The Smashing Pumpkins 1996-01-30

January 30, 1996 – San Diego, CA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Infinite Sadness tour
Date	January 30, 1996
Venue	SOMA
Coordinates	32°45′59″N 117°11′51″W
Location	San Diego, CA, US
Venue type	Club
Capacity	1,200
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jonathan Melvoin
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Incomplete performance (taper busted)

Setlist

Set one

1. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 
2. "In the Arms of Sleep" (acoustic) 
3. "Cupid de Locke" (acoustic) 
4. "Thirty-Three" (acoustic) 
5. "Today" (acoustic) 
6. "Soma" (acoustic) 
7. "Take Me Down" (acoustic) 
8. "Beautiful" 
9. "Rocket" 
10. "Galapogos" 

Set two

11. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" (prerecorded) 
12. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" 
13. "Zero" 
14. "Just What I Needed" [The Cars] (tease) 
15. "Fuck You" 
16. "Here Is No Why" 
17. "To Forgive" 
18. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
19. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" 
20. "1979" 
21. "Geek U.S.A." 
22. "Cherub Rock" 
23. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 
24. "Jellybelly" 

Encore one

25. "We Only Come Out at Night" 
26. "X.Y.U." 

Encore two

27. "By Starlight" 
28. "Silverfuck" [17:08] 
    1. "Drown" (tease) 

Banter

BC: Hello. Hey, listen! Relax, relax, this is the mellow part of the show, you don't need to shove, push, kill each other. ... Aaah!
Tonight, Tonight (acoustic)
BC: (gruff voice) Thank you.
In the Arms of Sleep (acoustic)
Cupid de Locke (acoustic)
BC: Thank you so much. We are the Smashing Pumpkins. Once again, rumors of our demise are greatly flabrigated.
Thirty-three (acoustic)
BC: Wow, you're a rowdy bunch of motherfuckers. (faux serious) I'm so glad we're only playing acoustic tonight, things may get out of hand. (crowd boos) (normal voice) What, you can't take a joke here? We weren’t--we were here not that long ago, you could take a joke back then. I seem to remember our Lollapalooza set being very funny.
Today (acoustic)
(Iha during extended outro: Oh yeah!
BC: Take it, man!
Iha: Wooo!
BC: Go, man.
(Iha solos))
Iha: (high pitched) Alright! (normal voice) My god, is that sensitive.
BC: Oh yeah, so what's this place called?
Crowd: SOMA!
Iha: (high pitched, voice cracking) I can't hear you!
BC: Foma?
D’arcy: I thought--I thought it was somebody's laundry house, what was that called?
BC: Yeah, Jack's Laundry? Is that what this place is called?
D’arcy: Well, that's--that’s what this song is called, Jack's--
Iha: House of Paul.
D’arcy: Al Fuente, House of Paul Laundry.
BC: Bird Socks, I think. I think it's called Bird Socks.
Soma (acoustic)
Take Me Down (acoustic)
BC: Oh yeah.
Iha: Thank you.
BC: The uh...the, heh, the Reebok company was nice enough to give me these ugly shoes. And uh....
Iha: I think they're pretty fly.
BC: I think they're pretty sh--heh, I would wear these if I had no legs, you know what I mean?
Iha: Hey man, they're just trying to keep it real, know what I'm saying?
BC: So we'd like to give these shoes away to some lucky people.
D’arcy: No, let's be fair, they gave us some really nice shoes too, but--but we're keeping those.
Iha: Hey man, I like the shoes.
BC: I mean, you know, Mr. Brady's dead, if you know what I mean.
Iha: Well, you can't just give them one sock.
BC: Ah, my shoe's--okay, wait, wait, put your--put all your hands down, please. Just hold on, let's cooperate. Please put your hand down or you'll be disqualified. Alright. I--I would guess the girl size is 20, the boy size is 12, so all of you have girl size 20 or boy size 12, please raise your hand.
D’arcy: Thank you. Yeah, they all, “It’s my shoe size.”
BC: Well, all I can say is it looks like we're gonna have to have a relay race after the show...
D’arcy: If the shoe fits...
BC: ...to win these lovely Reebok shoes.
D’arcy: ...wear it.
BC: But I ain't giving it to you now because you're just gonna hit me in the fucking head with it. I know that trick, let me tell you.
D’arcy: (off mic) Wait...
(a few people crowd yelling at D'arcy)
BC: What does that mean? D'arcy vocal, on lead Wretzky.
D’arcy: Yeah, be really open minded.
BC: Yeah, I mean, you know, just relax, take a deep breath. You're all fucking Californians, I mean, chill the fuck out.
Iha: Just relax and shut up.
BC: We expect this shit back in the Midwest where the people are not so bright.
D’arcy: Where the people are bored.
Beautiful
BC: Very interesting interpretation, heh, heh heh. Well, we'd like to say thanks for coming to our show. We've always enjoyed our time in San Diego, so that's why we wanted to come back and do one of these kind of shows. So thank you, for those of you who are seeing us for the second, third, fourth or fifth time. For those of you who've seen us before, you can tell the people who are seeing us for the first time that we're usually very difficult, we don't play any of our songs that you would want to hear and um...you can explain that to them, the concept.
Rocket
Galapogos
[set break]
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Intro
> Where Boys Fear to Tread
> Zero
Just What I Needed (tease - Billy starts the riff, Jimmy joins in, Billy sings one line)
(BC: (singing) I don’t like comin’ here...)
> Fuck You
BC: (as if slowed down) Thank you.
Here Is No Why
(Billy and Iha mumble nonsense)
BC: (Chekov impression) Captain, heh heh heh. The phasers are (laughing) down.
Iha: Pretty much.
To Forgive
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
BC: Thanks a lot. You're all just rats in the cage.
Iha: Ha ha ha ha ha.
BC: Despite all my anger, I'm a trapped marsupial in a (laughing) steel enclosure.
Iha: That is right.
BC: My name is Fred, thank you for coming.
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
D’arcy: Thank you.
BC: (Satanic voice) Thank you.
1979
Iha: And now, we will have rocked you.
Geek U.S.A.
Cherub Rock
Iha: Thank you. I’m trying my best, heh.
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
> Jellybelly
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you very much.
We Only Come Out at Night
X.Y.U.
Iha: Thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: We thank you very much. You people are rocking. Rocking beyond belief.
BC: (burps), thank you. Heh, we are very old and we thank you. Yeah, Jimmy, you start this one. (Jimmy starts the song) Okay, captain, heh heh.
By Starlight
> Silverfuck / Drown
(BC right before end: Thanks, goodnight.)