the smashing pumpkins re-unite

[Pure Strife]

James Iha is the main reason i would really want to hear them ... he is a wicked guitarist ! Billy is ok ... but meh and darcy is'nt bad ... James is my reason to Love the SP and not be wrong >.<

From what I gathered Billy wrote the vast majority of the guitar solos on the records, and James just played them sometimes, trading off with Billy every night as to who played what. At least until Mellon Collie and post-Mellon Collie, which is what I see as the decline of the band anyway, and I didn't like the songs on there James co-wrote. Billy wrote most of the bass too. The Pumpkins are really just Billy and Jimmy, which is mainly because Billy can't play drums. And Billy and Jimmy both worked on Zwan, which was pretty far removed from the grunge/alt-rock style of the Pumpkins, so I'm very speculative.

Much as I would love another alt rock grunge masterpiece the likes of Gish or Siamese Dream, or even an opus like Mellon Collie, I really can't see it happening. The Smashing Pumpkins have been one of my favourite bands for a long time, and I'll definitly see them on tour, but I'm not going to get my hopes up about new studio recordings.

[Fuego]

James Iha is the main reason i would really want to hear them ... he is a wicked guitarist ! Billy is ok ... but meh and darcy is'nt bad ... James is my reason to Love the SP and not be wrong >.<

From what I gathered Billy wrote the vast majority of the guitar solos on the records, and James just played them sometimes, trading off with Billy every night as to who played what. At least until Mellon Collie and post-Mellon Collie, which is what I see as the decline of the band anyway, and I didn't like the songs on there James co-wrote. Billy wrote most of the bass too. The Pumpkins are really just Billy and Jimmy, which is mainly because Billy can't play drums. And Billy and Jimmy both worked on Zwan, which was pretty far removed from the grunge/alt-rock style of the Pumpkins, so I'm very speculative.

Much as I would love another alt rock grunge masterpiece the likes of Gish or Siamese Dream, or even an opus like Mellon Collie, I really can't see it happening. The Smashing Pumpkins have been one of my favourite bands for a long time, and I'll definitly see them on tour, but I'm not going to get my hopes up about new studio recordings.

Iha wrote or co-wrote some of the Smashing Pumpkins' songs. He wrote "Blew Away" on ''Pisces Iscariot'', "Bugg Superstar" on ''Earphoria'', "Take Me Down" on ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'', "...Said Sadly", "Believe", "The Boy", and "The Bells" on ''The Aeroplane Flies High'', "Summer" on the "Perfect" single and "Go" on ''MACHINA II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music''. He co-wrote with Billy Corgan "I Am One" on ''Gish'', "Soma" and "Mayonaise" on ''Siamese Dream'', "Plume" on ''Pisces Iscariot'', "Farewell and Goodnight" on ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'', and "Tribute to Johnny" on ''The Aeroplane Flies High''. He also sang the band's covers of The Cure's "A Night Like This" and Syd Barrett's "Terrapin".

I know, but he is a cool peep and good guitarist >.<

[Sunny Day Suicide]

Oh god. Why do you insist on killing my ears, Billy, why!?

[Skogs]

Although Siamese Dream is one of my favourite albums of all time, I'm not optimistic about their reformation. In all truthfulness, they'd gone pretty crap by the time they had split.

In any case, if they don't get James Iha back in the band, it's not really the Pumpkins. May as well call it Zwan II.