The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-04-19

April 19, 2000 – Ann Arbor, MI, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	April 19, 2000
Venue	Hill Auditorium
Coordinates	42°16′44″N 83°44′20″W
Location	Ann Arbor, MI, US
Venue type	Auditorium
Capacity	4,169
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Pale Scales" 
2. "Rock On" [David Essex] [6:20] 
   1. "And the Cradle Will Rock..." [Van Halen] (tease) 
   2. "Everybody Wants Some!!" [Van Halen] (tease) 
3. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
4. "Glass and the Ghost Children" [10:20] 
5. "Age of Innocence" 
6. "Blew Away" 
7. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
8. "I of the Mourning" 
9. "Le Deux Machina" (prerecorded) 
10. "To Sheila" (acoustic) 
11. "If There Is a God" (acoustic) 
12. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
13. "Try, Try, Try" (acoustic) 
14. "Mayonaise" 
15. "Fuck You" 
16. "Today" 
17. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [7:20] 
18. "Cherub Rock" 

Encore one

19. "Blank Page" 
20. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
21. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [7:10] 

Encore two

22. "With Every Light" (acoustic) 
23. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 

Encore three

24. "Zero" 
25. "Heavy Metal Machine" 

Banter

Pale Scales
> Rock On / And the Cradle Will Rock... / Everybody Wants Some!!
(BC during quiet part before outro: Love live rock and roll. ... And by rock and roll, I don’t mean 'N Sync, the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Mandy Moore, Mariah fucking Carey, Celine fucking Dion. That is not rock and roll, I’m very sorry.)
The Everlasting Gaze
Glass and the Ghost Children
Age of Innocence
BC: Good evening, thank you very much. Thank you so very much, thank you.
Iha: Whoo.
BC: I’d like to, uh, hahaha, I don’t know about that. I’d like to, uh, introduce to you, uh, my partner for 13 years, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
I of the Mourning
Le Deux Machina (tape)
BC: Hold on, I’ve lost my mind, hold on. ... Uh oh, okay, sorry about that. Heh heh heh. Thank you.
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
BC: Thank you. Is everybody doin’ alright? Good, thank you. How are you...how are all you people doin’ way up there at the top? This is where the show falls apart, so just bear with us.
If There is a God (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
> Disarm (acoustic)
BC: Thank you. Um, like to introduce my friend, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Now this next song is, uh, the last of our acoustic interlude, it is the - it is a song from our new album, uh, Machina, and uh, the Machines of God, and uh...yes, yes, and uh, and uh, this is only the second time we’ve ever played this song live, uh, the, um.... (crowd cheers) Oh no, wait, you have to hear the rest of the story. Um, the first time we played it, the entire audience left. So, we ask you to please hang in there.
Try, Try, Try (acoustic)
Mayonaise
BC: (growling noise)
Fuck You
Today
Blue Skies Bring Tears
> Cherub Rock
BC: Thank you, thank you! Heh.
[encore break]
Blank Page
(BC over outro keyboard: Jimmy Chamberlin on the drums.)
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
you might ask yourself
just how do i feel today?
you might ask yourself
if i have no feelings, does that mean i’m okay? what?
you might ask yourself
why do all my friends think that my mother is gay?
you might ask yourself
if my mother is gay, does that mean my dad is gay too?

into the blue again
water flowing underground
letting the days go by
water flowing underground

you might ask yourself
who is that fucking guy on stage?
you might ask yourself
what does he know about me and my life?
you might ask yourself
what the hell is a michigan, what is it?
you might ask yourself
why am i losing my side?

letting the days go by
water flowing underground
into the blue again
water flowing underground

whoa!
what am i doing?
i ask myself

i pose the questions, i have the answers, i pose the questions, there are no answers, i have reached across, i don’t know how [1-2 unintelligible words] with this devil’s, i know of no other way to put it than to say (screams)

wow!!
what the fuck?!
what the fuck?

in the eyes of america we spit prophets and disaster
we stomp on it!!!
there’s no recourse, there’s too much echo, but there’s too much – heh heh heh heh
that’s right
that’s right
we look around, ohhhh, too much, we look around and what do we see?
a celebration of bullshit pop fuckin’ culture, that’s what we see
it’s better to have plastic surgery than to look good, let’s face it
it’s a plastic world and we’re little plastic toys inside the plastic world
and they try to stick us in the little plastic tin and shove us under a fuckin’ plastic bed and say “go away, go away, go away, rock is dead, go away, we have no more use for you, we have no more use for you”
well, we say, “fuck america"
"it’s the greatest country on this planet but it’s fuckin’ warped as fuck”
we say “what the fuck is goin’ on, what the fuck is goin’ (screaming) on, what the fuck is goin’ on, what the fuck is goin’ on?!!”

wow!!
yow!!!

[encore break]
With Every Light (acoustic)
Tonight, Tonight (acoustic)
BC: Thank you.
[encore break]
Zero
> Heavy Metal Machine
(BC during quiet part before outro: Come on, you gotta put your hands up in the air. It’s the end of the concert, you know, it’s like...the big finish. Heavy metal, heavy metal machine...)
BC: Thank you. Thank you, heh heh heh.
Iha: Thanks a lot. Good luck.

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