The Smashing Pumpkins 1996-01-31

January 31, 1996 – San Diego, CA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Infinite Sadness tour
Date	January 31, 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. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" [The Beatles] (tease) 
5. "Thirty-Three" 
6. "Today" 
7. "Soma" 
8. "Take Me Down" 
9. "Beautiful" 
10. "Rhinoceros" 
11. "Rocket" 
12. "Disarm" 

Set two

1. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" (over PA) 
2. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" 
3. "Zero" 
4. "Fuck You" 
5. "Love" 
6. "To Forgive" 
7. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
8. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" 
9. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 
10. "1979" 
11. "Geek U.S.A." 
12. "Cherub Rock" 

Encore one

1. "Lily (My One and Only)" 
2. "Feelin' Alright?" [Traffic] (tease) 
3. "Let's Play House" [Tha Dogg Pound] (tease) 
4. "X.Y.U." 

Encore two

1. "One of These Days" [Pink Floyd] (tease) 
2. "Jellybelly" 
3. "Silverfuck" [14:48] 
   1. "Space Jam" (tease) 
   2. "Drown" (tease) 
4. "Farewell and Goodnight" 

Notes

• "Tonight, Tonight" through "Take Me Down" performed acoustic
• First "Rhinoceros" since August 20, 1994

Banter

D’arcy: Hi.
Iha: Hello.
BC: (Elvis style) Thank you very much.
Tonight, Tonight (acoustic)
BC: I thought the people last night were fuckin’ crazy, you guys are outta your fuckin' minds. You're outta your fuckin' minds!
In the Arms of Sleep (acoustic)
BC: (old man voice) Thank you very much.
Iha: Let's rock and roll.
Cupid de Locke (acoustic)
BC: Thank you so much.
Norwegian Wood (tease) (acoustic)
Thirty-three (acoustic)
BC: (gruff voice) Thank you. (normal voice) We put our - we put out our first album in 1976 and uh, that was back when we opened with Nazareth, that was a really big break for us.
Iha: Those were the heydays.
BC: And it was a song that seemed to catapult us onto the national scene and we'd like to play that song for you now, it's a very - a song very close to our hearts. And uh, we used to do a duet...
Iha: That’s uh...
BC: ...with Ted Nugent on this one.
Iha: That's right. I don't know if any of you know that. That was the Bob Seger tour.
BC: That was a good tour.
Iha: The Silver Bullet. (Billy starts Today) It's called Today!
Today (acoustic)
Iha: The kids wanna rock.
BC: (counting into next song) Uno, dos, tres, cuatro.
Soma (acoustic)
BC: Hey um, all your friends up here are getting smushed so let's please not push and kill each other. You ruffian male types in the middle, I see you pushing. It's a long show, you know, we’re all - you're all in, let's just relax, have a good time. The people who should be pushing are the people who are still outside, see?
Take Me Down (acoustic)
Iha: (deep voice) Thank you.
Beautiful
BC: Thanks a lot. "For Pumpkins, please open before show's end," okay.
Iha: What does it say...pray tell ye?
BC: Thank you. "You're Smashing Pumpkins, I want to thank you for all the great music. I have just one request: Crush and Rhinoceros."
Iha: Nah.
BC: Uh, heh, heh heh, gee, we can't play those anymore but thanks anyway. "Well, these songs were my old boyfriend's and my songs. The night we met, one of our first conversations were about you. Bear with me." Aww, this is sad, Paul died of cancer, aww. Heh heh. That's so sad!
Iha: Well, I don't think you should read anymore.
BC: Alright, even though we haven't played it in a long time, we'll play Rhinoceros for you.
D’arcy: Yeah, sure.
Rhinoceros
BC: That was for you, Barbara, god bless you.
Rocket
Disarm
[set break]
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Intro
> Where Boys Fear to Tread
> Zero
Fuck You
> Love
To Forgive
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
BC: Thanks a lot. We are the Smashing Poompkins. There is one of my picks, there you go. Now you can stop yelling at me every five seconds.
1979
BC: We'd like to take a moment to say thanks for being patient. We realize we're playing, like...a lot of songs. We hope you're having a good time, we are. What do you say here normally, what's your normal line? We already played Soma, by the way.
Iha: What?
BC: What is your normal line here?
Iha: Oh, um, and now - and now we will rock you.
Geek U.S.A.
Cherub Rock
D’arcy: Thank you.
[encore break]
BC: Thank you so much. We're very deaf and we appreciate...your....
Iha: Now, this is a quiet song.
BC: You know how they used to call Detroit “Rock City”?
Iha: Um, Diego, Diego Rock City.
BC: (laughing) Diego Rock City! What does Diego mean?
Iha: Uhh, it's a type of omelette.
BC: It's an omelette?
Iha: A very...chives and onions and uh...I don't know, I've had it once before, they told me it was Diego and uh, I thought it was fantastic. I thought it was a fantastic omelette (Jimmy starts Lily) and then I realized it's Diego. And then...
Lily
Iha: Alright! Alright, alright! And now....
D’arcy: No really, that's - that’s the hardest song we play.
Feelin' Alright? (tease)
Iha: (singing) Feelin' alright! I'm not feelin' too good my motherfuckin' self!
BC: I believe you need a beat.
(Jimmy starts a beat)
Iha: Feelin’ alright. I'm not feeling too good mysel - that's the wrong key, goddammit! That's the wrong fuckin' key! I can't fuckin' wack this wack-ass shit in the fuckin' 'ego. Here we are, people. Put your fuckin' hands in the motherfuckin' air like you just don't motherfuckin' care, you piece of shit. Come on! Get on your goddamn feet! Do something!! Yeah, oh yeah! Come on!
Let’s Play House (tease)
Iha: I know this girl the name of Danielle, body of a goddess, face from hell but oh shit!
(Jimmy stops)
BC: Most people don't know this but he wrote all of Snoop Doggy Dogg's songs so uh... You biatch.
X.Y.U.
[encore break]
One of These Days (tease - Iha is doodling with the riff)
BC: We've come back out to brutalize your sweet asses one more time. Uh huh, uh huh. I got the blues, heh heh. (singing) I got the [unintelligible word].
Iha: No, that's Meddle, man.
BC: That was metal? Oh, Meddle by Pink Floyd! Is there any words?, heh heh.
Iha: Come on, don’t - don't we know our classic rock influences?
BC: Isn’t that One of These Days? No. (Iha starts doodling with the riff again) (imitating the distorted vocals from the song) "One of these days, I’m going to cut you into little pieces."
Iha: Alright, heh.
BC: And after the uh - just so you know, after the show we're gonna be giving away all our equipment so uh, find out what you wanna get.
Iha: My left arm is for sale.
BC: Pick your cabinet now. The fuck are we (laughing) playing? Oh, yes, I remember!
Iha: We're gonna play another rock song, I know you've been...you haven't heard one of those before, we're gonna do a little...Cajun blues. (Billy makes a few guitar noises) Oh yeah. (high pitched, voice cracking) I can't hear you! Come on!
Jellybelly
> Silverfuck / Space Jam / Drown
Farewell and Goodnight
(below is all over piano outro)
Jimmy: Thank you, goodnight.
BC: Thank you. Thank you for being there, thank you for being cool. Heh heh.
D’arcy: Thank you.