The Smashing Pumpkins 2023-08-05

August 5, 2023 – Auburn, WA, US
Official poster by Jeremy Kramer
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The World Is A Vampire tour
Date	August 5, 2023
Venue	White River Amphitheatre
Coordinates	47°14′15″N 122°6′43″W
Location	Auburn, WA, US
Venue type	Amphitheater
Capacity	16,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Jack Bates, Katie Cole
Order of bands	Rival Sons, Stone Temple Pilots, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Atum" (prerecorded) 
2. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
3. "Doomsday Clock" 
4. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [5:41] 
5. "Today" 
6. "Perfect" 
7. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
8. "The Celestials" 
9. "Purple Blood" 
10. "Ava Adore" 
11. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 
12. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
13. "This Time" 
14. "Spellbinding" 
15. "Hubble Bubble (Toil and Trouble)" [Manfred Mann] 
16. "Jellybelly" 
17. "Empires" 
18. "Hummer" 
19. "Beguiled" 
20. "1979" 
21. "Would?" [Alice in Chains] (tease) 
22. "We Die Young" [Alice in Chains] (tease) 
23. "Alive" [Pearl Jam] (tease) 
24. "Jeremy" [Pearl Jam] (tease) 
25. "Come As You Are" [Nirvana] (tease) 
26. "Cherub Rock" 
27. "Zero" 

Banter

Atum Intro
The Everlasting Gaze
> Doomsday Clock
> Once in a Lifetime
Iha: Thank you so much. Seattle, Tacoma and the surrounding areas, uh, we’re so grateful that you’re here. We are the Smashing Pumpkins, let’s rock.
Today
Perfect
Iha: Ow!
Disarm (acoustic)
The Celestials (abandoned after extended Billy intro)
BC: I can’t remember the first lyric, hahahaha.
Iha: I-I was wondering. That was an extended intro. It’s sad.
BC: I got it now, heh heh.
Iha: Ha!
The Celestials (begins with first lyric)
Purple Blood
Ava Adore
(BC after Jimmy solo: Ow! Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin on the drums!)
Iha: Thank you. How are you guys doin’? Is everyone having a reasonable time? Alright, alright.
BC: James, (coughs), James...
Iha: Yes.
BC: ...first of all, how you doin’ tonight?
Iha: I feel good. I feel great. Nice, moderate weather. Being here near Seattle, it’s...it’s nice.
BC: James, do you know where you are, you’re in Seattle, the land of grunge.
Iha: You know, I think I remember that time. Back--
BC: Do you remember...
Iha: Back in--
BC: ...do you remember when we were a young band? It’s -– I know it’s a long time ago.
Iha: No, I don’t...
BC: Long time ago...
Iha: ...I don’t remember.
BC: ...if we’d been like in Tokyo or Amsterdam or...god knows where we were and they’d be like, you guys are from Seattle, right?
Iha: It was -– it was a cool place, you had a lot of used books...
BC: And James--
Iha: ...um, coffee--
BC: James would rise up in a fit of anger...
Iha: Easy [unintelligible word].
BC: ...and he’d slam his fist on the table, he’d say, “No, motherfucker, we’re from Chicago.”
Iha: [unintelligible] the Bears. Pizza, pizza...
BC: They never heard of the Bears.
Iha: ...pizza. You got like--
BC: You know what they have here that we don’t have? The 12th man. Have the 12th man!
Iha: Alright, we’re gettin’ deep now. We’re gettin’ deep.
BC: The NFL actually changed the rules, the Seahawks get to play with 12 players, it’s unbelievable.
Iha: That’s cool.
BC: Competitive advantage. I know you’re a big fan of Russell Wilson.
Iha: Heh heh heh heh.
(crowd boos)
Iha: I like that guy Geno Smith.
BC: (laughing) He’s from Chicago.
Iha: Is he? No.
BC: No, no, he’s not from Chicago.
Iha: Heh heh heh heh. Da Bears.
BC: You know who’s from Chicago? You are. You are!
Iha: Actually, I’m from, uh...I’m from the suburbs and we’re very near Chicago, but...(laughing) it doesn’t mean –- go Cubs –- uh, it doesn’t mean anything, we shouldn’t be talking about this...
BC: Hahahaha!
Iha: ...we should get right back to the rock show ‘cause we’ve been workin’ really hard, yup.
BC: These people do deserve a great rock show, thank you so much for being such a wonderful audience tonight. And I would be remiss to not mention Rival Sons and Stone Temple Pilots layin’ it down to-night.
Iha: Nice guys, nice guys too.
BC: So we’ve prepared a special song for you tonight. That’s gonna blow those other bands off the stage.
Iha: Fuck those guys. They don’t know shit.
BC: We’re downtuned like the great grunge bands, we’re ready to play some acoustic grunge.
Iha: Actually we’re in standard E. 440.
BC: It’s a little song we’d like to dedicate to everyone here and it’s a little song we like to call Tonight, Tonight.
Tonight, Tonight (Billy/Iha acoustic)
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
This Time
Spellbinding
Hubble Bubble (Toil and Trouble)
> Jellybelly
Iha: Thank you so much. We’re uh...we’re out here trying to rock. That was called Jellybelly. Here’s another rock jam.
BC: Hahahahahahaha.
Iha: What’d he say, what’d he say?
BC: A young man down here is either having a mental breakdown and aneurysm or he’s a big fan, I can’t tell the difference at this point.
Iha: From –- from over here, it just sounds like, “(makes noises)”. I mean, sounds like a fan to me. I’m glad you’re here.
BC: You know what’s wrong with this kid, you know what’s wrong with him?
Iha: I thought he was a fan.
BC: He wants to rock too hard.
Iha: Ohhh, ‘kay.
BC: That’s your problem: every night, you wanna rock too hard.
Iha: Too hard.
BC: I say calm down, man, just...enjoy your life. You still wanna rock?
Iha: (high pitched) I do!
BC: Heh! (laughing) How bad do you wanna rock?
Iha: Uh, you know.
BC: On a -– on a scale of one to ten?
Iha: Seven. Seven, a solid seven.
BC: These people deserve...nine!
Iha: Alright.
BC: Nine! He may be the robot but he has feelings.
Iha: That’s right. I’m not just a dried up piece of toast.
Empires
(BC after lyrics, before Jeff outro solo: Seattle!)
Hummer
> Beguiled
1979
Iha: Alright alright alright, thank you so much. You guys have been awesome. I’d like to introduce the band real quick. On vocals, acoustic guitar, all the way from Australia, Miss Katie Cole! Katie Cole. You know him, you love him, from Manchester, England, Mr. Jack Bates. Jack, you got me a riff?
Would? (tease - Jack, joined by Jimmy)
Iha: (high pitched) Oh yeah! From Hollywood, California, on the guitar, Mr. Jeff Schroeder. Jeff...what Seattle assed riff can you play for us?
We Die Young (tease - Jeff)
Iha: Thank you.
Alive (tease - Jeff)
Iha: On the motherfuckin’ drums, Mr. Jimmyyyy Chamberlin!
Jeremy (tease - Jeff)
Iha: I -– what’s that? Lead vocals and hot guitar, Mr. Billyyyy Corgan.
Come As You Are (tease - Billy)
Iha: I like that one too. Alright, we’re gonna do our own version of that. Thank you so much, I’m James Iha, this is called Cherub Rock!
Cherub Rock
> Zero
(BC immediately after final lyrics: Thank you very much! Thank you! Thank you, we love you, thank you!!)
> Love Gun (tease)
Iha: Thanks a lot, guys. Thank you so much. Have a good night, get home safe.