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

'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

billy-corgan-upset

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

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