The Smashing Pumpkins 2015-06-19: Difference between revisions

BC: Thank you very kindly, thank you.  Now I know that in this part of the world, you’re used to the rough and tumble.  One need only throw a rock in Tulsa to find a bar.  Which tells me that you like to have a good time.  But I must warn you that this show is not for the faint of heart, it’s about two and a half hours long.  If I feel like playing.  One does not acquire a bad reputation on accident.  Love is not the same as acceptance.  But this is - this is for you.

BC: [tape cut] As I - as I like to say, I’m glad you like it now.  I wrote about um, probably about 35 or so songs for the Adore album.  And so this is a small selection of some of those songs in the way - in many ways, in the way that they were written so you get a sense of the original emotional intent of the album.  Before, you know, the record company got nervous and the managers got nervous and...yes.

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.