The Smashing Pumpkins 1994-08-01

August 1, 1994 – Philadelphia, PA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Rock Invasion tour
Date	August 1, 1994
Festival	Lollapalooza 1994
Venue	FDR Park
Coordinates	39°54′7″N 75°11′2″W
Location	Philadelphia, PA, US
Venue type	Park
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin, Eric Remschneider
Order of bands	Boredoms, L7, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, A Tribe Called Quest, The Breeders, George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars, The Beastie Boys, Courtney Love, The Smashing Pumpkins
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The band cedes some of their set time to Courtney Love, who performs two songs in her first public performance since the death of Kurt Cobain.

Full performance

Setlist[edit | edit source]

"Geek U.S.A."
"Rocket"
"Disarm"
"Quiet"
"I Am One" (with rant) [9:56]
1. "Zero" (tease)
"Soma"
"Today"
"Hummer"
"Siva" [4:37]

Encore[edit | edit source]

"Stay (I Missed You)" [Lisa Loeb] (tease)
"Cherub Rock"
"Silverfuck" [8:46]
1. "Over the Rainbow" [Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg] (tease)
"Starla" [8:32]
1. "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key] (tease)
2. (unknown) (tease)

Banter[edit | edit source]

Geek U.S.A.
(BC alt last line: I fuckin’ love the U.S.A.!)
(intro to Rocket begins)
BC: Hello, good evening. Welcome to planet sad! We're very happy to be your hosts for this evening.
Iha: We'd also like to thank the illustrious Courtney Love for her short set. We thank you, Courtney.
Rocket
Disarm
BC: Thank you. I just wanna –- I just wanted to thank you all for staying late for us. And I want to um, I wanna personally apologize to all the people who saw us the last time we were in town 'cause my voice was all fucked up and we sucked, so I'm very sorry. I hope you weren't mad. To those of you who weren't there, it was an awesome show, I’m sorry you missed it, but.... Is anybody out -– fuck, is anybody out there, hello?! (crowd cheers) Alright, that’s more like it. (starts Quiet)
Iha: You’re very nice.
Quiet
I Am One / Zero
(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. Shhh. What you want is what you'll get and that's nothing. What you want is what you'll get and that's nothing. Monkey see, monkey do. Nothing can be taken from me that has not already been taken. Nothing can be taken from me that has not already been taken! Nothing can be taken from me, nothing can be taken from me, nothing can be taken from me! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing. What have you got?! A name and a number. And a bunch of bills. Loneliness is emptiness, emptiness is cleanliness, cleanliness is godliness, godliness is next to nothingness, nothingness. Some people say that I am negative! Some people say I am negative and of this fact, I am positive. And what have you got? What do you need?! Where have you been, where are you going, what are you gonna do, what kinda hair you gonna have, what kinda clothes you gonna wear? Hopefully not sandals. Emptiness is loneliness, loneliness is cleanliness. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Everything is coming up zeros, everything is coming up zeros, there are no more heroes. There’s just a bunch of crowd surfin’ empty motherfuckers, man. See, our little culture right here is very indicative of life. Somebody thinks they’re cool, so they get up on top of your head so you can throw their ass around, just like life. But you know what? You ain't gotta take that shit, dump them motherfuckers on their heads, man. It ain't about culture, it ain't about Generation X, it ain't about shit. You wanna participate? Give a fuck. You wanna participate? Give a fuck. You wanna participate? Give two fucks! Everything's coming up zeros, there are no more heroes. That concept is dead. Oh, you're a hero? You're a hero? Yeah, okay. My heroes don't wear their baseball caps backwards. My heroes write pretty songs. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Nothing, what have you got?, nothing. You ain't got shit! You ain't got America. You ain't got MTV, you certainly ain't got god and you don’t have rock and roll. What do you believe in? What do you believe in? I believe in me. I believe in me. And you know what? If there is a god, god bless him or her, that's the way they would want it to be. Gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!!!)
Soma
Today
BC: Thank you. What do you want, you want water?
Iha: Please, someone from security, get him some water, we only have small glasses.
BC: What were they doing before, spraying you down by the fire department or what?
Iha: I will make a symbolic gesture, the one glass.
BC: Oh, you're so kind. I talked to a guy from the fire department before the –- we went on and he said he didn't give two fucks about you and there was no more water.
Iha: That was what he said.
BC: That's what he said! I know, fuck me too, I know. Alright, so I'm lying, I don't know shit about the water. Okay? This -– hello...
Iha: Someone get 'em some water before they kill us.
BC: ...listen people, we got a situation here. (stoner voice) Mr. water man, where are you, man? We need you...
Iha: Come out.
BC: (stoner voice) ...we need you right now, man. There's a serious problem, man, we need water right now. (normal voice) And listen, as I drink this, you drink it with me. ... Wow! I realize this is not a lot but this is all I have and please share. I’d like to play you a song about when we were in the military together, that's where we all met.
Iha: We all served--
BC: We were all in Desert Storm and uh, this is about our search for water, so I hope you’ll understand. That was a joke.
Hummer
BC: Fuck you, you commie pig. I am a citizen of America! What's the matter, scared to rock and roll? First get rid of that mustache, okay, and then talk to me. ... I don't trust any man with a mustache, I'm sorry, [2 unintelligible words].
Iha: What's going on out there? What's going on? Come on! I wanna hear something, I wanna hear that you're alive, come on, people! Come on, Philly!
BC: (screams three times)
Iha: God, it’s so loud, ugh, that’s just really extreme.
Siva
(BC during pause before final chorus: I just wanna get there faster. I just wanna get there faster. Stakes are high and so am I, it’s a free for all.)
Iha: Hey, thanks, you’ve been great.
[encore break]
Stay (tease)
Iha: (singing) You say...you only hear what you want to. You don’t listen, you don’t –- (speaking) you don’t, I don’t know.
BC: Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you...
Iha: No, thank you...
BC: ...thank you.
Iha: no, thank you.
BC: Laz, put on the lights! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Iha: Philadelphia, home of the cheesesteak, we salute you. Is everyone gonna eat a cheesesteak after the show or is that like something that happened a long time ago that no one talks about anymore? (Jimmy starts Cherub Rock)
BC: Don't listen to him.
Iha: Come on! Come on! I wanna hear!
Cherub Rock
Silverfuck / Over the Rainbow
BC: We have time for one more song. I hope you've had a good time today. Please be careful going home. Learn to love each other occasionally.
Iha: Eat a cheesesteak, eat a cheesesteak.
BC: James, just shut up now.
Iha: Hey, I'll talk about cheesesteaks if I want to, man. It's all about cheesesteaks.
Starla / Star Spangled Banner / unknown
BC: Thank you all very much, we appreciate it, thank you thank you thank you. See you in five years, five years we’ll be back, five years, new album, five years.