Tsp1996-01-13

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	1996-01-13
Venue	Academy of Music
Location	New York, NY, US
Venue Type	Unknown
Capacity	Unknown
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Wretzky, Chamberlin, Melvoin
Order of Bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	ANA
Equipment	Unknown
Length	142m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	ANA-3 > FLAC
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	Left channel volume drops for 0:21 during Cupid de Locke, dropout in the crowd noise after Disarm, tape errors after 1979, Silverfuck cuts, missing Farewell and Goodnight. The right channel becomes overdriven after 1979. ANA-3 > CDR transfer also circulates.
Unsurfaced Recordings
AMT #1
Source	AUD
Format	VID
Equipment	Unknown
Length	Unknown
Complete?	Unknown
Notes	Permission shot for the band, likely from either the soundboard area or a VIP box.
SBD #1
Source	SBD
Format	ADAT
Equipment	Unknown
Length	~150m
Complete?	Yes
Notes	Vault copy.

Setlist

Set One:

• Tonight, Tonight
• In the Arms of Sleep
• Cupid de Locke
• Thirty-three
• Today
• Lily (My One and Only)
• Take Me Down
• Beautiful
• Rocket
• Disarm
• Galapogos

Set Two:

• Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (over PA)
• Lucifer Sam [Pink Floyd] (tease)
• Where Boys Fear to Tread
• Zero
• Fuck You
• Here Is No Why
• To Forgive
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
• Thru the Eyes of Ruby
• Geek U.S.A.
• 1979
• Jellybelly
• Porcelina of the Vast Oceans

Encore One:

• X.Y.U.

Encore Two:

• We Only Come Out at Night
• Cherub Rock
  • Star Spangled Banner [Key] (tease)

Encore Three:

• Silverfuck [17:09]
  • Space Jam (tease)
• Farewell and Goodnight

Notes

• Tonight, Tonight through Take Me Down performed acoustic

Banter

Tape is pretty rough so everything may not be 100% accurate

Iha: Hello.
Tonight, Tonight (acoustic)
(BC after Iha gets last 3 chords wrong: Whoa.)
Iha: Thank you.
BC: That was a pretty interesting note you hit there.
Iha: I thought I [2 unintelligible words].
In the Arms of Sleep (acoustic)
BC: Thank you, thank you, thank [2 unintelligible words]. Thanks for coming.
Cupid de Locke (acoustic)
Thirty-three (acoustic)
BC: Thank you so much.
Iha: Thank you so much.
BC: Like to play an oldie now, uh, from way back.
Iha: A golden oldie.
Today (acoustic)
Lily (acoustic)
Take Me Down (acoustic)
BC: Yeah, you’re a butch motherfucker.
Iha: (directed at the song ending, not Billy) Thank you. ... Yee-haw!
BC: (Southern accent) We’re havin’ a party here tonight, James! (normal) Streets are hot. And you fuckers need a new snow commissioner, man.
Iha: You like uh, big [unintelligible]. [unintelligible word]. Ah yeah.
BC: The Big Apple.
Beautiful
(BC right at beginning: Very beautiful outside of here, James.)
Rocket
BC: Thank you for your [unintelligible word]. Hey.
Disarm
BC: Thank you.
D’arcy: Did someone close in New York?
Galapogos
[set break]
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Intro
Lucifer Sam (tease)
> Where Boys Fear to Tread
> Zero
Fuck You
Iha: Alright! Rock power, heh heh. It’s now time for a good story of when I walking down the street and uh, this guy on the street had these [unintelligible - could be “cards” or “cars”]. And I haven’t been in New York pretty much and he had these [unintelligible c word] on sale and he said, “Thirty dollars for a good [unintelligible word] New York [unintelligible word]” so I followed him. I don’t know if that was a good deal or not but he said it was a great deal. [2 unintelligible words].
BC: I just wanna know what your problem is, man. What’s your (laughing) fucking problem?
Iha: Well, it - you know, step off [unintelligible]. Fuckin’ [unintelligible]. You don’t like diamonds? I got them coming [unintelligible word]. I’m used to this solo time. Uh...yeah.
Here Is No Why
BC: Thanks a lot for listening to a bunch of our old songs.
To Forgive
BC: Thank you. ... Heh heh heh heh. I’m still contemplating the first line, what does it mean?
Iha: [unintelligible]
BC: Is it?
D’arcy: The world is a bonfire?
BC: The world is vampire.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
[tape cut]
Geek U.S.A.
1979
[tape cut]
D’arcy: Why are you guys screaming “asshole”? Are you guys screaming “asshole” at Billy? [unintelligible sentence.]
BC: Sorry, I just had to deal with something.
Iha: Let’s [unintelligible word] to the story.
BC: Take it, Jimmy.
Jellybelly
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
BC: Thank you very much.
[encore break]
X.Y.U.
[encore break]
BC: It’s happy time!
Iha: What?
BC: Happy time, you know happy time, here we go, happy time. Are you ready to have some fun now? Let the fun begin! It’s time to have some fun. Fun! You ready, James? (Jimmy starts We Only Come Out at Night drumbeat)
Iha: (screamed) Yeah!
BC: Hang up that cyber metal shit.
D’arcy: Here’s Amy Finnerty and she’s been to more Smashing Pumpkins shows than anyone can match.
BC: Amy, please stand up. Amy, please stand up.
D’arcy: Wait wait wait wait, James.
BC: She actually wrote this song so if you don’t like it, throw things at her, [unintelligible word or two]. Just kidding, just kidding. I wrote this dumb motherfuckin’ song. But I like it. And it’s in the key of G, it goes like this. ... Happy time, here we go.
We Only Come Out at Night
BC: Oh yeah. Sorry sorry sorry.
(Jimmy starts Cherub Rock drumrolls and continues through Iha’s line)
Iha: [unintelligible but sounds something like “Maybe it should just be drums”]
BC: If you don’t know this song...if you don’t know this song, you don’t belong here, that’s what it is.
Cherub Rock
> Star Spangled Banner (tease - Billy plays part of it over big ending)
(Iha over ending after Billy’s tease: Yeah!!)
[encore break]
Silverfuck / Space Jam
Farewell and Goodnight (cut on tape)

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