None too surprisingly with an album to promote, "spiritually enlightened" Corgan once again grabs the headlines by bad-mouthing former friends/lovers/bandmates/other bands... etc etc etc ... from our pals over at
HU here's a portion of a recent interview in NME:
Billy Corgan: Success held that band
together longer than it should have been held together. It was
dysfunctional. There were a lot of years there where I regretted the way
it all went down, and now I think it was meant to die when it died how
it died. We stole from the Promethean fire to fuel whatever our weird
psychic death trip was and then we paid for it. Or got too close to the
sun and crashed. It was just meant to be that way. And you can draw
parallels from that with Jimmy’s situation [when he left the band in
2009] because maybe that was just a continuance of something that hadn’t
been resolved back then.
NME/Emily Mackay: He said in his statement on leaving that he “couldn’t just cash the cheque”…
Corgan: See now, here is a perfect opportunity to
bury Jimmy as a fucking liar. But I won’t. That’s a lie. That
statement’s just a flat-out lie.
NME: Was it that you wanted to take the band in a commercial direction, and he didn’t?
Corgan: Ha ha! No, it’s the exact opposite. I wish I
could explain it, but I don’t trust the world to understand the
complexity of it. I think it’s telling that the first thing Jimmy did
when he left the band was make a statement about money because that had a
lot to do with it. But if you look at what I’ve done since he left,
where have I made money?
Later:
NME: Do you still feel any rancour towards the other band members about the way it ended?
Corgan: Uhhh… I’m OK with Jimmy. We don’t have a
relationship at the moment, but I mean, I have no ill will. I want to
see him do well. James Iha I think is just a piece of shit. I think he’s
one of the worst human beings I’ve ever met in my life. And D’Arcy,
she’s sort of, in her own way, sort of an innocent [...]If there’s any
culprit in this it’s Iha. But, y’know, he was there at the right time of
my life, we did do good things together, I think he is a good musician
when he gives a fuck, which most of the time he doesn’t. And that’s
about it.
I'm not even going to bother to try and unravel the layers of bullshit in the above statements.
