Billy Corgan Collapses at Smashing Pumpkins Show

By PopEater Staff Posted Jul 23rd 2010 06:18AM

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan blacked out and fell onto his drummer's kit during the band's live performance in Tampa Bay, Florida, on Wednesday night. The 43-year-old alt-rocker was performing the Pumpkin's 1995 hit 'Bullet With Butterfly Wings' when he lost consciousness.

"That wasn't a stage move or clumsiness, that was me blacking out and wiping out," he told his Twitter followers the next morning.

He says he has no memory of stumbling back onto the drums and his guitar cabinet, "but I can tell you I've got quite a good bruise [and] am moving slow."

Though Corgan makes it sound like a pretty nasty spill, a review of the show in the Tampa Bay Times doesn't mention any such incident. The critic, Jay Cridlin, gave the concert a rave -- it was "an explosion of ear-gnarling, eye-searing rock 'n' roll" -- but must have missed Corgan's fall during 'Bullet.'

"The setlist stuck largely to fierce, amp-scorching rockers like 'Tarantula,' 'Cherub Rock,' 'As Rome Burns' and, of course, the stadium-sized 'Bullet With Butterfly Wings.'"

Corgan and the Pumpkins are set to perform in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Friday night.

Tags: billy corgan, smashing pumpkins

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By bill

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By BIG AL SVID

DRUGS .......... he didn't do enuff of 'em .. ... ....

By Christina

If you are not used to the heat and do not hydrate well you will be prone to black outs. Dehydration during any type of strenous activity can sneak up on you. I hope he is feeling better.

By mmelvoin

Hey, man! Fall over and keep falling!

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