The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-05-23

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May 23, 2000 – Universal City, CA, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
DateMay 23, 2000
VenueUniversal Amphitheatre
Coordinates34°8′17″N 118°21′12″W
LocationUniversal City, CA, US
Venue typeTheater
Capacity6,251
PersonnelBilly Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur
Order of bandsThe Smashing Pumpkins

Billy Corgan announced on the morning of this show that the band was breaking up at the end of the year.

Setlist[edit | edit source]

  1. "Age of Innocence
  2. "Glass and the Ghost Children" [10:11] 
  3. "The Everlasting Gaze
  4. "Heavy Metal Machine
  5. "Blew Away
  6. "Stand Inside Your Love
  7. "I Am One" (with rant) [6:24] 
  8. "I of the Mourning
  9. "Le Deux Machina" (prerecorded) 
  10. "To Sheila(acoustic) 
  11. "Muzzle(acoustic) 
  12. "1979(acoustic) 
  13. "Ava Adore(acoustic) 
  14. "Rock On" [David Essex] [4:13] 
  15. "Zero
  16. "Today
  17. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [9:04] 
  18. "Tonight, Tonight
  19. "Cherub Rock

Encore one[edit | edit source]

  1. "Blank Page
  2. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings
  3. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [6:41] 

Encore two[edit | edit source]

  1. "With Every Light(acoustic) 
  2. "Mayonaise

Banter[edit | edit source]

Age of Innocence
> Glass and the Ghost Children
The Everlasting Gaze
> Heavy Metal Machine
BC: Thank you, thank you. Thank you very much, thank you. Whew. Always an honor and a pleasure to be back here in the city of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Iha: City of lights. Hell yeah.
BC: I'd like to uh, to introduce you to my friend and partner for 13 years. He's a poet, he's a modern day mystic and he's in league with the devil, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
I Am One
(BC midsong: Last chance for a revolution, yeah. Last chance for a revolution, yeah. Everybody wanna talk, everybody wanna say that things are changin’, things are changin’, everything’s changin’ real fast, that’s right. But are you a name or a number or a statistic...or a piece of a census? What are you? What am I, who are you? Where have you been? I don’t know. Where did you go? I don’t know. That’s right. Does anybody wish to testify to this revolution? Does everybody wish to testify to this revolution? Because -- hold on, shhh, hold on, (band plays quieter) there we go. This is very important, we have to be getting really quiet for this part. I’m here to tell you that the revolution is not over, it has just begun. The revolution has just begun, that’s right. We’re gonna change this world and this place forever and keep it that way, that’s right. Woo! Wooo! We are the machines, we speak these dreams, we are the machines, we are the machines of gooooood. Of gooooood. Of gooooood. (escalating to a scream) Goooooooooooooo!!)
I of the Mourning
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
BC: Thank you very much, thank you so very much. How is - how is everybody doing tonight? Heh heh. No, I'm just laughing because there’s always the one guy who tells me "fuck you" when I ask that, you know. I don't know why, but he’s - I guess that's how he feels. Um....yes, heh heh heh. Thank you, thank you. How's everybody doing up in there, in the uh, in those seats? Like to play you a song, uh, that we haven't, we haven't been uh, we haven't played for a while, but we just started recently playing again or I started playing it again. Hope you like it, it's uh...yes, now he changed it to peace and love, see, that guy, heh heh heh heh. Oh. This means I'm going to die on a surfboard, what? Oh, okay or this is that, right, okay. I'm not from California, I don't understand these...this lingo.
Muzzle (Billy solo acoustic)
Iha: So, is everybody ready to dance?
BC: James, we did that on the last tour and the tour before that, it doesn't work anymore. Let it go.
Iha: These people just need some levity and I think they wanna dance. They just wanna boogie.
BC: Are you saying our music is depressing?
Iha: (British accent) Oy.
BC: Because if you are, James Iha, I'm gonna come over there and kick your ass right now!
Iha: I would say that uh, I dunno if Kafka would say we're depressing or not, but uh....
BC: Would you like to introduce the band, Snakeytooth?
Iha: Alright. I'll introduce me. Thank you! On drums and acoustic guitar, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin! Back on the drum riser, rockin' like nobody's business. On lead vocals and guitar, Mr. Billy Corgan! Heh heh heh, [unintelligible]. On the bass (pronounced like the fish) guitar and socialism, Ms. Melissa Auf der Maur.
BC: And he is James “Snakeytooth” Iha!
Iha: Thank you, let’s boogie!
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
Ava Adore (acoustic)
Rock On
> Zero
Today (abandoned quickly)
Today
Blue Skies Bring Tears
Tonight, Tonight
Cherub Rock
[encore break]
Blank Page
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
and you might ask yourself
what does this song mean if it has no meaning?
and you might ask yourself
what does the singer feel if he has no feelings?
and you might ask yourself
why do i always wear black?
and you might ask yourself
must every song be an attack?

once in a lifetime
water flowing underground
into the blue again
water flowing underground

you might ask yourself
this is the fucking bald guy on stage, yeah!
you might ask yourself
what does he know about me and my life?
you might ask yourself
this is not my world, this is not my house, this is not my beautiful life
you might ask yourself
i do not have to [unintelligible world] in a world, this is not my life

once in a lifetime
water flowing underground
letting the days go by
water flowing underground

whoa!
go!
what do i want?

what do i want?
what do i want from this world?
what do i want?
what do i want?!
what do i want?!

what?!
what the fuck?!
what the fuck is goin’ on?

we stick our knife right into the eyes of America, we stick our knife into the fat fuckin’ gut of America and cut out the fat and the bullshit and the lies, yes, that’s right, i’m still angry
ow!!
can you feel it?
can you feel it?
can you feel it?
can you feel it?!
can you feel it?!!
can you feel it?!!!

wow!!
what do i want?!
ow!!

(screams)
(screams)
(screams)

(growls)
that’s right

[encore break]
Iha: Thank you, you’re the best, thank you.
With Every Light (acoustic)
BC: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Before we play our last song tonight, I'd like to take a moment, yes, yes it is our last song. (crowd boos) Now boo us, please, um, heh heh heh. Before we play our last song, we'd just like to say without you there wouldn't be a dumb band like us and uh, we owe you, we owe you uh, close to everything, not everything, you can't have our houses or cars, but after that you can have everything we have. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for a great night and a great concert, thank you, god bless you.
Mayonaise
Iha: Thanks a lot, you guys are great, thank you. Drive home safe. [2 unintelligible sentences]. Thank you again.

Photos and memorabilia[edit | edit source]