Conversation so far:
What happened in the early years?
singer and guitarist Billy Corgan left St.
Petersburg, Florida, to return to his native city of Chicago, where he took a job in a record store.
What happened next?
formed the idea of a new band to be called the Smashing Pumpkins.
While working there, he met guitarist James Iha.
Did they began working on music together?
Adorning themselves with paisley and other psychedelic trappings, the two began writing songs together (with the aid of a drum machine.

Question: Did they ever perform the music they wrote?
Self-contained rewrite: Did the Smashing Pumpkins ever perform the music they wrote?