The Smashing Pumpkins 2018-08-01

August 1, 2018 – New York, NY, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Shiny and Oh So Bright tour
Date	August 1, 2018
Venue	Madison Square Garden
Coordinates	40°45′2″N 73°59′37″W
Location	New York, NY, US
Venue type	Arena
Capacity	20,000
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Jeff Schroeder, Jack Bates, Katie Cole
Order of bands	Metric, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Disarm (Billy solo acoustic)
Rocket
Siva
Rhinoceros
Space Oddity
Drown
Zero Interlude Film
(BC: Ladies, gentlemen, friends, lovers, beasts or fowl, welcome to the show. We are the illuminated, the illustrious, the ill-timed knock. (two snare drum hits) Ah yes, we are the fractured, the schisms, the rift and the rabble, the sleepy clown, the atomized downs, the dreams you stopped dreaming oh so long ago. Yes, all colors mixed and marred make up the black, as do all numbers fix up the zero, zed and null. So let’s go back to your beginnings, as I shall go back to mine. It won’t last, it’ll be quick, but then again, that’s why we’re here. No past, no future, no sun. So let’s blow on fading embers, to boast about kings near, forgotten and buried. Tis the end. Tis the end. Tis the end.)
Zero
> The Everlasting Gaze
Stand Inside Your Love
Iha: [cuts in] ...to play Madison Square Garden, thank you so much for coming out. I walked out of my hotel today and I stepped in a pool of vomit and I was like, “It’s great to be back...in New York.” Thank you so much for coming.
Thirty-three (acoustic)
Eye
Soma
Vaudeville Interlude Film
(Mark McGrath: Well, hello there, neighbors! Are you enjoying the show thus far? Well, good, I am too, even though I’m not real. Now, if I could steal a moment of your time, I’d like to introduce somebody verrry special to you. He’s been a friend and a neighbor to each and every one of you. He’s been the voice you might hear in the stiiill of the night or a night dog straining against the moon. And, in fact, this young man has been with you almost every step along the way on life’s long journey, sighing so ever soft. He’s been a lover, a fighter, but never a cad. A beacon, a searchlight piercing every impenetrable fog. And he’s here, just now, to sing for you, that golden chestnut we like to call Blew Away. So gather round, ‘cause here he is: the one, the only, Mr. Jaaaaames Iha.)
Blew Away
For Martha
To Sheila
> Mayonaise
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Landslide (acoustic)
Tonight, Tonight
short lounge interlude (most is tape but Katie plays organ live)
> Stairway to Heaven
(BC over very end: Jeff Schroeder on the guitar!)
Iha: You can cross that off the bucket list now. Smashing Pumpkins playing Stairway to Heaven in Madison Square Garden. Thank you so much.
Cherub Rock
Vaudeville Interlude Film
(Mark McGrath: Well, wowie zowie, papa ooh maow maow! What a wang dang and doodle of a show. And, it ain’t over yet. Now I don’t know about you but this next tune is one of my faaaaaaves. Reminds me of drivin' down the old PCH, high out of my mind on ecstasy and I was singing the chorus of the song you’re about to hear so hard and so on high, that one of my front teeth fell right out! Yup, plain out right there in the dashboard. Wow. That decade was just, just so good, wasn’t it? I mean, here you have young wash masters rising up to start a musical and cultural revolution that was soon co-opted by the machine and driven asunder! Gee golly. But thankfully, what we got in return was just so much better. I mean, let’s face it, who doesn’t want perfection in their stars above? ‘Cause perfect people making perfect, sweet music is, well, it’s just, it’s just what a god wants for all of us! Whoo! Red light, stop, it’s raining. The air is cool and the sky is gray and the year? Well, it’s 1979!)
Radio Intro tape
> 1979
Ava Adore
(BC before bridge: Look at all the people here tonight! Woo! Wanna play in the Big Apple.)
Try, Try, Try
> The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
Hummer
Today
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Iha: Alright, alright, thank you so much. Thank you, New York City! We really appreciate it. Last song! But first, quick introduction: on the vocals and keyboards, she’s not on stage, Ms. Katie Cole! On the bass, Mr. Jack Bates, he’s from Manchester. Flew all the way out here for this. On the guitar, Mr. Jeff Schroeder.
Detroit Rock City (tease - Jeff)
Iha: On the drums, Mr. Jimmy fuckin’ Chamberlin. I am James Iha. On lead vocals, lead guitar, Mr. Billy Corgan!
BC: Friends, what an incredible evening, we have so much to thank you for, god bless you, thank you for being... [cut] ...all the way up top, we appreciate you, thank you so much.
Iha: You have traveled with us like a mind and journey of the show.
BC: We have reached the end, James, this is our last song. I know you’d like to play another three hours, but this is the end, right here.
Iha: We’ll uh, we’ll get some uh, blues songs. Jeff, let’s hear a blues song, Chicago, we’re from Chicago.
Cold Shot (tease - Jeff)
Iha: (laughing) That’s from Texas.
BC: Anyway. That’s it, we love you, we appreciate you, we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you. This is the stuff dreams are made of. We have so much to thank you for. I can’t say it in words, I can only say it in song. Hahahaha.
Iha: That’s [unintelligible word because Billy is talking], perfect.
BC: Anyway, sing along if you know this one.
Muzzle
[encore break]
Solara
Baby Mine
Iha: Thank you so much, have a good night, drive home--oh, you’re not gonna drive. Uh...walk safely.

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