This is a bizarre one – one time The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan advised Pantera to close the fuck up, and an ass beating did not instantly occur.
Sure, one time Corgan straight up needed to cease Pantera from speaking about how Metallica “wasn’t steel” anymore within the 90s. Corgan advised the story to Jose “Metallic Ambassador” Mangin on SirusXM, and closed out by saying the band made him drink a bunch shortly after. Which seems like a really Pantera factor to do.
“Let me let you know a narrative since we’re speaking Pantera. So, they had been having a giant second clearly throughout [the Nineties] and I used to be backstage with them someday and a type of mid-Nineties — might need been Reload or one thing — Metallica [albums] had come out, and there was numerous controversy about the place Metallica was attempting to go and what occurred to Metallica and are they nonetheless steel and so they’re sporting make-up now or no matter.
“And [Pantera] had been simply happening and on about Metallica. Not in a destructive manner, extra like a confused, like, ‘I like Metallica, however I do not get it and so they’re not steel and what is going on on?’ And I actually mentioned, and this can be a true story, I do not suppose I’ve ever advised this story in public. I raised my arms, and I knew them effectively sufficient that they might type of take heed to me. I imply, that is saying one thing.
“And I mentioned, ‘You recognize what? Shut the fuck up.’ They usually checked out me like, like, ‘Did you simply inform us to close the fuck up?’ I mentioned, ‘Shut the fuck up.’ Okay, so the room goes silent, and I’m going, ‘Pay attention, put aside Metallica for a second. Okay? You guys proper now are the perfect steel band on the fucking planet, okay? Shut the fuck up. Fear about Pantera. Simply fear about Pantera. Metallica will work it out.’
“They usually did, proper? And I mentioned, ‘You simply deal with Pantera. You simply deal with being the best steel band on the fucking planet.’ They usually all sort of checked out one another and so they had been like, ‘Okay, he is complimenting us.’ After which it was like, ‘Okay, drink this horrible poison you fucking different weirdo.'”
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