Billy Corgan on pro wrestling

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I always remember seeing Corgan in ECW and not knowing what to think. I liked Smashing Pumpkins and I loved ECW...

Billy Corgan on pro wrestling

Less than an hour before his first Chicago show since Dec. 2008, Billy Corgan sat with me in LaSalle Power Co.’s (500 N. LaSalle Blvd.) u-shaped green room on Thursday discussing -- what else? -- professional wrestling. The Smashing Pumpkins singer, a die-hard wrestling fan, managed to make the conversation sound like a discussion about theater (“If a wrestler can embody a character, you’ll go along for the ride”) and kept the tone serious and analytical. “Part of my attraction to that world is that I put the same energy into it that I used to put into my music world,” said Corgan, 42, who was performing at a benefit for NorthShore University HealthSystem’s Integrative Medicine Program. “It’s not political for me. In the musical world, it got political. I stopped reading all music press and now just read wrestling press.”

Interesting...Billy Corgan could be reading TPWW right now. Hell, he could be on the forums at the moment.

I'm looking at you Moonface.