The Smashing Pumpkins 1994-03-29

Setlist
They opened with Geek U.S.A.. I remember Snail. Spaceboy, with the huge bassy tom. Some crowd surfer landing on my head during "Disarm." I remember Silverfuck *with* Over The Rainbow, and being so excited when years later I heard the Earphoria version with that in there.

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 of the Vast Oceans 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 just to settle whether we heard an alternate arrangement of Bullet with Butterfly Wings or just the same-old version, and whether we heard the first-ever performance of Porcelina of the Vast Oceans.

Anyone who wants to share recollections, email me at johndmulhausen@gmail.com.

Rough Setlist:

Geek U.S.A.

Snail

Soma

Disarm

Frail & Bedazzled

Bullet with Butterfly Wings

Porcelina [?]

Spaceboy

Silverfuck (w/Over the Rainbow)

Banter
When James took the stage, he touched the end of the guitar cord to his head before plugging it in. It buzzed. He acted like it was kind of stimulating. Funny!

Halfway through the show, Billy said: "See those people leaving right now? ...Those are the people we don't give two fucks about."

Billy: "This one's called Soma, for those of you who didn't make it past track 5."

James cracked a joke about Tulsa and people started booing, and Billy almost got hit with something. He laughed and went "HE said it! People think I'm the mean one. *He's* the mean one! I'm the nice one. D'arcy's the cute one...and Jimmy's the ..smart one.." ..and then Jimmy gave Billy a big exaggerated wink. Billy laughed.