The Smashing Pumpkins 1997-01-25

January 25, 1997 – New Haven, CT, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Infinite Sadness tour
Date	January 25, 1997
Venue	New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Coordinates	41°18′9″N 72°55′32″W
Location	New Haven, CT, US
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	11,171
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Matt Walker, Dennis Flemion, Jimmy Flemion
Order of bands	Fountains of Wayne, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" (prerecorded) 
2. "The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)" 
3. "Jellybelly" 
4. "Tonight, Tonight" 
5. "Rhinoceros" 
6. "Zero" 
7. "Fuck You" 
8. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 
   1. "Rocket" (tease) 
9. "1979" 
10. "Thirty-Three" (acoustic) 
11. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
12. "Muzzle" 
13. "Disarm" 
14. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" 

Encore one

15. "Spiders" (tease) 
16. "Landslide" [Stevie Nicks] (tease) 
17. "Tristessa" (tease) 
18. "Soma" (tease) 
19. "The Last Song" (tease) 
20. "X.Y.U." 

Encore two

21. "Cherub Rock" 
22. "Silverfuck" [20:28] 
    1. "Space Jam" 

Notes

• "1979" with Jimmy Flemion

Banter

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Intro
The Aeroplane Flies High
> Jellybelly
Tonight, Tonight
Rhinoceros
BC: Good evening. How’s everybody doing?
Iha: Welcome. What does that banner say? I can’t even read it.
BC: It says “Please play a Stone Temple Pilots song.”
Iha: Is that what that says? Jeez, I gotta get some contacts. We do know a Bush song, do you wanna hear that? ... [unintelligible].
Zero
> Fuck You
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans / Rocket
Iha: Thanks, thanks a lot. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a special guest for the stage tonight. A good friend of ours with newly shorn hair, would you put your hands together, ladies and gentlemen, of the Frogs, Jimmy Frog! Jimmy, any words of hope for these people? Words of hope?
Jimmy Frog: I’m gonna send this next song out to all the people of New Haven. Peace!
Iha: Okay, so let’s, uh, let’s dance, okay?
1979 (with Jimmy Flemion)
(BC over ending: Ladies and gentlemen, we don’t drive him anymore.
Jimmy Frog: I won’t drive him anymore!
BC: Haha.)
Iha: Woo! Woo. You never know what’s gonna happen when Jimmy Frog gets onstage. Wreaker of havoc, funny man 'til the end, Jimmy Frog. Uh, Valjean. Valjean, there’s something wrong with my stuff.
BC: Thank you, we’re glad that you enjoyed that. (Billy and James noodling for a moment) I normally don’t do this but, uh, there’s a guy down here who keeps shouting “Landslide.” I have to tell you that we normally don’t do Landslide. However, we have been known on occasion to do Landslide. But the fact that this guy’s been shouting “Landslide” 500 times throughout the entire concert pretty much ensures that I will never play Landslide for him or ever again. So...just wanted to tell you that so you can stop shouting “Landslide.” Besides that, I’ll play any other songs you wanna hear.
Thirty-Three (acoustic)
Circus tape
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Muzzle
BC: Thank you.
Disarm
> Planet of the Apes clip
> Thru the Eyes of Ruby
[encore break]
Iha: Thanks a lot. You cats have been cool. How is everyone out here? Feelin’ great? Feelin’--feelin’ kinda groovy? We still have the mind and body to rock hard, yes?
Spiders (tease)
Iha: Are you still ready to rock? Come on, you fucking people, come on! Yeah. [unintelligible] (screams) (screams) (screams) (tease ends) Thank you. That’s our newest song.
Landslide (tease)
Iha: Thank you. We’re just going to play snippets of songs now from our entire catalog.
Tristessa (tease)
Iha: 1991. Our first single on Sub Pop Records, Tristessa. Before there was grunge.
Soma (tease)
Iha: 1993, the year of angst and turmoil, there was Soma from Siamese Dream.
> The Last Song (tease)
Iha: And now, from the box set.
X.Y.U.
[encore break]
Cherub Rock
> Silverfuck / Space Jam
BC: Thank you, good night.

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