Billy Corgan has always been slightly uncool even when he was cool, like he always had to be a little too weird. He did the theme song for the Batman movie nobody liked, and I once saw him and the Smashing Pumpkins open for KISS while dressed as the Beatles the entire time. Admittedly it was Halloween, and the opener, "I Want Money," could be seen as an astute assessment of Gene Simmons' life philosophy.
He remade Georges Melies years before Scorsese made that cool, and in recent years he seems like he's gone a little crazy, but perhaps you might too if LA's KROQ only played your same three songs in constant rotation for ever and ever.
But today sees the greatest...thing he's ever done. Just watch.
If alt-rock stars must invariably sell out, better this than Nirvana tunes selling baseball video games.
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@jrforasteros Oh my god, that was SO bad. Is that what he has confined himself to? Horrible acting and couches?
@jrforasteros Haha. Yeah and apparently he owns something related to Pro-wrestling, so some sort of plug for that too? terrible regardless.
The wrestling community has known of Corgan's fandom for a while. He randomly showed up at an (original) ECW show years ago, and they invited him in to do a guitar shot once. It was awesome.
I've known about Rockstar Pro Wrestling for a while, now. They're not sucky.
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To be fair to Corgan, he does have the right idea with using violent midget wrestlers to sell furniture. Now throw in some Klingons, & you've got a deal.
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Billy Corgan. You have my permission to die now.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/8e9e71eddf72e57e7f0d4c2f7561fdfb/tumblr_mihp18gy8E1qfkqupo1_r1_500.gif
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Heh, after looking at the thumbnail for a split second I thought it was Karl Pilkington.
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Here's the thing about Billy Corgan: He can go f@*% himself. He's acted like a petulant child since the Pumpkins got big and been terribly sour about his fame. His talent and vision have never lived up to his ego. I'm kind of glad to see him having to stoop to local cable adverts.
In summation: Billy, go f@*% yourself.
@darthoblivious actually, he acted like a petulant child before they made it big. They opened for Guns n Roses back in 91 or 92.
At the time, they were a "satanic rock band". When they played here, they sucked so bad, they were booed off the stage after 2 songs. Billy responded by insulting the crowd, calling us rednecks, etc.
It was so bad, Axl came out to calm down the crowd. Axl had to prevent a riot. He was probably just pissed he didn't start the riot.
