The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-09-27

September 27, 2000 – Casalecchio di Reno, IT
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	September 27, 2000
Venue	PalaMalaguti
Coordinates	44°29′9″N 11°14′53″E
Location	Casalecchio di Reno, IT
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	8,278
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[edit | edit source]

"Daydream" (tease) (acoustic)
1. "Glass and the Ghost Children" (acoustic) [12:50]
2. "Le Deux Machina" (tease)
"Today" (acoustic)
"Stand Inside Your Love" (acoustic)
"Thirty-Three" (acoustic)
"To Sheila" (acoustic)
"Raindrops + Sunshowers" (acoustic)
1. (drum solo)
"Glass' Theme"
"The Everlasting Gaze"
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
"Dross"
"Speed Kills"
"If There Is a God"
"Cash Car Star"
"Rock On" [David Essex] (tease) [3:04]
"Heavy Metal Machine"
"Disarm" (acoustic)
"Tonight, Tonight"
"Try, Try, Try"
"Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" [5:17]
"Home"
"I of the Mourning"

Encore one[edit | edit source]

"Blank Page"
"Cherub Rock"
"Calling Dr. Love" [Kiss] (tease)
"1979" (acoustic)

Notes[edit | edit source]

First performance of "Home" since 1999-04-19

Banter[edit | edit source]

Daydream (tease) (acoustic)
> Glass and the Ghost Children / Le Deux Machina (acoustic)
(BC spoken word before outro: And every time she turned around, she saw their faces, their greed and the avarice. The dominance of a male culture that would not [3 unintelligible words]. He was her father everywhere she turned. She could betray no secret that she had kept up with her man. Wasted and plated on those years for someone to come along. Did it have to be a man? Yes was the answer, as the angel that spoke to her [unintelligible word]. (singing) As she counted the spiders as they crawled up inside her. (repeat 3x) (speaking) She did...but she didn’t care.)
> Today (abandoned quickly)
Today (acoustic)
Stand Inside Your Love (acoustic)
BC: Uhhh...hello!
Thirty-three (acoustic)
To Sheila (acoustic)
Raindrops + Sunshowers (acoustic)
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...I’m gonna ask you to put your hands in the air, wave ‘em around like you just don’t care. Are you ready? How you doin’ up there? Way up there. Where are you? There you are. There you go. You stand inside our love. Heh heh.)
> Heavy Metal Machine
Disarm (acoustic)
> Tonight, Tonight
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. Thank you very much, thank you, thank you, thank you. How's everybody doin'? Uh, qu’est-ce que, uh, what? Uh...how are you? We'd like to play our latest single. This is a song entitled Try, Try, Try.
Try, Try, Try
> Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Home
I of the Mourning
[encore break]
Blank Page
(BC over outro: Grazia, grazia.)
Cherub Rock
> Jam
BC: Shhh! shhh!
Iha: Thank you.
BC: James is going to speak. Shh shh!
Iha: I have something to tell you. You are a wonderful crowd, thank you. Yes. How is everybody over there doing, way up there, are you okay? We care about you, you are far away and I hope it still sounds good up there...in the back! Way in the back, yes, okay...over there? Over there, okay, still good. A quick introduction of the band. On the piano, keyboards...
Calling Dr. Love (tease - Billy plays intro)
Iha: ...nope, I guess we're gonna jam now.
BC: That was Calling Doctor Love.
Iha: Oh. On piano and keyboards, Mr. Mike Garson! All the way from Chicago, on keyboards, strings and strange sounds, Mr. Chris Holmes.
Holmes: (through vocoder) Thank you.
Iha: All the way from Montreal, a socialist, Miss Melissa Auf der Maur. She's playing with one foot tonight but she still carries on. On the--
BC: It’s in the Olympic tradition.
Iha: Yes, she is a survivor, Melissa.
BC: I think, uh - I think Canada won the gold in skeet shooting.
Iha: Ah, I like skeet. What are you saying? Okay. On the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin! Now where we going? Oh, they’ll fuckin’ get it. On vocals and guitar, Mr. Billy Corgan! I myself am James, we are happy to be here in Italy. Thank you.
BC: Before we play our last song we'd like to thank you for a wonderful concert, thank you very much for coming tonight. Please enjoy the bootleg T-shirts outside, and um...heh heh. Heh heh heh. And uh.... (cracks up) Don't make me quit the band right now. And uh, we'd like to say thank you to all the Smashing Pumpkins fans for ten amazing years.
Iha: We salute you, Italy, we salute you.
BC: And also, we've put out a new album, it’s free on the internet. It’s called Machina 2. Who knows about our free new album? Yes.
Iha: Eight people.
BC: Those of you who speak English, please translate in Italian.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
> Jam
Iha: Thank you, thank you. Drive safe. Have a nice time.