Tsp1998-07-29

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	1998-07-29
Venue	Constitution Hall
Location	Washington, DC, US
Venue Type	Concert Hall
Capacity	3,746
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Wretzky, Aronoff, Garson, Morris, Hodges
Order of Bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
FM #1
Source	FM
Format	DAT
Equipment	Unknown
Length	86m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	DDC-2(32k) > FLAC
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	Missing Blank Page and Transmission, per broadcast. DDC-3 > SHN transfer also circulates.
FM #2
Source	FM
Format	DAT
Equipment	Panasonic SV-3800
Length	86m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	DAT-M > FLAC
Notes	Missing Blank Page and Transmission, per broadcast. Some FM noise during Bullet with Butterfly Wings.
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	MD
Equipment	CSBMod>MZ-R30
Length	127m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	MD-M > CDR
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
AUD #2
Source	AUD
Format	MD
Equipment	CSBMod > MS702
Length	125m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	MD-? > CDR
Notes	Cut in banter after Tonight, Tonight.
AUD #3
Source	AUD
Format	ANA
Equipment	built-in > Panasonic RX-SR29
Length	117m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	ANA-M > FLAC
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	Orchestra, row HH, seat 3. Runs fast.
Unsurfaced Recordings
FM #3
Source	FM
Format	ANA
Equipment	Unknown
Length	~85m
Complete?	No
Notes	Static. Missing Blank Page and Transmission, per broadcast. Tape flip during Thru the Eyes of Ruby.
AUD #4
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	CSBMod > M1
Length	~130m
Complete?	Yes
Notes	Issues during encore.
AUD #5
Source	AUD
Format	MD
Equipment	Unknown
Length	25m
Complete?	No
AUD #6
Source	AUD
Format	ANA
Equipment	Unknown
Length	~130m
Complete?	Unknown
AMT #1
Source	AUD
Format	Hi8
Equipment	Unknown
Length	Unknown
Complete?	Unknown
PRO #1
Source	PRO
Format	VID
Equipment	Pro-Cams
Length	~130m
Complete?	Yes
SBD #1
Source	SBD
Format	ADAT
Equipment	Unknown
Length	~130m
Complete?	Yes
Notes	Vault copy.

Setlist

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Set:

• To Sheila
• Once Upon a Time
• Ava Adore
• Perfect
• The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete
• Tear
• Annie-Dog
• Thru the Eyes of Ruby
• Summertime [Gershwin/Heyward] (tease)
  • Blank Page
• Tonight, Tonight
• Blissed and Gone
• (percussion solo)
  • Where Boys Fear to Tread (tease)
  • Zero (tease)
  • Bullet with Butterfly Wings
• Shame
• For Martha

Encore:

• (check presentation)
• 1979
• Transmission [Joy Division] [22:02]
  • Let's Dance [Bowie] (tease)
  • Help! [The Beatles] (tease)

Notes

• Tonight, Tonight and Blissed and Gone performed acoustic
• audience members are brought on stage at the end of Transmission
• $123,199 donated to City Lights School from ticket proceeds

Banter

To Sheila
> Once Upon a Time
> Ava Adore
Perfect
> The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete
Tear
> Annie-Dog
> Thru the Eyes of Ruby
> Summertime (tease)
> Blank Page
BC: Thank you all very much, thank you. Hope everyone's havin' a good time. Heh heh. So uh, mostly we're playing songs from our new album Adore tonight but this next song is an old song. Because our old songs are better than our new songs as we've found. Heh heh. But when we played Mellon Collie songs after Siamese Dream, people liked the Siamese better and it’s always worked out that way. So we appreciate you being here tonight for this special charity concert. Yes, your money is going to charity, even if we have to swindle it out of your pockets but uh, heh heh heh. So, we appreciate you coming tonight and uh, heh heh heh, thank you.
Tonight Tonight (acoustic)
BC: Thank you very much. It was about two years ago, a little over two years ago that we played our last concert as the original Smashing Pumpkins, as a four piece, in Washington DC. And uh, you know the past two years haven't been very easy on us and it’s been a weird two years but we'd like to thank you for being there with us and sticking with us over these past two years. So I'd like to play a song for you that I don't...I don't think - the last time I played, I think uh, maybe it was about a year ago and maybe six months before that, I've only played it a couple times live. This is a song called Blissed and Gone, it was a song that we were gonna put on this album but we didn't so, but I hope you like it.
Blissed and Gone (Billy solo acoustic)
drum/percussion solo
> Where Boys Fear to Tread (tease)
> Zero (tease)
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Shame
(BC over very end of song: Love is good all the time, just ask Monica and Bill.)
For Martha
BC: God bless you, thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: Gracias, thank you very much. You guys have been rockin'. At this time, we'd like to show you where your money went tonight. Uh, this is a show for the City Lights School and uh, we went there today, it's a, it's a really cool place and uh, we'd just like to bring a few of the people out and say a few things.
City Lights rep: On behalf of City Lights School, students, staff and the board of directors, we'd really like to thank the Smashing Pumpkins for their generosity so thanks a lot!
DC government rep: I can't hear any noise in here, how 'bout givin' it up for Billy and James and D’arcy, huh, just - and the Smashing Pumpkins. We love ‘em! You want 'em to come back, you want 'em to do it again? Hey, we love you here, we love ya. On behalf of the District government, I am here to proclaim today the Smashing Pumpkins Day in Washington DC. And to thank you from the bottom of my heart and all the hearts that are out here for your, your wonderful uh, giving, giving of your heart, giving of your music and your spirit and your soul for these youngsters so that they can have a little bit more money to learn and progress and one day get up on this stage. Thank you very much, Smashing Pumpkins, thank you. My name is Harold Brazil! Alright.
BC: Hold on, we gotta give 'em the check.
Iha: Thank you. And here it is. Drumroll! (drumroll from Aronoff) Heh.
BC: We'd like to present the City Lights School with a check for $123,199! I'm really against your artificial encouraging of the crowd to make more noise. We obviously are not good enough for them to make enough noise so for you to encourage them is kind of an insult to us, really.
Iha: Right...goodnight! Thank you! Alright!
1979
BC: Okay, that’s it, that’s the end of the concert, thank you.
Transmission / Let’s Dance / Help!

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