lighter side of Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan

tower theater show 10/22/07 Billy "admonishes" an audience member for holding up a sign requesting that SP play a certain song. Not the first time he's held the sign up, apparently.

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Music

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• tower
• theater
• smashing
• pumpkins
• billy
• corgan
• audience

[op908i]

Maybe it was freebird.

[cripplecrowchris]

which song? Which song?! ...anyone knows?!

[mechapakmei]

@pazminoproject That's cool, and I can respect that. Billy cops alotta flak, but he's a good guy!

[mechapakmei]

@pazminoproject Well, that is nice of him. BC cops alot of flak at times, but he has an integrity about him. GO BILLY! NEW SP KICKS ASS!

[MrWesley3000]

Ill bet it was something by nsync...

[cripplecrowchris]

i saw Pumpkins in Glasgow Feb 07, i'm pretty sure they played Mayonaise.

[pazminoproject]

I remember reading that Billy refuses to play any songs co-written by Iha, but not because of "legal bull" or anything. He just wants to respect his realtionship with James, or something along those lines.

[rulec72]

yeah, if you look at the '07 setlists, there are a few classics that never made an appearance like "take me down", and "farewell and goodnight". I dont recall ever seeing "soma" in '07 either. all written or co-written by Iha. could be some kind of legal bull that kept them from playing the songs. Billy said at their Rock Walk inaguration that to this day, neither he nor Jimmy have spoken to James or D'arcy so who knows....good news is that both "mayonaise" and Soma" made '08 setlists.

[Snowblind333]

dude seriously? it might be because James Iha wrote that song.

[rulec72]

My guess Is mayonaise. during their 2007 tour that is one of the few songs that never made a single setlist. at the last show in Dallas, people were throwing packets of mayonaise at the stage...he told them to quit it.