Sunday, July 03, 2005
Billy F'n Corgan "wants his band back"
This is unreal. It's been just under five years since the Smashing Pumpkins played last -- December 2, 2000 to be exact. Now singer/guitarist/song writer Billy Corgan wants to reform the Smashing Pumpkins. Jimmy Chamberlin, the band's drummer and long-time best friend to Corgan, has already signed-on to the idea.
This has me thinking. This really reminds me of the great 1980 movie, "The Blues Brothers."
Jake and Elwood, played by Jimmy and Billy, go around Chicago to the band back together. This time they'll only have to recruit two members, guitarist James Iha and bassist D'Arcy Wretzky.
But getting the band back together could be tougher than going around getting Mr. Fabulous, Matt Murphy, and a one-night-only gig. Corgan has publically criticized Iha for breaking up the band. Now he is playing with A Perfect Circle. D'Arcy quit/forced out in 1999, right after recording TSP's final album, MACHINA/The Machines of God. Speculation has it that she couldn't control her addiction to drugs and was asked to leave. No one knows whether she is clean, and Chamberlin has said that either he or Corgan have talked since 1999.
So what will happen? Who knows. But I hope this happens...and soon. Music needs TSP. Now more than ever.
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