The Smashing Pumpkins - Ava Adore (Live - Metro '99)

[rodrigoNIN90]

ava adore in his maximum: GROOVE METAL MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!!!

[plynch001]

THIS IS AMAZING

[bunionblood8]

This was incredible///

[KarimLP]

Ahhhhh....Melissa!!! She by herself kick the same amounts of ass than the song! :D

[mrappletree87]

"In you I taste God!"

[cynicushaz]

You Guys Are All A Bunch Of Hippies.

[headofwords]

Pissed off Billy is so much more of a badass than we've got now.

[winao17colon]

I had never seen an Adore-era SP song with Jimmy in the drums, cool!

[779flipingsweet]

Holy shit!! Words can't describe how awesome the solo to ava adore sounds live. Billy is a guitar god!!

[Stefmanovic]

I miss this...dammit why havent I ever seen them back then? :(

[lasthurrah19]

sometimes i forget why i loved the pumpkins so much, but then i watch something like this and it's very clear. great performance.

[szymonm81]

wow!

[mcdoobie]

sic vid

[galenaie]

mmm Billy on testosterone! Best version ever. Powerful, sexy, and just a little scary ... exactly what the song needs. Marred only by the fact that he couldn't catch the pick. Oh well.

thanks ohsodreary

[AToxicOrange]

YOU'LL BE PERFECT JUST LIKE BILLY!

I love that man so much.

[PersonalJesus348]

@AToxicOrange

I love him so much its almost gay... and the worst part is I don't care <3

[Quadio1]

you

[trickytricks]

Whats the tap?

[rknight182]

holy crap! so much raw emotion! best live preformance ive ever heard of this song!

[stevecato]

would have preffered this shows setlist @ tha orange peel...

[rayramis22]

Billy is never going to play back at the metro, now way in hell he wants to go back

[jonnyl9410]

The harmonized solo was pretty badass

[fightclub1100]

Its true that the last 40 seconds are intense, but my favorite part has to be at 3:15 when Billy screams "In you I feel so hungry, in you I CRASH CARS!"

Specifically those last two words, the way he screams that gets me everytime. Also playing the solo twice was awesome.

[mrzerodocfan]

Descendant of Corganism at Amazon

[ihaXsakito]

ahhh this has to be the best Ava Adore preformance I've ever heard

[beholderof]

yes, i agree! :)

[tjoh2009]

this is awesome, if u have more from this show please post or send a DL link

[carsiotto]

wow. This sucks bigger balls than billy's fucking cock looking head.

[Pumpkin71193]

where does he do the 'tap'?

[marcps4145]

He does the "tap" At around 5: 07.

[chuckdawson]

the last 40 seconds is pretty intense

[wuzasometina]

which drug specifically?

[Likemike71]

You'll be perfect just like BILLY! LOL! HAHAHAHA!

[PersonalJesus348]

now open wide I must remove those suckers

[smashingintoyou]

DUDE please please please... fuckin upload this in h.q. please? This will make my channel's 2 video vlog if you do... pretty please?

[speciesofpositive]

Holy Shit Billy! Amazing!

[j1nt3tsu]

dude billy is freakin mean notice how when he gets close to james he backs away lol angry billy, BILLY SMASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[itsajimithing]

badass

[Watch4]

2:40 is fucking amazing.

[CheccoVertigo]

very very peculiar live version,but still really cool

[grungegirl57]

Live is AMAZING, I can never go back to the plain old album version...

I love the part where he yells, "YOU'LL BE PERFECT JUST LIKE... BILLY!" Made me laugh.

[reinsdorfsucks3]

They should have played it live like this all the time!!! Pumpkins rule.. just goes to show they can play their songs a variety of ways and still kick ass.

[Watch4]

Well they couldn't put this as the studio version, doesn't capture Adore at all.

[szymonm81]

Great song---AWESOME alternation

[PearlJamGooRushFan41]

Is that chick D'arcy with brown hair or was she replaced at this time?

[bmxfreek22000]

Its Melissa Auf der Maur.

[MarilynMunkManson85]

i remember this one. hahahahaha woohooo. fuck the new sp though

[christurkthebrave]

near the start it kinda looks like melissa is naked.

[TravuhsWree]

WTF??

[christurkthebrave]

0:53

[H3dgie]

Yeah, the top half does. If only she was :(

[TravuhsWree]

To the video description:

"The tap"? He's just hammering and pulling with one hand, it isn't hard if you have any sort of finger strength.

[PersonalJesus348]

I'm pretty sure it was a joke emphasizing how amazing that sounded.

[ohsodreary]

Thanks for the clarification. Out of the 15,000+ views, I'm certain that you and possibly two other people actually care.

[ohsodreary]

I'm pretty sure you were taking "everything too seriously" when you decided to enlighten complete strangers with your specifics about proper mad guitar skillz terminology. Way to share. I feel warm and fuzzy.

[TravuhsWree]

Aren't you punctual. I'm pretty sure I wrote that as clarification because you didn't know the guitar terminology. Somehow that's my fault? And how is enlightening other complete strangers about the correct term for something taking everything too seriously?

Either way, I was correcting you. You obviously can't stand to be wrong, which is alright seeing as how no matter how old you are, you probably whine like a little girl.

Bye bye now.

[ohsodreary]

@TravuhsWree tell ya what, I'll make it very simiple so you can understand

1) it was meant to be a joke

2) nobody cares about the correct terminology about "the tap"

3) "either way, I was correcting you" is your way of butting into a conversation that nobody needed or wanted to hear.

But I hope it made you feel better. Show off them mad licks and skillz, yo. You sure are a guitar god.

[pisoscure06]

@ohsodreary

What TravusWree was trying to say was your sarcasm sucks balls.

[ohsodreary]

@pisoscure06 Very eloquent. Got any other pearls of wisdom?

[pisoscure06]

@TravuhsWree

Douche, look up punctual

[brandavies]

I loved how aggressive this version was. When he wants to, Billy can take a song and twist it into something downright hateful. But that's what kicked ass about the Pumpkins' late '90s live shows, you never knew what manifestation of Billy you were going to get, and you never hear the same songs played exactly the same way.

[bmxfreek22000]

I know he used it during a few songs live like rock on he puts it next to his pickups n his guitar and it goes through his amp.

[Tylerlemons947]

Best performance Ever!

[Drfeelgood000]

that performance was absolutely rediculous!!! corgan fucking rules

[TravuhsWree]

I like how they always mix up the songs.

[Grandmapappy69]

3:25-3:40 = pure awesomeness.

[SaturnFriend]

Great version! Billy reminds me to Girl Named Sandoz in here

[plastica]

this verson is wonderful

[juanitostones]

jimmy chamberlain the best

[milo4891]

this one and the hamnurg are my favorites performances of ava live that ive found.

[milo4891]

actually after seeing the vid of the hamburg piece this one is without a doubt their illest performance of ava adore. Love D'arcy but Melissa kisked ass in this vid so so did Jimmy

[JLennonOno]

Right.

The`ve done Ava Adore better 1.000 of Times.

Maybe it was a difficult Time in the Band or whatever.

[burninglegions]

the best performance of ave adore I saw...great !!!

[JLennonOno]

D`arcy is unbelieveable.

I Love her.

Please come back Bassqueen.

[smithyatbroadacres]

thats melissa auf der maur isn't it?

[JLennonOno]

You`re right Bro`

Didn`t realize.

[chrisothoulos]

How can you say this doesnt rock?

How can you say I dont need you?

[marvin250800]

Prefer the Hamburg Version

[thejokerswild1]

that was unexpected but received very well! so fuckin good!!

[JBrugger1080]

holy shit.. thats quite a good version of that song

[petchimp]

OMG THEY DID THE SOLO TWICE! That sounded twice as good.

[stoolet]

I was at this show I flew in from KC and then I met Billy Corgan at the Smart Bar afterwards it was a little joint underneath the area where he is playing here . JC was there to he was extremly shaky and wierd but he is one of the greatest rock drummers of all time so who cares!

[MAXKORN1]

I think that's Jimmy's original drum set. At least the one he first played in the Pumpkins with.

[mattrules3]

yes the lime green machine!

[jopporto1551]

i had never seen billy playing so lively. brilliant

[Stain1234567890]

Awesome!

[eyaoster]

hey, the pumpkins saved the best for the last :)

hope the new band line up plays as good as this, going to one of their concerts soon.

[SKETCHbomb30]

they do

[DrSmoothness]

They played this version at their last show before the breakup.

[NYver4get]

Sounds as if they were still getting the kinks out of this version. San Paulo Brazil version better.

[cundinamarca89]

omg freaking amazing!!!

[bcjcjidwgish]

Amazing sounding performance! Machina, Adore and Machina II are good albums. But for Pumpkins fans that got into the music with gish and siamese dream im sure wish they woulda sounded at least a little like it. I think personally it be cool if billy and jimmy were to go back and RE RECORD ADORE - MACHINA II to make it all rockn like this performance and like the original pumpkins. It would keep that amazing feeling of old pumpkins going even after Mellon Collie. Billy would make $ n happy fans

[PersonalJesus348]

The Smashing Pumpkins never were about the fans or money. So they'll never do it.

[middleclasssam1]

LOL at 4:58

[jnrd]

best ava adore performance!

[SDMFdeeger]

Wow, I thought they only played it this way on their 2nd to last show at the United Center on Nov. 29th, 2000. I had no idea they played it like this at any other show. Awesome.

[dasurass]

I just scorched my shorts. Wow that kicks all forms of ass.

[drjonzo]

wow that was pretty intense

[AmethystSilas]

At 5:08, the damn guitar is like a toy in his hands. Makes me jealous as hell.

I'm so stealing that trick.

[MAXKORN1]

I hear that! No, seriously, they're loud. But shouldn't the greatest band in the world have that right?

[chubbycheeks2]

Do the rubber man!

[scarface69depp]

wow thats fuckin sick, billy's so enthusiastic about it

[tjwilson969]

Pick trick worked about 3 out of four times at the 2 fillmore shows I saw....

[mrmarks65]

Never seen Billy like that!!!WOW!

[LiveForSpeedS2]

bloody badass performance, great stuff thanks!

[benski81]

i love how his pick trick never works out

[mybandreverb]

What do you mean with his pick trick? :p

[chrisothoulos]

This was soooo AWSOME!

[33markvan66]

awesome song, great upload thanks

[chkby4]

badass.