How tall is Billy Corgan?

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I could use $10,000.

http://www.littletongov.org/media/poster2.pdf

― Hunter, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think about 6' to 6'1" in height.

― A Nairn, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm pretty sure he's about 6'4" or 6'5".

― Luke, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

About so high.

― Ally C, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

An acquaintance of mine not long ago became Billy's personal assistant. Or maybe assistant to his assistant. I don't know. But she sees him every day, since she works out of his house.

Surely ILM can exploit my connection somehow?!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. Please pass the word back that if the Pumpkins ever need an official biographer and cataloguer of their studio and live tapes...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

...they should give Alex in NYC a call.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

You cruel personage.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

However, the reverse could work, I'm *sure* I could do a good job taking all the Gene archives and putting them somewhere safe like the bottom of a warm swamp.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

aren't the pumpkins one of the tallest bands in chart history?

how tall is krist novaselic?

― chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

soundgarden were all at least 6'2"

― g e o f f (gcannon), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

btw. according to imdb - billy is 6' 3" (1.91 m)

― chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, he's taller than Dennis De Young,

http://www.dennisdeyoung.com/clientuploads/pictures/dennisbilly.jpg

or as I call him, "The Brian Wilson of Styx".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Dennis looks a bit like a combo of Tom Jones and Tony Bennett dipped in bleach.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

with a dash of Joe Pesci

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

also, I hear Corgan is 5'10" but he wears heels

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i found a fan site that lists iha as only 5' 9" - and i always thought they were all bohemouths...

― chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Billy is a tall dude. I remember walking by him when my friend and I showed up for their first ever L.A. show in 1991 at Peanuts aka English Acid. (Man, talk about a packed hole in the wall). He's at least 6' 3". He's certainly above average height. (and yeah, there's that big red birthmark thing on one of his arms too. That's not a rumor as well.)

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Birthmark is shown on the cover of the solo album.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

(Also, other rock star height shockers.. Henry Rollins is at least 5' 11" or 6'. Anthony Kiedes and Flea, on the other hand, are lucky to be taller than 5' each.)

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Björk is like 3' tall. At most.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

No way Rollins is 5'11"! I saw the dude at a record store and he was at least four inches shorter than me (6 ft)

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

unless he was walking around Dorf-stylee

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

GEAR, DROP ONE HIGH HEELS WHEN RECORD SHOPPING!

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

DON'T JUDGE MY LIFESTYLE

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It's too late. We know about you. And the couch.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a stain on my history

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah Rollins is notoriously short, no way he's 5'11"

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

this site looks potentially useful (although no entry for Corgan): http://www.celebheights.com/

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Unless I had HORRIBLE posture when I was at Aron's that one weekend night in early January 2001 (the weekend before I moved to Seattle), I was right next to Rollins, and he was an inch or two taller than me. I'm 5' 10". There's no incentive for me to make this shit up.

I want measurements, people. Like pictures with measuring tape and Hank.. no photoshopping.

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

(sorry, late Jan. but whatever... same weekend I saw Shellac at the Knitting factory, incidentally. Also, Albini is not that short SHOCKER, too!)

(I think all of you are too scared to admit you're shorter than TEH UNDEGROUND ROCK!)

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

How long is Billy Corgan's cock?

― PB, Monday, 16 May 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

By the way, the tallest musician I've ever seen in person is Win Butler of the Arcade Fire fame. He's a beast.

― PB, Monday, 16 May 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Does deYoung guest on the new Corgan album too?

PB: I think GroupieCentral (or some such site) has an archive of measurements. Don't know if there's an entry for Corgan.

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

this is from a forum thread re: "Who would win a fight? Glenn Danzig or Henry Rollins?"

I've met Rollins. If Danzig is only 3' tall, then ol' Hank is about 2'6".

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, so you believe some dude in an internet forum over me, Gear.. fine, I can..

oh, wait.

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

aren't the pumpkins one of the tallest bands in chart history?

Zeppelin were all tall dudes - like 6'4'' and up. Pumpkins had D'arcy and Iha, both short to average height.

― redmond, Friday, 2 January 2009 02:57 (seventeen years ago)

I met Robert "Don't Call Me Bob" Plant. He's no 6'4", but he did have the best posture of anyone I've ever seen.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 2 January 2009 04:05 (seventeen years ago)

it makes the wang more pronounced, good posture

― +++ (jergins), Friday, 2 January 2009 04:19 (seventeen years ago)

Ah, so you believe some dude in an internet forum over me, Gear.. fine, I can..
oh, wait.

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, May 16, 2005 7:04 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ah the wasted username possibilities.

― some dude, Friday, 2 January 2009 04:24 (seventeen years ago)

looks pretty tall here:

― caek, Friday, 2 January 2009 04:39 (seventeen years ago)

IMDB gives Jimmy Page's height as 5'11".

― Sundar, Friday, 2 January 2009 07:39 (seventeen years ago)

how dead is billy corgan?

― buzza, Friday, 2 January 2009 17:37 (seventeen years ago)

I find that guitars are a good way to judge rock star sizes. If Jimmy page is 5' 11", those are some awfully large Les Pauls he's had built. I don't think the low-slug axe look required much adjustment of the strap.

http://www.yourstrulybrand.com/yourstruly/files/lookbook/Keith-Richards-Louis-Vuitto.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Chuck-berry-2007-07-18.jpg

― bendy, Friday, 2 January 2009 17:50 (seventeen years ago)

i saw QOTSA play at the troubador in LA, and outside josh homme walked by me...anyway, he is a GIGANTOR, i can't imagine he's not the biggest rock dude out there.

― Rob Liberace (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 2 January 2009 17:56 (seventeen years ago)

nick cave is also really tall

― Rob Liberace (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 2 January 2009 17:57 (seventeen years ago)

jimmy page always looked kinda tiny to me

― Rob Liberace (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 2 January 2009 17:57 (seventeen years ago)

robert pollard looked kinda tall if i remember...he was like a good athlete....maybe gibby haynes of the butthole surfers?

― Rob Liberace (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 2 January 2009 18:03 (seventeen years ago)

Really, I was just going by what I thought I read in Hammer of the Gods - the guys are always described as being really tall in that book.

― redmond, Friday, 2 January 2009 18:03 (seventeen years ago)

i wish the link to the artists rendering/wanted poster was still there, because it really did look just like billy corgan. (also i cant believe this was like 7 years ago)

― Booker van Permalink (Hunt3r), Friday, 2 January 2009 18:38 (seventeen years ago)

TBH I'd thought Page was like under 5'8", maybe even 5'5" or 5'6". I was just listing what IMDB said.

― Sundar, Friday, 2 January 2009 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

all real rawk stars are 12 feet tall in strange coincidence

― Booker van Permalink (Hunt3r), Friday, 2 January 2009 20:11 (seventeen years ago)

According to the IMDB, he's 6'3".

― moley, Saturday, 3 January 2009 03:39 (seventeen years ago)

Sorry - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004842/bio

― moley, Saturday, 3 January 2009 03:39 (seventeen years ago)

Personal Quotes

"The basic Pumpkins philosophy from the beginning was that everything had already been done. You couldn't write better songs than the Beatles, you couldn't be heavier than Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath, you couldn't be cooler than Cheap Trick. There was no way you were gonna top that. So all you could really do was try to rip off what you liked about it and sort of throw it back at people in a different way."

"We used to compete with Nirvana. That was good. That was real. That was viscerally good. Now we compete with imitation-Nirvana. There's nothing good in that. ...It's really sad."

"For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right."

― moley, Saturday, 3 January 2009 03:40 (seventeen years ago)

From the man himself.

― moley, Saturday, 3 January 2009 03:41 (seventeen years ago)

twelve years pass...

At one point I found myself going, "I can't write a song about Batman, I'm in an alternative band." And I thought this is stupid, if I can write a song about Batman and it serves the purpose, which is to make it happen and connect with the movie, and connect with something that is unique and original, then, why not? For me, it was a great kind of artistic thing to do because it was very freeing. I wasn't talking about myself or trying to represent the Smashing Pumpkins. I was trying to represent Batman.[2]

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 28 October 2021 07:11 (four years ago)

The core, the bat music

― Buckfast in America (Master of Treacle), Thursday, 28 October 2021 09:29 (four years ago)

I’d invite anyone interested to scan the lyrics of that song for any (even glancing) allusion to Batman

― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 28 October 2021 10:07 (four years ago)

It absolutely is not about Batman. It is one of their best singles though

― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 28 October 2021 10:22 (four years ago)

i can totally believe it was billy trying to write about batman

― ufo, Thursday, 28 October 2021 10:30 (four years ago)

Tbf, that might as well have been Prince's line of reasoning, too, and of course he ended up with an entire batshit album about Batman. That was a hit!

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 October 2021 13:49 (four years ago)

A large majority of Smashing Pumpkins lyrics seem to have no purpose or referent other than throwing a dictionary into the air and letting the words land wherever in the cadence of the melody.

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 28 October 2021 15:02 (four years ago)

"Relive the pictures that have come to pass" is at least the viewer's experience of Batman

― What it's like. Havana Syndrome. What it's like. Havana Syndrom (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 28 October 2021 16:13 (four years ago)

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