The Smashing Pumpkins 1994-08-25

August 25, 1994 – San Diego, CA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Rock Invasion tour
Date	August 25, 1994
Festival	Lollapalooza 1994
Venue	Aztec Bowl
Coordinates	32°46′28″N 117°4′29″W
Location	San Diego, CA, US
Venue type	Stadium
Capacity	12,592
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin, Eric Remschneider
Order of bands	Green Day, L7, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, A Tribe Called Quest, The Breeders, George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars, The Beastie Boys, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Full performance

Setlist

1. "Quiet" 
2. "Cherub Rock" 
3. "Disarm" 
4. "Rocket" 
5. "I Am One" (with rant) [7:17] 
   1. "Zero" (tease) 
6. "Soma" 
7. "Geek U.S.A." 
8. "Mayonaise" 
9. "Today" 
10. "Siva" [5:13] 

Encore one

11. "Hummer" 
12. "Spaced" (tease) 
    1. "Silverfuck" [9:39] 
    2. "Over the Rainbow" [Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg] (tease) 

Encore two

13. "Starla" [8:01] 
14. "Pissant" 

Banter

Quiet
Cherub Rock
BC: Hi, good evening. Thank you very much for being here.
Disarm
> Rocket
> I Am One / Zero
(BC midsong: What you want is what you’ll get and that’s nothing. What you want is what you’ll get and that’s nothing! All I ever wanted was everything and all I got was shit! Nothing can be taken from me that has not already been taken, nothing can be taken from me that has not already been taken, nothing can be taken from me that has not already been taken, nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Ow! Hooooo-yeah! Hoooo-yeah. Loneliness is emptiness and emptiness is cleanliness and cleanliness is next to godliness and godliness is next to nothingness! You can break my heart into a thousand pieces, I don’t care! I don’t care. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gim gim gim gim nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! What have you got? Nothing! What do you need? Nothing! Blah, blah, blah, blah. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Nothing. Nothing! What have you got?! Nothing! What do you need? Nothing. What do you believe in? Nothing! Nothing. Nothing! Hooeeeeeee-yeaaaaah! Gimme gimme some more of your nothing! Nothing. Nothing. Nothing...at all. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!!!)
BC: Thank you.
Soma
Geek U.S.A.
(BC alt last line: I fuckin’ love the U.S.A.!)
BC: Thank you very much. Is everybody alright? We're not boring you, are we?
Iha: Noooo.
BC: We'd like to play another song off our album that came out a year and a half ago. Heh, hope you like it.
Mayonaise
BC: Thank you.
Today
Siva
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you thank you thank you thank you. People of San Diego, we thank you.
BC: Hey, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks. Thank you.
Iha: We're gonna some uh -– we’re gonna do some Eagles songs in a ode to California. I hope you like it.
BC: Actually, we're gonna play all our long songs, so....
Iha: Which are like Eagles songs.
BC: I hope your LSD is kicking in right about now 'cause these are all the long songs.
Hummer
(intro to Silverfuck begins)
BC: This is called Silverfuck.
> Silverfuck / Over the Rainbow (with Spaced tease in intro)
Iha: Thanks.
[encore break]
BC: Well, to all of you who are leaving, goodbye, see you later. To those of you who are staying, thank you, we're gonna play some more. We’ve been on -- we've been on tour for about fifteen months and we only have about eight more shows to go, so we might as well get all the songs in. (Iha starts Starla intro) So once again, thank you very much. If we don't say anything else, goodnight, have a good time, be careful. We wuv you.
Iha: We rearry wuv you, heh.
D’arcy: Yeah, if you believe that, heh, we got a bridge to sell you.
BC: James loves you more than I do but I still love you.
Starla
(BC alt lyrics: ...fly like a bird. No more words, just you and I. High...goodnight, goodnight, goodnight!)
> Pissant
(BC after guitar solo, over drum solo: So, we'll see you in about four or five years, have a good life, bye.)
Iha over improv outro: Yeah! Yeah, you motherfuckers! Yeah! Yow, come on! Yow! Yow! Yeah! Yow! Yeah, you motherfucker! Come on, you son of a bitches! You fuckin’ fucks! Come on! Yeah! Yow! San Diego! Yeah, San Diego...come on! (crazy guitar soloing while rest of band has left the stage) Yeah!

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