The Smashing Pumpkins Plan 20th Anniversary Tour This Fall

The Smashing Pumpkins will celebrate their 20th anniversary with a handful of U.S. shows in August and September, according to the band's Web site.

Details have yet to be announced, but frontman Billy Corgan told Billboard.com in March the group would hit Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, among other locales, and that guests will appear at some of them.

Meanwhile, in a video interview with Artisan News, Corgan revealed that a DVD chronicling a summer 2007 residency at San Francisco's Fillmore is in the works. Also in the pipeline: the release of early Pumpkins demos and a new single in the fall.

"We're hoping to put out some early demos at the end of this year to start a rolling boxed set," Corgan told Billboard.com. "There's an audience out there that wants to hear the fourth show we ever did with the song we only did that one time. Maybe it's only 500 people, but maybe you find a way."

Thanks for the info to Billboard.com.

Comments

[Define]

:/ it just isn't the same.

[666Sabbath666]

^ I agree

[godberry]

hope they come to atlanta...even though they aren't really the smashing pumpkins...more like two guys from smashing pumpkins

[boor]

LOL, More like 10 years. They have been broken up for like 7 or 8 years... In a related story I heard the Beatles are getting back together to for their 50th anniversary... Give us a break, this is so commercial.

[boor]

All I'm saying is that it sounds like someone needs money

[Stratmaster458]

they are still good man i saw them and the flippin rocked soo hard. I've been a fan forever and still ove the band. Iha and Wretzky didn't do much for the band all the composing writing and recording were done by Corgan and Chamberlin if you know anything at all. Iha and Wretzky although official members of the band were essentially just touring musicians they didn't write or record anything on the major albums that made the pumpkins who they were and are now. Corgan recorded every part on gish siamese dream and mellan collie with the exception o f drums and a few vocals on mellan collie. the band is just as good as it was maybe better because the rhythm guitarist isn't a douche and the bass player isn't a crack ***** like the ones before.

[sowhat360]

boor wrote:

All I'm saying is that it sounds like someone needs money

exactly.....i'm not a corgan fan

[mawood83]

Strongly agree with Stratmaster458..Corgan is the pumpkins..its awesome that Jimmy is still with them because it gives them the pumpkin sound with the drums..but james and d'arcy were hired guns..no offence to them..If they were songwritters they'd have released their own material..james did and thats great..but you can tell his stuff in no way resembles anything ever recorded by the Pumpkins..keep the songs coming Billy..I've been a fan forever and always will be

[j-e-f-f-e-r-s]

Corgan = Pumpkins. Though it is good that Chamberlin is there as well.

[AlkalineCherry]

i'd go.
i adore the pumpkins, but i know that they wouldnt come through alberta

[IamGod 666]

this is dumb

[cick13]

Pumpkins without D'arcy and Iha is not Pumpkins.

[patool]

no iha no pumpkins

[This1GoesTo11]

Question for Billy: Why call it a band when it's really not? Answer: Money. He can't sell any records under his own name. Corgan is a deluded egomaniac. And for the record, James Iha's solo record is pretty damn good. If Corgan was smart, he would have let Iha write songs for the band. 'Cos that's what a BAND does...it absorbs the talents of all of its members. You listening, Billy?

[siliconavatar0]

I have to agree with the Iha comments here... "no iha no pumpkins".

Still though, I saw them at Rock Am Ring last year in Germany and they still know how to put on a great live show, no matter what the lineup.

[coolmanwc5]

I saw the Pumpkins in concert last year and it just wasn't the same. Corgan has taken full control of the band, it seems, even more than before. I think
he needs that tension he had with Iha to tell him he's not always right. Corgan's a great musician, but he blames everyone but himself for the lack of popularity in his later endeavors like Zwan, his solo band, and now the new SP. I'd recoommend you see this band once if you haven't just so you can say you did, but otherwise there's plenty of better bands out there right now.

P.S. Iha's album was terrible!

[MoFly41]

Iha and D'arcy did nothing for the band. They in no way shaped or influenced the sound of the Pumpkins. Calling David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright Pink Floyd without having Roger Waters in it is a crime. This isn't. Billy is the band and Jimmy playing with him makes an unbelievable team. Plus, I'll take watching Ginger play over D'arcy any day! Also, I doubt Billy is doing this because he can't pay his bills. Either way, I'll empty my bank account to see these guys again.

Stratmaster458 wrote:

they are still good man i saw them and the flippin rocked soo hard. I've been a fan forever and still ove the band. Iha and Wretzky didn't do much for the band all the composing writing and recording were done by Corgan and Chamberlin if you know anything at all. Iha and Wretzky although official members of the band were essentially just touring musicians they didn't write or record anything on the major albums that made the pumpkins who they were and are now. Corgan recorded every part on gish siamese dream and mellan collie with the exception o f drums and a few vocals on mellan collie. the band is just as good as it was maybe better because the rhythm guitarist isn't a douche and the bass player isn't a crack ***** like the ones before.

Billy recorded the vocals tracks that James did on "Take Me Down" and "Farewell and Goodnight"? he was as much a part of the Pumpkins as Billy was whether you accept it or not.

checked.

[sukeyscorer]

UK BILLY!

[UnAmazing365]

i dont care if its just one of them, id still go, every member of the band was talented. So, even if this is just for money, i am still going anyways. This was the first band i can ever remember listening to growing up so yeah, i cant help but love them.

[JimiOwnsYou21]

corgan hasn't milked the "reformation" of the pumpkins enough?

god...

[flambe chicken]

While I agree that Billy and Jimmy did the majority of the work, we can't overlook the fact that James contributed to the writing of many songs, although they were often B-sides or unreleased - like Believe off the Aeroplane Flies High 1979 disc (and possibly the standard single of 1979, I'm not sure). However, having said that, I would also like to add that I'd rather just have Billy and Jimmy than no Pumpkins at all. And that Jimmy kicks ass.

[David_Bowie=GOD]

I loved the smashing pumpkins. Keyword there: loved. I hate the new album. Tarantula is a terrible song.

[panther62]

what are people complaining about? I thought everyone knew that Corgan writes everything. He is the Smashing Pumpkins. It's the same with Weezer and Rivers Cuomo, or Dave Grohl and early Foo Fighters...

Plus, I saw the Pumpkins twice last year, and they don't half ass it live...they played for three hours each time and it was amazing

[tobythechimp]

everytime theres a news story about them we get the same old jibe-'Billy is the pumpkins' 'theres no pumpkins without james' why dont we just accept that theyre back? And that theyre ****in immense, seen em three times since they got back together and my god, my god. They were amazing, cant we just revel in theyre decisions to get back together here and bitch in the forums?

Pumpkins riul e, no matter what anyone else thinks



Peace

[Hamham272]

This1GoesTo11 wrote:

Question for Billy: Why call it a band when it's really not? Answer: Money. He can't sell any records under his own name. Corgan is a deluded egomaniac. And for the record, James Iha's solo record is pretty damn good. If Corgan was smart, he would have let Iha write songs for the band. 'Cos that's what a BAND does...it absorbs the talents of all of its members. You listening, Billy?

While I agree he likes to take control and he should let the others write more material, it could just be that they couldn't write a "Pumpkins Song". I bet 10 bucks he could do a solo album and sell millions more copies than you could, or your mum. It sounds like you just love Iha, fair enough, Billy's still selling a hell of a lot more records than Iha. And do I see Iha in the writing credits for most of the Pumpkins work?

Didnt think so...

Saw these guys live, they wern't half bad, though QOTSA before hand were better. Must say when 1979 and Bullet With Butterfly Wings came on the crowd DID go absolutely nuts.

[One Way Ticket]

People give Corgan too much shit for taking control of the band. He's a perfectionist. That attitude is what got him where he is today.

[pos69sum]

I'll be at the chicago shows

[Shread_6009]

these comments i read pretty much say that groups like iron maiden during the 90's isn't a band cause steve harris is the only original member, or that Black Flag wasnt a band because greg grinn was the only original member, or that megadeth isnt a band because theres only dave mustaine.

as long as the chief songwriter is there, in this case billy corgan, than its still a real band. stop arguing about this

[what_the_bleep?]

Although Billy was the main creative force behind the Pumpkins, I'm about 90% positive Iha wrote at least one song on mellon collie. Not the best songs on there, but its something.

[Gee-Tar1]

Shit only US? Hopefully a Toronto show, Pumpkins are one of still functioning bands I haven't seen live yet.

[verona_bassist]

guests???? A perfect circle perhaphs??? Mr. Iha mebbe???

[piratemetalhead]

Favorite band- Never seen them before= Must see this show.

[Kick Me]

Hopefully they come to Ohio...
I hate Billy but I love the Pumpkins. Even though Iha and Wretzky aren't there I would still go see them. Its the best I'll ever get to see them live, since I am a bit young for a Smashing Pumpkins fan. I better see them live before its just Billy up there by himself calling it the Smashing Pumpkins.

[E_squared]

Holy monkeys, who cares?!!
Honestly, I don't care who writes the music. The Pumpkins make rocking music, and that's all that matters. I listen to what I like, regardless of who made it and even if it was all Corgan, so what?!

[Melonhead2]

That is right

Damn right

[korn_dawg]

j-e-f-f-e-r-s wrote:

Corgan = Pumpkins. Though it is good that Chamberlin is there as well.

But Billy sucked when he went off alone! He needs the rest there for some reason, even if just egoist reasons :P

[perilouspete]

hope they come to milwaukee this time around

[Tele Echoes]

Come to Ontario...NOW!!!

[Here_is_no_why]

Iha and Wretzky's main job in the band was to tell Billy when his music sucked and didn't make any sense. That's why the albums after Mellon Collie are much weaker efforts, James and D'arcy were less involved because they became engulfed in the idea of celebrity and didn't feel they had much more to prove. Don't get me wrong, I love Adore, but it can't touch Mellon Collie. Machina/Machina II is a big over-produced mess, but it has its moments. It's really a shame that the singing and lyrics on Zeitgeist overall are way below par, because Jimmy is playing at his very best, and most of the guitar is rocking. Billy is underrated as a guitarist, Jimmy is a beast, and Smashing Pumpkins (notice the removal of "The" before the name on the new CD) need someone who has the balls to stand up and tell Billy that his nasally singing is better than his new style, that his songs are lacking emotional resonance, and that if he doesn't want to have more fans disconnect then he needs to realize his band is bigger than just him.

[tomastheboss]

cick13 :
Pumpkins without D'arcy and Iha is not Pumpkins

true dat

[tomastheboss]

cick13 :
Pumpkins without D'arcy and Iha is not Pumpkins

true dat

[Jamie_W]

This1GoesTo11If Corgan was smart, he would have let Iha write songs for the band.

Yeah, because Billy did such a terrible job of it didn't he? Sigh.

[wormtongue]

corgan thinks hes so anti-pop but hes just another arrogant "popstar". 999? whatever

[David_Bowie=GOD]

To all the people saying this is the smashing pumpkins, no it isn't, not anymore. Not because its only two of the original members, but because the new album was a huge letdown for me. Tarantula is an annoying song. But thats just my opinion.