The Smashing Pumpkins 1994-08-28

August 28, 1994 – Mountain View, CA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Rock Invasion tour
Date	August 28, 1994
Festival	Lollapalooza 1994
Venue	Shoreline Amphitheatre
Coordinates	37°25′36″N 122°4′51″W
Location	Mountain View, CA, US
Venue type	Amphitheater
Capacity	22,500
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[edit | edit source]

"Quiet"
"Cherub Rock"
"Disarm"
"Rocket"
"I Am One" (with rant) [7:59]
1. "Zero" (tease)
"Soma"
"Geek U.S.A."
"Today"
"Spaceboy"
"Frail and Bedazzled"
"Plume"
"Siva" [4:35]
"Daydream"
"Starla" [7:44]
"Pissant"
1. "Fantastic Voyage" [Coolio] (tease)
(improv: "Concerto in C Minor")
1. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" [Jimi Hendrix] (tease)
2. "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" [Scott McKenzie] (tease)
3. "Purple Haze" [Jimi Hendrix] (tease)
4. "Fantastic Voyage" [Coolio] (tease)
5. unknown
6. "Iron Man" [Black Sabbath] (tease)
7. unknown
8. "Gin and Juice" [Snoop Dogg] (tease)

Notes[edit | edit source]

Due to an apathetic crowd, the band plays "a bunch of songs you don't know"
Last performance of "Daydream" until 2007-06-05
Last performance of "Plume" until 2012-10-02
Possibly the only electric performance of "Cherub Rock" beginning with guitar and no drumroll

Banter[edit | edit source]

Quiet
> Cherub Rock
BC: Hi, thank you. We're the Beastie Boys. We're very happy to be with you. (starts Disarm) This is a song from our new album called Siamese Dream, it's gonna be out in about a month.
Disarm
> Rocket
> 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! Nothing can be taken from me that hasn't already been taken. Nothing can be taken from me that has not already been taken...nothing! What you want is what you get and what you want is what you get and what you want is what you get and what you want is what you get. Hooeeee-yeah! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. It’s a crock of shit! It’s a crock of shit. Empty hands and empty minds and waggin’ tongues and blurry minds are shit, shit, shit shit shit shit, argh. Loneliness is emptiness and emptiness is cleanliness and cleanliness is next to godliness and godliness is next to nothingness! Aw yeah. Oh yeah! Rock and roll. Gimme gimme gimme some, gimme gimme some more nothing, nothing. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. What have you got?! Nothing. What do you need? Everything. What have you got? Nothing! Nothing but a name and a number. Gimme gimme gimme some more of your nothing. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Nothing! Nothing. Aw, it’s a bleak existence. It’s an empty heart. A shallow vessel! Which we must one day part. But as long as this blood runs to my veins, as long as there is soul in my heart. As long as it takes. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Gimme gimme gimme gimme more more nothing. A lifetime full of nothing! What do you believe in? Nothing! What have you got? Nothing. I don’t believe in god, I don’t believe in rock and roll, I don’t believe in America, I don’t believe in MTV, I don’t believe in TV, I don’t believe in...Ben and Jerry’s and cornflakes. But I believe in me! Me, me, M-E-E-E-E-E-E me! So gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing!!!)
Soma
BC: Why, thank you.
Iha: Thank you very much.
BC: I'd like to bring the concert to a complete standstill with this one, James, if you don't mind. ... Well, I’m just leaving some room for people to move down.
(Jimmy starts Geek U.S.A.)
Iha: Okay.
Geek U.S.A.
(BC alt last line: I fuckin’ love the U.S.A.)
(Billy starts Today)
Iha: This is an upbeat song, so....
Today
> Spaceboy
BC: Well, as you can see, an environment like this creates the best possible environment for a rock show. As 50 percent of you are sitting down and the other half of you are yawning, well, we’re really happy to be here to participate in this rock experience. For those of you who are fans of –- of our band, um.... (crowd cheers) Thank you, heh heh. For those of you who are fans of a band, uh, our band, this’ll be absolutely the last time you'll ever see us in an environment like this, ‘cause it's absolutely not conducive to a good rock concert, as you can tell. Thank you anyway. For those of you who don't care, well...sorry. Well, seeing as we're boring the fuck out of most of you, we're just gonna play a bunch of songs that you don't know. This is a unreleased song called Frail and Bedazzled.
Frail and Bedazzled
Iha: And here's another--
BC: Here's another song you don't know. It's called Plume.
Plume
BC: Thank you. Could someone tell me how much time we have left? We're not gonna -– we’re not gonna even bother to go off for encore, so if you're bored, go home; if you wanna stay with us, we’ll keep playing ‘til we can’t play anymore. We only have about five more shows to go, so we don’t--
Iha: Two oh.
BC: Huh?
Iha: Two oh.
BC: We have twenty minutes? Any requests?
Iha: But if you've taken acid, it might be 20 million light years.
BC: I don't know what this is, but if I knew it, we'd play it.
Iha: Hey man, they’re shoutin’ out for that. That Ace of Base sound, man, that’s what they want.
BC: We could play something off our first album or our second album or a B-side. First album? Second album? First album? I think the first album wins. After this tour, we're not going to play a lot of these old songs anymore, so...might as well get ‘em in.
Girl in crowd: Dolly Vita!
BC: No, we don't know how to play that song anymore.
Siva
Iha: ALRIIIIGHT!
BC: Thank you.
Daydream
BC: Thank you.
Starla
> Pissant / Fantastic Voyage
(Iha over drum solo: Interpretive dancing.
BC: So, good night, see you in a couple years.
Iha: Interpretive dancing.
BC: Thank you for your support.
D’arcy: And that's all, folks!
BC: Heh heh! (speaking) Come on, honey, let's go for a ride down where the crickets learn to sing and playyyy. Down where the crickets learn to sing and playyyy. (singing) Down where the crickets learn to sing and play.
Iha: Come on along on a fantastic voyage. Slide, slide, slippity-slide, when you're living in the city, it's do or die.
BC: I know what you're saying, brother.
Iha: Alright.)
Iha: [unintelligible gibberish]. Yeah. Yeah!
Voodoo Child (tease - riff several times)
Iha: I know what shit you're playing, man! You’re playin’ that wack San Francisco sound!
> San Francisco (tease)
Iha: If you're going to San Francisco, wear motherfucking flowers in your hair! If you’re goin’ to San Francisco, wear motherfuckin’ flowers in your motherfuckin’ hair! Yeah! Come on! Get up on your motherfuckin’ feet! Don’t just fuckin’ sit there! Get up, you fucks, come on! Don’t just stand there, do something! Do something!
> Purple Haze (tease - riff)
Iha: Yeah, play that wack Fillmore shit! That wack ass Fillmore sound! Come on, people! Get on the fuckin’ mission. We’re on a fuckin’ mission, you know what I’m sayin’?!
> Fantastic Voyage (tease)
Iha: Ride, ride, slippity-slide, when you’re livin’ in the city, it’s do or die! Come on! You don’t know nothin’ about runnin’ with a gang, ‘cause you don’t gang bang! You don’t have to stand on a corner and slang, ‘cause you got your own thang! You better make a left! Yeah, play that fuckin’...wack ass psychedelic shit! Come on!
> unknown (tease)
Iha: Yeah! Fuck yeah, come on! Come on! Fuck, I know that shit! D’arcy W. on the drums! Play that dope beat, ladies and gentlemen. Time to regulate, you know what I’m sayin’? It’s time to regulate! Pluckin’ a new thing. Time to regulate, you motherfuckers, come on!
Iron Man (tease - Eric)
Iha: Eric Remschneider on the wack cello, come on! Come on, you motherfuckers! He’s playin’ that Sabbath! (Billy solos over top) Yeah! A little bit of an Yngwie Malmsteen, come on, people. You know what I’m sayin’!
unknown (tease - Billy)
Gin and Juice (tease)
Iha: Got my mind, got my mind on my money! Got my money on my mind! Amy Finnerty in the house, come on out! Let’s do some interpretive dancing, Brooke, I wanna see you out here right now! Come on, get out on the fuckin’ stage while we kick this! You people, come on! Jump or do something! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump, you motherfuckers, jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump like you just don’t care, come on! I see you waving your hand, am I wack? Am I out of my fuckin’ mind? I’m tryin’ to get things done here on planet Earth, I’m fuckin’ busy as a beaver, you know what I’m sayin’? Yeah! a Satanic chant. Alright, let’s get this microphone out in the crowd to see what these people are up to. Can we do this biz? Yeah! Come on! Come on! Come on! Yeah! Yeah! YEEAAHH! Yeah! What’s goin’ on, my man? How you doin’, are you kickin’?
Kid in crowd: Come on come on come on come on!
Iha: Yeah, that’s right. How you doin’? Don’t nobody hurt anybody. Hi, how’s it goin’?
Different kid in crowd: It’s really goin’.
Iha: People of San Francisco, we're bringing it down, down to the seats, how's it going? Smashing Pumpkins are in the house, we gotta check out. It's been a great show, everyone. You got anything to say?
Girl in crowd: Hi.
Iha: Alright, and now, and now we return.
Kid in crowd: It was a great show tonight. Such a great show tonight.
Iha: I don’t know what you’re sayin’, that’s -– that’s baby talk. Alright. Fuck yeah. Let me get on your back! Come here! There we go. Come on, let me get on his back. Yeah! Yeah!
(60+ seconds of guitar feedback)
BC: That was um, our Concert -- a Concerto in C minor, I hope you enjoyed it. It’ll be on our new album entitled Tones for Deaf People, thank you very much.