smashing pumpkins in paris

i just found these and the reason i like them so much is billy corgans hat... it's such a great hat and i've never seen him wearing one like that before... whoever shot these had a great position to watch the band... i saw this tour when it came to london and it was awesome... just what i needed at the time... i am not ashamed to admit that i am a big billy corgan fan... not just because he is bald and tall... he seems to stay quite true to himself even in the face of being seen as a huge ego or whatever... he is unafraid of putting himself, and whatever his art may be at the time, out there and that is a characteristic that surely any great artist must have... he's putting all his new music out for free too and thats a real sign of the times...