The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-05-01

May 1, 2000 – Philadelphia, PA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	May 1, 2000
Venue	Electric Factory
Coordinates	39°57′33″N 75°8′59″W
Location	Philadelphia, PA, US
Venue type	Club
Capacity	2,500
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]

Soundcheck[edit | edit source]

Set[edit | edit source]

"Pale Scales"
"Heavy Metal Machine"
"Rock On" [David Essex] [6:41]
"Age of Innocence"
"Glass and the Ghost Children" [10:28]
"Blew Away"
"Stand Inside Your Love"
"Blue Skies Bring Tears" [8:53]
"I of the Mourning"
"Le Deux Machina" (prerecorded)
"To Sheila" (acoustic)
"If There Is a God" (acoustic)
"1979" (acoustic)
"Ava Adore" (acoustic)
"Mayonaise"
"I Am One" (with rant) [6:48]
"The Everlasting Gaze"
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
"Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [5:41]
"Drown" [8:24]

Encore[edit | edit source]

"Blank Page"
"Today"
"Join Together" [The Who] (final performance)

Notes[edit | edit source]

"Join Together" was not on the setlist but played after Billy Corgan felt that he hadn't given a good performance

Banter[edit | edit source]

Pale Scales
Heavy Metal Machine
Rock On
Age of Innocence
Glass and the Ghost Children
BC: Thank you very much. We are the, uh, Stumbling Pumpkins. It’s always good to be back in the city of brotherly hate, I mean love, love, love. Just kidding. God bless, thank you. I’d like to introduce, uh, he’s cute, he’s furry, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
Blue Skies Bring Tears
I of the Mourning
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
If There is a God (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
> 1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
BC: Thank you very much. It’s a...it’s a...oh, it’s all about James now, okay.
Iha: [unintelligible]
BC: I was trying to talk before your popularity interrupted me.
Iha: Your seven fans are now paying attention.
BC: I’d like to introduce on the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin.
Iha: Woo!
BC: And on the bass guitar, Ms. Melissa Auf der Maur.
Iha: [unintelligible]
Ava Adore (acoustic)
Mayonaise
> I Am One
(BC midsong: Everybody’s in transmission loss of confusion and transitional phases and lost in big hazes and all Hades and River Nile and River Styx and Styx the band and Boston and...Kansas. Everybody walks about, talks about, lost about, lost in eyes, knows about, everything is a big show, (growl scream), yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Conceptual theories aside, conspiracy theories applied, sound pressure levels not quite up to snuff. Vehemence, integrity intact, but failing. Status report: loss of shields, set the phasers to stun. No need to kill, no one cares. (growl scream) (Billy solos) No fear in this revolution. Compassion, the weapon, applied, no love denied. Even when you fail, it’s allllllriiight. Into open arms I fall. Stumbling, mumbling...hands cramping. We are the machines. We speak this dream. We are the machines. We are the machines of goooooooood. Gooooooood. Gooooooood. Goood. Gooooo – gooooo – (screams).)
The Everlasting Gaze
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime (partial - Billy seems to give up on the song due to crowd apathy midway through his spoken word section)
you might ask yourself
why is billy so lame?
you might ask yourself
what is the name of this particular game?
you might ask yourself
who is that fucking guy on stage anyway?
you might ask yourself
what does he know about me and my life?

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

you might ask yourself
what the fuck does america mean to me?
you might ask yourself
what is the true meaning of freedom?
you might ask yourself
who were my parents in my life, in my world?
you might ask yourself
am i just a number and a piece of meat?

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

what?!
does!!
what does this mean?

what does this mean if it has no meaning, what do i feel if i have no feelings?
if bleed, will it make any difference?
what?!!!

ow!!!
shop the lie
yeah!!

across the universe and chasms unwound, poetry of the moment
yes
in a single moment, confirmation, realization, but it’s right there, i just can’t get to it, it’s right there, right there
right there, i’m reaching
sometimes the harder you try, the farther you get
the fisher you are, the tuna you wet
thank you for that shirt.
...
the stars appear, the wounds unwind
we still are blind, occluded from our true nature
yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, i agree, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yesss, yessssss

(song ends)

BC: Thank you everybody, thank you. Whoever keeps throwing this particular CD, throw them at me please, instead of James. ... Yes. ... Yes. It’s sad when a balloon is more entertaining than the band, isn’t it? But we thank you, we thank you for your love, your patience, your attention, your devotion. It’s all good.
Drown
(BC at 7:16: God bless you, thank you.)
[encore break]
Blank Page
BC: Thank you all so very much, thank you. Thank you, thanks. (laughing) Well...we’ve come to the end of the road here. Want to say thank you to all of you, um, for coming tonight.
Today
BC: Thank you.
Iha: Thank you.
BC: Thank you. Thank you.
Iha: Thank you, thank you.
BC: Um, if I could just have your indulgence for one second. Um, I want to say, really, I know I keep saying thank you but I wanna say thank you because, um, I’ve had a really shitty fuckin’ night. Um, it’s true, it’s true, I’m the first to admit when I’m not very good and I don’t feel I’ve been very good and I feel very badly because I feel that everybody here deserves better than what I’ve given you. That doesn’t mean I didn’t try, I just, it didn’t really get there. But um, so um, I’m much better with song than, uh, talking so we’d like to play one more song from the bottom of our crummy black hearts. Um. James had a good night.
Iha: Oh. No, that’s [unintelligible]. I did. Heh heh.
BC: And, uh, Jimmy had a really good night. Melissa was, uh, pretty good.
Iha: I did - I didn’t have a good night but my suit was good. That’s about the only consolation.
BC: But I, uh, I pretty much sucked tonight, so um...it’s true, it’s true, I - the whole time we were doing Today, I was thinking in my mind, “Should I tell everyone how I feel?” and I thought “Well, I’m not afraid of anything so I’m gonna tell you how I feel.” That being said, um, by sort of breaking that sort of spell, I’d like to at least try to...um, summon up the, uh, correct energy in my for every aging body and um, express how we feel to you. So this is, uh, dedicated to all of you for coming tonight, we appreciate it very much. And just like Icarus, uh, sometimes we don’t fly because quite frankly, we cannot fly. For those of you into mythology. So this is a song by The Who that sort of describes, um, everything that we feel and uh, god bless.
Join Together
Iha: Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot everybody. Thanks for coming. Thanks for rockin’. [unintelligible]. Good night.

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