The Smashing Pumpkins 2018-12-02

December 2, 2018 – Tulsa, OK, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
30th Anniversary Series tour
Date	December 2, 2018
Venue	Brady Theater
Coordinates	36°9′29″N 95°59′43″W
Location	Tulsa, OK, US
Venue type	Theater
Capacity	2,800
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Jack Bates, Isaac Hanson, Taylor Hanson, Zac Hanson, Tyson Meade, Trent Bell
Order of bands	Kitten, The Nixons, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Solara" 
2. "Zero" 
3. "Today" 
4. "Never Let Me Down Again" [Depeche Mode] 
5. "Knights of Malta" 
6. "Tonight, Tonight" 
7. "Dross" 
8. "Friday I'm in Love" [The Cure] 
9. "Landslide" [Stevie Nicks] (acoustic) 
10. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
11. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
12. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 
13. "Suffragette City" [David Bowie] (only performance)
14. "Travels" 
15. "Cherub Rock" 
16. "1979" 
17. "Ava Adore" 
18. "Heavy Metal Machine" 
    1. "Purple Haze" [Jimi Hendrix] (tease) 

Encore

19. "Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts)" 
20. "PAW Patrol Opening Theme" [Michael Smidi Smith / Scott Krippayne] (tease) 
21. "Heartbreaker" [Led Zeppelin] (tease) 
22. "Muzzle" 

Notes

• "Landslide" with Hanson on vocals
• "Suffragette City" with Tyson Meade (vocals) and Trent Bell (guitar) of Chainsaw Kittens

Banter

Solara
> Zero
Today
Never Let You Down Again
Knights of Malta
Tonight, Tonight
Iha: Thank you so much for coming out, we appreciate it. You guys havin’ a reasonable time out there? Two thumbs up? Well, we’re happy to be here, we’re out rockin’ on this tour, playing many radio stations and uh, we’re thankful for the radio station airplay. They don’t care.
BC: (radio voice) The Edge, the Edge.
Iha: What’s that?
BC: (normal voice) It’s the sign (pointing), it’s the Edge, it’s the Edge.
Iha: Oh. (radio voice) Like to thank the Edge. (normal voice) It was a crazy sign.
Dross
Friday I’m in Love
BC: Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. As some of you might know, we are in our 30th year.
Iha: Unbelievable.
BC: It is unbelievable. And as part of our celebrating our 30th year, we have some special guests playing for you tonight. Now James, I know that you many times through our musical endeavors...
Iha: Yes.
BC: ...have taken a shine, as we say in the wrestling business, to young talent.
Iha: Yes.
BC: And as you were driving in your limousine today, you saw these kids - handsome, they were very handsome - you saw these kids busking on the corner, said “Hey kids,” right? Am I telling this story right?
Iha: I believe so.
BC: You said, “Hey kids, come out and play this Fleetwood Mac classic with us tonight.”
Iha: Let’s welcome to the stage, Tulsa’s own...Hanson.
Taylor Hanson: That is a [unintelligible word] story.
Landslide (with Hanson) (acoustic)
Disarm (acoustic)
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Iha: You’re in for another treat. Another Oklahoma treat. Norman. Norman, Oklahoma treat. We’d now like to bring to the stage, Trent and Tyson from the Chainsaw Kittens. I’ve also loaned Tyson my uh (indicates Tyson's flashy jacket, which is nearly identical to the one Iha is wearing)....
BC: Hey! When’s the...? Tyson, when’s the first time we played together?
Tyson: ‘91 and...
BC: This is a microphone.
Tyson: ...’90 and oh yeah, I’ve never used a microphone before! Oh wait, we played in ‘91 into ‘92, right? ‘91 at Cabaret Metro. Yeah, in Chicago.
BC: It was a great show. Now, heh, I was gonna go into the whole China bit but then I decided....
Tyson: Hahahahahahaha!
BC: He just got back from China.
Tyson: Hahahahaha! Ha, haha ha haha.
BC: That’s all you need to know.
Tyson: Hahaha.
BC: But, as you told me, there’s no laws in China, right, you just do whatever you want?
Tyson: No laws, anything - oh, microphone, right? - no laws, anything is allowed.
BC: Kinda like Tulsa, right?
Tyson: Yeah, like Tulsa, a lot like Tulsa. You know, I grew up in Bartlesville, so Tulsa was my go-to town.
Iha: Bartlesville? What the hell goes on there?
Tyson: Hahaha, lot of things you don’t wanna know, hahahahahaha.
Iha: Anybody else from Bartlesville, Oklahoma?
Tyson: Anybody? Any Bartians? Woo!!!
Iha: Those are your people right there. You ready to fuckin’ stage dive?
BC: You said Bartlesville?
Tyson: Bartlesville.
BC: You know, James, it was originally Bottlesville but then it turned into Bartlesville.
Iha: Isn’t it a wine cooler, like Bartles?
Tyson: Hahahahahaha! Haha!
Iha: (laughing) Alright.
Tyson: On with the show!
Suffragette City (with Tyson Meade & Trent Bell)
(BC: Ladies and gentlemen, from the Chainsaw Kittens, Mr. Tyson Meade!
Iha: And Mr. Trent.)
BC: Hahahaha! You havin’ a good time? Or...are you so high you don’t know you’re having a good time?
Iha: (stoner voice) “You know it we’re high, that’s what happens here.”
BC: (stoner voice) “We’re so fucked up up here, man.”
Iha: Heh. Your guitar ran into my guitar. Don’t worry, we’re gonna be playing at least three more songs.
Travels
Cherub Rock
Radio Intro tape
> 1979
Ava Adore
Heavy Metal Machine / Purple Haze
[encore break]
Silvery Sometimes
BC: Thank you so kindly! Well, we have reached the proverbial end of the show. (a few boos) See, if there was like a thousand boos when I said the end of the show, then we’d play more, but since there’s only a few, really, that’s the end of the show. (loud booing) They’re not booing, James, they’re yelling “Lou.”
Iha: Lou? Looou.
BC: Lou left the band in ‘89, I’m sorry, he’s not coming back.
Iha: Good guy.
BC: Heh, that was when we had the saxophone player, Lou.
Iha: Little known fact, we had a horn section back then.
BC: And because we were starving musicians, Lou worked at a pizza place, so...it worked out.
Iha: You know, Lou made a great pie.
BC: We were indie once, do you remember?
Iha: I do, I do.
BC: Does anyone remember indie? Woo.
Iha: All those rides in the van, watching Beaches, eating Häagen-Dazs, being in an indie rock band.
BC: Thank you so much for being here. (rock star voice) Thank you, [unintelligible word]! (normal voice) We’ve had a great time, we hope you had a great time too. Did you have a good time?
Iha: I had a good time. I had a hell of a time in Tulsa, Jack Bates wants to say something! Hahahaha. He’s vowed not to.
BC: All he cares about is if you guys got soccer in this town, it’s like it’s his shit.
Iha: He even hates the word “soccer.” “Football.”
BC: (British accent) “Footie,” (normal voice) right? Heh.
Iha: Do you want Jack to stagedive during this next song? Not going to happen but thank you, thank you, he appreciates the sentiment.
BC: Can we get the house lights on for a second, I just wanna see your beautiful faces one more time.
Iha: Oh, this could go painfully...
BC: The house lights.
Iha: ...the lights would not get [unintelligible word]. Heh heh, sorry, sorry.
BC: There you are!
Iha: Thank you so much, Tulsa!
BC: Thank you.
Iha: We appreciate -
BC: We appreciate Tulsa. [unintelligible], thank you, thank you.
Iha: These people with the posters, we thank you. What does that poster say, Billy?
BC: I’m not sure if that’s a fetus picture or...a little girl picture?
Iha: Feet, fetus?
BC: I can’t hear you, I’m sorry. She’s holding a picture of a fetus, that’s so weird.
Iha: Oh, well, okay.
BC: The sign says “Last I saw you” and there’s a picture of her as a fetus.
Iha: Oh! Well, that’s strangely sweet.
BC: And now she’s 29.
Iha: Thank you so much for your...
BC: Thank you, thank you.
Iha: ...embryotic support.
BC: Now see, when she at that show and I said it’s the last song, she booed from the womb.
Iha: Heh heh! It was like, “Ugh, this is terrible, I wanna hear Paw Patrol.”
Paw Patrol Opening Theme (tease)
Iha: (singing) Paw Patrol, Paw Patrol, we’ll be there on the double.
(Jeff starts doodling some a blues solo)
BC: Last song! I hope you know this song, if you do, please sing along. You got the blues now or...?
Iha: On guitar...!
BC: We’ll play this song, I’m gonna play the song, heh. Oh.
Iha: We’re just gonna keep talking about random shit, heh heh.
BC: And thank you to the opening bands, they were fantastic.
Iha: Yes. We’d like to thank our guests as well. Wait, the opening bands, yes.
BC: I was gonna do my interpretation of Kitten’s set, but I don’t have time for that right now.
Iha: Yeah, I don’t know if we can.... (Billy gestures and moves like a robot) Is that...? Yeah, I don’t know if we can....
BC: [unintelligible word or two]
Iha: They were good. The Nixons and our special guests, we’d like to thank Hanson and the Chainsaw Kittens, good people.
BC: Who else is from Tulsa that we didn’t invite?
Iha: Uhhhhh...I don’t know anybody.
BC: Is Bon Jovi from Tulsa?
Iha: Yes, Bon Jovi. (Billy and Iha laugh) So many great bands....
BC: See, before the internet, this is how we got in trouble.
Iha: Led Zeppelin, another great band from...
BC: (laughing) From Tulsa?
Iha: ...Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Heartbreaker (tease - Jeff plays the riff about 7 times)
Iha: Thank you Jeff, another great riff from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Jimmy’s not taking the bait, (laughing) we gotta do Muzzle. (Jeff stops)
BC: Okay! (immediately starts Muzzle)
Muzzle
(BC immediately after lyrics finish: Thank you, Tulsa!)
Iha: Thank you so much, thank you. Goodnight!