The Smashing Pumpkins 2021-09-17

September 17, 2021 – Chicago, IL, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Artist	The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	September 17, 2021
Festival	Riot Fest
Venue	Douglass Park (Riot Stage)
Location	Chicago, IL, US
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, James Iha, Jeff Schroeder, Jack Bates, Michael Angelo Batio, Meg Myers
Order of bands	others, Dirty Heads, Coheed and Cambria, The Smashing Pumpkins
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September 17, 2021 was The Smashing Pumpkins first live performance since August 31, 2019 (the 2020 Tonight Show appearance was prerecorded). The band rehearsed at Chicago's Patio Theater for a week before the show.

Setlist

1. "Sarabande" [George Frideric Handel] (prerecorded) 
2. "The Colour of Love" 
3. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
4. "Today" 
5. "Crush" 
6. "Drown" 
7. "Quiet" 
8. "Cyr" 
9. "Wyttch" (live debut)
10. "Solara" 
11. "Eye" 
12. "Ava Adore" 
13. "Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic) 
14. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
15. "Cherub Rock" 
16. "Zero" 
17. "Ramona" (live debut)
18. "1979" 
19. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
20. "Shame" 
21. "United States" [13:15] 
    1. "Dazed and Confused" [Led Zeppelin] (tease) 

Notes

• "Eye" with Meg Myers on vocals
• "United States" with Michael Angelo Batio on guitar
• First full-band, in-person performances of "The Colour of Love", "Cyr", "Wyttch", and "Ramona"
  • "The Colour of Love" was live-streamed by Corgan on October 20, 2020
  • A prerecorded "Cyr" was live-streamed by the band on December 1, 2020
• First full-band performance of "Crush" since April 14, 2008
• First full-band performance of "Shame" since November 27, 2010
• First performance of "Quiet" since October 2, 2012 and first outside of a VIP performance since September 4, 1994
• First performance of "United States" since August 9, 2015
• Corgan's daughter, Philomena Clementine, was on stage with him for the first half of "Eye"

Banter

(incomplete due to lack of full show source)

Sarabande Intro
The Colour of Love
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Today
Crush
Drown
> Quiet
Cyr
Wyttch
Solara
Eye (with Meg Myers)
(BC during outro: Give it up for the rain!)
Ava Adore
BC: [cuts in] ...you can’t explain.
Tonight, Tonight (acoustic)
Stand Inside Your Love
Cherub Rock
> Zero
> Ramona
Radio Intro tape
> 1979
Disarm (acoustic)
Iha: Aaah!!
Shame
> United States / Dazed and Confused (with Michael Angelo Batio)
(Iha over opening drums: Ladies and gentlemen, we have a special guest. Mr. Michael Angelo Batio. Michael Angelo Batio, please welcome him.)
(Iha after Batio’s first solo: Mr. Michael Angelo Batio!)
Iha: Hey, thank you so much! Thank you so much, Chicago, Riot Festival. You are the best, the best of the best, thank you so much!

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