The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-01-24

Setlist
Set: Encore One: Encore Two: Encore Three:
 * Pale Scales
 * The Everlasting Gaze
 * Heavy Metal Machine
 * Age of Innocence
 * Blue Skies Bring Tears
 * Glass and the Ghost Children
 * I Am One (with rant) [7:32]
 * Rock On [Essex]
 * Zero
 * Stand Inside Your Love
 * To Sheila
 * Ava Adore
 * Cherub Rock
 * I of the Mourning
 * 1979
 * The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete
 * Tonight, Tonight (abandoned)
 * Sunday Bloody Sunday (tease) [U2]
 * Tonight, Tonight
 * Glass' Theme
 * Bullet with Butterfly Wings
 * X.Y.U. (with rant)
 * We Love You

Banter
Pale Scales > The Everlasting Gaze Heavy Metal Machine Age of Innocence > Blue Skies Bring Tears > Glass and the Ghost Children > I Am One Rock On (BC during Iha solo: Theo Van Gogh on the lead guitar.) > Zero Iha: Yeah. Hello, hello. How is everybody? Good? I am sick, I ate a bad duck. I don’t know if you’ve ever had a bad duck but uh...I’m uh, I’m trying though, very hard. Heh heh. Uh, we’re really glad to be here and uh, you guys are rockin’. Probably more rockin’ than we are. So I advise you all to start your own rock band. And then you will have the bad duck. Alright, uh, we are going to play another new song, I know you haven’t heard all these songs but they’re all really rockin’ and uh...any second, we will rock again. Uh, maybe we won’t, hang on. Alright, it’s time to do some introductions, heh heh. On the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Yes, he is back and in fine form. In the shrouded tomb, Mr. Billy Corgan. You can wave but he doesn’t where he is. Uh, on the bass (pronounced like the fish) guitar, Miss Melissa Auf der Maur. And I am the bad duck. Stand Inside Your Love > To Sheila BC: Thank you very much, I’m - I’m sorry I’m a little uh, rough of voice but um...thank you anyway. There’s no smoking, as you can see, and uh.... I see my jokes do not translate into Dutch so I’ll stop here but thank you anyway, I know you understand that much, thank you, love you. Ava Adore Cherub Rock (BC over extended drum intro: Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, even though I’m dying right before your very eyes, we’d still like to attempt this next feat. This next feat requires great skill.  There’s only one drummer in the world who can play this song and he’s standing right behind me.  Sitting, heh heh.  Now a lot of you before, heh.  If I die during this song, we loved you so much and uh, one last thing.  Please do not try Cherub Rock at home.) I of the Mourning [encore break] Iha: Do you like the acoustic better than the drums, Jimmy? As most things...it’s a lot easier, there’s less to work with. It’s kind of a limited instrument, the guitar. BC: I believe these are Swedish stools. They’re very uncomfortable. 1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar) BC: Thank you very much, thank you. Um, we’d like to do a song for you now, um, from an album released in 1972. It was obscured, unfortunately that year, by the release of Queen II and um, Bowie’s first album. It just kind of blew us away, um, and it’s kind of an underappreciated album from the ‘70s. Um, this is from our Adore album, it’s called The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete. The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete (acoustic) BC: God bless you, thank you. Iha: Thank you. [encore break] Tonight, Tonight (abandoned after Billy starts singing lyrics for chorus 2 instead of chorus 1) BC: I fucked up. Stop, I fucked up. Iha: [unintelligible] BC: Heh heh, you know when you, you think “I hope I don’t forget the lyrics” and then you get nervous and then you forget the lyrics? That’s what happened, heh heh. Sunday Bloody Sunday (tease - Iha plays first 6 notes) BC: Well, should we just go to the next song or should we start it again? You want the next song? Ahhh, okay. (laughing through next sentence) One more time. Tonight, Tonight Glass’ Theme > Bullet with Butterfly Wings BC: Thank you very much, thank you. [encore break] X.Y.U. (BC at very end: Alright, end this bad jam. Alright.  Thank you, that’s it.) BC: James? James? James, I know you’re throwing up. Heh heh heh. James, I know you’re throwing up but will you come back to the stage please? (Iha is literally using a telephone on the side of the stage) Come see all these beautiful people, James, they want to see you. (Iha noodles) He can’t s - he can’t speak right now because he just threw up all over his shoes. But what he’s telling me right now is that he wants to play on, he wants more. He believes that you people here have the cure to fix his sickness. Unfortunately, you cannot fix mine but you can fix his. Now let’s all concentrate our psychic healing powers and direct them at James. We Love You BC: What, you can’t afford a gate? ... Alright, right about now, right about now, right about now, we’re going to play you the song with no name. This is the song with no name. It has no words, it has no future and yes, you help us write the song. Yes, you help us write the song. Now there’s only one line in the song that I sing over and over and when you hear it, you have to sing it back. When you hear it, you must have to sing it back or else you would be ejected from the concert. These are the rules. we’re gonna reach on up we’re gonna reach on down we’re gonna make you feel that you’ve got nothing to go on for ‘cause we bring the black cloud we bring the doom but behind every black cloud is a silver lining and a girl named june (screams) we love you we love you we love you that’s right we love you we love you we love you that’s right we love each and every one of you and we will love you after the concert as well personally i reach for the words that cannot describe i ask forgiveness in the sky i know no future I know no rhyme ‘cause i’m getting old and i’ve lost my fucking mind but i have to know i want to know i want to knoooow the answers to all the questions the answers to allll meanings because in the symbols divine you look behind you may find that i’ve lost my mind i tell you that again and again because there’s no future for this song we’re gonna get real high we’re gonna have a good time we’re gonna get real high (screams) we love you we love you we love you we love you (about 20x in rapid succession) (Iha is soloing furiously during the above) BC: Oh, you’re feeling better. You wanna try and take us home? Wanna take us home, Wildfoot? ... I - I just want you to feel better. I want you to do whatever’s gonna make you feel better! (Iha waves and walks off stage) I wanna say this quick. Alright, just hold on a second, hold on a second. Hold on. (band stops playing) He’s quit. He obviously’s not feeling any better. (Billy and Iha sort of do a instrumental call and response for a moment while Iha is still off stage. Band goes into sort of a blues version of the song while Iha slowly wanders back to the stage.) we love you we love you we love you we love you we love you we love you we love you we love you we love you (Iha is back on stage now) BC: Thank you very much everybody. You rock. We love you very much. That really is the end of the concert. There’s no more fake endings, there’s no more songs, that’s the end of....  Here, I’m going to let this nice girl in the front row sing. Girl: BILLY IS THE GREATEST!!! I LOVE HIM LIKE HELL!!!! SMASHING PUMPKINS FOREVER!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! RAAAAAAAAAARR. WOO HOO!!! JIMMY!! (howling like wolf repeatedly as band crescendos underneath) (band stops) Girl: That’s what I’m talkin’ about, Jimmy! [unintelligible] BC: Goodnight.