The Smashing Pumpkins 2010-09-21

September 21, 2010 – Houston, TX, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Rock 'n' Roll Party tour
Date	September 21, 2010
Venue	Warehouse Live
Coordinates	29°45′7″N 95°21′16″W
Location	Houston, TX, US
Venue type	Club
Capacity	1,500
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jeff Schroeder, Mike Byrne, Nicole Fiorentino
Order of bands	Bad City, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "My Love Is Winter" 
2. "A Song for a Son" 
3. "Astral Planes" 
4. "Ava Adore" 
5. "Today" 
6. "Drown" 
7. "As Rome Burns" 
8. "Eye" 
9. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
   1. "Bridge of Sighs" [Robin Trower] (tease) 
10. "United States" 
    1. "Black Sabbath" [Black Sabbath] (tease) 
    2. "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key] (tease) 
    3. "Moby Dick" [Led Zeppelin] (tease) 
    4. (drum solo)
11. "Bridge of Sighs" [Robin Trower] (tease) 
12. "La Grange" [ZZ Top] (tease) 
13. "Spangled" 
14. "Tom Tom" 
15. "Snail" (tease) 
16. "Cherub Rock" 
17. "That's the Way (My Love Is)" 
18. "Tonight, Tonight" 

Encore

19. "Freak" 
20. "Gossamer" 

Notes

• Josh Caddy, lead singer of opening band Bad City, is onstage during the banter after "United States"

Banter

(incomplete due to lack of full show source)

My Name Is Winter
A Song for a Son
Astral Planes
> Ava Adore
Today
BC: Thank you, thank you very much.
Drown
> As Rome Burns
Eye
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
(band stops for crowd to sing interlude acapella)
BC: (after 2nd line) Ah, boo, phooey. D’you know this song? It was Pearl Jam’s first hit, come on, you can sing it. (to Jeff) Did you know that? It was their first hit.
Jeff: No no no, I did not know that.
BC: Yeah, you gonna sing this with me? (crowd cheers) Yeah, okay, next song. (crowd boos) I don’t care what y’all think, alright? Alright, you gotta, come on, you gotta sing this one, just one song with me, sing this one song, is that so much to ask? I do your dishes, I pay your fuckin’ rent, you motherfucker, can’t you sing my song? Because I hang out with you, my mom doesn’t even talk to me anymore. Commitment. This is a song about commitment. Bet you didn’t know that, heh heh. Oh, I make myself laugh.
Jeff: Yeah.
BC: Actually, actually in a moment of pure honesty, when I wrote this song, I was talking about you, the audience, yes, you. The rat is me and you’re the fuckin’ cage, alright?
Bridge of Sighs (tease - Jeff)
BC: So would you cage people like to sing with this rat person? Does that make sense? Totally makes sense, okay. Are we gonna sing this together? Man, you guys are high or stoned or...I don’t know. That’s it, Jeff! I’m gonna teach you the song, just like it’s band practice, okay, here we go. First line is “Despite all my rage, I’m still just a rat in a cage,” ready?, altogether. (singing and playing guitar while crowd sings) Despite all my rage, I am still (stops playing guitar).... (speaking) Yep, no no no no no, you’re a little out of tune. One more time.
(song proceeds as normal from here)
United States / Black Sabbath / Star Spangled Banner / Moby Dick
BC: Thank you very much. Like to introduce the band to you, over here on the bass, Nicole Fiorentino. On the drums, Mikey Byrne. On guitar, Jeff Schroeder. And my name is Bum Phillips, head coach of the Houston Oilers! (crowd cheers) And with my great running back, Earl Campbell...we shall go far. Yeah, all the way to Nashville, ha! (crowd boos) Hahaha!, (Satanic voice) ur hur hur hur hur! (normal voice, pointing to Nicole) That’s a sports joke, you don’t know that one. (pointing to crowd) You know that joke though, right? (crowd cheers) Who here’s a football fan? (crowd cheers) What are you doin’ here at this alternative show? Don’t want anyone to think you’re weird or anything. How y’all doin’ tonight, you havin’ a good time? We’re havin’ a good time playing for you. What a pleasure to play for you tonight, thank you so much for comin’. Yeah. Ummm, I think that’s it, right, Jeff, that’s the end of the show, right? (crowd boos) Got a five star meal waiting on the bus, we gotta get outta here. It’s true.
Bridge of Sighs (tease - Jeff plays the intro)
BC: (to Jeff) You wanna play a little Hendrix, what do you wanna do?
Jeff: No no no, Robin Trower, Robin Trower.
BC: Oh, Robin Trower!
Bridge of Sighs (tease - Jeff plays intro again)
BC: Anything you wanna know? Now is your chance ‘cause I don’t wanna talk to you outside. I’m 29, thank you. Just turned 29 this year! (to Nicole) I’m a little younger than you. Just a scosh, heh heh. Actually, uh, I don’t have anything to say, I just wanna stand here and have the awkward moment with you.
Nicole: How ‘bout the Cherri Bomb?
BC: I’m sorry, honey?
Nicole: How ‘bout Cherri Bomb?
BC: Oh, let’s give Cherri a rou--Cherri Bomb a round of applause. They’re 29!
Nicole: No, they’re like 46.
BC: There’s like 29, 29, 30 and 31 or something. Yeah. I’m younger than them, that’s the crazy thing! You wouldn’t know it but I’m just a little younger than you. And uh, Bad City, Chicago’s own, rockin’ you hard tonight.
Jeff: Fuck yeah.
BC: I heard there were some nipples shown out here? Some shirts were taken off, who took their shirt off? (a few hands go up) You know what that means, right? You have to give Josh a blowjob later, the lead singer. That’s what Bad City does, they trick you and then next thing you know, you’re in a van somewhere...losing all dignity that you have left. I’ll tell you one thing! Hear my whole sentence now, hear my whole sentence. Part one: you don’t live in a very pretty city. (crowd gets upset) Part one! Hold on! The guy who’s giving me the finger, where’s the prettiness, buddy? Next to the Enron building or what? Where is the prettiness? You wanna go out to Crawford and hang out with the Bushes, what do you wanna do here? Not a pretty city, but...a city that always rocks hard, always. Maybe there’s a correlation, right? I come from a city that’s a little dirty, we rock hard. What’s the greatest band Houston has ever produced?
Multiple people in crowd: ZZ Top.
BC: Who? (holds up his hands in a rough triangle shape) What does this mean? L7? Jay-Z, what? (to Jeff) You know what they’re saying? (to crowd) Hold on, just be quiet one second, somebody up front tell me, what did it say? ZZ Top?! (crowd cheers) They’re from Houston? (Jeff shrugs)
La Grange (tease - Billy plays the riff quietly)
BC: (to Jeff) You wanna play it in A or G?
La Grange (tease - Billy starts riff in different key and the rest of the band joins in for another 20 seconds)
BC: (to Jeff) You know how to play Legs?
Jeff: I like that one better though.
BC: What do you know?
Jeff: I like it better than that song.
BC: You know Legs though?
Jeff: No, no.
BC: I used to play Pearl Necklace in a band when I was 18.
Jeff: Oh.
BC: ZZ Top. They had a song called Pearl Necklace...‘cause he loved her so much, he gave her a pearl necklace.
La Grange (tease - Billy starts again and rest of the band follows)
BC: (singing to La Grange) It’s not a pretty town / choke it on down / by the oil well by the Bushes. Howl howl howl howl / howl howl howl howl. (tease ends) (speaking) Hey, dude in the back giving me the finger...oh, now there’s two dudes givin’ it--now there’s three, four, five. Who wants to give me the finger now and just get it out the way? Alright, okay, we got about, what about 60, 70 people? You’re about the ten thousandth people to give me the finger and it ain’t stoppin’ me yet, so go fuck yourself, alright? Take a fuckin’ joke, buddy! Take a joke, come on, we’re havin’ a good time, you wanna have a good time? (crowd cheers) I mean, Jesus...Jesus H. Christ. Let’s have fun, the whole fucking world’s falling apart, can we have a good time for five fucking minutes? My god, you’re all giving Josh a blowjob in a van later, why can’t I have one too? Would you like to come out, Josh? Come out and say hi. (Josh comes on stage) Josh is single, ladies, he is single.
Josh: ("sexy" voice) Hello.
BC: Word on the street is you have a massive cock too, not that I know, but that’s the word on the street. It worked for Tommy Lee, he got a reality show out of it.
La Grange (tease - Billy starts the riff again and band follows)
Josh: Owwwwwww!! Strat!
(band stops)
BC: Alright, get the fuck off my stage, Josh. (Josh runs offstage)
Jeff: I think uh, Josh is from this town.
BC: Josh is from here?! You’re from El Paso?
Jeff: Oh, he was in a band from here.
BC: ZZ Top? This is my new song, it’s called Spangled, it’s a sensitive one for any of you guys with the middle fuckin’ finger, stick it up your fuckin’ ass! Just kidding, just kidding, I’m just playing around. I’m just full of ‘roids, heh heh! I’m so full of ‘roids. (Satanic voice) Urr.
Jeff: Ohh, ohh, I won’t say it.
BC: (normal) Hahahahahaha! (Satanic voice) (goes to roar, but ends up having a coughing fit) (normal) I love myself so much. I love myself more than you never could. I love myself more than you never could. That’s a good line, I’m gonna use that. Alright, this is called Spangled, it’s a sensitive song for you ladies. (ladies cheer) The ladies know what’s up, that’s right. That’s right, you do know what’s up. How you put up with men, I don’t know, alright. Okay, show’s over, thank you very much.
Spangled (abandoned two words in when Billy starts laughing)
BC: I can’t go from that to that, I just can’t! [2-3 unintelligible words] time.
Spangled
> Tom Tom
Snail (tease)
> Cherub Rock
That’s the Way
Tonight, Tonight
(BC immediately after last note: Thank you very much everybody, thank you so much. Thank you.)
[encore break]
Freak
Gossamer