The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-02-08

February 8, 2000 – Las Vegas, NV, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Resume the Pose tour
Date	February 8, 2000
Venue	Huntridge Theater
Coordinates	36°9′29″N 115°8′11″W
Location	Las Vegas, NV, US
Venue type	Club
Capacity	800
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Earlier the same day, the band signed autographs at the Virgin Megastore in Las Vegas.

Setlist[edit | edit source]

Encore one[edit | edit source]

"1979" (acoustic)
"Join Together" [The Who] (acoustic)

Encore two[edit | edit source]

"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
"Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] (tease) [5:42]
1. "Ava Adore" (tease)

Banter[edit | edit source]

Glass and the Ghost Children
Tonight, Tonight
Heavy Metal Machine
Zero
Blue Skies Bring Tears
I Am One
(BC midsong: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen of the planet Las Vegas. We have been sent to you from a faraway place called America. Because Las Vegas is so America, America needs to figure out how to be America like Las Vegas is America. Woo! How’s everybody doin’ tonight, is everybody alright? Is everybody all right? ... Alright. Down the merry, merry lane we should go, down, down, down, down, down, down. (screams) Thank you very much. All my life, my lover. We’re gonna live through an open door. What kind of life [unintelligible 2-3 words] lie? We are the machines, we speak your dreams, we are the machines. We lead the machines of goooooooooood.)
Rock On
(BC during Iha solo: Ladies and gentlemen, on the lead guitar, Siegfried and Roy.)
Pale Scales
> The Everlasting Gaze
BC: Thank you, thank you very much, thank you. Thank you everybody, thank you.
To Sheila
Iha: Hey. How's everybody doing? Are you guys rocking? Groovy.
I of the Mourning
BC: Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much, thank you very much, thank you very much, thank you very much. Fucker.
Iha: Why did you do that? Why did you do that? Next time you do that, I’ll -
BC: Oh, let him alone. Let him alone. Yeah, well, you know, there's a whole stage to aim at except at my fucking head.
Iha: Next time you do that, we will throw a Marshall amp on your head.
BC: See, it's the new me. The new me forgives him and tells him I love you, I'm sorry that you had to do something so stupid. The old me would have kicked your fucking ass. But it's a new millennium, Melissa, we're starting off anew. Ladies and gentlemen, on the bass guitar, Melissa Auf der Maur. On the lead guitar, Mr. James Iha. On the primal drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Ladies and gentlemen, heh heh heh.... (Jimmy begins Cherub Rock drum roll) Do not try this next song at home. This is Cherub Rock.
Cherub Rock
BC: Thank you, thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: Woo baby! Do you wanna dance? We're not known as a dance band much, but on this next number, you may find it in your - in yourselves to uh...I don't know, who's a famous Las Vegas dancer? You, you're a famous...? Alright, well, we go back a couple years on this one and we hope you will enjoy it as we enter our small acoustic phase.
BC: B-A minor.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
Join Together (acoustic)
BC: Thank you.
Iha: Thanks.
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you very much, thanks a lot. You guys have been rockin'. Vegas, city of chance! Uh, how does it sound out there, does it sound rockin'? We wanted to bring in some extra pyro and uh, we were gonna have these giant casino chips made, but they uh, it was gonna take too long to make. I was gonna have like a - the speakers were gonna be giant dice. But that didn't seem to uh, that cost a lot of money...ironically. Alright, back to the rock.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime (instrumental w/Ava Adore lyrics)
(BC towards end: Thank you very much. We are the Smashing Motherfuckers. Now that you’ve become the rock people, we also won money on casinos, yes. We’re lucky motherfuckers.)
Iha: Thanks.