Billy came outside after the "White Crosses" show for the 20th Anniversary of the Smashing Pumpkins on November 7th 2008 at the United Palace Theater in New York City.
Here is some description of what went on and the transcription of what was said:
Billy came outside wearing a funny monkey hat and put on a jacket and then walked over to the crowd of about 30 of us. He chatted a bit with these kids who were too far away for my camera to pick up what was being said. One of the kids, it seems, asked him about the guy that he pulled on stage during the show who said something about last nights show sucking and the set list sucking. And this is how Billy responded to the kids question about it...
Billy: "I didn't know what he was going to do though! I just figured like, let's get on with it!"
(The rest is inaudible...)
(Fan: "Billy, I saw you play on a chartered yacht in 2000.")
Billy: "Oh yea we were talking about that last night."
(Fan: "(inaudible)...I'm serious I know it's a stupid question, but...)
Billy: "Gambling?"
(Fan: "Yeah it's like you're going to three casinos, I thought it was really interesting.")
Billy: "I think it's called they pay, you know? Well hey you know, it's not a great time for anybody in this country right now it's just, you know."
(Fan: "What do you think of Obama?")
Billy: "I'm, excited in the sense that I think it's a great thing for our country. I think, I think if it's, if he does it right it'll unite the country in a way that it's never been united. You know, i think America when its been united it's done incredible things, but we have not been united in a long time. This people hatin' on people thing has just gotta stop. It's all fine and good when times are good, you know what I mean? But times are bad, I mean, times are bad there's a lot of hardship coming in this country and a lot of people are gonna be out of work and it's gonna get a lot worse so I mean, this, this red state blue state shit has gotta stop. It's this whole the propagan--all the fuckin' propaganda it's just like, over it--"
(Fan lady: "Everything you wear on stage you so OWN! It is so [inaudible] that dress...")
Billy: "I don't know how I ended up in those dresses."
(Fan lady: "I mean it's mesmerizing!")
Billy: "Thank you."
(Then Fan lady rambles on more...)
Billy: "Thank you."
(Me: Billy, you excited about 'If All Goes Wrong?'")
"What?"
(Me: "You excited about 'If All Goes Wrong?'")
Billy: "It's alright."
(Crowd Laughs)
(Fan: I'm sure you've already seen the final product many many times...)
Billy: "Yeah, I was, was in--i was involved a lot with it so uh--"
(Me: "Did you go to the screening last night?")
(Fan: [inaudible])
"Yeah, in the sense of just trying to re-emphasize. You know it's, when you, when you have something like that you know, you still have to tell the story. And so it was really just trying to emphasize the--I wanted the story told, you know, and it's really easy to get diverted in a lot of drama that doesn't have anything to do with the story. So my input was, I just tell the story, for better or for worse. But I think you see that, and then we didn't, we didn't pull stuff out that, you know, doesn't always show us in the best light--but it's the story of what happened. I'm proud that, I'm proud that we had the courage to not be afraid to go there because, you know, everybody does the other version which is you know..."
(Fan: "The easy road to make you look good?") "...well I don't think we've ever been that concerned about looking good I think we're just concerned about being real and that's been the better strategy over time. It doesn't, it doesn't always help to be uh, vulnerable? But you know at the end of the day, from a spiritual perspective, being phony um, you know you have to answer to somebody at some other point in karma."
(Fan lady: "Billy are you uh, surprised that like I mean, 3000 people so many years later are so just, so...loyal.")
"To be honest we should be playing in front of bigger crowds. (Crowd: "Yeah!") And that's not ego, I think, I think we've been marginalized in the culture by people who, who don't want to accept a band like us because it doesn't fit into a particular box or particular...I mean, look, hey let's pretend we never existed, okay? (Crowd: "NO!") Okay hypothetical we never existed, okay? If you're standing in the middle of what was going on in say 1993, 1994, with Nirvana and Pearl Jam and Nine Inch Nails and Hole, and all those bands, would you have thought it would've ended up where it ended up now? The bullshit and the crap that they call alternative now?"
(then the lady rambles more...)
(CONTINUED IN PART 2)
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Hard To Imagine-The fans are alrightby vpatri2011,478 views
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