The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-05-29
| May 29, 2000 – Seattle, WA, US | |
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| Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins | |
| The Sacred and Profane tour | |
| Date | May 29, 2000 |
| Venue | Paramount Theatre |
| Coordinates | 47°36′47″N 122°19′53″W |
| Location | Seattle, WA, US |
| Venue type | Theater |
| Capacity | 2,807 |
| Personnel | Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur |
| Order of bands | The Smashing Pumpkins |
Setlist[edit | edit source]
- "Age of Innocence"
- "Wound"
- "Pale Scales" (final performance)
- "The Everlasting Gaze"
- "Rock On" [David Essex] [4:22]
- "Glass and the Ghost Children" [10:38]
- "Tonight, Tonight"
- "Blew Away"
- "Stand Inside Your Love"
- "I of the Mourning"
- "Le Deux Machina" (prerecorded)
- "To Sheila" (acoustic)
- "Try, Try, Try" (acoustic)
- "1979" (acoustic)
- "Ava Adore" (acoustic)
- "Mayonaise"
- "Heavy Metal Machine"
- "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
- "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [8:15]
- "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [9:49]
Encore[edit | edit source]
Notes[edit | edit source]
- Last performance of "Wound" until 2008-01-30
- Billy attempts to introduce “Try, Try, Try” with the story of how the song was written, but stops when the crowd is chatty; he’ll eventually tell the story at the band’s VH1 Storytellers taping
- "Once in a Lifetime" is also abandoned due to general crowd apathy
Banter[edit | edit source]
Age of Innocence
Wound
Pale Scales
> The Everlasting Gaze
Rock On
> Glass and the Ghost Children
Tonight, Tonight
BC: Thank you. Hello, hello, hello. Thank you. Thanks everybody for coming tonight to our concert. I’d like to introduce the man to my left, which would be your right. Some of you know him for his prizewinning and Nobel winning work with cancer. Some of you know him as a best selling author. To me, he’s just a guy that I’ve known for 13 years, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
I of the Mourning
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
BC: Thank you. ... This next song I’d like to play for you...no, I can’t play that song, I’m sorry. I stopped playing that song before you were born. I can’t play any songs that you’re requesting before you were born...and I don’t mean literally, I mean spiritually. This next song I’d like to play for you, I don’t think it was the last song I wrote for the album but it was close damn near to it. I took a vacation - do you want me to just play?, I won’t talk. I’ll just play, never mind.
Try, Try, Try (Billy solo acoustic)
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
BC: Thank you. Okay...yes, okay. Yes. I would like to take a vote. I’d like to take a vote - you can’t vote ‘cause you’re not down here - I’d like to take a vote down here. Okay, all those in favor of crowd surfing, say yes. All those against crowd surfing, say no. Alright, the nos have it, no more crowd surfing please. When you start crowd surfing to 1979, you know that you’re really way off. If we were playing Even Flow or Jeremy’s Broken or something like that, then it would make sense. But 1979 is an anti-crowd surfing song if you actually listen to the words. And no, we’re breaking up, so we don’t care if you don’t like us anymore because we don’t let you crowd surf.
Iha: Uh, also, crowd surfing is not good for your back. If you have any back ailments, I believe the Surgeon General said no crowd surfing, so that’s what I’ve done. And take your vitamins and do your homework.
Ava Adore (acoustic)
Mayonaise
Heavy Metal Machine
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
and you might ask yourself
what does this song mean if it has no meaning?
and you might ask yourself
just what do i feel if i have no feelings?
and you might ask yourself
must i wear black every day?
and you might ask yourself
if i wear black, does that mean i’m gay?
once in a lifetime
water flowing underground
into the blue again
water flowing underground
owww! you might ask yourself
just who is that motherfuckin’ bald guy on stage think he is [sic]?
you might ask yourself
what does he know about me and my life and my problems and [2-3 unintelligible words]?
you might ask yourself
just how fuckin’ deep is the bottom of the ocean, huh?
you might ask yourself
why must i ask so many questions if i don’t have any answers?
once in a lifetime
water flowing underground
into the blue again
water flowing underground
whoa!
go!
what do I want?
halfway to nowhere, two steps dead, one step backwards
stuck in my head
(long scream)
whoa!
go!!
what the fuck?
(band stops for Billy's 2nd spoken word portion and does not play again)
BC: Poetry in motion, poetry in motion. Can you feel it? No? Don’t lie, heh heh heh. Can you feel it? No. I can’t, I can’t. Somewhere between sentimentalism and a lie, the truth and the sky. (one person clapping) Somewhere in there – no, I don’t mean applause. Thunder, thunder, yeah. (crowd yelling) That’s right. (crowd yelling) That’s right, that’s right.
Guy in crowd: [unintelligible word] knows it’s right!
BC: Hahahaha. Yes, yes...just say yes, yes! No? Only positive or negative: positive yes, negative no. Yes, no, yes, no, (screaming) yes, no, yessss! (normal voice) I like yes better too. Yes spelled backwards is sey, heh heh heh heh. Heh heh heh heh heh. And dog, dog spelled backwards is the Smashing Pumpkins. Can you feel it? No. Must be that new millennium’s got you down. So what do you want? What do you want? (crowd yelling) Oh, wait, wait wait, now this is – see, I’m hoping for this sort of artistic epiphany but all they want is water. Now see? That’s what it comes down to: water, more important than the rock. Water, rock, water, rock, okay. There’s your water. ... There. Now that you have water, can you feel it? Can you feel it? No, come on. Yes. We’ve gone in a big circle, yes.
(crowd chants for “Silverfuck”, so the band skips final coda for "Once in a Lifetime" and begins "Blue Skies Bring Tears")
Blue Skies Bring Tears
[encore break]
Raindrops + Sunshowers
BC: Thank you.
