Tsp1996-07-10

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	1996-07-10
Venue	USAir Arena
Location	Landover, MD, US
Venue Type	Arena
Capacity	18,756
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Wretzky, Chamberlin, Melvoin
Order of Bands	Garbage, The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
SBD #1a
Source	SBD
Format	ADAT
Equipment	unknown
Length	35m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	"The Aeroplane Flies High" official release (reissue only)
Notes	Silverfuck only.
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	ANA
Equipment	CSB > WM-D6C
Length	121m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	ANA-M > DDC-? > CDR
Notes	ANA-? > CDR versions are far more common.
AUD #2
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	SS-DSM-6 > TCD-D7
Length	123m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	DAT-M > FLAC
Live Music Archive	16-bit recording
Notes	15th row, dead center. Silverfuck cuts in.
AUD #3
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	Unknown
Length	120m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	DDC-? > CDR
Live Music Archive	16-bit recording
Notes	Superior to AUD #2. Might actually be AUD #4 or a second SS > D7 source.
AMT #1
Source	AUD
Format	VID
Equipment	Unknown
Length	114m
Complete?	No
Video Link	YouTube
Notes	Shot from balcony, left side. Thru The Eyes of Ruby cuts out. Uploaded to YouTube on 2017-11-14.
AMT #1a
Source	AUD
Format	VID
Equipment	Unknown
Length	12m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	VHS-? > DVD
Notes	Porcelina of the Vast Oceans only. Shot from balcony, left side. Circulates on Vieuphoria 2 fan compilation.
Unsurfaced Recordings
AUD #4
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	ECM-909A > TCD-D8
Length	~120m
Complete?	Unknown
SBD #1
Source	SBD
Format	ADAT
Equipment	Unknown
Length	~120m
Complete?	Yes
Notes	Vault copy.

Setlist

Set:

• Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (over PA)
• Tonight, Tonight
• Zero
• Fuck You
• To Forgive
• Today
• Thru the Eyes of Ruby
  • By Starlight
• Disarm
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
• Siva [4:34]
• Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
  • Beautiful (unfinished)
  • Rocket (tease)
• Fight Fire with Fire [Metallica] (tease)
• Tear (tease)
• Cherub Rock

Encore One:

• In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida [Iron Butterfly] (tease)
• (blues jam)
• X.Y.U.

Encore Two:

• 1979
• Silverfuck [38:37]
  • X.Y.U. (tease)
  • Space Jam (tease)
  • Eye (tease)
  • The End [The Doors] (tease)
  • Dose [Filter] (tease)
  • Star Spangled Banner [Key] (tease)
  • Jellybelly (old version) (tease)
  • You Are My Sunshine [Cash] (tease)
  • Hava Nagila [traditional] (tease)

Notes

• Jimmy's last show until 1999-04-10
• Disarm performed acoustic
• Silverfuck with Jonathon Melvoin on second drum kit

Banter

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Intro
Tonight, Tonight
> Zero
Fuck You
BC: Thank you, hi.
To Forgive
Today
> Planet of the Apes clip
> Thru the Eyes of Ruby
> By Starlight
BC: Thank you very much. We appreciate you coming to our concert tonight. As I said last night, we've been coming to the Washington DC area since about 1990 and it's always been a pleasure to come here. And we thank uh, we thank all our old fans for sticking with us and we thank all our new fans for coming. So we send this here song out to you.
Disarm (acoustic)
Circus tape
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Siva
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans / Beautiful / Rocket
BC: (Satanic voice) Thank you. (normal voice) So how is everybody?
Fight Fire with Fire (tease - Billy is quietly doodling the acoustic opening while Iha talks)
Iha: Did we - did we space you out? Are you spaced out?
Tear (tease - Billy plays 5 notes of the riff while Iha talks)
> Fight Fire with Fire (tease - Billy goes right back into doodling the opening while Iha talks)
Iha: Are you still with us? Alright. Well, let's get on board the spaceship one more time.
BC: You guys, remember it, it will no longer be the Washington Bullets. It will be the Washington Warblers.
Iha: That’s right.
BC: Because bullets don't win, they kill. (Jimmy starts Cherub Rock)
Iha: There’s a lesson.
Cherub Rock
[encore break]
In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida (tease)
Iha: Yeah. How is everybody? Good? This is the small time for me and you, me and you to talk, one on ten thousand, just talkin’. Talkin’ about fuckin’ whatever, I don’t know. You doin’ good? I can tell you’re doin’ good, you’re rockin’. Now I remember as a small child, I’d think of a grasshopper and I was thinking about Nietzsche, we all remember the Nietzsche novel, Beyond Good and Evil. I was contemplating the uh, you know, the very depths of man’s evil, could he crush the grasshopper? And I thought as a young child, fuck it, I just wanna go to the play - playground. So you know what I did, I let that grasshopper go and uh, I became all schoolyard that year. I was great (song ends) on the monkey bars and uh...I don’t know, let’s rock. (Billy plays a blues riff and continues while Iha talks) You got them fuckin' blues, don't you? Shit, he's from Chicago. We got the Bulls, we got the Bears, we got bratwurst, we got the blues. Damn. (Billy finishes doodling but Jimmy starts a drumbeat right as he does) Oh yeah, I know what you're talkin' about.
blues jam
Iha about 25 seconds in: You see, this is what we do. We truly play this, we don’t really write songs, we just jam on blues all the time at practice. You’re just getting a little taste of it right now. This is a fuckin’ practice, ain’t no concert, it’s a practice session, we’re just jamming.
BC: Wait, these people down here are suspicious of our blues roots.
Iha: Right.
BC: Alright.
Iha: They don’t really know what the fuck we’re talkin’ about or playing.
BC: All I know is (sings and plays same notes simultaneously) we want to thank you, I want to thank you right now, I want to thank you.
Iha: Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
BC: Heh. (Jimmy stops) (Billy waits a few seconds and then sings/plays again) Now it’s time to go...
Iha: You go!
BC: (sings/plays) ...now it’s time to go on with the show...
Iha: You go!
BC: (sings/plays) ...show, show...
Iha: You go!
BC: (sings/plays) ...whoa whoa whoa.
Iha: Go now! (Billy keeps doodling but stops singing) Oh my god, I’m sorry. (Billy stops)
BC: This one's for Stevie Ray. (crowd cheers) Not Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stevie Ray Jones, this guy I went to high school [with].
Iha: Alright, we'll get back to the cyber rock, hang on.
BC: He had a blues dream, it never came true.
X.Y.U.
[encore break]
Iha: Nice, thanks, thanks, thanks.
BC: Thanks a lot again.
1979
Silverfuck / X.Y.U. / Space Jam / Eye / The End / Dose / Star Spangled Banner / Jellybelly / You Are My Sunshine / Hava Nagila
BC: Thanks, god bless you, bye.

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