so that’ll be it if you want one. By the way, I’m not talking about Jerry Garcia, I’m talking about Jerry from Ben and Jerry. That is such a stupid joke. I’m just trying to stall for time to try to tune this. Young man, don’t play guitar.
Guy in crowd: Hurry the fuck up!
BC: That’s a good time. Come on, you only like synthesizer electronic music now. It’s gonna take you back to another time.
Morning Dew
(BC during midsong breakdown: I thought that still a little worthy of more.... Thank you. Don’t you love to listen to Dave play the guitar? It’s so beautiful. I’m gonna listen to Dave play the guitar. On the keys, “The Luck” Weitz.)
BC: Showbiz, people, showbiz. That’s what it feels like. Should we just take a break, go outside and come back? Who wants to take a break? Posers. Alright, never mind.
Girl in crowd: Go outside with [unintelligible word].
Guy in crowd: No!
BC: Heh heh heh heh. I don’t know what you’re saying but I can feel it. This is a new song. Aren’t they all?
The Fellowship
BC: Alright. Thank you very much. When you came in, did you get a wristband or something? Why don’t we just take five minutes, all go outside, catch your breath and we’ll come back in? That’s a good idea, okay, we’ll do that. You’re just gonna stand there, right, huh? How ‘bout this? Could everybody agree to kind of have their same spot back so everybody can catch a break? Come on. Let’s work together. Oh, he’s still fine. Come on. If you don’t go outside, I’m not gonna play, so let’s just do that ‘cause we need to take a break, it’s too hot. Let’s have fun. Doesn’t have to be all ti--uptight, okay? Let’s have fun.
[set break]
BC: Okay. Part two, yes, no?
The Time Has Come (Billy solo acoustic)
BC: This is a song called Stitch in Time.
A Stitch in Time (Billy acoustic / Spevack violin / Dippold mandolin)
BC: Thank you kindly. This is a song called Caroline, Yes.
Caroline, Yes (Billy acoustic / Spevack violin / Dippold mandolin)
BC: Now in the front row, we have my friend Monte here. Monte, raise your hand. Monte asked me before the show, “That possibly couldn’t be your song. It’s too good!”
Girl in crowd: (off mic) Nuh uh! You did not.
Monte: (off mic) You would be surprised what I say to him.
BC: That’s right. This next song...did anyone here see the last Pumpkins tour? Were you the ones booing or were you the ones clapping? Ohhh, what a tour it was. They’re still talking about it.
Guy in crowd: Play the Bowl, goddammit!
BC: I’m sorry?
Multiple people: Play the Bowl.
BC: Play the Bowl? Smoke a bowl, more like it. I’ve been doing some market research and I’ve noticed that Dave Matthews wears his guitar real high like this. And I figure between that and smoking a bowl, I’m gonna be back on the charts any second...just like Dave.
A Song for a Son (abandoned after 6 seconds)
BC: I hate the guitar...if you’ve noticed.
Guy in crowd: Smoke a bowl right here every year!
BC: Yeaahhh. Jerry Garcia Junior, ladies and gentlemen, in the back. He’s the one driving the VW bus.
Another guy in crowd: Billy, thank you for coming (voice cracking) tonight!
BC: (high pitched) Thank you.
Another guy in crowd: Play whatever you want!
BC: Thank you. I’m going to play whatever I want. Okay, here we go.
A Song for a Son (Billy acoustic / Spevack violin / Dippold mandolin)
BC: Thank you. Let’s bring the rock and roll band back up. Let’s move this acoustic guitar...there we go.
The Trip
Astral Planes
Femme Fatale
Lucifer Sam
BC: Thank you very much everybody! Thank you very much, hope you had a good time.
[encore break]
Long Haired Lady
BC: Thank you very much, thank you! Mike Byrne on the drums. You guys were great, thank you very much, I hope you had a good time.