Tsp2000-05-23

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	2000-05-23
Venue	Universal Amphitheater
Location	Universal City, CA, US
Venue Type	Theater
Capacity	6251
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Chamberlin, Auf der Maur
Order of Bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
SBD #1a
Source	SBD
Format	CDR
Equipment	Unknown
Length	15m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	CDNow Liquid Audio Promo CD
Notes	Blue Skies Bring Tears and Heavy Metal Machine.
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	CSHEB>Att.(-20db)>M1(mic in, 48k)
Length	127m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	DDC-?>CDR
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	Loge, second row. ~30 feet from stage.
AUD #2
Source	AUD
Format	MD
Equipment	Unknown
Length	122m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	MD-?>CDR
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	Numerous dropouts/skips.
AUD #3
Source	AUD
Format	MD
Equipment	CSBMod>MS702
Length	125m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	MD-M>FLAC
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	Superior to other AUD sources.
PRO #1a
Source	TV
Format	SVHS
Equipment	Unknown
Length	55m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	SVHS-?>VHS-?>DVD
Notes	Glass and the Ghost Children, The Everlasting Gaze, Heavy Metal Machine, I Am One, I of the Mourning, To Shelia, Muzzle, Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Once in a Lifetime (cut). SVHS-M>DAT-M>SHN audio transfer circulates, with a dropout in Glass and the Ghost Children.
PRO #1b
Source	TV
Format	VHS
Equipment	Unknown
Length	85m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	VHS-M>DVD
Notes	Glass and the Ghost Children, The Everlasting Gaze, Heavy Metal Machine, I Am One, I of the Mourning, To Shelia, Muzzle, 1979, Zero, Today, Blue Skies Bring, Tears, Blank Page, Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Once in a Lifetime, With Every Light.
PRO #1c
Source	WWW
Format	ASF
Equipment	PC
Length	85m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	ASF-M
Notes	Same tracks as PRO #2a. Webcast on July 13th, 2000.
Unsurfaced Recordings
SBD #1
Source	SBD
Format	Unknown
Equipment	Unknown
Length	Unknown
Complete?	Unknown
PRO #1
Source	PRO
Format	VID
Equipment	Pro-Cams
Length	~125m
Complete?	Yes

Setlist

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Set:

• Age of Innocence
• Glass and the Ghost Children
• The Everlasting Gaze
• Heavy Metal Machine
• Blew Away
• Stand Inside Your Love
• I Am One (with rant)
• I of the Mourning
• To Sheila
• Muzzle
• 1979
• Ava Adore
• Rock On [Essex]
• Zero
• Today
• Blue Skies Bring Tears
• Tonight, Tonight
• Cherub Rock

Encore One:

• Blank Page
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
  • Once in a Lifetime [Talking Heads]

Encore Two:

• With Every Light
• Mayonaise

Notes

• To Sheila, Muzzle, 1979, and Ava Adore performed acoustic
• Billy announced that the band was breaking up earlier this day

Banter

Age of Innocence
Glass and the Ghost Children
The Everlasting Gaze
Heavy Metal Machine
Corgan: Thank you, thank you....thank you very much, thank you....always an honor and a pleasure to be back here in the city of Sodom and Gomorrah
Iha: City of lights
Corgan: I'd like to uh, to introduce you to my friend and partner for 13 years, he's a poet, he's a modern day mystic, he's in league with the devil, mister James Iha.
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
I Am One
I of the Mourning
To Sheila
Corgan: thank you very much, thank you so very much....how is uh, how is everybody doing tonight? No I'm just laughing because theres always the one guy who tells me "fuck you" when I ask that you know, so, I don't know why, I guess that's how he feels....um....yes. thank you, thank you. How's everybody doing up in there, in the uh, in those seats, those uh...like to play you a song uh, that uh, that we haven't, we haven't been uh, we haven't played for a while but we just started recently playing again, or I started playing it again, hope you like it it's uh, yes, now he changed it to peace and love, see, that guy.....uh, this means I'm going to die on a surfboard, what? oh ok, or this is that, right ok, I'm not from california, I don't understand this....this lingo.
Muzzle
Iha: So, is everybody ready to dance?
Corgan: James, we did that on the last tour, and the tour before that, it doesn't work anymore, let it go.
Iha: These people just need some levity (?) and I think they wanna dance, they just wanna boogie!
Corgan: Are you saying our music is depressing? because if you are James Iha, I'm gonna come over there and kick your ass right now!
Iha: I would say that uh, I dunno if Kafka would say we're depressing or not...
Corgan: Would you like to introduce the band, snakeytooth?
Iha: Alright, I'll introduce me, thank you! On drums, and acoustic guitar, mister Jimmy Chamberlin! Back on the drum riser, rockin' like nobody's business....on lead vocals and guitar, mister Billy Corgan! On the bass guitar, and socialism, miss Melissa Auf der Maur.
Corgan: And he, is James Snakeytooth Iha!
Iha: Thank you, lets boogie!
1979
Ava Adore
Rock On
Zero
Today
Blue Skies Bring Tears
Tonight, Tonight
Cherub Rock
[encore break]
Blank Page
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Once in a Lifetime
[encore break]
With Every Light
Corgan: Thank you, thank you, thank you....before we play our last song tonight, I'd like to take a moment, yes, yes it is our last song....now boo us, please...before we play our last song we'd just like to say without you there wouldn't be a dumb band like us...and uh, we owe you, we owe you uh, close to everything, not everything, you can't have our houses or cars, but after that you can have everything we have....from the bottom of our hearts, thank you for a great night and a great concert, thank you, god bless you.
Mayonaise
Iha: Thanks a lot, you guys are great, thank you...drive home safe...(3 unintelligible lines)

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