Billy Corgan has a message for his hometown in full-page newspaper ads in today’s Tribune and Sun-Times.
Today is a special day in my life as it marks the release of my very first solo album TheFutureEmbrace. 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.
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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.
Previously: Billy Corgan hates Zwan and won’t reform Pumpkins.
Get all misty-eyed with Billy, solstice-stizz, at the Adler Planetarium tonight. Admission is free with a purchased copy of his new album.
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Fuck all of you whiney lil bitches…… SP has always kicked ass…… Yes Machina wasnt all that great but each album is always different……. IF you guys dotn like SP then how do u know who Billy Corga is????
alot of you fucking faggots are even appreciating the fact the Pumpkins are coming back. Some of you fucking losers are saying “Smashing Pumpkins…who cares?” if you dont care then why are u fucking posting a comment on this topic … if you people are true pumpkin fans….then fucking show it … the pumpkins are like zeppelin .. the revolutionized the 90′s and lets hope they come back 2nd time around and do it again … SP LIVES ON
this is great i luv the pumpkins!!!!!
a bit l8 gttn da news bt who gives a shit
I think everyone is too hard on Billy. Most people that say they like The Smashing Pumpkins liked them because they were jumping on the “alternative” bandwagon. No one cared about the artistic side to it all. Now that Billy is not giving everyone what they want, everyone is getting pissed. I give kudos to Billy for not selling out and doing what he wants in spite of what most “fans” want.
the smashing pumpkins have always been there for me. the first tape i bought. my cousin and i waching bullit with butterflywings vidieo a million times… they have always pushed boundrys. why do you think everybody hates machina/adore. it was different…, not commercial garbage. the artwork in each album, the intricacy of each song, the chills you get when the song lifts up into space and makes you feel absolutly at bliss, theses are soild gold. they are keyhole peaks into what heavan is.
they also perfome the best cars cover in rock history…
good luck to the pumpkins, i will be waiting.
i would give anything to see the smashing pumpkins play 1 more gig, i love them so much its unreal!! and if they want ill play a few songs with them on stage !!! YUP, i WILL!!!!!!!
Were just joking about that video of him hate fucking D’arcy?
You people are retarded do you even know what music is Billy Corgan is one of the greatest and most musically inclined people to walk the earth and I think everything he has ever made was just the best. You see The Future Embrace wasn’t supposed to be like the Pumpkins or Zwan it was supposed to be different and I think me and my friend were the only people that liked it. I think the Future Embrace was one of the best cds i’ve ever…gotten. Then Adore and Machina were different because they weren’t supposed to be like the others it was almost like a different band was playing, but they were still the Pumpkins, but a different kind of “good” like Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie. I say any way Billy Corgan goes I am still going to be a huge fan because I don’t just like mainstream crap like what most people listen to just because their friend said it was good. But on the issue of Billy reforming the Pumpkins I think it is a great idea I did like them better than the other stuff and he can still make stuff like The Future Embrace cuz I thought that was some damn good writing there except for the fact that every drum beat sounded like it came from a Digitech Effects Processor. And I just noticed that Robert Smith of the Cure sings in one of the Future Embrace songs I forget which one and I didn’t get the book and case with the cd so I don’t know if it says andthing about him. And I love Robert Smith’s voice it goes great with Billy’s.
Are you sure 40680 about this?!?
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if d’arcy and james had any dignity whatsoever, then they would deny the reunion and keep trekking on their own paths, as pathetic as each path is on — d’arcy’s drugs and james’s solo crap along with him guest-spotting on every fuckin’ band’s in the world single, at least it’s their own respectively.
Billy needs them like valium during a comedown. The reunion is purely to soothe his confused and battered ego. Don’t give hime the satisfaction guys (to rest of the band). Stay your ground. Infact, D’arcy why don’t you raise yor fuckin kid and to James, invest in a hair-dye business. How many fuckin shades of blond, red, and black can a person conciously weave into his own hair???
Hey Billy. Why call it Smashing Pumpkins, if you are missing half the Pumpkins? Money? Are you that greedy? Are you a fucking Republican? If you don’t want to share your money with the others, just call it the Great Billy Corgan Group. That should satisfy your inflated bald head! You are truly a legend in your own mind!
Its good to hear that they are reforming. But no new material? well… fair enough. Zwan does not help me however I loved Mr Corgans solo album, even though I didnt like the single. melancholic techno gets my vote. The mans gotta use his mind more!
Billy, I just read that you wanted to try and get James and D’Arcy back. Well, I forgive you then. If they choose not to get back with you they are pretty stupid, because just as with the Bulls, you are Jordan, and they are his supporting cast. You are the creative genius, but the rest added the intangible spark that made the Pumpkins unique and great. Good luck and best wishes for the new Chicago Pumpkins!
You yanks are all homos!