Tsp2008-12-07

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	2008-12-07
Venue	Aragon Ballroom
Location	Chicago, IL, US
Venue Type	Club
Capacity	4500
Lineup	Corgan, Chamberlin, Schroeder, Reyes, Harriton, Pooley, Shankar, Bradley, McNair
Order of Bands	The Frogs, The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
SBD #1
Source	SBD
Format	FLAC
Equipment	Unknown
Length	145m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	FLAC-M
Official Bootleg	livedownloads.com
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	MD
Equipment	CSB>MZ-RH1(Hi-SP, line in)
Length	146m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	MD-M>dEdit>FLAC
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
AUD #2
Source	AUD
Format	WAV
Equipment	built-in>R-09
Length	153m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	WAV-M>FLAC
Notes	Only source to include The Longing Goes Away.
AUD #3
Source	AUD
Format	WAV
Equipment	SP-CMC-2(4.7k mod)>SP Battery Box>iRiver H320
Length	147m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	WAV-M>FLAC
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	Fifteen feet behind soundboard.
AMT #1
Source	AUD
Format	MOV
Equipment	Unknown
Length	~5m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	MOV-M>DVD
Notes	The Longing Goes Away only. A-HD+ 1080P (720P/60fps mode).
AMT #2
Source	AUD
Format	VID
Equipment	Sony HDR-SR11
Length	145m
Complete?	Yes
YouTube	Youtube Video
Notes	Youtube video mixed with SBD source. Raw version circulates with original audio
Unsurfaced Recordings
AUD
Source	AUD
Format	WAV
Equipment	CA Mics>CA STC-900>R-09(16/44.1)
Length	~145m
Complete?	Unknown
AUD
Source	AUD
Format	WAV
Equipment	AKG480/CK61>Lunatec V3>Nomad JB3
Length	159m
Complete?	Yes
AMT
Source	AUD
Format	Unknown
Equipment	Unknown
Length	Unknown
Complete?	Unknown
Notes	Center balcony.

Setlist

Set One:

• The Longing Goes Away [The Frogs]

Set Two:

• Tonight, Tonight
• Tarantula
• Stand Inside Your Love
• Mayonaise
• Today
• Gossamer (15:29)
• 99 Floors
• Owata
• Soma
• Cherub Rock
• Zero
• Bodies
• United States
  • Star Spangled Banner [Key] (tease)
• A Song for a Son
• Medellia of the Grey Skies
• Communion
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
• Superchrist
• Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [Pink Floyd] [18:36]

Encore:

• Ava Adore
• 1979
• Disarm

Notes

• 99 Floors, Owata, Medellia of the Grey Skies, Communion, and Disarm performed acoustic
• Only performance of the Longing Goes Away
• The Longing Goes Away performed by the Frogs, with Billy on drums
• Last performance of Mayonaise until 2012-09-22
• Last performance of Superchrist until 2019-05-30
• Final performances of Medellia of the Grey Skies, Communion and Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun
• Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun with Jesse Corgan on percussion and recorder
• Ava Adore, 1979, and Disarm with Jesse Corgan on tambourine

Banter

2008 Intro
Tonight, Tonight
> Tarantula
> Stand Inside Your Love
Mayonaise
Today
Gossamer
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. (testing harmonica) Anyone know how to use this thing?
99 Floors (acoustic)
Owata (acoustic)
Soma
BC: Thank you, thank you! How is everybody, you okay? Are you okay? No? She’s not okay. Heh heh. You doin’ alright up there? Yeaaah. Heh heh heh heh. (coughs) Alright. You feeling good? Feelin’ good? Alright. ‘Cause if you weren’t feeling good, we’d stop the show and figure out what was wrong. You know I’m good at that, heh heh heh heh.
Cherub Rock
> Zero
> Bodies
United States / Star Spangled Banner
A Song for a Son
BC: Thank you, thank you. Thank you very much, Chicago, thank you very much. Yeah. That’s right. Ahem. Funny how all those motherfuckers who said we couldn’t come back were wrong. Exactly. And by the way, ahem, by the way, now that we got our stuff together, ahem, I think we’re about ready to go after all those lame fucking bands again. You know the bands they pass off as alternative, remember those bands? Exactly. Heh heh heh. Heh heh heh heh. Hey. I like this guy with the middle finger all show, this guy with the middle finger all show, aren’t you getting tired? You’ve had your middle finger up the whole show, now he’s got the evil hand, there you go. Turn that, haha, “fuck you” to an evil hand, there you go. Hahaha. God bless you. ... My point is, ahem, we’re not dead, we’re not going away. We certainly ain’t livin’ in the past. So I hope you’re ready, I hope you’re ready. Heh heh, exactly. That’s right. So since we’re not gonna play too many old songs anymore after these shows...heh heh heh, yes. Yeah, I know, whatever. Um, I did want to play this old song. It’s one of my favorites, now the guy with the middle finger again, I love it. You just tell me how the show’s going: evil hand, good, fuck you, bad, okay. Whenever a guy has a beard, there’s a problem, you know what I’m sayin’? It’s always the guys with the beards that write the mean reviews and the...blogging, heh heh. Anyway, this is a song off the, uh, Mellon Collie box set if any one of you have that. Whoever’s smoking all that weed, you’re making me really paranoid, hold on. I haven’t done, I haven’t done drugs in like eight years and there’s a lot of weed smoke coming this way, it’s like..... Anyway, hope you like this one.
Medellia of the Grey Skies (Billy solo acoustic)
BC: Like to, uh, thank the Frogs for opening up. For getting it together. One of the great bands of all time. I believe that with my heart.
Communion (Billy solo acoustic)
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Superchrist
(BC at very end: Jimmy Chamberlin. Jimmy Chamberlin!)
> Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
[encore break]
Jesse Corgan: Hey Chicago!
Ava Adore
BC: That’s right, that’s right, that’s right! How’s it going, tambourine man?
Jesse: Hey Billy, what’s up?
BC: Heh heh heh. This is my brother right here.
1979
BC: Jimmy! Thank you very much, thank you. ... Oh, they’re cheering for you, haha. Thank you. ... We’d like to play one more song if that’s okay. Like to introduce the band to you. Mr. Jeff Schroeder on gee-tar. On the violin, straight from Carnegie Hall, Ms. Gingger Shankar. On the keys, Ms. Lisa Harriton. Heh. Heh heh. Do you need any introduction or...? Stephen on the horn. Gabrial on the other horn. On the other keys, Mr. Kris Pooley. Heh, I like when they get to you, they turn the lights off. Can we put the lights back on (laughing)? So we can see Kris? There you go. On the bass, Ms. Ginger Pooley. On the, uh, tambo, my little brother, Mr. Jesse Anderson.
Jesse: HRC rules, yeah!
BC (off mic): What?
Jesse (off mic): HRC, where I work. My adventures in Chicago.
BC: You’re giving a shoutout to your work? Hahaha, you’re unbelievable. And on the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Okay, before we play this last song...big J... Now this man here and me, we just lost our grandma this past week. Right?
Jesse (off mic): Yeah yeah.
BC: So we’d like to dedicate this song to our grandma, Dorothy Hope.
Jesse (off mic): Yes.
BC: Alright, let’s play this one for grandma, alright?
Disarm (acoustic)

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