The Smashing Pumpkins 2022-05-27

May 27, 2022 – Newport, KY, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Rock Invasion 2 tour
Date	May 27, 2022
Venue	PromoWest Pavilion at Ovation
Coordinates	39°5′32″N 84°29′56″W
Location	Newport, KY, US
Capacity	7,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, James Iha, Jeff Schroeder, Jack Bates
Order of bands	Aeir, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

Set

"Sarabande" [George Frideric Handel] (prerecorded)
"The Colour of Love"
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
"Today"
"Drown"
"Quiet"
"Cyr"
"Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads]
"Solara"
"Eye"
"Ava Adore"
"Tonight, Tonight" (acoustic)
"Starla"
"Stand Inside Your Love"
"Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" [Pink Floyd] (tease)
"Cherub Rock"
"Zero"
1. "Love Gun" [Kiss] (tease)
"FOL"
1. "Are You Gonna Go My Way" [Lenny Kravitz] (tease)
"1979"

Encore

"Silverfuck"

Notes

Billy Corgan's son Augustus joins him on stage during "Cyr" and again during the “Solara” jam

Banter

Sarabande Intro
The Colour of Love
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Today
Iha: Woo! Thank you so much. Kentucky/Ohio, how are you? Beautiful night.
Drown
Quiet
Iha: Thank you so much. We are the Smashing Pumpkins, thank you for coming out tonight, we appreciate it. How are you guys doin’?
Guy #1 in crowd: You sound good, James!
Iha: What’s that?
Guy #1 in crowd: It sounds good!
Iha: (funny voice) I can’t hear you! -– (normal voice) wait, wha, say it again?
Guy #1 in crowd: It sounds fuckin’ good!!
Iha: Heh heh heh heh. All I heard, (funny voice) “It’s so fucking....” (normal voice) Sorry, I’m deaf.
Guy #2 in crowd: Show me your titties!
Iha: What? Alright. This is an awesome time, I’m just gonna –- I got a comedy set and I’m just gonna do some jokes right now. I am.
Cyr
Once in a Lifetime
Solara
Eye
> Ava Adore
(BC before bridge: Jeffrey, give these people some Eddie Van Halen.)
Iha: Woo, Kentucky. ...
BC: Have you said hello to these fine people?
Iha: Hello, hello, fine people...of Kentucky and Ohio. Which is better? Heh. Fine, and now I’m gonna start a fight here in the crowd.
BC: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming to our show tonight.
Iha: Thank you thank you thank you.
BC: Through the years, we’ve played a lot of places in this part of the country, going back all the way to about 1989.
Iha: Did we play down here in 1989?
BC: We played down here about 1989, it’s true.
Iha: Alright. I'll go with it.
BC: These are all the children of the people we played to in 1989.
Iha: Back in 1889.
BC: The love children. And you know, when we started this band back in 1987....
Iha: Holy moly.
BC: We had dreams, you know, we had dreams, I may look like a lonely vampire but as a young man, I had some dreams.
Iha: Big dreams.
BC: And about 1987 in my dad’s house, back there in the back bedroom whre we started this band, I said, “James, someday...someday we’re gonna go...”
Iha: Yes.
BC: “...to where the rivers meet....”
Iha: Yes. The confluence of the...
BC: The confluence of the river.
Iha: ...[unintelligible word], heh heh, river.
BC: And I said...“I got a big dream” and he said, “We’re gonna play the Enormo Dome, right?” And I said, “No...”
Iha: That dream was big guitars.
BC: “...no no, we’re not gonna play the Enormo Dome.” “So we’re gonna play the baseball stadium?” I said, “No, that’s not gonna happen, we’re gonna play the Hampton Inn and Suites parking lot.”
(large crowd reaction)
Iha: God bless the Enormo Dome, god bless them.
BC: The top! We’re going to the top.
Iha: It’s a fine hotel.
BC: Free vegan pizza, free rooms.
Iha: Heh heh heh! I didn’t know they had that.
BC: But thank you again, we’re having a good time, we hope you’re having a good time. I love this part of the show, if you can call what we do a show, because it is my opportunity to thank each and every one of you personally for coming, for supporting us, for supporting our music for so many years. And so, we take this moment to dedicate this song to you, it’s a little song you might know, we call it Tonight, Tonight.
Tonight, Tonight (Billy/Iha acoustic)
Starla
Stand Inside Your Love
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (tease)
> Cherub Rock
> Zero
> Love Gun (tease)
Iha: Woo, Kentucky.
FOL / Are You Gonna Go My Way / unknown
(BC over extended outro: Hot diggity.
Iha: Heh.
BC: Ladies and gentlemen.... I don't have a lot of questions left, but there is one question I wanna know. No, it's not Are You Gonna Go My Way? (Iha quietly plays half of the riff) Do you feel James's love tonight? Do you feel Jeff's love tonight? Do you feel Jack's love all the way from England? Jack, I need some bass solo, let's get a little bass solo going out your way. (Jack plays unknown bass line)
Iha: It's a [2-3 unintelligible words].
BC: What the fuck was that?
Iha: I was tryin' to play some Quiet Riot, but it doesn't go with it.
BC: Quiet Riot?!
Iha: But it doesn't go with it.
BC: Do you feel Jimmy Chamberlin's love? (drum solo)
Iha: Woo! Woo, Kentucky. (Billy plays a few short riffs) Got the Kentucky blues. Thank you so much, yes. (Billy starts blues riffing) Originally from Chicago, got the...Chicago blues.
BC: We have -- they have a lot of blues history here though, they have a lot of blues history.
Iha: Yes.
BC: King Records, King Records. (continues soloing) All night long, all night long.
Iha: We're just gonna jam.
BC: Haha, alright, enough of that shit, thank you so much.
(song ends)
Radio Intro tape
> 1979
BC: Thank you very much, thank you! Thank you so much, thank you, thank you.
[encore break]
Silverfuck
(BC immediately after lyrics finish: Thank you, goodnight! Thank you!)
Iha: Goodnight.

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