The Smashing Pumpkins 2015-06-19

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June 19, 2015 – Tulsa, OK, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
In Plainsong tour
DateJune 19, 2015
VenueBrady Theater
Coordinates36°9′29″N 95°59′43″W
LocationTulsa, OK, US
Venue typeTheater
Capacity2,800
PersonnelBilly Corgan, Jeff Schroeder, Katie Cole
Order of bandsYB, Katie Cole, The Smashing Pumpkins

In Plainsong: An Acoustic-Electro Evening.

Setlist

Pre-set

  1. "Daydream" (VIP) (acoustic) 
  2. "Purr Snickety" (VIP) (acoustic) 
  3. "Bye June" (VIP) (acoustic) 
  4. "Beautiful" (VIP) (acoustic) 
  5. "Valentine" (VIP) (tease) (acoustic) 

Set

  1. "Tonight, Tonight
  2. "99 Floors(acoustic) 
  3. "Today(acoustic) 
  4. "My Poor Troubled Heart" [traditional(acoustic) 
  5. "Dorian(acoustic) 
  6. "For Your Love(acoustic) 
  7. "Drum + Fife(acoustic) 
  8. "A Stitch in Time(acoustic) 
  9. "Mayonaise(acoustic) 
  10. "Prairie Song
  11. "Jersey Shore(acoustic) 
  12. "Sparrow(acoustic) 
  13. "Perfect(acoustic) 
  14. "To Sheila
  15. "Behold! the Night Mare
  16. "For Martha
  17. "Blissed and Gone(acoustic) 
  18. "Ava Adore
  19. "Now (And Then)
  20. "The Crying Tree of Mercury
  21. "1979(acoustic) 
  22. "Run2me(acoustic) 
  23. "Pinwheels(acoustic) 
  24. "Stand Inside Your Love(acoustic) 
  25. "Landslide" [Stevie Nicks(acoustic) 
  26. "A New Poetry

Encore one

  1. "Spaceboy(acoustic) 
  2. "El-A-Noy(acoustic) 

Encore two

  1. "Cardinal Rule(acoustic) 

Notes

  • "To Sheila" and "Behold! The Night Mare" with Katie Cole on bass and backing vocals
  • "1979", "Run2Me", "Pinwheels", "Stand Inside Your Love" and "Landslide" with Katie Cole on vocals only
  • "To Sheila", "Behold! The Night Mare", "Ava Adore", "Now (And Then)", "The Crying Tree of Mercury", "1979", "Run2Me" and "A New Poetry" played with backing drum tracks
  • First full performance of "Beautiful" since 1996-11-19
  • "Fotheringay" was on the setlist as the first song of the second encore but not played

Banter

(Due to no known complete source existing for this show, some banter may be missing beyond what's noted below)

Tonight, Tonight (Billy solo piano)
99 Floors (Billy solo acoustic)
Today (Billy solo acoustic)
BC: Thank you very kindly, thank you. Now I know that in this part of the world, you’re used to the rough and tumble. One need only throw a rock in Tulsa to find a bar. Which tells me that you like to have a good time. But I must warn you that this show is not for the faint of heart, it’s about two and a half hours long. If I feel like playing. One does not acquire a bad reputation on accident. Love is not the same as acceptance. But this is--this is for you.
My Poor Troubled Heart (Billy solo acoustic)
Dorian (Billy solo acoustic)
For Your Love
BC: Now...as our guests this evening, we have some military here tonight.
Guy in crowd: [unintelligible!]
BC: Thank you. So I’d like to dedicate this song to them, it’s called Drum and Fife.
Drum + Fife
A Stitch in Time
Mayonaise
Prairie Song
BC: Alright? Now we've reached the uh, (clears throat)--it is a dust bowl, isn't it? My goodness. Heh heh heh. Now we've reached the portion in the show where we like to play a suite of songs from a particular album, in this case the Adore album. As I like--as I like to say, I’m glad you like it now. I wrote about, um, probably about 35 or so songs for the Adore album. And so this is a small selection of some of those songs, um, in the way--in many ways, in the way that they were written so you get a sense of the original emotional intent of the album. Before, you know, the record company got nervous and the managers got nervous and...yes.
Guy in crowd: Billy, I didn’t know you’re a giant!
BC: Heh heh heh heh heh. Anyway. So this song, uh, not to change the tenor of the moment, but this song is a strange inspiration. As some of you know, I went through a lot of loss: my mother passed away, I got a divorce, uh, Jimmy had left the band, Jonathan had died. A very strange period and a lot of sadness coming out of an album called Sadness, so uh, it’s my fault, I suppose. And um, there was one of those strange things that only happens--well, it seems to only happen in America--where a young man had killed another young man, a younger boy, and he had said that, uh, when they asked him why he did it, he said, “Well, I was listening to Smashing Pumpkins and the music told me to do it.” And that, um...(crowd boos)...heh heh heh, yes, boo. Heh heh heh. (crowd yelling) Heh heh heh heh. I [2 unintelligible words]. Anyway. So, my first reaction was “Well, I’m a songwriter, I’ll write a song,” but then I thought, “Well, that really doesn’t do the young man justice that was murdered.” It seemed to trivialize something about the event as if I was, you know, flipping through a newspaper and it just happened to be me that was in the headline. But yet, about four weeks later, six weeks later, I suddenly was writing this song, which is called Jersey Shore, and in the middle of writing the song, I realized that I was writing about this young man, not from the standpoint of what had happened, but more from the standpoint of what his life might have been like, so then....
Jersey Shore (Billy solo 12-string)
Sparrow
Perfect
To Sheila (with Katie Cole on bass & vocals, Billy plays piano)
> Behold! The Night Mare (with Katie Cole on bass & vocals, Billy plays piano)
> For Martha (Billy solo piano)
Blissed and Gone (Billy solo ukulele)
Ava Adore
Now and Then
The Crying Tree of Mercury
1979 (with Katie Cole on vocals)
Run2Me (with Katie Cole on vocals)
BC: Alright, alright, alright.
Pinwheels (with Katie Cole on vocals)
Stand Inside Your Love (with Katie Cole on vocals)
Landslide (with Katie Cole on vocals)
A New Poetry (Billy plays bass)
BC: Thank you very much.
[encore break, drum machine continues playing]
BC: I’m like to tell you that I’m not worthy, but I am...just not tonight, heh heh. Anyway...thank you so much for coming.
Spaceboy (Billy solo acoustic)
El-A-Noy
[encore break]
Cardinal Rule (Billy solo acoustic)
BC: God bless you all, thank you so much, thank you, you guys are awesome.

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