The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-05-17

May 17, 2000 – Salt Lake City, UT, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	May 17, 2000
Venue	Saltair Pavilion
Coordinates	40°44′49″N 112°11′17″W
Location	Salt Lake City, UT, US
Venue type	Ballroom
Capacity	3,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Rock On
> The Everlasting Gaze
I of the Mourning
Blue Skies Bring Tears
> I Am One
(BC midsong: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, good evening, good evening, good evening and hello. We are the Smashing Pumpkins, thank you very much for coming to our concert tonight. We are the machines. We speak this dream. We are the machines. We are the machines of gooooooood. Gooooooood. Gooood. Gooooooooooo–!)
Snail
> Glass and the Ghost Children
BC: Thank you, thank you. Alright, it’s too hot to have a concert, right? Okay, um, let’s take a vote. No. Okay, all in favor of crowd surfing, raise your hand. Okay, all against crowd surfing, raise your hand. Alright. There’s too many people coming over and people are gonna get hurt, so if you crowd surf, we’re just gonna throw you out, so sorry. I don’t want to see anybody hurt. If you have to come out for legitimate reasons, I’ll help you out myself. It’s not 1991 anymore, you know what I mean? How’s everybody doing, is everybody alright? Cool.
Heavy Metal Machine
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
Muzzle (Billy solo acoustic)
BC: Thank you, thank you. I’d like to take a moment to introduce the band. We’ve had some changes you may not recognize, there’s some new faces. On the lead guitar, Sneaky Pete Molasses. On the bass, Creepy Mary Jane. And on the drums, Karl Malone.
Iha: [unintelligible.] (stoner/hippie voice) Aren’t you gonna tell ‘em your name, man? Just let the people know what your name is, like, your person. ... On lead vocals, Peace Dragon. Right on.
Try, Try, Try (acoustic)
Mayonaise
Fuck You
BC: Thank you. Heh heh heh.
Blew Away
> Stand Inside Your Love
Today
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
and you might ask yourself
just who is the bald guy on stage?
and you might ask yourself
just what does he think he knows about me and my life?
and you might ask yourself
what does this song mean if it has no meaning?
and you might ask yourself
what can you feel when you have no feelings?

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

you might ask yourself
who is god to me and what does he mean?
you might ask yourself
who is god to me and what does she mean?
you might ask yourself
is my love located at the bottom of the ocean?
you might ask yourself
if god could be here to know all the devotion

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

whoa!
go!
What the fuck?

time hath no enemies like truth
wisdom have no energies like youth
i walk the halls of the beast and now (gradually escalating to screaming) i refuse, i refuse, i refuse, i refuse, i refuse, i refuse, i refuse, i refuse!!

what!
(growl scream)
what the fuck?!

this is our time, this is our church
this is our world, yes
can you feel it?
can you feel it?
you look around and you say, what’s going on?
am i just a number in the internet world?
do my teachers know who i am?
do my parents know who i am?
do the bands know who i am?
or am i just another backstreet boy number?
that’s right
numbers are truth in this world
that’s right
we say yes, yes, yes to truth, yes to integrity, yes to heart, yes, yes, yes
we thank you for being part of our world, our lives
we thank you for this moment
we honor you and we say thank you
so please, with me: (escalating to screaming) yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yessss!!

yes!
that’s right!
i know i’m right
that’s right!

[encore break]
Iha: Thank you, thank you very much. How you guys doin’ up there, you okay? You know, right before this, I was - the secret mayor of Salt Lake took me to the copper mine and I went on the tour of the copper mine out back, you know? And I was like talkin’ to this gigantic brine shrimp. I don’t know if you’ve taken that tour yourself, but man, it was crazy. And there was all these gigantic brine flies that are flying and I’m trying to catch them. “Hey brine fly, let me catch ya.” And he just told me, “Let the music flow through you, you know what I’m sayin’?” And then, as a symbolic gesture, he touched me and it was a wound. Well, that’s the name of this song, it’s called Wound and it’s a musical odyssey like my odyssey in the.... I don’t think they like my story ‘cause they’re jealous ‘cause you didn’t get to go on the copper mine ride, man. I left you outside, I had to cut you loose. Damn straight I cut you loose.
BC: I spent - now, see, you don’t know, he doesn’t know this, but I spent the whole day consoling the Utah Jazz from their loss last night. They took their loss - that one point loss - pretty tough last night.
Iha: Yeah? Well, what about brine shrimp and shit, you know?
BC: Well, that’s what they were saying. If they had had a 6 foot 8 brine shrimp, that maybe they could’ve gone to the finals.
Iha: Yeah.
BC: Because there was just no stopping Rasheed Wallace except for a brine shrimp. A brine shrimp could’ve stopped Rasheed Wallace.
Iha: Yeah, you know, things like that need to happen, I don’t know what happened.
BC: And then maybe the ghost of Saltair could’ve guarded Scottie Pippen.
Iha: Yeah, hot hand, right, the other night. He shot a three pointer or something. Three shot brine shrimp. How many seconds were left? Seven? Can’t stop that.
BC: We’d now like to play a song for you called Brine Shrimp.
Wound
> Cherub Rock
[encore break]
BC: Thank you. Thank you. Hey, listen, I’ve got one of these digital camera thingies. And uh, I wanna take a picture of you for our website but please don’t move and don’t make any noise, okay? I’m serious! Don’t move and don’t make any noise. No no, you gotta - don’t even put your hands up, we want it to look like you’re having a bad time. Let’s just pretend you’re like in a movie, you’re gonna have a bad time. Look really sad and um, I’m serious. And you, girl with the big breasts, don’t put your shirt up again for the thousandth time. No no, no no, we don’t encourage nudity. Please look like you’re having a bad time.
Iha: Oh, they look miserable. I’d swear they’re having a bad time. Yes, they don’t like rock music. In fact, I think they hate music. I’m sure they own a few Chuck Mangione records somewhere. There’s a true music fan right there, giving us the finger. We like that kind of attitude in our fans. Oh, raise the roof. Come on, raise the roof, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, uh, raise the roof again, I guess. Yes. This is a crazy display of modern concert phenomenon. (screams) Thank you. Thank you very much. Hopefully you will see a part of that on our website.
How Many More Times (tease)
BC: These, these people are too young to understand your arcane Led Zeppelin references.
Iha: (screams)
BC: You know you’re gettin’ old, Iha, when the kids don’t understand anymore. Speak to them in their own language.
Iha: Well, I just got a Texas Instruments computer the other day with 64 memory. That’s pretty, uh, that’s pretty modern of me.
BC: These people are into Will Smith and stuff like that. They watch those movies that he makes, the - where he always wins in the end, you know, the aliens or the wild west aliens attack. And he always and he wins and he’s always good looking in the end. That’s what they understand, speak to them in their own language.
Iha: Uh. Yo, um, wassup, um...I’m trying to keep it on the down low.
BC: Don’t you understand, all these people do is stay on the internet and have cyber sex and take synthetic drugs and fuck, okay? That’s what these people are into. We are behind the times, Iha, we are behind the times.
Iha: No, I’ve seen You’ve Got Mail, I know all about that e-mail thing. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, they e-mail each other all the time in this...nice movie. This nice couple meet - one’s owning a small bookstore and the other owns a corporate bookstore and apparently they have this loving relationship through the computer. Now, through the computer they do this. And they strike up some kind of bond and I think they’re rivals or enemies the whole movie and then at the end they find out who they are and then the corporation crushes the small little bookstore and I can’t TAKE IT! (knocks mic stand over)
Drown

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