The Smashing Pumpkins 1992-07-23

July 23, 1992 – Chicago, IL, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Artist	The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	July 23, 1992
Venue	Cabaret Metro
Coordinates	41°56′59″N 87°39′40″W
Location	Chicago, IL, US
Venue type	Club
Capacity	1,100
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jesse Andersen, Eric Remschneider, Kerry Brown
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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The July 23, 1992 performance was a particularly notable Smashing Pumpkins show at Chicago's Cabaret Metro that saw the live debut of "Starla", "Spaceboy" and "Daydream", the final performance of "Blue", and the last performance of "Obscured" until October 5, 2011. All songs were performed acoustic except for the encore, which was almost 11-minute "Starla" – which as of July 2021 is according to SPCodex records the longest performance of the song in live Smashing Pumpkins history. The show had the classic Pumpkins lineup along with cellist Eric Remschneider (who arranged/performed the strings on "Disarm" and "Soma"), and an improv song with vocals by Kerry Brown.

Full performance

Setlist

Soundcheck

"Starla"
"Starla" (tease)
"Siva" (tease)
"Hummer" (tease)

Set

"Obscured" (acoustic)
"Disarm" (acoustic)
"Rocket" (acoustic)
"Hummer" (acoustic)
"Blue" (acoustic) (final performance)
"Terrapin" [Syd Barrett] (acoustic)
"Siva" (acoustic) [5:52]
"Spaceboy" (acoustic) (live debut)
"Daydream" (acoustic) (live debut)
"Suffer" (acoustic)
"Luna" (acoustic)
(improv: "Out of My Head")
"Crush" (acoustic)

Encore

"Starla" [10:48] (live debut)

Notes

"Spaceboy" with Jesse Andersen (Billy's half brother) on tambourine
"Suffer", "Luna" and improv with Eric Remschneider on cello
improv with Kerry Brown on vocals
Last performance of "Obscured" until 2011-10-05

Banter

Corgan: Good evening, how are you?
Iha: Someone wanna take care of that guy there, that guy's a problem
Corgan: Please kick this guy out
Iha: The guy with the Ozzy Osbourne t-shirt
Obscured
Corgan: Sorry it's so cold, should be warm in summer
Disarm
Rocket
Corgan: Thank you very much, that's a song from our next album which will never be made.
This is another one from that sophomore slump album called Hummer
Hummer
Corgan: Thank you very kindly, we really appreciate you coming tonight. I hope you feel special... we don't.
Here's a song that wasn't good enough to be on our first album but we still like it anyway. This is [unintellgible]
Blue
Iha: Thank you very much
Audience member: Tristessa!
Corgan: Oh yeah, we're playing all the rock hits tonight. This is a song by Mr. Syd Barrett as sung by James St James
Terrapin
Corgan: Yes.. is everybody out there? It's like so quiet, I guess that's good, but...
we're used to that decadent rock n roll atmosphere
Iha: We're used to people moshing around
Corgan: And no one's abusing us
Iha: Hurl insults if you will
Siva
Iha: Thank you
Corgan: This next song is about my little brother who's standing right here, and I wanted to know if he'd
wanted to come up onstage and play with us.
This is called 'Spaceboy', if you knew him you'd understand, it's not a bad... [tunes] guitar tuning
Spaceboy
Corgan: On tambourine.. Jesse!
This is only the second time we've ever played this song live so...and it will be much better than the first time, if you were
Wretzky: I don't know the last time was three years so have patience
Audience member: Getting old!
Iha: We dedicate this set to the man with the Ozzy Osbourne t-shirt... Nick ??
Corgan: Yes, you've [unintelligible]
Daydream
Corgan: Thank you very much
Iha: We'd like to introduce our friend here, a man named Eric, a man of a cello and of many good deeds
Corgan: [unintelligible] doing the deed
Iha: He flew up all the way from Iowa just to do the show and the amazing thing, he had never heard of us before
Corgan: And he's never heard these songs. Here's a song off that debut album called 'Fish', this is 'Suffrage of the First World'
Suffer
Wretzky: I wanna say thanks to all my friends and family and everyone else who didn't have anything better to do tonight
Corgan: I hate guitar by the way, in case you're interested... Jimmy hates it
This here's another one of those next album songs, this is called Luna
Luna
Iha: At this time we'd like to welcome the man Kerry Brown to the stage
Corgan: Kerry's in that new wave band Catherine
Iha: He's a man of good deeds as well
Corgan: This is where we prove like completely out of league, we don't know what we're doing [unintelligible].
This song does not have a name or any words
Improv
Corgan: This is our last song and we'd like to dedicate it to you with all our rusty bad hearts.
Thank you very much coming, we hope you've had a good time. The show tomorrow night will be chanting
Iha: We're bringing in kind of a ?? act to embellish it
Crush
[encore break]
Iha: OK we'll dispense with the stools. Hey, do you think you're in a [unintelligible] We shall turn to 11 for you now
Starla

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