Smashing Pumpkins To Reunite

[Dan #3]

I personally cannot stand Corgan's voice and thusly am not a fan at all of Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins.

 

 

Signed,

Dan Ubdegrove, Smiling Politely.

[Psychopompador]

i second that emotion- i think his voice sucks. he only got noticed back in the nineties because being weird and sucking musically worked really good together in the music industry (like Kurt Cobain)

 

I'm ready for my lynching.

[juanpe]

here are his words

 

Billy Corgan Says He Wants To Re-Form Smashing Pumpkins

06.21.2005

 

Rocker takes out full-page ad in Chicago Tribune revealing his 'secret.'

 

Last month, Billy Corgan scoffed at the notion of his former band, the Smashing Pumpkins, ever reconciling and regrouping.

 

"You won't see the four Smashing Pumpkins onstage again," he told MTV News.

 

Now it seems Corgan is singing a different tune.

 

In a full-page advertisement in the Tuesday (June 21) morning edition of his hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, the alt-rock leader declared his plans to bring back the band. (Click here to see the ad).

 

"For a year now, I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep," the ad

[borntohula]

i saw the video today for "walking shade". man, it's pretty boring. and crazy.

[juanpe]

it is weird, yes ;) but Billy Corgan is too...

[trufflepig]

The Chicago Tribune Ad

[CaptainRocket]

I like the Walking Shade video now, but it took a few views to grow on me.

[juanpe]

The Chicago Tribune Ad

thanx a lot for the article, buddy ;)

[CaptainRocket]

Big surprise, Jimmy is the first to re-join, and apparently Billy hasn't talked to Iha or D'arcy yet...this don't look good yet, kids...

[mrs jesus]

Big surprise, Jimmy is the first to re-join, and apparently Billy hasn't talked to Iha or D'arcy yet...this don't look good yet, kids...

i talked to d'arcy tonight.

 

yep. suuuure did. jealous?

[borntohula]

a bit. does she look like michael jackson yet?

[juanpe]

Big surprise, Jimmy is the first to re-join, and apparently Billy hasn't talked to Iha or D'arcy yet...this don't look good yet, kids...

no, it doesnt look good... ;)

[CaptainRocket]

Big surprise, Jimmy is the first to re-join, and apparently Billy hasn't talked to Iha or D'arcy yet...this don't look good yet, kids...

i talked to d'arcy tonight.

 

yep. suuuure did. jealous?

Did she try to buy coke from you?

[mrs jesus]

hulaboy- yes, and rocket man- no.

[trufflepig]

June 27, 2005

 

BY JIM DEROGATIS Pop Music Critic

 

The first of Billy Corgan's former bandmates has rejoined the fold following the surprise announcement last week that Corgan intends to reunite his platinum-selling alternative-rock group the Smashing Pumpkins.

 

Joliet native Jimmy Chamberlin said on Friday that he is eager to make music with Corgan again. His position is no surprise, since he drummed with Corgan in the short-lived band Zwan, as well as performing on several tracks for the Great Pumpkin's first solo album, "The Future Embrace," released last Tuesday.

 

But the status of former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha and bassist D'Arcy Wretzky remains a mystery.

 

"All I can say is that the Smashing Pumpkins are Billy, James, myself and D'Arcy," Chamberlin said. "In an ideal world, that's what it will end up being. The hope is that everybody will come to the table, but I can only speak for myself in saying that I'm in, and I'm excited."

 

Chamberlin said he has not spoken to Wretzky since she left the band in August 1999. He communicates with Iha by e-mail, and though they have not discussed the Pumpkins reunion, "I intend to reach out to him."

 

The drummer said he and Corgan have been talking about reforming the band "for some time," but he doesn't know whether the singer and songwriter has spoken to Iha and Wretzky, or if Corgan simply "opened the door" for them to return when he placed two full-page advertisements last week in the Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune.

 

"It's still all very new, and I don't know if anybody really knows what's going on," Chamberlin said. "We really haven't sat down at the table and figured out the nuts and bolts."

 

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Edited June 28, 2005 by trufflepig

[mrs jesus]

Chamberlin said he has not spoken to Wretzky since she left the band in August 1999. He communicates with Iha by e-mail, and though they have not discussed the Pumpkins reunion, "I intend to reach out to him."

oh, i bet he does.

[saturnine]

he's clearly only promoting his new album.

[borntohula]

that's quite plausible... but a very low thing to do in my opinion...

[CaptainRocket]

I wouldn't put it past him, but I also believe that he will be touring as a Pumpkin again, regardless of whether James and D'arcy are there. And I really doubt they will be there, especially D'arcy.

[borntohula]

hopefully melissa auf der maur doesnt join them either. i like her solo.

 

why does billy ALWAYS have a female bassist? even in this new band he's got one. her name is linda strawberry and i forget what she's done in the past.

[juanpe]

I dont know, maybe because he likes to have good female bassits? ;)

[Moonlight_Graham]

smashing pumpkins have bear the end. Corgan sucks. Everybody sucks.

 

They should all learn to drive taxi's

[CaptainRocket]

smashing pumpkins have bear the end.

It's just so...beautiful...

[juanpe]

They should all learn to drive taxi's

don't understand your comment, buddy ;)