Smashing Pumpkins Star Billy Corgan Hits Out At 'Business Minded' Soundgarden And Pavement
Friday, 17 August 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
Smashing Pumpkins star Billy Corgan has taken a dig at fellow rock outfits Soundgarden and Pavements, accusing them of reforming for the sole purpose of making money.
Corgan, whose own band reformed in 2005, is unhappy that not everyone can ‘admit’ that Chris Cornell’s Soundgarden and Californian indie-rockers Pavement have reunited for business reasons only - describing it as ‘one more round at the till’ for them.
“There are those bands that are essentially coming back only to make money – playing their old albums, and maybe somewhere in the back of their minds they're thinking there might be a future,” Corgan told Philstar.com. “I am not in that business, obviously.”
He continued: “I condemn anybody who’s in that business but doesn’t admit he’s in that business. When Soundgarden came back and they just played their old songs, great. I was a fan of Soundgarden, but call it for what it is. They’re just out there to have one more round at the till; same with Pavement and these other bands.
“They have no respect for the people that came before them. They have no respect for the tradition of music, they have no respect for the blood and tears that have been spilled by great musicians all over the world – many of whom will never even know their name.”
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