The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-04-13
| April 13, 2000 – Milwaukee, WI, US | |
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| Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins | |
| The Sacred and Profane tour | |
| Date | April 13, 2000 |
| Venue | Eagles Ballroom |
| Coordinates | 43°2′18″N 87°56′35″W |
| Location | Milwaukee, WI, US |
| Venue type | Club |
| Capacity | 3,500 |
| Personnel | Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur |
| Order of bands | The Smashing Pumpkins |
Setlist[edit | edit source]
- "Rock On" [David Essex] [7:55]
- "Heavy Metal Machine"
- "Age of Innocence"
- "Glass and the Ghost Children" [10:59]
- "Blew Away"
- "Stand Inside Your Love"
- "Tear"
- "I of the Mourning"
- "Le Deux Machina" (prerecorded)
- "To Sheila" (acoustic)
- "If There Is a God" (acoustic)
- "Disarm" (acoustic)
- "Ava Adore" (acoustic)
- "Mayonaise"
- "The Everlasting Gaze"
- "Pug"
- "Zero"
- "Today"
- "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
- "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [8:36]
Encore one[edit | edit source]
Encore two[edit | edit source]
- "1979" (acoustic)
- "I Can't Explain" [The Who] (tease)
- "Join Together" [The Who] (acoustic)
Notes[edit | edit source]
- "Perfect" and "Tonight, Tonight" were on the setlist after "Today" but not played
- "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" / "Once in a Lifetime" and "Cherub Rock" switched places from their positions on the setlist and when they were played during the show
- "With Every Light" was on the setlist but "1979" was played instead
Banter[edit | edit source]
Rock On
(BC after Iha solo: Hey wait, that was not a good guitar solo. These people, these people deserve a good guitar solo. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. James Iha.)
(BC during quiet part before outro: Long live rock and roll, long live rock and roll, long live rock and roll, long live rock and roll. You gotta get it while you can ‘cause it’s going fast, rock and roll, rock and roll. We all live in a Britney Spears world now, we’re just gonna have to get used to it. (crowd boos) Heh heh heh. No, I’m serious, it’s all Britney all the time, all Christina all the time. Shit, I mean, this concert’s being put on by the Backstreet Boys, I mean, that's how fucked up it is.)
> Heavy Metal Machine
Age of Innocence
Glass and the Ghost Children
BC: Thank you very much everybody, thank you. It’s great to see everybody here, again. I think the, uh, the second show we ever played as a band was in Milwaukee and, uh, it’s probably our 30th show, so we thank everyone for such long support for us, uh, thank you very much. I know I’ve introduced him once but he’s worth introducing twice. This next song is by Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
> Stand Inside Your Love
Tear
BC: Thank you.
I of the Mourning
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
BC: I don’t know if you can crowd surf to this part, but we’ll try.
If There is a God (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
> Disarm (acoustic)
Ava Adore (acoustic)
Mayonaise
The Everlasting Gaze
Pug
Zero
BC: Is that it? Are you rocked out, you want no more rock songs? Are we just too heavy for you? We hear this rap/rock thing is in so maybe we should do some of that.
(Jimmy starts beat)
Iha: These people want cheese appeal.
BC: James is working on a new song.
Iha: Yeah. Come on. Come on with me. We’re gonna do a big [unintelligible] next time. I don’t know what it is.
BC: Instead of that, DMX used to do “IHA.” I-H-A!
Iha: We’re gonna do a song called, uh, The Boxer Shorts Song. It’s a response to The Thong Song.
(drumbeat ends)
Today
BC: Thank you, thank you very much.
Iha: Okay.
BC: Melissa kindly requests that you all take a step back so nobody gets crushed. Take a step back. It’s not the early '90s anymore, you know, it’s a different world now, we’re all gonna step back.
Iha: Take a step back, take a step down, take [unintelligible]. How is everybody, is everybody okay? Is it a swirling mass of disgusting flesh out there? Okay.
BC: Is anything [unintelligible]?
Iha: Nope.
BC: [unintelligible], James.
Iha: There’s a fabulous song on Mellon Collie....
BC: I know what to do, I got it, I got it, alright, wait. Just tell a joke.
Iha: Uh. ... I’m trying to think of something witty but I don’t have a fucking thing to say. Is it miserable out there or are you rocking? (crowd cheers) Wow. We’re gonna do something friendly new with it that’s never been done in rock and roll today. I’m not sure what song that is.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
you might ask yourself
what do i feel if i don’t have any feelings?
you might ask yourself
why do i feel as if i hang from every seam?
you might ask yourself
why must i cry tears of milk? yeah
you might ask yourself
is what i am worth anything at all?
once in a lifetime
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 all my friends think my dad is gay?
you might ask yourself
if my dad is gay, does that mean i’m okay?
into the blue again
water flowing underground
letting the days go by
water flowing underground
why?!!
yow!!
it is i
across mouths of confusion
into a world of my evolution
now i know that i am human or at least my scroll tells me so
yeah!
wow!!
what the fuck?!
yo!!
dine on this, our god in heaven, our garden values upon thundering valleys upon hardened values upon the garden of [unintelligible word] [this entire line may be wrong]
we spit in the eyes of america, we spit in the eyes of america and we say “what the fuck is going on? what the fuck is goin’ on? what the fuck is goin’ on? what the fuck is goin’ on? what the fuck is goin’ on?”
into the eyes of america, (getting progressively quieter throughout rest of line) we peer deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper
shhh
what the fuck?!
why the fuck not?
let’s go home
(instrumental until 20 seconds of feedback, followed by 25 seconds of silence)
Iha: Thank you. Thank you. Heh heh, unbelievable.
(band goes back into instrumental of main riff)
[encore break]
Blank Page
> Cherub Rock
BC: God bless you people. God bless you. Thank you. Thanks for a great show. Thank you for a great show. Thank you so much, thank you.
[encore break]
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
Iha: Wow, heh.
BC: Well, gee. Um, we’d like to play one more song if you don’t mind. We’re sort of, uh, making it up as we go along and, uh, as usual. We’d like to do a song by one of our favorite bands, The Who.
I Can't Explain (tease - Iha plays first 6 chords)
BC: Uh, not that one, James. This is a song, uh, called, uh, Join Together. Please sing along.
Join Together (acoustic)
BC: Thank you. We are the Smashing Pumpkins. God bless you.
Iha: [unintelligible]. Drive safe. [unintelligible]. Good night.
