I don’t know what to say about this, I’m shocked. I’d love to know the reasons why he’s suddenly left. We’ll miss you Jimmy!

Yeah ok, I was fine with D’Arcy and James being gone since for the most part all they contributed to Pumpkins albums were their pictures, but this is ridiculous.

Sorry Billy, you’re not Axl.

d’arcy and james were great. siamese dream and its sessions, and mellon collie and the infinite sadness and its sessions were masterpieces of rock music. better than anything “smashing pumpkins” had done before (gish) or after (adore, machinas 1&2, zeitgeist….blah blah blah). especially better than the upcoming album with no original members besides billy.

It’s a Billy Corgan solo album and should be billed as such. I don’t care how egotistical he was on their past albums; there were still technically others members of the band there. Whether they were there for show or not is your opinion, but there’s no denying Chamberlin’s skill as a drummer. Now, it’s just him, unless he plans to record with Ginger Reyes and Jeff Schroeder, who have been touring with him. If it is indeed just him, he has no right to call it a Smashing Pumpkins project. None whatsoever.

This sucks. Jimmy was one of the best rock drummers I’ve heard. He had a very unique style that can’t be duplicated. I’m interested to hear the difference on the harder rocking songs Billy plans to write…Jimmy always played along so well with Billy’s strumming…I hope he finds someone who can do it justice! Good luck! Namaste!

Didn’t Billy already release a shitty solo album a few years ago before “reuniting” the Smashing Pumpkins? Lame.

Pull the clown car over and toss the keys over the bridge.

Smashing Pumpkins is officially over.

What is the point of bands like this in which the lead singer fires every other member?

Did not work for Axl’s album, won’t work for Billy.
This is all just sad……..

It’s obvious that Corgan’s crazy antics have driven off the last of the original members. Jimmy probably got fed up listening to Corgan piss off and insult the fans that actually care to show up at the shows these days. What a douchebag.

The beginning of The Smashing Pumpkins demise started right about when the success of 1979 (itself a great song) sparked the drastic change in their sound from alternative/post-grunge to electronica-tinged goth rock. I stuck with them through Adore, but let’s be honest – they peaked with Mellon Collie. Granted, it was one hell of an album (easily in my top 5 of the decade)…but really, where do you go once you’ve scaled the heights of Mt. Everest??

Billy better get on the horn quick with D’arcy and James Iha. Otherwise he’d might as well give Axl a call and jump aboard the ‘Chinese Coverband Tour’

he should make an album like chris cornell’s album. an RnB album! lol

It may still be good. Billy may still hold some surprises. He’s still a great songwriter, always has been…. the real problems are rooted in the production AND selecting which songs should make the album and which ones shouldn’t…. he doesn’t seem to have a knack for either… who cares what he calls the project, as long as the music is good, as long as he reaches his full potential. For example, “Stellar” is one of the best Pumpkins songs ever, and it was written this decade…. well, at least that’s my opinion. That song is so Billy Corgan.

So, he still has it… it’s just a matter of assembling it right, and taking the time to do an album right…. drummers are replacable, bassists are replaceable, guitarist are replaceable… but the songwriter still needs to be around good studio craftsmen, and he needs to listen to feedback. It’s obvious that Corgan doesn’t listen to anyone, because there’s not one person that wouldn’t have told him not to put the song “7 Shades of Black” on an album… him being this pig-headed may be his downfall… let’s hope for the best, though.

Damn shame. Billy and Jimmy really *were* the Pumpkins, for all intents and purposes. I figured these two would always stick it out together. Zeitgeist could have marked a return to greatness for the Pumpkins…now we’ll never know…sad, indeed.

I was one of those who said that SP always was Corgan and Chamberlain, and that this reunion was legit. But now I would, for his legacy’s sake, implore Billy to release as Billy Corgan. Finally, I hope this was over the v / i / s / a commercial and not drugs.

Corgan has and always will be
The Smashing Pumpkins. Just like Robert Smith IS The Cure and Trent Reznor IS NIN. Granted, Jimmy is the most insanely awesome rock drummer of the last 20 years, but I’m sure Billy can find some other kick-ass drummer to do his bidding. It’s not like he’ll suddenely forget how to write a great song. Plus, The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex have a Twitter page up now, which is awesome! Good luck to both of them.

Jimmy will be missed, but I have 100% faith that Corgan doesn’t need anybody in order to write great songs. Also, Jimmy Chamberlin Complex now have a Twitter account, which can mean only one thing…psychedelic jazz-fusion in our near future!

Corgan is and always will be The Smashing Pumpkins, just like Robert Smith is The Cure and Trent Reznor is NIN. Corgan can find another great drummer to do his bidding;he already plays all the other instruments. No one can ever truly replace Jimmy, but I’ll take my chances…with both SP and JCC!

It’s not 1996..who gives a fuck?

Jimmy for the E street Band… Heard it here first!!!!!!!

A drummer? You lost a drummer?
Please…who cares.

first- the song is called starla not stella and is available on rarities and b sides- the song was performed way back in the late 80’s. second- for all u non band members- I’m in a band and even though there maybe a person that person is centered around doesnt mean that the other members are just there? Each member brings their own unique style and presence to a band no matter who writes the material. That’s like saying Robert Plant was Zepp or Ozzy was Black Sabbath and all the membersfrom the bands can be replaced. Ugh vomit!

He’s just the freaking drummer, people! Billy, you rock my world no matter who you want to play with!

Damn Corgan, you just keep sucking don’t you?

A new album? GREAT! Another smashing pumpkins album that no one will buy! Or listen to…or even give a crap! Who the hell are the smashing pumpkins? Why am I naked typing, ahhhh!

hey slut-puppy is wrong: how’s that foot taste?…you really oughtta check your facts before you post something. “Stellar” is a bonus track from Zeitgeist.

If you can post a little more responsibly in the future you may just avoid pwning yourself.

Chamberlain probably left because most of all the new Pumpkins songs are acoustic with Lisa Harriton’s organ. So it is official now: The New Pumpkins core sound is Corgan and Harriton. Funny how nobody here mentions her — and you call yourselves true fans? Some of SP’s best music in a decade is on the American Gothic EP. Also, there are great new songs from the “If All Goes Wrong” DVD as well. I’d bet half of you have never even heard any of those.

How can you bash an album that you haven’t even heard yet? Ya bunch of trolls!

Personally, I love the new sound of SP, but I also loved the old sound. SP has been my favorite band for roughly 20 years.

Any GOOD band progresses in its music and expands and evolves in it’s creativity over time. Many of you want album after album to sound just like Siamese Dream. Just listen to Siamese Dream then!

I am sad to see Jimmy go. I am a huge fan of his, and he is one of the best in modern history on the skins. But if he chose to go, don’t blame Billy for not wanting his dream to die. The new band is the new band. SP will move on and continue to make awesome songs.

Perhaps Jimmy left because the new SP songs are very religious and about God, and that just isn’t his style. All of the new band members are formally from Christian bands. I bet none of you posers even knew that. Or I should say, that they look at the brighter side of faith, since almost every old SP song is also about God, faith, and sin, and the struggles that go along with good overcoming evil. But the new songs are on the bright side of acceptance of good faith. You whining little children have much to learn about my favorite band… Corgan’s lyrics are very cryptic, but he has always hinted at exactly everything thing I just mentioned throughout the bands tenure, on every album — old and new.

God bless you Billy, Lisa, Jeff, and Ginger from Peoria, IL! Good luck in finding a new drummer! I look forward to new SP songs!

When all the members leave you all by yourself and would forfeit having a successful band and career and be famous just to get away from you, something has got to be wrong. Billy, the Pumpkins would never be the Pumpkins without James, D’arcy (who I think you secretly liked) and powerhouse Jimmy! Maybe you need a intervention…?

It sucks, but The Smashing Pumpkins always have been and always will be Billy’s band. I do believe Billy said ages ago when people were complaining about the loss of D’arcy and Iha that the band didn’t get together because they were a bunch of friends wanting to play. Billy basically recruited them to play his music. He is The Smashing Pumpkins; he’s the Great Pumpkin, if you will. And their music is always evolving, I like Adore and Machina just as much as I liked Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie. And Zeitgeist is great too! All bands have to change up their style a wee bit; after all, if they didn’t you whiny bitches would be complaining that they always sound the same.

Billy might be an asshole, but if I was as talented and as intelligent as he is, I’d be an arrogant prick, too! Why not??

This is mostly sad because, in my opinion, Jimmy is the most important member other than Billy. He’s one of the only former Pumpkins that really helped Billy write, and he is without a doubt one of the most talented and skilled drummers on the face of the planet. This is just a bummer because I feel that things won’t really be the same without Jimmy.

wasn’t chamberlin in zwan as well? people seem to forget that. looks like billy’s lost his only friend. not that it matters– no one really cares about the crap he’s making these days anyway.

Jimmy chamberlins style was part of what made the pumpkins sound unique, and what i think is easily the most interesting part of the band in the new album. He has a unique style for all you “hes only a drummer” ppl and im glad hes doing the complex stuff again cause all the self indulgent solo singing stuff billy does now is so rubbish. I allways liked the pumpkins cause of there structures dynamics and layers of instruments and sounds, and how the vocals were dynamic not just billy screaming and scouling. What happened to the more breathy singing? really think billys mising the point in why ppl liked the pumpkins.

IT IS SAD TO HEAR THESE NEWS. HOW COULD YOU HIRE A 19 YEAR OLD KID WHO HAS NO REFERENCE OF MUSIC…C MON…YOU CANT SPEAK THE SAME MUSIC LANGUAGE…HE MIGHT BE COOL,AND A GREAT PERFORMER….BUT…..CAN HE ADD SOMETHING TO THE ALBUM…HELL NO…..HELL SAY,,,,OK BILLY ILL DO IT…JAJJAJA

How many of you are drummers who are writing in? I have seen Mike Byrne play. For being young he is really good. He has worked hard for what he has accomplished. All of you would like to be in his shoes. Smashing Pumpkins will survive.

GOOD FOR JIMMY! “Life Begins Again” is the best album by any member of the band since Siamese Dream. I anxiously await a follow-up by the JCC. I would love it if James Iha & D’arcy would make guest apperaences this time, instead of Billy. Jimmy, D’arcy, James, we love you and miss you!!!

About time he left, what a dead weight. At least he can go back to doing cocaine now without being accountable to anyone.