Despite all his rage, he's a bald Santa Claus on a stage

The Pumpkins were my favorite band from the 90s for a lot of my life. This is the most real and laid back I've ever seen Billy.

I love the end credits The End is the Beginning from Batman and Robin. I bought Batman and Robin on DVD a few months ago. Is it bright where you are? Have the people changed? Does it make you happy? You're so strange. In your darkest hour. I hold secrets flame. We can watch the world devoured in its pain. Thank you, Billy and the Pumpkins for such an awesome song.

What a plot twist! I never thought Billy Corgan would become Santa Claus.

I love Billy's storytimes lol. Thanks!

"The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli..."

That single minute of Pumpkin music is the GREATEST moment of that movie.

This made me smile, thanks for sharing! I truly cannot wait until he releases a book filled with stories like this one. I enjoyed his "confessions" blog back in the mid 2000's, but holy cow Billy Corgan is such a gold mine of stories about so many different people from all walks of life. :)

I got the Mr. Freeze toy and was completely in love with the film as a child. I remember the 2 SP songs the most, I loved the soundtrack and those 2 songs still stand out to bring back some great childhood moments. Music brings it to life, to me.

Seeing him with a gray beard reminds me that I'm only a few years younger than him.

I've lived long enough to witness Billy Corgan become an old man.

I don't care that the movie is bloody awful, it's fun anyway. And Joel Schumacher was the coolest cat in Hollywood. That song and that movie are pure nostalgia, and occupy a warm place in my heart.

I really wish, in all the times I've seen him live since the 90s, even just once, he would have added The End is the Beginning is the End to a set list. Such a great song. Anyone else here ever see the Pumpkins live where that song was part of the set? Because, if so, I'm jealous.

Such a good storyteller. And songwriter! Corgan is just a legend

" Billy, end credits is destiny".

Awesome, thank you so much for sharing this!

That Watchmen trailer thrilled me precisely because I loved that SP track and I doubted that anyone noticed it was from Batman and Robin. So epic.

Would have been hilarious if after that great story he says "so anyway...here's wonderwall"

Imagine his stories if he had a bottle of bourbon!

Thank you for uploading this!

The songs they made for that movie were far better than what that movie deserved.

I'm 60. Billy and I traveled through the same time on this planet. We were here.

He's not wrong, that trailer is amazing.

Prince knew in what he was getting into and he enjoyed

The Watchman was awesome. The thing with the Schumacher Batman was that it went back to the 60's TV series. It was camp and not horrible.

I just listened to both those songs again recently and I still like the slow version just as much, sometimes even more than the fast one. Depending on my mood. But when that soundtrack came out, I listened to The Smashing Pumpkins tracks more than any others.

Became a lifelong fan of watchmen and the smashing pumpkins because of that trailer

His restaurant has amazing food. Their desserts are beyond delicious. It's a really cool place too. I work near there a lot. But I decided to give it a taste. Tried the grilled cheese (vegan food mind you) Very delicious. If you're ever in Illinois, go there, it's in highland park. Sometimes if you're lucky Billy is there. But it's just really cool to see a legendary artist up front and just hear what they have to say and even chill with them. They are human, just had a great opportunity to play their art to the world.

The Watchmen film was a phenomenal masterpiece.

Is it bright where you are, and have the people changed, does it make you happy your so strange… loved that song

He should dress up as Santa for a tour

There's the real punchline at the VERY end.. Wow this story was Norm level meander.

I understand his criticism of Batman and Robin since I feel like everybody has the same opinion lol. But watchmen?! I’d love to have a nerdy superhero talk with him and ask him what he didn’t like about it

Batman Forever and Batman+Robin soundtracks are full of amazing music!

George Clooney is Rosemary Clooney’s nephew, not son. The Watchmen movie was no where near as good as the comic book. That thing was brilliant. I watched the extended cut, or unrated, or whatever it was a few years ago, and it wasn’t so bad. The movie needed a giant fake space alien squid to destroy New York like in the comic. I will say Rorschach was spot on perfect, though.

I disagree with Corgan about Watchmen, that was a solid movie.

Billy's starting to look like Creed from the last episode of the office lol cool story

listening to this legit made me laugh

He’s a biscuit away from becoming Santa Clause 🎅🏿

I'm still thankfull to Batman & Robin for making the eleven years old me discover the Pumpkins, along with '89 and Forever those were my first CDs ever and I still have nothing but love for them. Also while agree on everything he said about "The Beginning is The End is The Beginning" being underrated and yet part of one of the greatest trailer of all time, I disagree on the movie, Watchmen was awesome, not as perfect as the graphic novel, but as close as you can get for such a direct transposition and complexity of the story (300 & Sin City were more faithful adaptations but the plot was also much easier to condense in a movie). That said, even if The Beginning is The End was always my favourite of the two, The End is The Beginning has probably one of my all time break in music, at about 2:40 in it slows down for thirty seconds of pure musical beauty.... And I admit I almost broke my mother's stereo as a child rewinding the track just to relisten to that part... xD!

Santa with Butterfly Wings

I played the fuck out the Batman & Robin soundtrack so the Watchmen trailer immediately took me back.

Say what you will about the movie, but the Watchmen trailer was phenomenal. Blew me away as a teen. I bought the graphic novel next week.

I still love this man

This is the weirdest version of Santa I've seen ever.

Bro the Watchmen was a legendary movie. Billy’s talking out of his ass on that one

Love the Watchmen version

It makes me feel so old seeing him with a grandpa beard.

Great story. I think he's being a little harsh on the Watchmen film lol, it's way better than almost every other comic book film.

It's so crazy seeing him in a grey beard.

Billy looks like a sailor. I dig it. I hope he keeps the beard on tour. I bet he'll be able to do something fancy with it to make it look all impressive.

Billy is working the Santa Beard

This is the their best song in my opinion - Zero and Butterfly come close, and Ava Adore.

The Watchmen trailer was amazing though

Billy Corgan doing his best James Carville impression...

Glad he did it. What a corker of a rock song!

Smiling Santa

That was awesome.

Genuinely great to see Billy happy. Been quite a prickly character at times but he seems to have found some inner peace. Kudos!

I love the movie and that soundtrack is amazing!

Glad he feels that way about the Watchmen trailer. Got me interested in both the movie and the Pumpkins.

the song he's talking about is one of my all time favorites from them

That song is awesome!

He's the spitting image of Santa from Rudolph.

That song was one of the best things about the '97 movie

fuck man, the pumpkins are so good its insane

He looks like Rob halford in this video

I’m convinced Billy doesn’t understand how hair works

Billy always speaks his mind, and to be honest anyone could make a song for a batman movie, especially a bad one

Looking like Billy Burr

Bill Burr - the folk years

I f***ing love bearded Billy

I love this song…

Nobody scores a film about a Bat in a Cave like a Rat in a Cage.

The trailer for Watchmen was my first exposure to The Smashing Pumpkins. I watched that trailer over and over again. Was a fan of them from there on out.

Beginning is the end is their best work

Awesome story

thanks!

Billy Corgan looks like the Santa from Ernest Saves Christmas

So good

Anybody remember 90/91 Northwestern Univ had "Armadillo Days". I still don't know what it was supposed to be. Pumpkins were crushing it at Double Door and the like. Made a special effort to go see them. The band outnumbered the crowd!?! How do you leave something like that? It was 2pm w/ the sun beating down. Turns out Armadillo Days has a lot to do with hallucinogenic mushrooms.

I Like the fact that he admits that movie sucked a great story love Billy and the pumpkins.

Chris Kringle looks weird without his hat.

Thumbs up for mentioning Arnold

I’ll never forget being 13 and going to the theater for Batman & Robin. It was my first cinematic disappointment, but I did have the soundtrack, which was pretty great. Especially the last track (beginning/end/beginning), so it’s super cool to hear him speak of that version with such affection. Same with that Watchmen trailer! We’ll just casually avoid him giving clearance to Kevin Smith to use 1979 in Clerks 2. (Yikes. Shame on you, Kevin.)

That watchmen trailer was amazing.

Man Billy's got huge hands, good for a guitarist.

Lol I’m a movie guy and I got in to The Smashing Pumpkins through Batman And Robin and Watchmen. They are my favorite band and also my first favorite band ever - they are how I got in to music 🤘🏽

the hollywood person was actually correct. Looks are Everything, genetics determine all. Blackpill right there.

GREAT tuning story.

I was a fan of watchmen before the movie came out. I was blown away by the first trailer but the movie as a whole is at best a misunderstood masterpiece. 2 big mistakes 1: Matthew Goode as Veidt/Ozymandias- He was nothing like the comic book counterpart, Veidt was supposed to be a very warm positive guy at the start and when he turned it was a shocking revelation. But Goode played him really odd and oily, and added that dopey German accent just because the characters parents immigrated as a child. And the costume was just good awful and Matthew Goode was severely anemic looking when Adrian Veidt was a built, muscular and chiseled guy. And number 2 the lack of the squid: why? Why blame it on Manhattan for? It took away from the whole paranoia of the story to just simply say oh it was because of dr Manhattan and not leave in the core mystery. I really hated that Snyder didn’t leave the philosophical discussion between Manhattan and Veidt: nothing ever ends is so iconic instead that nonsense of Veidt getting his arse kicked by night owl. That wasn’t the point Moore was making, Snyder was just smashing toys together but Moore was showing us the moral ambiguity of Veidts crime. I still enjoy the movie but it would have worked so much better as a long form multi season hbo or Cinemax show

First of All " Watchman " is one of the coolest movies Ever !!! And the Only thing wrong with that Bateman movie was Clooney ✔️🎯💯

Glad billy and i are on the same page about watchmen

I always look forward to the ending of Batman And Robin, just to hear the song🤌🏽

I don't know about the rest of you, but as a Batman fan, i try to forget this movie existed. Thanks for bringing it up and ruining my day? :( lol

Billy Corgan became Billy Oldman

oh wow this was released on my 32nd bday!

That movie is a fun romp! A lot like a broadway musical mixed with a Batman movie... Hard to have bad feelings about something so fun and colorful and theatrical...

“Eye” is my favorite Smashing Pumpkins song.

And yet both are still so much better than much of what's put out these days.