Tsp2008-11-18

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	2008-11-18
Venue	Chicago Theatre
Location	Chicago, IL, US
Venue Type	Theater
Capacity	3600
Lineup	Corgan, Chamberlin, Schroeder, Reyes, Harriton, Pooley, Shankar, Bradley, McNair
Order of Bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
SBD #1
Source	SBD
Format	FLAC
Equipment	Unknown
Length	148m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	FLAC-M
Official Bootleg	livedownloads.com
Unsurfaced Recordings
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Setlist

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Set:

• Roctopus
• Everybody Come Clap Your Hands [The Searchers]
• Tarantula
• G.L.O.W.
• Kill Your Parents
• Siva
• Eye
• Mayonaise
• Tonight, Tonight
• Speed Kills
• Transformer
• Superchrist
• United States
  • Star Spangled Banner [Key] (tease)
• Once Upon a Time
• Again, Again, Again (The Crux)
• The Rose March
• Today
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
• The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning
• Heavy Metal Machine
  • White Rabbit [Jefferson Airplane] (tease)
  • White Horse [Laid Back] (tease)
• Glass' Theme
• Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [Pink Floyd]

Encore:

• We Only Come Out at Night
• Everything's Beautiful (In Its Own Way) [Stevens]

Notes

• Crowd sings the entire first verse of Today
• Once Upon a Time, Again, Again, Again (The Crux), The Rose March, We Only Come Out at Night, and Everything's Beautiful (In Its Own Way) performed acoustic
• Final performance of Everything's Beautiful (In Its Own Way)
• Black Sunshine tour date: everybody buying combination-tickets to both the Black Sunshine and the White Crosses concerts during the Smashing Pumpkins 20th Anniversary tour, received a download link in February 2009. In the download: 4 live songs recorded during the 20th Anniversary tour.

Banter

Roctopus
Everybody Come Clap Your Hands [The Searchers]
Corgan: Rock and roll, people. This is rock and roll. Don't forget it.
Tarantula
G.L.O.W.
Kill Your Parents
Siva
Eye
Mayonaise
Corgan: Thank you, thank you.
Tonight, Tonight
Speed Kills
Transformer
Superchrist
United States

• Star Spangled Banner [Key] (tease)
  

Corgan: Thank you very much, thank you! Thank you. Well, you've survived the first part of the show, thank you very much for that. New York...they weren't sure about the first half of that show. Boston...little confused. You guys seem focused tonight, that's good. Gotta keep your game up. How's everybody doing, you okay? Yes...that sounded like a crowd at the end of the Cubs season, sort of like "Ehhhhh. Uhhhh. Ehhhh. Uhhhhh!" Everybody doing all right?
(cheers)
Corgan: Yeah! Yeah. Blackhawks fans! They're coming back, Jeff. They're coming back strong. After a thirteen year playoff absence, or whatever the fuck it is at this point! Jeff is our resident hockey fan, how many years has it been for the Hawks?...too long buddy, too long, heh.
Audience member: Go Bears!
Corgan: Somebody just yelled 'Let's go Bears'. That's a desperate man. Huh, if you still believe at this point my friend, you're a desperate man. (hocks)
Audience member (Inaudible) Corgan: (coughs) Yeah, exactly. Anyway we'd like to uh, kick it down at this moment. Yes, kick it down. Slow - slow jams for you baby, right there. Some slow jams. That's right. That's right. Every night, slow jams for you. That's right. Heh heh...Chicago style, right here!
(cheers)
Now what is Chicago style, would you like to tell us?...a girl who likes to have fun? Right, okay. Number one. A good - a girl with a good rear end. Number two. That's right. Baby's got some back. We know it. Check it out! Check it out. Number three, standard issue Jennifer Aniston hair. Standard issue, for a Chicago girl...No-no-no-no-no? You're working more the Angelina Jolie...pre-Brad Pitt? What? What-what-what are we talking about here?...yes, God bless. See? We bore you and then we make you laugh. That's our gimmick, right here. I'd like to introduce the band to you. Starting on my far left...Ms. Gingger Shankar. Yes. To my right: Stephen. Stephen of Oakland. That's his design label. All the way from SoCal: Gabriel. Gettin' it done. To Gabe's left, Mr. Christopher Pooley. To his left, his betrothed...is that a word? Yes. Mrs. Ginger Pooley. On the keys, Ms. Lisa Harrington. On the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin.
(cheers)
Corgan: What'd you ever do for Joliet? Ha ha, ha...anybody from Joliet in the house? Yeah! Rockin' that...what is it, I-88? Rockin' I-88? Listening to Boston? Exactly. Anyway we'd like to kick it down...who am I, my name's Fred. Fred Durst, we're gettin' the Bizkit back together. Hang in there.
(Starts Once Upon A Time, stops)
Corgan:...oh, did I forget you? Ha ha ha! I didn't mean to! I didn't mean to. Ladies and gentlemen, an incredible guitar player. I'm gonna heap the praise, now. An unbelievable human being! Jeff "Shredder" Schroeder!
(cheers)
Corgan:...did I forget anybody else? Larry the gnome. Larry the gnome. Larry the gnome. I'd n-*ahem* I'd now like to sing a song about my deceased mother. But it's a song of hope. You'll understand.
Once Upon a Time
Again, Again, Again (The Crux)
Audience member: More cowbell!
Corgan: Yeah. (clears throat) It's all good, it's all good. Get it all out of your system, it's okay. It's all good, get it all out. Let it out. Now that we live in a democracy again, you can say whatever you want, you know? Let it ride, let it ride.
The Rose March
Corgan: Thank you very much, thank you. It's okay, it's okay. Don't be afraid of the dark. It's okay. I like the dark better, go back to the dark...Yes! Yes. Let it all out, it's good. It's good therapy....yes. Twenty years of people yelling at me. Believe me, I'm used to it. Get it all out! That's right, get it all out, my friend. Let it all out. I'm sorry, uh...I'm sorry for you, but...what can I do?...That's right. That's right, it seems so simple.
Audience member: Go big or go home!
Corgan: That was a good one. "Go big or go home." I don't know if you see I'm dressed in a white dress...I don't really rock to the sports analogies when I'm on stage, if you know what I'm saying. Heh heh. Know what I'm saying?
Audience member: Thanks for coming!
Corgan: Thank you, thank you for coming, thank you...no, let's just, let's just enjoy the awkward moment, it's good, come on. Enjoy it. Breathe it in! You don't get many anymore. You don't get any. Actually, you get some, but you don't get many. No, not many. Pre-programmed society to serve you. Awkward moments written out of the script. That's right. That's right. (inhales) Just breathe it in. (inhales) It's good! I love it! I love it...yes.
(Audience members continuing to shout things)
Corgan: Just let me know when you're done, and we'll pick back up the show. Just get it all out, come on! Just get it all out.
(Cheering)
Corgan: How 'bout up there, you got anything to say? C'mon! C'mon! There you go. Yes...yes, there you go! See, it feels good to yell! Feels good! it's okay. I'm just a symbol. I'm not even here. I'm zero. Zero. Nothing. There's nobody. I'm not a human being. I didn't grow up here. I don't exist. I didn't write these songs. I'm not even here. It's amazing. It's a figment of your imagination. Heh heh heh heh...hahaha....people! People! We're alive. Right, we're alive, yes? Are you alive? Yes, you, are you alive? This man's alive. That's what I wanna see. There we go.
Today
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning
Heavy Metal Machine

• White Rabbit [Jefferson Airplane] (tease)
  
• White Horse [Laid Back] (tease)
  

Corgan: I'm your PERSONAL...Heavy Metal Machine! I'm your god-given Heavy Metal Machine. I'm your Chicago-born, bred, motherfuckin' MACHINE! Heavy. Metal. Machine. Heavy Metal MACHINE!....people of Earth! We ain't no little kids anymore. You didn't think the SP could crawl BACK! That's just facts, people. FACTS!...(jam continues)...Let me die for rock and roll, let me die and save your soul, let me go, sweet rock and roll...let all the girls kiss the boys at last, let the whole fuckin' world kiss my FUCKIN' ASS, let me go, sweet rock and roll!...We love you!...Gang....gang! Are you ready to die for rock and roll?
Band: Yeah!
Corgan: Are you ready to DIE for rock and roll?
Band: Oh yeah!!
Corgan: Are you ready? Are you ready?! Are you ready to die for rock and roll? Put your fists in the air like this!
Glass' Theme
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [Pink Floyd]
Encore:
We Only Come Out at Night
Corgan: Ladies and gentlemen, that's the end of the show. Yes, believe it or not, that's the end of the show. It went by so quick, didn't it? Just flew right by. Hahaha! Ohhhh, you make me laugh. So we'd like to dedicate this song to you before we leave. It's from the bottom of our hearts. Everything is beautiful in its own waayyy...Everyone is beautiful - even you - in its own way...you know, after 20 years I know I speak for..Jimmy and I...Jimmy's over there.
Chamberlin: That's me.
Corgan: After twenty years, it's been a bunch of fun, bunch of laughs, hasn't it?
Chamberlin: It feels like...twenty years.
Corgan: Hahahahahahaha! Maybe like nineteen, but...it's just flown by, hasn't it?
Chamberlin: Yep. Like one long summer.
Corgan: Just a path of rainbows.
Chamberlin: Glittering rainbows. Unicorns
Corgan: And I know that when I look back in twenty more years, I'll think back to this night.
Chamberlin: The next twenty years, when we meet here again.
Corgan: Right.
Chamberlin: When we play all our hit songs.
Corgan: In twenty years.
Chamberlin: Right?
Corgan: In twenty years.
Chamberlin: 'Cause we'll have even more of them.
Corgan: I hope so.
Chamberlin: Oh, yeah.
Everything's Beautiful (In Its Own Way) [Stevens]
Corgan: Everything is beautiful in its own waayyy...Everyone is beautiful - even you - in its own way.
Chamberlin: Especially you.
Corgan: You know, when I go home tonight...yes, when I go home tonight...and I'm masturbatin'...thinking of Sarah Palin...
Chamberlin: Haha!
Corgan:...bent over that amp right there...hahaha...and I just can't find the power to get off, you know, I just can't get there? Maybe it's the five kids, maybe it's Todd on the...snow cycle?
Chamberlin: Not for lack of trying!
Corgan: And I need that little extra boost...I'm gonna think about you to get me off. (cheers That's right...Everything is beautiful in its own way...that's right! You know, for twenty years, we've tried to make people happy, and failed again and again.