Dean and Robert DeLeo | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
Billy Corgan
4.6 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Billy Corgan sits down with Stone Temple Pilots’ Robert and Dean DeLeo for a frank, fast‑moving sweep across three decades of rock—scraping video budgets in the “last‑of‑the‑Mohicans” label era, MTV premieres, weathering addictions, lineup shocks, and even a near‑fatal on‑stage heart attack. Early rivalry dissolves into respect as Corgan applauds the brothers’ “guitar‑and‑bass telepathy,” the distinctly Americana road‑trip vibe woven through STP’s catalog, and Brendan O’Brien’s whirlwind sessions that bottled it all. Together they savor Scott Weiland’s genre‑hopping voice, honor Chester Bennington and Jeff Gutt, and admit that—older and battle‑scarred, their true fuel is the next left‑turn riff and the moment a crowd sings back every word.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm not interested in the dirt stuff, you know? I mean, it's like it's not that bad. |
| 0:02.9 | I'll give it to you, baby. |
| 0:03.9 | There I am somewhere in Chicago. You guys come on. I watch that video. |
| 0:07.9 | I think, look at the fuck is this? |
| 0:10.4 | Right? God bless, STP. But he dangled you over my head. Gosh, I'm sorry. Oh no, no. Look, we're the last of the Mexicans. record labels giving us some bread for a video and yeah I loved every aspect of creativity you know |
| 0:24.4 | yeah at the time I kind of resented it but now I realize it was actually a blessing |
| 0:28.0 | it's the last time there was any kind of order. Now no one in this business can tell you what success is. Welcome to DelĂo Brothers. Thank you. Thank you. Can you believe it's been 30 years since we've been putting out some of this music? That is just ablower because it just seems like yesterday that we were all on MTV and |
| 0:46.5 | Rousing about |
| 0:47.8 | Hansen Carefree Carefree |
| 0:50.6 | You know playing you know desus chords, you know, you still got the mains. I don't |
| 0:57.6 | He's got the good head hair |
| 1:00.8 | Yeah, it doesn't seem like this wasn't too long ago, gosh. |
| 1:05.0 | Right? |
| 1:06.0 | It's fun, man. Yeah. I mean, how did we... We'll get there, but... I listen to a bunch of Reese's stuff. I've been listening to stuff as it comes out, but I went to the kind of like sequentially backwards. So your solo record, Lessons Learn, which I really, really enjoyed. You worked with a bunch of different singers? Yes. the names of the singers, do you just find people that you thought were right for the song? |
| 1:27.1 | Yes, friends. |
| 1:28.3 | Okay. |
| 1:28.6 | Friends that happen to be very talented. I really, really enjoyed. You worked with a bunch of different singers. Yes. I didn't recognize any of the names of the singers. |
| 1:25.0 | Did you just find people that you thought were right |
| 1:26.6 | for the song? |
| 1:27.4 | Yes, friends. |
| 1:28.4 | Okay. |
| 1:29.4 | Friends that happen to be very talented. |
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