Tsp1998-07-30

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	1998-07-30
Venue	53rd Street
Location	New York, NY, US
Venue Type	Street
Capacity	Unknown
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Wretzky, Aronoff, Garson, Morris, Hodges
Order of Bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
Pre-FM #1
Source	Pre-FM
Format	CD
Equipment	Unknown
Length	6m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	Promo CD
Notes	Ava Adore only.
FM #1
Source	FM
Format	DAT(44.1k)
Equipment	Unknown
Length	17m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	DDC-2 > FLAC
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	Ava Adore, Crestfallen, and Pug. Deck may have been an R300. DAT-?>CDR transfer also circulates.
FM #2
Source	FM
Format	DAT
Equipment	R300
Length	17m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	DAT-M > CDR
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	Ava Adore, Crestfallen, and Pug.
FM #3
Source	FM
Format	ANA
Equipment	Unknown
Length	20m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	ANA-1 > CDR
Notes	Ava Adore, Crestfallen, and Pug.
TV #1
Source	TV
Format	DAT
Equipment	R300
Length	4m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	DAT-M > CDR
Notes	Perfect only.
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	MD
Equipment	CSBMod > MS702
Length	17m (soundcheck) 29m (show)
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	MD-M > DAT-M > CDR
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	~150 feet back.
PRO #1a
Source	TV
Format	VHS
Equipment	Unknown
Length	4m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	VHS-? > VCD
Notes	Perfect only. As broadcast on the Letterman show.
PRO #1b
Source	SAT
Format	BETA
Equipment	Unknown
Length	4m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	BETA-M > DVD
Notes	Perfect only. As broadcast on the Letterman show.
PRO #1c
Source	PRO
Format	VHS
Equipment	Unknown
Length	6m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	VHS-M > DVD
Notes	Perfect, with brief clips of 1979 and To Sheila. As broadcast on the Letterman show. From a Virgin Records in-house promo tape. FLAC transfer also circulates.
Unsurfaced Recordings
FM #3
Source	FM
Format	MD
Equipment	Unknown
Length	20m
Complete?	No
Notes	Ava Adore, Crestfallen, and Pug.
AUD #2
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	CSBMod > M1
Length	~45m
Complete?	Unknown
Notes	Includes soundcheck. Awful quality.
AUD #3
Source	AUD
Format	ANA
Equipment	Unknown
Length	~45m
Complete?	Unknown
Notes	Includes soundcheck.
AMT #1
Source	AUD
Format	VID
Equipment	Unknown
Length	Unknown
Complete?	Unknown
Notes	Obstructed shot, includes soundcheck.
PRO #1
Source	PRO
Format	VID
Equipment	Pro-Cams
Length	~30m
Complete?	Yes
Notes	CBS webcast the entire show live.

Setlist

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Soundcheck:

• Perfect (take one)
• Perfect (take two)
• Perfect (take three)
• Perfect (take four)

Set:

• Perfect
• 1979
• To Sheila
• Ava Adore
• Pug
• Crestfallen

Notes

• David Letterman show
• shut down by the NYPD due to crowd overflow

Banter

David Letterman: We couldn’t think of a better way, a better reason for tying up traffic on 53rd Street than for a performance from this great rock and roll band, Smashing Pumpkins, this is their new CD, it’s called Adore, here they are: Smashing Pumpkins.
Perfect
1979
To Sheila
BC: Hey uh, since some of these people are getting [unintelligible].
MC: New York City, how are you? [another minute unintelligible]
Ava Adore
Pug
> Crestfallen

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