Pieces from the Billy & James Live webcast on the official Smashing Pumpkins site.


Billy: hello everyone, welcome to what we hope is gonna be a great night of chat about our debut album gish.
James. yeah, hello dudes and girls, it's me james, and we are ready to chat with you!
B. so let's get to our first question

Q. what does gish mean?
J. I think it means "intruder" in swahili.
B. ha ha james, that's funny. actually I want to finally reveal the meaning of what "gishı actually means. Iıve been waiting so long to have the proper forum to tell the truth so here goes. the secret mystery meaning of gish is there once was a girl named june, and well (according to the site, they had technical difficulties at this point and the rest of Billy's answer is incomplete. No doubt this will result in thousands of angry e-mails, but please direct them to the site, not me. -Beth)
J. wow! even I didn't know that part!
B. yeah! phwew, I'm so glad to get that off my chest. o.k. next question

Q. james, how is your dog bugg? and why is he on the inside of the gish album?
J. well that is a long story, you see I found bugg one rainy night in a dark alley on the wrong side of town. I heard him crying for help because I was out that night working the mean streets with the guardian angels. he was just a little puppy then, and unknown to me there was an attacker behind me as a stooped to pick him up. he yelped what I would find out later was the same noise he makes when there is grave danger, and so by alerting me he probably saved my life that night. I knew right then and there that he was my dog, a true superstar.

Q. is it true you guys are making a new rock record like gish?
B. I donıt know whether or not I would consider that a gish related question. you know it really (?) off that people canıt seem to (?) clever realization about my form of rock and (again with the computer errors, getting suspicious on my part -Beth)

Website: james, I think we are having some sort of computer problem, there seems to be no one out there all of a sudden.
J. I just want to tell you crazy people that I love the internet, it is great, so put your hands in the air and wave 'em like you..

Sometimes I wonder about the vailidity of these e-mails. -Beth

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