I don't know if you've seen this:
Or if you've seen this:
But they are both examples of the Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan losing his mind.
Billy decided to "reunite" Smashing Pumpkins a couple of years ago, make a record and tour. Now the reason I said "reunite" the Smashing Pumpkins, is because it's not a reunion at all. It's just Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin. Now, that doesn't even particularly bother me. Smashing Pumpkins always was, and always will be be Billy Corgan.
So the Pumpkins are currently on a 20th Anniversary tour. In celebration of this Anniversary, it seems as if the Pumpkins have decided to launch an assault on their fans. First, they've decided to play a bunch of songs that nobody cares about. Instead of celebrating what made the band great in the first place, he's decided to play long versions of sub-par new songs, and cover songs done in all kazoo. He's then decided to charge a lot of money for tickets to these shows. Somehow, Billy is surprised that fans are disappointed with the show.
The confusion Billy has is based in his refusal to accept the fact that even his most loyal, most current fans, don't care about his new material. The reason for that is probably two-fold. First of all, no matter how good the new material is, a 30 year old guy who grew up on Gish and Siamese Dream is never going to care MORE about the new stuff than that stuff. The second part though is that the new material isn't very good. Metallica fans seem to have no problem hearing the new songs, when they're good. AC/DC played 4 or 5 new songs the other night when I saw them, and I didn't hear one fan boo.
Billy mentions in the first video that he doesn't know what the fans want. Seems like a simple answer to me. They want the Smashing Pumpkins to play the Smashing Pumpkins songs they like. Fans aren't that hard to figure out.
There's nothing worse than an artist that thinks he knows what his fans want better than the actual fans do. Billy has become that artist. He not only is unable to figure out what the audience wants, but when they tell him, he becomes belligerent and obnoxious.
Also, why does he wear a fucking dress?
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Spike - Worst. Show. Ever. And this coming from a long time Pumpkins fan who went to the "last" show at Metro. I walked out of the Chicago Theatre Tuesday night. I couldn't take it. He's just become too much of a self-indulgent douchebag to give a shit about the fans anymore.
ReplyDeleteMiss you! MCB (HOB)
Miss you too!
ReplyDeleteI wish I was there, if for no other reason to laugh hysterically as I watched him lose his mind.
The craziest thing to me is that they reunited like, 18 months ago, and this is the first time (as far as I can remember) that they've played Chicago during that span.
In-sane.