{"id":1865,"date":"2008-12-11T09:52:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T14:52:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-15T16:01:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T16:01:55","slug":"billy-corgan-the-limits-of-winner-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/billy-corgan-the-limits-of-winner-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Corgan: The Limits of Winner Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is it just me, or does this highly entertaining interview<\/a> with the head Smashing Pumpkin say something about The Limits of Winner Rock<\/b>?<\/p>\n

\nEnergy we can do something with. Apathy we can\u2019t work with. Who\u2019s above us? Who\u2019s lighting the culture on fire? Nobody. We don\u2019t have to live in that world. We have the biggest manager [Irving Azoff] in the world. He tells us we can get there, we will get there. We will crack the egg like we did in \u201892, without doing something embarrassing like working with Timbaland. We will find how to do our thing and make it work. I can write songs. We\u2019re big boys. We\u2019ll do it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is this what happens when you treat every single musical endeavor like you’re entering the ring?<\/b> Is Corgan emulating post-game press conference-speak to an almost ridiculous level here?<\/p>\n

Let me be blunt. When Bruce Springsteen puts out a new album I pay attention. Same with Neil Young. Because they\u2019re major artists who have something to say. I consider us in that category. When we do something it should be taken seriously, even when we\u2019re off. If we\u2019re marginalized by the culture, we\u2019re not going to play dead and say thank you for our B-plus status. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Admirable chutzpah, to the say the least, but I want to tell Bill: Saying so doesn’t make it so!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it just me, or does this highly entertaining interview with the head Smashing Pumpkin say something about The Limits of Winner Rock? Energy we can do something with. Apathy we can\u2019t work with. Who\u2019s above us? Who\u2019s lighting the culture on fire? Nobody. We don\u2019t have to live in that world. We have the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[93,90,52,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}