The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-09-16

September 16, 2000 – Berlin, DE
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	September 16, 2000
Venue	Arena Berlin
Coordinates	52°29′51″N 13°27′14″E
Location	Berlin, DE
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	9,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur, Mike Garson, Chris Holmes
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Daydream" (tease) (acoustic) 
   1. "Glass and the Ghost Children" (acoustic) [12:25] 
   2. "Le Deux Machina" (tease) 
2. "Today" (acoustic) 
3. "Stand Inside Your Love" (acoustic) 
4. "Thirty-Three" (acoustic) 
5. "To Sheila" (acoustic) 
6. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [6:30] 
   1. (drum solo)
7. "Glass' Theme" 
8. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
9. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
10. "Dross" 
11. "Speed Kills" 
12. "Cash Car Star" 
13. "Rock On" [David Essex] (tease) [3:18] 
14. "Heavy Metal Machine" 
15. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
16. "Tonight, Tonight" 
17. "Try, Try, Try" 
18. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" [5:38] 
19. "This Time" 
20. "I of the Mourning" 

Encore one

21. "Blank Page" 
22. "Du hast" [Rammstein] (tease) 
23. "Cherub Rock" 

Encore two

24. "1979" (acoustic) 

Notes

• First performance of "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" since 1997-12-05
• First performance of "Dross" since 1999-04-23
• First performance of "Cash Car Star" since 1999-04-24

Banter

Daydream (tease)
> Glass and the Ghost Children / Le Deux Machina (acoustic)
Today (acoustic)
BC: Good evening, good evening, good evening.
Stand Inside Your Love (acoustic)
Thirty-three (acoustic)
To Sheila (acoustic)
Blue Skies Bring Tears
Glass' Theme
> The Everlasting Gaze
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Dross
> Speed Kills
BC: Thank you. We’d like to play another song from our new album, Machina 2: The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music. It's available for free for everybody, free album. This is another song from our new album, which was written for our last album, but not Machina, the Adore album. Heh. Makes sense, sort of. This is called Cash Car Star.
Cash Car Star
Rock On (partial)
> Heavy Metal Machine
Disarm (acoustic)
> Tonight, Tonight
Try, Try, Try
> Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
BC: Thank you very much, thank you very much, thank you very much. How is everybody doing this evening, how are you? Como esta? Como esta. Thank you very much for attending our last tour, um, pretty much ever, I think. Yes, it's true. James and I are having an operation to become one person.
Iha: Hello. We have decided to become one person. We haven't decided who’s the right side and who’s the left side. You wanted to be the right side, right?
BC: I'd like to take a moment to introduce the band to you this evening. On the killer bee piano, Mr. Mike Garson! On the Jabberwocky synthesizer, Mr. Christopher Holmes!
Iha: What is - what’s he got on there?
BC: (laughs) On the lead guitar, my friend and companion, Zlatko! On the thundering bass, Jürgen! On the mean spirited drums, Zlutko!
Iha: And on lead vocals and guitar, Fuss Bugger!
This Time
I of the Mourning
[encore break]
Blank Page
> Du Hast (tease)
> Cherub Rock
BC: Thank you, thank you!
[encore break]
Iha: How is everybody? I feel you. Has the show been too long when we play thousands of songs? No, you're happy, everybody's happy. Oh my gosh, we're on video! Americans love the video camera. My whole life is a video camera. This is for that show Survivor, an American TV show, Survivor, so wave at the camera.
BC: Thank you very much, thank you very much. Before we play our last song, we’d like to say a very big thank you to everyone that has been a fan of ours here in Berlin. And it wasn't very easy to earn the respect of the people here in Berlin, but now that we've finally earned it, it feels very good, thank you. So, um, we hope you had a good time, thank you for an amazing concert, um, you made us feel very welcome and warm and uh, good feelings, you know, like uh, this thing right here.
Iha: We apologize for not knowing any German after touring here for eight years.
BC: You know “du hast mich.”
Iha: Yes.
BC: I know "fantastisch". James, James you've been fantastisch.
Iha: Ah! Ah, I like that.
BC: I think it means you’re a potato.
Iha: Oh, I like potatoes.
BC: So um, god bless you, we love you very much, thank you.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
BC: Alright, alright.
Iha: Thank you. Drive safe. [unintelligible].

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