Who is your favorite member of the Smashing Pumpkins?

I forgot Tommy Lee.

David pajo

I didn't consider Zwan, sorry. I love D'Arcy but Paz Lenchantin is their best bassist!

voted jimmy chamberlin because god damn

Auf der Maur always seemed like a p cool human to me

Jimmy Chamberlin.

I mean, Jimmy is the only person that Billy has ever kicked out of the Pumpkins where you notice his absence.

what?? who are all these people

Oh yeah Melissa is definitely the coolest person in here.

Chamberlin is one of my favorite rock drummers, though, so I'm going to pick him.

Lol Billy is gonna end up without a single vote here isn't he?

what?? who are all these people

― j.

Fear not! I have researched them before starting this poll.

Original Band Members:
Billy Corgan
James Iha
D'arcy Wretzky
Jimmy Chamberlin

Jeff Schroeder: Replaced James Iha from 2007-present
Melissa Auf der Maur: Replaced D'arcy 1999-00 although she never really recorded any bass parts... in retrospect she was only a tour member so I shouldn't have included her in the poll.
Nicole Fiorentino: Replaced Melissa Auf Der Maur 00-present.
Mike Byrne: Replaced Jimmy Chamberlin from 2009-2014
Tommy Lee: Will replace Byrne 2014-onwards.

Melissa definitely didn't play on Machina, and I'm pretty sure she didn't play on Machina II. She was a touring member.

whoops

Sorry, Nicole actually formed part of the band from 2010-2014.

Wait, so who replaced Jimmy when he was fired after the death of Jonathan Melvoin? Was it that drummer guy from Filter?

xpost: Yeah I realized that, but we should let it slide since she is pretty cool and she has been the only touring member to appear on photoshoots and videos as an 'official' band member.

Wait, so who replaced Jimmy when he was fired after the death of Jonathan Melvoin? Was it that drummer guy from Filter?

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine)

Yes, that was Matt Walker from Filter but he only worked as a substitute member for the rest of the tour and didn't record any songs with them. The next album was Adore which I think didn't have a drummer?

Oh shit, wait. Apparently these are the credits for Adore:

Matt Walker – drums on "To Sheila", "Ava Adore", "Daphne Descends", "Tear", "The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete", "Annie-Dog", and "Behold! The Night Mare"
Matt Cameron – drums on "For Martha"
Joey Waronker – drums on "Perfect", additional drums on "Once Upon a Time" and "Pug"

Damn Wikipedia didn't list Matt Walker as a former SP member.

Oh well, noone was going to vote for any of those drummers when you have Chamberlin in here, right?

Wow, I really never even grasped that Cameron and esp Waronker did drums on Adore too. I really need to read up on my liner notes!

Np Moka. You can't really call Walker a former SP member imho. And that goes for a lot of these passers by.

Milo Aukerman

Jerry Supiran

Bilky will sink into a huge depression if he gets no votes!

thought this was going to be a joke poll and all the options would be Billy Corgan

Kenny Aronoff, yo:

http://www.drumsoloartist.com/Site/Drummers/images/KennyAronoff.gif

O: But don't you feel a little pressure to dress the part of a rock star?

JW: Well, yeah. I always kind of do, anyway. I'm always interested in being a part of what's going on. That's more interesting than pulling the "I'm the hot-shit drummer guy." I won't name names.

O: Well, here's a name. You played on The Smashing Pumpkins' Adore, but Kenny Aronoff toured with them. When he toured with them, he really looked like the band dressed him up. Kind of silly.

JW: They didn't dress him up! That's him, a hundred percent. I mean, I can't say that, but I was supposed to do that tour, and I decided not to, because... [Laughs.] Billy Corgan wasn't going to tell anyone how to dress, that's for shit-sure. That was purely that guy being, like... [Laughs.] It's funny you should bring him up. That's the ultimate, like, "I'm Drummer-Guy." At least in that gig, he wasn't playing as part of The Smashing Pumpkins. I'm sure he was like, "Oh, shit, I've been doing this for a long time, and I'm not getting as much work as I have been, and I'd better look young."

O: But that begs the question: Were John Mellencamp and John Fogerty dressing him down? You know, "Take off those silly sunglasses!"

JW: I can't believe he did it. I know exactly what you're talking about. It was so mind-boggling, he just looked silly. At a certain point, if you're doing rock 'n' roll, you've got to age gracefully. You can't try to be young, because it's not going to work. Because you're up against 25-year-olds, and you shouldn't care in the first place.

wanna hear his thoughts on being the same age now that aronoff was then

aronoff killed it on the adore tour he gets a pass

btw i voted for billy

Shame on you, spazzmatazz, shame on you.

thought this was going to be a joke poll and all the options would be Billy Corgan

― charlie h, sábado 1 de noviembre de 2014 0:23 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That would be the 'least favorite member of smashing pumpkins' due this december.

Hahaha good god who would seriously vote for Corgan?

Jimmy Chamberlain or Melissa Auf der Maur anyway.

thought this was going to be a joke poll and all the options would be Billy Corgan

― charlie h, sábado 1 de noviembre de 2014 0:23 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't Billy Corgan posts on this board as Moka.

Someone get Anderson Cooper in this thread!

Corgan otm. Coop being a dick.

without Billy, you would've never heard of any of the others

Voted Corgan for that reason + he played almost everything on the only SP stuff I still listen to.

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lol

hahahahaha!

poor billy

Or, to look at it another way: 39 people didn't vote for Billy Corgan.

The votes for Byrne, Schroeder or Fiorentino over Corgan are particularly funny.

Chamberlin deserved it.

I got curious about what D'arcy was up to

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=422277344583893&set=a.269421166536179.1073741825.100004048927426&type=1&permPage=1

lmao @ these kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qIhtKkrnuM

Scott Kannberg

MADM rocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3iArPrQhFE

ill admit i didnt watch this particular video from this concert before posting. everyone please watch this video to see Corgan completely melt down. disaster. high off his ass on space cake

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/news/57622/874dcca1.jpg

http://pitchfork.com/news/57622-smashing-pumpkins-sell-fuck-you-anderson-cooper-t-shirts-featuring-cats-in-bowties/