things Billy Corgan said to Kim Thayil in Australia in 1994 poll

Chris Cornell is doing the same... Pearl Jam are the only contemporaries of his that are still playing arenas & stadiums.

m@tt this is awesome! have you tweeted this yet? can i tweet it?

Yeah go ahead and tweet it anyone and thanks!

Chris Cornell just played the Royal Albert Hall in London, which is pretty prestigious tbh, and Soundgarden headlined Hyde Park a few years back (though it did not sell out, and they were support to Sabbath there two summers ago)

SP just did three nights at the Beacon Theater in NYC, I saw them at the Lincoln Theater in DC, all were sold out... i think they're operating at the same level rn

i tweeted it

chris cornell has a valid and estimable solo career

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Billy-Corgan-surprises-Laredoans-with-impromptu-10887693.php

I just watched Author: The JT Leroy story on Amazon and did not know how involved Corgan was with the whole saga!

Better yet I can now confirm actual audio of a phone message in which Billy refers to himself in third person as "the Corganator"

oh my god that is excellent news

I heard the dude gets all superfan on BC and asks all these questions about the effects pedals on Gish. Need to see it still.

haha yeah that part is so funny (though that's not the dude the dude, it's like the husband of the woman wrote "JT Leroy" and the brother of the woman who played "JT Leroy")

the whole thing is so weird

Just going back to this... why are his sleeves so long?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojAXUqL--mY

he wears a lot of layers

he wears a lot of layers

there's a classic Billy quote in the 1994 SPIN Artist of the Year piece by Azerrad:

Corgan is still wearing that lumber jacket. "I hate being cold," he explains. "It reminds me of when I got punished when I was a kid and got sent down to the basement."

Never forget.

Chris Cornell is dead but Billy Corgan lives.

Outshined

how jealous do we think billy is of the coverage chris cornell is getting today

he wrote a pretty heartfelt thing about Scott Weiland when he passed. I'm sure he'll do the same for Cornell. becoming a father seems to have mellowed Billy... to an extent

if he does i really hope he mentions when he was on tour with soundgarden in australia in 1994

"Chris was a Cancer - I picked up on it immediately."

https://reverb.com/news/billy-corgan-artist-shop-preview

God is tempting me. I must resist.

My favorite detail is

1962 Gibson ES-175 TDC used on Howard Stern's favorite song Violet Rays from the Oceania album

omg how did i miss that

not interested in any post-2000 gear, but i'm flabbergasted that he's selling this Strat:

https://68.media.tumblr.com/421ba738d2d8ea863a9c23c08bb41b24/tumblr_okiy5pqyCF1sxm49so1_400.gif

Right?

Yeah that's nuts. Seen him live with that one several times. The Orange box as well.

Why would he sell this stuff? He can't be THAT hard-up, can he? Maybe he needs cash to buy more Infowars-branded supplements.

Well, if the gold thing is true, he's probably not the most financially savvy guy around.

There was a point in time where I would have loved to own a guitar that Corgan played on the early Pumpkins stuff, but that was two decades ago...

xpost He's doing fine. He was sorta like Jagger, always had good business sense (at least when SP was massive), also he never had a drug problem, that's almost always what drains the bank accounts of rock stars... he's sold gear before on eBay and it all went to charity, maybe this'll be the same. I've noticed that he's been laying low this year - he has a solo album that he did with Rick Rubin that's been finished for months, it was supposed to come out in April/May (called The Land of Maybe). I think he's trying to get festival bookings for a full SP reunion in 2018, and someone finally told him that if you lay low, people will care about you more when you come back.

a career in rock is a rollercoaster, that is true

http://esq.h-cdn.co/assets/15/30/980x490/landscape-1437777701-billy-corgan-disneyland-sad.jpg

Haha!

!!!!!

https://68.media.tumblr.com/7a8cf40a80dc76aa2b3479fd975f57de/tumblr_mzmdozRRGV1shf8zxo1_400.jpg

That Rickenbacker 360 purchased from Courtney Love is full of alt-rock history.

It just hit me that the rackmount ADA MP-1 preamps used to record Gish... are for sale... I must... I have to resist...

perhaps a new/different thread would be in order for flappy bird being the melissa w of smashing pumpkins

i'll end this session with a classic

https://68.media.tumblr.com/958c7138dda0aa5617f763c276a24013/tumblr_osqyukiqFq1vrhb3jo1_500.jpg

Corgan is one of those rock icons that make me think dying from an overdose would have been less sad.

Hehehe!

That Rickenbacker 360 purchased from Courtney Love is full of alt-rock history.

― Ex Slacker, Saturday, July 15, 2017 2:02 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's not just her guitar that's been full of alt-rock history, tbf.

Ugh

I think he's trying to get festival bookings for a full SP reunion in 2018,

not with D'Arcy on bass, surely?

was that really necessary Turrican

jesus...