If You Aren't Bleeding Aritst Blood Get Off The Stage!

Nothing charges me up more than lifting the skirt of success over the waistline of a let's pretend Artist. Writers, producers, painters, bankers, gardeners, radio disc jockeys; creative imaginations with amazingly high expectations to collect a lot cha-ching without sweating, lifting, losing sleep or feeling a burning unexplained need to feed what's constantly hungry. Enduring a path of continued dues being paid silences the best of the best. Fads come and go but love stained Artists fade....slowly It's a painful escape! Their creative place of peace has been invaded by someone renting fame. You've met them! They feel no need to invest in respecting the first three letters of what it's like to be an "Artist." Doing art for the "Art" of it is a soul driven collaboration between me, myself and I not who's next in line. Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has always been an emotional truth driven artist. If your part in the music parade is to play a green lizard and sharp curves in a corner designed by your efforts end up taking away rather than contributing...he's gonna crank that voice. Billy's not holding back when calling out 90's Grunge band Soundgarden for cashing in with their reunion tours. Essentially they've come back only to make money – playing their old albums, and maybe somewhere in the back of their minds they’re thinking there might be a future," the outspoken Corgan said at a press conference before a recent show in the Philippines. He recently told Rollinstone Magazine: "I am not in that business, obviously. I condemn anybody who’s in that business but doesn’t admit [he’s] in that business. When Soundgarden came back and they just played their old songs, great. I was a fan of Soundgarden, but call it for what it is. They’re just out there to have one more round at the till; same with Pavement and these other bands." Corgan noted that it's younger fans who keep Smashing Pumpkins going. "Without the young fans there is no future for Smashing Pumpkins. We can’t run an oldies business. Not only is it boring, it’s actually not a very good business." The singer also spoke about the changing landscape of music, describing it as one where people prefer fame to the music itself: "They have no respect for the people that came before them," he said. "They have no respect for the tradition of music, they have no respect for the blood and tears that have been spilled by great musicians all over the world – many of whom will never even know their name." The Pumpkins are currently on tour behind Oceania, the latest installment in their ongoing 44-song cycle Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, which started in 2009. "The songs on a ground level are completely different than old Smashing Pumpkins songs," said Corgan in a recent chat with Rolling Stone. "There's almost no comparison. But the effect of listening seems to be registering as familiar, even if it's not constructed the same, which is kind of interesting cause I would not have anticipated that myself."