Tsp1996-01-06

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	1996-01-06
Venue	9:30 Club
Location	Washington, DC, US
Venue Type	Club
Capacity	1000
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Wretzky, Chamberlin, Melvoin
Order of Bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
AMT #1
Source	AUD
Format	Hi8
Equipment	Unknown
Length	143m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	Hi8 > VHS-? > DVD
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	VHS-? > VCD transfer also circulates, as well as VHS-1 > CDR and VHS-? > CDR audio transfers.
Unsurfaced Recordings
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	SS Mics > TCD-D8
Length	~140m
Complete?	Unknown

Setlist

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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

Set Two:

• Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (over PA)
• Where Boys Fear to Tread
• Zero
• Fuck You
• To Forgive
• Jellybelly
• Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
• Thru the Eyes of Ruby
• 1979
• Geek U.S.A.
• Cherub Rock

Encore One:

• We Only Come Out at Night
• X.Y.U.

Encore Two:

• A Night Like This [The Cure] (tease)
  • Boys Don't Cry [The Cure] (tease)
  • By Starlight
• Silverfuck

Notes

• Tonight, Tonight through Take Me Down performed acoustic

Banter

Corgan: Hi.
Iha: Hey.
Tonight, Tonight
Corgan: Thank you. My name is Bill, and we are the vibratones.
In the Arms of Sleep
Corgan: Thanks a lot.
Cupid de Locke
Iha: Thank you very much. Accompanying us tonight is Jonathon Melvoin on keyboards.
Wretzky: In his long underwear!
Iha: We couldn't find quite to appropriate pajamas for this early acoustic set, so he's wearing black long underwear.
Thirty-three
Corgan: Thank you.
Iha: Um, hold on. I'm just kidding, great job.
Today
Corgan: Damn straight.
Iha: Rock and roll!
Lily
Take Me Down
Corgan: Thank you so much. We appreciate the opportunity to play a little different for you this evening, as opposed to the normal rock power shit, you know?
Iha: We will do a set of Pantera covers after this acoustic set, though.
Beautiful
Corgan: Remember when we were talking about how I never have to go pee when we're on stage? I have to go pee now.
Wretzky: There's a cup right behind you.
Corgan: I could go pee on-stage, I guess. I mean I suppose you've seen worse in DC with your mayor smoking crack and all...hey I was there with him, you just didn't see me on the tape!
Iha: Oh yeah, you told me about that.
Rocket
Disarm
Corgan: Thanks.
Wretzky: Thank you.
[set break]
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (PA intro)
Where Boys Fear to Tread
Zero
Fuck You
To Forgive
Jellybelly
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Corgan: Thank you very much. We are the Smashing Pumpkins. We have been so for over seven years now.
Iha: And uh, this song is about seven years old.
Corgan: Thank you very much.
Iha: Very much.
Corgan: Not as long as that ten year one, but...how about some lights on the people, let's see some people tonight.
Iha: Let's see some motherfucking people in the fucking DC house, can I have your hands in the air, fucking east coast flavor...
Corgan: Are you ready?
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
1979
Corgan: Another barn-burner...Jimmy are you bleeding? Jimmy is bleeding.
Iha: Who would care to suck the blood from this man? I dare ye, are ye a witch? Suck his blood.
Corgan: Oh, he can still play!
Geek U.S.A.
Cherub Rock
[encore break]
Iha: What's that? I can't make out what you're saying.
Corgan: He's up there going hey! Shut up!
Wretzky: I'd like --
Iha: I beseech ye, we are going to cast a spell upon you.
Wretzky: James, shut up. I'd like - I'd like -- wait, I'd like to take a moment to thank our gentle giants, the security men because they've been really good, and they haven't beat anybody up at all and that's just unheard of, they're really good and you guys should appreciate them.
Iha: Normally they're jack-booted thugs, but...
Corgan: I think all the security men deserve a bottle of Jack Daniels from the band, what do you think about that, eh? Although I'm sure they don't drink, they're all teetotalers I'm sure.
We Only Come Out at Night
Corgan: Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you.
Wretkzy: This is another little ditty that we like to play sometimes, makes us happy.
Iha: We don't care about Downer's Grove...
Corgan: You're from Illinois? We don't give a fuck. We only care if you're from Washington fucking DC man, the nation's fucking capital.
Iha: That's...yeah, that's right.
Corgan: You know the streets are hot here tonight, James.
Iha: Oh they're very hot out there, and I can uh...
Corgan: You know, I think it's snowing, we're trapped in DC by the way.
Iha: A palpable heat, arising from the audience.
Corgan: I think we're gonna live here because I don't think we're gonna be able to leave...alright!
Iha: Alright, now we will rock, yet again.
Corgan: Did a little too much blow backstage, I'm a little wired.
X.Y.U.
[encore break]
Corgan: Thanks a lot. We've really enjoyed our time here, and look forward to coming back. We'd like to thank everyone for being so supportive since our first album, we've always had great shows here and that's why we came back. You don't see us playing in Philadelphia now do you? Or Pittsburgh, or Baltimore...yeah, shut up while I can...you could probably sing A Night Like This over this...
A Night Like This tease / Boys Don't Cry tease / By Starlight
Silverfuck
Corgan: Thanks. Peace out.

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