I was talking about the original run Corgan. 1988-2000 Corgan is decidedly not a prick despite how the media tried to frame him (and I’d extend that to 2008 - something happened in 2009 or so). He wrote all of the songs and played most of the parts on his albums and didn’t go out of his way to crap all over his own work in interviews and held his bandmates to professional standards and showed ambition - the horror! Meanwhile John Lennon was a wife beater and abusive father but for some reason gets a pass for it.
I’m not going to defend his going on Infowars. I do think years of being unfairly treated like shit by everyone - his parents, his peers, the media, his bandmates, critics - combined with mental illness has led him to where he is now. It’s reprehensible that he went on Infowars and he won’t be getting a dime out of me until he reveals it’s been a wrestling-style long play to gain Jones’ trust and humiliate him on live tv (not likely but I can dream) - but I think it’s less of a case of “he’s alt-right now” and more of a case of “he’s being a thoroughly misguided, willfully ignorant prick in an attempt to be contrarian.” I hate every second of it. Alex Jones is a disgusting human being and I’d trade in all future Corgan musical output for the man to crawl back into the toxic swamp from which he came.
