The Smashing Pumpkins 1996-03-04

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	1996-03-04
Venue	Entertainment Centre
Location	Perth, WA, AU
Venue Type	Arena
Capacity	8200
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Wretzky, Chamberlin, Melvoin
Order of Bands	Def FX, The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	ANA
Equipment	ECM-909A > Sony Walkman
Length	110m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	ANA-M > CDR
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	Tape flip during Porcelina of the Vast Oceans. ANA-M > DDC-? > CDR transfer also circulates.
Unsurfaced Recordings
AUD #2
Source	AUD
Format	ANA
Equipment	Unknown
Length	~110m
Complete?	Unknown
Notes	Inferior to other recording.
SBD #1
Source	SBD
Format	ADAT
Equipment	Unknown
Length	~110m
Complete?	Yes
Notes	Vault copy.

Setlist

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Set:

• Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (over PA)
• Where Boys Fear to Tread
• Zero
• Fuck You
• Today
• To Forgive
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
• Thru the Eyes of Ruby
• Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
• Bodies
• Disarm
• Geek U.S.A.
• Cherub Rock

Encore One:

• 1979
• X.Y.U.

Encore Two:

• Mayonaise

Encore Three:

• Tonight, Tonight
• Silverfuck [14:44]
  • Space Jam (tease)
  • Drown (tease)
• Farewell and Goodnight

Notes

• 1979 features Kerry Brown on drums and Jimmy on guitar
• Here is No Why and Jellybelly were on the setlist, but were not played

Banter

MCIS
Where Boys Fear to Tread
Zero
Corgan: Thank you.
Fuck You
Corgan: Hello. Hello!
Wretzky: There's people in it!
Corgan: We are the Smashing Pumpkins, we're very happy to be back in Australia.
Today
Corgan: Thank you, thank you, thank you thank you.
To Forgive
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Corgan: Hello. Thank you so much for coming. We'd like to play another 15 songs from our new album. They're all in the form of a medley, we like to call this the Star Wars Iha trilogy.
Iha: Yes! And please, no shoe-throwing.
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Iha: Thank you. Yeah, this is a very fast song. So fast...
Corgan: It's a slow song!
Iha: It's slow...
Corgan: It's what we call Iha speed!
Iha: This is Iha speed, we hope you like it.
Bodies
Corgan: Thank you. We don't play that song very much, so I forgot a bunch of the words, I'm sorry. And if I forget some of the words to this one, please forgive me. What a surprise that we have technical difficulties. Well...I'll just have you play the song, with a guitar. Fuck if I know. It's the old (unintelligible) problem.
Disarm
Iha: Alright.
Corgan: You kids are out of sight man, you know what I'm saying?
Iha: I know that we've been sad for a while, but now it's time to really rock.
Geek U.S.A.
Cherub Rock
[encore break]
Iha: Ladies and gentlemen, on the drums, Timmy Doyle! The reason you cannot see his face...
Wretzky: Boy, you guys will cheer for anything, won't you?
Iha: No no no, the reason you cannot see this man's face is because he has been horribly scarred. This man is Iron Man!
Corgan: Why don't you introduce the acoustic guitarist?
Iha: And on the...OK, acoustic guitar, Jimmy Chamberlin from Joliet Illinois!
Corgan: And on keyboards!
Iha: On keyboards!
Corgan: Jonathan Melvoin!
Iha: Livingston! Jonathan wriggle-touch Melvoin. On the motherfucking bass guitar, D'arcy Wretzky-Brown. Bass solo! Come on!
Corgan: Bass solo, bass solo.
Wretzky: It's called the tuning song.
Corgan: Well let everyone hear you tune, we've had to listen to it for years, let everyone else in on the game.
Iha: On the vocals, lead singer Billy Corgan! And my name is John Major, your oppressor.
Corgan: Are we ready yet? Are we ready? OK, we're gonna start the song now. Hit it Johnny!
1979
Corgan: Boy I hate that guitar, I don't know why I play it.
Iha: Alright, let's get down to the nitty-gritty here. Let's get on to the full rock sound, what that is, I don't know.
Corgan: Like to thank the opening act, Def FX, for a spirited techno-induced set of trance-inducing music. Those kids take way too many drugs. I hope they're not symbolic of all of Australia. Alright, time for some kick-ass death cyber fucking metal.
X.Y.U.
[encore break]
Iha: Yes, thank you. What? Hey Mike, hey Mike...
Corgan: Thank you very much. We're trying to limit the number of stupid things that we normally would say on stage, so all we can say over and over is thank you, thank you for coming, we appreciate it very much.
Iha: And you've been rocking, the people have been rocking.
Corgan: We'd like to play an oldie, this goes back to about 1993.
Mayonaise
Corgan: God bless you, thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you again, thanks. You guys are very good, and it's super-cool. Now...now...(unintelligible)...even more monitors.
Corgan: Whoa. Um, Lawrence, you can put the video back on, just don't...yeah. We just wanna say hi to everyone personally. You guys totally rule, thank you.
Wretzky: To those of you in the back rows, we hope you've enjoyed our flight, and enjoyed the audio/video portion of our program.
Corgan: We will be landing soon. We'd like to do a couple more songs, just a few more, each song lasts approximately thirty minutes each, and this one begins with our friend Jimmy from Joliet.
Tonight, Tonight
Silverfuck / Drown
Farewell and Goodnight
Corgan: Goodnight, god bless you, thank you.
Wretzky: Thanks.
Corgan: Be careful goin home.
Iha: Good night, thanks everybody.