Billy Corgan

So the identity of the Midwestern bands, particularly in Chicago, 70s going to the 80s, including also the great band Chicago,

That is so dear to me.

Even when I didn't like what you guys were doing musically, I understood where it came from because we went to those same, I didn't go to Catholic school, but I grew up, everybody around me was Catholic or went to this school and the nuns beat them over here.

And we all shared that common experience of parents who'd been in the war.

Dad or mom or grandpa broke their back in some factory.

And if they were lucky, they got to retire.

And of course, Bruce Springsteen kind of captured, let's call it the East Coast version of that.

But the Chicago version was oftentimes overlooked because of the nature of the New York and L.A.

media.

Anyway, that's a long discourse to talk about your experience.

And so... You've got to believe in something.

Thank you.

It was, at least for me personally, it was, I refuse to accept this story.

You know?

Because just like yourself, I sat at tables with people who'd been in the war, and you were told, don't bring it up.

So you're standing there or sitting there watching somebody that you love...

drink themselves to death, you know they've been through something traumatic, and you're a kid, so your version of it is what you saw in a John Wayne movie.

There's a cognitive dissonance that went on there.

And it went on about abuse in the church.

It went on there about child abuse in the home.