Q&A: 'Nothing was quite the same after that': Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan relives 30 years of 'Mellon Collie'
LOS ANGELES " It was early 1996, and a young alternative band known as the Smashing Pumpkins was embarking on a worldwide tour for their newest album, "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness." One of the first stops of the tour was Los Angeles, for a sold-out show at the historic Palace Theatre packed with screaming fans. They began the set " contrary to the noisy atmosphere of the year prior ...