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Smashing Pumpkins bassist Ginger Pooley has left the band to raise her new baby with her husband, and Billy Corgan is looking for a new bassist via an open audition process. Auditions will also be held for a new keyboardist—Billy wants one who is a fan of—and can play in the prog-rock style of—Jon Lord and Rick Wakeman.
Billy says that while he is heartbroken that Ginger is leaving the group, he really respects her decision to put her family first.
"We were lucky enough to find drummer Mike Byrne through an open audition process," BILLY adds, "so why not open the doors again to anyone who might be interested for the bass or keyboard position. As you can see from our past and present, age, race, or a person’s background is not an issue. Everyone is truly welcome to audition."
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Why Not make money off of this by turing it into a Show. People loved Rockstar InXS right! Just Saying. Put On those money makeing caps boys!
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Any cred the band has left would be destroyed by making a show outta this. They don’t need the money.
Sorry Jamie…..but that’s some corporate whore bulls*** thinking. Save yourself now and start listening to music for the right reasons.
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Maybe Melissa Auf Der Mar has some spare time to jump on board?
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Those shows are an embarrassment to the music industry. >.>
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How about Jessica Simpson?
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YO paul I enjoy songs by bands that don’t sell out as much as anyone but at the end of the day if they can’t make money they won’t be around to deliver you your favorite tunes, so pull up a chair in front of the tube and watch the smashing pumpkins base quest if that’s what they need to get their music out their. But Really You can’t say they don’t need the money as an argument not to do a t.v show, cause who knows when a medical emergency might come or if they’ll want to donate millions to charities they could use the show to reach people financially, other than themselves, and actually become the change artists sing about. Try thinking about this not just on a one to one band to single fan ratio, who cares about the fans, they come and go, if they want to impact our culture, our economy, our world, get some people employed by setting up a show and throwing the money to NGO’s if they couldn’t possibley find use for it then that actually is a gravy train I’ve proposed they step on, not Corporate B.S as you so kindly quoted me!
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