Billy Corgan 2019-06-22

June 22, 2019 – Hamburg, DE
Live performance by Billy Corgan
Europe 2019 (Billy Corgan) tour
Date	June 22, 2019
Venue	Gruenspan
Coordinates	53°33′7″N 9°57′29″E
Location	Hamburg, DE
Venue type	Club
Capacity	800
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Katie Cole
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Full performance

Setlist

Set one

1. "Black Lung" (acoustic) (live debut)
2. "Hard Times" (acoustic) 
3. "To Scatter One's Own" (acoustic) 
4. "Faithless Darlin'" (acoustic) 
5. "Apologia" (acoustic) 
6. "Cri de Coeur" (acoustic) 
7. "Buffalo Boys" (acoustic) 
8. "Dancehall" (acoustic) 
9. "Aeronaut" (piano) 
10. "Processional" (acoustic) 
11. "Half-Life of an Autodidact" (acoustic) 
12. "The Long Goodbye" (acoustic) 
13. "Mandarynne" (piano) 
14. "Along the Santa Fe Trail" [Ray Noble] (piano) 

Set two

15. "Wound" (acoustic) 
16. "Thirty-Three" (acoustic) 
17. "Spaceboy" (acoustic) 
18. "Violet Rays" (acoustic) 
19. "Endless Summer" (piano) 
20. "Breaking the Law" [Judas Priest] (piano) (final performance)
21. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 
22. "1979" (acoustic) 
23. "Travels" (piano) 
24. "Disarm" (piano) 

Encore

25. "A Song for a Son" (acoustic) 
26. "Today" (acoustic) 

Notes

• "Buffalo Boys" and "Dancehall" with Katie Cole on backing vocals
• First solo performance of "Breaking the Law"
• First performance of "A Song for a Son" since 2016-05-13

Banter

(incomplete due to lack of full show source)

Black Lung
Hard Times
To Scatter One’s Own
Faithless Darlin’
Apologia
Cri de Coeur
Buffalo Boys (with Katie Cole)
Dancehall (with Katie Cole)
BC: [tape cuts in] ...and then I have a daughter now, Philomena Clementine...who’s here with us. But this I wrote for my son and uh, thankfully I’d written a bunch of songs and did this album, Ogilala, with Rick Rubin, my friend and the great producer. And he picked this song out of a lineup and I thought it was the worst song I had and it was the best song I had, so that’s why he gets paid the big bucks and he can have the long beard.
Aeronaut (piano)
Processional
BC: Thank you so much, thank you.
Half-Life of an Autodidact
The Long Goodbye
BC: Thank you so much, thank you.
Guy in crowd: Hamburg loves you!
Another guy in crowd: We love you!
BC: Fantastic. Fantastic. Little did I know when I wrote these songs that I would get your love. (Billy sits for a moment and examines a finger) It’s okay, I’m not in a hurry to get down to the [unintelligible word] bone, so...I can wait. Thank you. I assume we’re here to play music and listen to music, but if you have another idea, just tell me.
Mandarynne (piano)
BC: Thank you. Thank you. Now ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, there are two sets this evening, this is the end of the first set. And I appreciate you listening to these new songs, some of the songs are from my album that’s gonna come out in the fall and then some of the songs are from the album came out recently, Ogilala. And then in the second set, I play some songs that you might know...that you might have done drugs to, that you might have lost your virginity to, that you might have listened to when your mother yelled at you. Those songs. [tape cuts]
Along the Santa Fe Trail (piano)
BC: See you in a few minutes, thank you so much.
[set break]
Wound
Thirty-three
Spaceboy
Violet Rays
BC: [tape cuts in] ...sometime in the last 24 hours, Neil Young’s longtime manager - someone who managed us, the Cars, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills & Nash - Elliot Roberts passed away at age 76. Elliot came out to the west coast around 19 years old with a 19 year old Joni Mitchell and changed west coast culture and so many bands that came from that great time in Laurel Canyon. And so I was thinking about Elliot today because, although we didn’t have the best relationship, I admired him. He was a fantastic old school manager in the way that they aren’t managers anymore. He told me a great story and it’s the type of story I would never tell but now that Elliot’s passed away, I think it’s pretty cool. So Elliot told me a story and he’s in a limousine somewhere circa 1969, it’s Neil Young, it’s Jimi Hendrix and I think maybe Joni Mitchell - another famous name. And they’re all smoking weed and they’re going to a festival and they get to a checkpoint where the cops are checking the cars and they realize, “Oh fuck, what’re we gonna do?” And as the cop approaches the car, obviously somebody’s gotta roll down the window and they’re gonna smell the weed and of course it isn’t like it is now. Back then, they really busted people hard for having weed. So Elliot said, “Give me the drugs” and he put the drugs in his pocket, they made everyone get out of the car once they smelled the weed and the reason Elliot took the weed was because he didn’t want to keep the artists from going to the festival, so Elliot went to jail so that they could play the festival. And that’s the kind of manager he was and they don’t make them like that anymore, so to Elliot. And as I said, Elliot managed the band we had there for a second called Zwan, so...this is a song from the Zwan band.
Endless Summer (piano)
Breaking the Law (piano)
Tonight, Tonight
Guy in crowd: Play To Sheila! To Sheila, woo! Sheila!
(Billy takes off his guitar, fans himself for a moment and puts guitar back on)
BC: Hey. If you know anything about me after 31 years, I play whatever the fuck I wanna play. And the reason I don’t wanna play the song you’re shouting...you boorish man. B-O-O, B-O-O-R-ish. No, not boring, boorish, look it up. Is I wanted to play this song.
1979
BC: [tape cuts in] ...but I’ve only got a few more songs, so it’s not too bad. Plus the sun is coming up soon and I have to go back to my casket. This next song is from the last Smashing Pumpkins LP, Shiny and Oh So Bright. It saw the return of the prodigal son James Iha to the band. After some 17 years away. And it really is a great time in the band, so we can’t thank you fans enough for supporting us. There were many years there where we couldn’t get booked in Germany, couldn’t get booked in Europe, people told me over and over again the band was dead.
Multiple people in crowd: No!
BC: Oh yeah. I mean, they were wrong, but...that’s what they told me. So if I’m dead and this is a dream, it’s a pretty good dream, so thank you for being in my dream.
Travels (piano)
BC: Thank you.
Disarm (piano)
[encore break]
Guy in crowd (with multiple people shushing him repeatedly): Two more songs! Two more songs! Two more songs! Just three songs! A few more! [unintelligible]! Whore!
BC: You gotta give him a little bit of space because...he works for Rammstein and he’s the guy they light on fire and he’s a little bit havin’ a hard time.
Same guy in crowd: Billy, the man was upstairs!
BC: Thank you.
Same guy in crowd: [unintelligible]!
(Billy gives the guy a dramatic but sarcastic thumbs up, then bites his lip for a moment while collecting himself)
Same guy in crowd: Billy, could you play any Scorpions?!
(Billy cracks up off mic)
A Song for a Son (abandoned after two chords)
(Billy steps up to the mic but seems to think better about saying something and just laughs quietly)
A Song for a Son
BC: Thank you! One last thing. I wasn’t gonna play this song but the fact that you listened to that song made me wanna play this song, so thank you.
Today