Billy Corgan 2014-08-30

August 30, 2014 – Highland Park, IL, US
Live performance by Billy Corgan
Artist	Billy Corgan
Date	August 30, 2014
Venue	Ravinia Pavilion
Coordinates	42°9′29″N 87°46′37″W
Location	Highland Park, IL, US
Venue type	Amphitheater
Capacity	3,400
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jeff Schroeder, Matt Walker, Sierra Swan, Amalie Bruun, Brian Harding
Order of bands	Katie Cole, Billy Corgan
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Setlist

Preset

1. "The Killing Moon" [Echo & the Bunnymen] (only performance)
2. "Purr Snickety" (live debut)
3. "Owata" (final performance)

Resistance Pro rehearsal

1. "Of a Broken Heart" 

Set

1. "Chicago" 
2. "Today" 
3. "Disarm" 
4. "Lonely Is the Name" (final performance)
5. "My Poor Troubled Heart" (live debut)
6. "For Your Love" 
7. "The Rose March" (final performance)
8. "Perfect" 
9. "Let Me Give the World to You" 
10. "Prairie Song" 
11. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" 
12. "To Forgive" 
13. "Muzzle" 
14. "Tonight, Tonight" 
15. "Galapogos" 
16. "Methusela" (only performance)
17. "Thirty-Three" 
18. "1979" 
19. "Now (And Then)" 
20. "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning" 
21. "The Crying Tree of Mercury" 
22. "Ava Adore" 
23. "Pinwheels" 
24. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
25. "Which Way You Goin' Billy?" [The Poppy Family] (only performance)
26. "Burnt Orange Black" (live debut)

Encore

27. "The World's Fair" 
28. "Of a Broken Heart" 

Notes

• guest appearances: Matt Walker, Sierra Swan, Amalie Bruun & Brian Harding (Ex-Cops)
• all songs with Jeff Schroeder except where noted below
• preset: limited admission pre-show "Applause for Paws Backstage VIP Experience", 3 songs + Q&A recorded for Resistance Pro Unscripted TV Series

• "The Killing Moon": first performance
• "Purr Snickety": first performance since SP 1991-07-21
• "Owata": first performance since SP 2011-11-15
• "Chicago": first performance on piano, Billy solo
• "Today": Billy solo acoustic
• "Disarm": Billy solo acoustic
• "Lonely Is the Name": first performance since SP 2010-11-27, Billy solo acoustic
• "My Poor Troubled Heart": first performance, song title by Billy, traditional song called "As Time Draws Near," Billy solo acoustic
• "For Your Love": first performance since Billy 2011-12-10
• "The Rose March": first performance since SP 2008-12-02
• "Perfect": first performance since SP 2010-09-04
• "Let Me Give the World to You": first performance since SP 2007-11-07
• "Prairie Song": first performance since Billy 2005-07-28
• "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness": first performance since SP 2008-12-08, Billy on piano, Jeff on Mellotron
• "To Forgive": first performance since SP 1997-02-02, first known performance with Billy on piano, Jeff on Mellotron
• "Muzzle": first performance since SP 2012-10-28, first performance with Billy on piano
• "Galapogos": first performance since SP 2008-12-08
• "Methusela": first performance, played to backing track
• "Now (And Then)": first performance since Billy 2005-08-05, Billy doesn't play an instrument, played to backing track
• "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning": first performance since SP 2012-05-26, Billy doesn't play an instrument, played to backing track
• "The Crying Tree of Mercury": first performance since SP 2007-10-16, Billy doesn't play an instrument, played to backing track
• "Ava Adore": first performance with Matt Walker on drums since SP 1997-12-05, Billy doesn't play an instrument
• "Pinwheels": with Sierra Swan & Ex Cops
• "Stand Inside Your Love": with Sierra Swan & Ex Cops
• "Which Way You Goin' Billy?": Amalie Bruun on lead vocals, first performance, with Matt Walker, Sierra Swan on bass & Ex Cops
• "Burnt Orange Black": Monuments to an Elegy outtake; with Matt Walker, Sierra Swan on bass & Ex Cops, first performance
• "The World's Fair": synth version, first performance since Billy 2004-04-19; with Matt Walker
• "Of a Broken Heart": with all previous guests and Resistance Pro wrestlers and staff, first performance since Billy 2005-07-28

Banter

Chicago
BC: Alright.
Today
Disarm
BC: Thank you. Thank you, that’s very kind, thank you. So, I go right back to my rock move, I wanna do that.
Lonely is the Name
> My Poor Troubled Heart
BC: Like to take you back now to the Djali Zwan days.
For Your Love
BC: Love is an overused word.
The Rose March
BC: My special night. As if this season wasn’t bad enough, you know? I don’t think, I know you’re not a baseball fan - Jeff’s a hockey guy. His team, the L.A. Kings. (crowd boos) I know you don’t follow baseball but I’m pretty sure the Cubs haven’t won one game, it’s like they’re zero and a hundred or something, it’s unbelievable. Never happened before. Well, in the era of bad showbiz transitions, I wrote an album around 1997-98 about my mother, uh, Martha. And a few other, uh, losses. Heh heh. That was the big one but, um, so we’ll, we’ll just dedicate this song to mourning. To the Blackhawks who lost to your Kings.
Perfect
Let Me Give the World to You
Prairie Song
BC: Okay. There goes the White Sox fan again.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
To Forgive
Muzzle
Tonight, Tonight
BC: Thank you.
Galapogos
BC: Whoo! ... Thank you, that’s so nice, thank you. Thank you, wow, thank you. Heh heh. No, we really, we thank you, thank you so much, thank you. See, the whole time you’re clapping, I’m thinking “They haven’t heard the second half of the show yet,” heh heh. Will they still be clapping at the...? (somebody in crowd yells something) What would you like? Well, there you go. Heh heh heh. Just having our own fun up here. Got a few more Mellon Collie songs for you. And we’d like to debut a song now that’s never been played live. And the story on this song is that I wrote it, um, I wrote a lot of songs in that period, I think I wrote something like fifty...seven or something, just crazy. I lived in the purple Victorian house and, uh, yeah, heh heh. I’ll stop - once I start talking, it’s hard to stop me. Um, anyway. So, as you do, you get up in the morning, you write a song, whatever, go back to bed like a good rock star and, uh, I played every song that I did, uh, for the producers of that album, Flood and Alan Moulder, except for this song, which is very strange because, uh, they’re my friends and I’m very close to them. And it recently came out on the, uh, plug, Mellon Collie box set and, heh heh.... Thank you. Now if you do a standing ovation for the box set, now that’ll be something. Ha ha ha. (crowd cheers) Oh no, stop, we just don’t have time. Anyway, heh, sorry, is it sticky up here? I don’t know. Uh, heh, so the song is called “Methusela” and it was written about my father, Bill Senior, as we like to call him around here. And, uh, I wasn’t talking to Bill Senior at the time and it was, it’s, it’s that one step over the line of being personal and so I never played it for anybody. And then, um, so that was why it never was recorded, it was never even further demoed out by the band, the band never heard it and so, uh, here it is all these years later. So we’d like to play it for you tonight for the first time.
Methusela
BC: That’s it. I expected more singing along, to be honest.
Thirty-Three
1979
Now and Then
> The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
The Crying Tree of Mercury
Ava Adore (with Matt Walker)
BC: Thank you!
Pinwheels (with Sierra Swan & Ex-Cops)
Stand Inside Your Love (with Sierra Swan & Ex-Cops)
BC: You okay for a few more? Chi-town in the house. A quick introduction to my compatriots: on the drums, Mr. Matt Walker. On the guitar, Mr. Jeff Schroeder. Tearin’ it up. From the Ex-Cops, Ms. Amalie Bruun, Mr. Brian Harding, thank you for being here. They got a new album coming out that I worked with them on so please check that out...plug. And on the bass and the vocals, the chanteuse, Ms. Sierra Swan.
Which Way You Goin’ Billy? (with Matt Walker, Sierra Swan & Ex-Cops)
Amalie: Thank you.
BC: Well, we’ve reached the end. Yes. I’m partying all night long, I don’t know about you. To everyone here, down here, everyone in the back, up on the lawn, thank you so much. God bless you everyone. We hope you’ve had a good time. Alright! That’s an encouraging shout. So we’d like to leave you with this last song, it’s a newer song, uh, but it’s not on the new album, yes. A treat. A tasty pre-Halloween treat. This is called “Burnt Orange-Black.”
Burnt Orange-Black (with Matt Walker, Sierra Swan & Ex-Cops)
BC: Thank you!
[encore break]
The World’s Fair (with Matt Walker)
BC: Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the real end. Like to bring out my brothers and sisters from the Resistance Pro Wrestling promotion. And Ms. Sierra Swan, Amalie Bruun, Brian Harding. Yes, you are the way. Colonel Jesse? Say hi to my brother. Wanna say hi to everybody?
Jesse Corgan: What’s up, Ravinia? Doesn’t that [unintelligible] rock or what?
BC: He’s had a few.
Jesse: I stuttered, dude.
BC: Ha ha ha. Alright, we’d like to end with the song “Of a Broken Heart.” (small cheer) That’s it? That’s all you’ve got? (bigger cheer)
Of a Broken Heart (with Matt Walker, Jesse Corgan, Ex-Cops & Resistance Pro wrestlers)
BC: Alright.
[bow]
BC: And hey! We’re a local promotion, come check us out, September 12th in Chicago. Support your local promotions, we’re all homegrown here from Chicago. Except you. Where you from? Parts unknown. Goodnight everybody, thank you.

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