Billy Corgan Threatens Stage-Crasher With Punch in The Face: Watch
Billy Corgan—a rocker not unfamiliar with threatening legal action over music piracy and addressing congress over similar issues—issued a much more physical threat to an unwitting stage-crasher during a Smashing Pumpkins reunion show in Memphis last week.
While the band ambled through an acoustic cover of The Rolling Stones' "Angie," a bumbling audience member not so gracefully walked on stage and stood next to Corgan, apparently in an attempt to spark some kind of bromance with the singer. Then Corgan, without so much as turning his head to confront the man, snarled: "Get the fuck off my stage before I fucking punch you in the face." Stereogum recently unearthed fan-shot video of the situation above, which unfolds around the 1-minute mark.
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