The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-01-15

January 15, 2000 – Lisbon, PT
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Europe 1999-2000 tour
Date	January 15, 2000
Venue	Coliseu dos Recreios
Coordinates	38°43′0″N 9°8′25″W
Location	Lisbon, PT
Venue type	Auditorium
Capacity	4,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Pale Scales" 
2. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
3. "Heavy Metal Machine" 
4. "Tonight, Tonight" 
5. "The Crying Tree of Mercury" 
6. "Main Title (Theme From Jaws)" [John Williams] (tease) 
7. "I of the Mourning" 
8. "I Am One" (with rant) [7:28] 
   1. "Tonight, Tonight" (tease) 
9. "Glass and the Ghost Children" [10:53] 
10. "Rock On" [David Essex] [6:12] 
11. "Zero" 
12. "To Sheila" 
13. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
14. "Ava Adore" 
15. "Cherub Rock" 

Encore one

16. "1979" (acoustic) 
17. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
18. "The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete" (acoustic) 

Encore two

19. "Glass' Theme" 
20. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 

Encore three

21. "X.Y.U." (with rant) [8:28] 
1. "We Love You" (tease) 
22. "We Love You" [8:36] 
    1. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" [Nirvana] (tease) 
    2. "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" [Backstreet Boys] (tease) 

Notes

• Arising version of "Blue Skies Bring Tears" is played over the PA after "We Love You"

Banter

Pale Scales
The Everlasting Gaze
> Heavy Metal Machine
Tonight, Tonight
> The Crying Tree of Mercury
BC: Obrigado. Good evening everyone. Good evening up there. We see you up there. Thank you all - thank you all very much for coming to see us tonight. It is a pleasure and an honor to be back here with you. I’m sorry that everyone is so far away, this is not my fault. I have no control. Um, like to introduce the band to you. On lead guitar...Jimi Hendrix! On the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. On the bass, Melissa Auf der Maur.
Main Title (Theme From Jaws) (tease - Melissa)
BC: She would be so good then if we - we started a song, heh heh. You know, like Sabbath, you know. And I’m, uh, Fred, thank you very much. We’d like to play a new song for you, this is called uh...uh...it’s from our new album, heh heh, it’s called uh.... It’s called I of the Mourning.
I of the Mourning
> I Am One / Tonight, Tonight
(BC midsong: Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, the impossible is possible tonight. Tonight we start a revolution. Tonight we drop the bomb. Tonight we throw down all the guns. Because in our war, in our war, there are no bullets. In our war, there are no rockets, there are no missiles, there are no soldiers. No blood...shed, no blood shed. So tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, let us penetrate your mind, let us peel back your ears, let us crawl inside your eyes, let us swim around inside your mouth, let us tickle your stomach, let us punch you in the back of the head. (screams) So you may ask yourself, you may ask yourself, you may ask yourself, how do we win a war with no bullets? How do we win a war with no soldiers? How, how, how, how? Well, the easy answer is I don’t know, heh heh heh heh, heh. Heh heh. But I’m not one to take the easy way out so I’ll try a tough answer. Whatever you believe in, whatever you believe in, whatever you believe in will come true. Whatever you believe in will come true, will come true. No more presidents. No more soldiers, no more dictators. No more nothins. What do we got? We got rock power, rock power, rock power, rock power. We are the machines. We speak this dream. We are the machine. We are the machines of gooooooood.)
> Glass and the Ghost Children
Rock On
> Zero
To Sheila
BC: Thank you very much, thank you, thank you. ...
Iha: Thank you, thank you. Thanks, how are you guys doing? Are you guys okay out there? Out there in the darkness, does everything sound okay? Feel okay? (screamed) Are you okay? Alright! (normal) I thought I’d make this like a rock concert...bust out for a second, okay. (screamed) Another rockin’ song! (normal) Thank you.
Stand Inside Your Love
Ava Adore
(Jimmy starts drum intro)
BC: (voice cracking throughout) Ladies and gentlemen of all ages! Ladies and gentlemen of all ages! El circus Americano, a dramaticus ruckus, is pleased to present to you, a Smashing Pumpkin production of Cherub Rock.
> Cherub Rock
Iha: Thanks.
BC: God bless you, god bless you, thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you, thank you, you guys have been really great. Thanks. This is the fun part of the show where Jimmy gets to...not play drums. I don’t know, we have these strange office chairs. Do you find that comfortable, Jimmy?
BC: Haha. These are really uncomfortable.
Iha: No, Jimmy’s got a bad back.
BC: I can’t [unintelligible] it, I’ll deal. Oh man, hahaha.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
BC: Don’t you dare. Hahahahaha. Don’t do it, James! Hahahaha.
Disarm (acoustic)
The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete (acoustic)
(BC over intro drums: I just can’t deal with the space tool, heh heh heh.)
BC: Thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you.
Glass’ Theme
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
(BC over ending: We are the Smashing Pumpkins!)
[encore break]
short jam where band plays along with crowd chanting
X.Y.U. / We Love You
she didn’t wanna be
she didn’t wanna know
they said she was crazy
but she was lazy

and i said
i wanna fill you up
i wanna break you
i wanna give you up
‘cause i’m your lover
and i’m your motherfuck
come to save you
‘cause you’re all mine

ow!
rat tat tat!

can you hear me?
and do you wanna hear me?
and do you love me?
will you be my baby?

‘Cause i said
i wanna fill you up
i wanna break you
i wanna shut you up
‘cause i’m your lover
and i’m your motherfuck
come to save you
‘cause you’re all mine!

pow!
a rat tat tat

we set the rocket light
we said that bucko, we are going to the moon tonight
we are reaching deep down for the motherfuckin’ right
(screams)

yeah
spiraling down

(song outro begins)

i may put on an angry face
i may loose up my boots real high [sic]
but inside this spider skin
i’ve got a big surprise
‘cause i’m a vampire
and i’ll suck your blood
look out!
‘Cause in my house, i make up all the rules
rule number one in my house: i know what the fuck’s going on
rule number two in my house: no cats allowed!
rule number three in my house: if you’re going to rock, it better be fuckin’ loud
and rule number four in my house: there are no motherfuckin’ rules
owwwwww!!!

(Billy solos)

alright, i’m sick of these blues
i’m sick of these blues
i’ve got no use for these blues
just make it go away, that’s it
let the rain come down, make these blues go away
that’s it, i cannot bear any more
i’m seeking a word, i’m seeking a word, i’m seeking a word that is not in the english language
i’m looking for a word to express what i feel in my heart
i’m looking for a word
soledad [“loneliness” in Portuguese]
that’s what i feel

BC: Alright! Alright, that’s it, that’s it. Enough of these – that’s it. That’s it. (song ends) That’s it, that’s the end of the concert, thank you! Thank you very much. We have nothing left to give to you. There’s nothing more that we can offer you! We’ve run out of ideas...and songs. There’s no more!!! ... That’s it, James, that’s it! Heh heh, that’s it. ... What’s that you say? What are you saying? You want more?! You want more??!! What? You want more? Are you sure you can handle more? But James has quit already, he doesn’t wanna play anymore, that’s it. Didn’t you see how tired he was? Come on, James, you gotta - heh, you heh, you gotta dig deep within you. Come on!
We Love You
BC: Alright. We’re gonna take you on one more trip. One more trip, one more trip doooooooown. I don’t know if you’ve heard the news lately but I’m evil. Heh heh heh. I’m evil! Me! Billy Corgan, I’m evil! No, I’m serious, I’m evil! Like this kind of evil. Heh heh, I’m not joking around. Alright, we’d now like to do a song for you that has no words, it has no title and you have to help us write this song as we go along. So we need everything you’ve got left, we’re going to give you everything we’ve got left. (long scream) That’s right. Alright.

we’re gonna have a real time
we’re gonna find our minds
in the junkpile of this world
that i can’t hardly describe
but i’ve got faith
and i’ve got myself
and sometimes i’ve got you
and that’s good as hell
(screams)

we love you
we love you
we love you
we love you

that’s right, we love you

there you go
hold on there, wildfoot

i reach for my desire
i reach real far
i may be a stupid american
but I’m trying
‘cause I’m a citizen of this world
and i like...all the boys and all the girls
because it’s just not good enough!
[unintelligible 2 words]
(screams)

we love you
we love you
we love you
oh, we love you

BC: Okay, hold on. (band gets quieter) Shhhh. Shh. Hold on, Wildfoot. Shh, hold on a sec, shhh. (band stops playing) Now, you may not know this but James’ real name is Wildfoot and uh, Wildfoot Iha. And uh, we need to show you what he’s all about. We wait 'til the end of the concert because if we put Wildfoot in the middle, there would be no way to follow Wildfoot and it would be the end of the concert. So seeing as this is the end of the concert, now it is time for Wildfoot. JC? (band starts again and Iha solos a little, then band stops again) Wildfoot needs absolute quiet to achieve his nirvana. Hold on!
> Smells Like Teen Spirit (tease - Iha plays about first six notes)
BC: You gotta know the fucking chords first, James!
Smells Like Teen Spirit (tease - Iha plays first two notes)
Iha: Oh, I forgot, this is a...this is a C guitar, so I can’t play that. Alright, how about...?
> Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) (tease)
Iha: (singing) Am I original?! Am I sexual?! (speaking) Who’s fuckin’ back? Uh, what’s - what’s the chorus? (Jimmy and Melissa start We Love You again) Um...trying to think of a Backstreet Boys song. Those fine young boys from America dropped yet another thing online. I can’t think of anything else to say. You people have been great. I wish you the best of luck. Like the prizefighter of old, I retire. What was my name again?
BC: Wildfoot.
Iha: Wildfoot. I wish you the best.
BC: No no, Wildfoot, we got one more in us. There’s one more to go. He’ll come back.

we’re gonna kiss the sun
we’re gonna have some fun
everything’s gonna be real cool
we’re gonna skip school
we’re not gonna listen to anybody who tells us what to do
we’re just gonna do what the fuck we want
we’re gonna say thank you
thank you
thank you

we love you
we love you
we love you
(screamed) i love you!

(song ends)

Iha: No really, thanks, goodnight. Uh, I think if we play any more, we’ll get worse and worse, thank you. Thanks everybody.
BC: Oh yeah! Um, by the way, we’ll be back later in the year for some more concerts.

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