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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsErstwhile Musician Billy Corgan Comes Out in Support of Alex Jones
http://grungereport.net/?p=20256"Alex Jones appeared on Piers Morgans show on CNN a couple of days ago to debate gun control. On Jones radio show he said that after the interview, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, his friend and a listener of the show, sent a text message that said, Alex you broke peoples hypnosis, you couldnt have done a better job."
LuLz!
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)How/when/why did Billy Corgan become a batshit crazy gun nut?
Mutiny In Heaven
(550 posts)Really far out on too many topics to recall. Then there's the hazily fundie religious elements.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Ex-actly.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)All I know is that if Laura Branigan had done this...
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)Give me Pavement any day.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Agree with you, there.
Don't think BC ever forgave Mr. Malkmus for this one, either.
sad-cafe
(1,277 posts)I can not even think of one song they can call a hit.
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Right up there with Sgt. Peppers in the Psychedelia canon.
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)And, I guess he'd have to get some credit for their success seeing as how he's the only member who's been part of the band since its inception.
Erstwhile... LOL!
Mutiny In Heaven
(550 posts)Meant an awful lot to me.
Nowadays, he works mainly as a giant asshole (okay, sure, he was always branded a giant asshole by many, many people, but he was primarily a superbly functioning songwriter) & tinfoil milliner, occasionally squeezing out an insipid aural abomination which may or may not have a loose connection to actual music.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)R.E.M., now there's a band.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)You mean, he hadn't already shot himself in the face?