The Smashing Pumpkins 2008-11-04

November 4, 2008 – Toronto, ON, CA
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
20th Anniversary tour
Date	November 4, 2008
Venue	Massey Hall
Coordinates	43°39′15″N 79°22′45″W
Location	Toronto, ON, CA
Venue type	Concert hall
Capacity	2,765
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Ginger Pooley, Lisa Harriton, Kristopher Pooley, Gingger Shankar, Stephen Bradley, Gabrial McNair
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

Soundcheck one

1. "That's the Way (My Love Is)" 
2. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" 
3. "Gossamer" 
4. "Crestfallen" 
5. "As Rome Burns" 

Soundcheck two

1. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" 
2. "Tonight, Tonight" 
3. "Soma" 
4. "I Am One Part II" 
5. "As Rome Burns" 
6. "Ava Adore" 
7. "Cupid de Locke" 
8. "1979" 

Set

1. (Intro) (prerecorded)
2. "Ava Adore" 
3. "Cupid de Locke" 
4. "1979" 
5. "99 Floors" (acoustic) 
6. "Owata" (acoustic) 
7. "Sunkissed" (acoustic) 
8. "Soma" 
9. "Cherub Rock" 
10. "Zero" 
11. "Bodies" 
12. "Crestfallen" 
13. "I of the Mourning" 
14. "A Song for a Son" 
15. "Landslide" [Stevie Nicks] (acoustic) 
16. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
17. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" 
18. "Galapogos" 
19. "Gossamer" [16:11] 
20. "As Rome Burns" 
21. "The Sounds of Silence" [Simon & Garfunkel] 
    1. "Li'l Red Riding Hood" [Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs] 
22. "The March Hare" (medley) [12:19] 
    1. "Suffer" (middle section only) 
23. "Age of Innocence" 

Encore

24. "That's the Way (My Love Is)" (acoustic) 
25. "I Am One Part II" [15:20] 

Notes

• First performance of "I Am One Part II" since 1989-09-08
• First performance of "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" since 1996-05-07
• First performance of "Cupid de Locke" since 1996-05-15
• First performance of "Landslide" since 1996-12-11
• First performance of "Galapogos" since 1996-12-17
• First performance of "Bodies" since 1997-07-09
• First performance of "Crestfallen" since 1998-10-23
• First performance of "Soma" since 1999-04-24
• First performance of "I of the Mourning" and "Age of Innocence" since 2000-12-02
• First performance of "Gossamer" since 2007-07-31

Banter

2008 Intro
Ava Adore
Cupid de Locke
1979
BC: Thank you. ... Harmonica malfunction.
99 Floors (acoustic)
Owata (acoustic)
Sunkissed (acoustic)
Soma
BC: Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, thank you! Are you ready? No, are you ready? Alright.
Cherub Rock
Zero
> Bodies
Crestfallen
I of the Mourning
A Song for a Son
BC: Thank you. ... I need to catch my breath, heh heh heh. ... Thank you. It’s what you call in show business “stall” so I can catch my breath. Stalling. This my man Jeff Schroeder right here. Jeff said....
Guy in crowd: Billy, what about Obama?
BC: ‘Scuse me?
Several people in crowd: Obama!
BC: Obama who? Obama who?
People in crowd: He won! We won!
BC: I don’t see any Obama up here, okay? He ain’t doing me any good right now. I mean, god bless my man from Chicago but he ain’t helping me right now, you know what I mean? If he can--if he can help me catch my breath, that would be good. (crowd yelling) This is not an open forum like, uh, you know? This is a rock concert, you remember that? Concerts? As we all know, I do better when I play and not talk, so I’m gonna to stick to that program tonight. Gonna show you how we would feel through song, through song. Unfortunately for me, I did not write this next song...but I wish I had, it’s a beautiful song, I-I think you’ll recognize it.
Landslide (Billy/Jeff acoustic)
BC: Now I did write this next one.
Disarm (acoustic)
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
> Galapogos
Gossamer
As Rome Burns
The Sounds of Silence
> Li’l Red Riding Hood
The March Hare
> Suffer (partial)
> The March Hare
Age of Innocence
(BC before bridge: Toronto. Toronto. Rock-tonto! Hasn’t caught on yet. Ladies and gentlemen, that is the end of the show. We’d like to thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. (sings) Before the rites of spring...)
[encore break]
That’s the Way (acoustic)
BC: Before we finish up...say thank you one more time for a great show and thank you for the great two night stand, Toronto, thank you. ... And, uh, all pumpkin jokes aside, I think, uh....
Girl in crowd: I love you!
Other girl in crowd: I love you too!
BC: Okay, we’ll deal with that later, baby. Um, heh heh heh. I think, uh, I think there are a few moments in our life that we have to step back and say “whoa” and I think what’s going on in America right now with President Obama, which is mind-boggling. ... I’m very proud of my country right now for doing the right thing. ... So let’s hope that today, today we can look back...ten, twenty years and look back at some new dreams, new realities, new intelligence, heh heh. Maybe they can stop spying on us now. Fuckin’ chemtrails, whatever the fuck they’re putting in the air!
Guy in crowd: Billy for president!
BC: Yeah right. ... I’d tax your ass so bad. You guys pay high enough taxes here anyway. You don’t, you don’t need any higher taxes. I mean, right? I know that whole thing where hockey players don’t want to come here ‘cause of the taxes, right? I don’t know. Right? Hurts NHL franchises in Canada, right? Okay. Not that our 'Hawks in Chicago are doing very well. How are your Kings doing? Heh. You don’t want to talk about the Kings. Gretzky’s coming back, I hear...to throw out the first puck, I think. Anyway, thank you very much, uh...for the faint of heart, this is one more trip into interspeller, heh, interstellar space so you may want to go now. Heh, for the rest of you, enjoy the ride and we’ll see you next time, okay?
I Am One Pt. 2