Should Smashing Pumpkins Fans Be Glad That Jimmy Chamberlin Is Gone? [Zero Plus One]

Over the weekend, the Smashing Pumpkins' press reps announced that drummer Jimmy Chamberlin—the band's only remaining original member aside from Billy Corgan—was leaving the group, meaning that the band would now be, for all practical purposes, a Corgan solo project. This is particularly significant because Chamberlin was also a member of Corgan's band Zwan, which formed after the Pumpkins officially broke up for the first time in 2000; one would think that this pairing would imply that he w...

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