Smashing Pumpkins Loses Founding Member
Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has left Smashing Pumpkins, making Billy Corgan the only original Pumpkin left in the lineup.
“The SMASHING PUMPKINS’ guitarist, singer, songwriter and founding member Billy Corgan has announced that drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has left the group,” read a statement on the band’s website Friday. “Chamberlin joined the band Corgan founded in Chicago in 1988 and played on all their albums except Adore (1998).”
The statement added that Corgan will continue to write and record as Smashing Pumpkins and plans to head into the studio later this spring.
Following the band’s breakup in 2000, Corgan and Chamberlain played together in the short-lived Zwan before regrouping as Smashing Pumpkins in 2006, albeit without original members James Iha and D’arcy Wretzky.
The group released the album “Zeitgeist” in 2007 and recently went on a 20th anniversary reunion tour.
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