Smashing Pumpkins Make Impact With Moody Melodies
BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, BUDWEISER AD) UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Whassup?</s>UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Whassup?</s>UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Yo, who's that?</s>UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Yo, pick up the phone.</s>UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Whassup?</s>UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Whassup?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yo, let me say it -- Whassup? I do it better than them. Whassup?</s>TUSH: See, you can just walk down a street and anybody will say it. Did you ever say that before in your life, or did you wait until you saw these guys?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When I saw the commercial, I'm saying that around Super Bowl time -- didn't it come out around that time?</s>FRED: Yes.</s>SCOTT: Something your boys do, right?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I drink Budweiser, too.</s>SCOTT: There you go.</s>TUSH: Enough with the plugs for the beer, all right? We're showing their commercial for free, that's enough. Which reminds me, you guys just shot another commercial -- he's not in it. This is a man off the street. But, you just shot one at the garden, right?</s>FRED: Yes.</s>PAUL: Yes.</s>SCOTT: Yes, at the game.</s>TUSH: That will be coming out soon. How mean ways can you, like, keep milking this thing?</s>FRED: You know, the sky's the limit.</s>PAUL: I don't know if I like the term "milking." I don't know if I'm too comfortable with that.</s>TUSH: Well, I mean, let's -- OK, taking that one story about you guys and just keep doing it?</s>PAUL: Yes, we hope that it goes on for a while, obviously. We -- the next round of commercials is going to expand on some of our characters...</s>SCOTT: Right.</s>PAUL: And we're going introduce some other people into it and some women, things like that. I don't want to give you too many details.</s>TUSH: OK, but, you know, you think about it, "Saturday Night Live" has taken sketches and made them into major films. This could happen.</s>SCOTT: Right, right. And let's hope that could happen.</s>TUSH: You want to come over here and do one? Jim Moret's going to tell us about Smashing Pumpkins -- OK.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Whassup?</s>SCOTT: You got to extend it, got to extend it.</s>PAUL: You've got to be happier.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You've got to teach me.</s>SCOTT: All right, watch me: One, two, three -- whassup? One, two, three...</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Whassup?</s>PAUL: There we go.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We stayed up all night.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, all night in the rain.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In the rain.</s>JIM MORET, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Long lines in the rain couldn't dampen their enthusiasm...</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We love the Smashing Pumpkins.</s>MORET: ... as the Pumpkin faithful get a taste of the new Smashing Pumpkins album at a special in-store concert in Los Angeles. A multi-platinum band, the Smashing Pumpkins took the recording world by storm in the mid-'90s. Their last album failed to live up to expectations commercially and critically, but instead of bowing to pressure to replicate their earlier success, they made a conscious choice to ignore outside expectations.</s>BILLY CORGAN, SMASHING PUMPKINS: Let's make a Smashing Pumpkins record. Let's not try to worry about out-guessing the guessing, you know? It's OK to be obvious sometimes, and I think that kind of completely removed the pressure. We just did what we would do in a vacuum.</s>MORET: Their new album marks the return of drummer Jimmy Chamberlain following a battle with heroin. The band members are proud to have overcome intense personal and professional turmoil.</s>CORGAN: I don't mean this in any sort of trite way, but the music has really been the thing that has healed us over and over again. It is the thing that has held us together and taught us about each other.</s>MORET: Hundreds of autographs and photos have given the band a chance to rediscover why their fans connect with their music.</s>CORGAN: Courage, an unwillingness to give in to what is expected and a fierce individuality. What one person beats up on us for and says, that's an arrogant swagger is another person's beacon to say that I can get from here to there. What has gone on in my childhood and the personal problems that we've had in the band have given a lot of people hope, because they see it as a good example of, if you can keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere, to a happy place.</s>MORET: They happily admit the Pumpkins won't suit everyone's taste.</s>CORGAN: As I like to say, if everybody likes what you're doing, you're doing something wrong.</s>TUSH: Still to come, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise do a bad, bad thing, as a new home video of "Eyes Wide Shut" offers an eye full. Also, "Riverdance" is back in a hop, skip and a jump.