Tsp2000-05-03

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	2000-05-03
Venue	Township Auditorium
Location	Columbia, SC, US
Venue Type	Auditorium
Capacity	3200
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Chamberlin, Auf der Maur
Order of Bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	CSBMod > TCD-D7
Length	9m (soundcheck) 139m (show)
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	DDC-? > CDR (soundcheck) DAT-M > CDR (show)
Live Music Archive	16-bit download (soundcheck) 16-bit download (show)
Notes	Mics slipped under a door for soundcheck. Levels are clipped/brickwalled during the show, but clear up as the recording progresses. DDC-1 > CDR transfer of show also circulates.
Unsurfaced Recordings
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Setlist

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Soundcheck:

• Raindrops + Sunshowers (take one)
• Raindrops + Sunshowers (take two)
• Raindrops + Sunshowers (take three)
• Raindrops + Sunshowers (take four)

Set:

• Pale Scales
• The Everlasting Gaze
• Heavy Metal Machine
• Glass and the Ghost Children
• Blew Away
• Stand Inside Your Love
• Tonight, Tonight
• Blue Skies Bring Tears
• I of the Mourning
• To Sheila
• Raindrops + Sunshowers
• Ava Adore
• Melissa (tease) [Allman Brothers Band]
• Try, Try, Try
• Rock On [Essex]
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
  • Once in a Lifetime [Talking Heads] [5:24]
• Mayonaise
• Perfect
• I Am One (with rant)

Encore One:

• 1979
• Fuck You

Encore Two:

• Today
• Drown [9:59]

Notes

• To Sheila, Raindrops + Sunshowers, Ava Adore, Try, Try, Try, and 1979 performed acoustic
• First performance of Raindrops + Sunshowers

Banter

Pale Scales
> The Everlasting Gaze
> Heavy Metal Machine
Glass and the Ghost Children
BC: Good evening, thank you very much.
Iha: Hey.
BC: How’s everybody doin’ tonight? Like to, uh, introduce my partner. You know him as a poet and a Renaissance man, to me he’s just a friend, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
Tonight, Tonight
Blue Skies Bring Tears
I of the Mourning
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
BC: Thanks. I’d like to, um, play a song I’ve never played before. As life goes, you know, you never know when you’re gonna pass this way again so.... So, to you.
Raindrops + Sunshowers (Billy solo acoustic)
BC: Let’s play something else.
Iha: That’s all.
BC: Hey, you know what? Let’s just do it, okay.
Ava Adore (acoustic, played without the normal backing track)
BC: See, the Allman Brothers were here last night. (Jimmy plays a drum beat) Didn’t you do that song, Sweet Melissa? You don’t know Sweet Melissa for us?
Iha: Oh yeah, I can’t remember it.
Melissa (tease - Iha sings the first line)
Iha: Will you hide...heh heh, I can’t remember the words but it’s a really good song. [unintelligible.]
BC: Thank you very much, um, we’d like to play another song off our new album, it’s coming out next month. It’s called Machina. This is called Why Try...Try, Try.
Try, Try, Try (acoustic)
BC: Thanks.
Rock On
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
Mayonaise
Perfect
> I Am One
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you. Thank you very much. How are you guys doin’ out there? Look who’s there, they’re rockin’ with us. A quick introduction of the band: on acoustic guitar and drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Woo. On lead vocals and acoustic guitar, Mr. Billy Corgan. [unintelligible] On the bass (pronounced like the fish) guitar, from Canada, Ms. Melissa Auf der Maur. And I am Dickey Betts.
1979 (acoustic, Jimmy plays guitar)
BC: Larry, could we have the lights on for a second, please? Heh.
Iha: How are y’all doin’?
BC: Alright. This entire concert, which I have to say thank you very much for, it’s been an enjoyable time for us.
Iha: Ow!
BC: How did - there’s a lot of people don’t think I can’t see them, I can see the entire audience. And obviously I can see you now, but even when the lights are dark, I can still pretty much see what everybody’s doing, uh, who’s, uh, combing their hair, who’s not paying any attention, who’s yawning, I can see it all, I can see everything.
Iha: We know. [unintelligible noise].
BC: And I thought to myself, “Who - who here best embodies the spirit that I seek?”
Iha: [unintellligible]
BC: I can’t do it - I can’t do it now because now you know you’re being watched, see.
Iha: Now you know.
BC: I paid attention when you didn’t think you were being watched and you didn’t think I knew ‘cause I know who’s been rocking and who’s not, just like [unintelligible].
Iha: [unintelligible]
BC: I say - I say we let those two crazy girls come down here and rock out, come on down.
Iha: [unintelligible]
BC: Don’t fall, don’t fall, take your time.
Iha: Is everybody ready for more love? More love rock and roll?
BC: Yes, actually, that girl there, I think she’s sort of in a silver top, she has been rocking out the whole concert.
Iha: Oh yes, that’s true. This dude right here, he’s been a rocker.
BC: You looked much bigger from the back but....
Iha: This man right here. [unintelligible]
BC: Heh. There you go. Now these four people right here, we have to say, god bless you, thank you, god bless you everybody, thank you. But, uh, just so you know, you have tattoos, we don’t approve of tattoos. We’re against tattoos. Uh, multiple piercings are out. Um, sorry, you have to go back upstairs now.
Iha: [unintelligible]. So on this next song, we ask the four of you in the spirit of the ‘60s, to just freak out. They used to do that in the ‘60s, they just tune in, drop out and something.
BC: But as a legal disclaimer, if you happen to fall through the orchestra pit and be injured, we have no responsibility.
Iha: We have nothing to do with it.
Fuck You
BC: Thank you.
Iha: Thank you.
BC: I just had to get it out of my system.
[encore break]
Iha: Alright, we’re gonna do the Procul Harum classic Whiter Shade of Pale, if you all know the song. We also got a guest, Stevie Winwood, on the B3, he’s off stage right now. Whiter Shade of Pale.
Today
Drown
(Iha over outro feedback: I’ve got two guitars! I got two guitars. Goodnight, ladies and gentlemen.)

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