Melissa Auf der Maur

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1,702 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 11 Mar

Melissa Auf der Maur’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Melissa Auf der Maur | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 11 Mar 2026 podcast

press play, play pool, not take requests.

And after I saw your show, I went to Sam the Record Man and I bought the GISH cassette and I played it on auto-repeat the whole album.

And I would occasionally be like, we're only playing one album for this hour, thank you.

And I was playing GISH, playing pool, and this cute guy that I'd never met, a bike courier guy, came up to me and he's like, is this the Pumpkins?

And I was like,

How do you know that?

Because, you know, that was that time where your secret, like, favorite band was, like, only yours.

He's like, I just saw them in Toronto last week.

And he had seen the same show, but in Toronto.

And he instantly, like, he won my trust.

And I said, I got a jam space around the corner.

And we started this little band tinker.

And it was only our sixth show when...

Siamese Dream exploded and you were coming through town with the Siamese Dream tour fall of 93.

Siamese Dream came out in spring of 93?

So it was November of 93.

But we were touring constantly, so we would've been touring before the album came out, while the album was coming out, and after, so it's all... And I had not really seen you since the Gish moment.

So, like, two years had gone by.

I had learned to... taught myself to play bass, got indoctrinated through older guys that never made a pass at me, that took me very seriously as a woman who wanted to make music.

started a band with guys, and we had played a handful of shows.

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