Billy Corgan is giving a nod to Black Sabbath for inspiring his music career.

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman says Sabbath’s Master of Reality album was the “blueprint” for his own music: “I’ve chased that sound my whole life”.

“A lot of guitar players — and I’m sure we’ve all met them — they kind of see guitar sound as sort of like ‘pick your flavour of a hot sauce’ or something. For me, tone is everything.” Corgan continued, “When you think of Tony’s tone, it’s synonymous with the vision I get in my head of Tony’s width and size and power.”

Corgan later worked with Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi on his 2000 solo album Iommi.

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