The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-09-23

September 23, 2000 – Oberhausen, DE
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	September 23, 2000
Venue	Arena Oberhausen
Coordinates	51°29′24″N 6°52′19″E
Location	Oberhausen, DE
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	12,650
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur, Mike Garson, Chris Holmes
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Daydream" (tease) (acoustic) 
   1. "Glass and the Ghost Children" (acoustic) [12:43] 
   2. "Le Deux Machina" (tease) 
2. "Today" (acoustic) 
3. "Stand Inside Your Love" (acoustic) 
4. "Thirty-Three" (acoustic) 
5. "To Sheila" (acoustic) 
6. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [7:32] 
   1. (drum solo)
7. "Glass' Theme" 
8. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
9. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
10. "Dross" 
11. "Speed Kills" 
12. "If There Is a God" 
13. "Cash Car Star" 
14. "Rock On" [David Essex] (tease) [2:59] 
15. "Heavy Metal Machine" 
16. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
17. "Tonight, Tonight" 
18. "Try, Try, Try" 
19. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" [4:55] 
20. "I of the Mourning" 
21. "This Time" 

Encore

22. "1979" (acoustic) 
23. "Blew Away" (tease) 
24. "Cherub Rock" 

Banter

Daydream (tease)
> Glass and the Ghost Children / Le Deux Machina (acoustic)
Today (acoustic)
Stand Inside Your Love (acoustic)
BC: Thank you, thank you.
Thirty-three (acoustic)
To Sheila (acoustic)
Blue Skies Bring Tears
Glass’ Theme
> The Everlasting Gaze
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Dross
Speed Kills
If There is a God
> Cash Car Star
> Rock On (partial)
(BC after Iha intro: Right about now, right about now, right about now, like to take you way back. Back to a time before you were born. Yes, a time where rock and roll meant something, yes. You don’t remember but I do. Heh heh heh. How’s everybody doing? You alright? How you people over there doing, you doing alright? Zlatko will be out later to sing you a song. Zlatko, I don’t know who that is, but...look, there he is, right there, Zlatko! Heh heh.)
> Heavy Metal Machine
Disarm (acoustic)
> Tonight, Tonight
BC: Thank you very much, thank you, thank you. Cheers, thank you. Thank you very much for coming to our concert tonight. On our very last European tour ever, thank you very much for coming. We’d like to play for you our latest single. This is a song called, it’s in German, it’s called (German accent) Why Try. (normal) That’s a joke, that was a joke. Stupid American humor. If you don’t laugh, we’re not going to play. That’s a joke.
Try, Try, Try
> Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
I of the Mourning
This Time
BC: Thank you, goodnight.
[encore break]
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
BC: Thank you. Like to introduce the band. On raging piano, Mr. Mike Garson. On raising cain keyboard, Mr. Christopher Holmes. On the, um, Magnum, P.I. guitar, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away (tease - first 3 notes)
BC: Hahahaha. Aw. Feel like doin’ one? Okay. On the MacGyver bass, Ms. Melissa Auf der Maur. On the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Well, that’s good, heh. Hey, do you want that on that setting there? That doesn’t look right. It doesn’t work? Right. Tryin’ to help you out. And I’m uh, oh. Um, before we quit, before we play this last song, we like to say thank you to everybody for ten great years of support, thank you very much, Pumpkins fans.
Iha: Rock. Grazie.
BC: So we dedicate, uh, heh heh.... Hahahaha. I think that guy was in the Olympics. So we dedicate this last song to you, god bless you, thank you, goodnight.
Cherub Rock

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