The Smashing Pumpkins 1996-10-04

Setlist
Set: Encore One: Encore Two: Encore Three:
 * Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (over PA)
 * Where Boys Fear to Tread
 * Zero
 * Cherub Rock
 * To Forgive
 * Tonight, Tonight
 * Today
 * Thru the Eyes of Ruby
 * By Starlight
 * Siva [5:47]
 * Disarm
 * Bullet with Butterfly Wings
 * Fuck You
 * Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
 * Rocket (tease)
 * X.Y.U.
 * 1979
 * Muzzle
 * Silverfuck [28:41]
 * We Gotta Get Out of This Place [The Animals] (tease)
 * Bullet with Butterfly Wings (tease)
 * Dose [Filter] (tease)

Banter
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Intro Where Boys Fear to Tread Zero Cherub Rock To Forgive “Thank you for participating” tape > Tonight, Tonight BC: Good evening! Thank you so much for coming tonight. Sorry you had to wait, we’re very sorry about that part but thank you for waiting. Means a lot to us to see you all here. D’arcy: We really, really hope that you’re as excited to be here as we are to play for you tonight. You know, it’s really, really good to be back in Chicago, really. BC: James? Iha: Yes. BC: Can you tell these good people what today is? Iha: Why, today is crazy. Today is, uh, didactic. D’arcy: Today is yesterday’s tomorrow. Iha: No, today is... D’arcy: Yes it is. Iha: ...the greatest fuckin’ day!! Today > Planet of the Apes clip > Thru the Eyes of Ruby BC: Thank you very much. By Starlight Siva (w/long intro) (BC: We’d now, uh, like to take you back to a long lost time called 1991! Back when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Iha (in British accent): A long time ago. BC: Some of you weren’t even born yet.  Or maybe you were alive but had yet to have your consciousness altered by alternative rock.  So once you come with us on a journey back in time... Iha (in British accent): Far, far away.  Over the seas. BC: Can you dig it? Iha: We’ll go back to, all the way back to the Metro while we first played.) Disarm (acoustic) Circus tape > Bullet with Butterfly Wings Fuck You Porcelina of the Vast Oceans > Rocket (tease) [encore break] Iha: Thanks, thanks. Thanks a lot. You guys are rockin’. I give you the evil hand - wah! BC: Thanks a lot, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Iha: (almost inaudible) Yes, thanks for this. ...  How is everybody? Doing okay? Reasonably good? Yes. Rock power. This is our first arena rock tour and we’re still a little unsure of, uh, what to say or do to such a mass audience but, uh, you’re very - you’re very nice. You make it easy. BC: All you have to do is say you don’t know what to say. X.Y.U. [encore break] Iha: Thanks again. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a special guest tonight. He’s come all the way from Milwaukee, a great man, of The Frogs, Jimmy Frog! (Doom explosion sfx) Jimmy! Jimmy Frog: A few words for - to Chicago. BC: Say hello to Chicago there. ... You’ll get it, don’t worry. Jimmy Frog: Bonjour, Chicago! On the drums tonight, all the way from Chicago, Matt Walker. On the keyboards, Dennis Flemion of The Frogs. (Doom explosion sfx) BC: Alright, we’ve started a new tradition. It’s slightly embarrassing but uh, you know, considering everything that’s happened this year, we don’t give a fuck, uh....  This is the portion of the show where we ask you in the audience to dance. Yes, I said dance. Iha: We want you to get on down...[last word unintelligible as Billy starts talking again]. BC: And to help us along, we choose a couple people out of the audience to help us along. Jimmy Frog: Who would like to dance? Iha: Who shall it be? BC: Who shall it be? Iha: Who will be...[last word unintelligible again for same reason as before]. BC: Who shall dance tonight? Jimmy... Iha: Jimmy. BC: ...choose tonight’s dancers. Iha: A young man and a young woman. Take them to the stage and make them dance well. Jimmy Frog (over “stage” in Iha’s last sentence): Let’s go. BC: Okay, D’arcy wants those two girls right there. Yeah, you two. (next 3 lines are all over the top of each other) BC: D’arcy chose you two, yeah. Jimmy shall choose! Jimmy, who shall you choose? D’arcy: Good dancin’. You. You’re dancin’. You’re ballroom dancin’. Could you come up? No, up here. Yeah. Iha: You will dance. Iha: Do you see him, Jimmy? Bring them at [unintelligible] to the stage. BC: Jimmy, who shall you choose? D’arcy: He is the master of all he surveys. He is your master. Obey him and dance. Iha (over D’arcy’s first sentence above): You must audit the audience, Jimmy. BC: Who shall it be, Jimmy? Iha: Jimmy, you must go forth and find a dancer. BC: Who shall it be? Iha: Go forth, find a dancer. BC: Heh, who shall dance? Dennis Frog?: I have no choice at this point in time. I’ve turned the reigns over to Jimmy. There goes Jimmy! Iha: And we can’t start the song until Jimmy comes back so we’ll just wait. BC: He’s chosen someone in his own mold again. Iha: Jimmy, where have you gone? BC: Where are our dance participants? Come on up! Let’s meet tonight’s dancers. Come along. Come along. Come along, heh. I, heh - please tell everyone who you are and where you’re from. Guy: Ahmed. BC: Where ya from? Guy: Uh, Roselle. BC: Roselle! (crowd boos) Guy: Oh, oh, stop that, stop that. BC: I used to shop in Roselle! Iha: Where you from and what’s your name? Girl: My name is Sarah and I’m from Wilmette! Wooo! (crowd boos again) (simultaneously) D’arcy: Ohhh. / Iha: Uh, fine. (?) D’arcy: Can’t we all just get along? BC: D’arcy chose those girls too. What’s your name? Girl #2: Eddie Seltzer (?) from Elk Grove. BC: Elk Grove! Iha & BC: Heyyyy! Iha: Oh yeah, Elk Grove. BC: Heh heh, what’s your name, where are you from? Girl #3: I’m Amy Sumpter from Springwell and I go to NIU! Woo!!! BC: Nobody here goes to college, nobody cares. Iha: Alright, well, we’ve obviously chosen some guests and... BC: Who goes to college anymore? We all just start bands. We have two more participants? Come along. Oh, I’m sorry. What’s your name and where are you from? Girl #4: I’m Kelly Thomas and I’m from Hammond, Indiana. BC: Hammond, Indiana! (crowd cheers/boos) Hey! HEY! Hey. Just ‘cause Indiana isn’t Illinois doesn’t mean it’s not as good. Yeah, okay. What’s your name and where are you from? Girl #5: Christa, Chicago. (big crowd cheer) Iha: Woo! Girl #6: And Alicia, city of Chicago! Iha: Woo! Okay, enough small talk. Let’s dance. BC: Okay participants, can you hear me? We have two rules for our Smashing Pumpkin dancers. Two rules: Don’t touch us and don’t touch our shit. 1979 Iha: Oh my god, that was bad. BC: Oh my god, could you guys dance. Iha: Alright. We just temporary lost our minds there for a minute but let’s have a fine round of applause for our dancers and Jimmy Frog for comencing that fine session. BC: Tomorrow night, of course, everyone in the audience will be allowed to dance on stage but tonight we had to restrict it a little. (crowd boos)  Awwwwww. Well, come back tomorrow. Um, we hope everyone had a good time. We thank you. We love you. It’s the best place in the world right here, thank you. (half off mic) I actually meant that! Heh. Muzzle BC: God bless you. [encore break] Silverfuck and I hear your winter and I hear your rain and I failed your summer ways and I feel no pain and I hear you fade away and I hear you crawl and I gave my life away and I feel no pain I feel no pain I feel no pain I feel no pain I feel no pain I feel no pain I feel no pain She was my lover She was my angel What I recover I Put into a box underneath my bed I Put her in a box underneath my bed I Put her in a box and this is what she said I hate and I've always did I just did a good job of pretending You're a whore and you always were We just wanted more and I don't even like your first record Ten or was it Fish? and I said Baby why must you make me cry? Why must the girls always make me Cry? Why Baby Why? Baby my baby Where are you now? Baby my Baby lost in the clouds And I walked the Ancient miles in this high earth And I kissed her feet We've always been together no matter where we meet again fucking whore fucking whore fucking whore fucking whore fucking whore fucking whore She was fucking whore Yeah Go Yeah (jam) Can you spy the miles Can you spy the distance Can you spy the disease the dysentery the disenchantment the disarming the enfeeblement disasters walking meaning feeling I know nothing I have a lot I know nothing and I have a lot We got to get out of this last place if it's the last thing we last ever do we got to get out of this place if it's the last thing we ever do and I punch my fist through that wall cause I wanted to see what was on the other side and I punch my fist through that wall cause I wanted to see what was on the other side I saw symplinic sisters salien sambows silent sinca fans and mystery guests can you taste the disease can you taste it oh can you taste the disease because it's in your stomach and it's in your motherfuckin' heart yeah We walk the line of the nocturnal the righteous the infected we are Amblin we are agnostic we are power we are all just rats in the cage just rats in the cage you are all just rats in the cage Can you dig it? Oh Can you Dig it? Because we are a power hunger machine feeding on young minds and new nubile nymphets with nicotine nascent nunnery can you dig it? can you dig it? brothers and sisters and others and I ask myself who am I? well, I am the great pumpkin I am the alien Yul Brynner the great pumpkin has landed and I ask myself where am I going and I tell you I don't fucking know I don't know and i ask myself consumed in fire where am I? is this Rosemont? What? Rosemont yeah where the founding fathers came to set up arena so the young children could come and rock yeah that's right our great four fathers of Illinois dragged their wagons across the great planes so we could come here one day and rock yeah can you dig it? we are disaster we are destruction we are disease we are the bomb we walk we talk we eat we consume cause we are the smashing pumpkins we have been and will always be the smashing pumpkins don't you fucking forget it yeah cause there's no place like home cause there's no place like home cause there's no place like home cause there's no place like home cause there's no place like home cause there's no place like home there's no place like home there is no place like home there is no place like home yeah! so we bid you adieu a fond farewell farewell and goodnight may the bed bugs hold you tight may your feet be weary and your head full of cabbage may you know what it means to grow old may you feel it in your bones we send you a message of love of compassion of understanding because the fact of the matter is we stood in the exact same spot you're standing right now there's not many places we can say that but we can say that we stood right fucking there we know what's in your heart what's in your mind we understand we appreciate your love and support it means a lot to us more than you could ever know so god bless you thanks for making a great night