The Smashing Pumpkins 1994-03-29

Setlist
They opened with Geek USA. The rest was a standard hodge-podge of SD and Gish, can't remember what it was now, though.

Most notable (at the time) was that they played Frail and Bedazzled (which I swore I heard him introduce as "Frail and Beguiled"), Bullet With Butterfly Wings (I remembered the "rat in a cage" line), and a song that was introduced as "new" and very much resembled Porcelina in structure. (But my memory isn't good enough to remember if it was. I just remember the feeling of it building up for a long time, feeling very spacey, and then exploding, and my friend and I going "wow!") Since none of those songs were out on record yet, we were treated to a very special show indeed.

Odd: Before it came out on record, I remembered a different arrangement for the song that had the "rat in a cage" line. I assume that they really played Bullet With Butterfly Wings, but honestly, I remember it having more of a beat like "Jesus Loves His Babies," if you can believe it. Could've been a different song in which Billy was just using the "rat in a cage" line.

Anyway, I would kill for a copy of this show, if not to settle the score about whether we heard an alternate arrangement of BWBW or just the same-old version, and whether we heard the first-ever performance of Porcelina.

Banter
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