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

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...

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

not with D'Arcy on bass, surely?

yes, they're in contact and have been since last year

What? I was talking, of course, about the Alt. Rock Hall of Fame...

Some of these guitars look pretty cool tbh, really love the James Trussart Rustomatic but they're expensive enough when they're not previously owned by someone famous.

Wow, is there really no ILX Jonathan Gold appreciaation thread? RIP JG, one of the best.

holy shit, Jonathan Gold wrote this piece??

...the same Jonathan Gold?

Yeah he wrote a lot about WC Gangsta Rap & pre-/post-Nirvana-grunge for the LA Weekly, LA Times & SPIN. He was at all the club shows... Al's Bar, Jabberwocky, Raji's.

Wow

I meant Jabberjaw, not Jabberwocky! That's what I get for posting in the middle of the night.

lol, just stumbled upon this video of Billy interviewing an openly-contemptuous Nick Cave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X1LThFfA8U

lol, amazing

lol great find

Easter came early.

I love that MTV wasn't like 'eh, we can't air that' but rather like 'oh, we MUST air that'.

loooooool

*makes dick-sucking motion with microphone* and it all goes downhill from there.

Love it when he calls Cave English

hahaha none of you have seen that before? I think about it semi-often

"I mean you know, for the typical American teenager, it's all the same."
"Yeah well it's not."
"I know I'm sorry."
"You said you're a teenager? How old are you?"
"27."
"Right."

🤣🤣🤣

its awesome to watch Billy eat shit bc it so rarely happens. there was a great one maybe 5 years ago when he was on an Australian morning show to promote a festival appearance by SP (I think the Download Festival or something). at the end of the interview, the host said "Hope you have a good time at Download!" and Billy just said "What's that?" DEAD AIR 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

yeah it’s amazing to see billy actually feel uncomfortable and painfully uncool

there’s not a second of it that’s not golden but my favourite part might be the footage of cave and the seeds giving it their all in front of a bemused audience in full blazing sunshine

Love it when he calls Cave English

it's even better when he quadruples down and claims that Germany, England and an entire continent on the other side of the planet from them "all look like" one country, from as far away as America