Is this the best concert line-up ever??? Red Hot Chili Peppers “Blood Sugar Sex Magik Tour” with Nirvana and Pearl Jam as support bands. The Smashing Pumpkins were on the first leg of the tour from October 16, 1991 thru December 14, 1991 with Pearl Jam instead of Nirvana.
Billy Corgan used this 1974 Fender Stratocaster live and on several The Smashing Pumpkins songs including “Where Boys Fear to Tread” and for the main rhythm of “Muzzle,”
Kurt Cobain loved The Buzzcocks. They actually supported Nirvana during their last tour in 1994. Steve Diggle recalls Kurt asking him, “Will you come and play Europe with us, we’re doing all these stadiums?” Diggle explains, “So we did Portugal and France and Spain and everything. It was like the last 11 days or so, and he was kind of okay. But it was weird, there was about 50 people working for them, all these people putting up lights and computers and everything.
Melissa Auf der Maur has played bass for Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins. She has dated Dave Grohl and Josh Homme and is one of the hottest girls in Rock. Enjjoy…
We recently did this story about D’arcy Wretzky the former bassist of The Smashing Pumpkins. We didn’t realize how many people still search for D’arcy so we decided to put up some photos of D’arcy from her heyday with The Pumpkins when she was one of the hottest girls in Rock. Enjoy…
D’Arcy Wretzky was a founding member and bass player for The Smashing Pumpkins from 1988–1999. She left the band to pursue an acting career, although, Billy Corgan later said, “she was fired for being a mean spirited drug addict who refused to get help.” That’s where things started to go wrong for D’Arcy. Here’s D’Arcy looking good in her Pumpkins days…
After the The Smashing Pumpkins reformed in 2007, Billy Corgan posted a message on smashingpumpkins.com blog page saying “[l]ooking for girls from Siamese Dream album cover… As you all know, they were quite young when the photo was taken. They are not conjoined anymore, as far as we know.” If anyone has any information on how to find the girls, please email web@smashingpumpkins.com
In 1993 Billy Corgan married his long-time on-again, off-again girlfriend Christine "Chris" Fabian, a museum artist. They were married at a small ceremony at his house in in Chicago. The Smashing Pumpkins songs "Soma" and "Muzzle" are dedicated to her. There aren't many photo's of Chris Fabian floating around but we did find this one of her [...]
"Teargarden by Kaleidyscope" is the eighth studio album by The Smashing Pumpkins, released as free MP3 downloads, and as a series of physical limited-edition EPs, culminating in a single box set release. The album will have 44 new songs, released one at a time, and will also be issued as eleven four-song EPs. Just go [...]
In 1996, The Smashing Pumpkins embarked on an extended world tour in support of the album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness. Billy Corgan's look during this period—a shaved head, a longsleeve black shirt with the word "ZERO" printed on it, and silver pants—became iconic. If you ever wondered what the "ZERO" shirt stood for [...]
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