The Smashing Pumpkins 1996-11-30: Difference between revisions

| lineup = Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Matt Walker, Dennis Flemion

# {{live song|In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida|tease=1|cover=[[w:Iron Butterfly|Iron Butterfly]]}}

# (disco improv)

# {{live song|1979}}

=== Notes ===

* disco improv and "1979" with [[The Frogs]]

* "Porcelina" was on the setlist after "Muzzle", but was not played.

* An encore of "Siva" and "Drown" was on the setlist, but were skipped.

* "1979" was added to the second encore.

* "The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)" was on the setlist before "Silverfuck", but replaced by "Drown".

BC: You might force us to play all the mean unhappy songs.  Well, okay then, this will be the last happy song, I hope you enjoy it.

BC: Thank you very much.  So, what would everybody like to hear?  We’re obviously not playing what you want to hear so um, maybe we should just do that.  Speak up, I cannot hear you.

Iha: Gracias.  Gracia, merci, thank you.  Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps you might be shocked by what you might see.  People of Texas, I know you are not shocked by many things but this man may shock you.  All the way from Milwaukee, the oh so great state of Milwaukee, Jimmy Frog!  Jimmy Frog, everybody.  Let’s just wave at Jimmy.  Jimmy, wave back.  Wave the nice hair, there we are.  We have a nice communication, a communication between Jimmy and all fifteen thousand of you.  Alright, and now, on the keyboards, his brother, by blood, Dennis Frog!  I beg your pardon, Dennis.  Yes, Dennis was a poet laureate and a scholar at Yale and also a quarterback but he has come to play keyboards for us and I hope you have enjoyed his noodlings on the plastic.  Alright, and now, the man behind the...drums, right, uh, heh, Matt “Cosmo” Walker!  Yes, Matt, Matt is a fine man who has red hair, he has dyed his hair red for this - for this tour and we’re paying him literally a million dollars to do this run a marathon.  But he’s a fine man and uh, nothing else can be said.  Okay, so now, we’ll get on with the show, this is part of the - the set.  Okay, so we’re going to ask you for some audience participation.  And you’re saying, “Hey, what can I do to make this concert special?  This concert only happens once in a lifetime.”  Well, I’m asking you - I’m asking you to dance.  And for those chosen lucky few, we’re going to ask a few lucky people to dance on stage with us.  Okay, I can tell you’re really excited, heh.  So, Jimmy, pick our - pick our dancers tonight.  Matt, can we have a beat?  ''(Matt starts a hip hop beat)''  Yeah.  I’m [unintelligible] for Texas stars.  Yeah.  I wanna dance, I wanna dance with all of you.  ''(high pitched)'' Whooooo, whoooo’s gonna dance?  ''(normal)'' Yeah.  Yeah.  Fifteen thousand people on the stage, [unintelligible].  [mumbling unintelligible under the music].  Who shall dance tonight?  Oh my god, we have some people.  How you doin’?  Yes, we have some lucky dancers and we wish them luck.  Jimmy, have you chosen us a dancer?  Alright, Matt, give us a new beat.  ''(Matt changes to a disco beat)''  Pumpin’ up the BPMs!  Come on, Texas, give me one last hand in the fuckin’ air!  Come on!  Wave those fuckin’ hands in the air like you just don’t care!  Come on, yeah!  I don’t care who you are, I don’t care what race, sex, gender, what kind of books you read, I don’t care if you’re like James Joyce or Sadamy, I want you to fuckin’ dance!  Okay, I believe we have all the dancers that can possibly be taken.  ''(Matt stops)''  We have tonight’s dancers.

BC: Is that the - is that the home of the nine and one Denver Broncos?  ''(loud boos)''

Girl #3: I’m from Nicole, I’m Nic - heh...

BC: You’re from UNKLE?

BC: Did you say you’re Barry Switzer’s wife?

'''1979'''

Iha: Well...that was rather interesting.  Where we have our dancers but let’s have a long round of applause for our dancers tonight, they’ve tried valiantly.