Billy Corgan On Seeing Nirvana Live
Billy Corgan On Seeing Nirvana Live.
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January 31, 2026
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Billy Corgan On Seeing Nirvana Live.
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Billy Corgan killed Kurt Cobain for Courtney.
They were the shizznit
Billy is still bitter, what an absolute clown. Makes it harder to listen to SP these days because hes still whining about how Nirvana and Cobain reached heights he couldn’t. Just wish he would go away so we don’t have to hear his excuses and rants any longer
It does, but sooo much better.
Oh man, I never noticed they’re exactly the same. Just different chords and a different chord progression. One’s major, one’s minor, but besides that, exactly the same. Crazy.
Notice everyone talks about Nirvana. Nobody talks about smashing pumpkins. Yeah, my mom knows that.😢
Ahh i love it! I love it! I LOVE IT!!!!
No, it’s not Boston. Why is he always doing interviews about someone ripping off him or someone else
I think the same thing when I hear Weezer “Beverly Hills” and Def Leppard “Pour Some Sugar On Me”
I thought Billy was supposed to be some musical savant perfect pitch genius. Can he not hear that they are completely distant chords and rhythms. 🤷🏼🤷🏼🤷🏼 I get it’s in a way similar but it’s way different. Even the high chords and low chords are totally inverted. Backwards. And not the same chords.
Never got to see Nirvana, but I saw Smashing Pumpkins, when they were touring the Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Green Day for the Insomniac album, and saw Foo Fighters twice about about 30 yrs ago.
Rip Kurt Cobain & Drummer for Foo Fighters Taylor Hawkins. Miss both of their smiles 😊
similar but not the same, in rhythm, key, or chords lmao
Every sound is a slight against him classic trauma response
Hes describing a bootleg that everyone heard
It genuinely isn't More Than a Feeling.
Weird cause a different interview he said when they first let him listen to teen spirit he’s told them he stole his sound or something along those lines and now it’s also more than a feeling. Odd, well I’d say it’s most likely that second one there Billy Buttercups
"Of course it went right over the heads of the crowd". Ok, Billy.
Not even mad rips it off still created a grunge with one song. A entire generation
The video above was literally a video of Billy saying that Nirvana had copy his guitar tone 😂😂
This is absolutely hilarious
Boston got it from Louie Louie by The Kingsmen, written by Richard Berry .
and so on .
the sour grape of smashing pumpkins
Dave also took some beats from Sly and the Family Stone on that track
and Dave's flams are from Gap band as he mentioned. music is so wonderful that way how it can endlessly recombine to be fresh! 😀
Nothing like it
Why was Kurt green tho
Billy still seems super salty all these years later. “He stole this from me or they stole this from them” it’s always the same.
There were 427 people whose heads it did not go over that night
Billy Corgan is to Nirvana as Dave Mustaine is to Metallica – stop whining already.
They played More than a feeling a couple of times
Yes musicians get musicians. And everyone else is 🤤
But it's not more than a feeling. Not the same progression, not even if you change the key. Totally different. Although I can understand the impression of a similarity, Corgan as a self professed music expert should understand the difference and would be insulted if someone tried to say the same about one of his songs.
I feel like this sums up BC and KC. BC being a smug jackass and Kurt being a slacker, but the twist is that Kurt was actually superhumanly humble and Billy really appreciated Kurt and so he's actually a nice guy.
I think Billy corgan is getting the dates mixed up, The pumpkins played at the reading festival in 1992 which is what this footage is from and also they did the “More than a feeling” intro into teen spirit. When they played in Tokyo in 1992, they did a silly we will rock you intro into teen spirit. Billy corgan was at both shows at probably got the two mixed up
cool!
That's a old funk riff. But the intensity by nivona is off the charts. And I like smash pumpkins.
Actually it been 30 years this billy jealous of kurt.
This dudes obsessed with kurt
Billy corgan is so lame and cringey
Rapacious
Nothing in common
U dont liké them
Corgan is soooo jealous he didn't write it
I like how he assumes he’s the only one who understood Kurt’s reference. And I doubt he ever had that thought before Kurt did that, and I doubt he was even there, he just wants to remain relevant, the smashing pumpkins music always kinda sucked and his voice is whiney and annoying
😂😂😂 i pointed rhat out the first time I ever heard nirvana in the early 90's at a lil grunge bar called Frankie's Inner-City, before I d ever seen the video on Mtv!(Back when Mtv played music videos!
The chrorus of U-Mass by Pixies also sounds a lot like Boston (but the band is from Boston), and Smells Like Teen Spirit is even closer to the chorus of the Pixies song.
Thanks for that Billy I hate you much less now…Good ear
Billy never misses a chance to shit on Kurt. Although dead , Kurt lives on in Billy’s head