With all due respect to the great music journalists out there who are knowledgeable and make due diligence their trademark when approaching a subject, there’s something about a conversation between two artists that can not only be quite revealing on many levels, but can convey that knowing experience that is practically exclusive to those in the fish tank of fame and the music business itself.
Metallica’s Lars Ulrich on his It’s Electric shows has conducted some great interviews with the likes of Noel Gallagher, Dave Grohl and Jack White, and this one-on-one with the big Pumpkin does not disappoint and is surely to be enjoyed by fans of the man and Smashing Pumpkins. But, arguably, the most interesting part of it is towards the end of their chat, with Corgan and Ulrich discussing the current state of the business, as it relates to the relationship of the audience with the music and Corgan’s positive outlook towards where that relationship now resides and where it may be headed.
Good stuff.
