The Smashing Pumpkins 1992-12-11: Difference between revisions

December 11, 1992 – Atlanta, GA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Artist	The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	December 11, 1992
Venue	The Roxy
Coordinates	33°50′25″N 84°22′47″W
Location	Atlanta, GA, US
Venue type	Theater
Capacity	1,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins, Drivin' and Cryin'
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Surprise opening set at "Benefit for the Hopeful" charity show. The band played on equipment borrowed from Drivin N Cryin.

Setlist[edit | edit source]

"Country Death Song" [The Violent Femmes] (tease) (acoustic)
"Today" (acoustic)
"Disarm"
"Rocket"
"Luna"
"Quiet"
"Spaceboy"
"Cherub Rock"
"Drown" [5:46]
1. "Hummer" (tease)
"Suffer"
"I Am One" (tease)
"Communication Breakdown" [Led Zeppelin] (tease)
"Sweet Leaf" [Black Sabbath] (tease)
"Hello Kitty Kat"
1. "Over the Rainbow" [Harburg/Arlen] (tease)

Banter[edit | edit source]

BC: Well, she has to fix her strap, so....
Country Death Song (tease) (acoustic)
BC: Okay, monitor.
Today (acoustic)
BC: Oh, hi. We have to make Kevin's guitar work good. Hi. How are you tonight? I am fine. Um, we're in Atlanta recording our new album, so.... Don't think we're just down here being whores. Beyond that, we’re recording an album. Alright. Heh heh, heh heh.
Disarm
> Rocket
BC: Thank you.
Luna (abandoned after a few seconds)
BC: Oh, come on, you don't wanna hear any oldies.
Luna
(intro to Quiet begins)
BC: This is a song called Quiet. Quiet.
> Quiet
> Spaceboy
BC: This is called The –- Into the Cherub Rock.
Cherub Rock
BC: (while downtuning) For those of you who don't know, this is the Seattle grunge tuning. How are you? Happy? Alright, who’s –- who’s sad? (minor cheers) I'm sad too, so I’m sorry. Who’s happy? (cheers) Such a fucking crowd.
Drown / Hummer
> Suffer
BC: Thank you for paying attention. Um, heh heh. I don’t know, what do you wanna hear? What? Heh.
I Am One (tease)
BC: No, you know we don't do Freebird anymore.
Communication Breakdown (tease)
BC: Oh, we don't know that one either.
Sweet Leaf (tease)
BC: (sings) Alright now –- (speaking) we don't know that one either, no. Well, this is called Hello Kitty Kat and we got to go bye bye.
Hello Kitty Kat
> Over the Rainbow (tease)
BC: (singing) Somewhere over the rainbow you will find, under Judy Garland [unintelligible].
D’arcy: I wanna thank Drivin' N' Cryin' for asking us to come out, it was a lot of fun and it's for a good cause, thanks a lot.

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 == Setlist ==
-# {{live song|Country Death Song|tease=1|cover=[[w:Violent Femmes|The Violent Femmes]]}}
+# {{live song|Country Death Song|tease=1|acoustic=1|cover=[[w:Violent Femmes|The Violent Femmes]]}}
-# {{live song|Today}}
+# {{live song|Today|acoustic=1}}
 # {{live song|Disarm}}
 # {{live song|Rocket}}
@@ Line 36: / Line 36: @@
 {{banter|1=
-Corgan: She has to fix her straps...
+BC: Well, she has to fix her strap, so....
-'''Country Death Song (tease)'''
+'''Country Death Song''' (tease) (acoustic)
-'''Today'''
+BC: Okay, monitor.
-Corgan: Oh, hi. We have to make Kevin's guitar work... Hi, how are you tonight, I am fine. We're in Atlanta recording our new album so, don't think we're just down here being whores [unintelligible]
+'''Today''' (acoustic)
+BC: Oh, hi.  We have to make [[w:Kevn Kinney|Kevin]]'s guitar work good.  Hi.  How are you tonight?  I am fine.  Um, we're in Atlanta recording our new album, so....  Don't think we're just down here being whores.  Beyond that, we’re recording an album.  Alright.  Heh heh, heh heh.
 '''Disarm'''
-'''Rocket'''
+> '''Rocket'''
-Corgan: Thank you... oh c'mon you don't wanna hear any oldies
+BC: Thank you.
+'''Luna''' (abandoned after a few seconds)
+BC: Oh, come on, you don't wanna hear any oldies.
 '''Luna'''
-Corgan: This is a song called 'Quiet'... 'Quiet'
+''(intro to Quiet begins)''
-'''Quiet'''
+BC: This is a song called Quiet.  Quiet.
-'''Spaceboy'''
+> '''Quiet'''
-Corgan: This is called 'The Cherub Rock'
+> '''Spaceboy'''
+BC: This is called The –- Into the Cherub Rock.
 '''Cherub Rock'''
-Corgan (tuning): For those of you who don't know, this is the Seattle grunge tuning... How are you? Happy? Who's sad? [minor cheers] I'm sad too... who's happy? [cheers] That's a fuckin crowd
+BC: ''(while downtuning)'' For those of you who don't know, this is the Seattle grunge tuning.  How are you?  Happy?  Alright, who’s –- who’s sad?  ''(minor cheers)''  I'm sad too, so I’m sorry.  Who’s happy?  ''(cheers)''  Such a fucking crowd.
-'''Drown'''
+'''Drown / Hummer'''
-'''Hummer (tease)'''
+> '''Suffer'''
-'''Suffer'''
+BC: Thank you for paying attention.  Um, heh heh.  I don’t know, what do you wanna hear?  What?  Heh.
-Corgan: Thank you for paying attention... I dont know what do you wanna hear? what?
+'''I Am One''' (tease)
-'''I Am One (tease)'''
+BC: No, you know we don't do [[w:Free Bird|Freebird]] anymore.
-Corgan: Now you know we don't do 'Freebird' anymore
+'''Communication Breakdown''' (tease)
-'''Communication Breakdown (tease)'''
+BC: Oh, we don't know that one either.
-Corgan: Oh we don't know that one either
+'''Sweet Leaf''' (tease)
-'''Sweet Leaf (tease) '''
+BC: ''(sings)'' Alright now –- ''(speaking)'' we don't know that one either, no.  Well, this is called Hello Kitty Kat and we got to go bye bye.
-Corgan: (sings) Alright now... we don't know that one either... well this is called 'Hello Kitty Kat' and we got to go, bye bye
 '''Hello Kitty Kat '''
-'''Over the Rainbow (tease)'''
+> '''Over the Rainbow (tease)'''
-Wretzky: I wanna thank Drivin' N' Cryin' for asking us to come out, it was a lot of fun and it's for a good cause, thanks a lot
+BC: ''(singing)'' Somewhere over the rainbow you will find, under [[w:Judy Garland|Judy Garland]] [unintelligible].
+D’arcy: I wanna thank [[w:Drivin N Cryin|Drivin' N' Cryin']] for asking us to come out, it was a lot of fun and it's for a good cause, thanks a lot.
 }}
 [[Category:Live performances for charity]]