AP: Corgan Wants to Reunite Smashing Pumpkins

[Bleacher Creature]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050621/ap_en_ot/people_corgan
CHICAGO - On the same day Billy Corgan released his first solo album, he revealed that he wants to reunite his band, The Smashing Pumpkins.

"For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep," Corgan wrote in a full-page advertisement published Tuesday in Chicago newspapers.

"But now I want you to be among the first to know that I have made plans to renew and revive The Smashing Pumpkins. I want my band back, and my songs, and my dreams," he wrote.

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Melodramatic? Probably. Cool as hell? Yes!

[jandrok]

1. More like he wants his CASH COW back.

Zwan was a flop, and I wouldn't think that his solo stuff will fly off of the shelves, either.

[Lannes]

3. I agree

How long has it been 7-8 years since they were big?

[Melodybe]

2. If he doesn't have James and Darcy then I ain't buying

If he does, then I agree cool as hell!!!

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Does that mean with Iha, D'Arcy and Chamberlin?

If so, that's very cool.

[iconoclastic cat]

5. As if they're doing anything all that cool. Chamberlain's solo stuff is

okay, I suppose.

[Rick Myers]

6. It's cool, but he was a putz to break them up

in the first place.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

7. Agreed

And this is only going to work if he's getting the members back into it. Because if it's some half-assed Smashing Pumpkins reunion... it's not going to be that great.

[Kraklen]

8. He owes a lot of people a lot of apologies.