Gilles Mendel

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690 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 4 Feb

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Gilles Mendel | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 4 Feb 2026 podcast

Believe it or not, during that time, you know, I mean, I was trying to keep going by playing music, you know.

I had a band I was playing.

I had a band called Silver Hill.

Silver Hill.

Ask me why, I have no idea.

But anyway, I was trying to escape from school as much as I could, you know.

So I traveled a lot while I was at school.

I, you know, even traveled to Guatemala.

We're getting to Guatemala.

Okay.

But, you know, I did some travel, but...

When I came back to Paris and I tried to be a businessman, you know, my best friend had a, his dad was a very famous guy who was, you know, buying grains and selling grains, you know, all over the world and edging his buys at the Chicago trade, you know, world trade.

Anyway, I was doing all that and I said, Gilles, what are you doing?

I mean, this is not right.

And I was always in, I mean, I drew always very well.

I was very, that's something that I naturally had in me.

And my mom was such an inspiration to me.

And, you know, and by discovering those designers and so on, it really pushed me to say, you know what, I'm going to try to take this little jewel box of my father.

And instead of saying that I'm coming in, I would have because I knew right away that I could never be the master that he was.

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