The Smashing Pumpkins 2022-05-07

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May 7, 2022 – Mexico City, MX
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Rock Invasion 2 tour
DateMay 7, 2022
VenueTeatro Metropólitan
Coordinates19°26′0″N 99°8′49″W
LocationMexico City, MX
Venue typeTheater
Capacity3,165
PersonnelBilly Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, James Iha, Jeff Schroeder, Jack Bates
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Setlist[edit | edit source]

Set[edit | edit source]

  1. "Sarabande" [George Frideric Handel] (prerecorded) 
  2. "The Colour of Love" 
  3. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
  4. "Today" 
  5. "Ugly" 
  6. "Drown" 
  7. "Quiet" 
  8. "Cyr" 
  9. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] 
  10. "Solara" 
  11. "Snail" 
  12. "Eye" 
  13. "Ava Adore" 
  14. (blues jam)
    1. "Suffragette City" [David Bowie] (tease) (acoustic) 
  15. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 
  16. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
  17. "Cherub Rock" 
  18. "Zero" 
    1. "Love Gun" [Kiss] (tease) 
  19. "Black Forest, Black Hills" 
  20. "FOL" 
  21. "1979" 
  22. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
  23. "If There Is a God" 
  24. "X.Y.U." 

Encore[edit | edit source]

  2. "Starla" 
  3. "Hello Kitty Kat" (final performance)
  4. "Silverfuck" [13:04] 

Notes[edit | edit source]

Banter[edit | edit source]

(incomplete due to lack of full show source)

Sarabande Intro
The Colour of Love
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Iha: Hola, que tal? Gracias.
Today
Ugly
Iha: Thank you so much, we are the Smashing Pumpkins, we are happy to be here, thank you so much for coming.
Drown
Quiet
Cyr
Iha: [unintelligible]. Hey man, how you doin’ out there? [unintelligible] very much, but uh, [unintelligible]. [unintelligible]. You know, it’s great to be here in Méjico...Ciudad. How are you? Thumbs up? Alright, alright alright. This one’s gonna blow your mind.
Once in a Lifetime
Solara
BC: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for going with us. It's so nice to see your beautiful faces. To feel your love and your cheers and your support.
Iha: Gracias, muchas gracias.
BC: We started this band about 1987. And it blows our mind that you're still here, you still wanna hear our songs, it means so much to us.
Iha: Muchas gracias.
BC: So as a special treat, we'd like to play a song from our first album. The album is Gish--
Iha: This is a good one. It's--
BC: It's a good one? I hope so!
Iha: (laughing) As opposed to the bad ones.
BC: (laughing) We don't wanna play the bad ones.
Snail
Iha: Alright, let’s jam on drugs.
Eye
Ava Adore
(BC before bridge: Jeffrey, give 'em a little Eddie Van Halen!)
blues jam / Suffragette City (tease - Iha sings over Billy's blues jamming)
Iha: (singing) Hey man, life is insane. Hey man, life’s down the drain. Hey man, she’s a total blam-blam. She said she could.... (speaking) No, I can’t remember the lyrics. (singing) Hey alright, (Billy stops guitar) you can’t afford the ticket, back from Suffragette City.
BC: (laughing) I honestly, I’m not even joking....
Iha: (laughing) [unintelligible].
BC: No, I, I thought when we got to the chorus, we’d suddenly –- I thought you were gonna go into Candle in the Wind, heh. [unintelligible].
Iha: Another great song in the middle of a great song.
BC: Thank you again, thank you!
Iha: Thank you. [unintelligible]. [unintelligible].
BC: Now as some of you may know, this is our third of four sold out nights here.
(crowd cheers)
Iha: Alright.
BC: For ten years, we said to come back to Mexico City, ten years!
Iha: [unintelligible].
BC: Yeah, yeah. So, because you are here, because we know you are listening, because we know you care and you support us...as we say it in SP, I’d like to dedicate this next song to every single one of you. And thank you for being here with us tonight...tonight.
Tonight, Tonight (Billy/Iha acoustic)
Stand Inside Your Love
Cherub Rock
> Zero
> Love Gun (tease)
Black Forest, Black Hills
FOL
BC over extended outro: Are you having a good time? But what I really wanna know...what I really wanna know...I wanna know do you feel James’s love, do you feel James’s love?
Iha: [2-3 unintelligible words].
BC: You know, it’s been a while since you’ve rocked. ... On the bass guitar, Mr. Jack Bates. On the lead guitar, Mr. Jeff Schroeder. And on the lead drums...JC, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Now...I might be, I’m sorry, stop, shh, I might not be the s – wait, stop.
Iha: What?
BC: Kick it down.
Iha: Alright.
BC: Kick it down. (band plays quieter)
Iha: Awesome.
BC: (overly enunciated) I might not be the most handsome vampire.
Iha: Where is this going?
BC: I may not be the...screechiest banshee.
Iha: Where is this going?
BC: “Where is this going?” Let me tell you something. We are so proud to have the greatest rock and roll drummer in the world. And in tribute to Jimmy, James is now gonna do a rap.
Iha: Uhhh....thank you, that’s all. Alright, kick it down a little. Ah, Smashing Pumpkins...
BC: Unh unh!
Iha: ...Méjico, I don’t know Spanish, I wish I had taken it in high school but I didn’t. I actually took French. It was pretty good. Today, [3 unintelligible words]. Très [2 unintelligible words]. Let’s get back to the song. (song ends)
BC: That’s a mic drop right there. Thank you so much, thank you.
Radio Intro tape
> 1979
Iha: Alright alright alright. [2-3 unintelligible words].
Disarm (acoustic)
If There is a God
> X.Y.U.
[encore break]
Starla
Hello Kitty Kat
Silverfuck
(BC immediately after lyrics finish: Mexico City, one more time!)
Iha: Gracias. Muchos gracias, thank you so much! Goodnight Mexico.

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