The Smashing Pumpkins 1998-06-23

June 23, 1998 – Tokyo, JP
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Adore tour
Date	June 23, 1998
Venue	Nippon Budokan
Coordinates	35°41′36″N 139°45′0″E
Location	Tokyo, JP
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	14,471
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Kenny Aronoff, Mike Garson, Dan Morris, Stephen Hodges
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

Soundcheck

1. "I Want You to Want Me" [Cheap Trick] 

Set

1. "To Sheila" 
2. "Behold! the Night Mare" 
3. "Pug" 
4. "Tear" [8:49] 
5. "Once Upon a Time" 
6. "Ava Adore" 
7. "Annie-Dog" (live debut)
8. "Daphne Descends" 
9. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" [10:27] 
10. "Perfect" (acoustic) 
11. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 
12. (percussion solo)
    1. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" (tease) 
    2. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" [9:47] 
13. "Shame" [8:21] 
14. "For Martha" [12:46] 

Encore

15. "I Want You to Want Me" [Cheap Trick] (live debut)
16. "1979" 
    1. "I Want You to Want Me" [Cheap Trick] (tease) (live debut)
17. "Summertime" [George Gershwin] (tease) 
    1. "Blank Page" 

Notes

• "I Want You to Want Me" is played as a nod to Cheap Trick at Budokan

Banter

To Sheila
> Behold! The Night Mare
> Pug
Tear
Once Upon a Time
Crestfallen
> Ava Adore
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. I am D'arcy, it's very good to be here, thank you. Uhhh...(Aronoff begins count in for next song)...Daphne Descends.
Daphne Descends
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
BC: Domo arigato [unintelligible]. That’s all I really know how to say: domo, sayonara, [Japanese word sounding like “seemosain”] and uh...ohayo gozaimas. Heh heh heh heh. Hello to everybody upstairs there, heh. We send our kisses to you, (blows two kisses). (blows two more kisses) James is sick though, he cannot kiss you, he is sick. He has uh, some sort of virus, he can’t kiss you but he sends you his love.
Perfect (acoustic)
BC: By the way uh, sorry about your World Cup soccer team. They tried...but uh, hey, the U.S., (makes clicking noise), no good either. Heh heh heh heh. Maybe...the Smashing Pumpkins will play the Japanese soccer team for the World Cup. James is better than Ronaldo. That's it, that's the end of the concert, thank you. Sayonara, sayonara. Heh. Anyway, uh, we would like to dedicate this next song to all of you for coming to our concert tonight. We are forever in your...we are forever in your debt.
Tonight, Tonight (acoustic)
drum/percussion solo
> Where Boys Fear to Tread (tease)
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Shame
For Martha
D’arcy: Domo arigato.
[encore break]
D’arcy: [unintelligible] (don't go away?)
Iha: Arigato. Kin ki. Kin ki? Kin ki zaimas?
D’arcy: You know, this is a very special, special show for us because this, this venue and Japan together is legendary to us in the United States because it’s here and we've always wanted to play here and so now this is a special song for you.
BC: I want you to want me!
I Want You to Want Me
1979
(BC during short pause before final verse: I want you to want me!)
> Summertime (tease)
> Blank Page
BC: Thank you, god bless you, we love you.
D’arcy: [unintelligible].
Iha: Thanks a lot, thanks a lot everybody, take care.

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