Tsp2000-04-29

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	2000-04-29
Venue	Paul Tsongas Arena
Location	Lowell, MA, US
Venue Type	Arena
Capacity	7,800
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Chamberlin, Auf der Maur
Order of Bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
FM #1
Source	FM
Format	DAT
Equipment	Pioneer TX608 > R500 (44.1k)
Length	~135m
Complete?	No
Lowest Circulating Generation	DDC-? > CDR
Notes	Poor mix, dropouts.
AUD #1a
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	SS-DSM-6S > PA-6LC3 > M1(48k)
Length	129m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	DDC-2 > CDR
Lowest Circulating Generation	16-bit download
Notes	DDC-2 > FLAC transfer also circulates. Five to ten feet in front of the soundboard.
Unsurfaced Recordings
FM #2
Source	FM
Format	DAT
Equipment	R300
Length	Unknown
Complete?	No
FM #3
Source	FM
Format	DAT
Equipment	TCD-D8
Length	Unknown
Complete?	No
FM #4
Source	FM
Format	MD
Equipment	Unknown
Length	Unknown
Complete?	No
AUD #1
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	SS-DSM-6S > PA-6LC3 > M1
Length	~45m (soundcheck) 129m (show)
Complete?	No
Notes	Soundcheck taped 40 feet from right stacks. Soundcheck misses the Age of Innocence tease and first minute of Glass and the Ghost Children. Show taped from five to ten feet in front of the soundboard.
AUD #2
Source	AUD
Format	DAT
Equipment	CSBMod > M1
Length	~45m (soundcheck) 130m (show)
Complete?	Unknown
Notes	Soundcheck recorded 35 feet from right stacks, show from right side of floor.
AUD #3
Source	AUD
Format	MD
Equipment	CSBMod > MZ-R55
Length	~130m
Complete?	Unknown

Setlist

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Soundcheck:

• Age of Innocence (tease)
• Glass and the Ghost Children
• Blew Away
• Fuck You
• With Every Light
• Heavy Metal Machine
• Drown

Set:

• Pale Scales
• Heavy Metal Machine
• The Everlasting Gaze
• Glass and the Ghost Children
• Blew Away
• Stand Inside Your Love
• Blue Skies Bring Tears
• I of the Mourning
• To Sheila
• Disarm
• Try, Try, Try
• Rock On [Essex]
• Zero
• Today
• Tear
• With Every Light
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
  • Once in a Lifetime [Talking Heads] [11:31]

Encore One:

• Blank Page
• Cherub Rock

Encore Two:

• Drown [9:30]

Notes

• To Sheila, Disarm, and Try, Try, Try performed acoustic
• Final performance of Tear
• all FM sources suffer from multiple dropouts

Banter

Pale Scales
Heavy Metal Machine
The Everlasting Gaze
Glass and the Ghost Children
BC: Ladies and gentlemen, good evening to all of you.
Iha: Hello, hello, hello.
BC: A couple of things, a couple of things we’d like to interject at this particular moment. Actually, three things. Number one: thank you very much for having us back here.
Iha: Aloha.
BC: [Unintelligible.] Occasionally I have these moments where it feels like, uh, 1991 all over again and I see people getting crushed and smushed.
Iha: [unintelligible]
BC: I know that you want to be crushed and smushed but sometimes the crushing is too much smushing and the smushing is too much crushing...
Iha: Too much smushing.
BC: ...so if everyone can just take a step back and relax, it’s a long concert, we play a lot of time.
Iha: Relax, everyone, relax.
BC: And third of all, I’d like to introduce my friend, my partner, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
Blue Skies Bring Tears
I of the Mourning
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
Disarm (acoustic)
BC: Thank you very much. Uh...I’d like to introduce this feller to my right, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Thanks, pal. Thanks, pal. How’s everybody doing, everybody alright?
Iha: Wooooo! Woo! Hello!
BC: We’d like to play another song from our, uh, our new album, uh, Baby Hit Me One More Time. This is called The Ballad of Christina Aguilera.
Try, Try, Try (acoustic)
Rock On
> Zero
Today
Tear
BC: Thank you very much.
With Every Light (acoustic)
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
(BC at 8:19 during spoken word part: See...normally this is where I swear a lot but we’re live on the radio so I can’t swear. Plus all those people who are sitting home that couldn’t get tickets will be mad and they’ll turn off the radio because there’s too much swearing. Plus when they hear that you’re having such a good time, they’ll get upset too. So, I’ll be good, I’ll be good for a change and uh...you want me to be bad? Alright, if we’re gonna be bad, we have to be bad together, I see. Alright, so uh, it’s very simple. It’s like an Iron Maiden concert except it’s the Smashing Pumpkins, but um... Even James will chant along, that’s how you know. So class...class, please repeat after me: “What the fuck is going on?” (much repeating by Billy and crowd until hard part of song kicks back in)
Iha: Thank you, thank you, thank you very much! Rock on.
BC: Yes. Yes!
[encore break]
Blank Page
> Cherub Rock
BC: Thank you. God bless, god bless, thank you very much. Thank you for a great concert, thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: Thank you, thank you very much, you guys are awesome. Are you still with us, rocking? And for the radio, I must - I’m gonna ask all the people on the radio: (high pitched screaming) “Are you still out there? I can’t hear you!” (normal) And now, I’d like to do some quick introductions of the band here. Back on the drum stool...oh, he’s not there, heh. There he is, back on the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin. Hey hey. Yes, he rocks. Al Jean Leica - my guitar tech. You don’t know him but you love him. On lead vocals and guitar, he’s in the spotlight, Mr. Billy Corgan.
BC: Finally.
Iha: [unintelligible.] He’s, uh, he was a uh, he had a promising athletic career and he turned towards rock. He was all schoolyard, he went to Juilliard for 16 years. He was also in the Joffrey Ballet, I don’t know if you know that. He is lithe, folks, in spirit and in body. And now we turn to the bass guitar. From Canada, a socialist by nature, Ms. Melissa Auf der Maur. Yes, she is rocking for the entire state of Massachusetts. And I am from the E! channel, I am Steve Kmetko. Thank you. We will play one more rock jam, we hope you like it.
Drown
Iha: Goodnight. Goodnight everybody. Thank you.

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