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
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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Setlist

Set one

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

Set two

1. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" (over PA) 
2. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" 
3. "Zero" 
4. "Fuck You" 
5. "Here Is No Why" 
6. "To Forgive" 
7. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
8. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" 
9. "1979" 
10. "Geek U.S.A." 
11. "Cherub Rock" 
12. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 
13. "Jellybelly" 

Encore one

1. "We Only Come Out at Night" 
2. "X.Y.U." 

Encore two

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

Notes

• Tonight, Tonight through Take Me Down performed acoustic

Banter

Corgan: Hello. Hey, listen...relax, relax...this is the mellow part of the show, you don't need to shove, push, kill each other.
Tonight, Tonight
Corgan: Thank you.
In the Arms of Sleep
Cupid de Locke
Corgan: Thank you so much. We are the Smashing Pumpkins... Once again, uh, rumors of our demise are...greatly flabrigated.
Thirty-three
Corgan: Well, you're a rowdy bunch of motherfuckers. I'm so glad we're only playing acoustic tonight! Things may get out of hand. [crowd boos] What, you can't take a joke here? 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
Iha: [screams] My god, is that sensitive.
Corgan: Oh yeah, so what's this place called? [crowd: Soma!]
Iha: I can't hear you!
Corgan: Foa?
Wretzky: I thought--I thought it was somebody's laundry...is that what it was called?
Corgan: Yeah, Jack's Laundry? Is that what this place is called?
Wretzky: Well, that's what this song is called, Jack's--
Iha: House of Paul.
Wretzky: Al Fuente...House of Paul Laundry
Corgan: Bird Socks...I think it's called Bird Socks.
Soma
Take Me Down
Corgan: Oh, yeah.
Iha: Thank you.
Corgan: The Reebok company was nice enough to give me these ugly shoes.
Iha: I think they're pretty fly.
Corgan: I think they're pretty sh--Heh, I wouldn't 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?
Corgan: So we'd like to give these shoes away to some lucky people.
Wretzky: No, let's be fair, they gave us some really nice shoes too, but we're keeping those.
Iha: Hey man, I like the shoes.
Corgan: I mean, you know, Mr. Brady's dead, if you know what I mean.
Iha: Well, you can't just give them one sock.
Corgan: Ah, my shoe's--okay, wait. Put all your hands down, please. Just hold on, let's cooperate. Please put your hand down or you'll be disqualified. Alright, I would guess the girl size is 20, the boy size is 12, so all of you that have girl size 20 or boy size 12, please raise your hand. ....All I can say, it looks like we're gonna have to have a relay race after the show to win these lovely Reebok shoes.
Wretzky: If the shoe fits...
Corgan: But I ain't giving it to you now because you're just gonna hit me in the fucking head with them. I know that trick, lemme tell you.
[crowd yelling at D'arcy]
Corgan: What does that mean? D'arcy vocal, on lead Wretzky.
Wretzky: Yeah, be really open minded.
Corgan: 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...
Corgan: We expect this shit back in the Midwest, where the people are not so bright.
Wretzky: Where the people are bored.
Beautiful
Corgan: Very interesting interpretation.... 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 kinds of shows. So thank you, for those of you who are seeing us for the second, third, fourth, or fifth time. For those of us 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'd want to hear, and, uh...you can explain that to them, the concept.
Rocket
Galapagos
[set break]
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (over PA)
Where Boys Fear to Tread
Zero
Fuck You (An Ode to No One)
Corgan: Thank you.
Here Is No Why
[Corgan and Iha mumble nonsense]
Corgan: Captain...your phasers are down...
To Forgive
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Corgan: Thanks a lot! You're all just rats in the cage. Despite all my anger, I'm a trapped marsupial in a steel enclosure.
Iha: That is right.
Corgan: My name is Fred, thank you for coming.
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Wretzky: Thank you.
Corgan: Thank you.
1979
Iha: And now, we will rock you.
Geek USA
Cherub Rock
Iha: Thank you. I tried my best.
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Jellybelly
Encore 1:
We Only Come Out at Night
XYU
Iha: Thank you.
Encore 2:
Iha: Thank you very much. You people are rocking. Rocking beyond belief.
Corgan: Thank you. We are very old and we thank you. Yeah, Jimmy, you start this one....okay captain.
By Starlight
Silverfuck > Drown (tease)
Corgan: Thanks, goodnight.