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Corgan Ends Original Pumpkins Reformation Talk

• 9th May 2011

Billy Corgan has quashed any fan's hopes of an original line up reformation of the Smashing Pumpkins in an interview with The Rolling Stone (link>

When asked if the original Pumpkins line up could ever reunite, he responded: “No. That's just one of those things that are never going to happen. If you don't see somebody for a while, there's the old thing, 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder.' Well, we haven't had absence. The things that have happened between us in the interim haven't been good. There's been lawsuits and lots of stupid stuff. It's only made it worse. If it was bad before, it's really bad now. Jimmy [Chamberlin] and I aren't enemies – he's just off doing what he wants to do, as he should. There's not super bad blood between me and Jimmy that we'd never get on stage again. But I cannot in any way, shape, or form ever envision standing on a stage, playing music again with James [Iha] and D'arcy [Wretzky]. I just don't see any situation where that would be possible.”

The Smashing Pumpkins announced last week that they are to release remastered versions of their albums over the next three years, starting with 1991's Gish, 20 years after its original release.

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