Billy Corgan

When we first got in the business, it was like you'd hear these Billy Idol stories.

We worked one time with Roy Thomas Baker, who produced Queen, and we had heard a crazy story about where he was working with Journey and he was running Steve Perry's voice through a pitch shifter because Steve Perry has such good pitch.

It was a way to make him insane.

And we'd heard the story that Roy was in a room doing coke and running Steve's voice through a pitch shifter and Steve kept singing.

I don't know how my singing is so bad.

And of course I met Roy and I said, is this story true?

And he said, no, it's not true at all.

So, you know what I mean?

It's like, it's not so much to answer the myth.

It's just to kind of have a laugh about it.

Yeah.

Um,

If you don't mind, because I didn't know this story until today, but this idea where they wanted to use a photo of you on an album and you stole the master tapes.

Is that a true story?

So at the height of this kind of 80s MTV, you know, you're in this pantheon of like, you know...

It seemed like Queen was there, Prince was there, Madonna was there.

Madonna, for sure.

Phil Collins, maybe.

I don't know.

It's just like, how did you take, it's a slight different version of the punk question because you came from this DIY, like a truly organic from the streets thing.