The Smashing Pumpkins 1997-02-01: Difference between revisions

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

# {{live song|Drown|length=5:46}}

# {{live song|Siva|length=7:58}}

# {{live song|X.Y.U.}}

# {{live song|Silverfuck|length=39:58}}

## {{live song|The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)|note=clips}}

=== Notes ===

* Tape intro to "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" fails, prompting [[Billy Corgan]] and [[James Iha]] to act it out

Iha: They could dance...if you wanna.  Does anybody want to dance?  Perhaps Jimmy Frog could pick a few dancers.  Jimmy, pick a small group of people, men and women.  Don’t pick all girls, pick a few dudes too.  And now, we resort to arena rock cliches of picking people to dance.  Matt, give us a BPM beat.  ''(Matt starts a disco beat and Dennis Frog plays over top)''  Come on, people, it’s time for Jimmy Frog to pick a dancer.  If you wanna be that dancer, put your hands in the air.  “Come on, pick me!  I wanna be a dancer!”  I don’t care where you’re from, Jimmy, pick those dancers.  Yeah, kick that ambient groove we got goin’ on.  Oh, there’s another dancer, who shall it be?  Jimmy, you gotta pick a dude too, not all girls.  Who shall be the dancer?  ''(Matt and Dennis stop)''  Alright, rock steady.  Come on up.  Bring our dancers with.  I can see they’re all very excited about this.  Alright, calm down.  ...  Jimmy, are you done picking?  Bring ‘em up.  Jimmy.

BC: So we decided to discontinue it.  But only recently in a moment of inspiration have we reinstated the dancing.  I know this probably doesn’t mean much to you but it means a lot to the dancers because if they don’t dance well, well, I guess they’ll ruin it for everyone once again.

Iha: This could be -

BC: Thank you very much.  ...  ''(plays a chord)'' We already played that song, sorry.  ''(Southern accent)'' So is everyone doin’ alright on a Saturday night?  How y’all doin’?!

BC: You know, we drank a fuckin’ bunch of Jack before we came out and we’re ready to rock.

Iha: Yeah, we - we really got shitfaced.

BC: Now I s - I say you enact the whole entire Ape beginning ‘cause I don’t want anyone shortchanged.

Iha: Alright, well, that was an excerpt from ''Planet of the Apes'' but it got - it got kind of cut off.  So he’s, he’s writhing in the ropes, he’s “''(grunts)''” and he’s grimacing and the apes....  What is - the first ape says...what, uh...

BC: Charlton Heston.

> '''Hummer''' (tease - 45 seconds instrumental)

Iha: ''(screams)''. That wasn’t me.

and I hear your winter

and I hear your rain

and I gave my life away

and I feel no pain

I feel no pain

and I hear you fade away

and I hear you crawl

and I gave my life away

and I feel no pain

I feel no pain

I feel no pain

I feel no pain

I feel no pain

I feel

I feel no pain

She was my lover

She was my angel

What I recover

I put into a box underneath my bed

I put it all in a box underneath my bed

Yeah I put her in a box underneath my bed

Yeah what about it

and no matter how far I push that box down

I can still hear the things she said

What might those be you say

Well I'll tell you

She said Bill

You're a whore and you always were

My mother swore I never should have let you in our house

and I hate you and I always did

I just did a real good job of pretending

oh Yeah by the way I don't even like your first record

To these things I reply

Baby why?

Ex why?

Why must you make me cry

Why the girls make the boys cry

So we decided to go for a ride

where upon I handed this girl a poison apple for her to eat

It was my final act of restless devotion

Yet another American tragedy come to full fruition

and I watch her chew that poison apple

and I hiss her name through the ethers

gone back to scurry back in their MTV holes

I won't forget you

I won't forget you

I won't forget you

I won't forget you

We won't forget you

We won't forget you

We won't forget you forever

For as long as we live

We won't forget you

We won't forget you

We got the power

We got the power

We got the power

And no one will fucking take it away

We got the power

We got the power

And no one will take it away

We got the power

P-O-W-A

P-O-W-A

We got the power

And don't you fucking forget it

(Iha 30 minutes in: Hello?  Hello?  Hello?  Hello, hello?  Hello?  Hey, everybody, thank you very much.  We are very glad to be here tonight.  We are glad you could see the spaceship, tag along our odyssey of space toys.  We're better than Phish, we can jam better than Phish...if you ever doubted it.  Ahhhh!  ''(Billy solos)''  Oh yeah.  Give it to me one more time!  Ahhhhhhh!  Yeah!  This is what happens when we don't have any songs, we just...unfortunately we just jam.  So goodnight!  Goodnight to one and all, thank you very much, you were great.)