The Smashing Pumpkins 1996-05-06

May 6, 1996 – Paris, FR
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Infinite Sadness tour
Date	May 6, 1996
Venue	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
Coordinates	48°50′19″N 2°22′43″E
Location	Paris, FR
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	17,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jonathan Melvoin, Richard Patrick, Matt Walker
Order of bands	Filter, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Full performance

Setlist

1. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" (prerecorded) 
2. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" 
3. "Zero" 
4. "Fuck You" 
5. "To Forgive" 
6. "Tonight, Tonight" 
7. "Today" 
8. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" 
9. "By Starlight" 
10. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
11. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
12. "Cherub Rock" 
13. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 
    1. "Rocket" (tease) 

Encore one

14. "1979" 
15. "Firestarter" [The Prodigy] (tease) 
16. "X.Y.U." 

Encore two

17. "Mayonaise" 
18. "Muzzle" 

Encore three

19. "Bodies" 
20. "Silverfuck" [26:39] 
    1. "Space Jam" (tease) 
    2. "Dose" [Filter] (tease) 
21. "Farewell and Goodnight" (acoustic) 

Notes

• "Silverfuck" with Filter's Richard Patrick (vocals) and Matt Walker (drums)

Banter

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Intro
Where Boys Fear to Tread
> Zero
BC: Yeaah.
Fuck You
BC: Bonsoir.
To Forgive
Classical music tape
> Tonight, Tonight
> Today
BC: Thank you, hi! If you could turn on.... (Billy points at the light rig, the house lights over the arena floor go on and there's a big crowd cheer)
Iha: Hello, hi. Hi hi hi. Hey, they’re only in the monitors, man.
(Billy scoffs and kicks over his microphone stand)
Iha: That reminds me of a story, heh.
D’arcy: That was our best trick, so I hope you enjoyed that, that will be the high point of the evening.
Iha: C’est magnifique!
D’arcy: Merci beaucoup.
(Billy's roadie has now set his microphone stand back up, though the microphone isn't working)
Iha: Hey man, you’re gonna have to borrow this microphone.
(Billy repeatedly hits the microphone)
BC: (mic not working) I should just hit it again. Hello, is this thing on? (mic working now) Bonjour! BONJOUR!!
D'arcy: No, bonsoir, bonsoir!
Iha: Bonsoir!
D'arcy: Bonsoir.
BC: (growling noises)
D'arcy: Bonne nuit.
Iha: Bonsoir!
BC: (French accent) We are le Smashing Pumpkins.
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
> By Starlight
Iha: Merci. You are a very nice audience. Magnifique.
Disarm (acoustic)
Circus tape
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Cherub Rock
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
> Rocket (tease)
[encore break]
Iha: Merci. Ça va? Ça va bien. D'accord magnifique. ... Now, on this next song, I want you...to dance. Go crazy. Go crazy! I beg you.
1979
Chicago blues jam
Iha: We are from Chicago, so we got the Chicago blues.
Firestarter (tease - James vocals w/Jimmy drums)
Iha: I'm the firestarter! I'm the [unintelligible]! I'm the firestarter, I'm the firestarter, I'm the firestarter, I'm fuckin' crazy! And I'm crazy! AAAHHHH!!! Come on, you motherfuckers! Yes, I'm the firestarter. (Jimmy stops) Merci.
BC: Did you say you were the firestarter?
Firestarter (tease - James vocals w/Jimmy drums)
Iha: I'm the.... (laughing) I’m the firestarter! STOOOOOP!! Stop playing that fucking beat! You see, I would like to explain to you, I cannot help. I am tortured by the Prodigy. Whenever I hear this beat, I must sing the Firestarter. Even though I know none of the lyrics. I’m the firestarter! I’m the firestarter! Come on, you motherfuckers! Come on!!!! Oh, stop torturing me with the beat. (Jimmy stops) You see, I watch MTV incessantly.
BC: (pointing offstage) Hey, we have the guy from the Prodigy right over there, come here! [unintelligible as James talks over him]
Iha: I see the Proj -- he’s wearing a striped shirt.
BC: The Italian back there.
Firestarter (tease - Jimmy drums)
Iha: You’re s -- come on!
BC: Come here, you Eye-talian. Come on! Come on, you fucker. Come on.
Iha: You see, we--
BC: No, Geno, come on, Geno! No, you’re not the firestarter! You’re not the firestarter.
Iha: We have -- we have a guest firestarter. His name is Peter.
D’arcy: I think he is. I think he is.
Iha: He comes from America.
D'arcy: Do smoke--
Peter: I am the firestarter. Hear me breathe!
Iha: Speaketh ye into microphone.
BC: Hey, here comes the firestarter! Heh heh heh.
D’arcy: This is another firestarter.
(Geno Lenardo from Filter comes onstage for a moment, dances like Keith Flint in the Firestarter video, then leaves the stage)
Peter: Ba key! (?)
Firestarter (tease - drums)
Iha: Wait, don’t go.
Peter: I’m the firestarter.
BC: He’s the firestarter, you’re not the firestarter.
Peter: I am not the firestarter!
(Jimmy stops)
Iha: We apologize, we’re very sorry.
BC: What a surprise, I’m having technical difficulties, James.
Iha: Alright, heh. So....
(Jimmy playing drums again)
D’arcy: No. No! NEVER! (Jimmy stops)
(Billy testing guitar)
BC: Aaah.
D’arcy: What’s wrong, what’s wrong?
BC: Aaahhh. Rita Mitsouko? (D’arcy laughs) She's uh....
D’arcy: Where are they? They could fix it.
Iha: Well, at this time during technical difficulties, I’m reminded--
D’arcy: We apologize, it’s the fault of the firestarter.
Iha: This recalls my childhood. As a small child, I dreamed of...what? What are you chanting? You’re chanting like a sorcerer, what do you wish?
(Billy testing guitar)
D'arcy: What?
Iha: Hi--
BC: Alright, now we’re rockin’.
Iha: (laughing) Okay.
D'arcy: And now we freak out.
Iha: Alright, now we will rock.
BC: I’m the fuckin’ fire.
X.Y.U.
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you. You’re much too kind.
BC: Thank you very much. We appreciate you coming to the concert very much. I know you can’t understand a damn word I’m saying, but um...heh heh heh. Just kidding. Uhhhh, comme ci comme ça, um...wah ci, uh. Too toulours. Napoleon. Mayonnaise.
Mayonaise
BC: Hey Andy, can you put the lights on? Okay. I’m sick of playing this concert and not being able to see you, so I’m just gonna have them leave the lights on this whole song so we can see you, we wanna see you. We don’t get to come to Paris very often and we’d like to see you and to remember you. So I’d like to play a song...this one goes out to my best friend.
Muzzle
BC: Thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: Merci. Are you still with us? You are still with us, good. Are you having a reasonably good time? Okay, great. Well, I mean, I just wanna speak in relative terms, heh. I know it’s hot and sweaty out there and...you got people kicking you in the back of the head.
BC: You probably don’t know this, but uh, crowdsurfing and stagediving in America...extinct, gone.
Iha: Went out. Everybody dances now.
BC: It’s gone. Everyone just dances like this now.
Iha: We’re tryin’ to catch up to Europe.
BC: So, we all know that Europe is the world leader in style and culture. Haha, ha! Lights please, heh heh heh.
Iha: But...you are not open on Sunday with a 24-hour grocery store, how ‘bout that?
BC: And how about a shower with the doors that close all the way?
Iha: Yeah, how about that? We are kidding. We are making bad American jokes, but....
BC: Uh, they need a uh, a sept, a sept dix-un. A 7-11. Sept dix-neuf?
Iha: Ah yes, yes.
BC: Oh, you -- you came here to hear music? Ah. We thought we were like, you know, Jerry Lewis. Comedians.
Bodies
> Silverfuck / Space Jam / Dose (with Richard Patrick & Matt Walker)
and i hear your winter
and i hear your rain
and i gave my life away
and i feel no pain

and i hear what you want
and i feel that way
and i hear what you want
and i feel that way

yow!

and i hear you fade away
and i hear you crawl
and i gave my life away
and i feel no pain
and i feel no pain
and i feel no pain
and i feel no pain
i feel no pain (repeated many many times)

she was my lover
she was my angel
and what i recover
put into a box
underneath my bed
i put into a box
underneath my bed
i put her into a box
underneath my bed
sunday morning came
and this is what she said
you've got a long way to go
and always showed
and everybody knows
that you're just a piece of toast
you are nothin'
but a whore
and a lousy lay
but i still want more
i still want more
and i still want more
i still wanted more
i still wanted more

yow!!!

yow!!
yow!
[3 unintelligible words or noises]
heavy metal

baby my baby
why oh why
baby my baby
lost in the clouds

(Richard Patrick singing)

> Farewell and Goodnight
BC: Bonsoir, bonsoir.
Iha: Bonsoir. Bonne nuit. Goodnight, goodnight.
D’arcy: Bonne nuit. Merci beaucoup. Thank you. Thank you...very much.