Corgan Grounds Fairy
TLN: We promise you follow-ups and we deliver. Last week
we told you about a potential supergroup in the making
Fairy counting such cultural notables as top gourd Billy
Corgan; King Gross-out Marilyn Manson and his equally
unpretty sidekick, Twiggy Ramirez; and ultra-in-demand
computer guy Chris Vrenna (late of the Smashing Pumpkins
and current Axl Rose collaborator) as potential members.
Well, we can now confirm, courtesy of our vast network of
covert operators, that Fairy will never move beyond the
drawing board thanks to Billy C. and a certain grudge.
Seems His Baldness was all gung-ho on the project, going
so far as to talk some serious shop over the band-to-be
with King Manson, before Vrenna let Billy know that he
would no longer be working with the Smashing Pumpkins so
that he might dedicate himself solely to Guns N' Roses and
his own project called Tweaker.
Unhappy about having been dumped for Axl, Corgan called
Fairy off before it ever flew anywhere leaving us to
wonder "What if?" forever.
As per Vrenna's involvement with the Slashless G N' R, we
can tell you that he was in Los Angeles last week working
with Axl on some drum and programming stuff, furthering
Slash's assertion that there's gonna be nothing hard rock
about the next Guns record (to quote Mr. Top Hat himself:
"I'll go back to that band when they start playing rock
music again"). Traditionally a journeyman, Vrenna is
actually expected to ink on as a full-fledged Gun sometime
in the coming weeks, though his contract will allow him an
untethered chain for side projects aplenty.
Vrenna's first post-Pumpkins affair, the two-man Tweaker,
made its live debut last week at New York's
too-cool-for-you-fool club called Anchorage, located smack
dab under the Brooklyn Bridge. Though sans vocals at that
date, Vrenna's believed to be wooing some golden throats
to hop on board for an album he hopes to squeeze in before
the G N' R stuff gets too heavy.
Finally, the Chicago Tribune is reporting that Pumpkins
drummer interim Matt Walker, still peripherally associated
with Filter, has finally jumped in for keeps. Calls to
super-powerful publicity folks would seem to confirm this,
which is to say those folks had no comment at this time.
July 27th, 1997
there's a short
NiN article on
guitarworld
online
