The Smashing Pumpkins 1994-03-23

March 23, 1994 – Normal, IL, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Rock Invasion tour
Date	March 23, 1994
Venue	Redbird Arena
Coordinates	40°30′38″N 88°59′56″W
Location	Normal, IL, US
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	10,500
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin
Order of bands	Red Red Meat, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Full performance

Setlist

Soundcheck

1. "Geek U.S.A." 
2. "Tristessa" 
3. "Siva" (tease) 
4. "Hummer" 
5. "How Many More Times" [Led Zeppelin] (tease) 
6. "Hello Kitty Kat" 
7. "Jellybelly" 
8. "Disarm" (heavy version) 
9. "Jackboot" 

Set

1. "Rocket" 
2. "Quiet" 
3. "Today" 
4. "Disarm" 
5. "Snail" 
6. "I Am One" (with rant) [6:48] 
7. "Cherub Rock" 
8. "Drown" [5:00] 
9. "Hummer" [5:50] 
10. "Geek U.S.A." 
11. "Soma" 
12. "Siva" [4:26] 

Encore one

12. "Starla" [7:50] 

Encore two

13. "Spaceboy" 
14. "Spaced" (tease) 
    1. "Suffer" (tease) 
    2. "Silverfuck" [17:14] 
    3. "Over the Rainbow" [Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg] (tease) 
    4. "Jackboot" 
15. "Sweet Sweet" [0:59] 

Notes

• Soundcheck incomplete

Banter

Iha: Good evening. We salute you, Normal.
D’arcy: Good evening.
Rocket
(feedback intro to Quiet begins)
BC: Welcome to the rock show!
> Quiet
BC: Hi.
Today
BC: Thank you.
Disarm
BC: Thanks. Shhh, you're too kind. Hello. Welcome. Hello!
Iha: (gibberish noises)
BC: Welcome, welcome to the first show of our new tour.
Iha: Fuckin' yeah.
BC: You'll uh, you'll be happy to know this’ll be only one that we'll remember. So, we would like to play you a song off our first record called Fish.
Iha: Aaah!
BC: It's called Snail.
Snail
I Am One
(BC midsong: All I ever wanted was everything. All I ever wanted was everything. All I ever wanted was everything and all I got was shit. Nothing can be taken from me that hasn't already been taken. Nothing can be taken from me that hasn't already been taken! There's nothing you can say that hasn't been said, nothing you can feel that hasn't been felt, no pain you can hurt that you have not hurt before. Hooo-ow! Hoooo-ow, hoooo-owww! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme. I'll testify! I testify. I bear witness. It was real. Oh yeah! Oh yeah. Cut the shit. Cut the shit. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! And there's nothing! Nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, there's nothing, nothing, there's nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing! Nothing! Nothing. Nothing. Oww!!)
Cherub Rock
BC: Now my shit's all fucked up. Pardon me, James will tell you a joke.
Iha: Alright, it's time for the human beat box! Come on! (beatboxing) Damn, kick a motherfuckin' dope ass jam for the fuckin' Normal, yeah! Yeah, motherfuckin' Normal!
BC: Ugh!
Iha: I’m, heh, I'm sorry, I just lost my mind for a....
BC: No one can hear what you're saying anyway.
Iha: I said, (high pitched) "Damn, yeah, kick a motherfuckin' jam, yeah!" (normal voice) And uh, this next song is uh, a song I'm sure you all know and love. It's an alternative classic, heh heh.
BC: This is an alternative classic?
Iha: This is uh, pre-Dream.
BC: Anyway, what I was gonna say is uh, thanks to you ten people who used to come see us at the Gallery. I would like to thank each and every one of you individually. I know all you people didn't come see us at the Gallery like four years ago. Oh, thanks.
Drown
> Hummer
Geek U.S.A.
(BC alt last line: I really love the U.S.A.!)
Soma
BC: Thank you very much for having us.
Iha: I found a Birkenstock. Here. Oh wait, you're going to throw it back at me.
BC: If there's anything we don't need, it's shoes, if you would dig my drift.
Siva
Iha: Hey, thanks.
BC: Thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you, Normal! Thanks a lot, but uh, it looks very hot and gross and sticky in the middle. Kinda like a...pancake that's been microwaved with a lot of syrup. I'm sorry, I apologize for my cryptic humor. Then again, you can't even tell what I'm saying so I might as well recite my Beowulf for them.
Starla
BC: Thank you, Bloomington/Normal!
[encore break]
Iha: (sings nonsense noises for a moment)
Spaceboy
Silverfuck / Over the Rainbow (with Spaced & Suffer teases in intro)
> Jackboot
> Sweet Sweet (Billy a cappella)
BC: Thanks a lot. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thanks, thanks. Hey, hey, all you people up there, thanks a lot too.

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