Billy Corgan

um whether it's you know artists that came up out of the bayou singing those types of songs with a little bit of french uh flavor and of course the midwest we grew up you know in the shadow of the great blues artists right you can't not grow up in chicago and not be affected by the blues so if you can kind of start there please yeah well i mean i grew up in chicago uh in the we i was born in evanston but we moved to a

Oh, my goodness.

he's the he's the reason that ario speedwagon got onto the map is it because i was going to ask you this but but we're here now uh was is is is is ario's gary's band and it's like does it make sense you know there's always got to be somebody who's like this is really kind of my band well it was it certainly was and then and then after the first album he realized he needed some some

Okay.

But when you're young, that seems like a lot.

And he'd already been touring nationally.

But still, signed to Epic.

Signed to Epic.

No small thing.

boom that's interesting um talking about a little about your background because i think these things are so valuable as a fellow songwriter um dad world war ii yeah what branch of the service was your dad in he was in the army they plucked him out of lyola university business school and he ended up in germany he was there right at the end of the war okay

So did he see combat or... He saw some combat.

And then he, of course, saw the aftermath of the Nazis out of power.

And they were doing the lottery.

Well, the lottery.

That does sound about right.

Like, let's just make something up, right?

It's got to be broad enough that you can't pinpoint them.

That sounds very Chicago.

You know, very Chicago.

But back to your daddy for a second.