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Billy Idol

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764 total appearances

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

For me, as a guitar player, you can't take a Lindrum out for a beer afterwards, you know.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

And the technology, now you can get drums to fit with a groove or a grid.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Then we were struggling.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

It would take two days to get a bass line.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Yeah.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

And drummers just weren't used to playing with clicks and things like that.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

It was really frustrating.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

So we ended up using drum machine on the whole record.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

And that was really hard.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

That was really kind.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Yeah.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

You're sitting over the drum machine or the sequencer and stuff, and, you know, it's hours, and you're trying to keep excited about it, so you'll do a bump or something just to keep going because you don't have a band on that.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Yeah, we do.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

It is?

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Yeah, it is the first shred guitar break.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Yeah.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

I think it's, you know, I've always been cool with whatever works for the song.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

You know, I've never been one of those guys that waits for the three minute mark for the guitar solo.

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

You know, it's, it's just never been, I grew up on band music, not, not,

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Idol and Steve Stevens | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

soloists, so whatever worked really, and it was all new and exciting.