The Smashing Pumpkins 1994-04-21
| April 21, 1994 – Center Township (Beaver County), PA, US | |
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| Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins | |
| Rock Invasion tour | |
| Date | April 21, 1994 |
| Venue | Community College of Beaver County Golden Dome |
| Coordinates | 40°39′18″N 80°18′28″W |
| Location | Center Township (Beaver County), PA, US |
| Venue type | Gym |
| Capacity | 5,000 |
| Personnel | Billy Corgan, James Iha, D'arcy Wretzky, Jimmy Chamberlin |
| Order of bands | Red Red Meat, The Smashing Pumpkins |
This show saw a formal release on cassette in November 2023 as Smashing Pumpkins 4/21/94, bundled with two candles made in collaboration with Lola James Harper.
Setlist[edit | edit source]
- "Cherub Rock"
- "Rocket"
- "Disarm"
- "Today"
- "Quiet"
- "I Am One" (with rant) [6:53]
- "Drown" [4:51]
- "Hummer" [6:07]
- "Geek U.S.A."
- "Soma"
- "Silverfuck" [9:06]
- "Over the Rainbow" [Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg] (tease)
Encore one[edit | edit source]
- "Siva" [4:40]
Encore two[edit | edit source]
- "Snail" (abandoned)
- "Boys Don't Cry" [The Cure] (tease)
- "Snail"
- "Starla" [7:57]
Banter[edit | edit source]
Iha: Hi.
Cherub Rock
(feedback intro to Rocket begins)
BC: Good evening. Welcome to the rock show.
> Rocket
BC: Hi. Welcome to the interplanetary dome. Wherever the fuck we are, not in Pittsburgh, I know that. Sorry we're out here in bumfuck, but that's the way it is. But uh, thank you uh, for coming and.... I feel like I'm playing in a planetarium, you know?
Iha: It's a golf ball. It's the world's largest...golf ball.
BC: There'll be a laser light show after the concert.
Disarm
> Today
> Quiet
I Am One
(BC midsong: What you want is what you’ll get and that’s nothing. What you want is what you’ll get and that’s nothing. What you want is what you’ll get, what you want is what you’ll get and that’s nothing, nothing, nothing. All I ever wanted was everything. All I ever wanted was everything. All I ever wanted was everything and all I got was shit! Nothing can be taken from you that has not already been taken. Nothing can be taken from you that has not already been taken. Hoooooo...oh yeah. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! Ah gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gim gim gim nothing. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! And it’s a wasteland. It’s a wasteland. It’s a bunch of wasted land! Yeah. Wasteland. Stop. (band stops) Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Aaah. Nothing! Shock, it’s a shock, ain’t it? Life, livin’, dyin’, birth, all of it. Shock. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme nothing! (band starts again) Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!!! Ow!)
BC: As long as everyone's being so quiet, you might as well say what you think. There's something about this dome that's not very rock concert-like, you know, I don't know what I’m sayin’. It's nobody's fault, you know, it's just....
Iha: It's kind of cyber-like.
Drown
> Hummer
Geek U.S.A.
(BC alt last line: I fuckin’ hate the U.S.A.!)
BC: Thank you. ... Like to uh, bore you for six or seven minutes...with this uh, lovely composition. I said six or seven minutes. Sit back and enjoy, thank you!
Soma
Silverfuck / Over the Rainbow
BC: Thanks for puttin' up with our shit.
[encore break]
Iha: [cuts in] My nickname, by the way, is the Spry Badger. Heh. I'm just kidding. Dude, we don't know it.
BC: I'd like to uh, thank you and apologize all at the same time. I'd like -- I'd like to thank you for coming and I'd like to apologize ‘cause I didn't think we were very good today, so....
D’arcy: The sound--
BC: That doesn't -- doesn't mean you're going to get any of your money back, but we're sorry, heh!
D’arcy: The sound sucks in here, we almost didn't play from technical problems and...I don't know, maybe that would've been better, you be the judge.
Iha: Nice--
BC: That's not your fault though.
Iha: Just means, uh--
BC: The Gol -- The Golden Dome not treating the Pumpkins right here, man, it just sounds like crap.
Iha: We just gotta get funky. (Iha briefly plays funky wah-wah guitar) Come on, gimme some fuckin’ rhythm!
BC: You're in the wrong band, man. We don't play the funk. We play the white boy metal.
(Billy starts Siva)
Iha: Oh yeah, right.
Siva
BC: Thanks.
[encore break]
BC: [cuts in] ...and we are! (James plays 12 bar blues riff) So we'd like to do a -- heh, yeah, some blues. Stop, stop. So we'd like to do an oldie for you.
Iha: It's kind of a sentimental night and uh--
BC: Do you have to talk over every fucking intro?
Iha: What, listen, miss, heh heh heh heh. It's kind of a sentimental night, so we’ll play an old song.
BC: Do you want to start the song? You're doing it –- will you feel better to start the song? Thank you.
Snail (abandoned after first word)
BC: (singing) All.... (speaking) E minor. E minor, E minor, A, E minor, G, (laughing) fuck you.
Boys Don't Cry (tease - Iha plays chords and a few seconds)
Iha: No, I’m sorry, go ahead, go ahead.
BC: Heh heh.
Snail
BC: Thank you.
Starla
BC: Thanks very much, thank you, thank you. I know it wasn't the most exciting rock concert, but...it was okay. We're gettin' old, I can't help it.
