‘Rampant speculation running across the internet and airwaves’ = two message board fan geeks chatting casually about it. You know, the only 2 people on earth who care about a Jimmy-less Smashing Pumpkins.

Billy being a self-important drama queen as usual.

good news for billy and the pumpkins

Should be interesting. I am excited to hear his playing. After seeing the type of physical beating drummers take on tour in the latest Wilco DVD, I can see the advantages of being a 19 year old drummer.

Will Buckethead join?

Billy can be the creepy uncle to a rag-taged group of your Pumpkins 2.0

Wasn’t that the plot to The Rocker?

Again Rollingstone is only giving half the story. The real scoop is this:
Yes, Billy found a 19 year old drummer, but the truth is, he kind of sucks at playing the drums. It is not that much of a secret to us true Pumpkin heads, Billy has been searching fir a very long time for someone with a very unique look. It has been years, and Billy had just about given up, but in May Billy was eating at an Olive Garden in North Dakota, and suddenly there was a loud CRASH from behing him followed by someone yelling ” dammit, watch where you are going dickhead” Billy turned around and could not belive his eyes, could it be true? Did he really just find what be has been searching for all these years in an Olive Garden in North Dakota? Billy had found someone who’s head was strangly shaped like a penis. Billy immediatly snatched the 19 year old up and “taught” him to play the drums. Now with Billy looking like a shaved testicale for years, and a drummer who looks like a walking dick, Billy just needs one more person who looks like a walking testicale and a man with an afro to top
It all off, and his new band, Kangs Junk Sings the Blues will be complete. They will cover the song detatchable penis and their first hit will be “hey hey, were Kangs junk, and we play instruments and sing the blues”. Good luck in you quest Mr. Corgan, I cannot wait to see my junk in action!

What about John Dolmayan? I think he would’ve been a great fit. Oh well.

Does anyone care about the Billy’s music via the Pumpkins anymore? I know some of you “do,” but really: does anyone care? The Pumpkins have become a game, just like GnR. It’s like a cat-and-mouse game. Catch up to the new gossip about something interesting and redeeming actually happening, and then oh! our optimism has dashed away and we’re left feeling cheated again. Do something for the love of music, Billy, or don’t do anything, i.e. give up the Pumpkins thing and give yourself and the rest of us a break.

Billy should audition to play Lex Luthor in the next Superman movie. He’s certainly got the creepy, bald-headed, power-obsessed a-hole part down.

Re: Kang
lol, he does kind of look like a testicle.

His new B/F?

kid’s have lot’s of energy, and they work cheap.

If my balls were an 80’s cartoon and Micheal Bay had just picked up the rights to direct a live action reboot, Billy Corgan would star as lefty.

C’mon, give Billy a break. WHO CARES IF THE KID IS 19!!! If he can drum, than by all means he should be in the band. Even though I doubt he’ll be better than Jimmmy, I’ll at least welcome him to the pumpkins family. Look at how many lineup changes Pink Floyd and Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship have gone through. David Gilmour was the “touring replacement” for the “Indispensable” Syd Barret (a.k.a. Jimmy Chamberlin for you internet scum that can’t understand a metaphor or better yet read the article itself) LONG LIVE MIGHTY SP

Seriously Billy, if Chamberlain is gone, don’t call it the Pumpkins. Do what you always do, make a shitty, shitty, shitty solo record and then rehire Jimmy and make a good one. It’s pretty obvious that you need Jimmy (Adore, the solo record, bllleeeccchhh). At least Zwan was ok, but there ya go, remind me who the drummer was on that?

Love the endless assertions by Grizzly Bear fans like Jeff that no one cares about the Pumpkins. Also love the irony in people who place comments on Internet articles about bands they supposedly don’t care about to inform us all that the only people who do care are “message board fan geeks”.

Why doesn’t he return my calls?

This isn’t the Smashing Pumpkins. Seriously Billy, you’re becoming a joke.

Billy Corgan solo in not the Smashing Pumpkins!!

Best part is that nobody gave a shit who was filling the kit duties after the Melvoin OD/Firing in 1996, the news was all about the music that was and had yet to come…Now with the last album in the pooper, new members and the outbursts to retain relevance on last years annniversary tour this is all the headlines they can muster.
Quick Billy, ready a Fiat Themed tune – the times they are a changin’.

I don’t know if SP can keep their original sound now that they have NO original band members. I hope so, but it’s doubtful.

the writer of this article needs to read his stuff before he posts it. half the sentences make no sense because he left words out or made grammatical errors.

No mention of drummer/multi-instrumentalist Ilan Rubin,who was hand picked to play drums for nine inch nails @ the age of 20! But Jay Weinberg gets a nod? Way to openly condone nepotism RS! What next a featured story on Zack Starkey & Jason Bonham?
ps.Hey Billy & Axl,whats it called when a group of musicians are hired to perform songs originally written and performed by others? Oh yeah,a cover band!

The 19 year old might be the only person left still impressed by Billy Corgan.

it wasn’t Smashing Pumpkins without James Iha and Darcy. Call it Zwan? fine. But it hasn’t been Smashing Pumpkins since Mellon Collie. Coincidence that it was the last good album? Nope. Smashing Pumpkins: 1990-1995. R.I.P. Hey Billy, you are NOT Robert Fripp.

I think Corgan’s still got a masterpiece or two left in him. He’s actually written a lot of great songs in the last 7-8 years, with Zwan, solo, and SP v2.0. Unfortunately, he chooses to leave them off the albums in favor of more pop-friendly fare. If Billy just does his thing, and stops worrying about what he THINKS people want to hear, he’ll be able to redeem himself in a lot the critics eyes, and my own.

Now go make a tripped-out face-melting masterpiece, Billy. You can do it.

Dude. Dont care what anybody says. It is no longer Smashing Pumpkins. Billy is a solo artist, and should not use the Pumpkins name. I think he is a talented writer and great front man. Just call the band Zwan or something…………

It’s over, Billy. Time to move on.

When you listen to a Pumpkins record, it is pretty obvious that the lead guitar and drums are in sync with one another. James and D’arcy are expendable, but it ain’t no Pumpkins without Jimmy.

SP RIP

I think he wants to prove himself against Placebo: “Look mine is 2 years younger”

@ futant:

Starkey and Bonham are phenomenal players. They deserve whatever gigs they get. I’ve never heard Weinberg’s kid, but you have to assume the acorn didn’t fall far from the tree.

I am actually excited about the new addition of this kid. Maybe it’ll breathe new life into SP and we’ll actually get a new (and good!) record from them soon!

Corgan, ROCKS.

Gish, Siamese, & Melon Collie each have completely different sounds and each one of the following records were completely different too. SP could come up with another masterpiece tomorrow and all you haters would just compare it to an older album and say it sucks. BTW Billy has always written all the lyrics and music except for a couple of songs,and he even came up with the name “Smashing Pumpkins”. Would any of YOU in his situation change names cuz of a bunch of nostalgiac haters? I wouldn’t. Also BC wants to rock as long as he can, and it’s not his fault that other people in his band eventually want to do other things. This new guy will likely be good, future SP music will no doubt be great, and meanwhile you haters are gonna be “jamming out” to crap like Flyleaf or Five Finger Death Punch.

You know what’s really disappointing to read – how critical everyone is about the smashing pumpkins ‘latest and greatest’
The band started off like any other band believing that they could rock the socks off many listeners. Maybe it was the right time right place scenario, but they were who they are – that’s all they’ll ever be…
I can only hope that the band is true to themselves and not trying to make a new radio hit. Chamberlain said it right in his post that he didn’t want to be just ‘cashing the check’ – respect from me. Without money the band is basically like everyone else out there trying to make it and playing as best they can…cutting only the best (or what they believe identifies them as a great band) tracks on the albums that they make.
In my personal opinion it’s always harder to replicate the best of the early days (Siamese Dream) without the original members that brought the flare. No man is an island and neither is Billy.

i dont care what anyone says, “it aint the smashing pumpkins without jimmy chamberlin”…billy we are tired of hearing false promises, we’ve been listening to you for years talk about how you are writing the best songs you’ve ever written, WHERE ARE THEY?! people are gonna start calling you “axl rose” soon, jesus christ…

Mike bryne absolutely completely without question sucks so bad ..some one should run him over with a car.
The sky saxxon show had what 17 people. give me a break with all this made up fake hype the pumpkins are posting. This kid byrne sucks.
he plays like a retard who jumped on a set at a music store and the manager is calling security to get him off the equipment.
LMAO I just cant stop laughing, and worse I’m now laughing at rolling stone for NOT pointing out the obvious to the readers. they take us for fools.
Billy go back to the search and get a real freaking drummer man.

No one posting here has any right to tell Billy Corgan founder of SP that he can not continue with the pumpkins name, THIS IS NOT YOUR BAND, no matter how ATTATCHED you are or were to the music, IT IS NOT YOUR MUSIC! It’s his, and he is doing what he wants to do, if you don’t like it, go listen to your shitty local
‘Alternative’ radio and listen to the BS bands that get hyped up as the second coming of Led Zeppelin. If you no longer like them, don’t read articles and comment. Go listen to your little hipster bands that suck as musicians yet everyone says is a “Genius”.

All you guys shut the fuck up. It is and always has been Billy Corgen’s band. It’s ALL HIS! He wrote it all, recorded most all, and made up the fucking name! Axl Rose DIDN’T WRITE GnR’s STUFF! That is the difference. Also, GnR sucked ass anyway. There is no comparison. Teargarden By Kaleidyscope will be an astounding and revolutionary album. If you don’t like what Billy Corgan is doing, fuck off and don’t comment. Good job, Billy.

hey retards dave gilmour once said go to the concert and if u dont like it dont go again,it is pretty obvious u liked something u keep comin back, sure i like jimmy but billy corgan is fully capable on his own if he wanted to and he is just getting a drummer,just some to read the music and play a beat,maybe someday he will write lije he used 2 until thn shut up

i don’t understand why everyone is complaining about the new drummer .. personally i think he has amazing talent for a 19 year old …

everyone here who thinks that billy is not as good as he used to be should look at the concequences .. he has gotten older and its practically impossible to beat his previous albums .. give billy a break and let him experiance ..

billy corgan sucks. he won’t ever be kurt cobain. he won’t get courtney love. time to just check out. you had a good ride. be grateful you even did, jackass. oh, and stop acting like such a dick to everyone. you could use a good ass kicking, corgan.

its not like hes even asking fans to buy the new shit ITS FREE DRINK SOME HATORADE AND GO LISTEN TO YOUR MICHALE JACKSON INSTEAD BUT CORGAN WILL ALLWAYS BE THE REAL KING OF ALL MUSIC

GO CRY ABOUT ALICE IN CHAINS KEEPING THE NAME AND REPLACING LAYNE NOW THATS WHATS WRONG WITH MUSIC