Views : 1,703,599
Genre: Music
Date of upload: Dec 13, 2022 ^^
Rating : 4.968 (460/57,882 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2024-05-13T02:28:16.250921Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
This for me is the best interview Iāve seen from Billy. You let him flow and didnāt have a preconceived plan of questions. He looked nervous at the start, like he was being interviewed for the first time protective of his band and their latest single, slowly releasing the joy and magic that he had at the time of recordings and the eclectic mix of amazing producers, engineers and musicians he has worked with. If you could bottle this, the world would be an awesome place. As it is, this can go down as the most emotive and beautiful capturing of Billy discussing one of the most spectacular bands of all time. ā¤ā¤ā¤
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Watching Rick go from talking about Hackintoshes 5 years ago to interviewing Billy, Joni Mitchell, Tim Henson, all these people... It's amazing. He was a music educator, touring musician, hired cover band guitarist, a producer, back to the internets favorite music educator and now he's the best rock journalist. Rick is a national treasure.
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Ok. Iāve never been a fan of Smashing Pumpkins and my impression of Billy Corgan was that he was insane. So I came to the first moments of this video watching only because I trusted Rick Beato and if he thought Billy was sufficiently important to interview, I would spare a few minutes to listen. Within the first minutes I was transfixed. I then started bouncing back and forth to Spotify to listen to the songs being discussed, sometimes recognizing them a bit and sometimes hearing them for maybe the first time. I listened to the entire interview, with those song discovery breaks, and was so impressed with Billy Corganās depth of knowledge and depth of commitment to his craft and his art. Spectacular interview, and it produced another nascent Pumpkins fan in the making.
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I was 10 years old in '95 when Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness came out. Changed my life. I was a depressed kid with an alcoholic father, parents were getting divorced that year, moved to a new neighborhood. But when I got this cd, I wasn't angry or depressed anymore. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. It transported me to a better world. Billy, James, Jimmy and D'Arcy saved my life.
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0:00 Rickās intro
0:39 Gish and Butch Vig
4:38 Writing uptempo songs
8:01 Writing lyrics, melodies
11:21 Daydream
13:13 My Bloody Valentine
17:45 Producing UK vs USA style
22:09 Siamese Dream
25:15 Tonight, Tonight I
30:12 Pro Tools sounds weird
35:40 1979
39:59 Jellybelly
43:18 Bullet With Butterfly Wings
45:09 Working in the studio
49:10 Butch ādadā Vig
56:30 Disarm
1:01:33 Muzzle
1:13:27 Tonight, Tonight II
1:21:28 Billy on Generation TikTok
Note: I love how Billy, in the closeups with the mic stand behind him, looks like a samurai.
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The revelation that Billy revealed about Butch after the Nirvana job becoming resolved to make sure The Pumpkins would have a hit record with Siamese Dream is exactly the kind of deep dive answers that Ricks interviews are adding to history that we wouldnāt get any other way. Thank you Rick for that.
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Quite simply one of the best interviews of a rock legend ever. I have watched this video twice, and the thing that stands out the most, is Rick Beato's absolute respect for the music, production, and the artist's vision only. No questions about the band, the drama, infighting, reunions, none of that. Thank You Rick for doing this, I hope to see more of these. šš
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