The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-04-23

April 23, 2000 – Kent, OH, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	April 23, 2000
Venue	Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center
Coordinates	41°8′53″N 81°20′38″W
Location	Kent, OH, US
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	6,327
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist[edit | edit source]

"Pale Scales"
"Heavy Metal Machine"
"The Everlasting Gaze"
"Age of Innocence"
"Glass and the Ghost Children" [11:54]
1. "Satisfaction" [The Rolling Stones] (tease)
"Blew Away"
"Stand Inside Your Love"
"I of the Mourning"
"Le Deux Machina" (prerecorded)
"To Sheila" (acoustic)
"If There Is a God" (acoustic)
"Disarm" (acoustic)
"Ava Adore" (acoustic)
"Rock On" [David Essex] [7:15]
1. "Everybody Wants Some!!" [Van Halen] (tease)
"Zero"
"Today"
"Tonight, Tonight" (tease)
"Blue Skies Bring Tears" [8:08]
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
"Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [8:10]

Encore one[edit | edit source]

"Blank Page"
"Cherub Rock"

Encore two[edit | edit source]

"1979" (acoustic)

Banter[edit | edit source]

Pale Scales
> Heavy Metal Machine
The Everlasting Gaze
Age of Innocence
> Glass and the Ghost Children / Satisfaction
BC: Good evening, thank you very much, good evening. Happy Easter, thank you for sharing your Easter with us. I guess this does confirm that we’re pagans and um.... We’re all going to hell for playing this concert, I know that. Not for working at it though, just for playing it, yeah, great. I’d like to introduce, uh, my long time friend and partner, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
BC: Thanks. We have a new, uh, album coming out. Um, I know that uh, we just released a new one, but we have another album coming out of, uh, holiday songs and uh, this is, uh, one of the Easter songs that we’ve written, so this seems to be the right, um, occasion for the song. This is called Heavy Metal Bunny.
I of the Mourning
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
If There is a God (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
> Disarm (acoustic)
BC: On the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin.
Ava Adore (acoustic)
Rock On / Everybody Wants Some!!
(BC during quiet part before outro: Yeah, that’s right. Long live rock and roll, long live rock and roll, long live rock and roll, long live rock and roll, you gotta get out. Gotta get out of rock and roll, rock and roll, rock and roll, rock and roll. Everybody wants some....)
> Zero
Today
Tonight, Tonight (tease)
> Blue Skies Bring Tears
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
you might ask yourself
what the fuck is an ohio?
you might ask yourself
heh, why do i live in the sky-o?
you might ask yourself
why can’t i cry real tears?
you might ask yourself
maybe ohio is the indian word for fear

into the blue again
letting the days go by, heh
water flowing underground
letting the days go by

pow!

you might ask yourself
who is that guy on stage? me!
you might ask yourself
maybe he’s just the easter bunny in disguise, you!
you might ask yourself
why must this guy scream again?
you might ask yourself
is he inside my brain again?

letting the days go by
water flowing underground
into the blue again
water flowing underground

what?!
grrrr!
ow!

rise, rise, rise, [4 unintelligible words that sound like “black crown his voice”]
let go of it all, let rock and roll be your unhealthy to the nether regions
don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid...don’t be afraid

what the fuck?!
what is the meaning? (screamed) i wanna know!
ow!!

living on borrowed time, living on borrowed time, bringing the [2 unintelligible words], living on borrowed time, what does it mean?
what does it mean?
what does it mean?
what does this mean if it has no meaning?
what do i feel if i have no feelings?
what do i see if i am not seeing?
i don’t know
ha
yes!
yes
yes!
yes
that is the literal difference
it used to be no, now it’s yes
no more no, more more yes
that’s right
that’s all, there’s no more, just a bunch of bad poetry

(nearly 60 seconds of silence except for crowd cheering)
(Billy screams, band back into song)

go!
yes yes yes, yes yes yes
yes, James!

(over big ending)
Iha: Thanks a lot.
BC: Thanks a lot. Thanks for the help.
[encore break]
Blank Page
> Cherub Rock
BC: Thank you!
[encore break]
Iha: Hey, thanks a lot. How are you guys doin’? Are you still rockin’ with us? Great. ... We would like to bring back the symbolic bunny to the stage...in honor of Easter. I assume while you weren’t here at the rock concert, you were studying today. This is a university, right? No, you weren’t? What goes on here? What? Nothing? (1979 backing track starts) Okay. Let's dance.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
BC: Thank you, god bless you, thank you, goodnight, goodnight, thank you.
Iha: Thanks everybody. Thanks for coming out. Drive safe. Read lots of books. Stay smart.

Photos and memorabilia[edit | edit source]