The Smashing Pumpkins 2012-12-09

December 9, 2012 – Fairfax, VA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Oceania tour
Date	December 9, 2012
Venue	Patriot Center
Coordinates	38°49′37″N 77°18′36″W
Location	Fairfax, VA, US
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	10,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jeff Schroeder, Mike Byrne, Nicole Fiorentino
Order of bands	Morning Parade, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Rescheduled date due to Hurricane Sandy (original date November 3, 2012).

Setlist[edit | edit source]

Pre-set[edit | edit source]

"There It Goes" (VIP)
"Plume" (VIP)
"Gossamer" (VIP) (tease)
"Today" (VIP)

Set[edit | edit source]

Encore[edit | edit source]

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, thank you so much.
My Love Is Winter
One Diamond, One Heart
Pinwheels
BC: Thank you very much. Thanks so much from us for coming to the show tonight. We begin this evening, we begin this evening with our new album, Oceania. Although these days, anything that’s over three months is not new anymore, it’s old ac--so it’s our old album. ‘Cause it’s been out for what, six months? So it’s old. Heh heh, thank you. And uh, and then we uh, we ramble through the darkness of Oceania and then we come out and we play the beautiful brightness of some classics. Back when I was a happy lad, full of vim and vigor and optimism.
Jeff: Smiling all the time.
BC: That’s right, heh heh heh. So we hope you have a great time tonight. Really, honestly, hope you have a great, great time. And uh...we just, we dive right back in right here, so this is 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. Like to introduce the band to you. On the guitar, Mr. Jeff “The Shredder” Schroeder. (Jeff solos) Sweet tones, bro, sweet tones. On the drums, from Portland-ish area...Beaverton? Beaverton! Heh heh, Mr. Michael Byrne. (Mike solos) Most people don’t know Mike’s story but um, he worked in slave labor at the um, what’s the factory up in Beaverton? Making sneakers, right, you were doing--that’s how you paid for your drum lessons. Ha. On the bass guitar, Ms. Nicole Fiorentino.
I Am One (tease - 5 seconds of bass line)
BC: That was better, heh heh heh. Hahaha. My name is William. We thank you so much for being here with us tonight, thank you, we really appreciate you being here. It’s a tough world out there, everybody’s got their troubles. Mine are well documented. And profitable. Hahaha. You havin’ a good time out there? I hope so, I hope so. How ‘bout over here, you okay? Down here, you’re just.... This is usually where I say something clever.
Nicole: Go, do it.
BC: Um, out clever.
Nicole: Was it because we’re at the end of the tour?
BC: You wanna talk RG3, what do you wanna talk about?
Nicole: I don’t know.
Jeff: What?
BC: Wanna talk Ray Lewis?
Nicole: You always talk about sports.
BC: You wanna talk Carolina Panthers, I--where are we? Alright, who’s a Redskins fan? Alright, who’s a Ravens fan? Alright, all of you other people, who are you a fan of? Chicago? The Bears? Who knew? Oh, you’re a Smash--but we don’t have a professional football team, honey, get back down.
Nicole: We should though.
BC: Heh heh. Alright. In the old days--you weren’t around for the old days, you missed the old days.
Nicole: No, I was in high school.
BC: (cracking up)
Nicole: Last time I was into the Pumpkins.
BC: Hey, he wasn’t even born yet, okay? You know, in the old days...
Jeff: In the old days...
BC: Mork & Mindy time, you know?
Jeff: Nanu nanu. Come on.
BC: When I’d be in a weird mood like I’m in a weird mood right now, I would do something destructive. I would smash my guitar. I would throw microphone stands. You were there. I would attack the audience unfairly. But those were the old days.
Jeff: We’re gonna meditate, let’s--let’s meditate for like 90 seconds.
BC: Meditate?
Nicole: Do some yoga.
BC: Heh, we should--this could be our on yoga segment.
Nicole: Ooh, I like it.
BC: You’re into that Bikram stuff, right?
Nicole: I am and it’s nice and hot in there too.
Jeff: In the heat.
BC: Do you make love Bikram style too?
Nicole: Let’s not talk about that.
(Billy and Nicole laugh)
Nicole: Heh, I don’t know what that means.
(Billy and Nicole laugh again)
Jeff: You’re all red, Nicole, jeez.
Nicole: It’s the rouge.
Jeff: The rouge.
BC: I would normally uh, I might ask the audience what they wanna hear and of course I would ignore them. ‘Cause that’s what I do, that’s how I roll. You saw the band back in the day, you saw how it was.
Jeff: Angry, angry.
BC: Angry, I was angry.
Jeff: Angry.
BC: Now I’m in love. I’m in love with the audience. I just can’t get enough. They have to drag me off the stage ‘cause I’m just so into it. But seriously...
Jeff: No, that’s actually true, that’s true.
BC: We’d like to now play you a new song that we’ve been working on. Other cities, not as sophisticated as you, don’t always understand the new material. Thank you. This young man has heard, he says it’s awesome. So I dedicate this to you, young man, this is called The Dream Machine.
The Dream Machine
> Hummer
[encore break]
Ava Adore
> Cherub Rock
> Zero

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