With the Smashing Pumpkins reunion coming to fruition, (sans original bassist D’Arcy Wretzky), the public has been subjected to a slew of recallings of the drama that characterized the flannel-wearing community in the early 90s.
Having recently publically shared her recent interactions with Billy Corgan, taking to Facebook to share private messages between the two, calling the frontman “manipulative”, Wretzky has now shared her thoughts on another seminal 90s band member.
In an interview with Alternative Nation, the former Smashing Pumpkins bassist revealed her thoughts on Pearl Jam’s guitarist Stone Gossard.
When asked what her thoughts on Billy’s ambition to ensure the Smashing Pumpkins remained on the “same level” as enduring 90s acts like the Foo Fighters and Pearl Jam, she responded with,
“With those two bands [Foo Fighters and Pearl Jam], everybody knows that the Foo Fighters is Dave [Grohl]. How many people do you know who can name any other members of Pearl Jam besides Eddie Vedder?”
She continued, adding with no explanation “I fucking love, I love all of the members except for Stone [Gossard]. I fucking hate Stone, he’s an asshole. They’re all really nice, except for Stone.”
She also aired more of her grievances with Corgan, revealing the issues she had with his overly competitive nature back in the day, saying that he couldn’t “stand anyone else getting attention” and that he constantly discussed how “nobody in the Chicago scene, none of the other bands would give us any credibility, and we weren’t part of the scene.”
