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Smashing Pumpkins: Part 1 with Rob Harvilla

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There's No Punk in Billy Corgan

There's something very specific about the guitar hero rock star origin story requiring a ton of time alone. The person who just commands these legions of fans and has the desire to do that coupled with this person who feels like no one understands him, no one cares,. No one's got his back. He's completely alone. And again, the punk rock idea, you can hear punk rock in some stuff that he does, but just the idea that anyone can do it is just not Billy Corgan's fundamental idea.

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