The Smashing Pumpkins 2008-12-07
| December 7, 2008 – Chicago, IL, US | |
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| Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins | |
| 20th Anniversary tour | |
| Date | December 7, 2008 |
| Venue | Aragon Ballroom |
| Coordinates | 41°58′10″N 87°39′29″W |
| Location | Chicago, IL, US |
| Venue type | Ballroom |
| Capacity | 5,000 |
| Personnel | Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Ginger Pooley, Lisa Harriton, Kristopher Pooley, Gingger Shankar, Stephen Bradley, Gabrial McNair, Jesse Andersen |
| Order of bands | The Frogs, The Smashing Pumpkins |
Setlist[edit | edit source]
The Frogs set (relevant song only)[edit | edit source]
- "The Longing Goes Away" [The Frogs] (only performance)
Set[edit | edit source]
- (Intro) (prerecorded)
- "Tonight, Tonight"
- "Tarantula"
- "Stand Inside Your Love"
- "Mayonaise"
- "Today"
- "Gossamer" [15:29]
- "99 Floors" (acoustic)
- "Owata" (acoustic)
- "Soma"
- "Cherub Rock"
- "Zero"
- "Bodies"
- "United States" [12:45]
- "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key] (tease)
- "A Song for a Son"
- "Medellia of the Gray Skies" (acoustic) (final performance)
- "Communion" (acoustic) (final performance)
- "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
- "Superchrist"
- "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" [Pink Floyd] [18:36] (final performance)
Encore[edit | edit source]
Notes[edit | edit source]
- "The Longing Goes Away" performed by The Frogs, with Billy Corgan on drums
- "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" with Jesse Andersen (Billy's half-brother) on tambourine, slide whistle, kettle drums and bird whistle
- "Ava Adore", "1979" and "Disarm" with Jesse Andersen on tambourine
- Last performance of "Mayonaise" until 2012-09-22
- Last performance of "Superchrist" until 2019-05-30
Banter[edit | edit source]
2008 Intro
Tonight, Tonight
> Tarantula
> Stand Inside Your Love
Mayonaise
Today
(BC immediately after lyrics finish: Thank you very much everybody, welcome to the show!)
Gossamer
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. (testing harmonica, then has trouble adjusting his harmonica holder) Does anyone know how to use this thing?
99 Floors (acoustic)
Owata (acoustic)
Soma
BC: Thank you, thank you! How is everybody, you okay? Are you okay? No? She’s not okay. Heh heh. You doin’ alright up there? Yeaaah. Heh heh heh heh. (coughs) Alright. You feeling good? Feelin’ good? Alright. ‘Cause if you weren’t feeling good, we’d stop the show and figure out what was wrong. You know I’m good at that, heh heh heh heh.
Cherub Rock
> Zero
> Bodies
United States / Star Spangled Banner
A Song for a Son
BC: Thank you, thank you. Thank you very much, Chicago, thank you very much. Yeah. That’s right. Funny how all those motherfuckers who said we couldn’t come back were wrong. (crowd cheers) Exactly. And by the way...by the way, now that we got our stuff together, I think we’re about ready to go after all those lame fucking bands again. You know the bands they pass off as alternative, remember those bands? (a few scattered boos) Exactly. Heh heh heh. Heh heh heh heh. Hey. I like this guy with the middle finger all show. This guy with the middle finger all show, aren’t you getting tired? You’ve had your middle finger up the whole show, now he’s got the evil hand, there you go. Turn that, haha, "fuck you" to an evil hand, there you go. Hahaha. God bless you. ... My point is we’re not dead, we’re not going away. We certainly ain’t livin’ in the past. So I hope you’re ready, I hope you’re ready. Heh heh, exactly. That’s right. So since we’re not gonna play too many old songs anymore after these shows...heh heh heh, yes. Yeah, I know, whatever. Um, I did want to play this old song. It’s one of my favorites -- now the guy with the middle finger again, I love it. You just tell me how the show’s going: evil hand, good, fuck you, bad, okay. Whenever a guy has a beard, there’s a problem, you know what I’m sayin’? It’s always the guys with the beards that write the mean reviews and the...blogging, heh heh. Anyway, this is a song off the, uh, Mellon Collie box set if any one of you have that. Whoever’s smoking all that weed, you’re making me really paranoid, hold on. I haven’t done, I haven’t done drugs in like eight years and there’s a lot of weed smoke coming this way, it’s like (gestures clouds of smoke around his head). Anyway, hope you like this one.
Medellia of the Grey Skies (Billy solo 12-string)
BC: Like to, uh, thank The Frogs for opening up. For getting it together. One of the great bands of all time. I believe that with my heart.
Communion (Billy solo acoustic)
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Superchrist
(BC at very end: Jimmy Chamberlin. Jimmy Chamberlin!)
> Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (with Jesse Andersen)
[encore break]
Jesse: Hey Chicago!
Ava Adore (with Jesse Andersen)
BC: That’s right, that’s right, that’s right! How’s it going, tambourine man?
Jesse: Hey Billy, what’s up?
BC: Heh heh heh. This is my brother right here.
1979 (with Jesse Andersen)
BC: Jimmy! (gestures for Jimmy to come to the front of the stage) Thank you very much, thank you. ... (to Jimmy) Oh, they’re cheering for you, haha. Thank you. ... We’d like to play one more song if that’s okay. Like to introduce the band to you. Mr. Jeff Schroeder on geetar. On the violin, straight from Carnegie Hall, Ms. Gingger Shankar. On the keys, Ms. Lisa Harriton. Heh. Heh heh. Do you need any introduction or...? Stephen on the horn. Gabrial on the other horn. On the other keys, Mr. Kris Pooley. Heh, I like when they get to you, they turn the lights off. Can we put the lights back on (laughing)? So we can see Kris? There you go. On the bass, Ms. Ginger Pooley. On the, uh, tambo, my little brother, Mr. Jesse Andersen.
Jesse: HRC rules, yeah!
BC: (off mic) What?
Jesse: (off mic) HRC, where I work. My adventures in Chicago.
BC: You’re giving a shoutout to your work? (Jesse shrugs and shakes his tambourine) Hahaha, you’re unbelievable. And on the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Okay, before we play this last song...big J.... Now this man here and me, we just lost our grandma this past week. Right?
Jesse: (off mic) Yeah yeah.
BC: So we’d like to dedicate this song to our grandma, Dorothy Hope.
Jesse: (off mic) Yes.
BC: Alright, let’s play this one for grandma, alright?
Disarm (acoustic) (with Jesse Andersen)