Tsp1994-04-27

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	1994-04-27
Venue	The Fillmore
Location	San Francisco, CA, US
Venue Type	Club
Capacity	1200
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Wretzky, Chamberlin
Order of Bands	Joe Satriani, American Music Club, Ry Cooder and David Lindley, The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
SBD #1
Source	SBD
Format	WAV
Equipment	Unknown
Length	69m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	WAV(M) > FLAC
Notes	Available through Wolfgang Vault
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	SS Mic > TCD-D7
Length	74m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	DAT-M > CDR
Notes	Surfaced in 2004.
AUD #2
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	Unknown
Length	72m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	DDC-? > CDR
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	Some dropouts towards the end of Silverfuck.
PRO #1
Source	Unknown
Format	VID
Equipment	Unknown
Length	69m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	? > MPEG-4
Video Link	Youtube
Notes	Surfaced in 2014; transfer to MP3 also circulates.
Unsurfaced Recordings
AUD #3
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	CSB > TCD-D7
Length	75m
Complete?	Unknown

Setlist

Set:

• Soma
• Rocket
• Geek U.S.A.
• Disarm
• Today (abandoned)
• Today
• Cherub Rock
• Drown [4:39]
  • Hummer [5:57]
• Luna
• Siva [5:27]

Encore One:

• Silverfuck [9:40]
  • Over the Rainbow [Harburg/Arlen] (tease)

Encore Two:

• Starla [8:19]

Notes

• Reopening of the Fillmore
• The Smashing Pumpkins' April 27, 1994 performance was an unannounced surprise show for the venue's reopening, closed since 1989 after sustaining damage during the Loma Prieta earthquake.

 "The speaker column fell over and smashed about three of James's guitars. And we were told, we were given this great distinction, you will be the band that would re-open the historic venue that hosted Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead and you're like, "Great." So we were very excited and very honored because a lot of those bands were our heroes. And then we got there and we realized that we hadn't been invited to the real opening, which was the night before, which was a private event, so all the celebrities and all the press went to that. And so we were like, "Oh okay," and then we were playing with the legend on the bill who hated us because we were too loud."

 — Billy Corgan, 2019-11-16 solo show

Video

PRO #1

Banter

Soma
Rocket
Geek U.S.A.
Corgan: Thanks a lot.
Disarm
Today (abandons after wrong chords, then restarts)
Cherub Rock
Corgan: Thanks, thanks a lot.
Drown
Hummer
Corgan: Thank you very much. Well, the spirit of Jimmy Hendrix must be here because my guitar cannot stay in tune, just like Jimmy.
Iha: But at least he didn't have [unintelligible] smashing him, killing all of his guitars.
Corgan: We'd like take this opporutnity to thank all the opening peoples. Thank you all you numerous peoples who opened today. We wish we could participate in more, [to crowd] shut up, I wish we could participate in more eclectic bills. Unfortunately everyone wants to put more rock over here. Sorry that's the way it is. We only have one rule, the only rule we have is we don't requests. We are not a bar band.
Luna
Siva
Intermission...
Corgan: Once again, we do not take requests, but thank you anyway. We're going to attempt to play a song in tune, the listening experience is usually a lot more pleasant when the song is in tune. [Plays opening chords of Silverfuck] Thank you very much. This next song... oh everything hurts, my finger, my throat, my back, knees. The cabinets fell off and broke James' guitar.
Iha: And almost killed one of our crew people. I thought it destroyed all of my guitars, but [unintelligible] found out. I'll try to be more happy now. It's just, the sudden death of someone and all of my guitars smashed... I don't know. Let's rock.
Corgan: Why don't you tell everyone how much you loved that guitar. I think we should do a little eulogy for the guitar, I think we should do a little eulogy for the guitar.
Iha: I loved it a real lot. I can't even look at it.
Corgan: Come on, bring it out.
Iha: This, is a limited edition guitar that we used on our last record. Thanks for the proper placement of the...
Corgan: As used on Siamese Dream.
Wretzky: This was James' favourite guitar.
Corgan: I think we should all have a moment of silence for the guitar... [pause] Thank you.
Wretzky: Don't cry, James. We'll buy you another one.
Corgan: Maybe Stach [?] can lend you a [unintelligible]
Iha: It was a friend of mine, now it's dead.
Silverfuck ending with segue into tease of Over the Rainbow
Intermission...
We don't believe in drum solos. If you want to watch somebody masturbate go to a...something. Jimmy will masturbate on the bus later. We don't do drum solos, what kind of English do you want me to say it in? [Spanish] No drum-o solos. [German] Neine sprechen the drum. [Spanish] This is our last "selecion", thank you very much for coming. We hope the rest of your acid trip goes as well.
Starla
Wretzky: Thank you for coming.

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