The Smashing Pumpkins 2018-09-01

September 1, 2018 – San Diego, CA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Shiny and Oh So Bright tour
Date	September 1, 2018
Venue	Viejas Arena
Coordinates	32°46′26″N 117°4′28″W
Location	San Diego, CA, US
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	12,200
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Jack Bates, Katie Cole
Order of bands	Metric, The Smashing Pumpkins
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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
Thirty-three (acoustic)
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
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: Woo-ooh!
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: Hey, let me say one thing. See all this...haze in the air? See this hazy thing in the air, this cloud? That’s a bunch of people fucking vaping, okay? I can see you, vapers.
Iha: People like it.
BC: Smoking your whatever, vaping your cherry...cola fucking--whatever the fuck you guys take in. (loudly inhales) Okay, that’s a bunch of cherry cola grape jam juice Willy Wonka shit, okay?
Iha: He sides with it.
BC: Heh heh heh heh, (looks at Jimmy, who gestures to keep going) (laughing) keep going?
Iha: Won’t have a [unintelligible word]--
BC: (to Jimmy) You wanna go back to the old days, SOMA? What was that place called again?
Iha: Weird [2-3 unintelligible words].
BC: The Exit? Exit Ramp, what was that...? Hideaway something? No no, but before SOMA. Hideaway? (Jeff whispers in Billy’s ear) No, we never played there, no. This goes out to all the vapers. Just wanted to say...we love you too...vapers. Now I’m gonna get a bunch of shit on Instagram from the vapers tonight, man. (laughing) “You’re bumming me out.”
Iha: You’ve made them the underdog now.
BC: Isn’t there like the whole cannabis vaping thing too going on or...? (crowd cheers) Oh, okay!
Iha: I’m not familiar.
BC: So you’re all stoned and vaping. Listen, we’re so happy to be here, thank you so much everyone, thank you. 30 years, 30 years. And you know wanna know the secret to our longevity [sic]? No vaping!
Iha: Heh heh heh heh. That was funny...
BC: Hahahahahaha!
Iha: ...that was funny.
BC: But I digress. Now, back to the show of sorrow and perpetual disintegration. Please enjoy.
Try, Try, Try
> The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
> Hummer
Today
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Iha: [cuts in] It’s my third favorite off Mellon Collie and I just made that up, they’re all okay. But uh, you guys are the best.
BC: We have reached the end, thank you for staying to the end. We hope you’ve had a great time, we love you, we appreciate you, we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you. Or as we say in wrestling, “Each and every one of you.” (points at Iha) That includes you. So if you know the words to this last song, please sing along. If you don’t, well, it’s okay, we still appreciate you.
Iha: Just freak out if you don’t know the words.
BC: Just freak out. There’s a guy over here who’s freakin’ out, man, there’s a whole angel dust thing going on over here.
Iha: Hahahaha, jesus.
BC: And I know you know what I’m talking about, right there, it’s got him all (gestures wildly). That kinda shit.
Iha: Some sort of--
BC: Is that the kind of freaking out you’re talking about? Okay, last song, you ready?! (high pitched) I said, are you ready? (normal) Hahahaha.
Muzzle
[encore break]
Solara
Baby Mine
Iha: Thank you guys so much. Thank you guys so much, (either mic on fritz or tripping over his words) we appr--it. Have a good night, get home safe, goodnight.

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