The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-07-02

July 2, 2000 – Tokyo, JP
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	July 2, 2000
Venue	Tokyo International Forum (Hall A)
Coordinates	35°40′37″N 139°45′51″E
Location	Tokyo, JP
Venue type	Exhibition center
Capacity	5,012
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Full performance

Setlist

Set one

1. "Speed Kills" (acoustic) 
2. "Today" (acoustic) 
3. "Muzzle" (acoustic) 
4. "Once Upon a Time" (acoustic) 
5. "The Imploding Voice" (acoustic) 
6. "To Sheila" (acoustic) 
   1. "Shame" (acoustic) 
   2. "Drown" (acoustic) 
   3. "To Sheila" (tease) (acoustic) (reprise) 
7. "Glass and the Ghost Children" (acoustic) [10:26] 
8. "This Time" (abandoned) (acoustic) 
9. "This Time" (acoustic) 
10. "Whole Lotta Love" [Led Zeppelin] (tease) (acoustic) 
11. "Smoke on the Water" [Deep Purple] (tease) (acoustic) 
12. "Money (That's What I Want)" [Barrett Strong] (tease) (acoustic) 
13. "Stand Inside Your Love" (abandoned) (acoustic) 
14. "Stand Inside Your Love" (acoustic) 
15. "Disarm" (acoustic) 

Set two

16. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
17. "Heavy Metal Machine" 
18. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [8:34] 
19. "I Am One" (with rant) [5:52] 
20. "Raindrops + Sunshowers" 
21. "Blew Away" 
22. "Tonight, Tonight" 
23. "I of the Mourning" 
24. "Rock On" [David Essex] [4:27] 
25. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
26. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [8:35] 

Encore one

27. "Perfect" 
28. "Cherub Rock" 

Encore two

29. "1979" (acoustic) 

Notes

• Last performance of "The Imploding Voice" until 2013-06-20
• Billy Corgan plays a 12-string on "Today" and "Muzzle"

Banter

Speed Kills (Billy solo acoustic)
Today (Billy solo 12-string)
Muzzle (Billy solo 12-string)
BC: Good evening, good evening. Thank you very much, thank you. I'd like to now play one of my favorite songs. You may not like it, maybe it's not your favorite song, it's my favorite song. I don't play it very often, so if I make a mistake...
Once Upon a Time (Billy solo acoustic)
The Imploding Voice (Billy solo acoustic)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
> Shame (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
> Drown (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
> To Sheila (reprise) (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
Glass and the Ghost Children (acoustic)
BC: Thank you. ... So thank you very -- ehhh, start again. Thank you very much for coming to our last concert in Japan. To the people who have come to many of the shows, thank you for a great tour, I think this is probably the best tour that Smashing Pumpkins have ever had in Japan, so we thank you....very much. Yes.
This Time (abandoned quickly - Billy hits wrong chords)
BC: We are very unprofessional, this is why we are breaking up. Can't be professional band. So we have the clothes and the stage, but the band is....
This Time (acoustic)
Whole Lotta Love (tease, acoustic - first 4 notes)
> Smoke on the Water (tease, acoustic - first 3 notes)
Money (That’s What I Want) (tease, acoustic - riff once)
Stand Inside Your Love (abandoned - Iha doesn’t come in on his part)
BC: I think you drank too much sake last night. Too much sake! Too much karaoke, too much sake. (laughing) Meltdown. G to B baby, G to B.
Stand Inside Your Love (acoustic)
> Disarm (acoustic)
BC: We'll take a short break, we'll be right back.
[set break]
The Everlasting Gaze
> Heavy Metal Machine
Blue Skies Bring Tears
I Am One
(BC midsong: Inside we speak revolution. The contusion of our young minds frozen, broken, lost in...definitely. Perched between reason, doubt, faith, love, oppression and oh yeah, a confessional attitude that has no end. The road we walk, the road we walk is sturdy, dusty and occasionally come across a flower. A flower: simple but true. And when you appear to that flower, when you appear into that flower, when you disappear into that flower, you see everything. You know this world is in a cooling state. You know this world is full of hesitation. Ow! Can you hear me? Can you feel me? Do you know me? It’s time to leap out of the skins, across social, economic, racial and time boundaries. We are the machines. We speak this dream. We are the machines. We speak our dreams of gooooood. Of gooooood. Of gooooood. Of (escalating to scream) goooooooooooo--!)
BC: Hi, good evening. I'd like to say thanks to our opening band, they were very good. I think they have a future. 'Cause rock music is dead and that acoustic thing, now there's the future. How is everybody, is the concert too long? Yes? No one is sleepy? Okay, we'd like to play you another song from our Machina album, this is called Sunshowers and Raindrops.
Raindrops + Sunshowers
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. I would like to introduce the band to you. On thunder bass, Miss Melissa Auf der Maur. On thunder drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Jimmy will be leave Tok - (laughing) - Jimmy will be leaving Tokyo tomorrow. On thunder guitar, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
> Tonight, Tonight
I of the Mourning
Rock On
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
and you might ask yourself
just what does this mean if it has no meaning?
and you might ask yourself
hey man, what does he feel if he has no feelings? yeah!
and you might ask yourself
just how deep is the bottom of the ocean?
and you might ask yourself
is this love i feel or is it devotion?

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

you might ask yourself
who’s that motherfucking guy on stage think he is?
you might ask yourself
why does anyone establish what we need? oh!
you might ask yourself
how my price is the past stuck in the air forever
you might ask yourself
you must think that all japanese girls are clever

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

whoa!
go!
the power monks

at first i climb
at first i fall
nothing else matters
and i still hit plateaus
and fall and crawl
yeeeeow!!
ohhhh-oh!

why?!
go!
what do i want?

it’s the same as it ever was
same as it ever was
once in a lifetime
once in a lifetime
it’s the same as it ever was
once in a lifetime
same as it ever was same as it ever was same as it ever was same as it ever was
ow!
once in a lifetime
once in a lifetiiiiime
and in my hands, i crush your tiny fingers
i walk across the slivers of glass
my emotion can never be surpassed by you
but in my heart, in my heart, a [unintelligible word], a fork
just a couple of knives
it’s the same as it ever was
i hear through you ‘cause you are made of glass
in repose, i wait for you to say to me at last, “i love you, i love you, i love you, i love you”
it’s the same as it ever waaaaaaas

(Billy solos)

yeah!
it’s the same as it ever was
yeah!
as everything falls wasteful

[encore break]
Perfect
> Cherub Rock
Iha: One of the best [tape cuts].
[encore break]
BC: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you very much for a great concert tonight, great concert, thank you. The Smashing Pumpkins no more but you in our hearts always. Heh, that was speak.
Iha: What were you trying to say?
BC: I was sorta like uh, cheerful, you know? Pumpkins no, love yes. James maybe. So before we play our last song, thank you very much, we love you very much and appreciate everything that the fans in Japan have given us since 1992, I think was the first time we came. So god bless you, thank you.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)