William Patrick Corgan—Rock Icon

[slunken]

oh welp this time i got through 2 sections before it skipped back to the beginning ffs

[slunken]

woah - pt 3 opens up hard - great segment from corgan about gambling

[slunken]

that does seem a bit strange? why is he so involved with vh1 alla sudden?

[slunken]

what i got out of the piece:

it seems like he is finally at peace with not being #1 anymore and he's not trying anymore.
he is just trying new things to try them
he says zwan and tfe were wasted years

he talks about his past success not affecting him anymore as well as his past success being used as a bar against him. i think he has also dealt with that personally - that original band was his identity, for better or worse, and it has taken him a long time to realize that. he spent his entire 20s and more in the band.

he can complain about the outside world (fans, the record biz) still expecting him to be 1997 billy but i think he is realizing that also he has been expecting himself to be 1997 billy.

i'm glad to see him letting that go.

[slunken]

it's the admission that he's just futzing around that sells it for me

[bunny]

the three tone test implying he was a musical savant... classic corgan delusions.

my mom says I'm the most special boy in the world too.

[juliana]

Originally Posted by wounded

how have i never heard this musical savant story?

also I forgot about that beatnik stache during the poetry tour

Because it is a made up story, why would he only dish this in recent years. This is something billy would have loved to tell people in the 90s.

[slunken]

he's told the story before - i mentioned that

[slunken]

in the 90s

[slunken]

[bunny]

I've heard him tell the story before.
sounded like an "my mom says i'm special" story back then too.

and who is ****** drell? that fan comment was pointless.

[bunny]

are we going to talk about his burn out daddy?

this was a shitty tv show.
VH1 fail.

[juliana]

Originally Posted by slunken

in the 90s

He told the story about oceania era. Never seen anything that said that in the 90s.

[juliana]

Originally Posted by bunny

I've heard him tell the story before.
sounded like an "my mom says i'm special" story back then too.

and who is ****** drell? that fan comment was pointless.

I haven't watched the show but someone on twitter told me that they looked her up and her FB has a pic of her and dave grohl. Still laughing.

[themadcaplaughs]

Originally Posted by juliana

He told the story about oceania era. Never seen anything that said that in the 90s.

Yea. The other time I remember hearing this was on the Howard Stern interview from 2012.

[grape]

Hey, his parents didn't love him and my parents didn't love me. I think this explains something.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Originally Posted by slunken

anyone else getting mostly african-american demographic sports ads?

this is two days in a row now is this what safari thinks of me

ads were skipped for me. (by adblock plus? or that hola thing?)

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Originally Posted by bunny

and who is ****** drell? that fan comment was pointless.

she won the yellowest pumpkins fan award for four years in a row now. she's a legend.

[juliana]

Originally Posted by themadcaplaughs

Yea. The other time I remember hearing this was on the Howard Stern interview from 2012.

But some are referencing the 90s, never heard it in the 90s. I think he is lying. I bet his whole life is a lie.

[slunken]

i want to say its from a mcis-era radio interview but i recently lost my .txt file of interview notes

[Mals Marola]

gracing completely over machina era minus one off-handed reference from jeff when listing all the original-era lineup albums

starting to look great for the reissue!

[slunken]

jerf cherdder

[slunken]

return of the mackines of god

[houseofglass11]

Originally Posted by bunny

sad.
he should just kill himself.

What an awful and sociopathic thing to say. You sir, are an asshole.

[themadcaplaughs]

Originally Posted by slunken

what i got out of the piece:

it seems like he is finally at peace with not being #1 anymore and he's not trying anymore.
he is just trying new things to try them
he says zwan and tfe were wasted years

he talks about his past success not affecting him anymore as well as his past success being used as a bar against him. i think he has also dealt with that personally - that original band was his identity, for better or worse, and it has taken him a long time to realize that. he spent his entire 20s and more in the band.

he can complain about the outside world (fans, the record biz) still expecting him to be 1997 billy but i think he is realizing that also he has been expecting himself to be 1997 billy.

i'm glad to see him letting that go.

It won't stick. He's said pretty much the same thing after every album cycle since Zeitgeist. He'll be pissed and threatening to pull the plug on the band again when the next album and manages to get even less attention than Monuments.

[Jelly Blossom]

Originally Posted by themadcaplaughs

It won't stick. He's said pretty much the same thing after every album cycle since Zeitgeist. He'll be pissed and threatening to pull the plug on the band again when the next album and manages to get even less attention than Monuments.

But remember folks, he's a musical genius.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

but his dad looked at the piece of paper and it was too expensive and he threw it away AND THAT WAS THAT