Tsp2000-12-02

The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	2000-12-02
Venue	Metro
Location	Chicago, IL, US
Venue Type	Club
Surfaced Recordings
AUD #1
Format	MD
Length	124m
Complete	No
Quality	6.0
Lowest Gen	MD(M)
Equipment	CSSCmic>Sharp MD722
Notes	Paul Baker source, cuts after 2nd set.
AUD #2
Format	MD
Length	260m
Complete	No
Quality	6.5
Lowest Gen	MD(2)
Equipment	ECM-907>MZ-37
Notes	Meghan Brown source, cuts 25 minutes into Silverfuck.
AMT #1
Length	20sec
Complete	No
Position	Lightboard
Notes	Two 10 second clips of I Of The Mourning and Fuck You, shot by the guy working the lightboard, very bad quality, floating around the net.
Unsurfaced Recordings
PRO #1
Length	280m(?)
Complete	Yes
Notes	Taped to be released on DVD, likely in 2006. However 1979, Fuck You, and a 19 second clip of Silverfuck are circulating from this source. 1979 on JBTV, Fuck You on the Greatist Hits DVD, and the Silverfuck clip began floating around the net in December 2004.
SBD #1
Length	280m(?)
Complete	Yes
Notes	Taped to be released on DVD likely in 2006.

Setlist

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Set 1:

• Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
• Rocket (false start)
• Rocket
• I Am One
• Rhinoceros (false start)
• Rhinoceros
• Shame
• Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
• The Everlasting Gaze
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
  • Once In A Lifetime [Talking Heads] [tease]
• Spiteface [tease]
• Thru the Eyes of Ruby
• Blissed and Gone
• Where Do I Begin? (Love Theme) [tease]
• To Sheila
• Mayonaise
• I of the Mourning

Set 2:

• Muzzle
• Stand Inside Your Love (abandoned)
• Stand Inside Your Love
• Perfect
• This Time
• Go
• The Last Song
• Last Instrumental
• Age Of Innocence
• (Piano Improv)
• Thirty Three

Set 3:

• Tonight, Tonight
• Siva
• Fuck You
• Drown
• Starla
• If There Is a God
• Cash Car Star
• Rock On [Essex]
  • Heavy Metal Machine
• Today

Encore 1:

• For Martha
• Born Under A Bad Sign [Jones/Bell]

Encore 2:

• Cherub Rock

Encore 3:

• Disarm
• 1979

Encore 4:

• Silverfuck
  • Geek U.S.A. [tease]
  • Star Spangled Banner [Key] [tease]
  • She Loves You [Beatles] [tease]
  • Help! [Beatles] [tease]

Notes

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• The final Smashing Pumpkins performance.
• Longer than any other Pumpkins' show ever.
• Featured serveral special guests including Linda Strawberry, Dennis Flemion, Jimmy Flemion, Rick Neilsen, and Billy Corgan Sr.
• Full DVD of show likely to come out in 2006.

Banter

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MCIS
Rocket [abandoned]
Tonight, Tonight over PA
Corgan: Thank you
Rocket
I Am One
Corgan: We'd like to thank everybody for comin' tonight, thank you. This next song, uh, we'd like to play for you, is a is a, was a, was a song that was written i think around 1989 and um.
[audience member: Spiteface!]
Corgan: No no, it wasn't spiteface, no. This is uh, this is uh, what am i trying to say this is one of the songs i think where we first realized uh, the sort of sound that we had so uh, this is why i wanted to play it for you tonight.
Rhinoceros [false start]
Corgan: Even on our last show we can't get it right
[Jimmy teases drum riff to The Boy]
Corgan: Are you...hey wait. Something keeps being jacked up and as long as we're stopped we might as well. Something keeps being jacked up alright, we're gonna play a different song now i think it's this mic.
Rhinoceros
Shame
Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
The Everlasting Gaze
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Once In A Lifetime tease
Corgan: Thank you very much, thank you. So we've got a little um, present for everyone when they leave tonight it's a signed christmas card james! No acutally, we made cd's for everybody of our first show here at metro.
Iha: I don't know if you guys like little feet, but we did a whole cover set of little feet songs, that's our first show here.
Corgan: Yeah, it's um, it's 38 minutes long, that's all they would let us play back then. Yes, we played spiteface, you've been waiting for um, 12 years to hear that song, you wanna hear a little spiteface?
Spiteface tease
Corgan: That's the last time we're ever gonna play that.
Iha: Another last time right there.
Corgan: You know, we were, we were here last night rehearsing, and uh, there were some stupid crazy kids outside waiting and last night when we were rehearsing. I was sort of, you know, as you will, you reminisce about all the shows that we've played here and the one thing that sort of struck me was, um back in the old days when they used to put the monitors back here and you used to stand back here there was this spot on the stage that was sort of wobbly I don't know if they've ever fixed it but uh, everytime I'd go to sing, the mic would go like...
Iha: We certainly had a different kind of sound back then, so uh, wobbly.
Corgan: Now we'd like to play you a song off the Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness album. It's not a bad album, sorry.
Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
Corgan: I'd like to bring out a couple of special guests. We have uh, a bunch of special guests tonight. Hee's the most dangerous man in the world: Dennis and Jimmy Flemion of the Frogs.
Blissed And Gone
Billy: Would you like to sing a little love story dennis? Love story?
Where Do I Begin [Love Theme] tease
Corgan: Don't be shy, this is, this is Linda Strawberry, she's very famous in Romania, number one.
To Sheila
Corgan: Linda Strawberry, thank you to the Frogs.
Mayonaise
I Of The Mourning
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Corgan: We've got a special guest right now, Mr. Matt Walker.
Muzzle
Corgan: Thank you very much.
Stand Inside Your Love abandon
Corgan: It's our last show people, jeez. See you can't have a love song in F#, it just doesn't work. It's a G kind of thing as long as we're stopped though, i'd like to say, uh i wrote this song for my girlfriend up there where are you Yelena? [unintelligible] I think she's left the building.
[audience member: I love you!]
Corgan: I love you too.
Stand Inside Your Love
Corgan: Thank you, how's everybody feelin'?
Perfect
Corgan: Thank you very much, this uh, this next song, is interesting because uh, for this particular case because, when i wrote this song it was pretty much the last song I wrote for the Machina albums, and uh, I knew the band was going to break up, so I guess this is sorta prophetic, this song. That's ok, there'll be another concert to talk,it's a pumpkin joke, so this is "This Time".
This Time
Corgan: Now i'd like to introduce the man on the mic, mister James Iha.
Iha: Thank you. One, two, one two three four.
Go
The Last Song tease
Corgan: Uh... so this is uh, the last song I wrote for Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness, this is called the last song.
The Last Song
The Last Instrumental
Age Of Innosence
Jazz Piano Improv
Thirty Three
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Tonight, Tonight
Corgan: Next song, you ready there James?
Siva
Corgan: Hello. Have you had enough yet? Have you had enough yet? I don't know, you like you may have had enough. We got a little treat for ya right here. Well if ya hadn't had enough, you're gonna have to, huh? If you hadn't you're gonna have enough after this one.
Fuck You
Drown
Starla
If There Is A God
Cash Car Steal
Rock On
Heavy Metal Machine
Corgan: Thank you very much, thank you very much, the end has arrived. [laughs] Yes, it is the final song. I can't believe we got there, you got there, thank you very much.We wanna say thank you for havin' the greatest fans in the world. The most absolute amazing people in the world. Of course we don't believe that bullshit but it sounds good when you say it we love you too. So one more song, everybody sing along for a change.
Today
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Corgan: Thank you very much, thank you, heh, um. Before we play any more. I'd like to uh, say a little prayer. I'd like to thank God for getting us around this earth five times, safely. And giving us the will and the way to uh, i don't know, yes, thank you, and God, thank God. I'd like to say a very special thank you to all the families of the pumpkins, both friends and real. The Wretzkys, the uh, the Ihas, the Chamberlins, the Corgans, the Andersons, the Walkers, the Flemions. I'd like to say thank you very much for the support you've given us over the years. I'd like to say thank you to all of you. 'Cause without you, obviously this wouldn't happen. I think we. I think we've tried to show you that we've never forgotten that part of it, and uh, i'm too spaced out. I'd like to say thank you to our enemies for pushing us to try harder and be better. So uh, thank you very much. Oh yeah, and one more thing. I'd like to say thank you to the people we've lost through the years, thank you for being a part of our lives. I'd now like to bring out a special guest, he's cool, he's bald, he's my father. He does have more hair than me, i don't know how this worked out. It's a sort of, it's a genetic mistake. Bill Sr. [over martha intro]. We wanna dedicate this song. To someone very special to us. We know tonight she's out there listening. Martha, this is for you.
For Martha
Born Under A Bad Sign
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Corgan: I know it's hard to top my father. We'd like to bring out a special guest. Seeing as I pretty much ripped this song off me, from him, although its my song, if that makes any sense. Ladies and gentlemen from cheap trick, Mr. Rick Nielsen. [unintelligible]
Cherub Rock
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Disarm
Corgan: Thank you. Would you like to introduce the band?
Iha: Yes I would. Ladies and gentlemen a legend in his own time and a very great guy on the piano, Mr. Mike Garson. From Chicago [?] and keyboards, strings and things, and sounds, Mr. Chris Holmes. And now on the bass all the way from Montreal, Canada. A socialist, a redhead, Ms. Melissa Auf Der Maur and now.
Corgan: Wait, hold on. Hold on. I think the three of us should say a special thank you to Melissa, without Melissa, this wouldn'ta all been possible. Thank you very much Melissa.
Iha: Yes, a fine round of applause for Melissa.
Corgan: We're eternally vengeful, I mean greatful.
Iha: And now, occupying the drum seat right now, all the way from outer space Mr. Matt Cosmos Walker. Hell of a guy. A good man. And now from Joliet, Illinois, a bruiser a cruiser, the pummeler of the drums, Mr. Smashing Pumpkins himself, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin.
Corgan: You got your own section.
Iha: The cheering section, it's awesome.
Corgan: How the hell did they get in?
Iha: Lets get that on film. Ok, we got it and now on lead vocals, guitar, song singing, sounds, eveyrthing, Mr. Billy Corgan.
Corgan: Thank you. And the man who I started this crazy, godforsaken band with all the way, all the, where are you from?
Iha: Paris
Corgan: All the way from Paris, Mr. James Iha.
[Ragtime Piano improv]
Iha: Thank you.
Corgan: Before we play this final song we'd like to say, thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you, oh yeah, there's one more guy I wanna thank that man right there, Mr. Joe Shanahan. Joe Shanahan is the greatest guy you could ever meet thank you Joe Shanahan, you're the best baby.
Iha: Uh, hell of a, hell of a guy. I'd also like to thank all our crew. You guy rock that made the show happen. Everybody involved with the Pumpkins we'd like to thank.
Corgan: Yes, for a long year, and a hard year, but we thank you for your hard work thank you very much. Iha: And uh...
Corgan: Let's give a hand for the crew, they're a little hungover today, they need some help, oh, yesterday.
Iha: And uh, i'd also like to thank somebody who's not here. I'd like to thank d'arcy, who uh [unintelligible]. And uh, I love her. And we all love her.
Corgan: Hell of a girl, hell of a girl. Ok, now we've asked you to sing along to a couple of other songs, and we didn't get your full participation, we know you didn't vote and thanks to you we now have George Bush as a president.
Iha: Now wait a minute. Didn't they check those dimpled ballots one more time? Sorry, go ahead.
Corgan: So please, help us get through this last song.
Iha: Yes
1979
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[Crowd starts chanting "one more song"]
Joe Shanhan: [?]
Come on lets hear it! You sound like a New York audience, this is Chicago let's go! Gotta make it loud. Louuuuuuud!
[Crowd starts chanting for Silverfuck]
Corgan: Are you ready? Are you ready?
Silverfuck/Geek U.S.A./Star Spangled Banner/She Loves You/Help!