The Smashing Pumpkins are dead! Long live The Smashing Pumpkins!

We absolutely, without reservation, honor James and D’arcy. There is no qualification to that statement. We honor them IN FULL. They were there, then. And together we did some incredible things. But let me go one step further. When Jimmy and I decided to move forward and begin again with SP we very openly addressed the question of James and D’arcy returning. We spoke honestly with each other about our feelings and personal reservations, and decided together that the door was open to them to return. Because it was the right thing to do. Honestly though it wasn’t suprising to us that they didn’t want to return, because that was consistent with their general position to date (and continues to be I might add), which is they see the band as something that they got away from for their own reasons. There were no conditions ever put on a return. They simply didn’t even want the conversation with us.

I can now say definitively that they aren’t ever coming back. Period. There is no maybe. If the door was once open to at least have the conversation and consider the possibility, it is now closed. For good. We have moved on. We love them, and we wish them well.

By Billy Corgan.

E isto só pode ser culpa da coisa de esfregar o chão que continua, deixai-me informar, na minha varanda. Porque nada me tem corrido bem desde que aquela coisa lá está. E o Billy e o Jimmy são muito talentosos, mas The music MUST come first. e eu não vi nada disso no Zeitgeist.

God Bless, with love from the 7th ray and the rainbow at the end of my heart,
William