The Smashing Pumpkins 2022-11-01

November 1, 2022 – St. Louis, MO, US
Poster by Pig Hands
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Spirits On Fire tour
Date	November 1, 2022
Venue	Enterprise Center
Coordinates	38°37′36″N 90°12′9″W
Location	St. Louis, MO, US
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	22,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Jack Bates, Katie Cole
Order of bands	Poppy, Jane's Addiction, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Atum" (prerecorded) 
2. "Empires" 
3. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
4. "Today" 
5. "We Only Come Out at Night" (acoustic) 
6. "Cyr" 
7. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] 
8. "Solara" 
   1. (drum solo)
9. "Eye" 
10. "Ava Adore" 
    1. (drum solo)
11. "(Every Day Is) Halloween" [Ministry] (tease) (acoustic) 
12. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 
13. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
14. "I of the Mourning" 
15. "Panama" [Van Halen] (tease) 
16. "Cherub Rock" 
17. "Zero" 
    1. "Love Gun" [Kiss] (tease) 
18. "1979" 
19. "Beguiled" 
20. "Silverfuck" 
21. "Neophyte" (final performance)
22. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
23. "Harmageddon" (final performance)

Banter

(incomplete due to lack of full show source)

Atum Intro
Empires
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Today
We Only Come Out at Night (acoustic)
Cyr
Once in a Lifetime
Solara
Eye
(BC after 2nd chorus: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the rock show. We're so pleased you're with us tonight, thank you so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you.)
(BC during outro singalong: Sing it with us! Come on, come on, come on, come on! Sing it with me! Ow!)
Ava Adore
Iha: How are you guys doin'? You alright? Got the acoustic guitars out so you know what that means.
BC: James, how you feelin' tonight?!
Iha: Why, I'm feelin' pretty good, I'm pretty good.
BC: You know, this is the home of the blues.
Iha: [2 unintelligible words] with the St. Louis Blues. The hockey team and/or the--
BC: They're not booing, they're yelling "Blues."
Iha: Ah, alright. What's that song called--
BC: James, they're on a five game winning streak, I don't know if you know that.
(Billy starts playing a 12-bar blues riff)
Iha: I did not know that, but I know they uh, they've got that uh, what's the song, Gloria? Gloria, for the [unintelligible word]? You wanna -- you wanna go back?
(Billy stops)
BC: You're from Chicago, you know all about the blues.
Iha: I've got the suburban blues. From the--
BC: You got the Elk Grove blues.
Iha: The mean streets of suburbia.
BC: It's tough in Elk Grove. How you all feelin' tonight? I tell ya, I was in the back...doin' molly off a stripper's back and uh...I heard this roar for Jane's Addiction. What a beautiful night they had.
Iha: Thank you Jane's Addiction, thank you Poppy.
BC: Gettin' it done.
Iha: Awesome bands.
BC: Thank you so much. Thank you, honestly, for 34 years of the Smashing Pumpkins.
Iha: Whew.
BC: Heh heh, let's just say if it wasn't for you, you wouldn't be standing here, hahaha! Oh yeah, woo! Heh heh. But I love this part of the show because I get to thank you. I get to thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much, you don't know what it means to us to play these songs for you all these years later.
Iha: Thank you thank you thank you.
BC: So it's not quite a Christmas present, Halloween's over of course -- not that I got the memo -- but uh.... Every day is Halloween for me, buddy.
Every Day Is Halloween (tease)
BC: We'd like to dedicate this song to everybody here, little song we like to call Tonight, Tonight.
Tonight, Tonight (Billy/Iha acoustic)
Stand Inside Your Love
I of the Mourning
Iha: Thank you so much. How are you guys doin', alright? Checkin' in. Thumbs up still? I'd like to introduce the band. On vocals, Miss Katie Cole. Katie Cole on vocals. On the bass guitar, Mr. Jack Bates. Jack Bates. From Hollywood, California, Mr. Jeff Schroeder! What do you got for St. Louis, Jeff? (laughing) You got -- you got something. How about Ratt or Van Halen? That's what they wanna fuckin' hear.
Panama (tease)
Iha: (high pitched) Alright! (normal voice) That's a good one. Woof, Panama.
BC: You don't know any Nelly? (Jeff gestures "nothing")
Iha: On the drums...from the home state of Illinois, my home state, Mr. Jimmyyyy Chamberlin! He's out there beatin' the shit outta those drums every night. And now, on lead vocals, lead guitar, Mr. Billyyyyy Corgan! Alright, alright. We're just gettin' to the uh, real part of the show right now. I'm James Iha and this is called Cherub Rock!
Cherub Rock
Iha during Billy's transition solo: This guy knows some riffs.
> Zero
> Love Gun (tease)
1979
Beguiled
Silverfuck
Neophyte
BC: If you don't mind a little promotional moment, I will be back here probably August or September with the National Wrestling Alliance at the Chase. I know, James, you'll be there for the 75th anniversary of the N.W.A. And of course, we do every anniversary show here in St. Louis for the great St. Louis fans. That's my plug. I'll see you soon. We truly hope you've had a good time, we've had a good time playing for you, it's always an honor to come to St. Louis. We're from Illinois and we know that's a bad thing here, but it's okay. For tonight only. James, he gave up on the Cubs, so don't you worry about him, it's only me you gotta worry about.
Disarm (acoustic)
Harmageddon
(BC before final lyrics: St. Louis, we love you, we thank you!)
(BC after final lyrics: Thank you very much, goodnight.)
Iha: Thank you so much. Get home safe. Thank you.