Bc2022-07-27

Billy Corgan
Date	2022-07-27
Venue	Madame Zuzu's
Location	Highland Park, IL, US
Venue Type	Teahouse
Capacity	~40
Lineup	Corgan, Frank Catalano Quartet, Billy Swan, Sierra Swan, Jimmy Chamberlin, Perry Farrell, Janelle Lake, Chloe Mendel
Order of Bands	Janelle Lake, Frank Catalano Quartet, Corgan, Billy Swan and Sierra Swan, Corgan, Chamberlin and Swan, Frank Catalano Quartet with Swan, Corgan with Frank Catalano Quaret and Swan, Chloe Mendel, Perry Farrell
Surfaced Recordings
PRO #1
Source	PRO
Format	WEB
Equipment	Pro Cameras
Length	177m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	Youtube Livestream
Video Link	Youtube
Notes	Pro-camera livestream of show broadcast on youtube

Setlist

Set One

Janelle Lake

Set Two

Frank Catalano Quartet

• Night and Day [Cole Porter]
• (Duke Ellington cover)
• (John Coltraine cover)

Set Three

Set Four

Billy Corgan solo

• Processional
• Thirty-Three
• The Celestials
• Like Lambs
• Ithax

Set Five

Billy Swan and Sierra Swan

• Can Help [Billy Swan]
• Don't Be Cruel [Elvis Presley]

Set Six

Corgan, Chamberlin and Swan

• Aeronaut
• Today
• Wrath
• Scimitar
• 1979

Set Seven

Frank Catalano Quartet with Swan

• At Last [Glenn Miller]

Encore

Corgan with Frank Catalano Quartet and Swan

• With a Little Help from My Friends [The Beatles]
• Jane Says [Jane's Addiction]

Notes

• Together and Together Again benefit show for the Highland Park community in the wake of the Highland Park parade shooting
• First set by harpist Janelle Lake
• Second set by Frank Catalano Quartet with Chamberlin on drums
• John Coltrane cover featuring Corgan on guitar including a solo
• Can Help, Don't Be Cruel, and Aeronaut with Chamberlin on drums
• Don't Be Cruel with Corgan on electric guitar
• Aeronaut with Corgan on guitar and vocals, Sierra Swan on backing vocals
• At Last with Swan on vocals
• With a Little Help from My Friends with Chloe Mendel on lead vocals, Corgan on guitar and backing vocals
• Jane Says with Perry Farrell on vocals

Video

PRO #1

Banter

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Like Lambs

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• Corgan: Ladies and gentlemen, I'm certainly more dumb than I am courageous heh heh. I'll let you think on that one for a second. In a zigzagging career – and yes I call it a career – 35, 36 years and counting, [I've seen] a lot of crazy things. Last night, I played a new song. [unintelligible] Of course, I'd like to play this song for you now. What I did is I explained before I played the song that I was doing an interview the other day; we did a lot of press to set up this event. The interviewer asked me, "Did you ever think about writing a song about what happened here?" I said, "Well, that kind of reminds me of like when you get your heart broken when you're young and you write really bad poetry. I wouldn't want to write really bad poetry about something that was very hurtful." A couple days later I was working on a new Pumpkins song. I started playing something, and I thought "that could work." Took a nap, woke up, and the song was spinning in my head. So, this is my reaction, I guess you could say, to what happened. I don't know if it's a good song or bad song, but it certainly expresses the way that I feel. Normally I do not explain what my lyrics are about. I'm loathed to do it because invariably I ruin somebody's stoner-trip version. [laughs] Or given my lack of diction, those misheard lyrics that are certainly better than the ones I wrote. So if you indulge me for about 60 seconds, I'd like to explain what this song is about (which again falls into the category more unwise than courageous.

• Corgan (continues): So in the opening scene, I'm explaining to somebody that I found a photograph of us standing in the very spot where this horrible thing happened. It's as simple as that. Something so simple like a photo taken on a beautiful day, right over here by the ice cream shop where we go sometimes for fancy sorbet. And uh, suddenly when we look at the photograph it has meaning, "oh my god, we were in that spot." That's what something like this does, it turns everything upside down. Good things become bad, bad things become good. Simple things become complicated. Complicated things suddenly have no meaning. Certainly no resonance. And then it shifts into a dream. Sometimes I have these dreams where it's as real as it is I'm sitting here with you. I don't know why I have these dreams, but I feel like I'm on another planet having these dreams with unfamiliar people. So it shifts to the dream. Suddenly, right over there at the square [points outside], hearkening back to our origins here in Highland Park. I see a young woman dancing by herself. She's obviously dancing in my dream for those we've lost. My reaction is to try to explain to her, or ask her for something, which is interesting because, she's mourning the dead and the wounded. Why do I need something from her? I think we all have that reaction sometimes, right? I wonder what this has done to all of us. You could say it's selfish, you could say it's focused. And that's what the rest of the song is about. I hope you enjoy it.

Photograph

• Corgan: Alright, now let's have some fun! Instead of all this depressing stuff. I'd like to bring up two close, close friends of mine. We consider them members of our own family. From Nashville, we have Billy Swan. The man, the myth, the legend himself, and his daughter Sierra Swan.

• Corgan: Come on up here, young man [speaking to Billy Swan] Now as I like to point out, Billy is the only man or woman in this room who has a #1 hit song, which I'm very proud to say.

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Can Help

Photos & Memorabilia