Tsp2000-06-30

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	2000-06-30
Venue	Nippon Budokan
Location	Tokyo, JP
Venue Type	Sumo Wrestling Hall
Capacity	10,000
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Chamberlin, Auf der Maur
Order of Bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
TV #1
Source	TV
Format	DAT
Equipment	Unknown
Length	111m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	DDC-2 > DVD
Notes	Interspersed with an interview. Once in a Lifetime cuts after 30 seconds, missing Blue Skies Bring Tears. Circulated synced to PRO #1a
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	SS-DSM-6S > PA-6LC2 > TCD-D7(48k)
Length	130m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	DDC-1 > dEdit > FLAC
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	DDC-? > CDR transfer also circulates. 'Billy' shouter near the taper throughout the show, loud clapping during This Time.
AMT #1
Source	AUD
Format	VHS
Equipment	Unknown
Length	124m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	VHS-M > DVD
PRO #1a
Source	TV
Format	SVHS
Equipment	Unknown
Length	111m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	SVHS-M > DVD
Notes	Interspersed with an interview. Once in a Lifetime cuts after 30 seconds, missing Blue Skies Bring Tears. Circulating version is synced with TV #1.
PRO #1b
Source	TV
Format	VHS
Equipment	Unknown
Length	111m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	VHS-1 > DVD
Notes	Interspersed with an interview. Once in a Lifetime cuts after 30 seconds, missing Blue Skies Bring Tears. VHS-? > VCD transfer also circulates.
PRO #1c
Source	TV
Format	VHS
Equipment	Unknown
Length	14
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	VHS-1 > DVD
Notes	Interview segment with BC, ending cut.
Unsurfaced Recordings
AUD #2
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	SS-DSM-6S > TCD-D100
Length	~125m
Complete?	Unknown
PRO #2
Source	TV
Format	SVHS
Equipment	Unknown
Length	26m
Complete?	No
Notes	Interview and three live clips. Broadcast on "Garage Headz" TV program.
PRO #3
Source	TV
Format	DV
Equipment	Unknown
Length	111m
Complete?	No
Notes	Interspersed with an interview. Once in a Lifetime cuts after 30 seconds, missing Blue Skies Bring Tears.
PRO #4
Source	PRO
Format	VID
Equipment	Pro-Cams
Length	~125m
Complete?	Yes

Setlist

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Set:

• Age of Innocence
• Glass and the Ghost Children
• The Everlasting Gaze
• Heavy Metal Machine
• Blew Away
• Stand Inside Your Love
• Cherub Rock
• I of the Mourning
• To Sheila
• This Time
• Ava Adore
• Try, Try, Try
• Rock On [Essex] [4:36]
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
  • Once in a Lifetime [Talking Heads] [8:49]
• Blue Skies Bring Tears
• Today
• Fuck You

Encore One:

• Blank Page
• Mayonaise

Encore Two:

• 1979

Notes

• To Sheila, This Time, Ava Adore, Try, Try, Try, and 1979 performed acoustic

Banter

Age of Innocence
Glass and the Ghost Children
The Everlasting Gaze
> Heavy Metal Machine
BC: Ohia kombawa, Tokyo. Thank you very much, thank you. ... We’re lucky, we’re very lucky tonight, we have a special guest with us on stage. He’s the sumo wrestling champ under a hundred kilos. He’s taken the world title. Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
Cherub Rock
BC: Thank you. ... How is everybody? How's everybody up there? The Backstreet Boys will be on soon, please wait. And then Britney Spears and um...any Japanese pop bands.
Iha: I must apologize, my guitar rig is exploding as we speak so I apologize for my guitar blowing up.
BC: James just won’t admit it but he doesn't wanna play the concert, it has nothing to do with his guitar.
Iha: This is cheap American gear we're using which is why it’s blowing up. And now I’m ready.
BC: Are you sure this time? Heh heh heh. No, I won’t extend your awkwardness. Anyway, um, besides our dumb American jokes, um - yes, thank you. We're glad that somebody appreciates our dumb American jokes. Thank you. This is our seventh show on our last Japanese tour and um, yes, and we play in two nights and um, for our last show. And um, promotion to the shows that we’ve been done so far in Japan, we play a little shorter show than we were playing in America because in America, the dumb American jokes are funny so then the show goes better but in Japan the dumb American jokes aren't so funny so then the show doesn't go as well so we play less songs. Thank you. And uh, yes. So tonight, as special Budokan treat, we're going to play a longer show for you tonight.
Iha: That’s if my gear doesn’t explode anymore.
BC: I believe the entire total of the show is about eight or nine hours. So if you have to go home and go to bed to go to work tomorrow, we understand. Is it Friday? So we'd like to play you another song from our hit Japanese album Machina. This is called I of the Mourning.
I of the Mourning
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
BC: Thank you, thank you so very much, thank you.
This Time (Billy solo acoustic)
BC: Like to introduce the band. On the bass guitar, Melissa Auf der Maur. On the drums, Hideo Nomo. Jimmy Chamberlin. And on the lead guitar, Dickey Betts.
Iha: On lead vocals and guitar, Mr. Elvin Jones.
Ava Adore (acoustic)
Try, Try, Try (acoustic)
Rock On
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
Blue Skies Bring Tears
Today
Fuck You
BC: Arigato gozamas.
[encore break]
Blank Page
> Mayonaise
BC: God bless you. Thank you, goodnight. Goodnight.
Iha: Arigato gozamas.
[encore break]
Iha: (screams) (grunts) (screams) Thank you very much. Oh. Kinki? Arigato gozamas, heh heh.
BC: A couple of things before we play our last song. I know we have one more show but I know many of you won't get a chance to see the next show so to all of you who have supported us through the years, been there for the Smashing Pumpkins since our early shows, we wanted to say a special thank you to all of you for being so wonderful to us, always. Also I would like to say that coming to Japan to play is always a great honor and a pleasure and the fans that we meet here are always so wonderful, ask us if we’re okay and we get good sleep and it's the best we - anywhere we go in the world we're always treated the best in Japan so we thank you for that. One other small thing, our website Smashing Pumpkins dot com is now in Japanese so you can read funny American jokes in Japanese. So I’m gonna film a little bit of you for our website so if you wanna say hello to everybody around the world...
Iha: Hello, everybody. ... Personally I hate computers but um.... So I had some nice ramen today, I really enjoyed it that a lot, I always look forward to it when I come here...as much as I do playing guitar. Oh, I see. Wow. Have you ever had nice ramen? It’s a very good thing to have. Me and my friend Esau always seem to find good ramen and today we had curry, we went down to Shinjuku and had some very nice curry there. Can anybody - does anybody, um, panda girl, panda boy out here. Can you tell me what that is? Ya mamba? Um, what is that (trying to read Japanese and failing)... I think that’s so crazy and great. Melissa, can you do the ya mamba? Ah, haha. Simi-san. Yoka yoka.
BC: So, before we play this last song, thank you again and please feel free to sing along.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)

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