The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-04-28

Setlist
Soundcheck: Set: Encore One: Encore Two:
 * (drum solo)
 * The Crying Tree of Mercury (take one)
 * The Crying Tree of Mercury (take two)
 * The Crying Tree of Mercury (take three)
 * Pug
 * Home (tease)
 * Perfect (tease)
 * Home (tease)
 * With Every Light
 * Rock On [Essex]
 * The Everlasting Gaze
 * Age of Innocence
 * Glass and the Ghost Children
 * Blew Away
 * Stand Inside Your Love
 * I of the Mourning
 * Zero
 * Heavy Metal Machine
 * To Sheila
 * Blissed and Gone
 * Disarm
 * Ava Adore
 * Mayonaise
 * Tonight, Tonight
 * Today
 * Blue Skies Bring Tears
 * Bullet with Butterfly Wings
 * Once in a Lifetime [The Talking Heads] [7:39]
 * (improv: "Moshpit Queen")
 * 1979
 * Cherub Rock
 * With Every Light
 * Drown [8:35]

Banter
Rock On (BC during Iha solo: On the lead guitar, Elian Gonzalez!) (BC during slow quiet part: Long live rock and roll... That’s right, long live rock and roll.  No more boy bands.  No more fake titty girl singers.  (Iha’s guitar fades out)  No more James Iha!  I can feel it.  I can feel it.  I can feel it.  Can you feel it?  I can feel it.  I can feel.  They say it’s over but the revolution has just begun.  (band kicks back into harder outro) > The Everlasting Gaze Age of Innocence > Glass and the Ghost Children BC: Good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening. Iha: Hello. BC: Good day, mate. ...  Very nice to be back in this area again, it was about a year ago that we played at the, uh, 9 Million Club.  How’s everybody doing?  We’ll be done in about twenty minutes and then Third Eye Blind and Bush will be out.  (crowd roars, then starts booing) No no, I like those guys, stop it.  I’d like to introduce, uh, my friend, my lover, my partner, my poetic muse for 13 years: Mr. James Iha. Blew Away Stand Inside Your Love I of the Mourning BC: Thank you. Iha: Thank you. BC: Hey um.. Yes. Yes! Iha: No. BC: Yes! Iha: No. No no no. BC: Yes yes yes, James. Iha: No no no. Hmm...maybe. Zero Heavy Metal Machine Le Deux Machina (tape) To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha) Blissed and Gone (Billy solo acoustic) > Disarm (acoustic) BC: On the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Ava Adore (acoustic) Mayonaise Tonight, Tonight > Today Blue Skies Bring Tears > Bullet with Butterfly Wings > Once in a Lifetime (BC at 5:19: Can you feel it? Yeah, I can feel it.  I mean, after all, this is the capital of the free world, right?  This is where it all happens.  STOP!  STOP!!  Okay.  I don’t give a fuck about mosh pits any more but this girl has been up here seven fucking times.  Just hold her there.  Let’s si – no no, keep her there.  Let’s just sing the song to you.  You obviously want attention so we’re going to give you attention.  Keep her right there.  (Melissa and Jimmy start playing hoedown music)  (singing) There I was in a mosh pit / wearin’ all black / I waved at Billy seven times / He knows I’m comin’ back / ‘Cause I’m a mosh pit queen, a mosh pit queen / Everybody knows my name, I’m a mosh pit queen.  (Billy solos) Heh.  I don’t know what that is, but uh...   (Melissa and Jimmy stop) (Billy plays some light blues licks) Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. God bless. Iha: (overlapping) Thanks a lot. Thanks very much. Thanks to everybody up there. We appreciate you staying with everybody in the back, everyone in the right. Bye. [encore break] Iha: Thank you. Thank you very much. How you doin’? Are you having a reasonable - reasonable rock experience? I’d like to make a quick introduction if we haven’t already many introductions. On acoustic guitar and drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. He’s back rocking. Lead vocals and guitar, Mr. Billy Corgan. Aye chihuahua. And on...bass and socialism, Ms. Melissa Auf der Maur. Fine bass player. 1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar) Cherub Rock Iha: Thanks. Ow! [encore break] Iha: Thank you, thank you very much. With Every Light (acoustic) BC: Thank you very much, thank you so very much. We’d like to play one more song for you before we slither off into the night, but uh...before we do that, we wanted to thank you, tell you that we appreciate you coming to our shows, uh, very much. Iha: You rock. BC: So yeah, thank you, god bless you and, uh, be safe. Drown Iha: Goodnight everybody. Thanks.