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42 illinoisentertainer.com september 2014
t’s a busy time to be Billy Corgan. The
alt-rock veteran is tireless, gearing up
for a seemingly endless amount of projects, releases, and initiatives. Corgan
recently released a limited run of an experimental record titled AEGEA, which he
recorded back in 2007. He also received the
Vanguard Award at the initial Alternative
Press Music Awards this past July in
Cleveland, presented to him by fellow
Chicago entertainer CM Punk. On the
Smashing Pumpkins front, Corgan, along
with Pumpkins 2.0 mainstay Jeff Schroeder
and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee,
just finished work on Monuments To An
Elegy, which will proceed Day For Night as
the first of two forthcoming Pumpkins full
lengths. (During our chat, Corgan mentions aiming for a December 9th release for
Monuments.) And then there’s the forthcoming reissue of Pumpkins turning point
Adore, which will be followed by a
Machina reissue down the line that collects
both Machina/The Machines Of God and its
Internet-only counterpart Machina II/The
Friends & Enemies Of Modern Music into
one comprehensive package.
There’s also a slew of additional releases on the docket, including Corgan’s
experimental Siddhartha and Sundays
With Rumi projects, as well as early plans
for a wealth of bedroom demos from the
artist's initial forays into music in the ‘80s.
That's to say nothing of his involvement
with Madame ZuZu's, the Highland Park
tea shop Corgan opened in late summer
2012. Or Resistance Pro, the wrestling
organization Corgan oversees, and a reality show for which is in development at
AMC. And at the end of the week, the
artist will take the stage at Ravinia for a
career first, where he'll be performing
selections from throughout his entire body
of work. That means Pumpkins songs
alongside ZWAN material and cuts from
Corgan's various solo endeavors.
It's a safe bet that's not even all of
what's on deck, either. "When I was a kid, I
would make a lot of demos and stuff, so I
kind of got in this groove of making a lot of
music,” Corgan recalls when we meet at a
Starbucks in Highland Park, IL. The interview was set to take place at his tea shop
nearby, but a scheduling mix-up – no
doubt a byproduct of the singer's hectic
schedule – resulted in a coffee shop compromise instead. "And I always thought,
that's what you did. Painters paint and
sketch, and then when you get into the
business part of the music, then it's like,
'Wait wait, slow down, only this song mat-
ters, these other 51 don't matter.' And then
of course in the middle of the Pumpkins'
sort of first era, we had a lot of success with
B-sides and stuff like that. Then they loved
- then they (said), 'Oh, more, more, more!'
So then I got sort of cranked back up into
working. And then, when things didn't go
as well, then it was almost like, people
were like, 'Wait, you're putting out too
much.' So I started shelving albums."So it's
more been my relationship with how the
world takes in information," Corgan continues of his frenetic work ethic. "And I'm
not saying I had some future vision plan,
in this regard. But, what I mean is that, the
way the world works with social media
actually is more commensurate to the way
I work as an artist, which is in pieces and
obsessive moments and I kind of discard
things, and maybe somebody's interested
in the discarded thing 30 years later, where
in the time they'd be like, 'Wait, I don't
want to hear your dreck.' And now they
want to hear the "Mellon Collie" dreck or
something.”
If you're reading about the Smashing
Pumpkins in IE, you almost certainly
know the story by now. Or at least the
broad strokes. Launched onstage at the
Metro as a four piece – including guitarist
James Iha, bassist D'arcy Wretzky, and
drummer Jimmy Chamberlin on October
5th, 1988. Twelve years later, three-fourths
of that collective - with Melissa Auf der
Maur filling in for the recently vacated
Wretzky-would close things out in a seemingly endless performance on that very
same stage. After