The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-10-20
| October 20, 2000 – Ghent, BE | |
|---|---|
| Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins | |
| The Sacred and Profane tour | |
| Date | October 20, 2000 |
| Venue | Flanders Expo |
| Coordinates | 51°1′34″N 3°41′41″E |
| Location | Ghent, BE |
| Venue type | Arena |
| Capacity | 13,000 |
| Personnel | Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur, Mike Garson, Chris Holmes |
| Order of bands | The Smashing Pumpkins |
Setlist[edit | edit source]
- "Glass and the Ghost Children" (acoustic) [13:17]
- "Le Deux Machina" (tease)
- "Today" (acoustic)
- "Stand Inside Your Love" (acoustic)
- "Thirty-Three" (acoustic)
- "To Sheila" (acoustic)
- "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [9:32]
- (drum solo)
- "Glass' Theme"
- "The Everlasting Gaze"
- "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
- "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [4:58]
- "Speed Kills"
- "If There Is a God"
- "Cash Car Star"
- "Rock On" [David Essex] (tease) [3:29]
- "Heavy Metal Machine"
- "Disarm" (acoustic)
- "Tonight, Tonight"
- "Try, Try, Try"
- "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" [11:20]
Encore one[edit | edit source]
- "Fuck You"
- (blues jam)
- "Sunshine of Your Love" [Cream] (tease)
- "Ava Adore"
- "Batman Theme" [Hefti] (tease)
Encore two[edit | edit source]
- "1979" (acoustic)
Banter[edit | edit source]
Silent Machines Intro
Glass and the Ghost Children / Le Deux Machina (acoustic)
(BC spoken word before outro: And every night, she could have jewels. Upon which others have hung their dreams. She knew the meaning of all the questions. And all the answers were tucked away in letters and poems underneath her bed. The pressed roses and kisses. And graduation invitations, heh heh heh. But she knew this was the meaning of it all. (singing) And as she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her. As she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her. As she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her. As she counted the spiders, as they crawled.... (speaking) They wanted to get inside, see what’s goin’ on in there.)
Today (acoustic)
BC: Good evening.
Stand Inside Your Love (acoustic)
Thirty-three (acoustic)
To Sheila (acoustic)
Blue Skies Bring Tears
Glass’ Theme
> The Everlasting Gaze
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
and you might ask yourself
just what am i doing in this place?
you might ask yourself
am i really a member of the human disgrace?
and you might ask yourself
what do i feel if i have no feelings?
and you might ask yourself
what does this mean if it has no meaning?
letting the days go by
water flowing underground
into the blue again
water flowing underground
you might ask yourself
what the fuck do i want?
you might ask yourself
is this is all their fault?
you might ask yourself
what do i say to release [unintelligible]?
you might ask yourself
is there really gonna be a big surprise?
letting the days go by
water flowing underground
into the blue again
water flowing underground
whoa!
no!!
what the fuck do i want?
mysteries that feel unreal
sympathies all ready to return
i break my vial of beer
because i can have anything i want
yow!!!
wow!
go!
what the fuck do i want?
goodbye!
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, right about now, right about now, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen...we’re not gonna show you a white buffalo. We’re not gonna rain down armageddon upon your beautiful heads. We’re just gonna slither and slide around...with a simplicity of a name, rock and roll. Woo! Can I - can I feel you, yes, there you go.)
> Heavy Metal Machine
Disarm (acoustic)
> Tonight, Tonight
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. How is everybody doing tonight, how are you? ...
Iha: “Woooooooo!!! This shit is tore up! You played Disarm and Tonight, Tonight back to back! I love that!!” Sorry, we’ll keep playing.
BC: We’d now like to play for you our uh, lastest single, Try, Try, Try.
Try, Try, Try
> Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
BC: Thank you.
[encore break]
Fuck You
BC: (raspy) Thank you very much. (making fun of his rasp) Thank you very much, thank you very much. (normal) Thank you very much. That was a song called Fuck You. But I didn’t mean it! Thank you very much. (plays a blues lick) James, I’d now now - (speaks gibberish). In F sharp.
blues jam
Iha at 1:11: Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen. On the piano, on the piano, Mr. Mike Garson. On the crazy keyboards, crazy keyboards, Mr. Chris Holmes. On the bass guitar, all the way from Montreal, Miss Melissa Auf der Maur. Alright. Laying down that Kentucky groove, Mr. Badass himself on the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin! Makin’ that guitar talk and lead vocals, Mr. Billy Corgan! Yeah! Woo! (screams) You got it, you got it, you got it! I am Mr. James and I thank you very much.
BC: And in the John Travolta suit...he’s got the fever, it’s Saturday night, he’s feelin’ alright, he just got paid, Mr. James Iha! (Iha solos) Hey J, there you go.
> Ava Adore / Batman Theme
BC: Thank you very much.
[encore break]
BC: Thank you very much, thank you very much.
Iha: Thank you, thank you.
BC: Before we, uh, play our last song tonight, we’d like to say thank you very much to the Smashing Pumpkins fans, thank you.
Iha: We thank you all.
BC: Does anybody speak English? Okay. Couple of things, uh, sorry about the show in Brussels. I’m very sorry. Please forgive me...again. Second of all, um, since it is our last show in Belgium, we’d like to say that we’ll never forget that the first European country that actually liked our band was Belgium, so....
Iha: You rock.
BC: It of course only took the Germans five albums to understand the Smashing Pumpkins. Five albums for the Germans. Four for the Italians. Four for the French. Uh...three for the Portuguese, so thank you. And uh, this may sound like an odd request, but my great grandmother was from Belgium and so, um...if anybody knows who my family was, heh heh, I’d really like to meet them. I’m sure, yeah, heh! Oh there you are, you’re my relative! Well, I did hear that in Belgium, all the brothers and sisters have sex, so maybe we’re all related.
Iha: What is this?
BC: I heard in Belgium all the brothers and sisters have sex.
Iha: Ohhh...I do not know of this.
BC: You didn’t have sex with your brother?
Iha: Well...uh...no, I am from America.
BC: Oh. In America, you have sex with your cousins!
Iha: God bless America.
BC: (laughing) Yes, so thank you very much, uh, and uh, heh, please uh, family phone home. Um, goodbye.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
