Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan’s wife Chloe has announced a car accident occurred outside the Corgans’ Madame ZuZu’s Teahouse, “This afternoon at Madame Zuzu’s, a car (in circumstances which remain under investigation) drove over the curb and into Madame Zuzu’s, crashing through the window and sadly injuring one person—my mother, Jenny; who was spending the day and lunching with my son Augustus.
Thankfully, he was able to leap out of the way and was not injured. Our family is grateful for the swift assistance of the Highland Park and Deerfield first responders. To this, Madame Zuzu’s will be closed until further notice and we’ll provide updates as we move forward. Thank you for your support and understanding.”
Billy Corgan recently told Guitar Player after being snubbed by Rolling Stone and other best guitarist lists, “Most people don’t even recognize my contributions as a guitar player. They don’t even assume I’m the one playing a lot of the guitar.”
“You have these silly lists that come out about the greatest guitar players; I usually don’t even make those lists. Or they’ll put me behind somebody who I could play circles around. I don’t mean to denigrate the person in front of me or the people in front of me, but come on, you know? I’m enough of a guitar player to know who’s a great guitar player.”
“Once you go beyond, let’s call it ‘The Zakk Wyldes and Dimebag Darrells and the truly great Randy Rhoadses,’ there’s a lot of people who pretend to play guitar.”
“I certainly have no problem believing I’m better than a lot of them.”
“If I’m being frank about it – and maybe this isn’t the best way to do it – but if I’m being frank, people have a hard time understanding that as it pertains to the Smashing Pumpkins, I’m writing the songs, lyrics, melodies, arrangements and playing most of the complicated guitar.”
“And that I’m capable of doing a solo on top of that. I think that’s hard for people to process.”
