Billy Corgan 2017-10-27

October 27, 2017 – Nashville, TN, US
Live performance by Billy Corgan
Ogilala tour
Date	October 27, 2017
Venue	CMA Theater
Coordinates	36°9′30″N 86°46′34″W
Location	Nashville, TN, US
Venue type	Theater
Capacity	776
Personnel	Billy Corgan
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Setlist

Set one

Ogilala material.

1. "Zowie" (piano) 
2. "Processional" (acoustic) 
3. "The Spaniards" (acoustic) 
4. "Aeronaut" (piano) 
5. "The Long Goodbye" (acoustic) 
6. "Half-Life of an Autodidact" (acoustic) 
7. "Amarinthe" (acoustic) 
8. "Antietam" (acoustic) 
9. "Mandarynne" (piano) 
10. "Shiloh" (acoustic) 
11. "Archer" (acoustic) 
12. "If I Were a Carpenter" [Tim Hardin] (acoustic) 

Set two

Career-spanning set.

13. "Starla" (piano) 
14. "Pale Horse" (piano) 
15. "Muzzle" (acoustic) 
16. "Of a Broken Heart" (acoustic) 
17. "Landslide" [Stevie Nicks] (acoustic) 
18. "Annie-Dog" (acoustic) 
19. "Come Undone" (acoustic) (final performance)
20. "Soma" (piano) 
21. "Wish You Were Here" [Pink Floyd] (piano) 
22. "Drum + Fife" (acoustic) 
23. "Winterlong" (acoustic) 
24. "Gossamer" (acoustic) 
25. "Stand Inside Your Love" (acoustic) 
26. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 

Encore

27. "Spaceboy" (acoustic) 
28. "Age of Innocence" (acoustic) 
29. "Farewell and Goodnight" (acoustic) 

Banter

(incomplete)

Zowie (piano)
Processional
The Spaniards
Aeronaut (piano)
BC: Whatever.
The Long Goodbye
> Half-Life of an Autodidact
Amarinthe
Antietam
Mandarynne (piano)
BC: [cuts in] Now I try not to talk much anymore, ever since they invented that YouTube. But I will say that when I wrote this song, I was thinking very much of Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb and so I’d like to dedicate this song to Glen and his family. Think of [unintelligible], that’s my regards.
Shiloh
Archer
BC: Thank you for listening to that. So for those of you in the know, I’ll play one more song here - a beautiful song by Tim Hardin, which actually Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash covered so beautifully - and then I’ll take a 20 minute break and come back and play a bunch of songs that were written before you were born.
Lady in crowd: Not me, not me!
BC: I was trying to be kind. So uh, this is uh, If I Were a Carpenter.
If I Were a Carpenter
BC: See you in 20 minutes, thank you, thank you.
[set break]
Starla (abandoned quickly after guy in crowd yells loudly)
(Guy in crowd: Yes! Fuck yes!)
BC: That’s a [2-3 unintelligible words].
Starla (piano)
Pale Horse (piano)
BC: Thank you. Me rock youse now.
Muzzle
Of a Broken Heart
Landslide
BC: Thank you.
Guy in crowd: Yes! Yes!
BC: (quietly) No.
Other guy in crowd: Also thank you!
BC: Said the church, peace be with you.
Girl in crowd: Thank you!
BC: Uh huh. Is it still legal to be Catholic in America? I’m not sure anymore.
Third guy in crowd: On Saturday.
BC: Heh heh heh.
Annie-Dog
> Come Undone
BC: Do you mind me telling a story?
Guy in crowd: Billy, talk to us!
BC: Maybe not. We’ll reserve that.
Soma (piano)
Wish You Were Here (piano)
Guy in crowd: We’re all ears.
BC: Oh. We got any vets in the house? This one’s to the vets, we love you, thank you.
Drum + Fife
BC: Can you shut that thing?
Winterlong
Gossamer
Stand Inside Your Love
> Tonight, Tonight
[encore break]
Spaceboy
Age of Innocence
BC: Now if you’ll indulge me, I’d like to tell my little story...since we’re all friends now. I’ll see you for Christmas.
Girl in crowd: Don’t forget Thanksgiving!
BC: I didn’t invite you for Thanksgiving.
Girl in crowd: What about the turkey?
BC: Whatever, baby, let’s take it to the hotel. Um...like I said, I try not to talk anymore because it gets me in trouble, but I think I’m safe in this regard. So um, my grandmother Lillian passed away three years ago at 102 - thank you, Grandma. Grandma was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1911 and at 16, she married a 35 year old man, who already had a family and she started having babies right away, she had six children. My grandfather was a bootlegger, coal miner...you name it, he did it. Crazy man. As only the hill people can be. So my whole life, my whole life I’ve heard, you know, how my voice was weird, too high, too strange, too whatever, too low at some -
Guy in crowd: Your voice is awesome!
BC: Well, god bless you, my friend. So um, when I was making Ogilala, in that period, I was sort of lost - working on a Pumpkins album, sorta lost my mind - and I found myself listening to a lot of country and bluegrass music. And uh, I found myself thinking a lot about my family and growin’ up dirt poor, as I’m sure many people here came from a similar background. I don’t wanna assume anything but I mean, this is that part of the world. And.... You know what I’m talkin’ about, right? And so, the reason I’m telling you all of this is because listening to that music, listening to Bill Monroe and Bob Wills and these great men and women that are in this museum, somewhere around here, I had this weird epiphany one night listening to - I bought some amazing, unbelievable sounding Bill Monroe record from off eBay and you know, it’s like that, I don’t know, it’s like I don’t know, I don’t know what your version of it would be but for me to buy an old piece of vinyl that sounds amazing and it’s like a pleasure, it’s like the great indulgence of my life, so I’m standing there listening to Bill Monroe and I’m listening to him sing these high songs, “Fuck, that shit’s - he’s singing high, man.” And then, like a lightning bolt, like maybe Bill sent it down for me, I thought “Wow,” it kind of seemed like I do and then a circle came all the way around and I thought of my family and I thought of people working in the mines and that kind of music and what they used to call the high lonesome sound and so then I thought, wow, I’m home, this is like, this is my home, this is - even though I’m an alternative rock person, whatever the fuck that means anymore. What I’m trying to say in so many words is that a lot of the music that’s in this museum is the music of my family, it’s the music of my roots, it’s the music of my DNA, and so I’m very honored to play here.
Guy in crowd: [2 unintelligible words]!
BC: Rock on, man. So I bid you adieu with this lullaby written by myself and Mr. James Iha. James isn’t here but he sends his condolences.
Guy in crowd: I [unintelligible word] make that reference on the way here.
BC: What’s that?
Guy in crowd: The country reference with the new record.
BC: Oh, I appreciate that. Yeah, here we are. May you all have Ogilala in your life.
Farewell and Goodnight
BC: God bless you, Nashville. Thank you, thank you thank you thank you, thank you, Nashville, thank you.