The Smashing Pumpkins 2008-02-29

February 29, 2008 – Oslo, NO
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Europe 2008 tour
Date	February 29, 2008
Venue	Oslo Spektrum
Coordinates	59°54′45″N 10°45′18″E
Location	Oslo, NO
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	9,700
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Ginger Pooley, Lisa Harriton
Order of bands	Heroes & Zeros, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

1. "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans" 
2. "Behold! the Night Mare" 
3. "Bring the Light" 
4. "Tonight, Tonight" 
5. "Mayonaise" 
6. "Try, Try, Try" 
7. "Superchrist" 
8. "(Come On) Let's Go!" 
9. "Stellar" 
10. "Perfect" (acoustic) 
11. "Lily (My One and Only)" 
12. "The Rose March" 
13. "Today" 
14. "Tarantula" 
15. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
16. "Ava Adore" 
17. "Drown" 
18. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
19. (blues improv: "Oslo") (acoustic)
20. "1979" (acoustic) 
21. "That's the Way (My Love Is)" (acoustic) 
22. "My Blue Heaven" [Walter Donaldson / George A. Whiting] 
23. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
24. "Cash Car Star" [10:41] 
    1. "Easy Livin'" [Uriah Heep] (tease) 
    2. "Foreplay" [Boston] (tease) 
    3. "For What It's Worth" [Buffalo Springfield] (tease) 
    4. "Wasted Years" [Iron Maiden] (tease) 
25. "Daydream" 
26. "United States" [18:06] 
    1. "The Star-Spangled Banner" [Francis Scott Key] (tease) 

Encore

27. "The Zoo" [Scorpions] (final performance)
28. "Cherub Rock" 

Notes

• "Robot Man" was on the setlist but "The Zoo" was played instead
• Last performance of "Daydream" until an unknown date in 2011

Banter

Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
> Behold! The Night Mare
Bring the Light
Tonight, Tonight
Mayonaise
BC: Thank you!
Try, Try, Try
Superchrist
> (Come On) Let’s Go!
(drum intro to Stellar begins)
BC: Alright! Good evening, we’re the Smashing Pumpkins, thank you very much, nice to see you. How you feelin’ tonight, Oslo? Is it Friday? - I never know what day it is. It’s Friday, right? Yeah, lots of party. Yeah. Yeah.
Stellar
BC: Thanks, thank you. Thank you very much, thank you. Like to bring out Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. You live in a very beautiful country. Very beautiful. Beautiful country, beautiful women. I don’t know why I live in America, I should live here, but...uh, heh. But Jimmy here, Jimmy tried to go ice skating yesterday. Where are we?--we’re downtown somewhere, there’s an ice skating rink, yeah? You know the ice skating rink downtown? They wouldn’t give Jimmy skates because he’s American. They said no Americans allowed here at the ice skating rink. We’re very disappointed. Uh heh heh heh. You’re sorry? Okay. On behalf of the Smashing Pumpkins, we accept your apology.
Perfect (Billy acoustic w/Jimmy tambourine)
Lily
The Rose March
Today
> Tarantula
Stand Inside Your Love
> Ava Adore
BC: Thank you, thank you. How’s everybody doing up there, you okay? Yeaah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How you doin’ down here? How you doin’ up there? Oh, okay. What kind of flag is that? Is that Kosovo, what’s going on there? It’s the Republic of Corgan. Did you know I was k--I’m king in Republic of Corgan? Heh heh heh. I don’t speak Norwegian, okay, I don’t. Even when you speak English, I don’t speak Norwegian. Just kidding, heh, thank you, heh heh. I’m too dumb, I’m too deaf, I can’t hear you. I’m sorry? Oh. Sorry, we don’t play that song anymore. Sorry, sorry. We don’t play that song either, heh heh heh. You know why we don’t play those songs? Because we don’t want you to like us, don’t you understand? The reason the band is still around after 20 years is because you don’t like us. Think about it, think about it. If you liked us, you wouldn’t be here, see? That’s how it works, reverse. Plus I didn’t write those songs anyway, who cares? My evil twin wrote those songs. Thank you very much for coming, we hope you haver good--ugh, start again. Thank you very much for coming, hope you ever get a good time. Thank you for coming, Jimmy, heh heh, we hope you’re having a good time, Jimmy. Now this is an old song that I wrote when I was innocent.
Drown
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Oslo blues improv (Billy solo acoustic)
(BC: (singing) Oslo (x10), how low can you go? Oslo, are you high? Oslo, are you high? Oslo, are you high? Oslo, are you high? Oslo...how low can you go?)
> 1979 (Billy solo acoustic)
That’s the Way (Billy 12-string w/Lisa)
My Blue Heaven (Billy w/Lisa)
> The Everlasting Gaze
> Cash Car Star
> Easy Livin’ (2 verses and choruses)
> Foreplay (partial, instrumental)
> For What It’s Worth (verse 1, chorus, verse 4, chorus, BC original spoken verse)
(BC spoken verse: Everyone’s gonna be a big star / Everyone’s gonna know who you are / Everyone’s gonna wanna fuck you / Everyone’s gonna wanna steal your god / Everyone’s gonna wanna blog about your heart / And that’s when the fun starts. There’s no going back now. There’s no going back now. There’s no going back now. There’s no going back now. I just wanna rock. Just let me rock. Oh, please, won’t you let me rock? Oh, just let me rock. Give me an R - R, gimme an O - O, gimme a C, gimme a K, what’s that spell? What’s that spell? What’s that spell? What’s that spell?)
> Wasted Years (tease/intro only)
Daydream
> United States / Star Spangled Banner
[encore break]
The Zoo
BC: Yeah. That was a song by the Scorpions. (Jeff doodles for a second with the talkbox) Do you feel alright, Jeff? (Jeff doodles again with talkbox) Honestly, that was the only song we were gonna play, but that was so bad, we’re gonna play another (laughing) song. Well, actually, you don’t wanna hear another song, thank you, goodnight! Now you wanna hear another song. Would you like to hear a sensitive...sensitive song? Would you like to hear a ski jumping song? How ‘bout a cross-country song, a cross-country skiing song? Heh heh. Is Bjørn Dæhlie, is he Norwegian? Bjørn Dæhlie? See, I know my Norway. We’ll play one more song, thank you very much, hope you had a good time.
Cherub Rock

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