MARILYN MANSON And BILLY CORGAN Answer Fan Questions On REDDIT

According to The Pulse Of Radio, Marilyn Manson and SMASHING PUMPKINS frontman Billy Corgan recently participated together in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" question-and-answer session with fans to promote their upcoming "The End Times" co-headlining tour. Asked about the tour, Corgan replied, "I think our plan is to approach the tour as an artistic opportunity. Push one another to play a cooler, heavier, deeper set than we would, with the idea of the night ending with us playing together. But the whole night will be a unique experience."

Corgan told The Pulse Of Radio that the tour came about organically after he and Manson recently re-established their friendship after not speaking for 15 years. "We saw each other not too long ago and it was one of those — I'm sure people know what I'm talking about — you see somebody and it's like no time has passed," he said. "We just clicked back into our old friendship and realized that we missed each other and there are unfortunately agents in L.A. now taking credit for this beautiful tour, but it was actually his idea. He was the one that pitched to me and said, 'We should do a tour together,' and I was like, 'Let's do it.'"

Manson said in the Q&A that the two have influenced each other both musically and personally over the years. He explained, "You can really see our friendship, and our influence, of each other… We were very much into the same writers, the same inspiration of alchemy, and that was one of the side effects of our friendship."

Asked to share something that is not widely known about both of them, Corgan wrote that they are "both cat lovers" and "we love cats more than we love women."

Manson chimed in that both of them "would live in a country where cats were presidents."

The SMASHING PUMPKINS and MARILYN MANSON will kick off their co-headlining "The End Times" tour on July 7 in Concord, California, winding down on August 8 in Cincinnati, Ohio.