The Smashing Pumpkins 2015-06-25

June 25, 2015 – Minneapolis, MN, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
In Plainsong tour
Date	June 25, 2015
Venue	Pantages Theatre
Coordinates	44°58′41″N 93°16′32″W
Location	Minneapolis, MN, US
Venue type	Theater
Capacity	1,014
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jeff Schroeder, Katie Cole, Isaiah Silva, Brandon Sweeney, Eliot Lorango, Nadir Maraschin
Order of bands	The Eeries, Katie Cole, The Smashing Pumpkins
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In Plainsong: An Acoustic-Electro Evening.

Full performance

Setlist[edit | edit source]

Pre-set[edit | edit source]

"Daydream" (VIP) (acoustic)
"Purr Snickety" (VIP) (acoustic)
"Bye June" (VIP) (acoustic) (final performance)
"Stumbleine" (VIP) (acoustic)
"My Dahlia" (VIP) (acoustic) (final performance)

Set[edit | edit source]

"Tonight, Tonight" (piano)
"99 Floors" (acoustic) (final performance)
"Today" (acoustic)
"My Poor Troubled Heart" [traditional] (acoustic) (final performance)
"Dorian" (acoustic)
"For Your Love" (acoustic)
"Drum + Fife" (acoustic)
"A Stitch in Time" (acoustic) (final performance)
"Mayonaise" (acoustic)
"Prairie Song" (final performance)
1. "Breathe" [Pink Floyd] (tease)
"Jersey Shore" (acoustic)
"Sparrow" (acoustic) (final performance)
"Perfect" (acoustic)
"To Sheila" (piano)
"Behold! the Night Mare" (piano) (final performance)
"For Martha" (piano)
"Blissed and Gone" (acoustic) (final performance)
"Ava Adore"
"Now (And Then)"
"The Crying Tree of Mercury"
"1979" (acoustic)
"Run2me" (acoustic)
"Pinwheels" (acoustic)
"Stand Inside Your Love" (acoustic)
"Landslide" [Stevie Nicks] (acoustic)

Encore one[edit | edit source]

"Something" [The Beatles] (acoustic)
"Spaceboy" (acoustic)
"Disarm" (acoustic)

Encore two[edit | edit source]

"Cardinal Rule" (acoustic)

Notes[edit | edit source]

"To Sheila" and "Behold! The Night Mare" with Katie Cole on bass and backing vocals
"1979", "Run2Me", "Pinwheels", "Stand Inside Your Love" and "Landslide" with Katie Cole on vocals only
"Something" performed with Katie Cole and The Eeries
"To Sheila", "Behold! The Night Mare", "Ava Adore", "Now (And Then)", "The Crying Tree of Mercury", "1979" and "Run2Me" played with backing drum tracks
"A New Poetry" and "El-A-Noy" were on the setlist but not played
"Something", "Disarm" and "Cardinal Rule" were not on the setlist
First performance of "My Dahlia" since 1989-02-18
First performance of "Stumbleine" since 2010-12-08
Last performance of "Daydream" until 2017-09-17
Last performances of "To Sheila", "Blissed and Gone" and "Now (And Then)" until 2017-09-20
Last performance of "For Martha" until 2018-07-12

Banter[edit | edit source]

Tonight, Tonight (Billy solo piano)
BC: No. What? Somebody put this in backwards (referring to his harmonica). That’s what we call in Pumpkinland a pro gig. There’s a way.
99 Floors (Billy solo acoustic)
Today (Billy solo acoustic)
BC: Thank you very kindly. My name, as you may have heard, is William. So, we’re so pleased you’re with us tonight, we have a very long show planned for you. No, not to generalize, but every crowd tends to cheer that announcement. They don’t always feel the same at the end of the show. So hopefully you’ll be in the moral majority on that. Guess I’ll carry on now.
My Poor Troubled Heart (Billy solo acoustic)
Dorian (Billy solo acoustic)
For Your Love
BC: So this, uh, this next tune...uh, is for our U.S. service vets. It’s called Drum and Fife.
Drum + Fife
A Stitch in Time
Mayonaise
Guy in crowd: Thank you!
BC: No, thank James Iha, he wrote that one.
Prairie Song
BC: Thank you. You have just passed about the one third part of the show, heh heh. Now...
Guy in crowd: Start over!
BC: Heh heh heh. Only in your bedroom. Must be the Canadian air coming down. Do you guys know that Prince did Purple Rain just down the street, did you know that? Anyway. Happy to be in Gagne country. As a young child, it was your promotion up here at the AWA that got me into wrestling. I know this is sort of a strange thing - does anyone here know the Gagne family? I mean, do you know the family personally? Do you? You know them personally? I mean, do you know them know them or like you...text them?
Girl in crowd: It’s Gagne (different pronounciation that Billy’s been using)!
BC: What’s that?
Girl in crowd: It’s Gagne!
BC: Okay, Gagne, I’m sorry. In Chicago, we say Gagne or whatever, you know, it’s like SARS. (people start yelling stuff) As you as you mention wrestling, it goes straight downhill. I’ll go back to the art for a second. Uh, we are now in the part of the show we call the Adore Suite. Where with calculated precision, we dip into the Adore catalog and play a suite of songs in their somewhat original form. So it is but a mere reflection of the 35 songs that I wrote for Adore, but you’ll get a sense of the mood that I was in when I wrote the album before the record company got involved. Heh heh heh heh. And Gagne, thank you. So, um, like to begin this journey with a song called Jersey Shore.
Jersey Shore (Billy solo 12-string)
Sparrow
Perfect
To Sheila (with Katie Cole on bass & vocals, Billy plays piano)
> Behold! The Night Mare (with Katie Cole on bass & vocals, Billy plays piano)
> For Martha (Billy solo piano)
Blissed and Gone (abandoned)
BC: As I like to say, if the song about my dead mother doesn’t shut you up, the ukulele will. Actually, I have to say, of all the shows we’ve played on this tour, you’re the best audience we’ve had, thank you. Thank you. It’s such a pleasure to play this music for you if you respect, thank you so much. Except for the gentleman up here talking about his taxes and his cat. There’s a whole conversation going on about the cat and the taxes. Maybe it’s important! That’s it, it’s only gonna get better.
Blissed and Gone (Billy solo ukulele)
Ava Adore
Now and Then
The Crying Tree of Mercury
1979 (with Katie Cole on vocals)
Run2Me (with Katie Cole on vocals)
Pinwheels (with Katie Cole on vocals)
Stand Inside Your Love (with Katie Cole on vocals)
Landslide (with Katie Cole on vocals)
BC: Thank you very much, god bless you.
[encore break]
BC: Thank you very much. Let’s bring out The Eeries. Eeries, come forth, be counted. Everybody good?
Something (with The Eeries on various instruments & Katie Cole on vocals)
BC: Alright! ... Let’s see, what should I play? Hmmm.... Should I play...?
Spaceboy (Billy solo acoustic)
BC: Thank you, awesome, thank you, thank you. ... ... Thank you. So, um...can I, uh, can I indulge in a story? Do you mind a quick story? Sometimes when I tell stories, people just yell “Shut it, play music” so I don’t know, uh, let’s take a vote. Story? Music? I mean, I’ll tell the story and then I’ll play music. And if you’ve heard me tell this story before, I’m sorry, I don’t remember if I’ve ever told it. All good, buddy. So, I think it was the first time we ever played - the original four of us - played in Minneapolis. Thank you, if you were there. And uh, it was about an eight hour drive from where my father lived and uh, we were very excited, you know, so many great bands from up here. Soul Asylum, Hüsker Dü, Replacements. [unintelligible], that’s what I’m talking about. And uh, you know, I can’t remember - we were opening for a very popular band here, I can’t remember the name, I’m sorry. What was it? Soup Dragons? Thank you. I’m - the memory’s going but I’m telling you what I remember. Anyway, so it was an opening slot and we were already entering our war with the hipsters, you know, which continues to this day, thank you very much. And uh, and so, we set up and we start to play our set and there’s 20 people, 15 people, and uh, a hipper crowd based on the beards and mustaches, I don’t know. Whatever was the telltale sign of the time. So they all sat in the back and they acted like we weren’t even playing. I felt the band’s enthusiasm and my own sap and um...by the second or third song, we started playing quite terribly and this is very early on, probably in the first six to nine months of the band, that’s my memory. And we were supposed to, once we played our set, nobody cared, nobody clapped basically. We were supposed to stay in town and we were loading out, you know, you’re dragging your own shit and I said “Everybody in the fucking van.” And they’re like “What do you mean?” ‘Cause they wanted to hang out or whatever, see the band, I said, “No, we’re fucking going home.” And I drove - myself - I was so mad, I drove eight hours all the way home. And my father - not an early riser, uh, heh heh, beside the point - he came into my room about nine a.m. or something and he said “What the fuck are you doing here? I thought you went to Minneapolis” and I said “Well, we did” and then I had told him the whole story and I won’t repeat it but...he said “Well...” My father was a - for those of you who don’t know - my father was a professional musician for over 30 years and uh...thank you. My true hero in music, my father. He’s cooler than me, that’s all I can tell you. So he said, you know, in a rare fatherly moment, he said “Well, if you’re gonna do this, you gotta do it right” and I guess what I’m trying to say in so many words is that when I’m standing here and I’m playing these songs for you and I think of these 28 years of this band and the other five before that, it makes it all seem worth it. All those drives, all those coming home, all the disappointment. I only have one more thing. Just indulge me one more minute. You’ve made me a better man, a better person, a better human being, a better spirit, so thank you. This has been one of the best tours we’ve ever had - ever. And I wanna thank Jeff, Jeff please come out. And the beautiful thing and I say this in deference to my bandmates - Jimmy of course is joining us for this summer tour, which is awesome. And James and D’arcy....thank you. I say this in deference to them - all of them. Thank god we made those commitments that early on before grunge and before all that stuff, that we decided that we were gonna be ourselves and again...you make that journey worth it. You make that journey very worth it so I dedicate this last song to you and thank you so much for making a great night.
Disarm (Billy solo acoustic)
[encore break]
Cardinal Rule (Billy solo acoustic)

Photos and memorabilia[edit | edit source]