The Smashing Pumpkins 1998-07-02

July 2, 1998 – Universal City, CA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Adore tour
Date	July 2, 1998
Venue	Universal Amphitheatre
Coordinates	34°8′17″N 118°21′12″W
Location	Universal City, CA, US
Venue type	Theater
Capacity	6,251
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Kenny Aronoff, Mike Garson, Dan Morris, Stephen Hodges
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Full performance

A check for $432,000, covering both Los Angeles shows, was presented to representatives from Five Acres, a local charity for abused children.

Setlist

1. "To Sheila" 
2. "Behold! the Night Mare" 
3. "Pug" 
4. "Tear" [9:10] 
5. "Crestfallen" 
6. "Ava Adore" 
7. "Perfect" 
8. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" [10:36] 
9. "Let Me Give the World to You" (acoustic) 
10. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 
11. "Appels + Oranjes" (acoustic) 
12. (percussion solo)
    1. "Zero" (tease) 
    2. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" [10:00] 
13. "Shame" [7:44] 
14. "For Martha" [8:08] 

Encore

15. (check presentation)
16. "1979" 
17. "Transmission" [Joy Division] [24:02] 
    1. "Let's Dance" [David Bowie] (tease) 
    2. "Drown" (tease) 

Notes

• Audience members are brought on stage to jam at the end of "Transmission"

Banter

To Sheila
> Behold! The Night Mare
> Pug
Tear
> Crestfallen
> Ava Adore
BC: (raspy) Thank you.
Perfect
> Thru the Eyes of Ruby
BC: Thank you, thank you so much. Thank you very much for coming to our concert to-night, tonight. Uhh...as you know this is a -- these two shows that we're playing here are for charity, so we appreciate...your donation. Can you turn on the lights for a second so we could see everybody?, it's kinda dark. (crowd cheers as lights go on) Ahhh!
Iha: Hello.
BC: Olé.
Iha: Hello. ... Ridic.
BC: Thank you so much, thank you. (Billy begins the next song) This is a song called Let Me Give the World to You.
Let Me Give the World to You (acoustic)
BC: Heh heh. Alright, heh heh heh. That's the end of the show, thank you, goodnight. Okay, we'd like to uh, play another old song for you right now. This is from our wildly successful album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. My uh, my voice is a little hoarse, so you have to sing along to cover up my uh....
Iha: Thank you. And if you can't sing, get up and dance if you can't sing.
BC: So we send this song out to all of you for coming to share this evening with us, we love you, we appreciate you so much, thank you.
Tonight, Tonight (acoustic)
BC: Thank you, thank you.
Appels + Oranjes (acoustic)
> drum/percussion solo
> Zero (tease)
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Shame
BC: Thank you so much for being a fantastic audience. We are forever in your debt, literally and uh, spiritually. Like to play one more song for you and then bid you adieu, (blows kiss), thank you.
For Martha
BC: God bless you, thank you, goodnight.
[encore break]
Iha: Hey, thanks a lot, thanks a lot, you guys have been really cool. And now, we would like to make a special presentation for uh, the charity tonight.
BC: (mic not working properly) Hello. Hello! (taps mic) Hello. Hello! (mic working right now) (laughing) Hello, heh heh, hi. It's in uh, Altadena, right? Yes? Tonight we're uh, proud to present, for the two shows, a check of $432,191. (Mike plays a brief piano fanfare) Thanks to you, heh, thanks to you so much. Um, the charity is Five Acres in Altadena, we went there today, it's an amazing program and we hope that you find some time in your lives to donate either time or some money to other charities so that we can turn this crazy world around, so.... Here is the check.
Lady from charity: The kids at Five Acres are blessed to have friends like Billy, James and D’arcy [2-3 unintelligible words]. What we plan to do with this money is to replace an old falling down billing – building that they saw today and it rees – needs replacing, so that they can have art therapy and children who we serve who have been abused and neglected. Thank you, we thank you.
Iha: (growly) Five Acres.
BC: Thanks again.
Iha: And now, now we will rock.
1979
BC: (Stephen Hawking voice) Thank you. (normal voice) Thank you again for a incredible, wonderful evening, the last two nights have been spectacular. We've really enjoyed playing our new songs off our new album Adore for you. It's a really good album. Mike?
Iha: Checkmate.
BC: Alright, that Let It Come Down is pretty good too.
Iha: I like that one too, heh heh.
BC: So uh, before we go on to this final song, we’d just like to say we love you very much and appreciate your support more than we could ever express. We hope you had a good time, we'll see you again soon. Now, we go into space.
Transmission / Let's Dance / Drown
Iha at 17:55, during pause before outro: Thank you, thank you. Thank you kindly.
BC at 18:32: This is the part where the strange aliens come and take over our planet.
D'arcy at 22:08: Hope you all can play it together. Hell yeah! Together! [unintelligible]! Play in E! Oh shit. Farewell!
D'arcy at 23:51: I can't not dance to that.
Girl on stage: Come back, Billy!
D'arcy: Can't dance to that. (song ends) ... Thank you, goodnight.

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