The Smashing Pumpkins 1994-04-21

April 21, 1994 – Pittsburgh, PA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Rock Invasion tour
Date	April 21, 1994
Venue	CCBC Golden Dome
Location	Pittsburgh, PA, US
Venue type	Gym
Capacity	5,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin
Order of bands	Red Red Meat, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Cherub Rock" 
2. "Rocket" 
3. "Disarm" 
4. "Today" 
5. "Quiet" 
6. "I Am One" (with rant) [6:53] 
7. "Drown" [4:51] 
   1. "Hummer" [6:07] 
8. "Geek U.S.A." 
9. "Soma" 
10. "Silverfuck" [8:38] 
    1. "Over the Rainbow" [Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg] (tease) 

Encore one

1. (funk improv)
2. "Siva" [4:40] 

Encore two

1. "Boys Don't Cry" [The Cure] (tease) 
2. "Snail" 
3. "Starla" [7:57] 

Banter

Cherub Rock
Corgan: Good evening. Welcome to the rock show.
Rocket
Corgan: Hi. Welcome to the interplanetary dome. Wherever the fuck we are. Not Pittsburgh, I know that. Sorry we're out here in bumfuck, but that's the way it is. But uh, thank you uh, for coming and... I feel like I'm playing in planetarium, you know...
Iha: It's a golf ball. It's the world's largest-
Corgan: There'll be a laser light show after the concert.
Iha: Golf ball.
Disarm
Today
Quiet
I Am One
Corgan: As long as everyone's being so quiet you might as well say what you think. There's something about this dome that's not very rock concert-like, you know, I don't know... It's nobody's fault, you know, it's just...
Iha: It's kind of cyber-like.
Drown
Hummer
Geek USA
Corgan: Thank you. We'd like to uh, bore you for six or seven minutes with this uh, lovely composition. I said six or seven minutes. Sit back and enjoy. Thank you!
Soma
Silverfuck
Over the Rainbow (tease)
Corgan: Thanks for puttin' up with our shit.
[encore break]
Iha: My nickname, by the way, is the spry badger. I'm just kidding. Dude, we don't know it.
Corgan: I'd like to uh, thank you and apologize all at the same time. I'd like- I'd like to thank you for coming and I'd like to apologize because I didn't think we were very good today, so...
Wretzky: The sound-
Corgan: It doesn't- it doesn't mean you're going to get any of your money back, but, we're sorry! (laughs)
Wretzky: The sound sucks in here. We almost didn't play from technical problems, and... I don't know, maybe that would've been better, you be the judge.
Corgan: Now that's not your fault, then.
Iha: Just means, uh...
Corgan: The Gol- The Golden Dome not treating the Pumpkins right here, man. It just sounds like crap.
Iha: We just gotta get funky.
(James plays funky wah-wah guitar)
Corgan: You're in the wrong band, man. We don't play the funk. We play the white boy metal.
Iha: Oh yeah, right.
Siva
Corgan: Thanks.
[encore break]
Corgan: ...and we are. So we'd like to do a- yeah, some blues.
(James plays generic blues riffs)
Corgan: Stop. Stop! (laughs). So we'd like to do an oldie for you.
Iha: It's kind of a sentimental night, and uh...
Corgan: Do you have to talk over every fucking intro?
Iha: What? Listen, miss... It's kind of a sentimental night, it's an old song...
Corgan: Do you want to start this song? You're doing it- would you feel better to start this song? Thank you.
Corgan: (sings) All... E minor. E minor, E minor! A, E minor, G, fuck you.
Boys Don't Cry (tease)
Iha: Oh, sorry. Go ahead, go ahead.
Corgan: (laughs)
Snail
Corgan: Thank you.
Starla
Corgan: Thanks very much, thank you, thank you. I know it wasn't the most exciting rock concert, but... it was okay. We're gettin' old, I can't help it.