Q: What do you get when you take The Smashing Pumpkins, remove all the original members except for Billy "John Locke" Corgan, and record an album in the ’00s?A: Zwan?
Wrong! Trick question. You call it The Smashing Pumpkins. Yes, that's right. America's favorite megalomaniacal has-been front man has either finally kicked Jimmy Chamberlin, his last original bandmate/foothold on legitimacy, out of the band or annoyed him enough to get him to leave the group. According to a post on SP's website, Corgan will retain the Smashing Pumpkins name and record a new album this spring.
This isn't very surprising, though. This is, after all, the man who, five years after breaking up his band, took out a full-page ad in The Chicago Tribune to announce to the world (and his uninformed ex-bandmates) of his intentions to reunite. This is the man who last November berated a fan in mid-set, telling him "By the way, I like that song that you wrote. I believe it was number one. ‘Take Your Dick Out of My Ass and Stick It in My Mouth’? That was a big hit in Europe." This is the man who tricked a poor defenseless Dorothy into killing the Wicked Witch of the West.
So, really. How can we possibly be surprised?
