The Smashing Pumpkins 1994-08-05

August 5, 1994 – New York, NY, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Rock Invasion tour
Date	August 5, 1994
Festival	Lollapalooza 1994
Venue	Downing Stadium
Coordinates	40°47′38″N 73°55′27″W
Location	New York, NY, US
Venue type	Stadium
Capacity	22,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin, Eric Remschneider
Order of bands	Green Day, L7, The Breeders, George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars, The Beastie Boys, Courtney Love, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Rocket" 
2. "Quiet" 
3. "Disarm" 
   1. "Miss World" [Hole] (tease) 
4. "Today" 
5. "I Am One" (with rant) [10:00] 
   1. "Zero" (tease) 
6. "Drown" [4:59] 
7. "Hummer" 
8. "Geek U.S.A." 
9. "Soma" 
10. "Cherub Rock" 

encore

11. "Siva" (abandoned) [5:47] 
1. "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key] (tease) 
2. "Bring It On Home" [Led Zeppelin] (tease) 
12. "Country Death Song" [Violent Femmes] (tease) 
13. "Stay (I Missed You)" [Lisa Loeb] (tease) 
14. "All That She Wants" [Ace of Base] (tease) 
15. "Fried" (tease) 
16. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" (tease) 
17. "Daydream" (tease) 
18. "Dancing in the Moonlight" [Thin Lizzy] 

Notes

• The band donates stage time to Courtney Love, who performs a song or two before their set begins
• Billy Corgan and a fan exchange insults during "I Am One"

Banter

Doll Parts (Courtney Love solo)
Love: Thanks. Thanks to Jimmy and James and Billy and D'arcy for the time. Bye, thanks.
[break]
Iha: Good evening.
Rocket
(intro to Quiet begins)
BC: (screaming) Good evening! (normal voice) Welcome to the rock shoooooow!
> Quiet
BC: (deep voice) Thank you.
Disarm / Miss World
> Today
I Am One / Zero
(BC midsong: What you want is what you'll get and that's nothing. What you want is what you'll get and that's nothing. What you want is what you'll get and that's nothing. All I ever wanted was everything and all I got was shit! All I ever wanted was everything and all I got was shit. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Nothing can be taken from me that has not already been taken! Nothing can be taken from me that has not already been taken. Nothing can be taken from me, nothing! Nothing can be taken from me, there is nothing that can be taken from me. What is lost, what is earned, what is gained, what is had?! Dignity, integrity: bullshit! The world don't know jack shit about integrity. And the world don't know jack shit about dignity. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Loneliness is emptiness, emptiness is cleanliness, cleanliness is next to godliness and godliness is next to nothingness! Nothing, zero! There are no more heroes. Yeah? Fuck you too, you fuck!! Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you! I don't take shit from nobody. Especially not a guy in a tank top and a mustache. I mean, I'm not the best dresser, but you know...tank tops are out, dude. Nothing can be taken from me, nothing! Nothing can be taken from me. Nothing. That's why you can give me the finger, you can call me a motherfuckin' asshole, I don't fuckin' care!! Your future is not my future, your pain is not my pain. Yeah, 1994, rock and roll, nice and safe, isn't it? Nice and packaged and it's all right there, say the right things and be the right things and look the right way. We don't care! Sorry we don't have our baseball caps on backwards today but we lost them. Dignity, dignity. That is the crux of your life! And of course the wind. I don't believe in men with mustaches, I don't believe in MTV, I don't believe in god, I don't believe in America. I believe in me! Me, M-E-E-E-E me! That's right. And if there is a god, hello. He or she would want it that way, I truly believe that. Welcome to my mojo! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! No. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!!!)
BC: Sorry for the inconvenience.
Iha: Let's uh, we'll move on to the next song, I'm sure you'll like it. It's a song from a movie. And uh, the movie was originally shot in--
BC: It's called Mustached in Seattle.
Iha: It was Mustache Man. It was filmed in Montana but they called it Sleepless in Seattle, so (Billy starts Drown) hope you like it.
Drown
> Hummer
BC: I'd like to say thank you to those of you who are actually listening. And thank you very much for staying, I realize it's kind of cold and blustery, not very pleasant conditions. Very much Illinois weather, I realize.
Iha: How are you people doing out there? Not to be totally rock cliche, but come on! Are you bored?
BC: But you are being totally rock cliche.
Iha: Are you bored, are you tired or...? Heh heh. You're waiting to explode.
BC: Alright, well...just remember: pogo. Pogo in your spot, don't hurt the person next to you.
Geek U.S.A.
(BC alt last line: I fuckin’ love the U.S.A.!)
BC: Well, we'd like to bore you with another rock opus.
Guy in crowd: Bury Me!
BC: We don't take requests.
Soma
Cherub Rock
BC: We love you, man!
[encore break]
Iha: Oh, jaded New York, we thank you. It is very cold out, but we appreciate you staying.
BC: Sorry I yelled at you guys with the mustaches before. It's just uh, I noticed one of the guys was wearin' a John Starks jersey and I couldn't help but go after him. What was he, uh, one for fourteen in the final, in the final quarter?
Iha: Now...if that were Chicago--
BC: Alright, we're from Chicago, you have to understand there's kind of a Bulls rivalry thing.
Iha: You understand that if maybe Mike Ditka would enter, things would change.
BC: James, how fucked is it that the Giants dropped Phil Simms, okay, how fucked is that? Alright, well...right, it's fucked up man, Phil Simms. He gave New York a lot of good years. Whatever, it's just fuckin' sports, chill the fuck out.
Iha: Blood from a stone I say, blood from a stone.
Siva / Star Spangled Banner / Bring It On Home
BC after guitar solo: Are you back at full flight, eagle?
Iha: I may be strong but I am big in spirit. (Billy plays some blues riffs) Yeah, heh, Led Head fuckin’ blues. Ow! Yeah, you motherfucker, play that fuckin' blues! Ow!!!
BC: Let's face it, this whole evening's a bust.
Iha: What do you mean?
BC: The weather sucks, you're not into the show, it's a bust. It's a rock and roll bust, people!
Iha: Come on! Heh. Come on, people of New York!
BC: That's why we're gonna have a disco party right now.
Iha: Fucking get on your motherfuckin’ dance!
Country Death Song (tease - Jimmy and D’arcy)
Iha: Come on you motherfuckin' people! You fuckin' people, come on! (screams) You fuckin' idiots! You fuckin' ain’t rockin’, come on! Randall Island [sic], I wanna fuckin' hear you, you fuckin' fucks, come on! Now! Now, come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! (tease ends) Come on! Yeah! Fuckin' play that shit, man! Play that wack ass dope beat again!
Stay (tease)
Iha: (singing) You say, you only hear what you want to. You say, I talk so all the time.
All That She Wants (tease)
BC: (singing) All that she wants is another baby, that’s what she needs and all.... (speaking) Hey, let's face it, we're all part of the house nation now, we know that. Techno nation, it's over for rock, you know, we're dinosaurs, we realize that, we understand, it's cool. We ain't got no dope ass beats for you, sorry, just a bunch of Cro-Magnon rock shit.
Iha: Tonight is our last show.
BC: Listen, this guy down here is yelling "you suck you suck you suck", oh yeah, yeah, I saw your band, yeah, I saw your band last week, you really sucked. Where’s your band, you fuck? See, we were not –- we're not afraid to just be the way that we are, we're not tryin' to pretend for you that we're somethin' that we're not, if you don't like it, go home! That’s all. And lord knows, all we're doin' is tryin' to have some fun, if you want your rock and roll so serious, well, bring back Winger and Poison and all that kind of fuckin' crap. Yeah, I know we suck, but you know what, we're really good at sucking. In fact, we're the best at sucking, I guarantee you.
Fried (tease)
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings (tease)
Daydream (tease)
BC: Ah!
Iha: What? What are you people chanting? (Billy starts Dancing in the Moonlight) Go to college. Don’t be so goddamn illiterate.
Dancing in the Moonlight
(BC singing after 2nd chorus: Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight, goodnight, goodnight! Now goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.)

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