Back in the ’90s, Courtney Love and Billy Corgan ran in similar circles and over the years, their bands – Hole and Smashing Pumpkins, respectively – played on the same lineups, traded bassists, and even became musically interlinked through Corgan’s songwriting contributions to Hole’s Celebrity Skin, their most commercially successful record.
“I'm a smitten indie, wannabe rock star, and I've just seen you play, and, if anybody saw you in the first album era, what it lacked in Beatles chords, it made up for in complete, sheer, visceral energy,” Billy Corgan says on his Magnificent Others podcast, as he describes the first time the two met on October 29, 1991, at the Avalon, in Chicago.
