The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-05-02

May 2, 2000 – Greensboro, NC, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	May 2, 2000
Venue	Greensboro Coliseum Complex
Coordinates	36°3′35″N 79°49′32″W
Location	Greensboro, NC, US
Venue type	Auditorium
Capacity	1,500
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "I of the Mourning" 
2. "This Time" 
3. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" 
4. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
5. "Blew Away" 
6. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
7. "Heavy Metal Machine" 
8. "Glass and the Ghost Children" 
   1. "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key] (tease) 
9. "To Sheila" 
10. "Disarm" 
11. "Try, Try, Try" 
12. "Rock On" [David Essex] 
13. "Zero" 
14. "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" [Backstreet Boys] (tease) 
15. "Tonight, Tonight" 
16. "Today" 
17. "With Every Light" 
18. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
    1. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [8:32] 

Encore one

1. "Blank Page" 
2. "Cherub Rock" 

Encore two

1. "1979" 
2. "Mayonaise" 

Notes

• "To Sheila", "Disarm", "Try, Try, Try", "With Every Light" and "1979" performed acoustic

Banter

I of the Mourning
This Time
Blue Skies Bring Tears
Stand Inside Your Love
BC: Good evening, good evening.
Iha: Hello, hello.
BC: Thank you, thank you everybody, thank you for coming. (coughs) This next song is uh, is by uh, this guy over here, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
The Everlasting Gaze
> Heavy Metal Machine
Glass and the Ghost Children
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
BC: Hey, can we put the house lights on for a second, Liz? ...
Iha: Hmm. Hmm. Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm. I don’t know.
BC: Okay, nobody move, I swear to god, up there, don’t move, don’t move, okay, all the people who’re standing up right now raise your hands. No, no, not you, up there. (counting people) Okay, all you people who’re standing up right now, come down, there’s empty seats down here. And nobody cheat, I know who you are. ... Haha, those are not the people, they’re such liars. Go away! They’re liars! They’re liars. Liars!
Iha: [unintelligible]
BC: Heh, it’s all gone horribly wrong. Heh heh, it’s all gone horrible, like sorry, heh, let’s just turn the lights off and forget I did that.
Disarm (acoustic)
BC: Thank you.
(loud electronic noise)
unknown guy: I just felt like doin’ it.
(loud electronic noise)
BC: Yes. We’d like to play a song from our, uh, new album, uh, Gish.
Try, Try, Try (acoustic)
Iha: How you doin’? [unintelligible] Are you still rocking with us? Okay. That was our acoustic sort of part and now we will get back to the angst ridden alternative rock.
Rock On
> Zero
BC: Thank you, thank you. Thank you very much [unintelligible], (squeaky voice) thank you very much gentlemen.
Iha: Ugh.
BC: Thank you so much. That’s the end of the concert, that’s all, that’s cool, thanks.
Iha: Is there anything you’d like to hear?
BC: What are you asking?
Iha: I just wanna know if they wanna hear any of the new big pop hits.
BC: Oh.
Iha: Michael Oops, someone or something?
BC: I only know that one that, uh, that, uh, Mambo #5.
Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) (tease)
Iha: (singing) Everybody! Rock your body! Everybody! (speaking) It’s a...call and response. (singing) Am I sexual?
BC: Well, we’d like to do a song, uh, gosh it seems about 20 years ago that we had this song out. The earth was clean, uh, there was no pollution, um, grunge was reigning.
Iha: We had to make our own guitar strings back then.
BC: This is a song that we had back when we were big MTV stars, this is called Tonight, Tonight.
Tonight, Tonight
> Today
With Every Light (acoustic)
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
BC: Thank you. Thank you very much.
[encore break]
Blank Page
Cherub Rock
Iha: Thank you.
BC: Thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: And now a quick, it’s very cliche, but a very quick introduction of the band. Back on the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. [unintelligible] On lead vocals and acoustic, Mr. Billy Corgan. He’s a good one, he’s a good one. On the bass (pronounced like the fish) and socialism, Ms. Melissa Auf der Maur. [unintelligible]. And I am Chuck Barris and uh, I hope you like this next song.
BC: Oh wait, one thing, James.
Iha: What’s that?
BC: Sorry, this is a...(starts laughing)...
Iha: We’re supposed to play this next encore and rock out for these people.
BC: Yes. It’s just that it’s Mark Newman’s birthday.
Iha: Oh!
BC: A friend of ours that works with us, it’s his birthday today.
Iha: And we should wish him a very merry birthday. Even though you don’t know him...
Jimmy: His handiwork here tonight. He has kept half of the guitars in tune here tonight.
BC: It’s unbelievable. He’s 67 and he still wants to tour.
Iha: He’s uh, he’s a good man.
BC: 67 years old young. 67 years...(laughing)
Iha: Alright, let’s dance. Go deep.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
BC: Thank you. ... Thank you, um, before we play our last song tonight...wait a second. (counting) This is gonna be the 21st song we’re gonna play, okay? Number one - those are a lot of fuckin’ words to remember. It’s a lotta words. Number two - frankly, you know you’re getting tired of our music at this point so...
Iha: I know, I know what you’re saying, you’re saying, “Why can’t they just go? Why do they have to go home and watch TV and read the paper and get informed on today’s news. I’m very anxious about Microsoft, I wanna read about this, and I don’t wanna see any more alternative music.”
BC: And uh, but um, just, uh, one last thought, we wanna thank you very much for being an amazing audience, this is one of the best shows we’ve had.... So thank you very much and god bless you very much for making us feel so welcome here. So we dedicate this, uh, next song to all of you, thank you and god bless you.
Mayonaise
Iha: Okay, bye, drive safe.

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