Billy Corgan 2019-11-13

November 13, 2019 – Springfield, MO, US
Live performance by Billy Corgan
United States 2019 tour
Date	November 13, 2019
Venue	Gillioz Theatre
Coordinates	37°12′30″N 93°17′20″W
Location	Springfield, MO, US
Venue type	Theater
Capacity	1,300
Personnel	Billy Corgan
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Setlist

Set one

Set two

"Tonight, Tonight"
"1979"
"Luna"
"Violet Rays"
"Jupiter's Lament"
"For Martha" (final performance)
"Will There Be Any Stars?" [Alison Krauss & The Cox Family]
"Hangin' On" [The Gosdin Brothers]
"Another Bridge to Burn" [Little Jimmy Dickens]
"Age of Innocence"
"Disarm"

Encore

Notes

"Anon", "The Spaniards", "Jupiter's Lament", "For Martha" and "Disarm" performed on piano
First performance of "Age of Innocence" since 2017-11-09

Banter

(very incomplete due to lack of full show source)

Cri de Coeur
To Scatter One’s Own
Hard Times
Apologia
Fragile, The Spark
Buffalo Boys
Dancehall
Anon (piano)
The Spaniards (piano)
BC: You doin’ okay? (crowd cheers)
Lady in crowd: Thank you so much.
BC: Yep.
Processional
Half-Life of an Autodidact
Aeronaut
BC: So, I have just one more song in this set, we’ll take a 20 minute break. Then I come back and play some songs that you lost your mind to in an earlier part of your life.
Little Maggie
[set break]
Tonight, Tonight
1979
Luna
Violet Rays
BC: [tape cuts in] It’s an amazing thing to be up here by myself. Heh heh heh heh heh, heh heh heh heh. Yeah. No drums to drown out my voice. No uh...no laser gun to mess up my riffs. Heh heh heh heh, but seriously, I can’t tell you enough how supportive my band is of this kind of stuff and really appreciate them for this, ‘cause a lot of these songs wouldn’t be here without them and certainly, a lot of these songs wouldn’t be here without you. Which brings me to this song. You’d find it on The Aeroplane Flies High. 28 B-sides from the Mellon Collie album. Absolute proof of my insanity if you need any. You don’t need photos from Disneyland, you only need to look at that box set to understand how insane I really am.
Jupiter’s Lament (piano)
For Martha (piano)
BC: [tape cuts in] This is one of the songs, it’s an old spiritual I’d like to play for you. It’s called Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown?
Will There Be Any Stars?
Hangin’ On
Another Bridge to Burn
Guy in crowd: Landslide!
BC: No!
Guy #2 in crowd: Freebird.
BC: Freebird - it’s funny...
Guy #3 in crowd: Siva!
BC: ...every - there you go. Yeah, Siva on acoustic, that’s really gonna get it done, buddy. Let me tell you something, let me tell you something. I was born March 17th, 1967. About the same time that Strawberry Fields Forever was on the radio, that’s the world I came into.
Guy #4 in crowd: Great song!
BC: Cool, man, when I do a Q and A, we just riff away. This is some Hamilton interactive shit, I guess. Would it help if I rapped my past for you?
Guy #4 in crowd: Whatever you’re feeling, Billy.
BC: Thank you, my friend. What I’m trying to say is, been around a long time, 52 years and counting. And um, I’ve seen it all, I’ve done it all, been lucky that way, thanks to people like you, so I appreciate that. But um, there’s one thing that I will not abide, which is that in this world, suddenly everybody can hijack the show. They can hijack Star Wars, they can hijack Star Trek, they can hijack me and the answer is no. As I said last night...wherever I was...
Crowd: Lawrence!
BC: ...Lawrence, Kansas! Beautiful Lawrence. I said - I’ll quote myself - (laughing) I said...to a heckler - I’m assuming you’re not a heckler, just an impassioned fan who wants to hear all of Gish acoustic, I get it. But I said to that person, that individual, that non-binary gender fluid whoever they were, I said, “Last I checked, my band is playing the Enormo Dome, so if I’m here with you, it’s because I want to do what I want to do and I want people to take that journey with me.” The sell out - there’s an old joke: “Hey man, did you sell out?” “Yeah, I sold the arena last week,” right? The sell out - if there was a sell out - happened long ago. What you have is an imperfect person in front of you who just wants to play music ‘cause that’s what I love to do. And I can tell you, I can tell you without a doubt, without a shred of insecurity, that I’ve done what I’ve done and I’ve written what I’ve written because I wanted to do what I wanted to do. That most of the songs that you probably like were done because somebody else told me no, right? You can’t do that, you can’t do this, your band’s too loud, buh buh buh buh buh, right? So, don’t forget that the source of what you’re asking for comes from someone who said “Fuck the world, I’m gonna do it the way I wanna do it.” And in a very Chicago way, if you don’t like it, you know where to fuckin’ go. Out into the cold, the unforgiving cold, that’s where you can go, you can go into the unforgiving cold. Now, back to the show as scheduled, carefully constructed in this imperfect maze-like mind, so that you will feel the maximum amount of emotion, which is a rare quality to feel these days, since you’re all addicted like me to dopamine, clicking on things that you shouldn’t be clicking on. Man, you know, “cat impales in man’s head, see the shocking results.” Now, little bit of fourth wall coming down, you just have two more songs in the set. That’s the show, right? There is an encore scheduled. (crowd cheers) Encore meaning “if I feel like coming back,” I will play some more. Heh heh heh.
Girl in crowd: Play Starz!
BC: Here we go. That young woman didn’t hear a fuckin’ word I just said. Thankfully though, the power of song got to her at some point. Whether she was losing something or gaining something or digging a hole, who cares, it got to her on her iPod and she’s here, she wants to hear it. So yes, there’s only a few more songs, I hope you enjoy the rest of the show, however long it may be.
Age of Innocence
Disarm (piano)
[encore break]
Waiting for a Train That Never Comes
Silvery Sometimes
Today