The Smashing Pumpkins 1994-03-25

March 25, 1994 – Davenport, IA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Rock Invasion tour
Date	March 25, 1994
Venue	Palmer Auditorium
Coordinates	41°31′49″N 90°34′29″W
Location	Davenport, IA, US
Venue type	Auditorium
Capacity	4,320
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin
Order of bands	Red Red Meat, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Cherub Rock" 
2. "Quiet" 
3. "Disarm" 
4. "Today" 
5. "Rocket" 
6. "Rhinoceros" 
7. "Siva" [5:35] 
8. "Drown" [4:55] 
9. "Hummer" [6:14] 
10. "Geek U.S.A." 
11. "Soma" 

Encore one

12. "I Am One" (with rant) [7:37] 

Encore two

13. "Mayonaise" 
14. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" (abandoned) (live debut)
15. "Bad Moon Rising" [Creedence Clearwater Revival] (tease) 
16. "Bye June" (abandoned) 
17. "Communication Breakdown" [Led Zeppelin] (tease) 
18. "Unchained" [Van Halen] (tease) 
19. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" (live debut)

Encore three

20. "Spaced" (tease) 
1. "Suffer" (tease) 
2. "Silverfuck" [17:15] 
3. "Never Let Me Down Again" [Depeche Mode] (tease) 
4. "Over the Rainbow" [Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg] (tease) 
5. "Jackboot" 
21. "Sweet Sweet" [1:25] 

Banter

D’arcy: Hi.
Cherub Rock
> Quiet
BC: Hi! Welcome...to the rock show. Davenport, Iowa. Or should I say Quad Cities? So, hello up there, hi. Hi. We say hi to you, we say hi to you too. And of course all you crazy fuckers down here. Well...this is a...a song.
Disarm
> Today
Rocket
BC: Thanks. ... Thanks a lot. Like to play you a old oldie. Now how many people here have actually heard our first album? (crowd cheers) Ah, somebody's lying.
Rhinoceros
> Siva
Drown
> Hummer
Geek U.S.A.
(BC alt last line: I fuckin’ love the U.S.A.!)
BC: Thanks a lot. We uh...shh, wait, shuh, ho.... We can't thank you enough for coming, it's very nice, thank you. We appreciate it very much. You know in these uh...in these days of rock bands not supposedly caring about records, fans and all that kind of shit, well, we're sorry, we're an old kind of band. We actually do care. We want you to listen to our records and you want -- we want you to come see us play, so thanks for listening.
Iha: Just -- just think of us as the -- the new '90s Eagles.
Soma
BC: Thank you very much.
[encore break]
Iha: Alright, I can't fucking hear you! Heh heh, I'm just kidding. Stop your enthusiasm.
BC: Motherfuckin’ rock and roll, man, don't you know? We’d like ta play you a love song.
Iha: (faux enthusiastic) It's great to be here at a sold out show and I'd just like to let you know that it’s -- (slow and deep) I want....
BC: What? Anyway, this is a love song.
I Am One
(BC midsong: All I ever wanted was everything. All I ever wanted was everything. All I ever wanted was everything and all I got was shit! Nothing can be taken from me that hasn’t already been taken! Nothing can be taken from me that hasn’t already been taken. Nothing can be taken from me that hasn’t already been taken. Hoooo-ow! Hooooo-uh-ow! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Ho! And I testify. And I bear witness! And I bear witness. Hey, cut the shit. Yeah? (Iha starts playing with his ray gun) My parents used to tell me that when I was hurtin’, that there were other people hurtin’, so therefore I shouldn’t hurt. My parents told me that my pain is not real because other people feel it too and that’s fuckin’ shit. Cut the shit!! (Iha stops) What you feel is real, even if it’s wrong. What you hurt is real. Pain is not a commodity. Hurt is non-transferable. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! And what have you got? Nothing. And what do you feel? Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. There’s nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!!! Ow!!)
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you indeed-y.
BC: Thank you so much. I hope you've enjoyed yourself. It's been a great pleasure.
Mayonaise
BC: Thanks a lot. Okay. Um, can anybody hear me talking, this is...? 'Cause then like when I went up to see Van Halen in 1984, I could not hear what they were saying but everybody yelled anyway, so ever since then I always think when I talk nobody can hear and they just yell. So you can hear me, yes? (crowd cheers) Okay, well, this is um...ever since we put out the album, we –- we have not played–-
Guy in crowd: [unintelligible]!
BC: Shush -– we have, heh heh -– ever since we put out the album, we have not played any new songs and tonight, this’ll be the first time we play a new song. So when (coughs) -- when you hear this on the new -- on what will be the next album when it comes out in 1997, um...heh, you'll -- you'll know this song 'cause you heard it first, so....
Iha: This is uh, this is called Siva Part 2.
BC: (laughing) Yeah, Siva Part 2. Hit it, Jimmy!
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (abandoned after 5 seconds)
BC: Now James...James is in the wrong tuning, see?
Bad Moon Rising (tease - once through riff)
BC: See, this is why we don't play new songs. So anyway, uh...heh heh, I don't know what to say now. I say, all together we say, "Fuck you, James."
Crowd: Fuck you, James!
BC: Fuck you, James! Heh heh heh. I don't -- you know what it is, he doesn't like this song, he does not want to play this song, that's what it is.
(Iha doodles)
D’arcy: Yeah, me neither.
BC: Haha! You were in the wrong tuning too? The song is in E flat. You know it's E flat 'cause it's the robot guitar. (Iha doodling) What the fuck?! Alright.
Bye June (abandoned midway through 4th line)
BC: Haha! I don't even know how to play the song anymore. We can play -- wanna play a Van Halen song?
Unchained (tease)
BC: (singing) Unchained.... (speaking) Okay. Anyway, oh yeah, the new song.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
BC: Thanks for listening to our new song.
[encore break]
Silverfuck / Over the Rainbow (with Spaced & Suffer teases in intro)
> Jackboot
> Sweet Sweet (Billy a cappella)
BC: Thank you, God bless you.