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“Hey Billy. Um, where’s James?”
“…and D’arcy?”
Five questions for Billy Corgan, rock’s irrelevant, faux-moody media whore:
1)How rock is it to take out a full-page ad in a daily newspaper (Chicago Tribune) to tell people you’re putting the Pumpkins back together? Why not just do it?
2)In that ad, you said you wanted your band and dreams back, but you dissolved the band. What changed your mind? Was it the lackluster reaction to your other projects?
3)After all these years, where was the clamor for more Pumpkins coming from? How was the band relevent when it was popular, in your estimation?
4)What albums do you think have sustained? Did “Mellon Collie” have the resonance you foresaw?
5)What do you really want out of a music career?
Who the Heck is in you current band that you call Smashing Pumpkins? Can’t find that anywhere. Heck, I might have attempted to get a ticket if I could figure out who the current guitar player is, Crash Darby might have been good. Oh wait a minute, I just realized, It really doesn’t matter as I’m local, so I never could have gotten a ticket in the first place!!!!
Why am I so awesome that I have four tickets, two shows back to back?
dear billy.
can i have some money to donate to the Bountiful Cities Project? they do cool things with local food and whatnot, and dont have much money. and, it seems like you do have some of the money. can they have some?
thanks!!!
oh, and p.s. did you come here bcause you were irresistably drawn to the crystal vortex?
Billy: Do you ever get tired of jerks with an axe to grind about how their whole lives revolved around getting a ticket to you show but they couldn’t? Like it’s somehow going to fix their flailing and unhappy lives to see a rock show at a club. Also, will you be growing your hair back out? Balding rocker looks better than lumpy nosferatu any day.
Billy,
What was it about Asheville that made you or your manager decide to perform here longer than another other venue that ya’ll are doing?? Do not get me wrong as a resident, I’m tickled pink!!
Billy,
Do you think the Orange Peel did the right thing with ticket sales? They shut out all us locals who visit their club on a weekly basis. Also, what do you think about the fact that this local club reneged on local band Menage’s CD release party?
You guys were terrible at Lollapalooza, the only time I ever saw you.
Are all your shows that lame, or did you decide that it wasn’t even worth trying to follow the Beastie Boys?