The Smashing Pumpkins 1999-04-17: Difference between revisions

April 17, 1999 – Pittsburgh, PA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Arising! tour
Date	April 17, 1999
Venue	Metropol
Coordinates	40°27′0″N 79°59′14″W
Location	Pittsburgh, PA, US
Venue type	Club
Capacity	1,200
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin
Order of bands	Queens of the Stone Age, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

Notes

"Dross" is stopped twice mid-song, though ultimately completed
D'arcy Wretzky was upset backstage and threatened to quit the band

Banter

I Am One
> Zero
Pug
La Dolly Vita
Wound
Blue Skies Bring Tears
BC: Good evening, thank you very much. We are the Smashing Pumpkins...me thinks. And now I’d like to play a song for you, a new song...featuring our new drummer, Fred. Hit it, Fred!
Cash Car Star
Glass' Theme
The Imploding Voice
Stand Inside Your Love
> Glass and the Ghost Children
Dross (stopped in middle after somebody screws up)
BC: This is all part of the song.
Dross (continued, although abandoned again quickly because Billy cracks up)
BC: 1234.
Dross (continued)
BC: Sorry, that was very unprofessional.
D’arcy: [unintelligible] was unprofessional too but you know, rock and roll, it's all about being professional. Ha.
Speed Kills
BC: Thank you very much.
Ava Adore
Today
D’arcy: Who was that guy who was ju - just walked across the stage right now, how the hell did he get up here? Jimmy, oh, oh yeah. Yeah, Jimmy Chamberlin. I never get to see him but he's always back there, I forget what he looks like. Thanks.
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you. Thanks a lot. You guys have been really nice. We're trying our best up here. Alright. We've been playing some new songs tonight, now we play an old song. An ode to Mellon Collie, we hope you like it.
Muzzle
Soma
BC: Thank you, god bless you, thank you. Thank you, god bless.
[encore break]
Iha: Are you feeling okay? Are you feeling alright now? Come on...ride with me down a dark seaside road. The pirate captain has let this ship drift away and it is now time to rock.
BC: It’s not even rock. Heh heh.
Home
If There is a God (Billy solo acoustic)
> With Every Light (acoustic)
[encore break]
Iha: Whooo!! Are you ready to rumble?
Geek U.S.A.
BC: God bless you, thank you. [two unintelligible words in deep voice.]
Iha: Thanks a lot. Our captain would like to say goodnight.

Photos and memorabilia

@@ Line 32: / Line 32: @@
 === Encore one ===
-# {{live song|Muzzle}}
+# <li value=16>{{live song|Muzzle}}</li>
 # {{live song|Soma}}
 === Encore two ===
-# {{live song|Home}}
+# <li value=18>{{live song|Home}}</li>
-# {{live song|If There Is a God}}
+# {{live song|If There Is a God|acoustic=1}}
-# {{live song|With Every Light}}
+# {{live song|With Every Light|acoustic=1}}
 === Encore three ===
-# {{live song|Geek U.S.A.}}
+# <li value=21>{{live song|Geek U.S.A.}}</li>
-=== Notes ===
+== Notes ==
-* The band stop in the middle of "Dross", but continue
+* "Dross" is stopped twice mid-song, though ultimately completed
-* "If There Is a God" performed acoustic
 * [[D'arcy Wretzky]] was upset backstage and threatened to quit the band
@@ Line 77: / Line 76: @@
 D’arcy: Who was that guy who was ju - just walked across the stage right now, how the hell did he get up here?  Jimmy, oh, oh yeah.  Yeah, Jimmy Chamberlin.  I never get to see him but he's always back there, I forget what he looks like.  Thanks.
 [encore break]
-Iha: Thank you.  Thanks a lot.  You guys have been really nice.  We're trying our best up here. Alright.  We've been playing some new songs tonight, now we play an old song.  An ode to Mellon Collie, we hope you like it.
+Iha: Thank you.  Thanks a lot.  You guys have been really nice.  We're trying our best up here.  Alright.  We've been playing some new songs tonight, now we play an old song.  An ode to Mellon Collie, we hope you like it.
 '''Muzzle'''
 '''Soma'''