Smashing Pumpkins - May 23, 1998 MTV UK Pre-Show Special

Various MTV US and Europe Clips with an interview before the televised Shepherds Bush Empire show.

[@hellcatlizzie]

Haha I'm the scottish girl that paid £50 for a ticket! Thanks for uploading this, I had it on video but lost it years ago so have been searching for it for ages lol

[@nicholashoryski-cerros5555]

Wow this must be such a blast in the past to see this!

[@hellcatlizzie]

@@nicholashoryski-cerros5555 yup lol. I was talking about this to a friend a few months ago (the gig in general not the video) then just stumbled upon it haha.

[@nicholashoryski-cerros5555]

@@hellcatlizzie lol FATE! So amazing to talk to someone who saw them perform in their golden age

[@licccio2133]

So.. was it worth it? :D

[@standinsilence]

Was it still to this day the best £50 you ever spent?

[@mrtoad3582]

D'arcy was high as F there 😆😆she's got great legs

[@RandyRhoadsRules3]

D’Arcy always cracks me up with her snarkiness and with how completely unintimidated she is by Corgan (as compared to Iha and Jimmy). It’s sad knowing this is only about a year before she went off the rails :(

[@RandyRhoadsRules3]

Samantha Donaldson hahaha. I get the sense Billy was attracted to her but I don’t think the feeling was mutual lol. They definitely have a weird chemistry tho lol

[@Radhuya]

+Somethingclever Exactly but today it feels like even Billy seems to not like her the same way than before.

[@arcticmonkey3]

Crackhead. Sad

[@katevielle4263]

These days D'arcy is still unintimidated by Billy lmao. She recently spoke out against him when he said that she burned all bridges between her & the band. She said something to the affect of, 'he's money hungry, he's changed for the worse'. I think she even mentioned James changing into a dickhead in her eyes. It's nice to know that she still speaks her mind all these years later.

[@ccgrey8731]

arcticmonkey3, Whatever drug issues Darcy had it's likely she has moved past them.

[@neildooly5646]

I honestly think this band saved me from being a statistic, seriously.

[@RandyRhoadsRules3]

Same.

[@coffeecomics3583]

They were in such a dark place back then.

[@O0othiago0o0o0o]

The interview was made in the Matrix.

[@Grigsy]

"Maybe we just picked the wrong singles"-Darcy

[@abbiwils]

I've always loved the sardonic attitude/humor of the Smashing Pumpkins. They were truly a one of a kind during the era they came out in. Totally reinvigorated the scene, and I wasn't even born until the late nineties, but I know from listening to their music compared to other music coming out at the time that they brought something new and beautiful.

[@cygnustsp]

I still find it strange because i don't easily identify with a lot of Billy's beliefs, but i feel like he's one artist that i really get. I'm not "spiritual" or anything like that but maybe other than Neil peart billy somehow makes the most sense to me

[@JJ-ze6vb]

Sorry but what are you talking about? You did not experience the nineties but wax on about the scene? Come on kid.

[@abbiwils]

@@JJ-ze6vb More importantly why are you replying to a comment I made 4 years ago? Also you sound very elitist and stuck up just so you know. Appreciating music has nothing to do with age.

[@Deanobucko917]

Clearly D'arcy does her squats and leg presses

[@cygnustsp]

Or, just good genes

[@GS-zc4sk]

Or, just good Jeans

[@cygnustsp]

Tonight tonight might be the coolest music video ever

[@effetpapillon2411]

After Ava Adore, yes 😄

[@cygnustsp]

@@effetpapillon2411 you're quite right actually

[@BlueSky...]

Love this interviewer! Very nice to the band and asked great questions.

[@gregorilisboa7879]

James and D'arcy were completely doped.

[@realizedvisions]

Watching Billy Corgan, with his bald head and mannerisms, in this interview, reminds me of Jack Skellington.

[@chrish8904]

I was definitely sensing some of D'arcy's infamous, sarcastic meanspiritedness there

[@emilyhardy96]

That's what made her great

[@cygnustsp]

@@emilyhardy96 she could bring some sense of style and attitude to the band, but she seemed to try too hard to clash with billy, just like the very beginning. Billy is the band, what he says goes. It's just the way it was, is, and always will be

[@RandyRhoadsRules3]

cygnustsp Billy is an egomaniac. D’Arcy stood up to him. She wasn’t meanspirited, she just didn’t take BS and had a sardonic sense of humor.

[@MClover420]

I was at the New World Music Theatre show in Chicago two months later 7/7/98 Wish more than like 5 songs from that concert existed I have live recordings of every concert I’ve been too with the exception of a perfect circle concert

[@totaltotalmonkey]

Starts at 10:21

[@dbo514]

Interesting how Jimmy mentions Champagne Supernova as a song that was got both radio airplay and connected with people a lot

[@Benjabola]

I would love to have this guy's job.

[@standinsilence]

Wow those motorbikes are such a perfect analogy for the old and new Pumpkins LOL..

[@RunOfTheHind]

If you look up the word 'entitled' in the dictionary, there's a picture of Corgan.

[@cygnustsp]

Billy changed a lot when he quit drugs, as i grow older i do appreciate it more even if it's less intense

[@arjanpetersen]

He didn’t really do drugs

[@generaperu4455]

LEGS

[@k_ir3868]

YES

[@retrovideogamejunkie]

It is always funny to me how when billy say something , d'arcy look at him with a "really?" face ...

[@arthurfleck1764]

Welcome back Mr Corgan....we've been expecting you.

[@Stephen-zq2wf]

As Incredible Now - As it Was Then ...

[@Stephen-zq2wf]

The British Interviewer was Tripping over His British Self - Trying to Impress his American CowBoy Guests with His British-isms ... Britain seems to be Forever Living in "their" Past ..

[@paulburns1333]

@@Stephen-zq2wf Don't mistake this prick for "Britain", no one else is remotely like him.

[@cygnustsp]

16:35 loll james

[@rightaboutnao]

18:39 too

[@spyridonkaprinis]

11:45 :-)

[@wjcolclasure]

miss D'arcy's influence.

[@pedrocols]

So depressing to hear this guy talk.

[@gregorilisboa7879]

They were high on heroin.

[@kylekelly2166]

I don’t think it was heroin considering how the kicked jimmy out

[@May-ve6sr]

@@kylekelly2166 Yes, it seemed more like a hang over to me.

[@EzMoney95]

Wish use clowns would understand the band is billy only one of them that would’ve made it without him is chamberlain

[@HockeyNationHD]

and he wouldn't have made it wo them, as his career post-darcy indicates. she made him seem cool.