The Smashing Pumpkins 1993-07-28

Setlist

 * Cherub Rock
 * Quiet
 * Today
 * Rocket
 * I Am One
 * Soma
 * Bury Me
 * Disarm
 * Paranoid [Black Sabbath] (tease)
 * Geek U.S.A.
 * Mayonaise
 * Siva
 * Drown
 * Spaceboy
 * Starla
 * Snail
 * Hummer
 * Silverfuck

Banter
Wretzky apologizes that she can't sing tonight; Corgan notes "she's lost her voice, so there'll be none of that nice, sweet singing" and teases the crowd, telling them to be prepared because the band is going to "kick your ass" Cherub Rock Corgan apologizes for nearly a minute of tuning and "having problems". He announces, "we're a little spaced out." Quiet Cherub Rock After some moments of delay, Corgan comments, "we're a little disorganized." In response to some crowd chatter, he responds, "Long live the Turnips... So we're glad ya'll got in, we hope you consider yourselves the chosen 1000. These are all new songs, off that new album." Rocket I Am One Soma Corgan thanks a crowd member's gift, noting it resembles a "little D'arcy". In response to something else the crowd says, "see, the Turnips can be bad." Bury Me Corgan apologizes for another 1-2 minutes delay between songs rather than performing a "precise rock show" and that "see, [even] the Turnips can suck." Disarm (abandoned after few initial notes) Corgan stops to tell the crowd to "don't catch him" referring to a crowd-surfer or stage-jumper, "don't inspire idiotic, break-your-neck behavior. Last thing I want is for anyone to get hurt, this is supposed to be fun, not deadly... The Turnips can't afford to pay for that lawsuit" Disarm After the Paranoid tease, Corgan jokes "this guitar used to be owned by Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath" then plays some more of Paranoid. Proclaims "this is my heavy metal guitar, I got this from one the guys in Slaughter, of course, I had to give him a blowjob for it...it's a great guitar". Iha, sufficiently amused by Corgan's extended joking around, announces "alright, let's rock" Geek U.S.A. During the verse-chorus break, Corgan self-depreciating again comments on their "out of tune guitars on a beautiful night". "This is what you call a kill-some-time rant because D'arcy's bass is completely out of tune..." He then asks the crowd if they have anything questions, responding "the story of the band? Here we are, the Smashing Pumpkins, we still live in Chicago, we're still a bunch of dickheads... you know, we're from Chicago. We still got bad rock journalists, like that guy from the Sun-Times, he sucks.  We still got bitter bands, but hey, here we are, where we started, Wednesday night at the Metro. And we're lucky to have a Joe Shanahan, who's here to make this possible.  He's the only one to do it right in this fucking town." Corgan asks D'arcy, "are you in tune yet?" Then resumes Geek Mayonaise Corgan announces, "so, that was called Mayonaise." Another minute of tuning later, asks "anyone have any constructive criticism?" Siva Corgan asks for pails of water for the crowd (?) "We'll treat you like pigs, you want water, we'll toss some water." Drown Spaceboy Starla Snail Some undecipherable crowd exchanges with Iha. Corgan teases that "we would do Under the Bridge [Red Hot Chili Peppers] but James' voice is a little under the weather." Iha begins to sing, but Corgan interrupts while laughing "someone said thank God, thank God your voice is under the weather". Corgan sings a few notes of the cover. Hummer Corgan thanks for crowd for coming. "We're happy to have a record out after two, long, years. Two, long, fucking years.  Here's a song we've been playing for a year and a half but it's still new." Iha to crowd: "Now we must rock you." Corgan to crowd: "Do you want to rock?" Iha to Corgan: "Show us your Freddie Mercury move." Corgan: "Don't [undeciperhable] Freddie Mercury, he's dead!" Iha, thinking Corgan admonished him for mocking Mercury, responds, "I'm not dissing him..." but Corgan interrupts, "No, no, them [the crowd], they're booing him!" Iha: "Oh, them" Corgan: "How can you boo him?!  Tell me it's not Jesus and Fred right in the right hand, Mary over here, Freddie over here" Silverfuck