The Smashing Pumpkins 1993-10-18
| October 18, 1993 – San Francisco, CA, US | |
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| Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins | |
| Rock Invasion tour | |
| Date | October 18, 1993 |
| Venue | Warfield Theater |
| Coordinates | 37°46′58″N 122°24′37″W |
| Location | San Francisco, CA, US |
| Venue type | Club |
| Capacity | 2,250 |
| Personnel | Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin |
| Order of bands | Medicine, Richard McGee, Shudder to Think, The Smashing Pumpkins |
Setlist[edit | edit source]
- "Rocket"
- "Geek U.S.A."
- "Today"
- "Disarm"
- "I Am One" (with rant) [6:09]
- "Spaceboy"
- "Quiet"
- "Hummer"
- "Soma"
- "Siva" [6:00]
- "Cherub Rock"
Encore[edit | edit source]
- "Drown" [6:59]
- "Silverfuck" [18:18]
- "Over the Rainbow" [Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg] (tease)
- "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key]
Banter[edit | edit source]
Rocket
BC: Alright, man.
Geek U.S.A.
Iha: Thanks.
BC: So um...yeah, you waited two years, I waited 26, fuck you. Just kidding. Heh heh! Alright, alright, I’m sorry, thank you.
Iha: Hey man, we missed you.
BC: No, we missed you, right, James, you missed ‘em?
Iha: There's been a empty hole in my heart for you...[2 unintelligible words, possibly “our drummer”].
BC: Anyway, wait, enough bull -– um, thank you, I hope you have fun, don't hurt each other, please.
Iha: Remember, pave the earth, eat red meat, drop acid.
Today
BC: (raspy) Thanks.
Disarm
> I Am One
(BC midsong: Hey, how you fuckers doing up there? I can’t see you but...I guess we can. All I ever wanted was to see. And all I ever wanted was to feel. And all I ever wished for was more wishes. And all I ever took, I came back more. And I am very negative, of this I am positive. ‘Cause all I ever wanted was everything. All I ever wanted was everything. So what you want is what you get: nothing. What you want is what you’ll get: nothing. So don’t ask a question if you don’t want an answer...er-er-er-er-er. And nothing can be taken from me that hasn’t already been taken. Nothing can be said about me that hasn’t already been said and there’s nothing you can throw at me that hasn’t already been thrown, yeah. Yeah. And there’s nothing that can be taken from me that hasn’t already been taken! There’s nothing that can be taken from me that hasn’t already been taken. And there’s nothing! Nothing. Nothing. Nothing! Nothing. Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!)
Spaceboy
Quiet
BC: Are you having fun? It's nice to play big places, but it seems so far away, you know, it’s.... Are you right there?, okay, I see you now, heh heh. (starts guitar feedback) This is called Hummer.
Hummer
Soma
(Siva intro begins)
BC: You can stop yelling now, it's okay. I hear ya. It's okay, I didn't get any attention at home either, it’s okay. We'd like to do an oldie but a baddie. Hope she likes it.
Siva
BC: Thanks.
Cherub Rock
BC: Thank you very much.
[encore break]
Iha: Why, thank you. Thank you, San Francisco, heh. Thank you, San Francisco.
BC: Heh heh, just shut it off, Laz, please, I can’t take it anymore. Thank you. Shhh, relax. Shhh. Thank you.
Iha: Just be groovy.
BC: Aren't you all on LSD? This is San Francisco, isn't it?
Iha: Hey, Jerry said it wasn't cool anymore to drop acid, so we couldn't. Not tonight.
Drown
> Silverfuck / Over the Rainbow / Star Spangled Banner
(BC after "bang bang, you're dead" bridge and 40 seconds of crowd shouting: Hey um, shouting stupid shit don't make you any smarter. Yeah, well, that's the kind of love I recognize, you know what I mean? That's the kind of love I've had all my life: the nice kind, the kind that's brutal and mean and calls you names, thanks, I appreciate it. Haha, stay out of this one...
Iha: Hahaha!
BC: ...just stay out. Haha. That's alright...that's alright. I'm getting old, I can handle it.
Jimmy: Truly amazing.
BC: Hey, put on all the lights, Laz, let me see everybody. See, all the nice people are in the back. Thank you, thanks for being so nice, thank you, love you all. It takes an aggressive mean person to wanna come up front, I understand. But you know what I got, you know what I got that you don't got?: I got rock power. In fact, the Smashing Pumpkins, we got rock power.
Iha: Rock power.
BC: That's right, goddammit, we got rock power. You want to see some rock power, hold on a second. I'll show you some rock power. (singing) Somewhere over the rainbow...)
(BC after final chorus: ...’cause I got the motherfuckin’ rock power!)
BC: I got the rock power, fucker.
