The Smashing Pumpkins 1996-12-18

December 18, 1996 – Inglewood, CA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Infinite Sadness tour
Date	December 18, 1996
Venue	Great Western Forum
Coordinates	33°57′30″N 118°20′30″W
Location	Inglewood, CA, US
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	18,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Matt Walker, Dennis Flemion
Order of bands	Garbage, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" (over PA) 
2. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" 
3. "Zero" 
4. "Fuck You" 
5. "By Starlight" 
6. "Tonight, Tonight" 
7. "Today" 
8. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" 
9. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 
   1. "Rocket" (tease) 
10. "Thirty-Three" 
11. "Disarm" 
12. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
13. "Muzzle" 

Encore one

1. "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" [Iron Butterfly] (tease) 
2. "X.Y.U." 

Encore two

1. "1979" 
2. "The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)" 
3. "Silverfuck" [24:38] 
   1. "Dose" [Filter] (tease) 

Notes

• Rescheduled from 1996-08-21
• Thirty-three and "Disarm" performed acoustic
• "1979" with The Frogs

Banter

MCIS (PA intro)
Where Boys Fear to Tread
Zero
Corgan: Thank you.
Fuck You
Corgan: Thank you very much, good evening.
By Starlight
Tonight, Tonight
Corgan: Well. Thank you for waiting for us to come for so long. Very sorry about the six month delay.
Iha: These things, these things take time though.
Today
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans / Rocket tease
Corgan: Thank you very much. We're gonna play a song now I'm sure all of you can dance to. As you know it is our new direction, I hope you'll appreciate it. This is called Thirty-three
.
Thirty-three
Corgan: Thank you very much. Next we feature an alternative-style hit.
Disarm
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Corgan: Thank you again very much, thank you.
Muzzle
[encore break; tape stopped]
Iha: Thank you, thank you. Thank you LA rock city.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida tease
Iha: Alright, let's rock.
X.Y.U.
[encore break; tape stopped]
Iha: Thanks again, thanks a lot, you guys have been great. Ladies and gentlemen, as part of our entertainment portion of our arena rock show, we would like to bring on a special guest. Ladies and gentlemen, all the way from the oh so great city of Milwaukee, it's Jimmy Frog! Yes, of the Frogs, Jimmy Frog everybody. Alright, I can see you're excited. Alright! And now, another introduction. Ladies and gentlemen, on the keyboards, his brother, Dennis Frog! Dennis Frog. Yes, he uh, is twittering the ivories tonight. And now the man you've been waiting for, well maybe you're not waiting for him, I don't know. Anyways, he plays the drums, right. Um...ladies and gentlemen, Matt Cosmo Walker! Everybody was great to Matt, Matt's been an old family friend, his father and my father went ice-fishing for many years, and he just picked up the drums and agreed to do this tour. And I'm of course James, there's Billy, there's Darcy. We're all here to rock for you people. Now let's dance!
1979
Iha: Well, you never know what you get with Jimmy Frog. Let's have a warm round of applause for Jimmy Frog.
The Aeroplane Flies High
Silverfuck

and I hear your winter
and I hear your rain
and I failed your summer ways
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
(Et al)
She was my lover
She was my angel
What I recover of my self I put into a box and put it underneath my bed
I Put into a box underneath my bed
I Put her in a box underneath my bed
A place where she could rest
And from that box she spoke
and I heard her scream
You're a whore and you always were
My mother swore I couldn't trust you brother
I hate you and I always did
I just did a real good job of pretending
Another tragedy
And this broke my heart
in two
And this broke my heart in two
I said what am I going to do without you?
Baby My Baby?
Where are you now?
Baby My Baby?
Lost in the clouds
and I screamed her name through the ethers
cause we were together again
(unintelligible) always been lovers
we just couldn't be friends
no, no, no, no, no, no
fucking whore
fucking whore
fucking whore
fucking whore
fucking whore
fucking whore
She was a fucking whore
yeah
go
no

(jam)

(Billy vocalizes with "ooh's" and "aah's") Thank you for coming to our concert Thank you for staying until the end Unlike the rest of the fucking posers We appreciate you being true fans real fans We appreciate your support and love very much We hope you have a very merry Christmas Don't eat too many cookies We are the smashing pumpkins

Dose [Filter] (tease) Iha: Thanks, thanks a lot.

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