The Smashing Pumpkins 1992-01-29

January 29, 1992 – Frankfurt, DE
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Artist	The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	January 29, 1992
Venue	Batschkapp
Coordinates	50°8′7″N 8°44′21″E
Location	Frankfurt, DE
Venue type	Club
Capacity	700
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin
Order of bands	Catherine Wheel, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist[edit | edit source]

Encore[edit | edit source]

"Crush"
"I Am One" [3:45]
"Jellybelly (old version)" (final performance)
1. "The Star Spangled Banner" [Frances Scott Key] (tease)

Notes[edit | edit source]

"Offer Up" performed instrumentally

Banter[edit | edit source]

BC: Guten tag. Das Amerikanes.
Slunk
(feedback intro for Rocket begins)
Iha: Vah.
Rocket
Guy in crowd: Freebird!
BC: Freebird?
Bury Me
Window Paine
BC: Guten tag.
Tristessa
BC: Thank you for coming to our rock show.
Snail
Guy in crowd: Yeah, motherfuckin, yeaaaah!!
BC: Heh, this is a song about loving your mother.
Iha: I beg your pardon!
BC: Huh? This is a song about loving your mother. Not my mother, yours.
Guy #2 in crowd: You like want to fuck her!
BC: Yeah. You’re beaut -– your mother is beautiful.
Guy #3 in crowd: You don't fuck my mother!
BC: Don't be so sure.
Iha: I did that one time!
Kill Your Parents
Iha over ending feedback: Six, five, four....
BC: Three, two, one, blast off. (starts Siva)
> Siva
Iha: Urkel.
Multiple guys in crowd: D’arcy!!!
Iha: I am D’arcy! Don't you understand, I am D’arcy! That is James, I am D’arcy.
Luna
Blue
> Offer Up
> Silverfuck
[encore break]
Iha: Danke.
BC: You don't seem very...uh.... It doesn't seem like the devil is in your soul.
Guy in crowd: You don’t know my mother!
Guy #2 in crowd: You can know my mother for [unintelligible word]!
Iha: Mutter, oh Mutter.
BC: Well, since you don't have the devil, we'll soothe your soul in other ways.
Crush (abandoned quickly after D’arcy’s 3rd note is wrong)
BC: Oh, there we go again.
Iha: Thank you and goodnight.
BC: This is what it means to have your shit together. Just saying.
Crush
> I Am One
> Jellybelly (old version)
> Star Spangled Banner (tease)

Photos and memorabilia[edit | edit source]