The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-04-08

April 8, 2000 – Kansas City, KS, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	April 8, 2000
Venue	Memorial Hall
Coordinates	39°6′44″N 94°37′39″W
Location	Kansas City, KS, US
Venue type	Auditorium
Capacity	3,500
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. "Pug" 
5. "Glass and the Ghost Children" [10:43] 
6. "Blew Away" 
7. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
8. "This Time" 
9. "I of the Mourning" 
10. "Le Deux Machina" (prerecorded) 
11. "To Sheila" (acoustic) 
12. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
13. "Ava Adore" (acoustic) 
14. "Rock On" [David Essex] [6:55] 
    1. "And the Cradle Will Rock..." [Van Halen] (tease) 
    2. "Everybody Wants Some!!" [Van Halen] (tease) 
    3. "Cash Car Star" (tease) 
15. "Zero" 
16. "Today" 
17. "Perfect" 
18. "Tonight, Tonight" 
19. "Cherub Rock" 

Encore one

20. "Blank Page" 
21. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
22. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [5:00] 

Encore two

23. "Fuck You" 
24. "Mayonaise" 

Notes

• First performance of "Blew Away" since 1995-02-28
• First performance of "Mayonaise" since 1996-11-27
• First performance of "Fuck You" since 1997-02-05
• First performance of "Blank Page" since 1998-09-18
• First performance of "Perfect" since 1998-12-12

Banter

Pale Scales
> The Everlasting Gaze
> Heavy Metal Machine
Pug
Glass and the Ghost Children
BC: Thank you all very much, thank you all, very much. Not you. Thank you. I’d like to, uh, introduce my, uh, my original partner in crime, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
This Time
I of the Mourning
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
(Billy/Iha stop for 30 seconds in the middle when Billy's guitar breaks; there is a small amount of unintelligible banter)
BC: I’d like to introduce on the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin.
Disarm (acoustic)
Ava Adore (acoustic)
Rock On / And the Cradle Will Rock... / Everybody Wants Some!! / Cash Car Star
(BC over Iha solo: George Brett on the lead guitar.)
> Zero
BC: Thank you, thank you so very much, thank you everybody. Thank you all very much, thank you. It’s great to be here tonight with everybody. Thank you for making us feel very welcome on the first night of our, uh, our tour. Woo hoo. So we’d like to dedicate this song to all of you, this is a song I wrote when I was a little boy called Today.
Today
BC: Thanks everybody, thank you.
Perfect
> Tonight, Tonight
> Cherub Rock
BC: Thank you, K.C.
[encore break]
Blank Page
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
and you might ask yourself
what is the meaning of truth?
and you might ask yourself
why do i have these kansas city blues?
you might ask yourself
is my dad gay?
you might ask yourself
if i don’t feel good, why do i feel okay?

letting the days go by
water flowing underground
into the blue again
water flowing underground

you might ask yourself
who is that fucking guy on stage?
you might ask yourself
what does he know about me and my life?
you might ask yourself
why do my eyes cry milk?
you might ask yourself
what is wealth when i am poor?

letting the days go by
water flowing underground
into the blue again
water flowing underground

and we have not yet reached through what lies the lie
behind every family lies the lie
underneath everything into the eyes of a flawed generation

[unintelligible word that sounds like “eye”]

(song ends)

BC: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: Uh, thank you.
BC: Thanks a lot, you guys have been really great.
Iha: We appreciate you stayin’ out [unintelligible]. Now I’d like to make a quick introduction. On the bass guitar, Ms. Melissa Auf der Maur. Now, on guitars that break during the middle of songs, Mr. Billy Corgan. This next song, we go back for our golden era of Mellon Collie. I hope you like it.
Fuck You
BC: Thank you, heh. We haven’t played that one in a while, thank you, heh.
Mayonaise
BC: God bless you everybody, god bless you, thank you for a great show. Thanks a lot, thanks for having us.
Iha: Drive safe, [unintelligible].

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