Billy Corgan formed SP after being inspired by watching RHCP perform in Chicago

[redbreegull]

Does anyone remember him saying this? I am very very sure it's a real thing that he said at least one time but I am unable to find the quote. It is possible it's from a pre-2000 interview. Asking for a fren

[FoolofaTook]

Madre de Dios

[FoolofaTook]

Is your friend Anthony Keidis perchance?

[butthurt]

check wiki

[FoolofaTook]

Butthurt are you a second cousin of Buttpope and Butthash?

[butthurt]

we are just friends. "butt buddies"

[teh b0lly!!1]

from the confessions:

Picture me standing alone on a sidewalk in the old-town type area of Ybor City, Florida, watching a local band play thru the glass of a storefront coffee bar...the band has its back to the street, playing to a small audience of about 20 or so people inside...my hair is ratted, died blue-black, standing up and out...my eyes are ringed black as well, carefully drawn on the inside of my bottom eyelid...I am wearing polyester thrift store clothes, way too small for my 6 feet 4 inch body...the band I am watching has their look down, in matching suits ala late 60’s psych-pop...they play a sort of retro mix, not totally faithful to the "good old days", with a nice touch of 80’s atmosphere thrown in for good measure...it is a simple time, where singing about vague feelings of unease thru jumbled, cut-up sentences seemed to sum up the grey clouds of middle class doom that hung over our pretty heads...I can’t go in, because I am not yet 21, (no fake i.d., I’m 19) but even if I could, I cannot afford the cover charge because I have absolutely no money...I am living in a storefront just over the bay in St. Pete, where roaches casually climb over me while I sleep...I am just there, waiting, watching...I do not know what I am waiting for...the band plays on, they are right there in front of me, just 5 feet away...in that moment, they seem to have it all...a stage, an audience, a look, a sound...I for the life of me do not know how to close the distance between me and them...the glass might as well be a stone wall 400 feet high...

[Ram27]

chili peppers were trash until frusciante joined

[Cool As Ice Cream]

you're mom was trash until frusciante joined

[dreams of glass]

I always heard that he created SP because he wanted a band that sounded like Black Sabbath

[amoergosum]

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[dreams of glass]

oh man, those guys must have some stories to tell


*nudge nudge wink wink*

[T&T]

billy is always the bottom.

[soniclovenoize]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

Does anyone remember him saying this? I am very very sure it's a real thing that he said at least one time but I am unable to find the quote. It is possible it's from a pre-2000 interview. Asking for a fren

I thought it was Pixies he saw in Florida that inspired him to start SP...

[cork_soaker]

and i thought it was bad brains

[cork_soaker]

it is in this summer of 1986 that I see 2 shows that will have a tremendous bearing on my future (unknown to me at the time)...the first is the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who I see play in a small club with a robust audience of 100 people...little do I know that one day they will play a huge role in my life, and the ultimate success of the Smashing Pumpkins...the other band is a little more of a story...they play outside on a warm, cloudless night...I have never heard of them before, but a friend takes me to the show...I ask what kind of music the band plays, and they say "rasta"...I go, "um, like Bob Marley?"...I didn’t realize that I was going to see one of the greatest shows (and bands) of my life...the group is Bad Brains, a New York group of Rastafarians who played hardcore-speed metal mixed with large doses of reggae...their lead singer is a short, squat man with very long dreads named H.R...Bad Brains would play amazingly intense bursts of prog-metal music followed by a soothing 6 minutes of dub reggae...they were the first band that I ever saw that captured the rollercoaster dynamics that would later become the blueprint for grunge via the music of Jane’s Addiction and the Pixies...towards the end of a brilliant performance, H.R. climbed up the concrete bandshell that the band was playing in front of...when I say climbed, I mean he used his hands to scale the outer rim of the bandshell, so that the end result was that he was dangling 20ft above the band with his back to the audience while he still rocked out! (his dreads a-flyin’ like some Egyptian Medusa) Incredible!!...if he fell, he would kill himself...he hung for well over a minute thru his superhuman strength, and calmly slid himself down, hand by hand until he stood beaming back in front of an adoring crowd...(one day, the Bad Brains would open for the Pumpkins in France, one of the great honors of my life)

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[Insight_Scoop]

I recall him saying this on some VH1 countdown show from maybe '99/2000. It was like the "100 greatest bands of all time" or something

[T&T]

billy never scaled anything . what a shitty rock star.

[T&T]

skinny fat cause he's too lazy to lift. dude binges on fat foods and then goes on 'healthy' vegetarian diets - makes you skinny fat!

[Butt Pope]

Originally Posted by butthurt

we are just friends. "butt buddies"

sup

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by soniclovenoize

I thought it was Pixies he saw in Florida that inspired him to start SP...

as I recall he went home from FL having given up on music as detailed in the confessions. I remember he wrote that he applied to work at some place and had even made peace with the fact that he would cut his hair if they made him.

Originally Posted by cork_soaker

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you are an hero. this is it.

[Corgan's Bluff]

Now we know, why BILLY was supporting the CHILLI PEPPERS -until NIRVANA...

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

you are an hero. this is it.

he doesn't say he formed SP after being inspired by RHCP.

[Jelly Blossom]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

as I recall he went home from FL having given up on music as detailed in the confessions. I remember he wrote that he applied to work at some place and had even made peace with the fact that he would cut his hair if they made him.

Take everything that Billy says with a grain of salt. He clearly over-exaggerates a ton of shit, especially how bad he had it growing up.

By all accounts Billy had a relatively privileged upbringing. For example not too many people would've been allowed to move back home after moving with a band trying to 'make it' to Florida. I know I wouldn't have been able to do that.

[FoolofaTook]

I'd like to "blossom" all over your mother.

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