Pumpkins in the studio

Timis · **Posted:** Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:55 pm

As promised this past April, popular and influential 90s "alternative rock" act Smashing Pumpkins have entered the studio to begin on their first new album since 2000.

To date, only Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin are confirmed for the project; former Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur has not indicated any participation. According to the band, they have enlisted legendary producer Roy Thomas Baker (Queen, The Cars, The Darkness),

The slow trickle information began more than a year ago when frontman and primary songwriter/musician Billy Corgan announced the reunion.

no guru · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:06 am

Fiddle, Billy.

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

Timis Wrote:

To date, only Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin are confirmed

Is this what they call irony?

shiv · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:09 am

Fan Interest

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:17 am

Since when does a singer and drummer doing an album constitute a reunion?

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:30 am

Saint Patrick Wrote:

Timis Wrote:

To date, only Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin are confirmed

Is this what they call irony?

wasn't this Zwan anyway? Let this be known that in the next I'd say 5 years we're going to be seeing a bunch of old alternarock bands "reforming". Hell, look at Alice In Chains. I could see Soundgarden getting back together at some point if Matt Cameron's PJ dayjob allows time.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:39 am

timmyjoe42 Wrote:

Since when does a singer and drummer doing an album constitute a reunion?

Not a reunion, but Townsend and Daltrey are the surviving Who, and Pete, as we speak, is putting together material for a new Who album.

Mick · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:41 am

this album....this is not going to be a very good album.

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

how many times was chamberlin kicked out of the pumpkins?

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:49 am

amgl Wrote:

this album....this is not going to be a very good album.

I get the Seinfeld reference, just wanted to say.

Plus

No more Zwan? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:49 am

Saint Patrick Wrote:

how many times was chamberlin kicked out of the pumpkins?

once after Siamese Dream
once in NY when Mevoin died
once possibly when Zwan was disbanded

thanks allmusic.

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:14 am

Yeah if it's just going to be Bolly w/Jimmy, I don't see how it'll be any better than TheFutureEmbrace.

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

well, if you want a good new smashing pumpkins album,............
i recommend the new silversun pickups.

Kabob · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:07 am

ERW is ridiculous. God.. so fucking hot.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:52 pm

timmyjoe42 Wrote:

Since when does a singer and drummer doing an album constitute a reunion?

how much actual playing did jimmy and d'arcy ever do in the studio anyways?

Timis · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:55 pm

bloor brings a good point...

the only way this record will be good is if corgan quits being a pansy and writes some real rock. no electronic bullshit either.

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

my advice to pumpkins, et al:

do whatever you did to produce gish.

machina: um, no.

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

The headlines where I am.

INTERNET HIPSTER CLAIMS CORGAN HAS NO HAIR, SHAME.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

wait, I thought Billy Corgan just turned out to be Hurley's imaginary friend.

nick · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:35 pm

not defending this by any stretch, but if people are going to get on bands for reuniting with only two original members, maybe they should check out the ny dolls.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

i think that's been done good n' plenty around here.

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

timmyjoe42 Wrote:

Since when does a singer and drummer doing an album constitute a reunion?

Um, since Corgan decide to start the band in the first place and only take on "members" insofar as he need other bodies on stage to play the parts he writes and plays in the studio.

The Mayor of Simpleton · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:24 pm

you're with me, leather Wrote:

Not a reunion, but Townsend and Daltrey are the surviving Who, and Pete, as we speak, is putting together material for a new Who album.

Not "putting together" - it's done. The "preview" EP is already out. And the album, Who 2 is coming out Oct. 24. (Don't bother buying the EP - everything on it is going to be on the album. And most of it sounds quite good, surprisingly!)

no guru · **Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:25 pm

If I have abs even a third as good as Daltrey's when I'm 62 I'll be happy. Dude has NOT turned into an old man.

FT · **Posted:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:05 pm

the redworm Wrote:

wait, I thought Billy Corgan just turned out to be Hurley's imaginary friend.

Pretty good, Cotton.

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