28/07/07 - The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA (#9)

[blue_june_destroyer]

Leaving Lament
Rotten Apples
Peace and Love
99 Floors
No Surrender
Today
1979
United States
Bleeding the Orchid
Lucky 13
Shame
Hummer
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
God and Country
Death From Above
By Starlight (about 1 min long) > To Shelia (w/ Linda Strawberry on backup vocals)
Tonight, Tonight
Tarantula
Starz
Zero
Glass and the Ghost Children
That's the Way (My Love Is)
Superchrist
Starla
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Encore 1:
Doomsday Clock
Heavy Metal Machine
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Encore 2:
Zeitgeist
Muzzle
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Silverfuck (dropped from the set)
Gossamer (dropped from the set)

*There were technical difficulties after Lucky 13, there was 10 mins of nothing happening on stage while it was fixed.

Thankyou to the people from Netphoria who posted this info.

[sunky]

Show is happening today, mid-afternoon for us. News will be updated from here:
forums.netphoria.org/showthread.php?t=147178&page=1&pp=30

Also this is the gig that Straws will be at, anybody spoken to Melons is she at this show also? I knew she was going to another gig.

Also seems that Kerry Brown has been spotted at this gig too. Would be great if he joined them on stage, maybe Delusions of Candor could get played!

[Josh]

yeh she's there and julie told me she wasn't going to any other shows

By Starlight was played with linda on stage, don't think she sang though

[sunky]

hmm I could be wrong then Josh ... now she's a member here maybe she can answer it

But wow thats awesome they played By Starlight!

[Josh]

yeh the tech difficulties were with Jeff's setup and after starla he just totally smashed his guitar out of anger. lol

from Linda's Blog:

hello loves.
yesterday morning bright and early j and i piled into the car and hit the road to go to san fran to see billy/thesmashingpumpkins
when i got there we went to the fillmore and i walked in on them rehearsing. they do 4 hours of practice everyday!! and then they have been playing 3 hour shows. its madness.
billy asked me to sing 'to sheila' with him again like the 2000 show at the metro (the last show james iha ever played as a pumpkin)
and then they started playing through some new stuff... i cant believe how prolific billy is. he just pours out music. i feel like i get a contact high from being near him because i always suddenly write like mad.
hmmm.. ill skip ahead through the day to the show.. because it was just a few hours of hanging out and bla bla bla.
before the show started i went into the dressing room and billy was smiling and he said "jesus is gonna have to ride shotgun with me tonight. everything is going down in flames"
the show was great. it was a quirky show in some ways. if there was a show for me to be present at it was this one. billy played some gorgeous songs on the acoustic and even played the harmonica on some of them. he just decided to pick up the harmonica a few days ago. my favorite was "99 floors and im still getting nowhere".. "aint it sad when your choices are your vices or advice"
i dont have the set list in my mind but i know they played 1979 and today. and i went .. death from above.
stepping out there on that stage again (two years since we played two sold out shows on billy's solo tour) and seeing all of the faces was so cool. i sort of started spacing out looking at everyone. and everyone with their phones pointed towards billy. a 2007 crowd. i dont know what to do with myself when i am just standing on a stage singing and its a slow song.. im so figgety.. so i was just making myself stand as still as possible. that song is so beautiful. and im so happy i got to do that.
other things from the show that i keep thinking about....
there was a point when jeff's whole set up stopped working and there was 10 minutes of down time while they just tried to figure it out. when they finally got his stuff back in working order he was so flustered. its alot of energy to be playing all of those songs and its so energetically draining to have something like that happen with thousands of people staring at you.... so later on in the show at the end he smashed the hell out of his guitar before stomping backstage.. he just blew up it was so rock!!! because it was not staged it was genuine anger.. and then after they put the light up after the first encore no one left!! everyone just kept cheering and they cheered so long that billy and jimmy came back out both wearing guitars and played 'zeitgeist'. i love seeing jimmy play guitar.
.... oh i gotta go breakfast is calling my stomach. we are a j's mom's house and she just made breakfast. i just heard the lions in my stomach growl.
more later......

all my hungriest love,

linda strawberry

[Josh]

Jeff

[sunky]

RAWK!

[sunky]

By Starlight clip. Will be great once they start playing the whole song.

[foxy]

yeah by starlight would be fucking great.

[Steve]

Technical Dificulties are happening quite a bit....

[boelsen]

that would have been a huge encore! atleast half an hour with silverfuck and gossamer!

[SPatrick]

Got to see most of this show. They were really on form this night, better than the 27th which I saw too, however Billy complained he was sick on the 27th.
Met a dude who had seen all 9 shows and he thought this was the best so far also.

BTW, I asked Billy if they were coming to Australia and he said "Yeah" and then something else, but I couldn't hear. He then climbed in his ppl mover and pissed off.

[Josh]

ooo that sounds promising!

[Steve]

Hey that's pretty awesome - Great work again Patrick!

[sunky]

Oh, even a 'yeah' has brought some hope to me!

[sunky]

Recording of the show here:

www.archive.org/details/tsp2007-07-28.csb.flac16