Tsp1996-01-12

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	1996-01-12
Venue	Academy of Music
Location	New York, NY, US
Venue Type	Unknown
Capacity	Unknown
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Wretzky, Chamberlin, Melvoin
Order of Bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	CSB > TCD-D7
Length	136m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	DDC-2 > CDR
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	DDC-? > ANA-3 > FLAC transfer also circulates. First set appears on the "Zero Gravity" silver cd (in slightly inferior quality to DDC-2 > CDR xfer).
Unsurfaced Recordings
AUD #2
Source	AUD
Format	ANA
Equipment	Unknown
Length	~135m
Complete?	Unknown
SBD #1
Source	SBD
Format	ADAT
Equipment	Unknown
Length	~135m
Complete?	Yes
Notes	Vault copy.

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
• 1979
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
• Thru the Eyes of Ruby
• Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
• Jellybelly
• To Forgive
• Geek U.S.A.
• Cherub Rock

Encore:

• We Only Come Out at Night (abandoned)
• X.Y.U.
• Silverfuck [16:34]
  • Space Jam (tease)

Notes

• Tonight, Tonight through Take Me Down performed acoustic

Banter

Iha: Good evening.
Tonight, Tonight
Corgan: Alrighty Jimmy.
In the Arms of Sleep
Corgan: Thank you so much. Ah, there it is.
Cupid de Locke
Corgan: Thanks. Thanks so much. It's a pleasure to be here with you this evening. Of course, that's assuming we know what pleasure is, but if we do...we're slightly esoteric. It was like, we're happy to be here, but if we knew what happy was...confused again there?
Thirty-three
Corgan: Like to play you a song that I wrote back in 1912, it's one of my favorites, and hope it's yours as well.
Today
Wretzky: Back in, back in 1912 that used to be a square dance.
Iha: That was just...
Wretzky: Great square dance, yeah.
Corgan: And then the rocket ray descended, god bless it.
Lily (My One and Only)
Corgan: Thanks a lot. We'd like to take you down to the underground. Right to the undertow. We don't know who lives there, maybe some gnomes, but that's where we're going.
Take Me Down
Corgan: Good god! I believe you got on the good foot on that one.
Iha: Thank you.
Beautiful
Corgan: Thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks.
Wretzky: Thank you for the flowers.
Iha: We like flowers.
Corgan: Flowers are good.
Iha: Flowers grow.
Corgan: Trees are bad. Flowers are good.
Iha: Trees are bad. Flowers are good.
Corgan: People are good?
Iha: People are sometimes good.
Corgan: People are good, yes, people are good, yes.
Iha: People are dualistic, good and evil.
Corgan: People are good.
Iha: People are good.
Corgan: Gods are great.
Iha: Gods are crazy.
Corgan: Like to play another song from the 20s.
Iha: This goes all the way back, about three years ago.
Corgan: It seems so fucking old, doesn't it?
Rocket
Disarm
Corgan: God bless you, thank you.
[set break]
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (PA intro)
Where Boys Fear to Tread
Zero
Fuck You
1979
Corgan: Thank you. I wrote that song actually in 1979, when I was twelve. It's pretty good for a twelve year old.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Corgan: Nah, we don't play Gish stuff anymore. We're not the original lineup, so why should we play the first album?
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Corgan: I'd like to mention that Jimmy here's got the stomach flu, he's been throwing up all day, so...let's not applaud his throwing up.
Wretzky: Yeah, so stay away from him after the show, you don't wanna catch it.
Corgan: He wanted to the cancel the show and we said no!
Wretzky: Yeah, we'll make him play.
Corgan: Please say thanks to Jimmy for being a trooper, he will thank you in person after the show.
Iha: And uh, also, well we haven't introduced our keyboard player, our keyboard player is Jonathon Melvoin.
Corgan: He's over there James, look.
Iha: Well, he's not on stage.
Corgan: You can see him though.
Iha: He's left the building, left the building.
Jellybelly
Corgan: Like to do another sad song from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 'cause that's what the whole damn thing's about.
To Forgive
Geek U.S.A.
Cherub Rock
Iha: Thank you. Goodnight!
[encore break]
We Only Come Out at Night
Corgan: That was our one singalong song, but since you don't know the words to the singalong it kind of defeats the point, so I guess that's the song.
Wretzky: I didn't know we did singalongs.
Iha: I guess we shouldn't have put it on the record.
Corgan: Seeing as how we're preparing for our big arena rock tour, we're trying to figure out what songs are gonna be the big singalong songs, so...
Iha: I guess that's not gonna work.
Wretzky: I don't know, it didn't say that in the program.
Corgan: What now?
Wretzky: Didn't say that in the program...
Corgan: In case you didn't know, that was We Only Come Out at Night...a little jazz.
Iha: And now we'll get back to some familiar rock territory, I know you wanna rock. I am sorry the song didn't rock you. what? Pray tell me what you speak of. Bad Religion? Sure! Twentieth century digital boy.
Corgan: So I'd like to introduce the band. On keyboards, Jonathon.
Iha: Yo yo, ta-dow, come on in the house, fuckin Jonathon Melvoin, come on put it up.
Corgan: On drums, Simon LeBon. Can you believe he's in the band? After all that success, to come down to our level. On bass, Nancy Sinatra. Her bass was made for walking.
Iha: (unintelligible)
Corgan: On guitar, Herschel Walker of the New York Giants. After an illustrious college and pro career, he's come to join the band. And I am Captain Fuckup. Affectionately known as Captain Fuckup. No, screw you, drugs are for losers, I know a lot of them.
X.Y.U.
Silverfuck / Space Jam tease
Corgan: Thanks, goodbye.