The Smashing Pumpkins 1996-12-01: Difference between revisions

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

# {{live song|Siva|length=5:25}}

# {{live song|Killing Me Softly with His Song|tease=1|cover=[[w:Roberta Flack|Flack]]}}

# {{live song|The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)}}

=== Notes ===

* "Killing Me Softly with His Song" tease and "1979" with [[The Frogs]]

Iha: Thank you, thank you, good evening.  Hello Dallas!  How are you?  Good?  Okay?

BC: We’re pretty bad with between song banter so these days we pretty just keep playing music, so don’t take it offensively, we just say stupid shit so um, hope you have a good time, enjoy the show.

BC: Thank you very much.  That was, uh, Ruby off of Mellon Collie.  It’s on that second CD, the one that’s so hard to listen to.  This of course is on the first CD which I know you’ve all heard.  Heh.  Just kidding. ...  Now if you’d all please be quiet, we’d like to sing a sad song.

Iha: So - so from here on out, we’re gonna play all acoustic songs, we hope you don’t mind.  We’re just gonna do some James Taylor songs and I’m sure you’re all excited.

BC: Thank you.  ''(silly voice)'' Thank you people!  ''(normal)'' This little song me and James wrote one night, sitting in a gutter in Deep Elum.

Iha: No - no - no enthusiasm?

BC: ...but we’re about to do a Better Than Ezra two-fer.

Iha: Well, alright, let’s just go on to other introductions, oop, what was that?  On the keyboards, his brother from the oh-so-great state of Milwaukee, Dennis Frog!  I guess no one cares about Dennis Frog.  Ladies and gentlemen, Dennis Frog!  Now this man cut his teeth on the - on the classics.  Of course I’m talking about, uh, Chopin and Mozart and we pulled him out of Juilliard - he was working there as the janitor - and now he’s playing keyboards with us.  And now, we go to the man behind the drum set...yes, that man is Matt “Cosmo” Walker!  Yes, Matt, uh, plays those, uh, oh, drums.  And now we will move on to, uh, that part of the set which we call audience participation.

Iha: Well, how are we gonna have audience partish - blegh, participation?  Who’s gonna make this, uh, tie breaking decision?

BC: Wait.  Hold on!  Audience, do you want to participate?  ''(loud cheer)'' I think we should let the green angel decide.  Jimmy, come here.  Jimmy, Jimmy!!  Now, you’ve met the good people of Dallas, have you not?

BC: You even have some roots in, heh - you even have some roots in Texas, don’t you?

BC: Put your hands in the air - come on!  We’re kickin’ it like the Fugees.

'''Killing Me Softly''' (tease - Billy and James sing a few lines together)

Iha: Green Day.

BC: As I said, cruel but fair.  So, let’s get to know tonight’s Dallas cheerleaders, I mean dancers.  Before we start...are any of you ch - are any of you dancers related to Barry Switzer?  Just checking.  Okay, who are you and where are you from?

BC: See, this is what I was saying.  No one is enthusiastic about audience participation.  ''(crowd cheers)'' Don’t be upset because the green angel did not choose you.  God wanted it that way.

'''1979'''

BC: Y’all can come back, we ain’t done.  Well, we’ll just have a show for us, see?  Now that all the MTV people have left. ...  Well, hi.  Like to play a song, uh, that just came out, um, on our new, uh, box thingie - this is called the Aeroplane Flies High.

(BC at 24:37: That one goes out to Pantera.  Bye D’arcy.)