Im seriously sick of his babbling about being an “oldies act”,”living in the past” blablabla.

I heard the Rockline interview and i honestly don’t know what the fuck wanting to become an “oldies act” is supposed to mean on Jimmy’s part. Or _his _ part.
Let me guess. BC strummed a couple of pretty boring and aimless song structures asking JC what he thought.

JC probably squirmed awkwardly and said “Uhm,i dunno. It doesn’t hit me like Bullet With Butterfly Wings did or any other song you wrote way back which was really good” The great BC frowned upon his insolence.

The thing i can’t stand about BC’s music nowadays is simply that it isn’t very good and that i’m supposed to consider it as good as the pre 1997 stuff,and that from his point of view, I ,the fan simply do not see their greatness due to clamouring for the past.

I dont want him to make “Siamese Dream II” or “Mellon Collie II”. However i DO want him to use the sense of emotion and creativity he employed during those albums. It is NOT there now.
All i see is some well off dude in his 40′s with no sense of handling critique,stumbling around his growing collection of vintage studio gear with a bunch of mindless yaysayers courting to him.

He keeps returning to the subject on sounding like “it’s 1993 again”.

So,it’s ok to (terribly) emulate Jon Lord (I’m talking to you,stupid keyboard part in various songs) and various aspects of 60′s-70′s bands and pretend that you were “inspired” by it.

I can accept that from some basement musician discovering his roots and playing around with it in hope of evolving his songwriting but not from a world renowned artist who already has created a viable platform for himself.

I’m sure those sources of inspiration popped up during the early 90s during the recording of said albums,but when they did,they flowed effortless and seamlessly together with his own ideas.

Billy does not have enough people around him who don’t give a fuck about who he is and can tell him what works and what doesn’t.

I strongly believe that the “industry” that gave him such a hard time actually pulled out the best of him and guided him in some parts to the great results which occurred with albums such as “Siamese Dream” and “Mellon Collie”.

He does not seem to understand that his muse was never creating art in hope of a cathartic result in dealing with his past but rather creating art under adversity.

In other words he did his best work when he was pressured to follow up Gish with an even better album and doubting his ability he thought “fuck it,i’ll try”.
The Industry frowned upon his idea on making a double album viable for the masses,something very few had done before.
He said “fuck it we’ll try”.

The problem here is that there are no such challenges for him to face.
Plus,i think he’s spent way to much time in L.A. That’s just my 2 cents. Bye now.