The Smashing Pumpkins 2013-07-10: Difference between revisions

# {{live song|Tonight, Tonight}}

# <li value=20>{{live song|Immigrant Song|cover=[[w:Led Zeppelin|Led Zeppelin]]}}</li>

 

'''Bullet with Butterfly Wings'''

BC: Everybody having a good time? How was [[w:Bush (British band)|Bush]]? [unintelligible].  We very much appreciate you being with us tonight. Was the anniversary last night?

Jeff: Yea, last night. Into this morning.

BC: Last night, alright. Last night was the 25th anniversary of the Smashing Pumpkins. Very first show, 25 years ago. And if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be here. So thank you, for making me be here. Now, Jeff! Now Jeff, did you get a chance to look around this beautiful city?

Jeff: No, not really.

BC: You didn't go like sleep in [[w:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]'s bed or...?

Jeff: Went to [[w:Sigmund Freud|Freud]]'s office. Talked to him for a while.

BC: Bought the [[w:Gustav Klimt|Klimt]] postcard. Michael, on the drums. And, uh, on the bass, Nicole Fiorentino. Now, although I look like an [[w:Egon_Schiele|Egon Schiele]] painting, you look like a Klimt painting, 'cause you're beautiful.

Nicole: Do you know that I have a piece of Klimt painting on my body, as a tattoo?

BC: You have a Klimt tattoo?

Nicole: Ya.

BC: Really?

Jeff: Really, whoo!

Nicole: [unintelligible]... something of the background of a Klimt painting, on my wrist, that is sometimes covered up.

Jeff: See, we didn't know that. Honestly, we didn't know.

Nicole: Exactly.

BC: She tells us - every week, she just tells us about another tattoo.

Nicole: That's not true.

BC: The secret life.

Nicole: It's a little true.

BC: So we hear this is a free zone, you can do whatever you want, right? No government, no rules, get high, party all night long. Hey Jeff, there is a gentleman right here, does he not look like Jimmy Chamberlin?

Jeff: Where where where?

BC: The man smoking right there? The gentleman? Doesn't he look like Jimmy? There he is! Hello, Jimmy Chamberlin's cousin. [unintelligible]... on the JC. I'm a little sick today. Yes. I caught some horrible disease in France. Has anyone caught a disease in France? Le Eiffel. The Eiffel disease. ''(coughs)''  But I'm, uh, I'm happy to try - as we say in America - give it the old college try.

Nicole: I think you do [unintelligible].

BC: 'Cause you deserve the rock. Because [[w:Gavin Rossdale|Gavin]] and the boys brought the rock. Because quite frankly, most new bands don't know how to bring the rock. They just don't. Jeff, do you think a guy behind like a turntable, is that rocking, with lights?

Jeff: Nah, not so much.

BC: Not so much.

Jeff: Not so much.

BC: How about a guy with a microphone, rapping about his past?

Jeff: Not rock. Not rock.

BC: Nah. Thank you. So I want you to know that if I die on this stage tonight - 'cause it's totally possible, it's not impossible - first off, I'm sick of rock and roll, let's face it. I'm sick of rock and roll. What has rock and roll ever done for me? Well, there have been some beautiful women, I'll give you that. Nah, I'm just kidding. I love rock and roll. I love it like I love Satan. So to document my spiritual journey, we'd like to play a song called Oceania, it was the title track from our highly esteemed record. This is called Oceania.

'''Oceania'''

[tape cuts in]

''(band appears to be finishing an improv with Nicole singing)''

BC: ''(quietly)'' Played.  ''(normal)'' John mixed [[w:AC/DC|AC/DC]], right?  Didn’t you mix AC/DC, John?  In the ‘70s with [[w:Bon Scott|Bon Scott]], that’s pretty good.  John’s also mixed [[w:Pink Floyd|Pink Floyd]], [[w:The Cure|the Cure]]...