{"id":45302,"date":"2025-08-30T13:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/30\/my-chemical-romance-play-bullet-with-butterfly-wings-with-billy-corgan\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:33:42","slug":"my-chemical-romance-play-bullet-with-butterfly-wings-with-billy-corgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/30\/my-chemical-romance-play-bullet-with-butterfly-wings-with-billy-corgan\/","title":{"rendered":"My Chemical Romance Play &#8216;Bullet With Butterfly Wings&#8217; With Billy Corgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Band welcome Smashing Pumpkins frontman during concert in that group&#8217;s native Chicago<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/my-chemical-romance\/\" id=\"auto-tag_my-chemical-romance\" data-tag=\"my-chemical-romance\">My Chemical Romance<\/a> brought out surprise guest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/billy-corgan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billy-corgan\" data-tag=\"billy-corgan\">Billy Corgan<\/a> to perform \u201cBullet With Butterfly Wings\u201d during their concert Friday in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/smashing-pumpkins\/\" id=\"auto-tag_smashing-pumpkins\" data-tag=\"smashing-pumpkins\">Smashing Pumpkins<\/a>\u2019 native Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPrior to the performance, singer Gerard Way spoke of his love for the Pumpkins, and how seeing the band\u2019s tour around <em>Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness<\/em> inspired his own music. \u201cWe saw that and was like, \u2018We would love to do this, it would be real fucking amazing.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My Chemical Romance and Billy Corgan - Bullet With Butterfly Wings (live)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y6xN6HY_ydo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWay\u2019s introduction then jumped forward a few decades: \u201cIt\u2019s the pandemic right, and I\u2019m super sad about it. And I come across this video, it\u2019s late night and I\u2019m sitting alone\u2026 I\u2019m scrolling through Instagram and I see this fucking kid in his room playing along to \u2018Bullet With Butterfly Wings\u2019\u2026 I\u2019m watching this thing and I felt the blade of Christ enter my chest, it was wild. I never felt anything like that in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMy Chemical Romance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/my-chemical-romance-smashing-pumpkins-cover-1235389739\/\">welcomed \u201cBullet With Butterfly Wings\u201d into their Long Live the Black Parade Tour setlist<\/a> over the past month, performing the track a couple times perhaps as a precursor to Friday night\u2019s collaboration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThis song is the ultimate rock defiance to me, it\u2019s like searing an imprint on the universe in pure fucking defiance. It is the best rock n\u2019 roll song ever fucking made,\u201d Way added Friday. Corgan then joined My Chemical Romance onstage to perform the <em>Mellon Collie<\/em> hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t(In a 2005 interview, Way called the Smashing Pumpkins one of \u201cmy favorite bands of all time,\u201d and admitted, \u201cI had patterned our career off The Pumpkins because they were able to do such free and artistic music.\u201d)<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cGreat fun! And fantastic gig by the boys,\u201d Corgan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/billycorgan\/3710395561569756716\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on social media<\/a> after the show. \u201cJust killed it in front of a massive Chicago crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhile the Long Live the Black Parade Tour shows have been mostly rigid in their setlists, the band was sprinkled in local surprises at some gigs: At a show in their native New Jersey, My Chem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/my-chemical-romance-bon-jovi-livin-on-a-prayer-cover-1235404780\/\">dropped a surprise rendition<\/a> of Bon Jovi\u2019s \u201cLivin\u2019 on a Prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/my-chemical-romance-billy-corgan-bullet-with-butterfly-wings-1235419185\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Band welcome Smashing Pumpkins frontman during concert in that group&#8217;s native Chicago My Chemical Romance brought out surprise guest Billy Corgan to perform \u201cBullet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":45303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}