The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-10-25
| October 25, 2000 – Helsinki, FI | |
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| Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins | |
| The Sacred and Profane tour | |
| Date | October 25, 2000 |
| Venue | Hartwall Areena |
| Coordinates | 60°12′21″N 24°55′44″E |
| Location | Helsinki, FI |
| Venue type | Arena |
| Capacity | 12,000 |
| Personnel | Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur, Mike Garson, Chris Holmes |
| Order of bands | The Smashing Pumpkins |
Setlist[edit | edit source]
- "Glass and the Ghost Children" (acoustic)
- "Le Deux Machina" (tease)
- "Today" (acoustic)
- "Stand Inside Your Love" (acoustic)
- "Thirty-Three" (acoustic)
- "To Sheila" (acoustic)
- "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [9:14]
- (drum solo)
- "Glass' Theme"
- "The Everlasting Gaze"
- "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
- "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [4:28]
- "Sabbra Cadabra" [Black Sabbath] (tease)
- "Speed Kills"
- "If There Is a God"
- "Cash Car Star"
- "Rock On" [David Essex] (tease) [3:06]
- "Heavy Metal Machine"
- "Disarm" (acoustic)
- "Tonight, Tonight"
- "Try, Try, Try"
- "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" [10:36]
Encore one[edit | edit source]
- "Cherub Rock"
- "How Many More Times" [Led Zeppelin] (tease)
- "Smoke on the Water" [Deep Purple] (tease)
- "Crazy Train" [Ozzy Osbourne] (tease)
- "Whole Lotta Love" [Led Zeppelin] (tease)
- "Ava Adore"
Encore two[edit | edit source]
- "Fisherman's Song" [traditional] (tease) (acoustic)
- "Du hast" [Rammstein] (tease)
- "1979" (acoustic)
Banter[edit | edit source]
Glass and the Ghost Children / Le Deux Machina (acoustic)
(BC spoken word before outro: And every time she turned around, she saw the face of her father and all the men she had loved and lost and forgotten. They were between the cracks of the poetry and the clouds of emotion as they swirled around the dreams in her head. She knew there were secrets under her bed...that no one would ever uncover. [3 unintelligible words] hers to grow alone. It was alright. (singing) And as she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her. As she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her. As she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her. As she counted the spiders, as they crawled inside her. (speaking) And it was alright. Alllright! [1-2 unintelligible words] and they would call. Yeah.)
> Today (acoustic)
BC: Good evening.
Stand Inside Your Love (acoustic)
Thirty-three (acoustic)
To Sheila (acoustic)
> Blue Skies Bring Tears
Glass’ Theme
> The Everlasting Gaze
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime / Sabbra Cadabra
and you might ask yourself
just what am i doing in this place?
you might ask yourself
why did god make me a member of the human race?
you might ask yourself
what do i feel if i have no feelings?
you might ask yourself
so what does this song mean if it has no meaning?
letting the days go by
water flowing underground
into the blue again
water flowing underground
you might ask yourself
just who does the singer think he is? wow!
you might ask yourself
what is the meaning of love and what is and what isn’t?
you might ask yourself
why must i always be flying down?
you might ask yourself
why do i feel like i’m the clown?
into the blue again
water flowing underground
letting the days go by
water flowing underground
whoa!
go!
what do i want?
same as it ever was
it’s the same as it ever was
same as it ever was!
(gradually escalating to screaming) same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was!
wow!!
go!
what the fuck do i want?
(song ends)
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. Thank you very much, we are the Smashing Pumpkins. Welcome to our first and last concert in Finland. This next song was originally supposed to be on Machina 2 and it ended up being the B-side of Stand Inside Your Love, this is Speed Kills.
Speed Kills
> If There is a God
> Cash Car Star
> Rock On (partial)
(BC after Iha intro: Right about now, right about now, right about now...the forever inedible, incredible imploding Smashing Pumpkins...take this opportunity to let you catch your breath. We know that our rock is so oppressive that you can’t breathe.)
> Heavy Metal Machine
Disarm (acoustic)
> Tonight, Tonight
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. I’m sorry, I don’t we uh, read, uh, Finnish. We only know Mika Häkkinen, that’s all we know. He won the championship this year, right, Jimmy? Oh, he lost to Michael Schumacher, that’s right. Heh heh heh. So thank you very much for coming to our concert tonight. Thank you. How’s everybody over there doing, you okay? We know it’s not a hockey game, but uh.... You okay, you alright? How ‘bout you? We’d now like to play a song that uh...that is uh...moving, heh heh. Uh, very moving. Uh, this is called Try, Try, Try.
Try, Try, Try
> Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
[encore break]
Cherub Rock
Iha: Yes, yes, thank you. Thank you very much. I would like to introduce the band. On the piano and keyboards, Mr. Mike Garson.
How Many More Times (tease)
Iha: On the keyboards and synthesizer, Mr. Chris Holmes.
Smoke on the Water (tease)
Iha: Alright!
Holmes: (with vocoder) Thank you.
Iha: On the bass (pronounced like the fish) guitar, all the way from Montreal, Canada, Miss Melissa Auf der Maur.
unknown (tease)
Iha: On the pummeling, brutal, flatulating drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin.
Crazy Train (tease)
Iha: Oh yeah. And on vocals, guitars and sonic death, Mr. Billy Corgan.
Whole Lotta Love (tease)
Iha: Yes. You need coolin’! My name is Robert Plant, thank you.
Ava Adore
BC: Thank you very much, thank you.
Iha: Thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you, thank you, thank you. On guitar teching, Mr. Valjean Leica. On drum technician, Mr. Timmy Doyle. Guitars, Jimmy Chamberlin. Wine. Wine, wine, Melissa Auf der Maur again. Vocals....
BC: Wait wait wait wait wait.
Iha: What?
BC: Teemoo.
Iha: What?
BC: Teemoo. That’s your Finnish name.
Iha: Ah.
BC: Teemoo.
Iha: Ah yes. Teemoo.
BC: Teemoo, Teemoo Iha.
Holmes: (with vocoder) Teemoo Spicoli. (chanting “Teemoo”, stops after Iha says “...another life”)
Iha: I remember another life when I was a Finnish fisherman. Yes, I was catching cod. Why?
Fisherman’s Song (acoustic)
(Iha: I remember my mother, she was a cobbler, she made shoes for all the Finnish people. Perhaps it was the greatest thing she had ever done with her life, to be a cobbler. My father, a brave man, he was a mathematician, brilliant. He could’ve even won the Nobel Peace Prize. So what I did is built a time machine. Yes, a Finnish time machine. I went back in time and saw myself as a young Finnish fisherman catching cod. And I loved life. And I had a natural affinity for life, (singing) for life, for life. Life. Life. Life.)
> Du Hast (tease)
BC: (speaking) Du. Du hast. Du hast mich.
Iha: Du hast mich.
> Fisherman’s Song (reprise)
(Iha: Life. What a great life it is to be in Finland. We love your country, it is so cold and sunny. I have nothing else to say.)
BC: Teemoo? Teemoo?
Iha: Yes, yes. Where am I?
BC: Tell the truth now.
Iha: Actually, I’m from Chicago and I’m a guitar player. I went to art school. I don’t know what I was thinking, I’m sorry.
BC: Before I play our last song, we’d like to say thank you to all the Smashing Pumpkins fans for waiting for us to come here so long. We say god bless you, thank you, thank god, love you.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
