The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-05-05

May 5, 2000 – Clearwater, FL, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	May 5, 2000
Venue	Ruth Eckerd Hall
Coordinates	27°58′34″N 82°42′17″W
Location	Clearwater, FL, US
Venue type	Concert hall
Capacity	2,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Glass and the Ghost Children" [11:51] 
2. "Age of Innocence" 
3. "Pale Scales" 
4. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
5. "Heavy Metal Machine" 
6. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [9:44] 
7. "Blew Away" 
8. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
9. "I of the Mourning" 
10. "Le Deux Machina" (prerecorded) 
11. "To Sheila" (acoustic) 
12. "If There Is a God" (acoustic) 
13. "Disarm" (abandoned) (acoustic) 
14. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
15. "Ava Adore" (acoustic) 
16. "Rock On" [David Essex] [7:40] 
    1. "Theme From Jaws" [Williams] (tease) 
17. "Zero" 
18. "Today" 
19. "Perfect" 
20. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
21. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [5:00] 
    1. "Search and Destroy" [The Stooges] (tease) 
    2. "We Love You" (tease) 

Encore

22. "Mayonaise" 

Notes

• A fan jumped on stage during "Rock On" and Billy Corgan chased her with a plastic lobster

Banter

Glass and the Ghost Children
> Age of Innocence
Pale Scales
> The Everlasting Gaze
Heavy Metal Machine
Blue Skies Bring Tears
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
I of the Mourning
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
If There is a God (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
BC: Good evening. ... No no, please...don’t stand, relax. Want everyone to relax, this is not a rock concert.
Disarm (acoustic)
Ava Adore (acoustic)
Rock On / Theme from Jaws
(Fan into mic during quiet part before outro: Woo!!! Fuck yeah!!!! Smashing Pumpkins!!! ... Woo! Billy Corgan! Billy - give it up for Billy Corgan, everybody! Give it up [unintelligible]! Give it up for James Iha! Give it up! Give it up for Jimmy Chamberlin! Give it up for Melissaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! ... Okay, we’re gonna sing a song. Let’s sing a song that I know. I’m in a dream here, I’m in a dream, this is the best band I’ve ever fucking heard in my life, man. Wooo!!! I’m a college girl and I’ve loved this band since the fuckin’ 5th grade, man. I’m a college girl! Woo!! Woooo!!)
Zero
Today
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. ... How’s everybody doing? ... Is this - we have some rowdy rich kids in the front, we’re not quite sure what they’re about. (crowd boos) Are you booing me or the rowdy rich kids? Rich kids? Or me - you booing me? I’m used to being booed so it’s okay. We’d like to do a song, um, off our Adore album, it’s called Perfect.
Perfect
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime / Search and Destroy / We Love You
you might ask yourself
just what is the meaning of this song
you might ask yourself
has this been a concert all along, huh?
you might ask yourself
what is he saying if he’s not really saying anything at all?
you might ask yourself
what do i feel if i have no feeling?

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

you might ask yourself
just who is that fucking guy on stage?
you might ask yourself
what does he know about me and my life?
you might ask yourself
are his tears real, is his heart black and cold?
you might ask yourself
can a man be made of cold and gold?

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

what?!
what the fuck?!
let go

forwards, backwards, spin too
let my poet's regrets be new
i am a missile set to destroy
i am the world’s forgotten boy

what?!
what the fuck?!

BC: Here we stand on the tippy toes of the moment of now. Crushing, crashing, destroying and spinning out of control. Gimme an A, gimme an M, gimme an E, gimme an R, gimme an I, gimme a K, gimme an A. What’s that spell? America. (screams) Yes. Yes, Mickey Mouse too. ... Thank you. (Billy plays the riff from We Love You once and Melissa follows) We always stop at this moment to sort of, uh, oh, hi. We stop at this moment to honor this moment because we are alive, we are breathing, we are experiencing. Even some cases enjoying and uh, loving, giving you love, receiving it. Passing it back. ... That’s cool, thanks.
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you, thank you very much. How are you guys doing out there?
BC: Uhhh...I got this letter from this lady, um, it’s her daughter’s birthday. Her name is Erin. Erin, where are you? Where art thou Erin? Oh, she left already. Oh, there’s Erin. Happy birthday Erin. Oh, sorry, it was from your dad, heh heh...Jerry Springer.
Mayonaise

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