The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-05-13
| May 13, 2000 – Houston, TX, US | |
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| Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins | |
| The Sacred and Profane tour | |
| Date | May 13, 2000 |
| Venue | Aerial Theater |
| Coordinates | 29°45′44″N 95°22′1″W |
| Location | Houston, TX, US |
| Venue type | Theater |
| Capacity | 3,000 |
| Personnel | Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur |
| Order of bands | The Smashing Pumpkins |
Setlist[edit | edit source]
- "I of the Mourning"
- "This Time"
- "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [8:12]
- "The Everlasting Gaze"
- "Heavy Metal Machine"
- "Blew Away"
- "Stand Inside Your Love"
- "Glass and the Ghost Children" [10:08]
- "Le Deux Machina" (prerecorded)
- "To Sheila" (acoustic)
- "If There Is a God" (acoustic)
- "Disarm" (acoustic)
- "Ava Adore" (acoustic)
- "Rock On" [David Essex] [7:11]
- "Zero"
- "Today"
- "Snail"
- "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
- "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [5:12]
Encore one[edit | edit source]
Encore two[edit | edit source]
- "I Am One" (with rant) [5:47]
Banter[edit | edit source]
I of the Mourning
This Time
Blue Skies Bring Tears
The Everlasting Gaze
Heavy Metal Machine
BC: Hola! Yeah.
Iha: Hola, hola.
BC: Hola, heh heh heh.
Iha: Hi. Hi!
BC: Buen-uh, how do you say “good evening?” Good evening! It’s nice to see everybody again. I don’t know any - I don’t know how many people watched the, uh, the Astros game today. You might’ve seen this man playing right field for the Houston Astros, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
Glass and the Ghost Children
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
If There is a God (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
> Disarm (acoustic)
Ava Adore (acoustic)
Rock On / And the Cradle Will Rock... / Everybody Wants Some!!
(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, long live, long live rock and roll. Rock and roll, rock and roll, rock and roll rock and roll rock and roll. Long live Britney Spears, long live the Backstreet Boys, long live Christina Aguilera, long live Celine Dion, long live Whitney Houston, long live Michael Bolton, long live...uh, crowd surfing, uh...yeah.)
> Zero
BC: Thank you, thank you. Heh heh heh, a ha! Oh ho ho ho.
Iha: Wouldn’t you say that was just a really fast version of that song? We couldn’t believe how fast it was ourselves. It was really, uh, we played it unbelievably fast and that’s funny to us, I don’t know.
Today
Snail
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
you might ask yourself
just who is that fucking guy on stage?
you might ask yourself
just what does he think he know about me and my life? yeah
you might ask yourself
he’s not as funny as he thinks he is
and you might ask yourself
but what he is is isn’t his, think about that [sic]
into the blue again
water flowing underground
letting the days go by
water flowing underground
you might ask yourself
what does this song mean if it has no meaning?
you might ask yourself
just what am i feeling if i have no feeling?
you might ask yourself
is truth really true at all?
you might ask yourself
if a tree dies in the forest, does anyone hear its call?
letting the days go by
water flowing underground
into the blue again
water flowing underground
woe!
am!
i!
just what am i?
exactly
and through my eyes, repeatedly
owwww!!!
what?!
ew!!
guh!!
in the eyes of america, we stare to the distance, we don’t care, your sons and daughters come to rape and pillage, take a lotta drugs and kill you!
your worst nightmare run amok, you cannot contain this bad luck
(screams)
woe!!
what the fuck?!
(untranscribable noise)
we say thank you, we say thank you, we say thank you, we say thank you
(screams), (screams), (screams)
whoa!!
ow!!!
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you, thank you.
Raindrops + Sunshowers
Mayonaise (abandoned - 3rd note of song is wrong and Iha's guitar is out of tune)
BC: Uhhh, yes, we’re a professional touring band but even us, we make mistakes, hold on please. Right now a very big man is throttling the man responsible for that. James doesn’t like to tune, if you know what I mean. Okay, heh heh heh. How’s everybody doing? (Billy laughing) Hey, does anyone remember the time I got hit with a shoe in the face? Wanna hear my side of the story? No? Uh, who votes yes? Who votes “I don’t want to hear your side of the story, I don’t give a fuck, you deserve to get hit with a shoe?” I see you and I’m going to kick your ass, you plaid motherfucker. You can’t hide, I saw you at a Pearl Jam show. It’s the - hey, look! - wait, it’s the kid from the Jeremy’s Spoken video, say hello. Okay, so you wanna hear my side of the story? Alright. Okay, first of all, how many people were actually at that show? Alright, so you’ll be willing to confirm my version of the story. So, okay now, this is what I’ve heard. I heard that it was -
Iha: Oh wait, I got it! (he’s been tuning his guitar in the background the whole time)
BC: Heh.
Iha: I got it. So we don’t have to hear the story, alright, let’s rock! No, go ahead, I’m sorry. I just wanted to let you know I -
BC: Well, you were there, you want me to tell the story or not?
Iha: Which, uh - the shoe in the face? There’s like at least a couple of the shoe in the face stories. Um, alright, I don’t know which one you’re talking about, go ahead.
BC: I’m talking about the infamous ‘93 or ‘94 Houston shoe in the face story.
Iha: Houston?
BC: Are you sure you wanna hear this story? I’ve waited many years to set the story straight.
Mayonaise (tease - first 6 notes)
BC: Is it, heh heh, do you think we should just play it, the song or...no? Alright, now, from what I’ve heard ‘cause I’ve talked to different people over the years, they said that we only played about two or three songs, I got hit in the shoe with the face and we quit. No! For the people who were at the show, am I, am I - that’s wrong, right? Yes? Yes, okay, thank you. We played, uh, we were - back then we only played about ten songs in a set and maybe one or two encores. We played nine songs, I got hit in the shoe, uh, face with the shoe in the ninth song. And it was the hardest I’ve ever been hit with a shoe and I got an immediate fat lip and I was so fuckin’ pissed and I was gonna kick whoever’s ass.... And of course the, um, the pussy who threw the shoe didn’t have the guts to actually admit it because of course it was a man because a woman wouldn’t ever do something so stupid. So I basically said, “Okay, who’s the tough guy? Who threw the shoe? And let me come kick your ass.” So of course - yeah right, it was you. I could tell you wouldn’t have the guts either. Anyway, heh heh heh.
Iha: Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
BC: Just kidding, joking, fun, joke, joke. Yes. It was probably during Mayonaise that I got hit with the shoe. So, we were almost done anyway so we stopped and I was very upset and I decided, “Fuck it, let’s not play anymore.” The audience, to their credit who was there, cheered for about 20 minutes straight. Which was very - which was very impressive, so we decided to go back on and we were gonna go ahead and play for another hour if that’s what it took and um, and all we said was, um, “Okay, we’ll play more, just don’t throw anything,” and then the first guitar chord, here comes a beer can over my head, so I said “Fuck you” and that was the end of the show. Now, from what I’ve heard and please tell me if this is true, there was a DJ here who was going around saying that I was a fucking pussy and uh, is that true? I am a pussy but I just wanna know. Huh? I can’t hear him but uh.... Anyway, from what I heard there was some DJ. If you’re out there DJ, you’re a fucking prick and a half. And I’ll kick your ass too. But anyway, I’m glad that we’ve now straightened up the shoe in the face story for all time.
Melissa: That’s how I met you. Small comment: the reason why I’m even standing on this stage is about nine years ago, that guy in a little club got hit by a bottle on his guitar and....
BC: No, it hit me in the arm too.
Melissa: Oh, the - okay, the arm and guitar and he pointed the guy out in the crowd, jumped off the stage to the neck, strangling this guy to the floor, that is how I met this man. I went up and I apologized for the city that I was in...
Iha: Wait, wait! Wait one minute.
Melissa: ...so the guy is not a pussy.
Iha: I got - I got hit in the face with a shoe once too! Alright, now I’m gonna talk about the time I got hit in the face with a shoe! Well, I’ll tell you, it hurt a lot, it caused a lot of pain and I’m still living today. I’m still carrying on the torch and this is called Mayonaise!
Mayonaise
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you, thank you. Alright! Give me a number, somebody. Throw out some numbers! (screamed) I can’t hear you! Four?! Five?! Three?! Six?! I Am One!
I Am One
(BC midsong: Alright, it’s time to take it a little old school. It’s time to reach way back. Time to set the time machine. Rrrrrrearrrr. Everybody’s waitin’ for a revolution, everybody’s waitin’ for a change, everybody’s sick of the way things are goin’, everybody’s talkin’ a bunch of shit and anybody – (tongue tied) uh luh luh luh luh – ain’t nobody doin’ anything, ain’t nobody doin’ anything. You gotta vote. You gotta hope. You gotta be remote. You gotta emote. Promote. Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. We affirm the positive. We have betrayed the negative. We have moooved on. We are the machines. We speak our dreams. We are the machines. We are the machines of goooooood. Of gooood. Of gooooooooood. Of (escalating to a scream) gooooooooooow!!)
Iha: Hey, thanks a lot. You guys are awesome, thank you. You rock, Texas, thank you. You guys are great. Drive safe. Thank you.
