The call was from Tim Lougee, aka Gooch, co-tour manager for the Smashing Pumpkins. Gooch was in drummer limmy Chamberlin's room at the Regency Hotel, on Park Avenue, with one of the band's security managers, Bill Sitkiwiecz.
Cops are here.
In a matter of hours, Corgan was supposed to be on stage with Chamberlin, guitarist James Iha and bassist D'Arcy for the first of two sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. In the end they turned out to be just doing their job. It has been nearly three months since Melvoin's death and Chamberlain's arrest and subsequent firing by the band. Corgan is sitting in a lounge at Chung King Varick Street Studios in downtown Manhattan, where he's busy mixing a new clutch of Pumpkins B-sides. Part of this is denial.