Underrated guitarist and underrated songwriter as well. BC has a signature sound as well. I remember first hearing the solo on Zwans "honestly" and thinking "that's a BC solo if I've ever heard one". His control of distortion is quite incredible. I just wish he never learned to sing lol. The old live performances before he balded out we're amazing, the imperfections in his singing made the music so much more punk. I miss that snarl.
@EdBenji Agreed. I'm scratching my head at some of these comments. I'm just hearing manic notes at high speed with no underlying musical structure. My brother is a huge fan so i went on a deep dive. Many times he solos, the other instruments duck out and leave him almost alone with the drummer. I'm guessing he knows he can only shred tunelessly, rather than over a chord progression. Interesting.
Unbelievable. He can play like this, seemingly without breaking a sweat, and he has the restraint to write songs like 1979 and pretty much everything on Adore. Billy Corgan is truly an artist.
A criminally underrated guitarist. What's amazing is the way he looks so nonchalant when he's pulling off all this ridiculous shredding. He doesn't pose or posture because playing guitar that brilliantly is just so natural to him.
so incredible! Billys leads have been the most challenging for me to play since the 90s! They are absolutely unique and break the mold for lead guitar parts of songs
I have been telling my friends for 20+ years Billy Corgan is my favorite artist. And they don't realize why i tell them that. now besides the great songwriting I have further evidence in a nice, easy-to-difest format. Thanks for the Video!! (instant subscriber)
Holy shit man you just blew my mind … all these goddamn years and i always thought it was easy to dijest…. Oh and yea ive even seen pumpkins live and didnt realise what a good guitarist he is
I recall reading his "confessions" years ago when they were online. He picked a random number of 5 or 7 hours per day to practice guitar And apparently he did just that, 5 or so hours per day for, a couple of years I think. I can't remember the exact quote
My absolute favorite of all time. So awesome to see this old video of him, he looked like me at that age lol. I see some Eddie Van Halen influences here for sure.
When he was a kid he used to practice to his favorite bands and Van Halen was one of them and he could replicate every single note Eddie had nothing on him LOL
He has a bit of psychedelia, a bit of gothic rock, a bit of metal, a bit of grunge and a bit of shoegaze all in one guitarist. His versatility is really insane
He just tunes it there, ON THE SPOT. No tuner, turning it live, not switching out. I saw the Pumpkins live (only once sadly) and spent the entire time watching him play the guitar with my mouth open. I play guitar, well compared to him, I pluck a few strings sort of. He is the most underrecognized and greatest guitarist of the past 30 years.
Yeah being a good guitar player requires a musical ear. I too can tune to E or Eb from nothing, like changing strings for example. Not everyone can do it though
Probably the best guitarist of the 90s. In a decade where technical prowess was borderline embarrassing to demonstrate, it was only Corgan that really carried that torch imo and still stayed on the absolute forefront of modern rock at the time. What's crazier is that he's not really given his dues as a guitarist even 30 years later. I think that's because he's known as such an amazing songwriter though
Wow, I just realize that Billy Corgan's head now really looks like a pumpkin. Was he going for this look? Imagine the look of his skull being fractured with a tattoo. Only kidding. My all time favorite band. I wish Corgan did solos like he use to.
Billy Corgan is such a great guitar player, my biggest gripe with alternative rock is that they force all these great musicians to dumb down their playing
Regarding the last segment, does nobody else care about the blatant damage to guitar playing the world over all because of that Scandinavian pianist/drummer 🙄
He's a good composer and melody maker, I'm a Smashing Pumpkins fan since I'm in Highschool but I have to admit, his guitar solos are his weakest, yes they're technically impressive but they're forgettable and kind of just doodling
@@joesnider880 well the solos sound amazing and are great to play on guitar. e.g the solos on rhinoceros, soma and a song for a son (in this video) are all very good.
@@TheAlibabatree do you play guitar? from ur comment I can tell you're new or you don't. Or you're worshiping him. that's cool, but he's not extraordinary.
Am i getting trolled by you lot cos that all sounds like a mess even without considering how disconnected it is from anything happening at the same time..
@calebrose7739 lol yeah he did, James is a WOMAN LMFAO!! Listen to Billy's catalog, classic hits all over the place for decades? James solo acoustic album? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA SOOOOOOOO BAD!
I always found it amazing how Billy could slam into the strings and get a single note
Frusciante kinda does that too but he doesn't completely mute the other strings
Agreed!!
I love them both too, but Billy without doubt does it better
@@aniquinstark4347 ^^^ agreed
@@Squasagedog i have fairly average sized hands and can do this, but yeah billys hands are literally shovels
yeah, at some point u gotta learn that stuff
One of THE most underrated guitarists of ALL time!!
Thank you for your time and attention to greatness!
Np I loved making this video :)
Everything that has ever happened is underrated
Underrated guitarist and underrated songwriter as well. BC has a signature sound as well. I remember first hearing the solo on Zwans "honestly" and thinking "that's a BC solo if I've ever heard one". His control of distortion is quite incredible. I just wish he never learned to sing lol. The old live performances before he balded out we're amazing, the imperfections in his singing made the music so much more punk. I miss that snarl.
@@Daves_not_here_man_ OMG so underrated underrated !one! no one else but us know how gud he is!! underrated
@@Daves_not_here_man_ lmao yeah.... "learning how to sing" destroyed the Pumpkins sound.
I was thought of Billy Corgan as an 80's guitarist who managed to adapt to the 90s
Honestly, I’m pretty sure the 90s adapted to *him*.
This dude is so underrated. I also appreciate his "no fuxs given" to wearing a shirt that's too small. He's next level at wearing the tightness.
Billy's response to a shirt too small would be to wearing a cape
And ive seen him in capes too!!
Im not even fucking joking
And a dress
Fuckes?
Billy is a shredder, one that can play fast and melodic.
He's anything but melodic!
@EdBenji
Agreed. I'm scratching my head at some of these comments. I'm just hearing manic notes at high speed with no underlying musical structure. My brother is a huge fan so i went on a deep dive. Many times he solos, the other instruments duck out and leave him almost alone with the drummer. I'm guessing he knows he can only shred tunelessly, rather than over a chord progression. Interesting.
He's not playing Melodic in these clips, but he certainly does in many, many others. This was a collection with a very narrow focus.
Unbelievable.
He can play like this, seemingly without breaking a sweat, and he has the restraint to write songs like 1979 and pretty much everything on Adore. Billy Corgan is truly an artist.
A criminally underrated guitarist. What's amazing is the way he looks so nonchalant when he's pulling off all this ridiculous shredding. He doesn't pose or posture because playing guitar that brilliantly is just so natural to him.
Also, see Derek Trucks, especially in his younger years. He’s one of the best players ever and he barely moves. Even his face is like a statue
Him tuning the strings up around the three minute mark made me so anxious
Billy isn’t a guitarist, he’s an alien that plays a guitar.
Finally! I'm sure he appreciates this. He's been dropping hints for frikkin' ages.
So....an alien guitarist.
so incredible! Billys leads have been the most challenging for me to play since the 90s! They are absolutely unique and break the mold for lead guitar parts of songs
Wow the OG strat sounds so much better in every way than the new reverand.
You think so too!? Yeah, absolutely.
@@chaliceb5totally
What a great composer and guitarist
I have been telling my friends for 20+ years Billy Corgan is my favorite artist. And they don't realize why i tell them that. now besides the great songwriting I have further evidence in a nice, easy-to-difest format. Thanks for the Video!! (instant subscriber)
Holy shit man you just blew my mind … all these goddamn years and i always thought it was easy to dijest…. Oh and yea ive even seen pumpkins live and didnt realise what a good guitarist he is
@@kingry1985 I just bought tickets yesterday for this summer
I recall reading his "confessions" years ago when they were online.
He picked a random number of 5 or 7 hours per day to practice guitar
And apparently he did just that, 5 or so hours per day for, a couple of years I think.
I can't remember the exact quote
Billy controls distortion like nobody else other than Hendrix. His solos are so unique.
Billy is not just a great songwriter he is also a great guitar player!!!! That is rare
My absolute favorite of all time. So awesome to see this old video of him, he looked like me at that age lol. I see some Eddie Van Halen influences here for sure.
When the pumpkins first got started Billy Corgan was called the Indy Van Helen imagine that
When he was a kid he used to practice to his favorite bands and Van Halen was one of them and he could replicate every single note Eddie had nothing on him LOL
@@mr.anderson6040Yeah honestly I’d rather listen to Corgan than Van Halen all day
Billy would not say that... he actually interviewed Eddie and has spoken about how much respect he has for Eddie.
True !!!! Billy Corgan is the best !!!! Magic guitar with psycodelic sound
He has a bit of psychedelia, a bit of gothic rock, a bit of metal, a bit of grunge and a bit of shoegaze all in one guitarist. His versatility is really insane
He just tunes it there, ON THE SPOT. No tuner, turning it live, not switching out. I saw the Pumpkins live (only once sadly) and spent the entire time watching him play the guitar with my mouth open. I play guitar, well compared to him, I pluck a few strings sort of. He is the most underrecognized and greatest guitarist of the past 30 years.
Yeah being a good guitar player requires a musical ear. I too can tune to E or Eb from nothing, like changing strings for example. Not everyone can do it though
What he’s doing here though is tuning his E string until it breaks, just a hit of madness at the end of the show
3:38 Uncle Fester melting faces.
Thanks for putting this together. I've always said he could be the greatest rock guitarist of all time. And, don't forget Chamberlin on drums. :)
I love his style of just doing whatever the f*ck and then making it sound good somehow 😂
Probably the best guitarist of the 90s. In a decade where technical prowess was borderline embarrassing to demonstrate, it was only Corgan that really carried that torch imo and still stayed on the absolute forefront of modern rock at the time.
What's crazier is that he's not really given his dues as a guitarist even 30 years later. I think that's because he's known as such an amazing songwriter though
big hands like buckethead
he's always been so damn good
thanks for this!
Indeed he is.
BC was a big EVH fan early on. It shows in his early days solo.
I remember seeing in an interview he said he practiced 4 hours a day for 4 years as a teenager.
Wow, I almost forgot, how amazing they were!
One of the most creative riffs and solos were written by Mr. WPC 😌👌
Billy and rivers cuomo. Fav vocal+singer
billy corgan the dream collector
Totally underrated
Nobody under rates Billy like Billy.😂😂😂😂
Damn he channeling Jimi Hendrix.
I could have been happy with 6 Gish type albums of his shredding
He is the absolute best in my book! Luv WPC
Saw him live during the Zeitgeist era. He is an absolute beast on the guitar.
0:00:00 the actual take from "A Song for A Son" one of the great SP guitar moments from the post reunion era
There easily a part2 of this
A good soma solo, some nice acoustic playing.. an ode solo.. here is no why solo
Great vid though
nailed it.
Not underrated at all top 10 of all time Brilliant!! 💪🎸
Harmageddon guitar solo is underrated.
Great content
Thank you :)
I’m glad someone made this so I didn’t have to
Здорово 🤟
GOD MODE
He's like the darth vader or fester adams of Rock!!!
thanks a lot!!!!!
I love shit like this!
Thanks you
Why are all these solos he's kinda known for his melodic parts
Honestamente he ido not playing nothing dificult but he ido the Best making his amazing 🎵🎼 music
so fucking good
Billy looks like Klaus Schwab now.
lol 😂
Dam I didn’t know he could shred like that.
This kind of playing isnt unachievable you just have sone decent gear and a passion for all things guitar!
Funky butt lovin'❤
Wow, I just realize that Billy Corgan's head now really looks like a pumpkin. Was he going for this look? Imagine the look of his skull being fractured with a tattoo.
Only kidding. My all time favorite band. I wish Corgan did solos like he use to.
MAYBE I WANNA bE A SHITTY GUITARIST
What is the first song?
A Song for a Son.
Which song is the first solo?
A Song for a son.
@@jotu2274 Thank you!
Man it breaks my balls so bad when Billy does that heavy E string 'wind until breaks' thing, sounds great, but his poor strat 😢
Seriously, though, the size of his hands is straight up CHEATING. Those fingers are all like a full inch longer than mine.
Billy Corgan is such a great guitar player, my biggest gripe with alternative rock is that they force all these great musicians to dumb down their playing
What an idiotic opinion. The musicality and technicality of alt rock blows "classic" rock away.
Just noise!!
Grunge was hard rock without the guitar solos.
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard
Good thing Billy’s music isn’t grunge.
He's very talented
But Fruciante blows him away; Thanks God he's still here!!! JM
100% :)
imho billy is a bit better, has more melody and feel
@@alexmalch everybody has opinions and it's great we all don't like same guitarists :)
@@joshuacobb3923 that’s true!
Every guitarist is great in his own way. Maybe some players are not great live but for the songs in the studio they can be perfect.
Regarding the last segment, does nobody else care about the blatant damage to guitar playing the world over all because of that Scandinavian pianist/drummer 🙄
He's a good composer and melody maker, I'm a Smashing Pumpkins fan since I'm in Highschool but I have to admit, his guitar solos are his weakest, yes they're technically impressive but they're forgettable and kind of just doodling
I’m gonna have to disagree with you on that one.
just sounds like noise to me. hes a great composer and melody maker but his solos are terrible imo
@@joesnider880 well the solos sound amazing and are great to play on guitar. e.g the solos on rhinoceros, soma and a song for a son (in this video) are all very good.
@@samwilson2046 he's a tremendous talent but these solos in this video don't impress me. but everyone has different tastes
@@joesnider880 the guitar solo from soma is beautiful stfu
He's good, but he's no Joni Mitchell 🤣
He never was. Just a good song writer. He sings awful nowadays.
Don't really listen to him so I can't comment on him that much but from what I have seen hes alright
He’s easily one of the best guitar players of the 90s. This video was a poor selection.
@@TheAlibabatree do you play guitar? from ur comment I can tell you're new or you don't. Or you're worshiping him. that's cool, but he's not extraordinary.
@@thebends6580 What a childish response. And yes, I’m a multi instrumentalist, thanks for asking.
@@TheAlibabatree So am I. Not a child, and now I'm even more surprised that you consider BC as one of the bests of the 90's. Dig deeper
Boring 2
Thanks :)
Am i getting trolled by you lot cos that all sounds like a mess even without considering how disconnected it is from anything happening at the same time..
James Iha just weeps from sheer lack of talent LMFAO
And wept at Billy’s narcissism and controlling tendencies
@calebrose7739 lol yeah he did, James is a WOMAN LMFAO!! Listen to Billy's catalog, classic hits all over the place for decades? James solo acoustic album? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA SOOOOOOOO BAD!