Billy Corgan to reform Smashing Pumpkins? Do you care?

BDx13 - 6-22-2005 at 09:12 AM

View the ad in the Chicago Tribune

Today is a special day in my life as it marks the release of my very first solo album The Future Embrace. For over 17 years I have been proud to represent Chicago as an artist through my words and music, and am continually humbled by the undying love that I have been shown from this city as one of its native sons. I'd like to take this moment to address all that is going on in my musical life, from the new album and the current tour, to the future of The Smashing Pumpkins.

I had the opportunity to record The Future Embrace CD here in Chicago, and its embers bear witness to this town's unique soul. I have done my very best to create something fresh and exciting to listen to, and I hope you get the chance to check it out. Having just returned from a tour of Europe, I am now set to play 18 additional dates in North America, beginning tomorrow in Atlanta. After that we head to Japan, and then Australia and New Zealand for the first time since 1998.

The Future Embrace is an album of hope, and represents fully my desire to make music to stand and to fight for. Encouraged by the musical progress of the record, I have already begun writing new songs for a subsequent solo album I hope to start by the end of this year. Plans are still in the works to finish my 'ChicagoSongs' DVD, a group of songs about the city. I'm also in the process of writing my life story on-line, updated almost daily and not so ironically entitled 'The Confessions of Billy Corgan.' It truly has been a creative time for me, with many new revelations.

Many have assumed that the decisions that I have made over the last few years have been to try to get away from something. But what I have been really trying to do is find that same kid again, the one who believed he could change the world with a song. There is an old saying that goes "you can't go home again," but I believe that your home is wherever your heart lies.

When I played the final Smashing Pumpkins show on the night of December 2, 2000, I walked off the Metro stage believing that I was forever leaving a piece of my life behind. I naively tried to start a new band, but found that my heart wasn't in it. I moved away to pursue a love that I once had but got lost. So I moved back home to heal what was broken in me, and to my surprise I found what I was looking for. I found that my heart is in Chicago, and that my heart is in The Smashing Pumpkins.

For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to be among the first to know that I have made plans to renew and revive The Smashing Pumpkins. I want my band back, and my songs, and my dreams. In this desire I feel I have come home again.

The Future Embrace represents a new beginning, not an ending. It picks up the thread of the as-yet-unfinished work and charter of The Smashing Pumpkins. I know this city gave me the gift of my music, and it is my honor to share this love that I have with you from the bottom of my heart. There is still so much work to do, and as always, so little time!

Billy Corgan

gavin - 6-22-2005 at 09:21 AM

words can not express how much i think he sucks
serious

jonnynewbreed - 6-22-2005 at 09:28 AM

He once said that there isn't a record worth listening too that didn't cost 750,000 dollars to produce. I think he's on drugs.

moron - 6-22-2005 at 09:59 AM

Ive been listening to Siamese Dream quite a bit lately. Im sure they'll never top that, so... I dunno. Im not sure I want them back. After Weezer broke up I wished that they would get back together, but since they reformed they've pretty much just put out garbage. I can see the same thing happening with the Smashing Pumpkins.

CR83 - 6-22-2005 at 10:04 AM

I think he is a huge piece of shit. Smashing Pumkins fuck suck. What a jack off.

gavin - 6-22-2005 at 10:12 AM

seriously they are everything i hate about musoc rapped up in one band
he is such a huge tool
fucking "alternative" music makes me wanna puke
junkie crap

sorry to the people who like them but i cant take it

Todd - 6-22-2005 at 10:59 AM

Oh MrBad...I hate to do this in public, but I have to disagree. I like the 2 Pumpkin albums that noone else seemed to like, Machines of God and the last one. Sometimes his voice is the sonic equivalent of a razorblade to the eye and he does seem like a major tool, but if given the choice between listening to Pumpkins or the current crop of hardcore/metal/alternative bands, I'd pick that douchebag every time. By the way, hello, how are things?

gavin - 6-22-2005 at 11:12 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Todd
Oh MrBad...I hate to do this in public, but I have to disagree. I like the 2 Pumpkin albums that noone else seemed to like, Machines of God and the last one. Sometimes his voice is the sonic equivalent of a razorblade to the eye and he does seem like a major tool, but if given the choice between listening to Pumpkins or the current crop of hardcore/metal/alternative bands, I'd pick that douchebag every time. By the way, hello, how are things?

ya know. thiinsg are the same here
how about you?
things ok?

my big issue with them is their whole "thing" for lack of a better phrase
know what i mean?
i dont like any of the bands that i lump together in my head from that time

JawnDiablo - 6-22-2005 at 11:19 AM

I'd like to twist Billy Corgan's head off and stick it up Courtney Love's ass.

Discipline - 6-22-2005 at 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MrBadVibes
seriously they are everything i hate about musoc rapped up in one band
he is such a huge tool
fucking "alternative" music makes me wanna puke
junkie crap

sorry to the people who like them but i cant take it

I can't put it any better then that.

clevohardcore - 6-23-2005 at 12:32 PM

For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to be among the first to know that I have made plans to renew and revive The Smashing Pumpkins. I want my band back, and my songs, and my dreams. In this desire I feel I have come home again.

^^^^^^^^ Someone needs a paycheck??????? and maybe a "ego-check" as well.

clevohardcore - 6-23-2005 at 12:35 PM

I must add that SIAMES DREAMS is a great record. I have also jammed out gish a few times as well. THey go rock but I have no idea what they have done since the mid nineties. I have hear a couple songs but nothing that impressed me.

BDx13 - 6-23-2005 at 03:36 PM

one day, in march of 1998, i came home from work, popped in mellanchollie, and went to check the messages on my answering machine. the first one was my best friend's dad calling to tell me that his only child had OD'ed, and that his funeral would be in a few days back in philly. that album doesn't get played very often anymore, but when it does, i still can't get through those first two tracks (Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness and Tonigh, Tonight) with a dry eye.

moron - 6-23-2005 at 04:28 PM

The second cd on Mellon Collie was the "my crush doesnt like me" soundtrack back in high school. Definately not as deep an emotion as what you feel when you hear it, Duane, but it does take me back.

What a shitty message to leave on someone's answering machine though. I'd leave a message like "Please call me as soon as you get this. There's something I need to tell you." Harsh.

moron - 6-23-2005 at 04:30 PM

I actually saw Smashing Pumpkins on the tour for that record... after the drummer was kicked out of the band for helping their keyboard player overdose. Cool show. It was actually the first time I had ever seen one of my friend's drunk.

clevohardcore - 6-23-2005 at 05:09 PM

I saw them in 1993 at the CLEVLEAND AGORA and they opened with this song from SIAMES DREAMS called ??? I forgot the title but the song goes like real mello with real mello guitar and then gets heavy I think it';s called SOMA or something. Anyway that song is musically tugs at me a bit. When they played live they had a huge real heartbeating on a projection screen that covered the whoel stage and band. Very red and orange colors. Anyway good song.

BDx13 - 6-23-2005 at 05:19 PM

yeah, i thought dude's old man was callin to tell me the guy was gonna be in town or something (he lived in FLA when he died), so i was all stoked when i heard his voice on the machine. then BAM! dead! still sucks.

anyway, i only saw smashing pumpkins once - at lollapalooza in philly about 10 years ago. we were on our way out cause no body was that into them, but they came on stage and played SO FUCKIN' HEAVY, we turned around and went right back in. I was really surprised, he musta been pissed. sounded almost like HR.

Six66Mike - 6-24-2005 at 01:05 AM

Corgan is a fuckin nut case along the same lines as Michael Jackson. The dude threw a fuckinh hissy fit because boy bands & pop were huge so he was losing money & quit. Now rock is big again & he wants to cash in where he left off. His solo shit all sucked ass & SP was never that impressive. The band woulda been way better if they had a different front man I think. Fuck em.

JawnDiablo - 6-26-2005 at 10:32 PM

the funnies thing i saw like that was gibby haynes from the butthole surfers yelling at all the stone temple pilots fans as they were leaving the mann music center (stp was the opener)..he was screaming something like "you fuckin idiots are walking out on the jimi hendrix of the 90s!

clevohardcore - 6-26-2005 at 11:07 PM

the funnies thing i saw like that was gibby haynes from the butthole surfers yelling at all the stone temple pilots fans as they were leaving the mann music center (stp was the opener)..he was screaming something like "you fuckin idiots are walking out on the jimi hendrix of the 90s!

^^^^ Gibby said that about BILLY CORGAN?????