Setlist: Smashing Pumpkins At Fontainebleau 2024

The Smashing Pumpkins are coming to Las Vegas to rock one of the newest venues on the Strip. The two-time Grammy-winning band will be performing for one night only at the BleauLive Theater at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas. This is a stop on their Summer 2024 "The World Is A Vampire" North American headline tour.

Since they formed in 1988, the Smashing Pumpkins have never been predictable. They've experimented in everything from rock and pop to goth and psychedelic music. And the show at the Fontainebleau should be just as diverse.

The setlist for the concert at the BleauLive Theater should be similar to what fans have seen thus far on the tour. Which kicks off with their hard rocking hit "Everlasting Gaze" from their 2000 album Machina/The Machines of God.

Fans can then expect to be treated with "Doomsday Clock", from the band's 2007 Zeitgeist album and the soundtrack from the Transformers movie. Smashing Pumpkins has also performed a cover of U2's "Zoo Station" in recent shows, followed by their hits "That Which Animates The Spirit" and "Today".

The Smashing Pumpkins can't do any concert without representation from their Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness album. The album is certified ten times platinum, debuted at number one in October of 1995 on the Billboard 200, and landed the Smashing Pumpkins their Grammy win for the Best Hard Rock Performance category. Which they won for "Bullet With Butterfly Wings". Fans can expect that hit from the Mellon Collie album, as well as "Tonight, Tonight", "Zero" and "1979".

Scattered between the singles from their platinum album, the Smashing Pumpkins have performed "Disarm", "Sighommi" and "Ava Adore" on recent setlists as well. So fans will most likely hear these in the upcoming show at Fontainebleau. And don't be surprised if "Jellybelly" and "Cherub Rock" help wrap up the show.

The the upcoming show at Fontainebleau Las Vegas is Friday, September 27, 2024. Doors will open at 7 p.m. with an 8 p.m. show start time. Tickets start at $59 for standard admission.

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Before the 90's came along, we had some skills. We knew how to do things. We had some natural talents

We lost a lot of skills to technology. Before the '90s and the advancement of technology, people had a unique, and natural, and cool set of skills to help them get through the day. Like remembering phone numbers.

Used to be that we knew all our family and friends phone numbers. How many phone numbers do you actually remember now? It really was quite the skill to remember phone numbers. Why should you now?

Your contacts are in your phone now. Until your phone dies, or you lose your phone. Or maybe you're in jail, and you only get that one phone call, but they confiscated your phone - now what?? Technology fails us quite often, yet we still rely on our phone to remember phone numbers.

A while back, I had a conversation with a friend about those trivial skills those of us had, who were before 1990. And a fun Reddit thread got into it. What trivial skills do you possess, that no one uses anymore? The 90's weren't that long ago, but when it comes to technology - that's a very long time.

Back in the 90's a lot of people used to actually develop and processing their own film. Yes - develop their own pictures from a roll of film. That was in a camera. Many would also enlarge those pictures, in a darkroom. Whaaaat? Film? Camera? DARKROOM??

Ahh, yes, the Dewey Decimal System at the library. We all used it if we wanted to find a book. I'm sure many of you are saying "Dewey Decimal? Is that fractions? Or wait - that's Donald Duck's kid, right?"

We also gained some skills. 30 years ago, it would've been a LOT harder to arrange for a stranger to pick you up in their Toyota Prius, and give you a ride home from the bar.  Now, we can do that within a few minutes, without even talking to anyone. I'm sure some would call it a "skill."

Now let's go back in time. Here are 10 skills we lost to technology.

Sitting on the phone with the long cord - closed in the laundry room, so we could have privacy - was the best. And after that , we were all fully capable of unknotting the curly telephone wire, and getting all the curls facing the right way, and behaving themselves.

Remember when you could fix your TV's reception with one smack to the top of it, a la Fonzie? Heck - remember when you could actually fix (repair) a TV? Now if it breaks you might as well just buy a new one, because they are basically disposable.

The ability to make and count out change for a purchase didn't take an economics degree! "Hi cashier - it's $9.91, I gave you $10.01, not a live alligator! GIVE ME A DIME BACK!" 

Wait, what? Yes - we could actually start a car with manual transmission by rolling down a hill, with the car in gear, then pop the clutch and start it! (Cars weren't so reliable back in the day...)

Do you remember those? Making paper fortune tellers were a must - especially if you had a bestie, or liked a boy or girl .It would basically tell you your whole future.

Most 90's kids still have it all memorized and could probably pick up a flip phone and send paragraphs if needed. But anyone born well after the 90's has no idea what it was like if you needed to shift from lower case to caps. You had to start all over. (Ask your parents)

Ok, stop laughing - setting up a VCR to record a television program in advance was a big deal. Because if you missed a TV show you just missed it! Until rerun season.

Learning to write fancy. That capital Q was the toughest to learn. Sadly, I don't know that cursive writing will ever be a thing again.

It was a TRUE SKILL! Recording a song, onto a cassette tape, from the radio. You had to do it so very masterfully, so as not to get the stupid DJ talking, or some stupid ad.

After you stopped at the gas station to buy a fresh new map. you had to fold it back up neatly once you reached your vacation destination. If you've never done it, try it. Enough said.

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