"My Chemical Romance brought out Billy Corgan as a surprise guest during their concert at Chicago's Soldier Field on Friday night, welcoming the Smashing Pumpkins' frontman to join them for a performance of "Bullet With Butterfly Wing." In introducing Corgan, MCR frontman Gerard Way said seeing Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness tour inspired his own pursuit of music."
""We saw that and was like, 'We would love to do this, it would be real fucking amazing." Speaking specifically of Pumpkins' Mellon Collie anthem "Bullet With Butterfly Wing," Way added, "This song is the ultimate rock defiance to me, it's like searing an imprint on the universe in pure fucking defiance. It is the best rock n' roll song ever fucking made.""
My Chemical Romance brought out Billy Corgan as a surprise guest at Chicago's Soldier Field, where the Smashing Pumpkins frontman joined them to perform "Bullet With Butterfly Wing." Gerard Way said seeing Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness tour inspired his pursuit of music and motivated the band to attempt similar scale. Way described "Bullet With Butterfly Wing" as the ultimate rock defiance that sears an imprint on the universe, and called it the best rock 'n' roll song ever. My Chemical Romance has two more Black Parade dates scheduled in Boston and Tampa in September.
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