The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-09-18

September 18, 2000 – Hamburg, DE
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	September 18, 2000
Venue	Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
Coordinates	53°36′10″N 10°0′7″E
Location	Hamburg, DE
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	11,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur, Mike Garson, Chris Holmes
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Daydream" (tease) (acoustic) 
   1. "Glass and the Ghost Children" (acoustic) [12:45] 
   2. "Le Deux Machina" (tease) 
2. "Today" (acoustic) 
3. "Stand Inside Your Love" (acoustic) 
4. "Thirty-Three" (acoustic) 
5. "To Sheila" (acoustic) 
6. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [8:44] 
7. "Glass' Theme" 
8. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
9. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
10. "Dross" 
11. "Speed Kills" 
12. "If There Is a God" 
13. "Cash Car Star" 
14. "Rock On" [David Essex] (tease) [2:21] 
15. "Heavy Metal Machine" 
16. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
17. "Tonight, Tonight" 
18. "Try, Try, Try" 
19. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" [5:53] 
20. "This Time" 
21. "I of the Mourning" 

Encore one

22. "Blank Page" 
23. "Cherub Rock" (abandoned) 
24. "Cherub Rock" 

Encore two

25. "1979" (acoustic) 

Notes

• "If There Is a God" is a unique version for fall 2000, based around Billy Corgan's electric guitar, with Mike Garson on piano; beginning with the next show, Corgan will not play guitar on the song and it will be in a chamber music style anchored by Garson on keyboard
• A fan climbs onstage during "Blank Page"

Banter

Daydream (tease) (acoustic)
> Glass and the Ghost Children / Le Deux Machina (acoustic)
Today (acoustic)
BC: Hello.
Stand Inside Your Love (acoustic)
Thirty-three (acoustic)
To Sheila (acoustic)
Blue Skies Bring Tears
Glass’ Theme
> The Everlasting Gaze
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Dross
> Speed Kills
> If There is a God
> Cash Car Star
Rock On (partial)
> Heavy Metal Machine
> Disarm (acoustic)
> Tonight, Tonight
BC: Thank you very much, thank you very much. Uh, we are Los Smashing Pumpkins. Thank you very much for coming to our concert tonight.
Try, Try, Try
> Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
This Time
I of the Mourning
[encore break]
Blank Page
BC: (dumbass voice) “Hey man, I just wanted to get on stage, man, what’s the big deal, man, what’s the hassle, I just wanna get on stage and say hello, man, I got my Zero shirt on, yeah, I just wanna say hello, I don’t understand, man, security’s really hassling me, man, this is stupid!”
Iha: I believe you.
BC: (dumbass voice) “I just got back from the festival, man, where we slept out for two months, man, and stayed out in the techno tent and did ecstasy for two weeks, man, and I just wanna get on stage.”
Iha: I believe you’ll have to put that in the German vernacular then. Alright! That was pretty crazy. Woo! Heh heh. How is everybody? Rockin’? [unintelligible] I would like to make a quick introduction of the band. On the piano, Mr. Mike Garson. Heh heh! Awesome. That’s too big, Garson.
BC: Heh. Do not leave your designated area, heh heh heh.
Iha: On the other keyboards, crazy keyboards, Mr. Chris Holmes! (screams)
BC: He’s the son - did you know he’s the son of John Holmes? The porno star.
Iha: Uh, I didn’t know him.
BC: That’s why he’s getting so many chicks on this tour.
Iha: Ah. On the bass (pronounced like the fish) guitar, all the way from Canada, Montreal, Ms. Melissa Auf der Maur! Woo!
BC: Hey. Aren’t you in that band, Hole? Heh, sometimes.
Iha: [unintelligible]. On the drums, back in action, the monster o’ trouble, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Do you - do you like this introduction thing, is this cool or is this really uncool? It’s cool, okay. On lead vocals and guitar, Mr. Billy Corgan, rockin’ the stage.
Cherub Rock (abandoned - Jimmy plays the opening drum riff twice)
Iha: And I am James. Let’s rock.
BC: Wait. Hold on. On the wicked lead Zlatko guitar, Mr. James Iha.
Cherub Rock
BC: Thank you very much, thank you very much, thank you very much.
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you.
BC: Heh heh, thank you. Before we play our last song tonight, we’d like to say thank you to everybody for coming tonight, it means a lot to us, thank you very much. And we’d like to thank our fans, uh, people who’ve been with us for ten years, for the last ten years, thank you for a great ten years. Thank you very much. We have a lot of respect for the people who have been fans for a long time and of course we have respect for anybody who likes us. Even if it’s just for that one song - maybe it’s this song. So thank you, god bless you and we say love you very much, thank you.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
Iha: Thanks.

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