The Smashing Pumpkins 1993-11-24

November 24, 1993 – New York, NY, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Rock Invasion tour
Date	November 24, 1993
Venue	Roseland Ballroom
Coordinates	40°45′49″N 73°59′3″W
Location	New York, NY, US
Venue type	Club
Capacity	3,500
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin
Order of bands	Swervedriver, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Soma" 
2. "Geek U.S.A." 
3. "There's No Business Like Show Business" [Irving Berlin] (tease) 
   1. "Rocket" 
4. "Quiet" 
5. "Disarm" 
6. "Today" 
7. "Window Paine" (tease) (blues version) 
   1. "Siva" [7:53] 
8. "Cherub Rock" 
9. "Drown" [5:25] 
10. "Hummer" [6:26] 
11. "Spaceboy" 
12. "I Am One" (abandoned) 
13. "I Am One" (with rant) [6:12] 

Encore

1. "Silverfuck" [15:01] 
   1. "There's No Business Like Show Business" [Irving Berlin] (tease) 
   2. "Over the Rainbow" [Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg] (tease) 

Banter

Soma
Geek U.S.A.
(BC alt last line: I fuckin’ hate the U.S.A.!)
(Rocket intro feedback begins)
BC singing: There’s no business like show business like no business I know. Everything about it is exciting!
Rocket
BC: Don't throw no shit at me! Motherfuckers. (Quiet intro feedback begins) I’ll kick you in your fuckin’ jaw.
Quiet
BC: We do not take requests.
Disarm
> Today
Iha: Damn! Thank you, NYC. We hope you appreciate our rocking for you. We're trying to do our best rocking for the Big Apple. Now we will rock again.
Siva (with Window Paine tease in intro)
(BC during pause before final chorus: WHAT?)
Cherub Rock
Drown
> Hummer
Spaceboy
> I Am One (abandoned after 10 seconds of drumming)
> I Am One
(BC midsong: All I ever wanted was everything and all I got was shit. All I wanted was everything, yeah. What you want is what you'll get and that's nothing. What you want is what you'll get and that's nothing. Nothing can be taken from me that hasn't already been taken. And there's nothing you can throw at me that hasn't already been thrown. And there's nothing you can say that hasn't already been said. What you want is what you'll get and that's nothing. What you want is what you'll get and that's nothing. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! And everybody’s a motherfuckin' whore! And everybody's a motherfuckin' liar! Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Come on, give me some more nothing. Nothing, nothing! You fuckin’ whore, nothing! Fucker! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!!!)
Iha: (high pitched) Well, fuckin' alright!
BC: A bunch of whores.
[encore break]
Iha: [cuts in] [unintelligible]. ... That was amazing, thank you.
> Silverfuck / There's No Business Like Show Business / Over the Rainbow
(BC after “lie, lie”: There's no pain like my pain, there's no pain I know.
Guy in crowd: Fuck you!
BC: You gonna talk through this part too? (singing) And the children sing, “Bang, bang, you’re dead...”)

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