Smashing Pumpkins was a choice that me
and my new band kind of stumbled on.
We were doing this thing for iTunes,
we really wanted to do everything special.
We wanted to do something that we've never
done anywhere and maybe we'll never do again.
And all of us kind of thumbing through songs from our youth.
One of us started playing that riff from the
Smashing Pumpkins song and it just made me feel...
That was in 95 when that song came out.
And that was,
you know,
our first Matchbox record came out in 96.
So that was like really when we were,
you know,
we had already kind of gone through,
we were being the big local band,
you know what I mean?
And the band that opened up for other bands.
And that song being out and our sights kind of being on,
like,
man,
that's what we want
to be so bad.
And seeing them come through your town,
you know,
and seeing the Smashing Pumpkins play.
And then it's funnier,
you know,
you feel like you know a song really,
really well and
then learning the song, the lyrics are amazing.
They really are just some of the most poetic
lyrics that I've read and I was blown away.
I had no idea just how great the song was until I started doing it.