The Smashing Pumpkins 1989-03-16

Setlist

 * Venus in Furs [Velvet Underground]
 * Snap
 * My Eternity
 * East
 * Cinnamon Girl [Young]
 * There It Goes
 * Nothing and Everything
 * Under Your Spell
 * Rhinoceros
 * Sun
 * Spiteface

Banter
DJ: This is the Smashing Pumpkins on The Wizard, WZRD Chicago

Venus In Furs [Velvet Underground]

Corgan: hey man, turn up the bass

Snap

DJ: OK that sounded really great, what were the name of those last two cuts?

Corgan: the first one was a Velvet Underground song, 'Venus in Furs', and the second one was 'Snap'

DJ: right right, the Velvet Underground, that's off the banana LP right?

Corgan: right

DJ: do you guys have any cassettes out or LPs that are available or anything yet? Corgan: we're gonna be on the Light Into Dark compilation that's being put out the record release party is tomorrow it's five bands: Poster Children, Price of Priesthood, Gold September, Ghostswarmi and us that's tomorrow at the Metro, we are putting out our own cassette also

DJ: great

Corgan: we haven't decided the title yet

DJ: great, hey well everyone out in the listening audience call us up, feel free call us up - 794-2861 - we'd like to hear your response, it sounds really great in here so continue on, this is the Smashing Pumpkins playing live on WZRD Chicago

Corgan: we have a little request for more bass

[Wretzky laughs]

Corgan: just a little request

My Eternity

East

Corgan: yeah

DJ: that was hot, that was really hot, what was the name of that one?

Corgan: there's no title to it yet

Wretzky: the rock song

Corgan: Mommy

Iha: it's called, uh.. i wrote the song

Corgan: Children of the World Part 3

Wretzky: singing out of tune

Iha: Opus of the Nations

Corgan: Singing Out Of Tune

Wretzky: yeah (laughs) that's more like it

Corgan: uh, uh, uh, uh.. so...

Iha: you want us to do more?

DJ: yeah of course you guys sounded really great your own man, let your own man say 'how does it sound over the air?'

Guy: great, it's great

DJ: alright, that's your own man, it sounds really great, believe us and once again I just want to tell the audience, if you're just tuning in you're listening to a live performance on the air right now by the Smashing Pumpkins and why don't you plug that show again tomorrow and the record and everything?

Corgan: oh yeah by the way we'll be playing at the Cabaret Metro tommorw night

Iha: and we open up for That Petrol Emotion next friday with Voice of the Beehive

[guitar noise]

Corgan: uh-oh... this is called 'Cinnamon Girl'

Cinnamon Girl [Neil Young]

Corgan: ouch!

DJ: yeah that sounded really great, I think Neil Young would be proud to say the least

Corgan: thank you man

DJ: yeah I really liked that a lot hey you now I hope you've got more cos we'd love to hear it you know another half hour if you've got it at least you know

Corgan: well we've got some more but we've got to take it easy on my voice, I'm just a little sick

DJ: yeah OK plus tomorrow night, right right, well do some instrumentals

[Chamberlin plays instrumental pastiche]

DJ: you're listening to the Smashing Pumpkins playing live on WZRD Chicago

Corgan: alright we're gonna regroup, hold on a sec... talk a lot, man

DJ: and they got on the air cos I saw them play live and they sounded really great so hopefully you'll go out and see them play live they're playing tomorrow night with 4 or 5 other bands at the Cabaret Metro and as they said they're opening for That Petrol Emotion so that ought to be a really great show erm, also listen if you're in a local band and you want to get your chance at playing live on WZRD what you do is send us a cassette, it's that simple send us a cassette or a record it doesn't matter to: WZRD, 5500 North St Louis Avenue, Chicago IL 60625-4699, it's real simple and right now we want.. like i said, we're listening to the Smashing Pumpkins playing live on the air and we'd like to hear from you, it sounds really great that Neil Young song that they just did was live, that was not a recording what you're hearing is live - I know it sounds really great - but it is live call us up 794-2861 is the number, we'd love to hear from you

Corgan: alright, this is an old song called 'There It Goes'

There It Goes

Nothing & Everything

Corgan: hey man

DJ: wow I liked that one a lot, I really like that one a lot

hey we're getting some really great audience response too

Wretzky: oh no

DJ: but we'd like to hear some more, 794-2861 is the number here this is a live performance by the Smashing Pumpkins they're playing down here on your radio, it's no charge but tomorrow night go see them by all means, they're playing with 4 other fine bands for their record release party and not only that, next week they're backing up That Petrol Emotion, isn't that right?

Corgan: that is correct

DJ: that's great man, that's really great, local music hitting it big

and we're doing live on WZRD Chicago with the Smashing Pumpkins

Corgan: shall we play again?

DJ: hey man, by all means

Under Your Spell

DJ: alright hey listen I got a call from a guy out there named Wolf he says it sounds really great and he's looking forwrd to seeing you under a howlin' moon or something like that but he's looking forward to seein you and...

Corgan: thanks Wolf

DJ: you sound great man

Wretzky: Wolfie, thanks Wolfie

DJ: 794-2861 is the number here and you're listening to the Smashing Pumpkins they lugged down all their equipment and they want to hear some response and we want to hear some response they're doing this for free so call us up and let us know what you think, 794-2861 is the number here have you got some more for us?

Corgan: yeah we got a couple more, we're gonna try a new song

Wretzky: no

Corgan: against the protestations of the bands

Wretzky: no, no

Corgan: this is called 'Rhinoceros'

Wretzky: no

Corgan: yes yes yes

Guy: is that that real slow one?

Corgan: that's that real slow one yeah

Rhinoceros

Iha (?): very good very good very good very good

Corgan: alright.. oh here he comes again, I see the light on, never mind you can come on and talk we're only gonna do two more songs now

DJ: I wanna tell you that Fran from Jack Scratch, a good buddy of mine and one of the great guitar players in Jack Scratch just called up to say you guys sound really great and we're getting some other positive calls too 794-2861, feel free to call in by all means, this band is playing live, the Smashing Pumpkins

playing tomorrow night at the Metro and they're playing tonight live right here on WZRD Chicago

Sun

Corgan: and the last song is called.. as soon as James retunes

DJ: let me just say one thing, you guys have got a lot of fans in the audience they're really calling up definitely and they really like the sound, they really like the sound a lot

hey why don't you plug the show one more time before you leave?

Corgan: alright, the show is tomorrow night it starts at ten thirty, there's five bands, we're the fourth band not that you should skip anyone else but we'll probably be going on around twelve thirty (laughter) you wanna show up late and be cool you know

Wretzky: if you gotta work

Corgan: if you're one of the faithful you'll be able to hear this little pop number that we've written up for everyone uno, dos, tres, quatros

Spiteface

Corgan: thank you

DJ: hey that was a really great show, hey that's for coming down everybody Corgan: thank you Joe Gaza

DJ: hey thank you for coming down, hey the radio station and Sean and Greg did a really fine job here definitely thanks again for coming down, once again the Smashing Pumpkins playing live tomorrow night and backing up That Petrol Emotion that should be some really great shows, hey break a leg tomorrow night

Corgan: thank you very much

DJ: take it easy, thanks again