Smashing Pumpkins: Part 1 with Rob Harvilla
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The Difference Between Kurt Cobain and Billy Corgan
Billy Corgan is the best guitar soloist of his generation. I think that what he can do, there's an emotional through line that he can create with his guitar solos. Kurt Cobain for all his innovation or whatever had a classic conventional rock voice,. whereas Billy Corgan, it's so thin sounding and piercing. So much of smashing pumpkins is how hard he worked to overcome how unconventional his gifts were.
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