Corgan backs out of Coachella, buys piece of Gold Coast

Luke de Spa · 01-27-2006, 08:17 PM

Billy Corgan buys a piece of the Gold Coast

Ten months after selling his Victorian painted lady mansion in Lake View for $1 million, former Smashing Pumpkins lead singer and chief songwriter Billy Corgan has paid $2.95 million for a recently renovated, historic six-room condominium on the Gold Coast.

After disbanding Zwan, Corgan formed a new group, the Smashing Pumpkins, which was set to play the forthcoming Coachella festival. However, sources at Corgan's label Reprise Records have confirmed that Corgan has unilaterally "backed out" of appearing at Coachella.

Through his tour manager, Corgan declined to comment on Coachella or the purchase of the two-bedroom condo. His tour manager confirmed that the singer-songwriter recently has been staying at the Arizona condo while rehearsing for the Smashing Pumpkins' 2006 tour, but said the Chicago-area native ultimately intends to lease the condo in a 110-year-old building to someone else. The unit has an oak-paneled living room, reception room, balcony framed by granite columns, four fireplaces, walnut parquet floors and a large terrace.

Corgan has shown an affinity for vintage properties. After moving out of the more than 100-year-old Lake View home at 3448 N. Greenview Ave., which he owned from 1993 to 2001, Corgan temporarily stayed in a penthouse in the Haberdasher Square loft development, 728 W. Jackson Blvd., a former manufacturing building that dates to 1926. And in 2000, the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois awarded Corgan its President's Award for his commitment to historic preservation.

Since Corgan sold his Lake View home, one Smashing Pumpkins Web site reported that he has been living in Italy, but in interviews he has declined any comment on his permanent residence.

Singer Courtney Love, whom Corgan dated many years ago, just sold her loft in downtown Manhattan for $3 million after buying it for $2.6 million in January 2001, according to the New York Post. The loft is in the same building where rocker Lenny Kravitz just listed his own, five-bedroom, 7,000-square-foot, multilevel loft for $16 million, after buying the space unfinished in October 2000 for $8 million, the Post reported.

Love also recently listed her almost 3,700-square-foot Spanish-style house on Los Angeles' Westside -- which she bought last June for $3 million -- for about the same price, according to the Los Angeles Times. Love reportedly is looking for another house in the area because her five-bedroom house, which was built in the 1920s, is too small.

Ironically, Love told the Times last year that she sold a four-bedroom, 4,700-square-foot French country-style house on almost 2 acres in the Hollywood Hills -- which she had purchased from Ellen DeGeneres in 1997 for about $3 million -- because she was planning to spend more time in New York and actually wanted something smaller in L.A. She sold the Hollywood Hills home for $3.995 million in March 2001 to British businessman Mike Walley. Love's former Hollywood Hills house made the news in November 2001, after Paul McCartney's fellow Beatle George Harrison died. After Harrison's representatives gave a bogus L.A. address on his death certificate, the county's district attorney revealed in February that Harrison actually had died at Walley's house.

Rocker Tom Petty has paid close to $2.5 million for a three-bedroom oceanfront home in Malibu, Calif., according to the Los Angeles Times. Built in 1974, the house has three fireplaces, Malibu tiles and a courtyard with a fountain, the paper reported ... Fred Durst, frontman for the rock group Limp Bizkit, has sold a house he never moved into in Bel Air, Calif., for $3.7 million because it had "vibes that were not quite correct for him," according to the Los Angeles Times. Last fall, Durst bought the four-bedroom, 6,600-square-foot house, which was once owned by the Doors' Robbie Krieger and has a carving of the Doors playing on one wall, for just under $4 million, the paper reported. Durst recently bought a house with a sound studio in L.A.'s Hollywood Hills, and has listed that home for $1.4 million, the Times reported.

The lead single from the Pumpkins' as-yet-unnamed new album, "Hot Shot City", is reported to be particularly good.

GeoX · 01-27-2006, 08:23 PM

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Through his tour manager, Corgan declined to comment on Coachella or the purchase of the two-bedroom condo. His tour manager confirmed that the singer-songwriter recently has been staying at the Arizona condo while rehearsing for the Smashing Pumpkins' 2006 tour, but said the Chicago-area native ultimately intends to lease the condo in a 110-year-old building to someone else.

hmmmm?

dean moriaty · 01-27-2006, 08:28 PM

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Lucky Day Spa again.

GeoX · 01-27-2006, 08:30 PM

i was fooled

Luke de Spa · 01-27-2006, 08:34 PM

no, it's legit, do a search for it

DeviousJ · 01-27-2006, 08:35 PM

I have the leaked single, it's low bitrate though unfortunately

Luke de Spa · 01-27-2006, 08:51 PM

the one from the LSPAA?

DeviousJ · 01-27-2006, 08:55 PM

Could be, I got it from a private torrent site that handles a lot of leaked material - scene stuff basically

foxtrot · 01-27-2006, 09:09 PM

AHHHHH. FUCKING HELL$#&$#& (sorry for the language)

Mariner · 01-27-2006, 09:23 PM

can you tell us what it sounds like, devious?

DeviousJ · 01-27-2006, 09:45 PM

Well I could upload it. I guess if it's a big problem I can take it down or someone could edit my post or whatever

From the sound of it I think Billy's been listening to Wolf Eyes

RopeyLopey · 01-27-2006, 09:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DeviousJ

Well I could upload it. I guess if it's a big problem I can take it down or someone could edit my post or whatever

From the sound of it I think Billy's been listening to Wolf Eyes

you have all my support dude. Go for it. I will take care of the post if something happens.

Nova · 01-27-2006, 10:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DeviousJ

Well I could upload it. I guess if it's a big problem I can take it down or someone could edit my post or whatever

From the sound of it I think Billy's been listening to Wolf Eyes

!!!

DeviousJ · 01-27-2006, 10:45 PM

Ok

AutUmn

Kind of industrial, like HMM and very atmospheric. Gets going when it speeds up

Nova · 01-27-2006, 10:47 PM

Uh... you are joking right.

DeviousJ · 01-27-2006, 10:52 PM

Nope. I mean things could change between now and the album's release, so I'm not saying for sure it will be the single, but it's a direct scene leak and it's 100% pumpkins

Nova · 01-27-2006, 10:55 PM

Just because you got it from a scene leak site doesn't necessarily mean it's legit...
Let's hope it isn't anyway... or is more like Disco King, i.e. something that will be completely different.

oddhandle · 01-27-2006, 10:59 PM

Wow, that was really kind of good. The rumbly part sounds like James.

DeviousJ · 01-27-2006, 11:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nova

Just because you got it from a scene leak site doesn't necessarily mean it's legit...
Let's hope it isn't anyway... or is more like Disco King, i.e. something that will be completely different.

I can absolutely guarantee it's a leaked pumpkins track

Nova · 01-27-2006, 11:11 PM

No, sorry. It's Autumn Nocturne (Fools We Are). I just increased the speed in GoldWave.

Either you tried to fool us, or someone fooled you.

Dark Eternity · 01-27-2006, 11:20 PM

Wow that was amazing. I can't wait for the video of this new song to come out. This song is going to send the pumpkins back to the top.

Nova · 01-27-2006, 11:22 PM

Yeah, seeing as how it's from the MCIS Demo Tape and all

Rolllllinnn' with the breeze... do aasss you please.

Elvis The Fat Years · 01-28-2006, 02:50 AM

oh my!

its just too easy sometimes.

Nova · 01-28-2006, 02:52 AM

To piss people off or figure out they aren't being honest

Junebug · 01-28-2006, 02:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nova

To piss people off or figure out they aren't being honest

to figure our how stupid and gullible they are.

oh and lds i was about to kill you until i saw the gold coast comment hah.

Nova · 01-28-2006, 02:57 AM

Too bad I didn't really fall for it to begin with

edit: I love how this place works. I got threatened to be banned for posting another false link to a file that I said was a new BC solo track, this guy does the same thing and it's funny. And I get docked points for doing exactly the opposite of what I was once warned not to do.

Junebug · 01-28-2006, 02:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nova

Too bad I didn't really fall for it to begin with

...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nova

!!!

Nova · 01-28-2006, 03:00 AM

...

Duhr, that was before I heard the clip.
As soon as I heard the clip I knew he was full of shit.

Junebug · 01-28-2006, 03:02 AM

i think the fact that it took you until you heard the clip is what makes you gullible.

it's okay though. sort of. but not really.

Nova · 01-28-2006, 03:04 AM

There wasn't much to go with beforehand, so there's a 50/50 chance of it being legit.

01-27-2006, 08:17 PM	#1
Luke de Spa someone more...punk rock? Location: Ice cream pig out in M1-aud is why i don't play plug in baby the wrong way, like you Posts: 22,182	Corgan backs out of Coachella, buys piece of Gold Coast Billy Corgan buys a piece of the Gold Coast Ten months after selling his Victorian painted lady mansion in Lake View for $1 million, former Smashing Pumpkins lead singer and chief songwriter Billy Corgan has paid $2.95 million for a recently renovated, historic six-room condominium on the Gold Coast. After disbanding Zwan, Corgan formed a new group, the Smashing Pumpkins, which was set to play the forthcoming Coachella festival. However, sources at Corgan's label Reprise Records have confirmed that Corgan has unilaterally "backed out" of appearing at Coachella. Through his tour manager, Corgan declined to comment on Coachella or the purchase of the two-bedroom condo. His tour manager confirmed that the singer-songwriter recently has been staying at the Arizona condo while rehearsing for the Smashing Pumpkins' 2006 tour, but said the Chicago-area native ultimately intends to lease the condo in a 110-year-old building to someone else. The unit has an oak-paneled living room, reception room, balcony framed by granite columns, four fireplaces, walnut parquet floors and a large terrace. Corgan has shown an affinity for vintage properties. After moving out of the more than 100-year-old Lake View home at 3448 N. Greenview Ave., which he owned from 1993 to 2001, Corgan temporarily stayed in a penthouse in the Haberdasher Square loft development, 728 W. Jackson Blvd., a former manufacturing building that dates to 1926. And in 2000, the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois awarded Corgan its President's Award for his commitment to historic preservation. Since Corgan sold his Lake View home, one Smashing Pumpkins Web site reported that he has been living in Italy, but in interviews he has declined any comment on his permanent residence. Singer Courtney Love, whom Corgan dated many years ago, just sold her loft in downtown Manhattan for $3 million after buying it for $2.6 million in January 2001, according to the New York Post. The loft is in the same building where rocker Lenny Kravitz just listed his own, five-bedroom, 7,000-square-foot, multilevel loft for $16 million, after buying the space unfinished in October 2000 for $8 million, the Post reported. Love also recently listed her almost 3,700-square-foot Spanish-style house on Los Angeles' Westside -- which she bought last June for $3 million -- for about the same price, according to the Los Angeles Times. Love reportedly is looking for another house in the area because her five-bedroom house, which was built in the 1920s, is too small. Ironically, Love told the Times last year that she sold a four-bedroom, 4,700-square-foot French country-style house on almost 2 acres in the Hollywood Hills -- which she had purchased from Ellen DeGeneres in 1997 for about $3 million -- because she was planning to spend more time in New York and actually wanted something smaller in L.A. She sold the Hollywood Hills home for $3.995 million in March 2001 to British businessman Mike Walley. Love's former Hollywood Hills house made the news in November 2001, after Paul McCartney's fellow Beatle George Harrison died. After Harrison's representatives gave a bogus L.A. address on his death certificate, the county's district attorney revealed in February that Harrison actually had died at Walley's house. Rocker Tom Petty has paid close to $2.5 million for a three-bedroom oceanfront home in Malibu, Calif., according to the Los Angeles Times. Built in 1974, the house has three fireplaces, Malibu tiles and a courtyard with a fountain, the paper reported ... Fred Durst, frontman for the rock group Limp Bizkit, has sold a house he never moved into in Bel Air, Calif., for $3.7 million because it had "vibes that were not quite correct for him," according to the Los Angeles Times. Last fall, Durst bought the four-bedroom, 6,600-square-foot house, which was once owned by the Doors' Robbie Krieger and has a carving of the Doors playing on one wall, for just under $4 million, the paper reported. Durst recently bought a house with a sound studio in L.A.'s Hollywood Hills, and has listed that home for $1.4 million, the Times reported. The lead single from the Pumpkins' as-yet-unnamed new album, "Hot Shot City", is reported to be particularly good.

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01-27-2006, 08:28 PM	#3
dean moriaty lion of saloons Location: ^ Posts: 7,370	You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Lucky Day Spa again.

01-27-2006, 08:30 PM	#4
GeoX Amish Rake Fighter Posts: 18	i was fooled

01-27-2006, 08:34 PM	#5
Luke de Spa someone more...punk rock? Location: Ice cream pig out in M1-aud is why i don't play plug in baby the wrong way, like you Posts: 22,182	no, it's legit, do a search for it

01-27-2006, 08:35 PM	#6
DeviousJ CORNFROST Location: GUREITO DESU YO Posts: 24,888	I have the leaked single, it's low bitrate though unfortunately

01-27-2006, 08:51 PM	#7
Luke de Spa someone more...punk rock? Location: Ice cream pig out in M1-aud is why i don't play plug in baby the wrong way, like you Posts: 22,182	the one from the LSPAA?

01-27-2006, 08:55 PM	#8
DeviousJ CORNFROST Location: GUREITO DESU YO Posts: 24,888	Could be, I got it from a private torrent site that handles a lot of leaked material - scene stuff basically

01-27-2006, 09:09 PM	#9
foxtrot Banned Posts: 524	AHHHHH. FUCKING HELL$#&$#& (sorry for the language)

01-27-2006, 09:23 PM	#10
Mariner OB-GYN Kenobi Location: the sea Posts: 17,020	can you tell us what it sounds like, devious?

01-27-2006, 09:45 PM	#11
DeviousJ CORNFROST Location: GUREITO DESU YO Posts: 24,888	Well I could upload it. I guess if it's a big problem I can take it down or someone could edit my post or whatever From the sound of it I think Billy's been listening to Wolf Eyes

01-27-2006, 10:45 PM	#14
DeviousJ CORNFROST Location: GUREITO DESU YO Posts: 24,888	Ok AutUmn Kind of industrial, like HMM and very atmospheric. Gets going when it speeds up

01-27-2006, 10:47 PM	#15
Nova Banned Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 829	Uh... you are joking right.

01-27-2006, 10:52 PM	#16
DeviousJ CORNFROST Location: GUREITO DESU YO Posts: 24,888	Nope. I mean things could change between now and the album's release, so I'm not saying for sure it will be the single, but it's a direct scene leak and it's 100% pumpkins

01-27-2006, 10:55 PM	#17
Nova Banned Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 829	Just because you got it from a scene leak site doesn't necessarily mean it's legit... Let's hope it isn't anyway... or is more like Disco King, i.e. something that will be completely different.

01-27-2006, 10:59 PM	#18
oddhandle Pledge Posts: 176	Wow, that was really kind of good. The rumbly part sounds like James.

01-27-2006, 11:11 PM	#20
Nova Banned Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 829	No, sorry. It's Autumn Nocturne (Fools We Are). I just increased the speed in GoldWave. Either you tried to fool us, or someone fooled you.

01-27-2006, 11:20 PM	#21
Dark Eternity Pledge Posts: 77	Wow that was amazing. I can't wait for the video of this new song to come out. This song is going to send the pumpkins back to the top.

01-27-2006, 11:22 PM	#22
Nova Banned Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 829	Yeah, seeing as how it's from the MCIS Demo Tape and all Rolllllinnn' with the breeze... do aasss you please.

01-28-2006, 02:50 AM	#23
Elvis The Fat Years 007 373 5963 Posts: 31,420	oh my! its just too easy sometimes.

01-28-2006, 02:52 AM	#24
Nova Banned Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 829	To piss people off or figure out they aren't being honest

01-28-2006, 02:57 AM	#26
Nova Banned Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 829	Too bad I didn't really fall for it to begin with edit: I love how this place works. I got threatened to be banned for posting another false link to a file that I said was a new BC solo track, this guy does the same thing and it's funny. And I get docked points for doing exactly the opposite of what I was once warned not to do.

01-28-2006, 03:00 AM	#28
Nova Banned Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 829	... Duhr, that was before I heard the clip. As soon as I heard the clip I knew he was full of shit.

01-28-2006, 03:02 AM	#29
Junebug Minion of Satan Posts: 7,071	i think the fact that it took you until you heard the clip is what makes you gullible. it's okay though. sort of. but not really.

01-28-2006, 03:04 AM	#30
Nova Banned Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 829	There wasn't much to go with beforehand, so there's a 50/50 chance of it being legit.