The Smashing Pumpkins 1992-12-11

Surprise opening set at "Benefit for the Hopeful" charity show. The band played on equipment borrowed from Drivin N Cryin.

December 11, 1992 – Atlanta, GA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Artist	The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	December 11, 1992
Venue	The Roxy
Coordinates	33°50′25″N 84°22′47″W
Location	Atlanta, GA, US
Venue type	Theater
Capacity	1,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins, Drivin' and Cryin'
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Setlist

1. "Country Death Song" [The Violent Femmes] (tease) (acoustic) 
2. "Today" (acoustic) 
3. "Disarm" 
4. "Rocket" 
5. "Luna" 
6. "Quiet" 
7. "Spaceboy" 
8. "Cherub Rock" 
9. "Drown" [5:46] 
   1. "Hummer" (tease) 
10. "Suffer" 
11. "I Am One" (tease) 
12. "Communication Breakdown" [Led Zeppelin] (tease) 
13. "Sweet Leaf" [Black Sabbath] (tease) 
14. "Hello Kitty Kat" 
    1. "Over the Rainbow" [Harburg/Arlen] (tease) 

Banter

BC: Well, she has to fix her strap, so....
Country Death Song (tease) (acoustic)
BC: Okay, monitor.
Today (acoustic)
BC: Oh, hi. We have to make Kevin's guitar work good. Hi. How are you tonight? I am fine. Um, we're in Atlanta recording our new album, so.... Don't think we're just down here being whores. Beyond that, we’re recording an album. Alright. Heh heh, heh heh.
Disarm
> Rocket
BC: Thank you.
Luna (abandoned after a few seconds)
BC: Oh, come on, you don't wanna hear any oldies.
Luna
(intro to Quiet begins)
BC: This is a song called Quiet. Quiet.
> Quiet
> Spaceboy
BC: This is called The –- Into the Cherub Rock.
Cherub Rock
BC: (while downtuning) For those of you who don't know, this is the Seattle grunge tuning. How are you? Happy? Alright, who’s –- who’s sad? (minor cheers) I'm sad too, so I’m sorry. Who’s happy? (cheers) Such a fucking crowd.
Drown / Hummer
> Suffer
BC: Thank you for paying attention. Um, heh heh. I don’t know, what do you wanna hear? What? Heh.
I Am One (tease)
BC: No, you know we don't do Freebird anymore.
Communication Breakdown (tease)
BC: Oh, we don't know that one either.
Sweet Leaf (tease)
BC: (sings) Alright now –- (speaking) we don't know that one either, no. Well, this is called Hello Kitty Kat and we got to go bye bye.
Hello Kitty Kat
> Over the Rainbow (tease)
BC: (singing) Somewhere over the rainbow you will find, under Judy Garland [unintelligible].
D’arcy: I wanna thank Drivin' N' Cryin' for asking us to come out, it was a lot of fun and it's for a good cause, thanks a lot.