The Smashing Pumpkins 1996-04-19

April 19, 1996 – Stuttgart, DE
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Infinite Sadness tour
Date	April 19, 1996
Venue	Messe-Congresszentrum B
Coordinates	48°48′1″N 9°10′18″E
Location	Stuttgart, DE
Venue type	Convention center
Capacity	3,500
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jonathan Melvoin
Order of bands	Filter, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" (prerecorded) 
2. "Zero" 
3. "Fuck You" 
4. "Tonight, Tonight" 
5. "To Forgive" 
6. "Today" 
7. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
8. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" 
   1. "By Starlight" 
9. "Geek U.S.A." 
10. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
11. "Muzzle" 
12. "Cherub Rock" 
13. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 
    1. "Rocket" (tease) 

Encore one

1. (blues jam)
2. "1979" 
3. (surf jam)
4. "X.Y.U." 

Encore two

1. "Mayonaise" 

Encore three

1. (improv: "Fun on the Autobahn")
   1. "Autobahn" [Kraftwerk] (tease) 
   2. "Bodies" 
2. "Silverfuck" [20:23] 
   1. "Dose" [Filter] (tease) 
   2. "Drown" (tease) 
3. "Farewell and Goodnight" 
   1. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" (tease) 

Notes

• Billy Corgan plays bass over the end of the "Farewell and Goodnight" outro
• FM broadcasts are out of order and missing "Muzzle", "X.Y.U.", "Bodies", and "Silverfuck"

Banter

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Intro
Zero
> Fuck You
BC: Hi. We’re Filter, I mean the Smashing Pumpkins, hi. Thank you for coming.
Iha: Thank you for coming tonight.
Tonight, Tonight
To Forgive
“Welcome to our circle of friends” tape
> Today
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
BC: Thank you. Put on the lights for a second...please. No, the light lights. The lights where I can see the faces lights.
Iha: Daylights.
BC: There you are!
Iha: How is everybody?
BC: Hey all you people up there in the back! Hi. Everybody down here wave to the people up there. They’re afraid to come down here but it’s okay. Tell ‘em it’s okay, don’t worry about it.
Guy in crowd: Cherub Rock!
BC: No, no Cherub Rock.
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
> By Starlight
Iha: Danke.
BC: Like to play you an OLD song.
Iha: Woo!
Geek U.S.A.
Disarm (acoustic)
D’arcy: Danke schoen.
Muzzle
Circus tape
> Cherub Rock
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans / Rocket
BC: Thanks.
[encore break]
BC: Thank you. Thank you so much.
blues jam
1979
(BC immediately after last lyric: ...in Stuttgart.)
Wolfman Jack tape
surf jam
X.Y.U.
[encore break]
BC: (Satanic voice) Thank you.
Mayonaise
[encore break]
Fun on the Autobahn improv (w/Autobahn lyrics)
(Iha: (German accent) You are so freaky and...you are so creepy and sexy. I’ve got a big American bladder. Can you say bladder? Uh huh, bladder. Maybe a spleen? Can you say spleen? I want a big spleen. It is [unintelligible word] much.
BC: (German accent) We are going to have fun fun fun on the autobahn.
Iha: (German accent) Fun fun fun, everybody on the autobahn. Fun fun fun, everybody have fun fun fun on the autobahn. Got, got, that’s gute, that’s gute, that’s gute for a new sound. (Billy starts soloing) Yeah! Ya babe, play that Chicago blues bullshit. Yeah, Jimmy Tate style. Yeah, the office, yep, yep. I’m done, get back on the autobahn, fun fun fun. Fun fun fun on the autobahn, I’m so crazy. What’s your name, is it Daisy? Daisy is the name from Great Gatsby. (Billy stops soloing) Alright! We will play one more crazy - no, actually, we’ll play three more songs, probably we will. (wolf howl))
> Bodies
> Silverfuck / Dose / Drown
> Farewell and Goodnight
(below is over piano outro)
D’arcy: Thank you.
Iha: Thanks.
Jimmy: Thank you.
D’arcy: Danke schoen. Gute nacht.
Iha: Thanks, thanks, thanks...
BC: Thank you.
Iha: ...thank you, thank you, thank you, [unintelligible]....
BC: Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you.
(Billy accompanies Melvoin on bass from here)
> Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (tease)

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