The Smashing Pumpkins 1996-09-18: Difference between revisions

| lineup = Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Matt Walker, Dennis Flemion

# {{live song|1979}}

# {{live song|Heartbreaker|tease=1|cover=[[w:Led Zeppelin|Led Zeppelin]]}}

# {{live song|Take Me Down|note=one verse}}

=== Notes ===

* "1979" with [[The Frogs]]

BC: Thank you!  We are the Smashing Pumpkins, thank you very much for coming to the concert.  Thanks for waiting us - ''(rest of sentence is overly enunciated)'' thank you for waiting for us to come back.  Thank you.

Iha: And it’s - and it’s another sad song.

Iha: Thank you, thank you, thank you.  Thank you for listening.  Ladies and gentlemen, we have some special guests.  The innocuous, the enigma, Page Six boy, Evan Dando, let’s have a round of applause.  All the way from Milwaukee, of The Frogs, Jimmy Frog.  Probably not as well known but his suit speaks for itself.  So let’s all dance, let’s all dance.  I’m sorry, I forgot about his brother, Dennis Frog on keyboards.  Yes, rock and roll.  So on this next song, oh jaded New York, let’s just...get it together, let’s just dance, let’s have some freeform interpretive dancing if you will.

Iha: A round of - a round of applause for our fine dancers, Evan Dando and uh, Jimmy Frog.  They flew all the way in to do the show.

BC: I’d like to thank the guys who threw up this sign, um.  Unfortunately I can’t read but um, thanks anyway.

Iha: I’m sorry, we just - we just had a Led Zeppelin flashback.  Playing here at the, at the Garden.

'''Heartbreaker (tease)'''

Iha: Thank you again. ...  That is very cute.  “James, sing one of your songs.”  Thank you very much, this will become, uh, part of our title history.  It’s very cute.

BC: Would you - would you tell everyone what that piece of paper says?

BC: James, sing one of your songs.  The fact of the matter is, is I don’t want him to sing one of his songs so that’s the way it just is.

(BC at 15:26: So I was walkin’ in the East Village today.  And I passed a couple guys and they said “Hey man, how ‘bout some change?  Can you spare any change, man?”  And I said “Gee, I haven’t got any change.”  And they said, “Come on man, we know who you are.  You’re a rich rock star.”  And I said, “Hey man, I ain’t got no change.”  And they said, “Well, FUCK you then, man, your music sucks and your band sucks and you suck too.”  Funny - the funny thing is, about 10 years ago, I had no more money than those two motherfuckers.  I had nothing.  I had jack fucking shit.  So what they look upon is the result of everything we’ve ever done.  We are from the earth, of the earth and are of the earth.  We are the Smashing Pumpkins.  So anybody who wants what we got, you can’t have it.  You can’t have what we have.  We earned it all our little grubby selves.  What do we got?  Ah, we got a bad reputation, how about that?  We earned that too, haha.  So, if you come across a couple guys in the East Village that are asking you for change and they happen to mention that they saw me on the street, punch ‘em in the fuckin’ face for me!)