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I saw them at Sydney on Tuesday as well. Missed them the last time they came round, so this was the first Smashing Pumpkins show I've been to. Couldn't have hoped for a better show, it was amazing from start to finish =)

Here's another one.

http://www.mtv.com/n...ly-corgan.jhtml

"Look, if anybody wants any insight into my real character, I'm willing to play the fool, to point out where things are foolish. For example, addressing the Radiohead quote, where the quote was 'I'll piss on Radiohead.' The context of the quote was saying 'I'm willing to poke fun at something because there's so much pomposity around it that it's treated as reverent and holy,' " Corgan told MTV News. "So what ends up happening? The quote ends up getting picked up, which shows [people think] 'How dare anybody criticize the band that's un-criticizable?' And that's really funny; why is a band un-criticizable? I'm an artist who it is apparently OK to criticize, and I've made a career out of playing with that criticism and subverting it.

"One of my main complaints about the music business is that it ignores a lot of music that people really, really like. Heavy metal being particularly one of them. You can say in a crowded room that 'Oh I love Radiohead,' and everyone goes, 'Oh yeah, me too.' But if you say 'I love Iron Maiden,' people go 'What?' " he continued. "That's not cool, and yet, heavy metal bands seem to sell a lot of records and draw a lot of fans. Why are those fans ignored? It's the same high school game ... it's still the same sh--. It's still some guy in a corner with a beard telling me I'm not cool enough, yet I pioneered the very form of music that he's still talking about 20 f---ing years later."