Tsp2000-01-24

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	2000-01-24
Venue	Muziekcentrum Vredenburg
Location	Utrecht, NL
Venue Type	Concert Hall
Capacity	1600
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Chamberlin, Auf der Maur
Order of Bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
TV #1
Source	TV
Format	DAT
Equipment	DA-20mkII
Length	127m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	DAT-M > CDR
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
FM #1
Source	FM
Format	ANA
Equipment	Unknown
Length	48m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	ANA-M > FLAC
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	Everlasting Gaze, Age of Innocence, Blue Skies Bring Tears, Glass and the Ghost Children, I Am One, Rock On, Zero, and To Sheila.
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	MD
Equipment	ECM-TS120 > MZ-R35
Length	131m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	MD-? > CDR
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
PRO #1
Source	TV
Format	VHS
Equipment	Unknown
Length	127m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	VHS-M > DVD
Notes	VHS-1 > DVD, VHS-? > DVD, and VHS-? > VCD versions also circulate.
Unsurfaced Recordings
FM #2
Source	FM
Format	MD
Equipment	MDS-JE520
Length	55m
Complete?	No
Notes	Includes interview.

Setlist

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Set:

• Pale Scales
• The Everlasting Gaze
• Heavy Metal Machine
• Age of Innocence
• Blue Skies Bring Tears
• Glass and the Ghost Children
• I Am One (with rant) [7:32]
• Rock On [Essex]
• Zero
• Stand Inside Your Love
• To Sheila
• Ava Adore
• Cherub Rock
• I of the Mourning

Encore One:

• 1979
• The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete

Encore Two:

• Tonight, Tonight (abandoned)
• Sunday Bloody Sunday (tease) [U2]
• Tonight, Tonight
• Glass' Theme
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings

Encore Three:

• X.Y.U. (with rant)
• We Love You

Notes

• 1979 and the Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete performed acoustic

Banter

Pale Scales
> The Everlasting Gaze
Heavy Metal Machine
Age of Innocence
> Blue Skies Bring Tears
> Glass and the Ghost Children
> I Am One
Rock On
(BC during Iha solo: Theo Van Gogh on the lead guitar.)
> Zero
Iha: Yeah. Hello, hello. How is everybody? Good? I am sick, I ate a bad duck. I don’t know if you’ve ever had a bad duck but uh...I’m uh, I’m trying though, very hard. Heh heh. Uh, we’re really glad to be here and uh, you guys are rockin’. Probably more rockin’ than we are. So I advise you all to start your own rock band. And then you will have the bad duck. Alright, uh, we are going to play another new song, I know you haven’t heard all these songs but they’re all really rockin’ and uh...any second, we will rock again. Uh, maybe we won’t, hang on. Alright, it’s time to do some introductions, heh heh. On the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Yes, he is back and in fine form. In the shrouded tomb, Mr. Billy Corgan. You can wave but he doesn’t where he is. Uh, on the bass (pronounced like the fish) guitar, Miss Melissa Auf der Maur. And I am the bad duck.
Stand Inside Your Love
> To Sheila
BC: Thank you very much, I’m - I’m sorry I’m a little uh, rough of voice but um...thank you anyway. There’s no smoking, as you can see, and uh.... I see my jokes do not translate into Dutch so I’ll stop here but thank you anyway, I know you understand that much, thank you, love you.
Ava Adore
Cherub Rock
(BC over extended drum intro: Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, even though I’m dying right before your very eyes, we’d still like to attempt this next feat. This next feat requires great skill. There’s only one drummer in the world who can play this song and he’s standing right behind me. Sitting, heh heh. Now a lot of you before, heh. If I die during this song, we loved you so much and uh, one last thing. Please do not try Cherub Rock at home.)
I of the Mourning
[encore break]
Iha: Do you like the acoustic better than the drums, Jimmy? As most things...it’s a lot easier, there’s less to work with. It’s kind of a limited instrument, the guitar.
BC: I believe these are Swedish stools. They’re very uncomfortable.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. Um, we’d like to do a song for you now, um, from an album released in 1972. It was obscured, unfortunately that year, by the release of Queen II and um, Bowie’s first album. It just kind of blew us away, um, and it’s kind of an underappreciated album from the ‘70s. Um, this is from our Adore album, it’s called The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete.
The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete (acoustic)
BC: God bless you, thank you.
Iha: Thank you.
[encore break]
Tonight, Tonight (abandoned after Billy starts singing lyrics for chorus 2 instead of chorus 1)
BC: I fucked up. Stop, I fucked up.
Iha: [unintelligible]
BC: Heh heh, you know when you, you think “I hope I don’t forget the lyrics” and then you get nervous and then you forget the lyrics? That’s what happened, heh heh.
Sunday Bloody Sunday (tease - Iha plays first 6 notes)
BC: Well, should we just go to the next song or should we start it again? You want the next song? Ahhh, okay. (laughing through next sentence) One more time.
Tonight, Tonight
Glass’ Theme
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
BC: Thank you very much, thank you.
[encore break]
X.Y.U.
(BC at very end: Alright, end this bad jam. Alright. Thank you, that’s it.)
BC: James? James? James, I know you’re throwing up. Heh heh heh. James, I know you’re throwing up but will you come back to the stage please? (Iha is literally using a telephone on the side of the stage) Come see all these beautiful people, James, they want to see you. (Iha noodles) He can’t s - he can’t speak right now because he just threw up all over his shoes. But what he’s telling me right now is that he wants to play on, he wants more. He believes that you people here have the cure to fix his sickness. Unfortunately, you cannot fix mine but you can fix his. Now let’s all concentrate our psychic healing powers and direct them at James.
We Love You
BC: What, you can’t afford a gate? ... Alright, right about now, right about now, right about now, we’re going to play you the song with no name. This is the song with no name. It has no words, it has no future and yes, you help us write the song. Yes, you help us write the song. Now there’s only one line in the song that I sing over and over and when you hear it, you have to sing it back. When you hear it, you must have to sing it back or else you would be ejected from the concert. These are the rules.

we’re gonna reach on up
we’re gonna reach on down
we’re gonna make you feel
that you’ve got nothing to go on for
‘cause we bring the black cloud
we bring the doom
but behind every black cloud is a silver lining
and a girl named june (screams)

we love you
we love you
we love you

that’s right we love you
we love you
we love you
that’s right we love each and every one of you
and we will love you after the concert as well
personally

i reach for the words that cannot describe
i ask forgiveness in the sky
i know no future I know no rhyme
‘cause i’m getting old and i’ve lost my fucking mind
but i have to know
i want to know
i want to knoooow

the answers to all the questions
the answers to allll meanings
because in the symbols divine
you look behind
you may find
that i’ve lost my mind
i tell you that again and again because there’s no future for this song

we’re gonna get real high
we’re gonna have a good time
we’re gonna get real high
(screams)

we love you
we love you
we love you

we love you (about 20x in rapid succession)
(Iha is soloing furiously during the above)

BC: Oh, you’re feeling better. You wanna try and take us home? Wanna take us home, Wildfoot? ... I - I just want you to feel better. I want you to do whatever’s gonna make you feel better! (Iha waves and walks off stage) I wanna say this quick. Alright, just hold on a second, hold on a second. Hold on. (band stops playing) He’s quit. He obviously’s not feeling any better.

(Billy and Iha sort of do a instrumental call and response for a moment while Iha is still off stage. Band goes into sort of a blues version of the song while Iha slowly wanders back to the stage.)

we love you
we love you
we love you
we love you
we love you
we love you
we love you
we love you
we love you

(Iha is back on stage now)
BC: Thank you very much everybody. You rock. We love you very much. That really is the end of the concert. There’s no more fake endings, there’s no more songs, that’s the end of.... Here, I’m going to let this nice girl in the front row sing.
Girl: BILLY IS THE GREATEST!!! I LOVE HIM LIKE HELL!!!! SMASHING PUMPKINS FOREVER!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! RAAAAAAAAAARR. WOO HOO!!! JIMMY!! (howling like wolf repeatedly as band crescendos underneath)
(band stops)
Girl: That’s what I’m talkin’ about, Jimmy! [unintelligible]
BC: Goodnight.

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