Billy Corgan Interview: The Awakening Has Begun

WaveCameCrashin

This is such a breath of Fresh air to actually hear an artist Like B.Corgan stand up for" liberty"and to be for LIMITED CONSTITUTIONAL GOV and to speak out against "Wealth Redistribution .





http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... kyfhABWug#!

josevolution

Who :?:

hedonist

Thank you!

I'll check this out when I get home.

chadwick

listening

Tom K

haha.. Alex Jones..

Brisk.

That guy's voice is insane.

Not American but still interesting.

hedonist

Wild voice! He sounds like he should have a fatass stogie in hand.

And I'm liking this interview. Mr. Corgan is an intelligent and well-spoken fellow, making some excellent points.

Thanks again!

Hugh Freaking Dillon

I love BC's music, but I just cannot sit here and listen to Alt Rock's self appointed politician/saviour speak for an hour.

hedonist

You really thought he was acting self-righteous rather than just being honest and speaking his mind?

No different than most of us here (minus the exposure but perhaps including the time ).

Brisk.

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

I love BC's music, but I just cannot sit here and listen to Alt Rock's self appointed politician/saviour speak for an hour.

What a load of BS, so someone who comes out and speaks about an issue means that they self appoint themselves? I don't see anyone else doing it either.

Plus he says at least once he isn't the leader of all this or the person to do it, he's just asking questions n thinking.

gimmesometruth27

glen beck always was "just asking questions" as well...

Monster Rain

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

I love BC's music, but I just cannot sit here and listen to Alt Rock's self appointed politician/saviour speak for an hour.

Does that make Eddie Vedder, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, etc. "self-appointed politicians/saviours" too?

hedonist

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

glen beck always was "just asking questions" as well...

Really? That's a bad thing now?

C'mon, man. Nothing wrong with asking questions, whether they come from Corgan, Beck, or you.

No need to villify anyone for doing so.

gimmesometruth27

hedonist wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

glen beck always was "just asking questions" as well...

Really? That's a bad thing now?

C'mon, man. Nothing wrong with asking questions, whether they come from Corgan, Beck, or you.

No need to villify anyone for doing so.

beck was not asking questions though. he was making passive aggressive comments and suggesting that lies were truth. big difference between asking questions and spreading bullshit...

brianlux

Re the first segment of the interview on music- Corgan basically states that corporatization (sorry- made up word) of music has stifled it's ability to be culturally relevant. Yet when I look back at the many books and article I've read on bands in the sixties I remember noting that one of the chief complaints of many of those bands were the difficulties placed upon them by the music companies and yet they forged ahead anyway. I don't think the problem is so much that corporations hold back the music as much as it is that today most of the music being pumped out in mass markets is insipid and much of the music listening population is willing to listen to insipid music. Like Bob Dylan said not too long ago, "If I were young today and thinking about going into music, I'd probably become a plumber" (or something to that effect). Also, reading Henry Rollins lately, some of his rants about the current music scene are spot on. " Hack or pack".

bigdvs

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

hedonist wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

glen beck always was "just asking questions" as well...

Really? That's a bad thing now?

C'mon, man. Nothing wrong with asking questions, whether they come from Corgan, Beck, or you.

No need to villify anyone for doing so.

beck was not asking questions though. he was making passive aggressive comments and suggesting that lies were truth. big difference between asking questions and spreading bullshit...

wuh, why did Glenn Beck get dragged into this? (can not watch the video at the moment)

hedonist

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

hedonist wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

glen beck always was "just asking questions" as well...

Really? That's a bad thing now?

C'mon, man. Nothing wrong with asking questions, whether they come from Corgan, Beck, or you.

No need to villify anyone for doing so.

beck was not asking questions though. he was making passive aggressive comments and suggesting that lies were truth. big difference between asking questions and spreading bullshit...

Regardless of whether or not I agree with the above, why draw the comparison between the two to begin with?

Jeanwah

That was a great interview. I was never a big fan of BC, but he proves to be intelligent and articulate. I agreed with a lot he had to say.

Not sure where Glenn Beck comes into play though... :?

Drowned Out

I enjoyed that, thanks for posting.
I think he's got a good head on his shoulders. I may not agree with everything he says, but he has got a lot of things right. He continually states that he is mostly advocating open discussions and debate of any and all issues. Nothing wrong with that.
He comments on how some social leaders (celebrities) are marginalized in this era. Dylan, Lennon, Uncle Neil....their protest songs and statements were crucial to social movements in the 60's and 70's. They were respected by the counterculture, and had a positive impact. Nowadays, everyone wants them to 'shut up and entertain', as if an artist has nothing of importance to add to public discourse. As he points out, his success opens certain 'corridors of power',....I've made this point a few times around here when people tell Eddie to 'shut up and sing'.....how much leisure time do you have to spend on researching topics of importance to you? How often do you have the undivided attention of a guy like Zinn or Chomsky? How many times have you bent the ear of a Pres or VP? They may not be university educated poli-sci majors, but they have been able to pick some pretty enlightened brains, and some are actually very intelligent people....so I, for one, am interested in what they have to say.

The one thing that bothered me in the interview was that Corgan copped out on writing protest songs by saying their isnt an audience for that kind of thing anymore.....that doesnt' exactly jive with his comments about artistic integrity in the music industry, and the importance of social commentary by artists.

I listened to an interview AJ did with Neil Fallon of Clutch a while back, and the same thing struck me with him: how well both were able to deflect AJ when he started going off on some of his more out-there tangents.

Hugh Freaking Dillon

Brisk. wrote:

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

I love BC's music, but I just cannot sit here and listen to Alt Rock's self appointed politician/saviour speak for an hour.

What a load of BS, so someone who comes out and speaks about an issue means that they self appoint themselves? I don't see anyone else doing it either.

Plus he says at least once he isn't the leader of all this or the person to do it, he's just asking questions n thinking.

calm down a bit. I'm just tired of hearing him spout the same old rhetoric over and over.

Hugh Freaking Dillon

Monster Rain wrote:

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

I love BC's music, but I just cannot sit here and listen to Alt Rock's self appointed politician/saviour speak for an hour.

Does that make Eddie Vedder, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, etc. "self-appointed politicians/saviours" too?

good god. what a horrible comparison. the big difference is you don't see the above 3 trying to fix the industry that they make money from. I've never heard of any of those 3 complain that they dont' want to make albums anymore because Britney Spears is too popular. they are worrying about the safety and freedom and economics of others, not themselves.

I've been agreeing with BC this whole time, only problem is, he won't shut up until someone listens. He complained at SXSW that Radiohead didn't pioneer the free download, he did. The big thing with him is that he tried to do something different with the free music but pay for big time packaging, and it failed, and now he's jealous because it is confirming for him what he knows. he will never have the devout following of Radiohead or NIN. He just won't. I love SP. I love everything Billy has done. But there aren't many of us left.

He thinks it's the industry. It's not. many bands are still successful. He's not and it's drving him nuts.