Billy Corgan 2001-06-12
June 12, 2001 – Chicago, IL, US | |
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Live performance by Billy Corgan | |
Artist | Billy Corgan |
Date | June 12, 2001 |
Venue | WGN-TV |
Coordinates | 41°56′56″N 87°41′31″W |
Location | Chicago, IL, US |
Venue type | TV studio |
Personnel | Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, Linda Strawberry, Eddie Roeser, Chris Holmes |
Order of bands | Billy Corgan |
The June 12, 2001 performance saw a guest appearance of Billy Corgan on Bozo: 40 Years of Fun!, which was a 90-minute special and final taping of The Bozo Show. Corgan performed with Jimmy Chamberlin, Linda Strawberry, Chris Holmes and Eddie Roeser of Chicago's Urge Overkill.
“ | For those unaware, The Bozo Show was the program my generation and my father’s generation watched religiously; a sort of bawling, improvisational, and live offering, centred around a mischief maker who had an irritable bent; and was by many accounts the inspiration for The Simpsons' Krusty the Clown. So when I heard the show was going off the air after 40 years, due to an IP dispute with Bozo’s ‘owner’ Larry Harmon, I reached out to our local superstation WGN and said ‘I’ll do anything, I have to be involved’. Graciously WGN accepted my offer, and went so far as to suggest I might want to play a tune; which I did with Bob Dylan’s ‘Forever Young’. Truth be told, and with all respect to Bob, I still regret the opportunity missed in not writing my own farewell song to Bozo. … One last bit of information: anyone who watched the Bozo show remembers they had a contest called the ‘Grand Prize Game’ where one had to throw a ping pong ball into a series of buckets. Well, somewhere amongst my many things I have the last ball ever thrown in the ‘Grand Prize Game’, as Bozo himself was nice enough to hand it to me. | ” |
— Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins Archives post, October 29, 2020[1] |
Setlist[edit | edit source]
- "Forever Young" [Bob Dylan] (live debut)
Banter[edit | edit source]
(unknown)