Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan Rare Machina Interview Budokan 06-30-2000

During the process of shifting through video bootlegs I came across this Interview that i have never found online up until this point so i decide to capture it and share it with all SP fans. This Interview was recorded the afternoon of 06-30-2000 which was the day the Pumpkins played the fantastic Budokan show. Unfortunately this interview footage is incomplete due to the tape running out however, considering the length of this interview, i cant imagine we are missing much. This may very well be the most rarest interview from 2000 Enjoy!

[@cdreyes81]

man that background music is foreground

[@michvair]

D'Arcy leaving the band without any clear statement and the SP quitting.... this time and listening to Machina and its understanding about final album were VERY difficult for me to live as a true and pure fan since 1992. Broken heart, but I was lucid and aware about the problems in between the band.... Some months after that tough time, I went thru another tragical time of loosing a friend of a cancer... He was 33 years old. Peace. Love. Michel

[@15Gercon]

Machina was the best. Love every song even the spacy one on Side 2 which talked of "labs." Radio plays my favorite song....

[@dabeln1]

This interviewer does a great job at getting Billy to talk about something that's hard for him to talk about. Great job!

[@Aaron-zh4kj]

Here in Japan now, and waiting for the reissue of Machina that we were promised, now that the new album came out. I’m looking on the wall at my Japanese copy of Machina (with extra track, the real produced version “Speed Kills”). If you’ve never heard that version of Speed Kills, do yourself a favor. I hope they come to Japan again someday. It would make this guy and others so happy.

[@C1schecter101]

Haha he’s so real and how he’s able to take his deep dark sorrow and not only laugh about it and make light heart of such a dark moment in time he’s able to tap in to the essence and presence of now

[@alexrobinson1430]

I would say that if anything, America failed the SP. Adore, Machina, Gish, Zwan, Zeitgeist, Oceania, melon collie… and every other album has been an evolution. SP and billy corgan have withstood the test of time. SP above all others ❤

[@15Gercon]

Thanks for finding this who ever you are.

[@TheWonderfulBlake]

Billy's great at being Glass.

[@thegodbombs]

This doesn't feel like an act at all

[@TheWonderfulBlake]

@@thegodbombs it’s less of an act and more of a filter, if that makes sense; he’s just being an asshole, that’s the name of the game.

[@earial]

Great words.

[@tmo4330]

Here is my take on this, you never know when its gone. The rolling stones were finished after Exile on main street. The tap that poured comes to a stop at some time. The magic isnt there all of the sudden. Its great that we have the recordings of the 90's. TSP were as good as it gets. I wish the planets would all line up again one more time but its over. Also I miss Darcy.

[@alexgconrad5710]

Completely disagree. The Teargarden EPs and Monuments to an Elegy were absolutely brilliant. Corgan's ability to reinvent the Pumpkins over and over, the most recent case being the "In Plainsong" tour, is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen from a musician. D'arcy, by her own admission, didn't add much creatively. Also by her own admission, she didn't even play a lot of the bass guitar tracks in the studio. She said she would let Billy do it simply because he could get the job done much faster than her. Don't get me wrong, I love D'arcy as a member of SP. Her and James were a huge part of the original image. James did write a few small segments of guitar compositions, but Billy wrote the other 99.9%. While they still may come to mind when we think of the band, that's only because that was the image the band felt they should portray at the time. The old SP is gone, but hasn't that always been the case? Siamese Dream killed Gish. Mellon Collie killed Siamese Dream and so on. TSP is a different brand of music. It's truly an evolving process. It MUST change in order for it to be TSP.

[@tmo4330]

Alex G Conrad well said.i guess i try to hang on to things too long. ive noticed other people's taste in music changes over a period of time. mine doesent. example: i could listen to jumping jack flash live 1969 in their new york show every day! my highschool friends grew out of it and listen to that horrible country music, yuck

[@sadywootten7668]

I remember reading around the time of his solo album he said he had to relearn what used to come to him easily but it was all dried up by then.

[@cdreyes81]

Agree.

[@cyberpunkholiday]

Is this a DIVX video? It feels like that period of the internet. Also, I enjoyed the interview. I doubt Billys high here. He seems pretty sound.

[@US395Official]

I like Billy's jacket here, I got one myself. It's very nice.

[@standinsilence]

What brand is it? I just see some sort of black hoodie.

[@alukuhito]

Cyr brought me here.

[@FindingNorcal]

Pisces deep

[@Dani8owie]

Cool

[@silentnoah]

filmed the last 300 shows and it never came out.

[@standinsilence]

"If your life depended on it.. Could you collaborate with Celine Dion?" Thats the question I would ask right after Billy mentions her here.

[@lb2696]

The part where he talks about just putting tracks out online, obviously they released the Machina II demos that way but he also was doing that with the Teargarden project. He sounds really frustrated and depressed here. He has that same energy for most of the Machina tour.

[@soberek]

Too young to die, to rich to care...

[@Eyeseeyooh]

Billy isnt high here. Hes said a million times he is bored to death with interview questions. The guy interviewing him is like wallpaper paint drying. Billy is incredibly disinterested in being here answering these questions. I know he did drugs in the beginning, but come on, this is after the keyboard player died and after jimmy got back from rehab, Billy stopped doing hard shit a while before this. Hes completely lucid here.

[@cyberpunkholiday]

+Eyeseeyooh This is true.

[@soulkiss1001]

i never heard billy abused drugs,he hasa tea shop in chicago and english probably isnt this interviewers first language.

[@cdreyes81]

I dont get people obsession with always wanting to say someones on drugs in interviews or on stage cause they might act bored or say weird things or on stage when the adrenaline is going and you jump around or say something weird too. it's ridiculous.

[@chrisothoulos]

Wonder what would have been if they just continued from this point. Anyway, I camt wait for the new music from them in 2018!!

[@ronaldolaquidara64]

chris soldatos- yeah Its too bad that D'arcy wont be joining them this tour 2018🤔 wtf why not??🤔😐🙄

[@chrisothoulos]

+Ronaldo Lacradria i think she is not well man. She seems sketchy.

[@ronaldolaquidara64]

chris soldatos -Really how do you know that..?? i think she wants to go back to the band but Billy doesn't want her back for some reason idk Lifes too short for arguing even thou Billy's a perfectionist lol

[@dannyd1224]

such bull shit these were 2 of the best albums they made...there all equally as good imo

[@user-yh5ot3de1n]

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[@zachkirkman484]

billy is hilarious and this interview is painful LOL

[@standinsilence]

LOL yes.. Im a longtime fan and I love Billy but its pretty funny how he just complains about pretty much EVERYTHING here and makes it sound like being a successfull rockstar is some kind of nightmare. I know Adore and Machina wasnt as successfull as MCIS but still.

[@scottyblog]

Yes Adore was a good album and produced the right way. But…..it’s pretty tough to let that album stand on its own. There is always going to be comparisons and a yearning for that “sound” and style that can produce such great pumpkins tracks. It’s only that Billy isn’t living in the past and so many of his fans are living in the past. Noting wrong with either way of looking at the music, though. Pulling that energy from the past can mean different things to different people that experienced it once and now find something additional of value in the experience.

[@KingofAmerica97]

3:45 Sounds a lot like 2020.

[@P572video]

: (

[@joewillburn]

God it's annoying with the music playing.

[@JTristesse]

JTristesse

[@odsonic]

Yea this is when music went to poop that's for sure

[@panzerKO]

Is this guy Brazilian? Japanese-Brazilian?

[@chzzyg2698]

Rock definitely died around this timeframe. Metal took off like a rocket. Rock just fizzled out. The bands are out there, but they don't get any play.

[@kevinjboconnor]

Wow, did Billy predict 9/11 attack at the beginning of this?

[@DennisMHenderson]

easy to speak of common knowledge at the time or decades preceding without it being a prediction

[@hegenikolaisen5594]

-Å herre Gud som J kom saltvann. God.

[@kymberlishea2036]

This makes me sad! Billy looks miserable

[@socialreject7962]

This is very deppresing.

[@cooluser4017]

I actually thought Adore was a pretty good album

[@holotape]

Should have got a fluent translator

[@alukuhito]

Billy should have spoken in Japanese.

[@dee11unnoticed]

I'm guessing he was feeling very depressed at this time and took some kind of drug because he's fidgeting a lot and doesn't have the confidence he usually has in interviews. :/

[@DennisMHenderson]

nice try but if you really knowd anything about such things, you would knowd thisis the opposite. #Drug into outward complacency

[@throckmorton9321]

He looks really high in this interview.

[@Memotek82]

+Space Boy no.

[@throckmorton9321]

Memotek82 Actually, he probably was. He did a shit ton of drugs from the time he formed The Smashing Pumpkins to the time they broke up (2000). Especially during the Machina era (when this interview took place).

[@Memotek82]

Space Boy but not in this interview.

[@Eyeseeyooh]

Hes not high, he extremely disinterested in this interview. He cant wait to leave

[@danielsacilotto6235]

He sounds very sober, rational and calm to me.

[@JTristesse]

First

[@US395Official]

They should've stopped.

[@walterbison]

The Pumpkins may be my all-time favorite band but man, Billy is insufferable and always has been.