The Smashing Pumpkins 1999-04-21

April 21, 1999 – Phoenix, AZ, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Arising! tour
Date	April 21, 1999
Venue	Celebrity Theatre
Coordinates	33°27′16″N 112°0′53″W
Location	Phoenix, AZ, US
Venue type	Club
Capacity	2,651
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin
Order of bands	Queens of the Stone Age, The Smashing Pumpkins
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I Am One
Zero
Pug
BC: Thank you very much, thank you very much. It's very nice to be back out here in the desert.
La Dolly Vita
Wound
Blue Skies Bring Tears
BC: Thank you very much, thank you very much. We are the Smashing Pumpkins, we're very happy to be with you tonight, tonight, tonight. Like to say hello to the people, uh, off the - over here and over there. Sorry I don't look at you much, but uh, we know you're beautiful! We'd like to use this next song to introduce our new drummer to you, his name is...James! No, you're James. His name is Jimmy! Jimmy!
Cash Car Star
The Imploding Voice
Glass' Theme
Iha: Thank you very much, very much. I have to say, this is really weird playing in this semi-circle. I feel like a goldfish swimming about, rocking, swimming about, rocking. But anyways it's very nice to be here and uh, uh, is everybody having a reasonable time here? Alright. Alright, we're going to continue with a couple new songs, this will be from our forthcoming record in a million years, but these are some new songs, we hope you like ‘em.
Stand Inside Your Love
> Glass and the Ghost Children
Dross
BC: Thank you very much, thank you, thank you, thank you. ... We'd like to ask you to indulge us for one more new song. This is called Shhh-peed Kills.
Speed Kills
Ava Adore
Today
[encore break]
Iha: Gracias, grazie, domo. Thank you very much, you guys have been really great. We, on the other hand...uh, we're okay. So we're gonna go back to another old record. This comes from our album Ten, it's called Jeremy.
Alive (tease)
> Smells Like Teen Spirit (tease)
Iha: Alright, what other alternative rock song do you wanna hear?
Celebrity Skin (tease)
Iha: I don't know any - we don't know any swing songs. Yeah, look at MY goddamn face.
D’arcy: Do you know the chorus?
BC: (singing) Hey, so glad you could make it, hey....
BC & D’arcy: (singing) When I wake up in my makeup....
Iha: My makeup.... Uh, alright.
D’arcy: It's too early for this - this ugly ass dress.
Iha: Do you want to hear a swing song?
BC: (singing) It's too early for that Vanity Fair shoot.
D’arcy: Hahaha, for that very too short dress. We're just kidding, we love them.
BC: Hey, we need a little bit of quiet at this moment, a little bit of quiet. Shhhh.
Quiet (tease)
BC: Don't know that one anymore, James.
Muzzle
Iha: Hello, I’d - I'd like to apologize, I lost my mind for a second there.
D’arcy: Actually that's not quite true, he had a moment of lucidity. It happens rarely, that means that he had his mind for a moment. Oh no, it's quite true. We're all mad here.
Soma
BC: God bless you people. God bless you, thank you. Thank you, goodnight, thank you.
Iha: Thanks, thanks, thanks.
BC: Thank you so much.
[encore break]
If There is a God (Billy solo acoustic)
With Every Light (acoustic)
BC: Thank you. Thanks a lot.
[encore break]
Iha: (high pitched) You know what, Phoenix? My eyes were burnt by your hot sun! I have no other recourse but to rock!
BC: Wait wait. We have to embarrass Yelena first.
Iha: (high pitched) Yelena, are you ready to rock? She's right there, audience go get her!
BC: Heh heh heh.
Iha: No, I’m kidding, I’m kidding.
BC: No, not that type of embarrassment. It's her birthday in about two hours.
Iha: We're gonna go back to our second album.
BC: James!
Happy Birthday (tease)
Iha: Oh ho! Jesus christ.
BC: Birthday, you remember?
Iha: It's somebody's birthday here tonight and uh...it's this guy's birthday too.
BC: We wanna sing happy birthday to you.
Iha: And Yelena!
BC: Let this guy, uh, let this guy come stand here, alright.
D’arcy: How do we know that it's really his birthday, shouldn't somebody check his ID?
Iha: Yeah.
BC: Heh, yeah we don't have time, gotta keep -
D’arcy: I mean it could be everybody's birthday.
BC: Gotta keep the show moving, gotta keep the show moving. Yeah, it’s your birthday.
D’arcy: He's just the right liar.
Iha: Alright.
BC: No no, stay right there! Alright, stay! - don’t get too close.
D’arcy: Wait wait wait. How old are you?
Iha: How old are you?
Guy in audience: 18 - 19 in one hour!
Iha: What?
D’arcy: No.
BC: 19 tomorrow.
Guy: In an hour, I’ll be 19.
BC: Okay.
D’arcy: 19 in one hour.
Iha: Alright.
BC: What's your name?
Guy: Monty!
BC: Monty?
D’arcy: Monty?
Iha: The full monty.
BC: Alright, let's make a deal with Monty.
D’arcy: Monty? Monty.
BC: Okay, we're gonna sing Happy Birthday to Monty and Yelena.
D’arcy: Monty, good luck to you, 19 was a baaaad year for me.
BC: Ready? One, two, three...
Happy Birthday (Billy and audience sing, Iha plays along on guitar)
D’arcy: No wait, Yelena....
Iha: Alright.
D’arcy: Come on up, Yelena, it's your turn.
Iha: No. I don’t think she wants to come up.
D’arcy: Oh, what's the matter, you're dressed in your birthday suit.
Iha: We're gonna go back to our second album now. This one was produced by Shirley Manson of Garbage. It’s called Geek.
Geek U.S.A.
BC: Thank you, goodnight. Thank you, goodnight! Goodnight, thank you.
Iha: On this next one....
BC: Remember, just think the boss.
1979
BC: Yoinks.
D’arcy: You guys are super, thank you. And I especially like the girl in that pink Afro, yeah.

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