The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-05-08

Setlist
Set: Encore One: Encore Two:
 * Glass and the Ghost Children
 * I of the Mourning
 * This Time
 * The Everlasting Gaze
 * Heavy Metal Machine
 * Blue Skies Bring Tears
 * Blew Away
 * Stand Inside Your Love
 * To Sheila
 * Raindrops + Sunshowers
 * Disarm
 * Ava Adore
 * Today
 * Tonight, Tonight
 * Rock On [Essex]
 * Zero
 * Perfect
 * Age of Innocence
 * Cherub Rock
 * Blank Page
 * Bullet with Butterfly Wings
 * Once in a Lifetime [Talking Heads] [4:13]
 * Everybody (Backstreet's Back) [The Backstreet Boys] (tease)
 * We Love You
 * Mayonaise

Banter
Glass and the Ghost Children I of the Mourning This Time The Everlasting Gaze > Heavy Metal Machine BC: Good evening. Iha: Hello. BC: Hi. Sorry, I just gotta take some pills, hold on. Iha: How are you? You okay? BC: Heh heh heh. Yes. Thank you. Blue Skies Bring Tears Blew Away Stand Inside Your Love Le Deux Machina (tape) To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha) BC: I’d like to, uh, play a song, uh, this is only the second time I ever played this song live so.... The first time I played it, everybody left ‘cause they didn’t like it. Oh, it’s called, uh, Sunshowers and Raindrops or something. Raindrops + Sunshowers (Billy solo electric) BC: Thank you. So, um, we’re gonna do one of those, uh, VH1 Storytellers. So I thought I’d start practicing now. This next song, um, I used to live with this, uh, this hippie named Bob, and uh...James knew Bob too. Iha: Yes, I knew Bob. Bob was very weird. Heh, what’re you doing, “Thank you, Bob.” You didn’t know - you didn’t want to know Bob. BC: I mean, there’s good hippies and bad hippies and Bob was a bad hippie. Iha: (hippie voice) That’s right, man. They fucking weren’t out there at the shit like I was. Copters. BC: So, um, I guess that’s the story behind this song then. Disarm (acoustic) Ava Adore (acoustic) Today Tonight, Tonight Rock On > Zero BC: Thank you, heh, thank you very much. Iha: That’s nice. BC: On the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Iha: On the bass guitar, Melissa Auf der Maur. BC: I think I can, uh, I think now know what the influence of your race car driving has on the songs. Okay, now we’d like to go back into depression. This, uh, this concert’s a little too happy. We must play sad songs to feel comfortable. This is, uh, a song off, uh, this album we put out called Adore, I don’t know if you ever heard of it. We actually recorded it in 1988 but we put it out in 1998. Whatever. This is called Perfect, thank you. Perfect > Age of Innocence > Cherub Rock Iha: Thank you. [encore break] Blank Page (BC over outro: Dear Billy - wait, James.) BC: Dear - you gotta hear this. Wait, no, seriously. Um, just seeing if that’s a bomb. “Dear Billy, I’ve lived here my whole life and you remind me of one of those Disney characters. I know that deep inside your hollow shell, you are nothing but a worthless piece of shit. If only Walt Disney was alive, he would kick your ass and charge you royalties for stealing his cartoon gimmicks of fakery and malice.” Iha: I like that. BC: Wait, wait, there’s more. There’s more. Iha: The first sentence was nice though, we gotta concentrate on what’s nice and positive. BC: Stay on the positive. Wait! There is a nice part here at the end. Wait, there is a nice part at the end. “P.S. You guys were good around Gish, please go back to playing that kind of music.” Iha: I, uh, I heard a couple negatives in there but I counted two positive points they made and uh, after the show, we’re gonna analyze it and you’ll see some results pretty soon. Bullet with Butterfly Wings > Once in a Lifetime BC at 4:25, spoken word: I can still smell Britney. She’s still here somewhere. And Christina, she’s here, I can smell her. And the Backstreet Boys, they’re here somewhere. And N Sync, they’re here too, I can feel them. I can feel them. No, listen, it’s not their fault that music sucks so bad. Actually, I blame Generation X bands, we’re to blame for things being so bad. We take all the blame. Actually, I’ll take all the blame. Me. Bill Corgan. I’ll take all the blame. I think it’s my fault that things are the way they are right now. If our music hadn’t been so depressing, who knows what could’ve happened. Iha: Uh, you had a good point there, man. ... “Am I original? Am I sexual?" Everybody (Backstreet's Back) (tease - Iha sings two lines) BC: No, usually, usually we, uh, we get to this part in the song and the band does a dramatic - I’m letting you look behind our Magic Kingdom here. Um, heh heh heh, I swear.  Usually the band does like a dramatic stop and then everything gets very awkward like it is now, and uh...yes.  And, um, and usually I have to think of something clever to say, which unfortunately I can’t think of anything clever to say right now.  But um, sometimes we chant as a unit, you know, all of us collectively and it makes us all feel better although we’re completely helpless.  And um...yes.  Um, yes. ...  So, of course I brought this song to a screeching halt and now I know no way to get back out of it, so um....  Drum solo?  I don’t know.  Jimmy, Jimmy, doesn’t believe in drum solos.  He believes in flying solo.  Han Solo, I know he’s your favorite, Han Solo is your favorite Star Wars. Uh, you could, um, James is a very good yodeler, he could yodel. I know, I know, and also, you may not know this, he has a very, uh, naturally deep voice. He’s planning an aria with that really annoying 14-year-old that sings opera on those commercials. Him and Andrea Bocelli and that annoying girl are going to do an opera. Iha: (sings opera) Thank you. BC: Melissa can talk about Canada! Melissa: We are far from Canada, aren’t we, Florida? Oh, it’s all hot and sweaty and dirty here. It’s very pure and cold in the north but I know that I’ll probably retire here so I’ll see you then. And now we must continue to rock. BC: So uh, I quite frankly don’t know how to get out of this awkward moment, so.... We were playing one concert a couple of weeks ago and we were live on the radio and the radio station had asked me not to swear and then, uh, so then we all chanted “What the fuck is going on?” together. Everybody seemed to like that, it made everyone feel better. And see, you probably already read about everything we’ve already done on this tour on the internet so you’re not surprised at all with anything we can do so...that’s always that. (audience chants “What the fuck?”) BC: It’s actually “What the fuck is going on?” It has more rhythm, you’ll see. What the fuck is going on? (audience chants) What the fuck is going on, what the fuck is going on, what the fuck is going on.... (audience chants and leads to band going back into song) BC: That was alright. That wasn’t bad. James, would you like some more awkward moments? You want more awkward moments? We Love You (abandoned - kind of falls apart after 2 verses and a chorus) BC: There you go. Right there. Wait, no! That’s the perfect ending. Thank you, we love you. [encore break] Iha: Thank you, thank you, you guys are great. Was that painful? That last bit? Was it okay? It was painful for me. Mayonaise Iha: Thank you everybody. Thank you everybody.