Tsp2000-05-09

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	2000-05-09
Venue	Tabernacle
Location	Atlanta, GA, US
Venue Type	Club
Capacity	2500
Lineup	Corgan, Iha, Chamberlin, Auf der Maur
Order of Bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
Surfaced Recordings
FM #1
Source	FM
Format	DAT
Equipment	SBM-1 > R300
Length	124m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	DDC-1 > CDR
Live Music Archive	16-bit download
Notes	DDC-? > CDR transfer also circulates, as well as a version from the "Tabernacle" commercial bootleg.
WWW #1
Source	WWW
Format	WAV
Equipment	PC
Length	~130m
Complete?	Yes
Lowest Circulating Generation	WAV-M > CDR
Unsurfaced Recordings
FM #2
Source	FM
Format	DAT
Equipment	M1
Length	~130m
Complete?	Unknown

Setlist

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Set:

• Pale Scales
• The Everlasting Gaze
• Heavy Metal Machine
• Blue Skies Bring Tears
• Blew Away
• Stand Inside Your Love
• Glass and the Ghost Children
• I of the Mourning
• To Sheila
• Raindrops + Sunshowers
• Disarm
• Jellybelly (tease)
• Try, Try, Try
• Rock On [Essex]
• Zero
• Today
• Perfect
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
  • Once in a Lifetime [Talking Heads] [9:10]

Encore One:

• Blank Page
• Cherub Rock

Encore Two:

• Transmission [Joy Division] (tease)
• Drown [8:47]

Notes

• To Sheila, Disarm, and Try, Try, Try performed acoustic
• Billy's vocal mic is not on for the first verse of the Everlasting Gaze

Banter

Pale Scales
The Everlasting Gaze
Heavy Metal Machine
Blue Skies Bring Tears
Corgan: Thank you, good evening. Hello. It's always a pleasure and an honor to be back in Hotlanta. I'd like to introduce to you a modern mystic, a seeker, a seer, and a soothsayer of the highest sayeth thing. Ladies and gentlemen, mister James Iha.
Blew Away
Stand Inside Your Love
Glass and the Ghost Children
I of the Mourning
To Sheila
Corgan: Thank you. Thank you, I love you too. Um, thank you. Like to play a song, we're sort of still learning how to play it as a band, but I wanted to play it tonight, 'cause I wrote it and I know it. It doesn't mean it's good, it's just that I like to play it.
Raindrops + Sunshowers
Corgan: Thank you. So uh, we're gonna be doing one of those storyteller things on VH1. So I'm gonna start using this opportunity to practice whatever bullshit I'm gonna make up about each one of the songs. So, I wrote this song when I was living in Alaska, I was really unhappy...the hell is going on? Yes, I was really unhappy. James, many people don't know this, James is actually eskimo.
Iha: I believe I sold you the air-conditioned igloo, is that how we met?
Corgan: That was sort of how we met, he was walking, and he fell. He was behind me, I heard this sort of clank you know. And I turned around and said "did you hurt yourself?" and he said "yeah, I hurt my arm", and I said "that arm, or this arm?"
Disarm
Jellybelly (tease)
Corgan: We'd like to play a song from our hit new album Machina, the Machines of God. I don't know if you saw the news, it sold four million copies this week. It beat out the N'sync record for most albums sold in a week. And uh, right now there's a competition between us and Matchbox 20 for the number one song. And uh, I believe that just maybe, if you phone your radio stations, this song will be number one in America, if not the world.
Try, Try, Try
Rock On
Zero
Today
Corgan: Well, I know when we were here a couple years ago at the Fox Theater -- was anybody at that show? Well I've waited two years to apologize, but I thought we kinda sucked that night, so I'm sorry about that show. We were trying to film the concert and then all of audden the show got really weird, so I'm sorry. But I think this show's going pretty good, so...is everybody too hot, should we just stop now?
Iha: I think somebody over here needs help in the pit here, right there, somebdoy do something.
Corgan: They got snowblind from looking at your white suit.
Iha: Yeah, possibly.
Corgan: They've lost their way. Yeah, does anybody need to come out before we start back up? This guy over here, he wants to come back out? No, he's tripping, he doesn't know where he is, he's ok.
Iha: Brother, are you ok out there? I can't see you. I guess he's ok.
Corgan: So we'd like to play a song off our very famous Adore album, this is called Perfect.
Perfect
Bullet with Butterfly Wings / Once in a Lifetime
[encore break]
Blank Page
Cherub Rock
Iha: Thank you. Thanks a lot.
[encore break]
Corgan: I wanna, if you don't mind, can I shoot you for our website? I know that you haven't enjoyed the show, so just for this, it's like a little movie, so just pretend that you enjoyed the show, ok?
Iha: Yeah, we're lookin' great at the Pumpkins, I'm gonna cheer as loud as I can, I'm crazy about that band. They love this new alternative rock, let's cheer, come on. They're crazy out there, crazy cool. Let's have a little reaction for the picture. Alright, they're still cheering, they're still cheering for that film. Everybody loves the band, everybody loves the concert, alright, thanks very much, I'm enjoying myself immensely up here, playing guitar.
Transmission (tease)
Corgan: Ouch! Um, so we'd like to play one more song for you. Don't boo before, you haven't heard this song. Um, so let us take this last chance to say thank you very much for an amazing, amazing concert.
Iha: Yes, thank you.
Corgan: Oh yeah, let's say hello to all you people that are listening at home on the radio, hello all you people on the radio.
Iha: What are you saying there in the front row, you hate people who listen to the radio?
Corgan: I know I just took that show, but we should sort of paint a mental image of what this looks like for the people at home on the radio. First off, James is wearing an elephant costume, I know it's kind of hard to imagine. Jimmy is dressed like a mime, Melissa is dressed like a riot grrl, and I'm wearing a dress. And it's so...how do you say it in southern language? It's so...hot? How do you say hot?
Iha: Hotter than hell.
Corgan: They're saying it in southern vernacular, they're really fucking hot, is that right?
Iha: Eat a peach.
Corgan: They're hotter than Greg Maddux on a Georgia afternoon.
Iha: Hotter than a bat's ass.
Corgan: Hotter than molasses mixed into orange juice.
Iha: Hotter than a guy who doesn't have heat in his apartment and it's really hot outside.
Corgan: But the other part of the mental picture is -- I know it's sort of hard to imagine all you people at home, but I'll try to paint you a picture, everybody here is naked. It's an incredible sight to see, it's sort of like the olympics, but not as obscene. So to finish, god bless you, thank you very much, we'd like to play you -- there you go -- this is an oldie but a goodie.
Drown