Tsp1988-08-10

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	1988-08-10
Venue	Avalon
Location	Chicago, IL, US
Venue Type	Club
Capacity	Unknown
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Wretzky
Order of Bands	Smashing Pumpkins, Swinging Dix, Shy Violence
Surfaced Recordings
SBD #1
Source	SBD
Format	ANA
Length	63m
Complete	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	ANA-M > CDR
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	Sourced from Billy's own tape that was given to Dave Asselin. This may actually be an audience recording made from the soundboard area.
Unsurfaced Recordings
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	ANA
Equipment	Unknown
Length	Unknown
Complete?	Unknown
Notes	Likely recorded by a friend of a band member.
AUD #2
Source	AUD
Format	ANA
Equipment	Unknown
Length	Unknown
Complete?	Unknown
Notes	Likely recorded by a friend of a band member.

Setlist

Set:

• The Vigil
• Armed to the Teeth
• Bleed
• There It Goes
• My Eternity (false start)
• My Eternity
• I Fall
• Nothing and Everything
• 6234
• Holiday
• Screaming

Notes

• Darcy's first show
• First performances of Armed to the Teeth, There It Goes, My Eternity, Nothing and Everything, and Holiday
• Only performances of The Vigil, I Fall and 6234
• The sound engineer for Avalon at this show was Paul Chabala, who would later provide engineering for the band's first demo tape at his own Schwa Productions. It was at this show that Chabala and Billy Corgan met.

Banter

MC: Ladies and gentlemen, thanks for sticking around. And now, for your entertainment pleasure: Smashing Pumpkins!
Corgan: Good evening.
The Vigil
Corgan: Thank you very much. This is called Armed to the Teeth.
[Drum machine plays wrong beat]
Iha (?): Ahhh!
Corgan: See? No, its not.
Iha (?): Twelve, eleven.
Armed to the Teeth
Corgan: Thank you, thank you.
Iha: Thanks. Thanks, Bob.
[Drum machine plays wrong beat]
Corgan: See what you get for not having a drummer? [tuts] Sin number one.
Bleed
There it Goes
Iha: Thanks.
Corgan: Um, we'd would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for coming out. I know some who have waited, some don't care, but thanks is all the same. Now we are going to change the bass. Oh, oh, Paul? Oh, Pa... just a little bit more drums. Thank you. I can't hear shit. This is one of those crowd favorites, this is called My Eternity.
My Eternity
Corgan: Thank you.
I Fall
Audience member: Where's your drummer?
Corgan: Ahh, don't start that shit. The reason we aren't playing with the drummer is because we had a drummer, and he fucked everything up, so why fuck everything up, you know what I mean? I mean I don't like playing with the drum machine anymore than maybe you don't like hearing it. But I don't have a drummer, so I'll play, you know. Hey, you wanna fuckin' drum, come up here [unintelligible] You know we don't fucking just like make this shit up out of air, it takes a lot of time, and uh, you know, I'd like to be here with a drummer and everything would be kosher. This my friend is a song for you. Ready? Are you ready?
Nothing and Everything
Iha: Thanks.
Audience member: We can't hear you!
Corgan: You can't hear what? Sing?
Audience member: Can't hear you!
Corgan: Me singing? This song is a step forwards, a step backwards all at the same time. I'm sure we all know about that in our little lives, including me.
6234
Iha: Thanks an awful lot.
Corgan: This falls in the hit song category.
Holiday
Corgan: Thank you, thank you, very kind. This will be our last number. I'd like to thank the Avalon Night Club, Paul, an excellent mixing man. He deserves many applause. [tuts] heh, and your mic isn't on.
Wretzky: I wanna thank everybody who came out tonight, all my friends and my sister.
Iha: And I would like to thank Vince [unintelligible] And McDermit if he's out there.
Corgan: And I'd to thank [feedback] woah! I'd like to thank the Lord, Jesus Christ. That's right, you don't sing the last verse. Yeah that's alright. You don't say nothing anyway. This song's called Screaming. Like a mother... fucker. Are you loud? Jesus! [unintelligible]
Screaming
Corgan: Sayonara.
MC: Let's hear it one more time for the Smashing Pumpkins!

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