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Briefly joined the British band New Order in 2001, performing live as stand-in guitarist. Guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist, and songwriter for the band Smashing Pumpkins from 1988-2000. When asked about how his band and others from the "alternative revolution" did in changing the music industry for the better, he responded "We didn't do a very good job." Billy Corgan made a short movie with his friends in the early 1980s, titled "Alien 1/2". The premise was basically a semi-sequel to Ridley Scott's "Alien", before James Cameron's "Aliens" was released in 1986. Corgan and his friends play astronauts who travel to a distant planet, only to be attacked by an alien (it's actually a plush Tazmanian devil doll). Corgan and his comrades use such tools as a pink hair dryer to combat the beast, which flies above their heads, thanks to some fishing line. Action sequences include a spaceship landing on the planet's surface, which was achieved by a thin piece of paper, folded into a tirangular shape (for the spaceship), and what appears to be a flat picture of a red planet (most likely Mars). Corgan utters the dramatic line, "And nowwwww, the end is near!". Bits of this movie were broadcasted on VH1's "Before They Were Rock Stars". After buying his first guitar, he discovered that it whined when he stopped playing it. Instead of trading in the guitar, he actually wrote the whine into some of his songs. During the band's nine years together, the Smashing Pumpkins put forward seven critically acclaimed albums: Gish, Siamese Dream, Pisces Iscariot, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Adore, Machina, and Machina II. The Smashing Pumpkins album Machina II was never released in stores. Instead, out of his angst toward the animosity of the record company, he released the album for download, free of charge, from his website.