The Smashing Pumpkins 1993-07-28

July 28, 1993 – Chicago, IL, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Artist	The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	July 28, 1993
Venue	Metro
Coordinates	41°56′59″N 87°39′40″W
Location	Chicago, IL, US
Venue type	Club
Capacity	1,100
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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The July 28, 1993 performance was a secret show billed as "The Turnips". Tickets were $5 and available only at the door. It was the last performance before the start of the massive 190+ date Rock Invasion tour.

Setlist

1. "Cherub Rock" 
2. "Quiet" 
3. "Today" 
4. "Rocket" 
5. "I Am One" 
6. "Soma" 
7. "Bury Me" 
8. "Disarm" (abandoned) 
9. "Disarm" 
10. "Paranoid" [Black Sabbath] (tease) 
11. "Geek U.S.A." 
12. "Mayonaise" 
13. "Siva" [4:24] 
14. "Drown" [5:57] 
15. "Spaceboy" 
16. "Starla" [7:48] 
17. "Snail" 

Encore

18. "Under the Bridge" [Red Hot Chili Peppers] (tease) 
19. "Hummer" 
20. "Silverfuck" [10:35] 
    1. "Over the Rainbow" [Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg] (tease) 
    2. "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key] (tease) 

Notes

• First performance of "Silverfuck" with an "Over the Rainbow" tease

Banter

Iha: Thank you. Whoever is working the fog machine, you can turn it down now.
BC: Hi, we're the Turnips.
D’arcy: (raspy voiced) I wanna apologize if I'm boring tonight and I can't sing ‘cause I can't talk, it’s uh, really annoying but I’ll do my best, thanks.
BC: Yes, she's lost her voice, so there'll be none of that high, sweet singing.
D’arcy: [unintelligible].
BC: So are you ready? Are you ready ready? Are you super duper ready? Alright, but we're gonna kick your ass.
Iha: [unintelligible].
Cherub Rock
BC: I'm sorry, I'm having problems. ... Anyway. Hi. We're a little spaced out. This is called Quiet.
Quiet
Today
Iha: Thank you, thank you, thank you...for all our technical problems. Heh, the funny thing about technical problems is that uh, they tend to [unintelligible] and it’s quite shitty, so uh...at times like this, I like–-I recall when I was a boy and riding the bus up and down the street, thinking about a [unintelligible] at the time and...let’s move on to another song right now and uh, heh, maybe these problems will pass.
BC: So we're slightly disorganized and...we're not all burnt out but that's-–that’s the best thing you'll get out of us is we're not all fried and stupid. Heh, yes, long live the Turnips. So we're glad y’all got in. I hope you consider yourselves the chosen one thousand in a hundred, you know, just don’t kid yourselves. So, these are all new songs and uh...off that new album...so....
Iha: Ooh. Wha, wha. That’s her finer [unintelligible word].
Rocket
I Am One
Iha: Are you having a good time out there?
Soma
BC: So what do you wanna hear? ... Aw, that's so nice. Look, it's a little D'arcy. Whoever colored this is a genius. Heh heh. Whoever colored this, find us after the show and we'll give you free tickets. Oh wait, “colored by”, oh, I won't say your name but you have to come up and give this number and we'll give you free tickets. See, the Turnips can be bad.
Bury Me
(guitar tuning)
BC: I'm really disorganized, I'm sorry. I know we're now playing the tight, concise rock show but what the fuck, it's the Turnips, see? The Turnips can suck.
Iha: Yeah, that’s–-
BC: It’s okay!
Iha: That’s right, yeah.
BC: Alright, we’re trying really hard, I swear.
Disarm (abandoned before lyrics)
BC: Oh, don't catch him! Don't inspire idiotic, could-break-your-neck behavior. The last thing I want anyone doing is get hurt, you know? This is supposed to be fun, not like...deadly.
Disarm (abandoned after 9 seconds)
BC: Besides, the Turnips can't afford to pay for the–-that lawsuit.
Disarm (abandoned after 2 seconds)
BC: I’m gonna start the song about eight times.
Disarm
BC: Now, this guitar used to be owned by Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath.
D’arcy: This guitar used to be owned by someone a lot stronger than me and so--
Paranoid (tease - Iha plays the riff 3 times)
BC: See, you can hear it, you can hear it...it's the same guitar.
Iha: God, did I just play that?
BC: The guitar, it forces you to play it, it doesn’t--there's no choice.
Paranoid (tease - Iha plays the riff twice more)
BC: There he goes again. Alright, enough with the bullshit. Anyway...no, no, no. This is my heavy metal guitar, I got this from one of the guys in Slaughter.
Iha: I like it.
BC: Of course, I had to give him a blowjob for it but it was worth it, it's a great guitar!
Iha: Alright, let's rock!
(Jimmy starts Geek U.S.A. drums)
BC: Woo!
Geek U.S.A.
(BC during mid-song quiet part: Wow, it's a beautiful night...our guitars are out of tune.
Iha: Perhaps [2-3 unintelligible words].
BC: Maybe I’m getting so old. Goddamn, we can still rock, I think. Now, this is what you call a kill some time rant because D'arcy's bass is so completely out of tune that um, we're waiting for her to tune. So uh, we're gonna tune here for a second. Hey, why don’t you kick it down there, Jim? So um...yes, um, anyone wanna know any stories or..? What? No, it’s not true that I’m a woman, no. What? “The story about the band”, what the fuck? We're here, what story?! The rumors of our imminent demise are greatly exaggerated, here we are, see, Smashing Pumpkins. We’re alive, we still live in Chicago, we haven't run away...we're still a bunch of dickheads, you know, it’s like-–it's Chicago! You know, we still got bad rock journalists like the guy at the Sun-Times, he sucks. We still got bitter bands, but hey, here we are, where we started, Wednesday night at Metro. And um, we're lucky to have a Joe Shanahan here to make this all possible. ‘Cause he's the only one who’s done it right in this fuckin’ town. (to D’arcy) Are you in tune yet? Alright, we’re in tune, see, okay, now we're gonna pretend we started the song. (sings) In a dream, we are connected...)
Mayonaise
BC: So that was called Mayonaise. ...
Iha: Maybe god isn’t home, heh heh. Alright, our guitar is in tune. We’ll start down our rolling Chicago roots and um, play a few blues numbers, so....
BC: So, hope we’re not too late, just--we’re just kinda like figuring it out again. Hope you don’t mind...
Iha: I’m trying--
BC: ...it’s kind of an intimate gathering, so ‘cause intimate is a thousand people. Any constructive criticism? Heh! Now, only in regards to how the band plays, I cannot provide you water.
Iha: Well, they don’t like the lights or uh, heh, they don’t want the “Hello Jimmy” [unintelligible word] sign or...?
Siva
BC: Alright, somebody go get some big pails of water. And we'll treat you like pigs, if you want to be treated like pigs, we’ll toss water into the pit.
Drown
Spaceboy
Starla
> Snail
Iha: Thank you, bye! Well, thanks a lot.
[encore break]
Iha: What do you want? What do you want, I’m just trying to.... What? My socks? My friend, these are Gap socks, I can’t possibly give them to you. ... Alright, we will get to More Than a Feeling in a second.
BC: We would do Under the Bridge but James' voice is a little under the weather.
Under the Bridge (tease - Iha and Billy sing a few lines)
Iha: (singing) Sometimes I feel like I don’t need--
BC: Somebody said-–somebody said (laughing) “thank god”, thank god your voice is under....
Iha: (speaking) That's where I drew some blood, you know?
BC: (singing) Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner.
Iha: Under the bridge, that's where I drew some blood, you know, just fuckin’ lay on.
Hummer
BC: Well, shhh, shh, just one second, please.
Guy in crowd: Hey guys, Silverfuck!
BC: Shh, just wait, one second, just five seconds, let me say one thing. Okay? Shh, I just wanted to thank you for coming, that's all. We're vi–-we’re happy to finally have a new record out after two long years. Two long, fuckin’ years. And here's a song we've been playing for a year and a half, but it's a new song, see?
Iha: Now we must rock you
BC: Do you want to be rocked?
Iha: (to Billy) Show us your Freddie Mercury move.
BC: Don't boo Freddie Mercury, he's dead!
Iha: I'm not dissin’ him, I’m just–-it’s a power thing, you know.
BC: No no, no, them, they were booing you.
Iha: Oh, they’re–-how can you boo him?!
BC: Tell me, tell me it's not Jesus and Freddie right to the right hand. Jesus and Freddie, right hand. Mary over here, Freddie over here.
Silverfuck / Over the Rainbow / Star Spangled Banner
(Iha during quiet part before verse 2: I’d rock you like a hurricane.)

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