Billy Corgan 2021-12-22: Difference between revisions

BC: Welcome to the 2021 Corgan family Christmas spectacular.  There's no Corgan family.  They're all at home making dinner but thank you very much for joining me on this live special.  I think this is the first time I've ever done a live thing like this, so um, thank you for inspiring it.  I got to thinking after I did a few shows here at [[Madame ZuZu's]] that I wanted to share with you, um, no strings attached.  I wanted to share with you the spirit of Christmas.  I'll talk about what's been going on with me lately in a few songs or so, but what's most important is that you're here and that we're here together.  To share in the spirit of Christmas, I want to play for you some of my favorite Christmas songs, which for historical or biographical context, I started preparing a few years ago as we were working on a Smashing Pumpkins Christmas album, which never really got off the ground, but we had sort of prepared these materials.  And so I went back to those and found that I really liked what we were doing, and I'm still hopeful that at some point we can do something, so....  I was actually talking to [[Jimmy Chamberlin]] the other day about how we would actually figure out how to, heh, record these at some point without it taking six months in the middle of the summer.  Anyway, that's for another day.  I hope you're warm, wherever you are.  I hope you're getting ready for the Christmas season, the holiday season, everyone of every faith, every background, I hope this is a special time for you and that you're with your loved ones.  And um, oh, uh, one quick thing: I've added [[w:PAWS Chicago|PAWS Chicago]] to a charitable function here.  I see we've already raised a little bit of money with some donations.  And uh, and I don't mean to say little bit, I'm in awe of anybody donating, thank you, every dollar counts, PAWS Chicago.  If you don't know, for those of who you would maybe be outside the States, PAWS Chicago is a no-kill shelter here in the Chicago area, I've worked with them for over ten years.  It's our favorite charity.  We're very close to the people who run the charity.  My first cats that I got way back when -- 20 years ago or so -- were from PAWS when it was just a small little storefront, now it’s in this massive operation, and it's a no-kill shelter, and the -– other than when animals are at the end of their life or they've gone, you know, mad, unfortunately as it does happen sometimes, they'll do everything in their power to place these animals with a loving home, so thank you to everyone donating.  Every penny counts, every dollar counts, and for those of you who are having a hard time, I realize this is a really hard time for many people, there's lot of issues going on with the economy slash inflation, so please, I want you here, please don't feel any obligation to donate.  This is my gift to you and I hope you receive it as such, and to those of you who donated, thank you, and for those you can't, just...being here is part of that spirit.  And I know the PAWS family very well and the fact that they know that you're here in support of PAWS Chicago, even in spirit, means the world to them.  So thank you to everybody for being here.  Hope you have a wonderful time.  I'll talk a little bit between songs; for the most part, I'm just going to play some songs.  And for those of you who are time conscious, it's probably going to be about an hour or so, so have a great time.  The microphone, which is not obviously connected to that ''(points at camera)'' is because I figured I might as well record.  So even though I'm here at ZuZu's, we've got a little bit of a recording setup to record, and hopefully one day it could be an [[:Category:The Smashing Pumpkins archival releases|archival release]] in the future for the Smashing Pumpkins archives.  So anyway, merry Christmas, happy holidays to everyone, and please sit back and enjoy, and I'll talk to you as we go.