Billy Responds

Today Billy Corgan posted a short narrative of his recent book signings, including the one Joe and I attended in Denver, on his site (BillyCorgan.com). It's pretty cool to read about the evening's events from his perspective:

“. . . When we got to the book signing, we went upstairs in this massive place . . . I had only been signing for about 5 minutes when the fire alarm went off! At first, we didn't know what to do so I kept signing . . . ("he signed his books in flames") . . . after a minute of the wa-wa-wa-wa the man said we had to get out, that it was a real alarm . . . now here is the amazing part . . . all the fans went out of the store single file, everyone respecting everyone’s place in line . . . after we got an all clear, everyone went back in, again keeping their places and we started up where we left off . . . the staff of the store told me they were amazed at how well the crowd dealt with the situation, and no one took the opportunity to make off with my book for free . . . no surprise to me, of course. My cold/flu had now reached the point of full on no voice, so I had them make a sign that simply said:

I Have Laryngitis
I Am Sorry I Cannot Talk
I Love You

Whenever someone would ask me a question, I would just point to the sign . . . a couple of times people said really nice things, so I just pointed to the "I love you" part . . . Back to the show at Jake’s Crack Den . . . my laryngitis had now set in so bad that I could barely talk at all, which meant no singing at all . . . I was bummed as it threw off the show we had planned, plus, I could barely read the poems . . . Anyway, dear Denver, you always leave a mark . . . God bless you, that's all I got to say . . .”