Ahead of his band's big Halloween show at the Barclays Center on Wednesday, The Post caught up with "bald-headed" Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan, 45, to talk about impractical costumes, candy-gathering tips — and why he has a strict ban on spooky paraphernalia.
What was your favorite Halloween costume as a kid?
One year I got the idea that I wanted to be the Mummy. So we got a bed sheet, wrapped me all up, pinned me up and I made it about half a block before the
costume just disintegrated. I had to run home in shame! I had nothing on underneath. But then I turned in to "the bum" — or the homeless man as you would probably call it now in PC culture. That was my emergency costume that year.
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Did you have a good trick-or-treating strategy?
Yes. There was a townhouse, subdivision complex about a mile away from where we lived [in the Chicago suburbs]. It was in a very remote location, so I convinced my younger brother that we should go there because it was mostly 20- and 30-somethings living there, and there weren't a lot of kids. That was a pretty accurate guess because when we got there, the people would say, "We've been waiting two hours, and no kids have come by. Here, take all the candy." So my brother and I would come with two shopping bags each full of candy. It became our go-to place every year, our well-kept secret.
What's the scariest chord progression?
It's called the devil's tritone which is A to B-flat. There's a song called "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" that we did for the "Batman & Robin" soundtrack that uses it. And "X.Y.U." from "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" uses it, too. I'm sure there's more — I just can't think of them. But if you want to be scary, you have to go there.
Have the Smashing Pumpkins ever done any Halloween-themed shows or played any Halloween-themed covers in past years?
No! We actually hated playing Halloween in the early days because everyone would always be so wasted. You'd turn up, and the show would be sold-out but full of drunk punters. I think for a while we had a policy where we would refuse to play Halloween. Some promoter would always offer us a show, thinking that he was being original because we're called the Smashing Pumpkins! But with a show like Barclays Center, it's a lot different because it's a big venue and it's a different set up. But it really used to be a nightmare!
So is Halloween the one time of year you regret the name Smashing Pumpkins?
The name has nothing to do with Halloween, and we always avoid using pumpkins and the like as stage props because it was always the most dumb and obvious thing to do. I remember once we were doing a TV show around Halloween, and they brought out pumpkins for us. I was like, "No!" That's the one thing you learn about rock 'n' roll — that people always default to the dumbest, lowest common denominator, no matter what. For instance, you always know it's gonna be a bad review when it starts with "the bald-headed Corgan." I can spot those pretty quickly!
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