The Smashing Pumpkins 1988-08-10
| August 10, 1988 – Chicago, IL, US | |
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| Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins | |
| Artist | The Smashing Pumpkins |
| Date | August 10, 1988 |
| Venue | Avalon |
| Coordinates | 41°56′23″N 87°39′13″W |
| Location | Chicago, IL, US |
| Venue type | Club |
| Capacity | 450 |
| Personnel | Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky |
| Order of bands | Shy Violence, Swinging Dix, The Smashing Pumpkins |
August 10, 1988 was The Smashing Pumpkins's second live performance, and the first with D'arcy Wretzky. The sound engineer for Avalon at this show was Paul Chabala, who would later provide engineering for the band's first demo tape at his own Schwa Productions. It was at this show that Chabala and Billy Corgan met.
Setlist
- "The Vigil" (live debut)
- "Armed to the Teeth" (live debut)
- "Bleed"
- "There It Goes" (live debut)
- "My Eternity" (abandoned) (live debut)
- "My Eternity" (live debut)
- "I Fall" (live debut)
- "Nothing and Everything" (live debut)
- "6234" (only performance)
- "Holiday" (live debut)
- "Screaming" (final performance)
Banter
MC: Ladies and gentlemen, thanks for sticking around. And now, for your entertainment pleasure: Smashing Pumpkins!
Corgan: Good evening.
The Vigil
Corgan: Thank you very much. This is called Armed to the Teeth.
[Drum machine plays wrong beat]
Iha (?): Ahhh!
Corgan: See? No, its not.
Iha (?): Twelve, eleven.
Armed to the Teeth
Corgan: Thank you, thank you.
Iha: Thanks. Thanks, Bob.
[Drum machine plays wrong beat]
Corgan: See what you get for not having a drummer? [tuts] Sin number one.
Bleed
There it Goes
Iha: Thanks.
Corgan: Um, we'd would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for coming out. I know some who have waited, some don't care, but thanks is all the same. Now we are going to change the bass. Oh, oh, Paul? Oh, Pa... just a little bit more drums. Thank you. I can't hear shit. This is one of those crowd favorites, this is called My Eternity.
My Eternity
Corgan: Thank you.
I Fall
Audience member: Where's your drummer?
Corgan: Ahh, don't start that shit. The reason we aren't playing with the drummer is because we had a drummer, and he fucked everything up, so why fuck everything up, you know what I mean? I mean I don't like playing with the drum machine anymore than maybe you don't like hearing it. But I don't have a drummer, so I'll play, you know. Hey, you wanna fuckin' drum, come up here [unintelligible] You know we don't fucking just like make this shit up out of air, it takes a lot of time, and uh, you know, I'd like to be here with a drummer and everything would be kosher. This my friend is a song for you. Ready? Are you ready?
Nothing and Everything
Iha: Thanks.
Audience member: We can't hear you!
Corgan: You can't hear what? Sing?
Audience member: Can't hear you!
Corgan: Me singing? This song is a step forwards, a step backwards all at the same time. I'm sure we all know about that in our little lives, including me.
6234
Iha: Thanks an awful lot.
Corgan: This falls in the hit song category.
Holiday
Corgan: Thank you, thank you, very kind. This will be our last number. I'd like to thank the Avalon Night Club, Paul, an excellent mixing man. He deserves many applause. [tuts] heh, and your mic isn't on.
Wretzky: I wanna thank everybody who came out tonight, all my friends and my sister.
Iha: And I would like to thank Vince [unintelligible] And McDermit if he's out there.
Corgan: And I'd to thank [feedback] woah! I'd like to thank the Lord, Jesus Christ. That's right, you don't sing the last verse. Yeah that's alright. You don't say nothing anyway. This song's called Screaming. Like a mother... fucker. Are you loud? Jesus! [unintelligible]
Screaming
Corgan: Sayonara.
MC: Let's hear it one more time for the Smashing Pumpkins!