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Guy in crowd: Billy, we didn’t know you’re a giant! | Guy in crowd: Billy, we didn’t know you’re a giant! | ||
BC: Heh heh. Anyway. So this song, not to change the tenor of the moment, but this song is a strange inspiration. As some of you know, I went through a lot of loss: my mother passed away, I got a divorce, [[Jimmy Chamberlin|Jimmy]] had left the band, [[Jonathan Melvoin|Jonathan]] had died. A very strange period and a lot of sadness coming out of an album called Sadness, so um, it’s my fault, I suppose. And um, it was one of those strange things that only happens - well, it seems to only happen in America - where a young man had killed another young man, a younger boy, and he had said that uh, when they asked him why he did it, he said, “Well, I was listening to Smashing Pumpkins and the music told me to do it.” And that um...''(crowd boos)''...heh heh heh, yes, boo. Heh heh heh. ''(crowd yelling)'' Heh heh heh heh. Anyway. So, my first reaction was “Well, I’m a songwriter, I’ll write a song,” but then I thought, “Well, this really doesn’t do the young man justice that was murdered.” It seemed to trivialize something about the event as if I was, you know, flipping through a newspaper and it just happened to be me that was in the headline. But yet, about four weeks later, six weeks later, I suddenly was writing this song, which is called Jersey Shore, and in the middle of writing the song, I realized that I was writing about this young man, not from the standpoint of what had happened, but more from the standpoint of what his life might have been like. | BC: Heh heh. Anyway. So this song, not to change the tenor of the moment, but this song is a strange inspiration. As some of you know, I went through a lot of loss: my mother passed away, I got a divorce, [[Jimmy Chamberlin|Jimmy]] had left the band, [[Jonathan Melvoin|Jonathan]] had died. A very strange period and a lot of sadness coming out of an album called Sadness, so um, it’s my fault, I suppose. And um, it was one of those strange things that only happens - well, it seems to only happen in America - where a young man had killed another young man, a younger boy, and he had said that uh, when they asked him why he did it, he said, “Well, I was listening to Smashing Pumpkins and the music told me to do it.” And that um...''(crowd boos)''...heh heh heh, yes, boo. Heh heh heh. ''(crowd yelling)'' Heh heh heh heh. Anyway. So, my first reaction was “Well, I’m a songwriter, I’ll write a song,” but then I thought, “Well, this really doesn’t do the young man justice that was murdered.” It seemed to trivialize something about the event as if I was, you know, flipping through a newspaper and it just happened to be me that was in the headline. But yet, about four weeks later, six weeks later, I suddenly was writing this song, which is called Jersey Shore, and in the middle of writing the song, I realized that I was writing about this young man, not from the standpoint of what had happened, but more from the standpoint of what his life might have been like. | ||
'''Jersey Shore''' | '''Jersey Shore''' (Billy solo 12-string) | ||
'''Sparrow''' | '''Sparrow''' | ||
'''Perfect''' | '''Perfect''' | ||
'''To Sheila''' (with Katie Cole on bass & vocals, Billy plays piano) | '''To Sheila''' (with Katie Cole on bass & vocals, Billy plays piano) | ||
> '''Behold! The Night Mare''' (with Katie Cole on bass & vocals, Billy plays piano) | > '''Behold! The Night Mare''' (with Katie Cole on bass & vocals, Billy plays piano) | ||
> '''For Martha''' (Billy | > '''For Martha''' (Billy solo piano) | ||
'''Blissed and Gone''' (Billy solo ukulele) | '''Blissed and Gone''' (Billy solo ukulele) | ||
'''Ava Adore''' | '''Ava Adore''' | ||