He held you every moment he was on the stage I went to Canada with the company in the early 70s.
"I wanted to get his autograph, but I couldn't get up on the stage to get it, so at one point they asked for volunteers from the audience to do a magic trick, or something, and I volunteered, and when I got up on the stage I went over to Hutchenrider and said, 'Can I have your autograph?,' and they kicked me off the stage.
The thing that bothered me most about this incident was that after I got off stage I went to the bus and was reading about Scott Weiland's death (which I find very tragic) and happened upon Corgan's very moving and heartfelt tribute to his deceased friend.
I felt emotionally stressed here and there but in the early stages I went to the V.A. hospital and talked it out with a doctor.
I don't go up on stage alone, I go there with Robbie Williams.
"It has never got to the stage where I go into a scene and forget about it," he went on.
So what I've started to do is to document it, to archive it ― in my poetry, on my social media, on the stage, everywhere I go.
There've been so many times where I've come off stage and I go, "I don't know, man, that was a horrible show," and someone will say, "Oh no, man, that was a great show!" and vice versa.
Having grumbled last week about a live horse on the Royal Opera House stage, I will go easy on Glyndebourne's furry beasties, even though quite often it was impossible to sort out the hybrid zoology.
