The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-05-20

May 20, 2000 – San Diego, CA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	May 20, 2000
Venue	Open Air Theatre
Coordinates	32°46′20″N 117°4′22″W
Location	San Diego, CA, US
Venue type	Amphitheater
Capacity	5,100
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

Soundcheck

1. "Snail" (take one) 
2. "Snail" (take two) 
3. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
4. "Heavy Metal Machine" (take one) 
5. "Heavy Metal Machine" (take two) 
6. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 

Set

1. "Pale Scales" 
2. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
3. "Heavy Metal Machine" 
4. "Pug" 
5. "Blew Away" 
6. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
7. "Glass and the Ghost Children" [10:53] 
8. "Tonight, Tonight" 
9. "I of the Mourning" 
10. "Le Deux Machina" (prerecorded) 
11. "To Sheila" (acoustic) 
12. "Muzzle" (acoustic) 
13. "1979" (acoustic) 
14. "Ava Adore" (acoustic) 
15. "Rock On" [David Essex] [4:27] 
16. "Zero" 
17. "Today" 
18. "Snail" 
19. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [9:34] 
20. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
21. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [4:52] 

Encore one

22. "Mayonaise" 

Encore two

23. "With Every Light" (abandoned) (acoustic) 
1. "With Every Light" (acoustic) 
24. "Drown" [8:58] 

Notes

• Soundcheck version of "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" features the new riff that will be used when the song is played throughout the fall European tour

Banter

Pale Scales
> The Everlasting Gaze
> Heavy Metal Machine
Pug
BC: Good evening, good evening, thank you very much. Thank you very much for coming tonight.
Iha: Thank you.
BC: Like to (trips over his words and makes noises for a moment). I’d like to introduce a friend of mine to you. He’s originally from San Diego, where he won the World Surfing Championship in 1992, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
Glass and the Ghost Children
BC: Thank you.
Tonight, Tonight
I of the Mourning
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
BC: Thank you. You know, when I was, uh....can you hear me?
Iha: Yes.
BC: I’m not very good with talking anymore, so...excuse me. Um, when I was a little boy, you know I used to go out in the backyard and stare up at the stars and imagine that it was all these people out there, you know, and it’s sort of the same feeling playing for you, it’s like you’re out there and it’s up there. But then again at the age of 14 if I’d imagined about 4,000 people in my backyard listening to me sing, it would have terrified me and I probably wouldn’t have started playing guitar, so sort of counterintuitive if you think about it. I’d like to play, uh - this, wait, you want to marry me? Wait, what’s this sign? No no no no, no no, you do not want to marry me, trust me. The sensitive songwriter part only comes out in the band. But this is to the girl who wants to marry me. And in fact, some of this song has to do with somebody that I was married to back in the old days. ‘Course she’s in jail now and um.... She’s serving 20 years for grievous misuse of my love.
Muzzle (Billy solo acoustic)
BC: Thank you. Like to take this moment, seeing as we’re at the halfway point at the concert, to introduce you to the members of the band that are on stage. On lead guitar, Jake “The Snake” Iha. On the lead bass, Tammy “She’ll Go Far” Auf der Maur. And on lead acoustic and lead drums, Fred “What Was Your Name Again?” Chamberlin!
Iha: And ladies and gentlemen, on lead vocals, Barry “The Wombat” Corgan.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
Ava Adore (acoustic)
Rock On
> Zero
Today
Snail
Blue Skies Bring Tears
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
and you might ask yourself
just who’s that fucking guy on stage?
and you might ask yourself
what the fuck does he know about me and my life?
and you might ask yourself
what does this song mean if it has no meaning? yeah
and you might ask yourself
what does the singer feel if he has no feelings?

into the blue again
water flowing underground
letting the days go by
water flowing underground

you might ask yourself
why does he keep shouting?
you might ask yourself
will i not hear the truth if he screams a little louder?
you might ask yourself
what do i find in the bottom of the ocean?
you might ask yourself
will i ride my childhood in emotions?

letting the days go by
water flowing underground
into the blue again
water flowing underground

what?!
go!
what do i want?

truth becoming real
stranger than fiction
i cannot steal your eyes but i can sure try
yes
(screams)

whoa!
go!
what the fuck do i want?

can you feel it?
can you feel it?
can you feel it?!
can you feel it?!

whoa!
go!
what do i want?

what do i want, what do i want, what do i want, what do you want, what do i want, what do you want, i’m in the same place, i need more than feelings, i ask now is there more than just tv shows and dodges?
yes, yes

(song ends)

BC: Thank you. Goodnight.
Iha: Thanks.
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you very much, thank you. How are you guys doing?
Mayonaise
Iha: Thank you.
BC: Thank you.
[encore break]
With Every Light (abandoned)
(BC at beginning of second line: (laughing) Ah shit, I forgot the words already.)
(Jimmy solos for a few seconds and then continues the drum beat; Billy counts in and begins with the lyrics immediately)
>With Every Light (acoustic)
BC: Thank you, thank you. Before we play our last song...yes, it’s the last song, I’m sure. I used to lie and say it was the last song but I really didn’t mean it, but I mean it now.
Iha: Don’t say that!
BC: It’s the last song, James.
Iha: Oh, say it ain’t so, Billy.
BC: But before we play our last song tonight....
Iha: No! Don’t say it. Don’t say those words!
BC: If I really....
Iha: Noooooo! No, no.
BC: Alright.
Iha: Noooooo!
BC: Before we play what is possibly our last song...I’d like to say, I’d like to shout to all the people living down here in the San Diego area.
Iha: Word, word, word.
BC: Ever since the first time we played down here in, I think it was 1991, we’ve always had great shows and great support, so we thank you and say love you, thank you so much. Now we’ve got to hurry because we have an expensive jet waiting and we have to go back to our rich, expensive homes. James has a meeting with Donald Trump in the morning and he absolutely has to get some sleep.
Iha: (British accent) I’m actually going to Morocco tomorrow, don’t you forget? I’ve got to meet the shah there. And for cry - for fuck’s sake, don’t say it’s the fucking last song.
BC: I can’t believe you’re still working this angle.
Iha: (normal voice) Noooo!
BC: Anyway, so thanks everybody, thanks for a great night.
Drown
[bow]
BC: God bless, thank you, god bless.

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