The Smashing Pumpkins 1998-07-01

July 1, 1998 – Universal City, CA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Adore tour
Date	July 1, 1998
Venue	Universal Amphitheater
Coordinates	34°8′17″N 118°21′12″W
Location	Universal City, CA, US
Venue type	Theater
Capacity	6,251
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Kenny Aronoff, Mike Garson, Dan Morris, Stephen Hodges
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "To Sheila" 
2. "Behold! the Night Mare" 
3. "Pug" 
4. "Crestfallen" 
5. "Ava Adore" 
6. "Once Upon a Time" 
7. "Tear" 
8. "Appels + Oranjes" 
9. "Daphne Descends" 
10. "Annie-Dog" 
11. "Zero" (tease) 
12. "Tonight, Tonight" 
13. "Perfect" 
14. "The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete" 
15. (percussion solo)
    1. "Zero" (tease) 
    2. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
16. "Shame" 
17. "For Martha" 

Encore

1. "1979" 
2. "Summertime" [George Gershwin] (tease) 
   1. "Blank Page" 
3. "Transmission" [Joy Division] [17:58] 
   1. "Let's Dance" [David Bowie] (tease) 
   2. "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key] (tease) 

Notes

• "Appels + Oranjes", "Tonight, Tonight", "Perfect", and "The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete" performed acoustic
• "Transmission" was dedicated to Dennis Rodman, who was in attendance

Banter

Iha: good evening
To Sheila
Behold! the Night Mare
Pug
Crestfallen
Ava Adore
Once Upon a Time
Tear
Corgan: thank you very much, thank you, thank you...it's nice to be back here, you know we...we recorded most of our album here in los angeles so um...of course this lovely city provides to seedy backdrop for the darkness that is adore...the most misunderstood album since gish. but uh, thank you very much for coming, as you know it uh, chairty concert tonight, so uh, we only get paid in ice cream but it's cool
Appels + Oranjes
Daphne Descends
Corgan: this next song uh, i don't really know the words of it...this our cd, incase you haven't gotten it...we're trying to do the whole album so...we played this song last night in san francisco but of course it sucked so uh, it'll be good tonight...this is annie dog
Annie-Dog
Corgan: thank you, heh...i'm practicing for vegas...so we'd like to play an old song now.
Zero
 (tease)
Corgan: yes...we'd like to uh, dedicate this song to all of you, for coming to be with us tonight...this is tonight tonight
Tonight Tonight
Iha: how is everyone doing? is everyone feeling groovy? great. i have to ask this...
Perfect
The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete
Zero (tease)/Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Shame
Corgan: thank you
For Martha
(Encore Break)
Iha: grazie uh, thank you very much. you guys have been rockin'...i always thought LA was jaded, but you people are not jaded tonight and we appreciate that
Corgan: thank you very much, thank you...ready there james?
Iha: let's go back...i was gonna do this really bad introduction but, i won't, i'll just spare you, this is 1979
1979
Blank Page
Corgan: this is usually where we stop the show and say goodnight, but you guys are so amazing...we'd like to play one more song if that's cool...then i'm too tired and...plus theres this uh, famous friend of mine, and he just won some championship of some league and he's complaining that we're not playing loud enough for him...so uh, this is for my friend...the lakers didn't win the championship did they? that was that team that wore red and yeah, black
the team from chicago, that's it!...you're sure you can handle the metal now, 'cause it's gonna get a little heavy for ya...ok, after this they'll be no more speeches, so uh, god bless you, thank you, thanks for stayin'...i love you all...
Transmission

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