Hey everybody I wanted to do a quick video
talking about the Smashing Pumpkins who were
on Howard Stern.
So Billy Corgan and I guess the sessions players
who are touring with the Smashing Pumpkins
were on the Stern Show.
It was the second time they've being on the
show in the last couple of years.
He was there when they promoted Oceania.
They performed three songs, they did zero
from one of their old albums, they did a David
Bowie cover which was Fame and One and All
which is from their new album.
There were alot of interesting tidbits from
the interview.
Howard has this really annoying habit I've
noticed now when he has an on he'll play like
their song and you'll be like you know this
song, what was this song about?
He did it with Foo Fighters, he did it with
Slash and he's done it with some other artists
they've had on recently.
Billy revelaed that he isn't a big fan of
Pearl Jam.
How they sell stadiums is sort of beyond him.
He said he used to be friends with Eddie Vedder
but fame has changed Eddie Vedder so I guess
maybe it's went to his head.
He wasn't the same person he used to be that
Billy knew.
He said that Courtney Love could pick out
talent in a room full of people, so it was
no surprise to him that she ended up with
Kurt Cobain.
He said that Kurt Cobain was one of the guys
he was the most jealous about in a good way,
he said he wished he had written about 10
of Nirvana songs.
He said the same about Alice in Chains as
well.
When asked about Dave Grohl of the foo fighters
Billy said that Dave is a really talented
musician but he's sort of been rehashing and
remaking the exact same songs over and over
again and that was one of my crticisms of
their latest album Sonic Highways.
He talked about how they lost the grammy to
celion dion back in the 90's and how Celion
Dion brought on stage 12 of her producers
to show that these are the little people who
make my life easier.
I think Billy said he was ready to slit his
wrist after he saw that.
He also said that the song Tonight Tonight
was a homage to Cheap Trick and how they had
a 30 piece orchestra play on the song and
Billy actually wrote out the orchestra sections
with another person.
Of course pop music infuriates Billy.
He had nothing good to say about the current
music people are listening to.
He also revealed that he is writing a memoir
which he said he would be using peoples pseudonyms,
he wouldn't be using people's real names so
it would give him more flexibility in what
he could write about and there wouldn't be
any reprecusions as well.
He also revealed they won't really be touring
much at all on this new album they would just
be doing a couple of club shows here and there
and how many times did Billy say the word
hello?
Hello?
But that was probably it during the interview,
he was probably it during the entire interview
and Billy sounded great on the three songs
they performed.
And I found One and All the vocals were a
little low, but man Zero they just came out
of the gate.
Even the David Bowie cover was really good
too.
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