The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-05-23

May 23, 2000 – Universal City, CA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	May 23, 2000
Venue	Universal Amphitheatre
Coordinates	34°8′17″N 118°21′12″W
Location	Universal City, CA, US
Venue type	Theater
Capacity	6,251
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Billy Corgan announced on the morning of this show that the band was breaking up at the end of the year.

Setlist

Encore one

"Blank Page"
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
"Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [6:39]

Encore two

"With Every Light" (acoustic)
"Mayonaise"

Banter

Age of Innocence
> Glass and the Ghost Children
The Everlasting Gaze
> Heavy Metal Machine
BC: Thank you, thank you. Thank you very much, thank you. Whew. Always an honor and a pleasure to be back here in the city of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Iha: City of lights. Hell yeah.
BC: I'd like to uh, to introduce you to my friend and partner for 13 years. He's a poet, he's a modern day mystic and he's in league with the devil, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
I Am One
I of the Mourning
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
BC: Thank you very much, thank you so very much. How is - how is everybody doing tonight? Heh heh. No, I'm just laughing because there’s always the one guy who tells me "fuck you" when I ask that, you know. I don't know why, but he’s - I guess that's how he feels. Um....yes, heh heh heh. Thank you, thank you. How's everybody doing up in there, in the uh, in those seats? Like to play you a song, uh, that we haven't, we haven't been uh, we haven't played for a while, but we just started recently playing again or I started playing it again. Hope you like it, it's uh...yes, now he changed it to peace and love, see, that guy, heh heh heh heh. Oh. This means I'm going to die on a surfboard, what? Oh, okay or this is that, right, okay. I'm not from California, I don't understand these...this lingo.
Muzzle (Billy solo acoustic)
Iha: So, is everybody ready to dance?
BC: James, we did that on the last tour and the tour before that, it doesn't work anymore. Let it go.
Iha: These people just need some levity and I think they wanna dance. They just wanna boogie.
BC: Are you saying our music is depressing?
Iha: (British accent) Oy.
BC: Because if you are, James Iha, I'm gonna come over there and kick your ass right now!
Iha: I would say that uh, I dunno if Kafka would say we're depressing or not, but uh....
BC: Would you like to introduce the band, Snakeytooth?
Iha: Alright. I'll introduce me. Thank you! On drums and acoustic guitar, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin! Back on the drum riser, rockin' like nobody's business. On lead vocals and guitar, Mr. Billy Corgan! Heh heh heh, [unintelligible]. On the bass (pronounced like the fish) guitar and socialism, Ms. Melissa Auf der Maur.
BC: And he is James “Snakeytooth” Iha!
Iha: Thank you, let’s boogie!
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
Ava Adore (acoustic)
Rock On
> Zero
Today (abandoned quickly)
Today
Blue Skies Bring Tears
Tonight, Tonight
Cherub Rock
[encore break]
Blank Page
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you, you’re the best, thank you.
With Every Light (acoustic)
BC: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Before we play our last song tonight, I'd like to take a moment, yes, yes it is our last song. (crowd boos) Now boo us, please, um, heh heh heh. Before we play our last song, we'd just like to say without you there wouldn't be a dumb band like us and uh, we owe you, we owe you uh, close to everything, not everything, you can't have our houses or cars, but after that you can have everything we have. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for a great night and a great concert, thank you, god bless you.
Mayonaise
Iha: Thanks a lot, you guys are great, thank you. Drive home safe. [2 unintelligible sentences]. Thank you again.

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