The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-01-18

January 18, 2000 – Paris, FR
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Europe 1999-2000 tour
Date	January 18, 2000
Venue	Élysée Montmartre
Coordinates	48°52′59″N 2°20′36″E
Location	Paris, FR
Venue type	Club
Capacity	1,200
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist[edit | edit source]

Encore[edit | edit source]

"1979" (acoustic)

Banter[edit | edit source]

Glass and the Ghost Children
> Age of Innocence
Heavy Metal Machine
Zero (abandoned after 50 seconds - seems like Billy forgets to sing)
Zero (abandoned after 13 seconds - starts with main riff)
BC: No, that wasn't good. Let's start it again. No, from the top, just start it from the top.
Zero
Rock On
(BC during Iha solo: Charles de Gaulle on the lead guitar.)
To Sheila
BC: Thank you very much, thank you, thank you.
Iha: Bonjour. Ça va? Très show, oui? Uh, je suis fatigué, qu'est-ce que je suis bon American. Uh, I’m sorry, my French is horrible, but I tried, I really tried. I thought that by wearing white tonight, I would be really cool, but I'm really...hot, heh. Alright, uh, we're going to one of our old albums, it's an oldie but a goodie.
Tonight, Tonight
> I Am One
(BC midsong: Now let us speak, now let us dream, now let us breathe through you. Across the ages, across the beaches, across the [unintelligible word] light, across the imaginary line in my head. Tonight we speak of revolution, yeah. Tonight we dream of revolution, yeah. Ow! Inside your ears we speak, inside your eyes we creep, inside your mouth we come, inside your tummy we swim around. (Iha solo) I reach out, I drag in, I say my prayers, I give in, I submit, I submit, I submit, I submit, yow! YEAAAAH! Oh, but it falls on deaf ears, yes, you see, it falls on deaf ears, it’s clear to me, it falls on deaf ears for the throat cannot speak. We are the machines. We speak our dreams. We are the machine. We are the machines of gooooood.)
Blue Skies Bring Tears
Pale Scales
> The Everlasting Gaze
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
BC: Thank you very much, thank you, thank you, thank you. How is everybody doin’, you alright? Did anyone see us when we played here with the Buzzcocks in 1991? No really, who was there, come on. You were there? He’s lying. Well, that’s the end of the concert, thank you. Just kidding. Like to play you another new song, this is called I of the Mourning.
I of the Mourning
Cherub Rock
BC: God bless you, thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: Thanks a lot. You guys have been really great. C’est chouette. I would like to introduce...on the drums and now guitar, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. On vocals and geetar, Mr. Billy Corgan. And new to the bass, Miss Melissa.
Melissa: [French / includes “vive le France et merci”]
BC: What?
Iha: Wa?
BC: Oui.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
BC: Thank you. God bless you very much, thank you.

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