“Let me caveat this by saying that I love James Hetfield as a person” Billy Corgan says this Metallica song sounds “awfully close” to Smashing Pumpkins’ Tales of a Scorched Earth
Billy Corgan has spoken about the Metallica song he believes sounds “awfully close” to Smashing Pumpkins’ Tales Of A Scorched Earth.
Speaking on the Everblack podcast, the Pumpkins frontman notes the similarity between the band’s 1995 track — from their third album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness — and Metallica’s Fuel, which was released two years later on Reload.
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“ Well, let me caveat this by saying that I love James Hetfield as a person,” Corgan begins [via Blabbermouth]. “I love Metallica; I saw them in 1984 and all that great stuff. And James is probably the greatest riff writer outside of maybe Tony Iommi. James has written some of the greatest, most amazing riffs, and he’s still writing them.”
“But if you listen to Tales Of A Scorched Earth and you listen to that Metallica song [Fuel from 1997’s Reload album], ‘Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire.’ See — a little lightbulb went off in your brain… Now, which song came first?”
“Now, I don’t think James would rip anything off from me,” he continues, “but the first time I heard that song, I was, like, ‘That’s awfully close.’ But I love me some James. And I’d love somebody trying to get a troll headline out of that, some clickbait out of that.”
Corgan also points out that since there are only 12 notes on the guitar, it is inevitable that musicians all “rip each other off.”
“My father used to say, ‘Look, there’s only 12 notes.’ So, that’s the great thing. We all rip each other off, and if it works, great,” he says. “I’ve got no problem with that. I mean, I’ve certainly ripped Metallica off plenty, so…”
Watch the full interview below.
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