The Smashing Pumpkins 2023-08-15
| August 15, 2023 – Dallas, TX, US | |
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| Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins | |
| The World Is A Vampire tour | |
| Date | August 15, 2023 |
| Venue | Dos Equis Pavilion |
| Coordinates | 32°46′31″N 96°45′23″W |
| Location | Dallas, TX, US |
| Venue type | Amphitheater |
| Capacity | 20,000 |
| Personnel | Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Jack Bates, Katie Cole |
| Order of bands | Rival Sons, Interpol, The Smashing Pumpkins |
Setlist[edit | edit source]
- "Atum" (prerecorded)
- "The Everlasting Gaze"
- "Doomsday Clock"
- "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [5:43]
- "Today"
- "Perfect"
- "Disarm" (acoustic)
- "The Celestials"
- "Purple Blood"
- "Ava Adore"
- (drum solo)
- "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic)
- "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
- "This Time"
- "Spellbinding"
- "Hubble Bubble (Toil and Trouble)" [Manfred Mann]
- "Jellybelly"
- "Empires"
- "Hummer"
- "Beguiled"
- "1979"
- "La Grange" [ZZ Top] (tease)
- "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love" [Van Halen] (tease)
- "Hot for Teacher" [Van Halen] (tease)
- (unknown) (tease)
- "Cherub Rock"
- "Zero"
Banter[edit | edit source]
Atum Intro
The Everlasting Gaze
> Doomsday Clock
> Once in a Lifetime
Iha: Dallas, Texas! Thank you guys so much. It’s hot as hell here! Thank you guys so much, we are the Smashing Pumpkins and we are happy to be here.
Today
Perfect
Disarm (acoustic)
The Celestials
Purple Blood
> Ava Adore
(BC after Jimmy solo: Ow! Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin on the drums! Joliet, babe, Joliet! Ow!)
Iha: Thank you. Thanks a lot. How you guys doin'? Two thumbs up? One down, two thumbs? Awesome.
BC: James, how you feelin' tonight?
Iha: I'm great. It's hot as hell but I'm great.
BC: You're cool, you're collected, you're calm.
Iha: (laughing) I'm trying, yeah. I--
BC: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for being with us on this beautiful, balmy evening.
Iha: Everything's bigger in Texas.
BC: We'd like to thank, uh, the Interpols.
Iha: Interpol, awesome. Rival Sons, they had a good night.
BC: Rival Son. James, they changed their name, just, they're just Rival Son now.
Iha: It's, heh--
BC: Rival Son.
Iha: Not plural, singular.
BC: Interpol added an "s" and Rival Son.... Interpols, Rival Son, it's such a dumb joke, heh heh, and it's so hot, it makes it worse.
Iha: That's something my mom does, she adds an "s" to something.
BC: We're so appreciative you're here with us, thank you so much for doing us the honor. I'd love to just sit here and talk about my feelings for about 10 minutes, but uh, you all know my feelings right now with the songs anyway, so we can skip that part. We could talk about our relationship but, no, we got that sussed, that's good, we're good.
Iha: I think they want a song.
BC: Heh. Anyway. We like dedicate [sic] this song to everybody that is here. Yes, I can see it's your birthday and I don't care. I hate to tell you, I don't care it's your birthday.
Iha: Your birthday?
BC: You can hold up your iPhone 7 all you want, I don't care that it's your birthday.
Iha: Happy birthday, heh.
BC: James, he's like 90 years old, okay?
Iha: Okay, okay, well...you've done well.
BC: Heh. Anyway, I love to dedicate this song every night...to everyone here for supporting our band since 1987 or so. You know, on a personal note...I’m getting sick of being referred to as a ‘90s band, we’re not a ‘90s band, we’re an ‘80s band. We started in the ‘80s, young man, you remember, I think.
Iha: Let’s move on to that next song.
BC: Anyway, dedicate this song to everyone here, it’s a little song we wrote back in 1994. It’s a ditty, you might know it, sing along if you care. 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: How’s it going? What do you guys wanna hear? Football?
BC: You know what I love about Dallas, James?
Iha: What do you love about Dallas?
BC: We’re in Dallas, right, we’re in Dallas, right?
Iha: Dallas, Tejas, yes.
BC: Home of the Cowboys.
Iha: Home of the Cowboys.
(crowd boos)
BC: They don’t like the Cowboys no more.
Iha: Maybe a certain segment of the crowd.
BC: America’s team.
Iha: (laughing) America’s team. God bless them. God bless ‘em.
BC: I know--
Iha: Friday Night Lights.
BC: I know, I mean, I know you’re a big Jerry Jones fan.
Iha: Haha. I think we talked about this on the bus.
BC: James, do these people wanna laugh?
Iha: I-I think this isn’t the best territory to talk about...
BC: They wanna rock.
Iha: ...football. Yeah, to all rock.
BC: They wanna rock, do you understand? None of your...balladry.
Iha: (laughing) Okay.
BC: Hahaha. They wanna rock. Do you still wanna rock?
Iha: I do! I do, I still wanna rock.
BC: How bad...? How bad do you wanna rock? (Iha gestures with his hand next to his head) It’s not here, it is up there. (gesturing higher)
Iha: (high pitched) Just do it higher.
Empires
(BC after lyrics, before Jeff outro solo: Dallas, Texas!)
Hummer
> Beguiled
1979
Iha: Alright alright alright, thank you so much, guys. We’re getting to the end. Thank you so much. Uh, I’d like to introduce the band. On vocals, acoustic guitar, all the way from Australia, Miss Katie Cole. Katie Cole. You know him, you love him, on the bass guitar, from Manchester, England, Mr. Jack Bates. Jack, got any ZZ Top?
La Grange (tease - Jimmy starts drums and Jeff joins in)
Iha: No. [unintelligible]. (Jimmy and Jeff stop; Iha imitates how the drums kick in after the intro) All the way from Hollywood, California, on the guitar, Mr. Jeff Schroeder!
Ain’t Talkin’ ‘bout Love (tease - Jeff)
Iha: (high pitched) Alright! (normal voice) Nice. A little Van Halen for Dallas. They’re not from here, but...
Hot for Teacher (tease - Jeff)
Iha: ...they’re America’s band.
> unknown (tease - Jeff)
Iha: Alright, on the drums, you know him, you love him too: Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin! He’s up there beating the shit out of those drums. Every night. Lead vocals, lead guitar, Mr. Billyyyy Corgan! Thank you guys so much, I am James Iha, this is called Cherub Rock, let’s go!
Cherub Rock
> Zero
(BC immediately after final lyrics: Thank you very much! Thank you!)
> Love Gun (tease)
Iha: Thank you guys so much! You’ve been great to us, thank you so much, have a good night, get home safe!