Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan Eulogies Stone Temple Pilots Scott Weiland After Death

By now you have heard that former Stone Temple Pilots, and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland was found dead in his tour bus on Dec 3, before his band the Wildabouts was about to perform. Now the music world is speaking in memory of the rock legend. Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has offered his thoughts and memories of Weiland in a post on The Smashing Pumpkins Nexus. Check the report for a look at Corgan’s eulogy below.

Early on in their careers Corgan and Weiland were rivals who later outgrew their competitive differences to become friends, as Corgan wrote his letter to remembrance letter on the Smashing Pumpkins website:

“ It may seem trite in reflection, but I'd try to make him giggle when I saw that the manic whirl of the dumb parties we were at (in Hollywood, no less!) might be causing undue stress. It was, I'd guess you'd say, my way of apology for having been so critical of STP when they appeared on the scene like some crazy, man-fueled rocket. And not only was the knight up front freshly handsome to a fault, but he could sing too! As any supreme actor gives a real and different voice to each character played.”

Cogan went on to discuss when he really started to get into STP, adding:

“It was STP's 3rd album that had got me hooked, a wizardly mix of glam and post-punk, and I confessed to Scott, as well as the band many times, how wrong I'd been in assessing their native brilliance. And like Bowie can and does, it was Scott's phrasing that pushed his music into a unique, and hard to pin down, aesthetic sonicsphere.”

Corgan ended his eulogy by linking Scott with some of the other greats that we have lost over the years:

“Lastly, I'd like to share a thought which though clumsy, I hope would please Scott In Hominum. And that is if you asked me who I truly believed were the great voices of our generation, I'd say it were he, Layne [Staley], and Kurt [Cobain].”

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