The Smashing Pumpkins 1996-12-16

December 16, 1996 – San Jose, CA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Infinite Sadness tour
Date	December 16, 1996
Venue	San Jose Arena
Coordinates	37°19′58″N 121°54′4″W
Location	San Jose, CA, US
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	14,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Matt Walker, Dennis Flemion
Order of bands	Garbage, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" (over PA) 
2. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" 
3. "Zero" 
4. "Fuck You" 
5. "By Starlight" 
6. "Tonight, Tonight" 
7. "Today" 
8. "Cherub Rock" 
9. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" 
10. "Drown" [5:44] 
    1. "Hummer" (tease) 
11. "Thirty-Three" 
12. "Take Me Down" (one verse) 
13. "Disarm" 
14. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
15. "Farewell and Goodnight" (tease) 
16. "Muzzle" 

Encore one

1. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 
   1. "Rocket" (tease) 

Encore two

1. "Blissed and Gone" (tease) 
2. "X.Y.U." 

Encore three

1. "The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)" 
2. "Silverfuck" [31:35] 
   1. "Dose" [Filter] (tease) 

Notes

• Rescheduled from 1996-08-18
• Thirty-three, "Take Me Down", and "Disarm" performed acoustic

Banter

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
 (on PA)
Where Boys Fear to Tread
Zero
Fuck You
Corgan: Good evening. Thank you very much.
By Starlight
Tonight, Tonight
Iha: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, good evening. How are you? We're glad you can all rock out with us tonight. We'd just like to invoke some safety tonight, please don't crush the people in the front and don't step on anybody... because today is a heck of a day.
Corgan: Yes. Now we only have one, one, one thing to ask you. That is, please do not throw objects at the stage. If you throw objects at the stage, we will not play. If you want to be the one who stops the concert because you must throw your shoe at me, then let everyone around you hate you.
Iha: Because today could be such a nice day.
Corgan: Yeah. And the guy in the back pointing the gun at the side of my head, go fuck yourself cause I'm sick of that shit. Do not make me come out there and kill you myself.
Iha: We have resorted to these tactics.
Corgan: That's it, enjoy the show. Do not throw objects at the Smashing Pumpkins! Or you may find we aren't so smashing.
Today
Cherub Rock
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Corgan: Thank you
Drown
Corgan: Thanks a lot
Hummer
 (tease)
Corgan: We'd like to play our new single. This is 'Thirty-three

Thirty-three
Take Me Down
 (about 1m long, acoustic)
Disarm
 (acoustic)
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Corgan: Thank you very much to your response to our hit song.
Iha yells (jokingly) with crowd then says: So what do you guys want to hear? Do you want to hear Bush, No Doubt or something? We aim to please. What do you want to hear? Rock and roll.
Corgan: Hasn't anyone told you (smirking), that rock and roll is dead?
Iha: Oh my God! You heard it here on this stage first, rock and roll is dead.
Corgan: We're very happy to have help killed it. Now that the ship is about to go under, we're about to jump over like some African rats. Find another ship.
Iha: Yes. We're going to another land after this tour. We're going to the other side of the moon--where they found that water.
Corgan: Thank you for your support. Just remember, the boos sound just like cheers to us.
Crowd boos, to which Corgan responds: Ah, come on, have a sense of humour.
Corgan can't stop laughing as the band breaks into...
Farewell and Goodnight
 (about 30s long, electric)
Muzzle
Corgan: Thank you, thank you.
Brief encore break.
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Rocket
 (teased for about 45s)
Thirty-three
3m encore break.
Iha: I'm sorry, I just lost my mind for a second. How is everybody? Are you still with us? Southern California, are you still with us? Yes? Rocking!
Corgan: James, we're not in Southern California
Iha: Oh! Detroit, put your... Alright, Nevada!
Corgan: Most people don't know this, but he is a robot. He's not a real human being. Hence his mistake, it's a programming error. It's not a...you can't hold him accountable for everything.
Iha: Yea.
Corgan: That's why he smells so bad, cause you can't even put him in the shower.
Iha: Yea. I'm sorry.
Corgan: As you can tell, at night, the batteries are low.
Iha: I can only offer up a cliche apology.
Corgan: Please do.
Iha: How about this, how about I rock you on this next song as an apology
Blissed and Gone
 (about 1m tease, with James interrupting intermittently)
Corgan: Alright, cover your ears. Young ones. We're about to hurt you.
X.Y.U.
3.5m encore break.
The Aeroplane Flies High
Silverfuck