In case you didn’t know, Billy Corgan is publishing his autobiography in installments over on his personal web-site. Greg Kot interviewed him in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune and got this particularly tasty quote out of the ex-Pumpkin in regards to the break-up of Zwan:
The music wasn’t the big problem, it was more their attitude: `Why do we have to practice? I’d rather be hanging out at the Rainbo.’ Lifestyle stuff. And then you get into what I would call cataclysmic behavioral stuff. Sex acts between band members in public. People carrying drugs across borders. Pajo sleeping with the producer’s girlfriend while we were making the record. I just tried to do what I’ve always done, which is to patch it up and roll it out. You go into a denial state. I got snookered in by really bad people. It’s embarrassing to me. But it wised me up to why I play, and who I love, and it made me appreciate my old band even more. (full story)
Nice.