The Smashing Pumpkins 1995-12-12

December 12, 1995 – Amsterdam, NL
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Artist	The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	December 12, 1995
Venue	Melkweg
Coordinates	52°21′53″N 4°52′53″E
Location	Amsterdam, NL
Venue type	Club
Capacity	2,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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During the band's June 11th, 2019 show in Amsterdam, Billy Corgan referred to this show as the one where "I ate all those hash cakes and I couldn’t play."

Interview and various live performance clips

Setlist

1. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 
2. "Jellybelly" 
3. "Zero" 
4. "Disarm" 
5. "Today" 
6. "Fuck You" 
7. "Emotional Rescue" [The Rolling Stones] (tease) 
   1. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" [U2] (tease) 
8. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" 
9. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" (live debut)
10. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
11. "Cherub Rock" 

Encore one

12. "X.Y.U." 

Encore two

13. "Geek U.S.A." 
14. "Silverfuck" [8:13] 

Banter

D’arcy: Hello.
Iha: Hello.
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
> Jellybelly
BC: Hel-lo!
Zero
Disarm
> Today
BC: Thank you.
D’arcy: What - what is the Max? What’s that neon sign in the back?: “The Max.”
Iha: To the max. Take everything to the max. See, I’ve gotten rid of my scarf.
D’arcy: No, it - it’s an advertisement.
Iha: Oh.
D’arcy: It’s in the back.
Iha: Well, it's great to be back in Amsterdam again.
Fuck You (abandoned after 4 seconds)
Iha: Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
Fuck You
Guy in crowd: Galapogos!
Iha: Brother, we don't know that one. Well, like I was saying, it's great to be back in Amsterdam, oh so great...and uh.... (trails off as Billy starts playing Emotional Rescue)
Emotional Rescue (tease - Billy and Jimmy jam)
> Sunday Bloody Sunday (tease - Iha starts playing the riff over the drums of the above and sings most of the first verse)
> Emotional Rescue (tease)
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
BC: Thank you very much for coming. We’d like to play another new song off our album, Teddy Jar and the Infinite Squids.
Where Boys Fear to Tread
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Cherub Rock
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you very much. You were very energetic when we started but um...I’ll just -
BC: Nope, nope.
Iha: Don’t? Heh.
BC: No. No, don't go there.
Iha: I, it’s, it’s just, I, I.... I'll just say that...the lights have dazzled us and so have the browns. But nevertheless we will rock in a second, hang on.
X.Y.U.
[encore break]
BC: Sor - sorry we don't talk much, you know, it’s uh...seems like every time we open our mouths, we get ourselves in trouble, so um, we’re just kind of playing music these days.
Iha: Someone told me an interesting Dutch phrase though. He told me to say it to you and he said you would understand. (heavy Dutch accent) Look out. (normal voice) Ah! Alright. This is the ride of the dark horsemen. Heh heh, come on!
BC: (Dutch accent) You do not love us anymore?
Iha: I want you people to show some fucking spirit! Come on! Get the fuck up, you motherfuckers! Come onnnnnnnn! (Jimmy starts Geek U.S.A.) Alright! Fuck yeah!
Geek U.S.A.
BC: We'd like to play one more song, thank you very much for coming. I think we're coming back pretty soon, like March or April, so....
D’arcy: This last song, this last song is called I think, uh, Amsterdam Blues.
Iha: I got them blues!
Silverfuck
(BC at 7:41: We appreciate you very much.)
D’arcy: Thank you, bye.