The Smashing Pumpkins 1998-06-23

June 23, 1998 – Tokyo, JP
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Adore tour
Date	June 23, 1998
Venue	Nippon Budokan
Location	Tokyo, JP
Venue type	Sumo Wrestling Hall
Capacity	10,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Kenny Aronoff, Mike Garson, Dan Morris, Stephen Hodges
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

Soundcheck

1. "I Want You to Want Me" [Cheap Trick] 

Set

1. "To Sheila" 
2. "Behold! the Night Mare" 
3. "Pug" 
4. "Tear" 
5. "Once Upon a Time" 
6. "Ava Adore" 
7. "Annie-Dog" (live debut)
8. "Daphne Descends" 
9. "Thru the Eyes of Ruby" 
10. "Perfect" 
11. "Tonight, Tonight" 
12. (percussion solo)
    1. "Where Boys Fear to Tread" (tease) 
    2. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
13. "Shame" 
14. "For Martha" 
15. "I Want You to Want Me" [Cheap Trick] (live debut)
16. "1979" 
    1. "I Want You to Want Me" [Cheap Trick] (tease) (live debut)
17. "Summertime" [George Gershwin] (tease) 
    1. "Blank Page" 

Notes

• "Perfect" and "Tonight, Tonight" performed acoustic
• First performance of "I Want You to Want Me"

Banter

To Sheila
Behold! the Night Mare
Pug
Tear
Once Upon a Time
Crestfallen
Ava Adore
Corgan: Thank you very much, thank you... I am D'arcy, it's very good to be here, thank you...uhhh...Daphne Descends!
Daphne Descends
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Corgan: *unintelligible*...thats all i really know how to say...domo, sayonara, semosain[?], and uh ohayou gozaimasu...*laughs*...hello to everybody upstairs there...we send our kisses to you...James is sick though...he cannot kiss you, he is sick...he has uh, some sort of virus, he can't kiss you...but he sends you his love.
Perfect
Corgan: By the way uh, sorry about your world cup soccer team...they tried...but hey...the US, no good either...maybe the Smashing Pumpkins will play the Japanese soccer team in the world cup...James is better than Ronaldo...that's it, that's the end of the concert thank you...sayonara, sayonara...anyway...uh, we would like to dedicate this next song to all of you...for coming to our concert tonight...we are forever in your...we are forever in your debt.
Tonight, Tonight
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Shame
For Martha
(encore break)
Wretzky: *unintelligible* (don't go away?)
Iha: Arigato...thank you...*speaking Japanese*.
Wretzky: You know, this is a very special, special show for us...because this, this venue, and Japan together is legendary to us in the United States...*unintelligible*...and we've always wanted to play here, and now this is a special song for you.
Corgan: I want YOU to want ME!
I Want You to Want Me
1979
Blank Page
Corgan: Thank you, god bless you, we love you.
Wretzky/Iha: (unintelligible)
Iha: Thanks.

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