The Smashing Pumpkins 2012-10-18

October 18, 2012 – St. Louis, MO, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Oceania tour
Date	October 18, 2012
Venue	Chaifetz Arena
Coordinates	38°37′57″N 90°13′41″W
Location	St. Louis, MO, US
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	12,414
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jeff Schroeder, Mike Byrne, Nicole Fiorentino
Order of bands	Anberlin, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist[edit | edit source]

Pre-set[edit | edit source]

"There It Goes" (VIP)
"Plume" (VIP)
"Mayonaise" (VIP)

Set[edit | edit source]

Encore[edit | edit source]

"Ava Adore"

"Happy Birthday" [Patty Hill / Mildred J. Hill] (tease)
"Whole Lotta Love" [Led Zeppelin] (tease)

"Muzzle"

Notes[edit | edit source]

Pre-set: limited admission pre-show, the so-called VIP performance, 3 songs + Q&A

Banter[edit | edit source]

2012 Intro
> Quasar
> Panopticon
The Celestials
Violet Rays
BC: Thank you very kindly, thank you.
My Love Is Winter
One Diamond, One Heart
Pinwheels
BC: Thank you so much, thank you. Well...what does it all really mean? You got baseball.... And then you got this concert. We appreciate that you’re here with us tonight, thank you so much. Now for you insiders, you already know this. Some people actually don’t know that we’re playing the album, our new album, first. Oceania. Thank you. And then we get around to playing...what do we play at the end?
Jeff: Uh, free form jams.
BC: What do we play?
Jeff: Grateful Dead songs.
BC: Grateful Dead songs.
Jeff: Yeah.
BC: Are we doing the hacky sack bit tonight or no? Is that in or out?
Jeff: Yeah, back there, back there.
BC: Little hacky in the backy. Heh heh heh heh. Honestly, we’re so happy you’re here with us, thank you, thank you. So this is the title track to the album and it’s called Oceania.
Oceania
Pale Horse
> The Chimera
Glissandra
> Inkless
Wildflower
Space Oddity
> X.Y.U.
Disarm
Tonite Reprise
> Tonight, Tonight
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. Well, we’re coming to the end of the show here. I got this friend, you know, he’s been texting me and...I gotta get to the--you know when you have a friend in crisis? And he’s texting you and you feel like you gotta get to the phone just to see how he’s doing? You ever have that? I got this friend, right, he’s kinda bummed out and he’s been texting me, Albert Pujols, he’s been.... He’s been texting me. “Did I do the right thing leaving St. Louis? Should I have stayed?” I like naked guy, that’s good, that’s a good one. Naked hairy man guy friend fan, how you doin’? You havin’ a good time? Quite a spritely bunch. Over here on the bass guitar, we have Nicole Fiorentino. On lead guitar, the Shredder, Jeff Schroeder. On the drums, Mr. Michael Byrne.
Shock Me (tease - Mike plays the opening drum roll)
BC: Ha! Duh dun, right, is that...? What song is that?
Jeff: Shock Me.
BC: Shock Me, right.
Jeff: Shock Me.
BC: Can you do that one more time?
Shock Me (tease - Mike plays the opening drum roll)
BC: One more time.
Shock Me (tease - Mike plays the opening drum roll and Billy starts playing the riff)
BC: Shock Me by Kiss.
Nicole: Of course it’s by Kiss.
BC: You know what that song’s about?
Nicole: Nah.
BC: I think it’s about bondage.
Nicole: Yeah, you would think it’s about bondage.
BC: No, you--there’s a line in there: “Put on your black leather / shock me, we can come together,” whatever that means. This is a--this is a red state.
Nicole: Play it a little more conservative now.
BC: It’s a red state, you know what that means.
Nicole: What does it mean?
BC: Red state means less sex, better hair. Better hair. I’m from a blue state. You’re from a blue state?
Nicole: I’m from Massachusetts.
BC: I’m from a blues state. (plays a blues riff) Heh heh heh. Anyway, thank you so much for comin’, before we wrap up here. Since my beloved Chicago Cubs are not in the playoffs...(pause for booing)...I wish you well, I wish you well in the World Series. Where Detroit Rock City will ultimately beat you.
Detroit Rock City (tease - Jeff plays the riff for five seconds until Billy and Mike join in for another five)
BC: Yeah, I gotta...after I get done texting with Albert, I gotta text with Justin Verlander. Heh heh heh. Hope you’re having fun. Just havin’ some fun. Lotta years I didn’t have a lot of fun, I’m havin’ fun now, that’s a good thing, right?
Jeff: Come on!
Nicole: Come on. Have a little fun.
BC: No.
Nicole: Yeah, fun, F-U-N, fun. I’m gonna throw this, it’s not gonna get out.
BC: There are some--oh okay. Steal the show. So we like to get sad here for a moment, post on my happy comment. And uh, play a song I wrote about my daddy, Bill Corgan Senior. It’s alright, you can cheer for my daddy. Thanks to a reckless night of indiscretion, I’m here...because of my daddy. My mom never forgave him. True story. So this song for I--ohhhh, start again. Blue state, right? This is a song I wrote for my daddy called Song for a Son.
A Song for a Son
Zero
Cherub Rock (missing from tape)
[encore break]
Ava Adore (w/Billy and Jeff guitar duel right before end, includes teases below)
> Happy Birthday (tease - 6 notes)
> Whole Lotta Love (tease - 20 seconds)
(BC during pause after Whole Lotta Love: Should we just move on? Heh heh heh... Eh, you wanna end this song, you want should we move on? (plays the 3 notes of the final ending) You wanna do it? (solos over Mike drumming for a bit until they actually end the song))
> Muzzle
(BC immediately after lyrics: Thank you so much.)

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