The Smashing Pumpkins - Metro Christmas Show (Chicago 1999)

[@eddyriosaguilera2762]

0:57 Glass and the Ghost Children 10:56 Age of Innocence 15:06 Heavy Metal Machine 21:23 Zero 25:35 To Sheila 31:38 Wound 36:14 Ava Adore 41:51 I Am One 51:49 The Crying Tree of Mercury 57:03 Pale Scales 59:23 The Everlasting Gaze 1:03:06 Rock On (David Essex cover) 1:10:30 I of the Mourning 1:16:54 Cherub Rock 1:25:06 1979 1:31:35 The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete 1:39:50 Stand Inside Your Love 1:44:00 X.Y.U. 1:53:00 We Love You

[@zerohero6602]

Good work brother

[@AshleyW720]

yay! ❤

[@brianparkersongs]

What an opening. Glass is sooooo good live.

[@JTGemini3]

Yeah I wish the studio recordings of Glass and Heavy Metal Machine were just like how they did them at this show.

[@randysandals]

i was at the 12/20/1999 show, thank you so much for posting

[@brianparkersongs]

Wow. This is too good. What a set. What power

[@zoopopzoo]

Machina is the greatest stuff on earth, and this is here the begining, amazing, Wound with Iha"s heavenly part, still fascinating

[@mattalgrand]

It took me until this past year to realize Machina just might be their masterwork. It is 🔥🔥🔥

[@Enough.Said.]

I knew it as a 13yo kid. I immediately put it on my "top favorite albums of all time" list. It has stayed there over the years. It's majestic.

[@brettwallis1]

this is the 21st!!!! Joel!!! this is our show! Crites! We ❤🎉🎉🎉were so Lucky 900 people!!!!!!!!! Best night..

[@mattalgrand]

Goddamn they kicked ass.

[@AcousticBros69]

I love how zero was altered to glass’ perspective

[@AaronHowells-ds2vq]

Great era for the band

[@mashingveen]

Thank you for the great quality video!

[@Infinitecero]

My god that version of zero was from another planet

[@jonnybeeston]

My faveourite era of the band Melissa just adds the finishing touch to their sound.

[@flamingsocks1323]

46:38 returned, reenergized, relapsed, reformed, recalculated. responding.

[@nclsrfn]

in an ideal Machina boxset this should have been the dvd.

[@fishchipsandmushypeas]

I used to listen to the Arising and Machina tours religiously during this period. To be there at this show would've made my life complete.

[@jorgearanda8129]

1:44:21 I hear some Sabbath here!!

[@COLTRONNN]

i hear sabbath in every pumpkins riff LOL IOMMI FOREVER

[@44y4l4]

so much better than the budokan show from this era.. which was the only one I knew til now... thanks!!

[@werideatdusk]

I AM ONE!!!!

[@adamcoe]

Pale Scales is an underrated piece of music. They opened with it the night before (this video is the second of the 2 shows) and it was an unbelievable opening to what was an unreal show. They just walked out, didn't say a word and just launched into it, with that amazing drum intro and then this BOOOOOOOOMING bass part. One of the coolest nights of my life.

[@44y4l4]

didn't know this tune.. which album is it on?

[@Oreoleoo]

@@44y4l4 It's not. Recorded for Machina but never been officially released. You can hear a snippet of the studio version on one of the menus from their Greatest Hits DVD released in the early 00's.

[@AcousticBros69]

The way they played xyu sounds like spiders by soad, which was also played at this same venue around this time.

[@WillBulldozer]

Incredible Set. Amazing renditions of Zero and To Sheila. Thanks for uploading this.

[@AcousticBros69]

My favorite version of zero

[@mikefink5847]

Best ‘Zero’ Ever

[@AcousticBros69]

@@mikefink5847it sounds like glass is singing it with the darker tuning and heavier playing and changing of lyrics

[@artemdeev7011]

Well, you don’t like “adore”? Get it 20:40

[@fernandovelasquez6377]

A great performance, worth seeing more than once

[@throckmorton.iscariot]

wow this is a gem. thank you for uploading

[@andresav1073]

This show is amazing

[@punkrock8047]

great

[@manalishifilms]

0utStAnding!!!! A++++++

[@beatrizvicencio5043]

I love the Machina Era 💥

[@magorzataulanowska6981]

🖤

[@Nothandledpopov]

I feel when I feel, I liquor when I liquor, and I smoke when I smoke.

[@gustavofjbk20]

1:15:00 🤌🏽

[@Cornyexploited]

Without D’arcy?

[@aegisreflector1239]

Yes Darcy quit at this point. They had Hole bassist Melissa Aufdermar. I think Darcy had had enough of narc Billy, as well as she started getting into drugs unfortunately

[@Glixity]

@@aegisreflector1239then she came back for a while til they broke up again in the early 2000s yeah?

[@guitaristssuck8979]

​@@Glixity nonsense

[@wojtaskowy8693]

​@@aegisreflector1239 D'Arcy was ruined by drugs and was thrown out.

[@wojtaskowy8693]

​​@@GlixityNo? She didn't come back in the early 2000s. Melissa was to the ending concert of 2000.

[@ValisX]

It breaks my heart that Billy never formed a band with a different singer. Crying Tree of Mercury is so beautiful live, it should probably be sung by a Baritone. A deep rumbly voice on that song would make that song an A-side. In some alternate timeline he and Courtney Love formed a Fleetwood Mac level band, so many of Billy’s songs need to be sung by a woman

[@RC-fi8nn]

Interesting take.

[@scotticidal]

Uncle Fester gettin all creepy during XYU

[@Nothandledpopov]

Radio...

[@Onmysheet]

This was the best era and lineup of the band! Melissa's baselines are more fluid and on point. Everything they've made after Machina hasn't impressed me.

[@ValisX]

no, MCIS era 1996-1997 (98) was their pinnacle. The live shows from that window were absolutely magical. But this era is definitely number 2

[@Onmysheet]

@ValisX I find Melissa a better bass player than D'Arcy.

[@rob_silveira]

Machina era was the last. What came after has not the soul of SP.

[@scotticidal]

​@rob_silveira have you listened to the last album?

[@scotticidal]

I'll take DuhArcy any day, she can p on me idgaf!