Billy Corgan: The Smashing Pumpkins are a real band
- "I still can get on the horse and ride if I put my mind to it" says Billy Corgan. The Smashing Pumpkins leader, frontman (and pretty much everything else, considering he's the only member of the original line-up of the band) reacts to the good reviews his new album "Oceania" is getting in anticipation of tomorrow's release. " I’ve always worked pretty conceptually. And I think if you listen to Siamese you hear where I sort of cut off the Gish bridge; and then Mellon Collie you hear where I cut off the Siamese bridge", Corgan told Consequences of sound. "I’m just a crash-and-burn artist, and so for the first time in my life I’m like, 'I’m not gonna crash-and-burn anything'. I’m just going to reach for what I know that I love, that I can feel. So if I’m playing a riff that sounds like 'Gish', fucking great if it rocks. Who cares? Especially when you live in the circumstance like I do, where you have other bands, especially young bands, continually, that are very influenced by my band, that are contemporary. What’s wrong with me being me? You know what I mean? It’s like, “Ok, I’ll be me, too.” Corgan alos point out that The Pumpkins are now a real band, apart from he being the leader: "We worked at it together. It’s similar to the old band in that I come in with ideas, we kind of jam on the ideas, I go back, tweak the ideas, and we jam some more. I’d send them away; I’d work on the ideas on my own, and then once I felt like I had the whole album, then we went into the studio and started cutting it all.
- "I still can get on the horse and ride if I put my mind to it" says Billy Corgan. The Smashing Pumpkins leader, frontman (and pretty much everything else, considering he's the only member of the original line-up of the band) reacts to the good reviews his new album "Oceania" is getting in anticipation of tomorrow's release. " I’ve always worked pretty conceptually. And I think if you listen to Siamese you hear where I sort of cut off the Gish bridge; and then Mellon Collie you hear where I cut off the Siamese bridge", Corgan told Consequences of sound. "I’m just a crash-and-burn artist, and so for the first time in my life I’m like, 'I’m not gonna crash-and-burn anything'. I’m just going to reach for what I know that I love, that I can feel. So if I’m playing a riff that sounds like 'Gish', fucking great if it rocks. Who cares? Especially when you live in the circumstance like I do, where you have other bands, especially young bands, continually, that are very influenced by my band, that are contemporary. What’s wrong with me being me? You know what I mean? It’s like, “Ok, I’ll be me, too.” Corgan alos point out that The Pumpkins are now a real band, apart from he being the leader: "We worked at it together. It’s similar to the old band in that I come in with ideas, we kind of jam on the ideas, I go back, tweak the ideas, and we jam some more. I’d send them away; I’d work on the ideas on my own, and then once I felt like I had the whole album, then we went into the studio and started cutting it all.