The band welcomes Smashing Pumpkins singer during a show in Chicago, the group’s hometown of
THE My Chemical Romance received the guest surprise Billy Corgan to play “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” During Friday’s concert in Chicago, hometown of SMASHING PUMPKINS.
Before the presentation, the vocalist Gerard Way talked about your love for SMASHING PUMPKINS And how to watch the album tour Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness inspired his own music. “We saw that and thought, ‘We would love to do something like that, it would be really amazing,” he said.
The introduction of Way So he advanced a few decades: “It was the pandemic, right, and I was super sad about all that. Then I came across a video, it was late at night and I was alone… I was going on Instagram And I see this damn boy in his room playing along with ‘Bullet with Butterfly Wings’… I watched that and felt as if Christ’s blade had entered my chest, it was insane. I never felt anything like that in life. ”
THE My Chemical Romance included “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” In the Setlist of the Tour Long Live The Black Parade Over the past month, playing music a few times, perhaps as preparation for Friday’s collaboration.
“This song is the ultimate expression of rock challenge for me, it’s like leaving a brand in the universe in pure and total rebellion. It’s the best rock’n’roll song ever made,” he added Way on Friday. Right away, Corgan took the stage with the My Chemical Romance to interpret the success of Mellon Collie.
In a 2005 interview, Way called the SMASHING PUMPKINS of one of “my favorite bands of all time” and admitted: “I based our career in Pumpkins because they could make free and artistic music. ”
“It was a lot of fun! And a fantastic show of the guys,” he wrote Corgan on social networks after the presentation. “We rock in front of a huge audience in Chicago.”
Although the tour shows Long Live The Black Parade Most of them with rigid setlists, the band included some local surprises in certain performances: in a show on their homeland, New Jersey, the My Chemical Romance made a surprise version of “Livin ‘on a Prayer”from Bon Jovi.
This article was originally published by Rolling Stone USA by Daniel Kreps on August 30, 2025, and can be seen here.
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