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Billy Corgan, frontman for '90s alt-rock group The Smashing Pumpkins, has always clung tight to the feeling he would some day be reunited with the Fender Stratocaster stolen from him years ago. The guitar was snagged from stage during a Saint Andrews Hall gig in Detroit of 1992.
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Earlier this month, a crazy story broke about how Billy Corgan reunited with a special guitar that was stolen during a Detroit show in June 1992. As the story goes, the Smashing Pumpkins frontman cherished his hand-painted mid-70s Fender Stratocaster because it changed the way he played, thus heavily influencing the band's sound on its debut album, Gish.
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The Smashing Pumpkins ' Billy Corgan has been reunited with his long-lost Fender Stratocaster from the band's Gish era, Rolling Stone reports. The guitar, which Corgan purchased from.
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Billy Corgan currently plays Reverend guitars of which he has his own signature model, the Reverend BC1 Terz. However, he is historically most known for playing Fender Stratocasters. He's also owned and played many other guitar models throughout his career. See the full list of Billy Corgan guitars and gear below.
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Twenty-seven years ago, someone stole Billy Corgan's favorite guitar—an early '70s Fender Stratocaster with a DIY floral paint job—after a Smashing Pumpkins gig. Corgan says the Strat was fundamental to the group's early sound, as heard on their debut Gish. At the time, Corgan offered a $10,000 reward.
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Corgan told Rolling Stone that very Strat was the instrument that "changed the way the band sounded and [how he] played." Since June of 1992, the 51-year-old has been tirelessly searching for.
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Corgan's early 70s Fender Stratocaster was more than just another guitar. He hand-painted it himself and used it to record The Smashing Pumpkins' debut studio album Gish. Corgan notes that the guitar can especially be heard in the beginning of "Snail", a smash hit from the platinum album.
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Overloading with fuzz and gain, Billy Corgan created a bed of noise that combined the likes of shoegaze and grunge into an entirely unique sonic trademark. It wasn't uncommon for one song to have nearly 50 guitar overdubs, and Corgan was meticulous in his arrangements. None of that would have been possible without the right guitar.
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Sep 01, 2023 07:02 PM 3,710 views · Share For the recording of the Smashing Pumpkins' debut album "Gish", frontman Billy Corgan relied on his favorite guitar at the time, a 1970's Fender.
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Billy Corgan was recently reunited with the Seventies-era Fender Stratocaster he used to record the Smashing Pumpkins' 1991 debut album, Gish. The guitar, essential to the band's early sound and decorated by Corgan with a custom psychedelic design, was stolen in June 1992 after a Pumpkins gig at St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit.
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Billy Corgan has been reunited with a 1970s Stratocaster that was stolen after a gig in 1992. Isn't it nice to hear about a happy ending? The Stratocaster was especially important to Corgan as it played a major role in the band's 1991 debut album Gish. He even went so far as to say that it affected the way he played.
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He still uses it occasionally. Billy Corgan's Electric Guitars 1957 Fender "Bat Strat" Stratocaster Billy Corgan's number one guitar in the Gish and Siamese Dream days and the multi-year Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness world tour was his 1957 Fender "Bat Strat" Stratocaster.