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

I like how BC made a riff out of distorted harmonics on "Zero".

which was why it was so difficult for me to play reading it from the tabs in Guitar magazine

Yeah, it's quite a neat trick. Eye seem 2 remember Corgan being interviewed 4 that Rush documentary, and Alex Lifeson plays a lot of riffs based on harmonics on stuff like 'Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres' and 'Red Barchetta' ... It's possible Corgan may have picked up designing a riff around harmonics from listening 2 Rush.

i can dig this Prince-posting style

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I could see that. There's a striking distinction for me in that "Red Barchetta" is based on the 2nd to 4th harmonics (12th, 7th, and 5th frets), which give you octaves and fifths that are not too far from their equal-tempered counterparts. "Zero" uses the 5th, 6th, and 7th harmonics, including a just M3 and just m7 that are more distant from equal temperament. Obv, at the same time, it's more simple-minded: he just slid his finger along that stretch of the string with a tonne of distortion.

2xp OTM re posting style!

what the hell is the solo to "Zero" btw. like it's this out of key weird alien sounding thing. have always liked it but didn't know if it was just achieved with a fuck ton of pedal effects or if he was just mashing frets in the 22 - 24s and bending them weirdly

Feel like this thread has lost sight of it's original focus guys. Can we bring it back to stupid things Billy Corgans says/has said? Thanks.

"what the hell is the solo to "Zero" btw. like it's this out of key weird alien sounding thing. have always liked it but didn't know if it was just achieved with a fuck ton of pedal effects or if I was just mashing frets in the 22 - 24s and bending them weirdly"

- Blind Willy Corgs

It's a shame 2 c both 'U Hurt Me Deeply' and 'What Sign R U?' get no votes in hindsight.

Well first is better when you add "in my heart" so I get that one (esp. when you imagine him tapping the Superman S on his chest).

'What Sign R U?' would make a great Prince song title, come 2 think of it.

what the hell is the solo to "Zero" btw. like it's this out of key weird alien sounding thing. have always liked it but didn't know if it was just achieved with a fuck ton of pedal effects or if he was just mashing frets in the 22 - 24s and bending them weirdly

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that's one of James' rare shining moments in a SP studio recording. painstakingly pieced together, and yeah it's run through like half a dozen harmonizers and pitch shifters

"Zero" is a remarkably powerful and compact song, their shortest epic. one of his most distinctive riffs, for sure. lots of layering going on with the rhythm tracks:

"Zero"
We like to call this style of our music "Cybermetal." "Zero" has six rhythm guitars, with two line-in 12-string acoustics, plus those wacky Iha leads. Tracked live with overdubs added later, this is a true mover as well as the first song that was recorded for Mellon Collie, James has always said this reminds him of Judas Priest.

http://www.starla.org/articles/gw5.htm

I actually bought that issue of GW!

http://pitchfork.com/news/65426-billy-corgan-disses-bernie-sanders-on-conspiracy-theorist-radio-show/?mbid=social_facebook

ok now he's gone too far

why Prince and not this jackass

if we had to lose one chemtrails believer...

Why does he look like a hobo

sometimes hobos have valid ideas. See: Regis Philbin, Kenneth Arrow, Charlotte Bronte

Regis Philbin was invented by a hobo?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMc2x8DZLZc

http://boingboing.net/2016/05/13/billy-corgan-upset-that.html

Billy Corgan upset that "the wrong racial epithet" could destroy his career

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Why does he look like a hobo

When was the last time you saw a hobo with a monogrammed hat?

welcome to Boston

Billy Corgan upset that "the wrong racial epithet" could destroy his career

to be fair, we do have some weird problem in our society where we say that people are the worst things they've ever done or said. It's not a great way to view the world, in my opinion.

heresy

we have this other problem with white bros who are preemptively worried that if they start spewing some racist garbage they might get their feet held to the fire a little instead of just given the "aww, Billy, he's just being Billy! let the man have his epithets, after all he's made so much terrible music!" treatment

Billy's just such a pathetic fucking dweeb.

Going after that Gamergate dollar like a chump.

so i ended up falling in this alex jones hole because of corgan and anyway i found this crazy ass sequence where he went on a reverie to The Doors and I ended up making a negativland type LA Woman/Alex Jones thing....the last 2 minutes when it's just him is stunning radio

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/mojowars-feat-al3x-j0n3s-the-d00rs

Love this - great job! Rich lung cleanse baritone, just like Morrison.

the power of DNA force

billy corgan has a career?

SP sorta flies under the radar these days but they sell out every place they play. granted, those are 2,000-5,000 seat theaters, but he's doing pretty good for himself. fwiw, this latest run of In Plainsong shows was the best he's sounded in years.

so basically, he is at the same stage of his career now as the guy from styx was in 1992

Sounds approx right.

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