SMASHING PUMPKINS Drummer: 'We Will Write And Record Music Until We Are Dead'
March 26, 2008SMASHING PUMPKINS drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has posted the following message on the band's official blog:
"As the tour winds down I would just like to say what a pleasure and an honor it was to play for so many of you. I try to never forget that my job is a sacred privilege. Music, the thing that binds you to me and all of us to the Universe is my light.
"Let me also say that this band, the SMASHING PUMPKINS, will continue to write, record, release, and perform AS LONG AS WE ARE ABLE!
"Some of you may have read bits of an interview that was done in confidence by yours truly in which I say that the PUMPKINS probably won't record CDs anymore. What I meant by this is this: Although we may not use the 'album' or 'full-length CD' as a format anymore, WE WILL WRITE AND RECORD MUSIC UNTIL WE ARE DEAD!!!!!!!! WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY!!!!!!!!
"I could go on about how I was stolen from, violated, lied to by some ignoble journalist, but what's the point?
"I choose light."
The drummer recently told Spinner.com that he and PUMPKINS leader Billy Corgan will begin working on May 1 at the band's newly purchased studio in Chicago.
The PUMPKINS did issue a four-song acoustic EP called "American Gothic" through the iTunes store earlier this year. But Chamberlin said he expects the band's new tunes to be "grander," adding, "I'd like to go bigger. And I think the next time the PUMPKINS tour, you'll see a big stage presence with eight to 10 people as opposed to just five."
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