The Smashing Pumpkins 1994-08-10

August 10, 1994 – Raleigh, NC, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Rock Invasion tour
Date	August 10, 1994
Festival	Lollapalooza 1994
Venue	Walnut Creek Amphitheater
Coordinates	35°44′58″N 78°34′35″W
Location	Raleigh, NC, US
Venue type	Amphitheater
Capacity	20,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin, Eric Remschneider
Order of bands	Green Day, L7, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, A Tribe Called Quest, The Breeders, George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars, The Beastie Boys, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Cherub Rock" 
2. "Rocket" 
3. "Rhinoceros" 
4. "Quiet" 
5. "Geek U.S.A." 
6. "Mayonaise" 
7. "Siva" [5:17] 
8. "Disarm" 
9. "Today" 
10. "I Am One" (with rant) 
    1. "Zero" (tease) 
11. "Soma" 

Encore

12. "Hummer" 
13. "Porcelina" (live debut)
    1. "Silverfuck" [12:58] 
    2. "Over the Rainbow" [Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg] (tease) 
    3. "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key] (tease) 

Banter

Iha: Hiiiii, hiiiii, hiiiiiiiiiii. Ach!
Cherub Rock
(intro to Rocket begins)
BC: Good evening.
Iha: Ahhhh!
BC: We are Toad the Wet Sprocket.
> Rocket
BC: Thank you, good evening, hi, hello, howdy. Thank you for sticking around.
Rhinoceros (abandoned after a few seconds - guitar is out of tune)
BC: We're the sad band of the day.
Rhinoceros
> Quiet
Iha: Come on, kick that slow jam.
> Geek U.S.A.
(BC alt last line: I fuckin’ love the U.S.A.)
BC: Thank you. Laz, put on the lights for a second. Just wanted to say hi to everybody in the back or whatever. I hate these kind of places 'cause they're not very exciting, everyone just kind of stands and watches, but...that’s not your fault, whatever. I hope everybody's havin' a good time up there in uh, anarchy land.
(firecracker noise)
Iha: Heh. Well, that was a good one.
BC: Yeah. Yeah, make sure you throw fireworks at people, please, that’s really intelligent.
Iha: Remember to bring large amounts of firearms to a crowded place.
Mayonaise
BC: Thank you.
Siva
> Disarm
BC: Thank you, shh.
Today
> 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! Shit. Nothing can be taken from me that has not already been taken. Nothing can be taken from me that has not already been taken, aww. What you want is what you’ll get and that’s nothing. What you want is what you’ll get and that’s nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Nothing. ... Loneliness is emptiness and emptiness is cleanliness and cleanliness is next to godliness and godliness is nothingness! Nah. Yeah. This is the voice of America...speaking directly to your brain. ... What have you got? [tape cut])
Soma
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you everyone for staying, I know it’s been a very long, arduous day. So we're -- we're glad you stayed, heh. Cooled off. I know I woulda left a long time ago if I had gone to this concert, I woulda just gone “Oh man, am I tired, I’m gone.”
Hummer
> Porcelina
> Silverfuck / Over the Rainbow / Star Spangled Banner
Iha over feedback outro: Goodnight. (screaming along to Billy’s SSB tease) Oh say can you see, oh say can you see, oh say can you see by the dawn’s early light! Ahhhhhhh!!!! Oh say can you see, oh say can –- [unintelligible noise] can you see, wah wah wah wah wah wah, wah wah wah wah, wah wah wah wah, yeah, yeah, yeah, come on! Come on!! Yeah, fuckin’ play that fuckin’ bullshit funk, come on!!! Yeah!!! Yeah!!! Come on!!! Come on!!! Come on!!! Come on!!! Yeah!!! Fuckin’ play that shit, man! Ahhh!!! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!)

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