James Iha 1998-01-15

January 15, 1998 – West Hollywood, CA, US
Live performance by James Iha
Artist	James Iha
Date	January 15, 1998
Venue	The Viper Room
Coordinates	34°5′26″N 118°23′5″W
Location	West Hollywood, CA, US
Venue type	Club
Capacity	250
Personnel	James Iha
Order of bands	James Iha, Billy Corgan
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January 15, 1998 was James Iha's debut solo performance. He opened up for a Billy Corgan, who played a solo set of Smashing Pumpkins songs. Both artists performed all-acoustic.

Setlist

1. "Be Strong Now" (live debut)
2. "One and Two" (only performance)
3. "Country Girl" 
4. "Sound of Love" (live debut)

Notes

• Acoustic
• First performances of "Be Strong Now", "One and Two" and "Sound of Love"

Banter

Iha: Um, I'm gonna be the opening act tonight, so I'm gonna do some songs and Billy will come out and do some songs.
Be Strong Now
Iha: Thanks.
One and Two
Iha: Thanks.
Country Girl
Iha: Thanks. One more song. Um, so I have a record coming out in February, [2 unintelligible words]. And uh, these are all songs from it and this is uh, this is the first time I've played any of these songs really to anyone, so it's kind of scary. Thanks though.
Sound of Love
Iha: Thanks.