Billy Corgan

But I thought to tell you this one thing, and I don't know if you ever saw this on David Bowie's last tour, he was talking a lot, way more than he talked before.

I think he knew it was his last tour, this 2004.

I think he knew where he was going health-wise.

But he told this beautiful story about how he'd seen Gene Vincent when he was wearing the weird knee braces or he had his accident.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

And he went in this whole story about explaining that Ziggy on stage is Gene Vincent.

Yeah.

And I thought it was such a cool tribute to Gene because he said, look, when I stood like this in 73...

Everybody thought I was doing like the spaceman.

No, I was doing Gene Vincent.

Totally.

And I just love that, that he that he paid tribute in such a beautiful way.

So you I guess the setup to you guys going to England, I want you to explain a little bit.

But the setup is there was this there was this real appreciation for what you guys were already doing.

Yeah.

I used to go in there and deal with that.

Yeah.

You know, okay, it's my show, so this is where I'm indulgent.

But I'd go into Bleaker Bob's and I'd be like...

Um, I'm looking for this, uh, you got anything by like, uh, the small faces.