Eight o'clock finally rolled around. They were supposed to come out now. Of course they didn't until 8:20. The Pumpkins came out one at a time. Billy came out first and sat down at the grand piano they had set up. He was wearing his usual black pants, shoes, shirt and coat, and began playing a very beautiful piano intro to To Sheila. James came out next with his acoustic guitar (after all it was an all acoustic show) wearing black pants, and a cool shiny red shirt. D'arcy came out last wearing high heels, black shiny pants and a white tank top. They played through To Sheila and went right into The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete. It was done very well, very true to the album version. Next, Billy said good evening and thanks for coming. Then to my surprise they played Ava Adore! On acoustic guitar! It was so excellent. Way better than the album version or the live electric version. The whole band really got into this one. Next, all the lights went out except a spotlight on Billy. He started playing Tear (probably my favorite song) singing the first verse acapella, and then the whole band joined in. Totally going all out into a huge and very powerful instrumental in the middle. The crowd really loved it.

They then played Perfect which is so beautiful acoustic. Mark Garson, the pianist, is so great. He was at least playing something on every song. Then the band surprised me again when they started into Pug! Pug! An almost totally synthesized song on the album and they played it acoustically. I liked it even better acoustic. It was fantastic. Billy playing the guitar so hard. After this Billy thanked the Grand Ole Opry House for letting them play here and explaining to the audience that the Opry wouldn't let them play electric but didn't say anything about not playing loud. Then he said something like: "We feel honored to play at the Opry because so many pioneers of country music have played here and if it wasn't for those people we wouldn't be here tonight making fools of ourselves." Well they definitely didn't make fools of themselves.

Then he dedicated the next song to the crowd. It was 1979. Sounded really good.

Then Billy made his way back to the piano, and told the crowd that this was the first time ever that he had played piano in public! Wow! I heard Billy's first live performance on the piano! He started playing Crestfallen. He sang beautifully. His voice keeps getting better and better. Next they played Tonight, Tonight. Which really pleased the crowd. But what really pleased me was the next song: For Martha. Billy singing acapella again with Mark Garson tickling the ivory with great skill and beauty. The energy really built up as they went into the solo at the end. Gave me a warm feeling in my stomach. Let Me Give the World to You came next, not many in the crowd knew it, but I did and thought it was great. Then, probably my favorite song of the whole show: Shame. I'm not really sure why I liked it best. Probably because of the two very powerful instrumentals they stuck in between two of the verses. The band just seemed to play together better than they had on any other song. Then, Billy waved and bowed to the crowd and the band left the stage.

After about 10 minutes of sheer screaming and madness, Kenny and the other two percussionists came out and started pounding away at the drums. They were going as hard as they could for probably about 5 minutes or so, and the crowd was really going nuts. Everyone was on their feet. Then the band came out and someone threw a cowboy hat on stage. Billy picked it up and put it on making the crowd's shrieks of glee escalate to the point of bursting my eardrums. Billy then threw the hat back into the audience, and started playing the new version of Bullet With Butterfly Wings. This one really rocked the crowd. Billy screaming to the point of bleeding vocal chords (probably). Then things slowed down a lot as Mark Garson played a piano solo for a couple of minutes which led into Blank Page. Billy stood at the mic singing in his falsetto voice. Absolutely the most beautiful song of the night. Almost made me cry. The whole band eventually joined in and ended the song and the concert.

Then, just as people were getting ready to leave, Billy and James come out with some people from the W.O. Smith Music School (which is where all the ticket sales were going to) and Billy presented a check for $130,000 to the head guy. The head guy then gave Billy and James a little statue/trophy type thing and shook their hands. James and the W.O. Smith people then left the stage, but Billy came all the way out to the edge of the stage and bowed and clapped for us. Then he started shaking some of the fans hands who were down front. Some girl jumped up on stage twice trying to hug Billy but the security guards stopped her. Billy gave one last farewell and left the stage. It was amazing.

Setlist:
1. To Sheila
2. The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete
3. Ava Adore
4. Tear
5. Perfect
6. Pug
7. 1979
8. Crestfallen
9. Tonight, Tonight
10. For Martha
11. Let Me Give the World to You
12. Shame

Encore:
- Kenny Aronoff / percussion solo
13. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
- Mark Garson / piano solo
14. Blank Page
- Check presentation and farewell