The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-05-16

May 16, 2000 – Boulder, CO, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	May 16, 2000
Venue	Balch Fieldhouse
Coordinates	40°0′34″N 105°16′5″W
Location	Boulder, CO, US
Venue type	Event center
Capacity	6,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Age of Innocence" 
2. "Glass and the Ghost Children" 
3. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
4. "Heavy Metal Machine" 
5. "Blew Away" 
6. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
7. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" 
8. "I of the Mourning" 
9. "To Sheila" 
10. "Muzzle" 
11. "Disarm" 
12. "Ava Adore" 
13. "Rock On" [David Essex] 
14. "Zero" 
15. "Today" 
16. "Snail" 
17. "With Every Light" 
18. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
    1. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [7:23] 

Encore

1. "Raindrops + Sunshowers" 
2. "Cherub Rock" 

Notes

• "To Sheila", "Muzzle", "Disarm", and "Ava Adore" performed acoustic

Banter

Age of Innocence
> Glass and the Ghost Children
The Everlasting Gaze
> Heavy Metal Machine
BC: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, good evening, good evening. Couple of things, a couple of things. First of all, you live in the fucking sky, we cannot breathe. Second of all, there’s so many people smoking pot in this town, you get high from just walking around. And uh, third, this next guy I’m gonna introduce to you is so high, he is beyond drugs. He is beyond drugs. A living legend, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
Blue Skies Bring Tears
I of the Mourning
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
BC: Thank you. Yes. If you don’t mind, um...um, I wanna play a song I hadn’t planned on playing but um...it sort of, uh, feels right so I’m going to go and play the song.
Muzzle (Billy solo acoustic)
Disarm (acoustic)
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. Like to take a second to introduce the band. From Canada, Wayne Gretzky. From Elk Grove, Illinois...from Elk Grove, Illinois...the fiddler. The fiddler. And on the drums, the drums or whatever his label takes, Grover Cleveland.
Ava Adore (acoustic)
Rock On
> Zero
BC: Thank you very much, thank you, thank you very much. How’s everybody feel, how’s everybody feel? Oh wah! You know all those planets were aligning and sort of threw me for a wack, I don’t know about you.
Iha: What - what planets are you talkin’ about, man?
BC: The 12 planets of the universe.
Iha: Oh...kay. Those planets.
BC: Remember when you were a little boy and you used to look up at the stars?
Iha: Yeah?
BC: And you had dreams? Remember when you had dreams? Heh heh heh.
Iha: Yeah.
BC: Before they died.
Iha: I was a - I wanted to be a fireman. [unintelligible] and there’s those planets, right. 12 of them? Okay.
BC: One for each sign of the astrological...you know.
Iha: Yeah.
BC: ‘Course you being an Aries, we know that.
Iha: See, well, you put out a fire, you’re doing a public service for everybody.
BC: Wait, did you see that when I said Aries, all the girls in front of you yelled because they’re all Aries too?
Iha: Ahhh...uh, I - if I had a hat, my hat’s off to you fellow Aries. I don’t know anything about astrology. Don’t believe in it much myself.
BC: Well, you know when you can start?
Iha: I could start...Today.
Today
Snail
With Every Light (acoustic)
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you, thank you very much.
Raindrops + Sunshowers
BC: Thank you very much. ... So before we play this last song, we’d like to say thank you and goodnight, god bless. Good luck.
Iha: [unintelligible]
BC: Hope everybody had a good, uh...new millennial kind of time. Here we go.
Cherub Rock
Iha: Thank you.
BC: God bless, thank you.
Iha: Thank you very much.

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