|
|
Register | Netphoria's Amazon.com Link | Members List | Mark Forums Read |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
10-12-2017, 08:47 PM | #1 |
Minion of Satan
Location: Travelling between Ukraine and Russia
Posts: 5,305
|
SPIN-Interview 2017: "William Patrick Corgan Is Living the Dream"
Interview of WPC with Ian Cohen, SPIN-Magazine October 12, 2017
https://www.spin.com/featured/willia...ala-interview/ Skilled Person ... What do you mean by “scarlet letter”? You know, “there he is making a funny face at Disneyland.” All that stuff. I do a synthesizer show at my tea house, which is free by the way, for thirty people, and it gets these write-ups about how I’ve lost my mind. It’s all a bit silly, but you’re obviously valuable to a particular group for a particular set of reasons. Is it generational? Is it a need to have pariahs so they can lift their heroes higher? I mean, whatever. But the conversation exists because of the proportionality that I listed, which is: I’m a skilled person. If I wasn’t a skilled person, there wouldn’t be anything to talk about. I’m not sitting here, “nah nah nah,” like a little kid’s “nah nah nah” phase. It’s not like that. It obviously hasn’t changed my path. I mean, I’ve done stupid things in reaction to it. But that’s human. I reserve the right to be dumb. ... Promises for a still unknown Smashing Pumpkins-reunion ... As far as not wanting to live in the past, how does that weigh on your mind when James Iha is involved with this record and there seems to be more talk than ever about a Smashing Pumpkins reunion? It doesn’t. It’s like, the door is open, and hopefully there will be some energy by which we, in some combination, can coalesce. But I’ve learned not to repeat my mistakes, which is, “It has to be this way, in this time frame.” I’m applying no pressure. I’ve opened the door to it because of personal relationships and the peace that’s been demonstrated within, and hopefully there will be an opportunity there. If there is, great, if there isn’t, I’m happy to have the friendships. I don’t feel any burning need to prove a point. But I will say to the world, be careful what you wish for, because if we do come back in any format, we’re going to punch people’s heads in. It won’t be the shy, retiree “roll around with our walkers” spree. We’ll go right back to being the band that we are—not even were, the band that we are. People, rightly so, will often attach a lot of the whole group’s polemic mission to me. Fine, I was out front, I was writing the songs. But trust me, the other three were just as big of bastards. We enjoy taking on the New York snobs. We love punching people right in the guts where the hypocrisy grows. https://static.spin.com/files/2017/1...-1344x1000.jpg |
|
10-12-2017, 08:50 PM | #2 |
Immortal
Posts: 25,684
|
I can see the headline "Billy Corgan calls original Smashing Pumpkins members bastards"
|
|
10-12-2017, 08:57 PM | #3 |
Immortal
Posts: 25,684
|
"It’s probably the most positive response I’ve gotten in twenty years on a record"
didn't he say very similar things about MtaE? "Do you read the reviews? No, I don’t read anything" So ummm where does the "positive response" come from? Your little cohort? |
|
10-12-2017, 09:00 PM | #4 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
Location: Donald Trump of Netphoria
Posts: 37,215
|
Free synthesizer show by a skillful man. How noble.
|
|
10-12-2017, 09:01 PM | #5 |
Immortal
Posts: 25,684
|
"are there are contemporary artists that you admire?
I don’t listen to anybody." yup |
|
10-12-2017, 09:20 PM | #6 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
Location: Donald Trump of Netphoria
Posts: 37,215
|
He's totally missing out on Alcest.
|
|
10-12-2017, 09:27 PM | #7 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
Location: Donald Trump of Netphoria
Posts: 37,215
|
Can you pinpoint when you re that way, just completely disconnected?
Spin magazine, 1998. It started Spin magazine, 1998. LOL |
|
10-12-2017, 09:27 PM | #8 | |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
Location: N3t4Euh Haus
Posts: 32,749
|
Quote:
|
|
|
10-12-2017, 09:41 PM | #9 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
Location: Donald Trump of Netphoria
Posts: 37,215
|
That was an awesome interview. Best thing since Machina II.
|
|
10-12-2017, 09:41 PM | #10 |
Demi-God
Posts: 286
|
I like how Billy talks about how he doesn't like to be antagonistic anymore, but then the interviewer is kind of a dick to him so he ends up being a smartass anyway. But unlike in the past, he seems less angry when he's doing it. More like he's just amusing himself. I think he really got under that interviewer's skin which is funny.
|
|
10-12-2017, 09:45 PM | #11 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
Location: Donald Trump of Netphoria
Posts: 37,215
|
He also sounds batshit insane which is funnier
|
|
10-12-2017, 09:48 PM | #12 |
Demi-God
Posts: 286
|
|
|
10-12-2017, 09:52 PM | #13 | |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
Location: N3t4Euh Haus
Posts: 32,749
|
Quote:
but then he learned the internet and we found out he really is just a big assface |
|
|
10-12-2017, 09:56 PM | #14 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
Location: Donald Trump of Netphoria
Posts: 37,215
|
He's all over the place. He sounds like a mess.
|
|
10-12-2017, 10:54 PM | #15 |
Apocalyptic Poster
Posts: 3,414
|
"But I’ve learned not to repeat my mistakes, which is, 'It has to be this way, in this time frame'"
"...we’re going to punch people’s heads in" No pressure for D'arcy huh. |
|
10-12-2017, 11:08 PM | #16 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
Location: Donald Trump of Netphoria
Posts: 37,215
|
Lol new york snobs.
that must have been directed at spin and the interviewer. |
|
10-13-2017, 02:23 AM | #17 |
Apocalyptic Poster
Posts: 1,695
|
well also the Pumpkins got no love in New York early on. they turned their noses up at them immediately
|
|
10-13-2017, 02:27 AM | #18 |
Minion of Satan
Posts: 6,014
|
|
|
10-13-2017, 07:49 AM | #19 |
dumb
Location: $8.6 million embezzled funds
Posts: 11,358
|
from jimmy c's twitter
|
|
10-13-2017, 08:49 AM | #20 |
Ownz
Posts: 880
|
"To me, life is about being in the present. That’s the greatest lesson I’ve learned, is just, be in the present."
... "I’ve been wrong about every record I’ve made since Mellon Collie. I mean, Adore was very artistic but had commercial potential. The record company abandoned it after six weeks. It got shitty reviews. It was treated like a fucking cancer on my musical life. Twenty years later, everywhere I go, people want to talk about that fucking record. I was “wrong” then, “right” now, but it didn’t suit me a lot of good to be right then." |
|
10-13-2017, 09:38 AM | #21 | |
dumb
Location: $8.6 million embezzled funds
Posts: 11,358
|
Quote:
holy shit |
|
|
10-13-2017, 09:49 AM | #22 |
Apocalyptic Poster
Posts: 3,861
|
This interview is fucking gold. Corgan sounds like a sane, self-aware person in it. I think he's being disingenuous regards the Civil War question and song titles. But it was candid enough.
Also lol the interviewer is Ian Cohen, who Falco of Future of the Left went fuckign mental at and called a cunt for giving their album a bad review on pitchfork. I imagine Billy hated him. Definitely worth reading if you haven't. Cohen gets destroyed: http://futureoftheleftv2now.blogspot...-name.html?m=1 He's wrong about one thing, people don't want to talk about Adore, they wanna talk anout where dat Machina reissue!? |
|
10-13-2017, 02:10 PM | #23 | |
Apocalyptic Poster
Posts: 2,625
|
Quote:
|
|
|
10-13-2017, 05:31 PM | #24 |
Pledge
Location: Beyond the fringe
Posts: 198
|
|
|
10-14-2017, 03:33 AM | #25 |
Socialphobic
Location: montreal
Posts: 11,656
|
|
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Kick-Ass was a far better movie than I expected | Nimrod's Son | General Chat Archive | 45 | 06-14-2012 06:02 AM |
hey guys | patrick | General Chat Archive | 13 | 09-09-2006 02:56 PM |
to post or not to post pictures of BC's mansion | slanky | Pumpkins Archive | 76 | 09-01-2006 03:50 PM |
microsoft royally fucks itself | transluscent | General Chat Archive | 20 | 05-22-2006 02:34 AM |
attn: Randall Sandell | agenda suicide | General Chat Archive | 14 | 04-15-2006 11:33 PM |