The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-05-24

Setlist
Set: Encore:
 * Rock On [Essex]
 * The Everlasting Gaze
 * Pug
 * Glass and the Ghost Children
 * Blew Away
 * Stand Inside Your Love
 * Tonight, Tonight
 * I of the Mourning
 * To Sheila
 * This Time
 * Disarm
 * Try, Try, Try
 * Today
 * Fuck You
 * Blue Skies Bring Tears
 * Heavy Metal Machine
 * Bullet with Butterfly Wings
 * Once in a Lifetime [Talking Heads]
 * Never Let You Go [Third Eye Blind] (tease)
 * Fade to Black [Metallica] (tease)
 * San Francisco [McKenzie] (tease)
 * The Trolley Song [Martin/Blane] (tease)
 * Never Let You Go [Third Eye Blind] (tease)
 * Spiteface (tease)
 * Drown [8:20]
 * Hummer (tease)

Banter
Rock On

The Everlasting Gaze

Pug

Glass and the Ghost Children

Corgan: Good evening. I'd like to introduce to you the man to my left, your right, yes, his name, Mr. James Iha.

Blew Away

Stand Inside Your Love

Corgan: Thank you very much, thank you. How is everybody doing tonight? I've never been to this place before, Berkeley. Isn't this the place responsible for hippies? That's what I heard.

Iha: The scene responsible for all counter-culture.

Corgan: Yes. Well I know my favourite writer in the world, Philip K. Dick, used to live here, so I know it's a good place. Does anyone know Philip K. Dick? OK, good. That was his name, I swear. This next song, it's from the archives. I believe when I wrote this song, I had a pulse. Iha: Now, it's just flat, flat-lining.

Corgan: That's right, flat, flat for the new millenium. We hope you like this song, this is Tonight, Tonight

Tonight, Tonight

I of the Mourning

Corgan's Machina/God recording over PA

To Sheila

Corgan: Thank you. This next song that I'd like to play for you, I'm pretty sure was the last song I wrote for the new album, which is coming in, I think, three weeks. And it's called Machina: the Machines of God. And I think it's coming out in three weeks, yeah. And this is one of those funny songs where you just pick up the guitar one day and it just sort of comes out. What makes it even stranger is I wrote this song in the afternoon and then called Jimmy and said can you come out to record the drums and then he showed up and we played the song...maybe about twice, and hit record and two times later, we recorded the drum take, so... yeah, he's very good at that. So, it's a song even though I wrote it, I feel like I'm covering someone else's song because it just all happened so fast. So, it's a pretty good song, written by this guy. You may have heard of him, he's this guy in the Smashing Pumpkins

This Time

Disarm

Corgan: Thank you. We'd like to introduce the band to you, because once the drugs kick in, we cannot remember our names. On lead guitar, the Eel.

Iha: Thank you.

Corgan: On lead guitar, the Silver Fox. On lead drums, Manchichi the Marsupial.

Iha: On lead vocals and guitar, the Crafty Zygote.

Try, Try, Try

Today

Fuck You

Blue Skies Bring Tears

Heavy Metal Machine

Bullet with Butterfly Wings

Once in a Lifetime

Intermission...

Iha: Thank you, Berkeley. Iha teases first chords/lyrics of Never Let You Go... Is that the middle (unintelligible)? I don't know any other words, that's a nice song though. Any other songs?

Corgan teases riffs of Fade to Black: Fade to Black by Metallica

Iha: Ah, yea.

[Corgan teases Fade to Black a bit more]

Iha: How about that, [singing  San Francisco] If you're going, to San Francisco, be sure to wear flowers in your hair. [Corgan chimes in] If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to bring a machine gun. OK? That's on the fourth verse, it's on the single edit that you don't hear the fourth verse. The earthquakes will get you, in San Francisco.

Iha: Natural disasters are in the air. If you're going to tear a piece of my heart out... What's that other Tony Bennett song?

Corgan: I left my heart in San Francisco.

Iha: I left my heart in San Francisco. Oh wait, the streets of San Francisco, with the...

Corgan: I don't think it's officially a San Francisco song, but that Judy Garland trolley song.

Iha: How does that one go?

Corgan [starts singing The Trolley Song]: Clang, clang, clang, went the trolley.

Iha [purposely garbling words]: Trang, trang, trang, went the Trolley. Let's...[stops singing] Alright, we've been touring much too long, and I apologize, I've lost my mind.

[Starts teasing guitar chords of Never Let You Go] Iha: Woo, come on, San Francisco...[Long pause, can't think of anything else to say] I'm sorry.

[Teases Spiteface] Iha: Oh yea... now this one goes back, a while back. And it comes from a popular movie of the time, the soundtrack, in the heyday of...

Corgan: Crusing, with Al Pacino?

Iha: Oh, that's a fucked-up movie. That's a good movie though.

Drown with modified last verse lyrics "...I wish you goodbye. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye..." followed by Hummer tease