Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins (or simply Smashing Pumpkins) is an American rock band founded in 1988 which currently consists of the 3 original members, whom are lead singer and guitarist William Patrick "Billy" Corgan Jr., guitarist James Yoshinobu Iha, and drummer James Joseph "Jimmy" Chamberlin. The group also initially included bassist D'arcy Elizabeth Wretzky-Brown, who left the band in 1999 due to her drug addiction. The Smashing Pumpkins also included several former members, which are Melissa Auf der Maur, Mike Byrne, Nicole Fiorentino, Ginger Pooley, and Jeff Schroeder.
==History==
The Smashing Pumpkins was founded in 1988 by Billy Corgan and James Iha, whom the latter met Corgan in a record store after Corgan moved to Chicago following the breakup of his former band, The Marked. The band would eventually include D'arcy Wretzky whom Corgan met at a concert by the , and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, whilst finding drummers for their Cabaret Metro shows. 
The band broke up on late 2000, with them playing a farewell concert at the Cabaret Metro, which was the same place where the band started their career. Corgan and Chamberlin would eventually reunite for their new band in 2001, which disbaned a few years later in 2003. 
The band reunited later in 2006, in which the band included original members Corgan and Chamberlin themselves. Around a year after their reunion, the band would launch their YouTube channel on May 2007, with the channel's first video being a recording of a concert of the band in Paris. Chamberlin would leave the band in 2009, but later return in 2015. Iha reunited with the band in 2018, which makes the band currently include all of the original members (with the exception of D'arcy).
==Trivia==
*The band's lead singer, Billy Corgan, is also the owner of an professional wrestling promotion and governing body named the since his purchase of the NWA in 2017.
*One of the band's guitarists, James Iha, is also a member of and the now-disbanded .
*Prior to James Chamberlin joining the band, the Smashing Pumpkins would formerly use a drum machine before switching to a range of several drummers, before finally switching to Chamberlin himself.
*The band's songs have appeared in multiple pieces of media:
**The band has a DLC dedicated to their songs in the 2008 video game .
**Their song "" from the 1993 album appeared in the 2007 games and .
**Their most well-known song, "" from the 1995 album , has appeared in the 2006 film , the 2008 video game on the Liberty Rock Radio radio station (albeit removed in 2018 due to license expiration), and the 2010 video game in the long credits.
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