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Gollum · 10-18-2014, 07:07 PM

The first episode focused on Chicago and mentioned a bunch of formative Chicago bands but made no mention of SP. It struck me as especially odd since Butch Vig is featured heavily in the doc and is producing this Foo Fighters album. I mean, I wasn't expecting like in-depth interviews, but they even made a little 20 second montage of Wilco when they were talking about all the bands. I'm thinking that it had to be one of these reasons:

-Dave Grohl hates Billy Corgan
-Billy Corgan hates Dave Grohl
-Billy Corgan views the doc as promotional material for the new Foo Fighters album and doesn't want any part
-Dave Grohl and/or the editors genuinely don't think Smashing Pumpkins are a noteworthy Chicago band.

10-18-2014, 07:07 PM	#1
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