The Smashing Pumpkins 1994-09-04

September 4, 1994 – Carson, CA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Rock Invasion tour
Date	September 4, 1994
Festival	Lollapalooza 1994
Venue	Velodrome Field
Coordinates	33°51′52″N 118°15′40″W
Location	Carson, CA, US
Venue type	Arena
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. "Geek U.S.A." 
2. "Rocket" 
3. "Disarm" 
4. "Quiet" 
5. "Cherub Rock" 
6. "Drown" [5:14] 
7. "Hummer" 
8. "I Am One" (with rant) [8:08] 
   1. "Zero" (tease) 
   2. "Touch Me" [The Doors] (tease) 
9. "Today" 
10. "Soma" 

Encore

10. "Siva" [4:35] 
11. "Mayonaise" (abandoned) 
12. "Fantastic Voyage" [Coolio] (tease) 
13. "Mayonaise" 
14. "Spaced" (tease) 
    1. "Silverfuck" [10:45] 
    2. "Over the Rainbow" [Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg] (tease) 

Notes

• Last performance of "Quiet" until 2012-10-02

Banter

Iha: Good evening! Los Angeles, land of jaded people, we come to you to rock. Come on! You don't stop! Let me see some evil hands, evil hands!
Geek U.S.A.
(BC alt last line: I fuckin’ love the U.S.A.!)
(intro to Rocket begins)
BC: Good evening. Thank you very much for being here.
Rocket
> Disarm
> Quiet
Cherub Rock
BC: Thank you. Thank you very much. We are the Smashing Pumpkins. We only have uh, we only have two more shows, this one and tomorrow, and then we're gonna go away for a while. Heh, yay. Anyway, but thank you very much, thank you very much for your support in the past year. We really appreciate it very much. So we'd like to dedicate this song to all you fools who actually live in Los Angeles and Hollywood.
Iha: Oh, jaded Los Angeles.
BC: Everyone I talk to goes, "Yeah, you know, I hate living in L.A.," but they never move, so.... So to all you hopeless fools....
Drown
> Hummer
I Am One / Zero / Touch Me
(BC midsong: What you want is what you get and that’s nothing. What you want is what you get and that’s nothing! Nothing can be taken from me that has not already been taken. Nothing can be taken from me that has not already been taken! What you want is what you’ll get and that’s motherfuckin’ nothing! All I ever wanted was everything, all I ever wanted was everything, all I ever wanted was everything and all I got was shit! Gimme gimme gimme gimme some of your nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Hooooooo-yeah! Loneliness is emptiness and emptiness is cleanliness and cleanliness is godliness and godliness is next to nothingness. What have you got?! Nothing. What have you got? Nothing. Belief is an empty form of promise! Hope is another form of prayer. What have you got? What have you got? What have you got?! Nothing. Nooothing. Nothing! What have you got? What do you believe in? Nothing. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. (singing) Touch me, babe, and you’ll see that I am not afraid. What was that promise that you made? Why won’t you tell me what she said? What was that promise that you made? Now I’m gonna love you ‘til the heavens fall from the sky for you and I. (speaking) What have you got?! Nothing! What do you believe in? Nothing! I don’t believe in rock and roll, I don’t believe in TV, I don’t believe in motherfucking water! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Nothing! Nothing. Nothing!!!)
Today
Soma
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you. Oh, Los Ang-you-les. ...
BC: You want some water? Dear god, please rain. I already gave you all my water, so I don't know what you want. Aw, James, that was really nice of you.
Iha: A symbolic gesture on our part.
BC: Does anyone have a hose?
Iha: Does anyone have a hose to douse these beleaguered--
BC: Oh, Mr. Hose Man, please hose down these rabid idiots in the front.
Guy in crowd: Fuck the water, just play!
BC: “Fuck the water, just play.”
Iha: Are you ready to rock? Are you ready to rock, still?
Siva
BC: Thank you.
Iha: And now, a ballad.
Mayonaise (abandoned after 6-7 seconds)
BC: Stop, stop, stop. I just want to say...I just wanna say...that...
Iha: You’re crazy!
BC: ...one time, heh, no, shut up. Nah, I was, it was a beau –- I was in L.A., I was in L.A. doing something and it was a beautiful sunny day and I was driving this car...
Iha: Right on.
BC: ...heh, and Mayonaise came on the radio...
Iha: Wow.
BC: ...but of course they didn't play the uh, the big intro, they started it right when it got heavy. And I thought, well, okay, I can deal with that, you know, whatever. And then when it got to the guitar solo, they cut the guitar solo out!
Iha: What the fuck is that shit, man?
BC: What the fuck is that?!
Iha: What the –- what the fuck is up with that wack shit?! You know what I'm sayin’?
BC: That's the only reason we play songs is to play guitar solos!
D’arcy: So--
Iha: I'm on a fuckin’ mission! I'm on a fuckin’ mission.
D’arcy: So I don’t know if this is on but...we're just gonna play the intro and the guitar solo. And that's all.
BC: So next time, next time you hear one of our songs and it's chopped up, you call up that radio station and you tell ‘em they're fucking stupid.
Fantastic Voyage (tease)
Iha: If you can’t help me, you can’t help yourself, you better make a left. Get on a fantastic voyage.
BC: Alright, go ahead. Hit me with a power ballad.
Iha: (as if he can’t help himself and needs to finish) Ride, ride, slippity...slide. When you’re living in the city, it’s do or die.
Mayonaise
Silverfuck / Over the Rainbow (with Spaced tease in intro)

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