SMASHING PUMPKINS News: SMASHING PUMPKINS Drummer Leaves Band

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According to the SMASHING PUMPKINS website, drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has quit the band. He was the only original member of the reunited grunge act besides singer/songwriter Billy Corgan, who is trucking-on under the SMASHING PUMPKINS moniker despite Chamberlin's departure.This simple, yet incomplete statement was posted on the SMASHING PUMPKIN'S website:The SMASHING PUMPKINS' guitarist, singer, songwriter and founding member Billy Corgan has announced that drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has left the group. Chamberlin joined the band Corgan founded in Chicago in 1988 and played on all their albums except Adore (1998). Corgan will continue to write and record as SMASHING PUMPKINS with...