The Smashing Pumpkins 2018-08-30

August 30, 2018 – Inglewood, CA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Shiny and Oh So Bright tour
Date	August 30, 2018
Venue	The Forum
Coordinates	33°57′30″N 118°20′30″W
Location	Inglewood, CA, US
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	17,500
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Jack Bates, Katie Cole
Order of bands	Metric, The Smashing Pumpkins
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The August 30, 2018 performance at The Forum was professionally recorded, paid for entirely by Billy Corgan, but the official audio or video has yet to surface.

Setlist

1. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" 
2. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
3. "Rocket" 
4. "Siva" 
5. "Rhinoceros" 
6. "Space Oddity" [David Bowie] 
7. "Drown" 
8. "Zero" 
9. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
10. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
11. "Thirty-Three" (acoustic) 
12. "Eye" 
13. "Soma" 
14. "Blew Away" 
15. "For Martha" 
16. "To Sheila" 
17. "Mayonaise" 
18. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 
19. "Landslide" [Stevie Nicks] (acoustic) 
20. "Tonight, Tonight" 
21. "Stairway to Heaven" [Led Zeppelin] 
22. "L.A. Woman" [The Doors] (tease) 
23. "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love" [Van Halen] (tease) 
24. "Cherub Rock" 
25. "1979" 
26. "Ava Adore" 
27. "Try, Try, Try" 
28. "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning" 
29. "Hummer" 
30. "Today" 
31. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
32. "Muzzle" 

Encore

33. "Solara" 
34. "Baby Mine" [Betty Noyes] 

Banter

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Disarm (Billy solo acoustic)
Rocket
Siva
Rhinoceros
Space Oddity
Drown
Zero Interlude Film
(BC: Ladies, gentlemen, friends, lovers, beasts or fowl, welcome to the show. We are the illuminated, the illustrious, the ill-timed knock. (two snare drum hits) Ah yes, we are the fractured, the schisms, the rift and the rabble, the sleepy clown, the atomized downs, the dreams you stopped dreaming oh so long ago. Yes, all colors mixed and marred make up the black, as do all numbers fix up the zero, zed and null. So let’s go back to your beginnings, as I shall go back to mine. It won’t last, it’ll be quick, but then again, that’s why we’re here. No past, no future, no sun. So let’s blow on fading embers, to boast about kings near, forgotten and buried. Tis the end. Tis the end. Tis the end.)
Zero
The Everlasting Gaze
Stand Inside Your Love
Iha: Alright, alright, Los Angeles, city of lights, thank you so much. Thank you so much for comin' out. Are you having a reasonable time? Two thumbs up, heh heh. We're just at like a...fourth way through the show, we're just cruising, we're just getting into the show right now, there's a lot more rock to come. This is from Mellon Collie, this is called Thirty-three.
Thirty-three (acoustic)
Iha: Ow!
Eye
Soma
Vaudeville Interlude Film
(Mark McGrath: Well, hello there, neighbors! Are you enjoying the show thus far? Well, good, I am too, even though I’m not real. Now, if I could steal a moment of your time, I’d like to introduce somebody verrry special to you. He’s been a friend and a neighbor to each and every one of you. He’s been the voice you might hear in the stiiill of the night or a night dog straining against the moon. And, in fact, this young man has been with you almost every step along the way on life’s long journey, sighing so ever soft. He’s been a lover, a fighter, but never a cad. A beacon, a searchlight piercing every impenetrable fog. And he’s here, just now, to sing for you, that golden chestnut we like to call Blew Away. So gather round, ‘cause here he is: the one, the only, Mr. Jaaaaames Iha.)
Blew Away
For Martha
BC: Thank you, thank you so kindly, thank you!
To Sheila
> Mayonaise
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Landslide (acoustic)
Tonight, Tonight
short lounge interlude (most is tape but Katie plays organ live)
> Stairway to Heaven
(BC at pause just before the finish: Hometown boy right here. (sings last line and then says) Mr. Jeff Schroeder on the guitar!)
Iha: Thank you so much, Los Angeles, thank you. How are you? Are you still with us? Great. You didn’t expect that. Stairway to Heaven by the Smashing Pumpkins, tonight at the Forum. Cross it off the bucket list. I’d like to do a quick introduction of the band. On the keys, vocals, all the way from Melbourne, Australia, Ms. Katie Cole! And now, all the way from Manchester, England, on the bass guitar, Mr. Jack Bates.
L.A. Woman (tease - Jack)
Iha: (singing) Look just got.... (speaking) I heard L.A. Woman there.
L.A. Woman (tease - Jack)
Iha: (singing) Look, just got in town an hour ago. Take a look around, see which way the wind blows, (speaking) alright. From Southern California, Los Angeles, Mr. Jeff Schroeder!
Ain’t Talkin’ ‘bout Love (tease - Jeff)
Iha: (David Lee Roth impression) Yeow! The Forum! (normal voice) From Joliet, Illinois, on the drums, Mr. motherfuckin’ Jimmy Chamberlin! From a northwest suburb of Chicago, on guitar, Mr. James Iha, thank you, thank you so much. You’re the best. On vocals, guitar, Mr. Williammmm Patrick Corgan!
Cherub Rock
Vaudeville Interlude Film
(Mark McGrath: Well, wowie zowie, papa ooh maow maow! What a wang dang and doodle of a show. And, it ain’t over yet. Now I don’t know about you but this next tune is one of my faaaaaaves. Reminds me of drivin' down the old PCH, high out of my mind on ecstasy and I was singing the chorus of the song you’re about to hear so hard and so on high, that one of my front teeth fell right out! Yup, plain out right there in the dashboard. Wow. That decade was just, just so good, wasn’t it? I mean, here you have young wash masters rising up to start a musical and cultural revolution that was soon co-opted by the machine and driven asunder! Gee golly. But thankfully, what we got in return was just so much better. I mean, let’s face it, who doesn’t want perfection in their stars above? ‘Cause perfect people making perfect, sweet music is, well, it’s just, it’s just what a god wants for all of us! Whoo! Red light, stop, it’s raining. The air is cool and the sky is gray and the year? Well, it’s 1979!)
Radio Intro tape
> 1979
> Ava Adore
(BC before bridge: Jeffrey, look at all the beautiful people here tonight! La la la la!)
BC: Woo-ooh, la la! (high pitched) I do declare! (normal voice) Heh heh heh heh, heh heh, alright, heh heh. Wooooo! This is where Freddie Mercury would do the "Damn! [unintelligible words." Heh heh heh heh. God bless everybody, thank you so much for tonight. We'd now like to play a little ditty for the lovers in the audience. You know who you are.
Try, Try, Try
The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
Hummer
Today
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Iha: Thank you, thank you so much! You guys are the best! Thank you, Los Angeles. Uh.... This is our last jam. It’s so sad but this is our last one, I know you were expecting 10 more, 15 more songs. Maybe a cover of Dream On, but this has gotta be the last one, thank you so much, you guys have been great and we really appreciate it.
BC: Los Angeles, thank you so much, thank you! We appreciate you so much! We’ve actually reached the end of this crazy show, we want to thank you for sticking around to the very end. This is normally the point in the show where I do something or say something that gets me in trouble. Woo, in trouble, woo! But honestly, we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you. We have the greatest fans in the world. And we’re gonna test that loyalty by singing if you -- seeing if you know the words to the next song. (overly enunciating) We’re gonna test that loyalty by seeing if you can sing the words to the next song, (normal voice) that’s actually...kinda tongue twisty.
Iha: It’s uh, say it faster.
BC: Last thing before we bid you adieu. We filmed this show tonight.
Iha: And we’re never gonna watch it, heh.
BC: No, we filmed this show tonight.
Iha: Oh.
BC: Of all the places we could’ve filmed, we chose to film here with you in Los Angeles.
Iha: I wanted to film Holland, but....
BC: And please, come back tomorrow if you wanna see us again or tell your friends to come see us. We’ll be wearing, uh, Lakers uniforms.
Iha: Oh, dude.
BC: Goth makeup but Lakers uniforms. Hahahahaha, woo! Okay! Let’s get this party started, if you know this song, please sing along. Your California wildfires are doing incredible damage to my poor little throat. That smoke in the air that you see...is some Napa Valley fir tree or something.
Iha: That's the -- that’s the pot or something that you smell, the pot.
BC: Well, please sing along, heh heh, I’ll shut the fuck up now. (big cheer) Heh, that always gets a big cheer, which is suspicious, heh.
Iha: We’re just gonna bring up some random stuff right at the very end of the concert.
BC: Heh heh heh, they’re cheering the next song, not me shutting the fuck up, I get it. Okay, here we go, ready?
Muzzle
[encore break]
Solara
Baby Mine
Iha: Thank you guys so much. Thank you guys so much, you've been -- you've been awesome. Have a good night, get home safe.