The Smashing Pumpkins 2007-10-22

October 22, 2007 – Upper Darby Township, PA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Zeitgeist tour
Date	October 22, 2007
Venue	Tower Theater
Coordinates	39°57′40″N 75°15′32″W
Location	Upper Darby Township, PA, US
Venue type	Theater
Capacity	3,119
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Ginger Pooley, Lisa Harriton
Order of bands	Explosions in the Sky, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Before the show, Billy Corgan's friend Lou D'Angeli comes onstage unannounced and proceeds to antagonize the crowd for several minutes.

Setlist

1. "High School Cadets" [John Philip Sousa] (prerecorded) 
2. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" 
3. "Rocket" 
4. "Bleeding the Orchid" 
5. "Neverlost" 
6. "Today" 
7. "Starz" 
8. "Zero" 
9. "Glass and the Ghost Children" [12:31] 
10. "Lucky 13" 
    1. (unknown)
11. "That's the Way (My Love Is)" 
12. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
13. "For God and Country" (acoustic) 
14. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
15. "1979" (acoustic) 
16. "To Sheila" (acoustic) 
17. "Tonight, Tonight" 
18. "Tarantula" 
19. "Hummer" 
20. "Bring the Light" 
21. "Cherub Rock" 
22. "United States" [11:08] 
    1. "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key] (tease) 

Encore

23. "Heavy Metal Machine" (medley) [16:44] 
1. "White Rabbit" [Jefferson Airplane] (tease) 
2. "White Horse" [Laid Back] (tease) 
3. "On the Road Again" [Canned Heat] (tease) 
4. "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" [The Arrows] (tease) 

Notes

• Last performance of "Bleeding the Orchid" until 2010-06-30
• Last performance of "Starz" until 2013-04-29

Banter

Lou from ECW: Hey Philadelphia! You guys ready to rock and roll? Hey, let me ask you a question: do you guys like Britney Spears? (crowd boos) Well, how ‘bout, how ‘bout Ashlee Simpson? (crowd boos) How about.... How ‘bout the Smashing Pumpkins?! (crowd cheers) Well, I got news for you: I hate the Smashing Pumpkins. (crowd boos) I hate the Philadelphia Eagles (crowd boos), I hate the Philadelphia Phillies (crowd boos), I hate the Philadelphia Flyers (crowd boos), and I hate each and every one of you. See, I told Billy Corgan a long time ago, there’s no way you can sell four shows out in Philadelphia. Philadelphia won’t support you for four shows ‘cause Philadelphia’s full of sellouts. But nooooo, Billy Corgan and his big ego had to go ahead with a fourth show. So in this, in this great marketing scheme that he has, tomorrow night they’re gonna play an acoustic set--hey, hold on--and they’re gonna play an electric set. So I mean, are you people actually gonna come back tomorrow night to see the Smashing Pumpkins play an acoustic set and an electric set? See? See, that’s the problem. It’s because of all of you MORONS that the Smashing Pumpkins have a job in the first place. So I’m gonna save everybody a lot of trouble and I’m just gonna go ahead and cancel the show for tonight. So get up and get out of my building! Get up, get out, the show is over, the show is canceled. What? Are you guys gonna do something about it? You guys can’t do anything about it. Why are the house lights going off? Turn the lights on, the show is canceled. Show is canceled, cut the lights. Go ahead--and there’s no refunds, I’m stealing all your money. What’s happening here? What’s going on...I just, I just canceled the show. (intro tape starts) The Smash.... WHAT??!! (Lou wanders offstage)
High School Cadets Intro
Where Boys Fear to Tread
Rocket
Bleeding the Orchid
BC: Thank you, thank you. How’s everybody doing, you okay? Thank you very much for coming. Like to play a song...sir, I see your sign. You can put your sign down. Okay? This man’s been requesting a song for two shows. We don’t know how to play the song but he holds up the sign. Sir, you can put the sign down. Okay, we’d like to play a song from our recently released album Zeitgeist, this is a song called Neverlost.
Neverlost
Today
Starz
> Zero
Glass and the Ghost Children
Lucky 13 (w/extended outro)
BC: Thank you very much. Heh heh. Is everybody alright? ... How you doing up there, everybody okay up there? Alright. Like to dedicate this song up there, to you people up there, you rockers up there. This is a song called That’s the Way My Love Is.
That’s the Way
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
For God and Country (Billy solo acoustic)
Disarm (Billy acoustic w/Lisa)
BC: Thank you very much, thank you, thank you. Thank you very much for listening to my songs, I appreciate it from my heart, thank you, my heart. Tomorrow’s our last show here and, uh, we decided to, uh, since it’s our last show here, we’re gonna do a set tomorrow, we’re gonna play an acoustic set and an electric set, which we don’t do very often. And there’s some tickets left for tomorrow if any of you want to come out and see that. It’ll be much better than this show, I promise. Just kidding. And, uh, I just wanna say, the guy that came out before the band, he’s just a friend of mine. He’s from Philadelphia, he used to be in ECW, wrestling fans. Yes. If anyone remembers my time at ECW.... I once hit him with a guitar, actually two times. So, that’s my friend Lou and, uh, wanna thank him for coming out here, he was just playing with you, I hope you know, you know he was playing around. He’s actually a big Flyers fan, he won’t admit it, but.... So I’d like to dedicate this song to my very good friend Lou.
1979 (Billy solo acoustic)
To Sheila (acoustic)
Tonight, Tonight
Tarantula
Hummer
Bring the Light
BC: Philly, Philly, Philly. Did we lose you in our space journey? Have we lost you? Are you still with us? ... Heh heh, alright. You want more rock, we’ll give you more of our rock.
Cherub Rock
> United States / Star Spangled Banner
BC: Thank you, Philly.
[encore break]
Heavy Metal Machine / White Rabbit / White Horse
> On the Road Again
> I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll
(BC at beginning: Good people of Philadelphia, put your hands together one last time for the SP. Come on! Sing along with us if you dare. (sings) I love rock ‘n’ roll.... (a few rounds of call-and-response) (speaking) Hold on, hold you, hold on, ho.... Jimmy, we’ve been around the world together, brother. Round the world. I’ve heard people in other countries that don’t speak English sing our words louder than that. This is Philadelphia, right? That’s right. All that 1776 shit, right? Right here! Birth of the American ideal right here! Now when Joan Jett said “I love rock ‘n’ roll,” she was thinking of Philadelphia! “I love Philadelphia” didn’t sing as well as “I love rock and roll.” And you fuckers are gonna sing! (sings) I love rock ‘n’ roll...)
(BC at very end: Thank you very much, good night!)

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