In my opinion, Melancholy And The Infinite Sadness is their masterpiece. I prefer the albums before MATIS, but not so much the ones that came afterward.
hard to decide but, as astounding as Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness is, the Siamese Dream/Pisces Iscariot era is untouchable, those songs transport me to an amazing place in my heart and soul
Jimmy’s brother, Mr. Chamberlin, was our middle school football coach and teacher. I’ll never forget the time jimmy showed up to class to give something to his brother. He came and went and I asked, “who is that guy, he looks like the drummer for the smashing pumpkins.” Mr. Chamberlin said, “That’s my brother, Jimmy, and he is.”
Anthony Kiedis said Jimmy Chamberlin was a “Monster... Who drank and used and caroused like a fucking gorilla...” which is quite telling of how crazy I bet Jimmy was. Literally coming from a guy who witnessed one bandmate die, and another try his hardest to, unsuccessfully thankfully. Glad a few made it out of the crazy 90’s
I listened to way more Smashing Pumpkins than I did Nirvana back in the day. Jimmy is probably the greatest drummer in America, possibly the world, and I mean that.
He is one of the best drummers, it's that jazz background which makes great drummers too I've noticed. Pity he hit the drugs, downfall of many stars. Good to see him back on the straight and narrow.
When I was a kid in the 90s learning to play drums, the Smashing Pumpkins were the band I would try to learn to play the most. Just the two albums SD and MIS had such a diverse sound and tons of great tracks. I still remember trying to learn tonight tonight and finally getting it without messing up the ending. Wish I still had time to play like when I was a kid.
@@grahamjarman it gives me nightmares. Hell I pushed thru it. I basically took drum lessons for 3 months in 03. Then nirvana came into my scene. Literally stoped drums just to play guitar like kurt. THEN in 05 I was with my mom driving home idk if we had the station on or we flipped to it. But once I heard, the world is a vampire...... Snapped my head told my mom to shut up. I remember getting more and more and more interested. Which then made me say over and over" Who is this! Mom who the fuck" Found out it was the smashing pumpkins, Billy corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain were my everything. Fuck nirvana that's shit boring. Billy plucked me up and said " HERE, you go Dylan I'll help....."played full albums gish, siamese, melon, adore machina was a little iffy for me idk why. Anyway Chamberlain was my guy, It was right when Youtune just came out and just being astonished with everything. I played guitar and drums to those albums. Drums took a while, but you push thru it, you watch what he does over,and over again. Then I started my own groove. Play you heros thru and thru doesn't matter if your wrong just DO IT
Same for the first time I saw them, San Diego Open Air Theatre, 2000. Anyone from this era also blown away by the resurgence of the Machina Era cover of 'Once in a Lifetime' at recent live shows?
Yeah the Darcy story is more interesting and arguably sadder. The circumstances around her departure were quite odd. She thought she was gonna be a movie star, the movie never got made and she was arrested by Chicago police a year later for buying crack. Her plastic surgeries were botched and she has sadly lost her beauty. I'm just glad she is sober and healthy now, from what I've heard.
Im the latest Dickies drummer, and have been for this past decade. Sometimes this story is somewhat haunting. Like a message from Melvoin, telling me every now and again, "be careful".
If you life long enough you'll learn that everything comes full circle, sometimes more then once so it's best to remember those who were with you from the start, not just for the ride & to be with you at the finish line. Kudos for Jimmy & Billy maturing past their past and embracing the new while honouring what brought them together in the beginning. Fuck me I miss the good old '90's.
Hey dude I'd love to see some longer form docos from you dude. You seem to dig up some amazing facts for your short vids. You ever thought about doing a 20 or 30 min doco on one of your fav bands orisoc industry stories you've heard or found?
I have to say, it’s so great to see the healing and growth both WPC and Jimmy have had, and to see the group (mostly) together again, creating and enjoying themselves. Too many talented and loved people leave us, these stories could have turned out so differently and much worse. Great work RNRTS.
I was at that Madison square garden show..Crazy times!! Was lucky enough to see pumpkins in the 90s and also a few years ago..new to the channel and loving it so far!!
Amazing video and great content as usual. If I may, I suggest pausing some more in recording the storyteller voice-over. Especially, following the commas and points. It will give a much more pleasant experience for us to listen to and engage with. Hope it helps, keep up the great work!
One of my favorite bands. I saw them a few shows after they resumed the US tour after firing Jimmy Chamberlain. The friendship between Billy and Jimmy is probably the strongest of all the original Pumpkins members. Billy probably did save his life by firing him.
An absolutely amazing drummer, with endless reach and such a groove to his style. It is impressive how many years he has been playing with Corgan. Now, I am a huge fan of Corgan as a songwriter, but he is surely no easy guy to live alongside on a bus for a decade or two. But it is for the greater good that these two geniuses found each other. Im fairly sure nobody misses Iha, but Im sad that D'arcy and Jimmy aren't in a band together. They were such an awesome rhythm section really. JC, you are badass.
@@chilly6470 I would say D’arcy plays the bass better than Iha the guitar. But I was actually talking about personality; Jimmy and D’arcy from the get go seemed like the two most likable members - Corgan and Iha unbearable. Saying this as a fan since 94! xD
Chamberlain is one of the very few drummers who have a distinctive tone. I've been a guitar player for over 30 years, so I don't pay much attention to drummers, I could tell immediately that he was back in the band before ever hearing anyone actually saying that he was, just from hearing the first song from the album when I heard it on the radio.
@@INFJparadox I'm just coming at it from the point that I cant tell many drummers from what they're playing, like I can with other guitar players or (obviously) singers. I remember being in the car with my friend going through a drive through carwash with the hard rock station on, and hearing a Pumpkin song that was clearly new. And just from the snare drum I could tell. I said "this sounds like the old drummer," and my friend said "I was just about to say the same thing." The DJ confirmed it. That's Judy something that stands out to me.
@@Pugetwitch okay dude, I'll sleep well at night knowing you're out there doing it. Learn to spell and communicate in full sentences and then maybe you'll have something to contribute.
Been a fan since Gish and so glad I got to see the Pumpkins back in the day with D'Arcy. We could have lost Jimmy so many times and thank God he is still with us. Can't wait to see them again in November, but wish D'Arcy was on tour with them. That is an interesting backstory of Billy not asking D'Arcy to re-join the band. 💜💜💜
@@The_Real_DCT I read a while back that Billy didn't think she was actually good enough. Also--and this shocked and saddened me--the band were never actually *friends (of course not including James and D'Arcy since they were together). D'Arcy said she would have come back had Billy asked. Yes, I'm sure Billy has a big ego--he is a genius after all ;-)
Darcy is not a musician. She's just there for the "cool" factor of having a girl on bass. But she can't play at all. She's a joke. This is why eventually these hacks get cycled out. The other people in the bands get tired of the sound and vibe being dragged down to unacceptable levels. Same thing happened to Alec Jon Such from bon Jovi. Enough was enough. Get it together. Learn how to actually play.
Interesting video. I remember circa 1994 passing by the Reading Festival on the road to London and it happened that I asked the car driver to scan through the radio stations, I didn't know SP were Live on stage, anyway I heard SP live broadcast on the radio and I said turn it up, I love that band. But it got even louder, we were confused for a minute until we realised the actual volume of the bass at the gig was passing into the car as we drove past the Festival😂
Being a drummer I was amazed Jimmy was playing those fast songs waayy faster live but the tempos were a bit all over the place so I figured he was coked up at the gig.
Jimmy was and IS the greatest drummer of all time. My wife and I had the pleasure of seeing the Pumpkins twice and I always told her to clap the loudest for Jimmy!
Jimmy was nothing short of BRILLIANT in those years with The Pumpkins. If you want to hear how incredibly versatile he was.. give listen to _Pastichio Medley_
Never been a fan of the Pumpkins, but do remember watching Jimmy play Tonight Tonight back in 95 I think and being blown away at how clever he played in that.
It was like a lime green colored set. He had his kit for the Machina tour painted that same color. Great video on a sad subject. So glad he's still here and still working... he could have slipped away with Jonathan that night in New York. His work here was not done... not by a long shot.
I've been to four Pumpkins shows: MCATIS, Machina pre-tour, Machina, and Zeitgeist. So I've never seen the original Pumpkins lineup, but I've seen each of them playing. SP was nothing to sneeze at with Matt Walker on drums, then Melissa auf der Mar on bass, and then Jeff Shreoder on lead guitar. However, The MCATIS material played by Chamberlin was quite a different animal than Walker's. It went from a vicious domestic pet to feral animal spotting rage and violence. The Adore songs were amazing on the album, burning like embers of good memories of the horrible years. Chamberlain crushed those; him playing them turned them into black diamonds, like hard and sharp, and beautiful and cursed. To Sheila and Ava Adore were absolutely pornographic with his drums and he turned Perfect into a lava flow of biting and searing sarcasm. There's Billy and then there's Billy with Jimmy. Billy always plays and sings like he's assaulting your soul; when he's with Jimmy it's as if he's trying to murder you with his music.
I always researched this thing with the keyboard players death, here and in other outlets they say the band was playin in NYC at MSG. I was at I believe Melvoins last show, I went the second of 2 nights at the USAir Arena in Landover MD on July 10th 1996, if there was any show at MSG it was cancelled.
one of the best drummers of the late 90's for sure... i saw one of the last concerts in late 2000 with the original lineup, it was a very sad, depressing show even, like they were just looking forward to it being over.
My friend Steve was his sponsor in Narcotics Anonymous back in the day. Sadly, Steve passed away a few years ago due to his addictions. He was a solid dude and I can still picture his face and voice. Sometimes I wonder if Jimmy knows that Steve died.
I still think Jimmy brought a LOT of that jazz style playing to the rock side of things. I am so glad that he beat his demons and that Billy brought him back into the fold. Smashing Pumpkins is THE sounds for 90's youth.
True. Jimmy's drumming is definitely a part of The Pumpkins' magic. Everything after Zeitgeist until Jimmy's return in 2015 is more like Corgan solo work. Of course he and James are back and the new rock opera album is going to be epic.
Was a big pumpkins fan until Billy assumed the uncle fester look. Seen them for 9.98 low dough show sponsored by 98rock at the ritz theater in Ybor city. This was the Gish tour I'll never forget he came out in some day glo polyester dress from the sixties and killed it . I was hooked. They was just in town with Janes addiction I would assume they was co headliners because Janes addiction ain't gonna play a 45 minute set and be done that would be criminal.😀
To me Siamese Dream is in my top 5 albums of all time.When that album came out my grades that semester in college suffered because I took so much time locked in my bedroom at my dirty 5 guys living in a slob house trying to learn every note on guitar,both guitars.
I dunno. Every band I've ever played in has had a "If you're wired, you're fired" rule; i.e. if you were too messed up to play/rehearse/dealwith band business/tour without causing problems, you were encouraged to take your instrument and find somewhere else to play.
I seen them in Charlotte. I think it might of been the last show of the tour or the last one they played as a group It was a great show billy corgan didn’t wanna great home. He closed the show out by himself. It was epic
I worked that show. The local paper Creative Loafing had given the Pumpkins a bad review, said they were long-winded and pretentious. We were supposed to load out by 11 and Corgan soloed until way after midnight…
It's because he was junking it up! I'm glad he got over that period of his life. The whole band was a bunch of weirdos but JC was probably the one person in the band that was actually friends with BC back then.
Jonanthan Melvoin was the brother of Suzannah and Wendy Melvoin from Princes band. I didn't know he was part of "The Family" too. Small world. Sad he had to die from drugs. I'm sure we would have had lost many more if the Fentanyl situatoion had started decades earlier
I got in SP with there 2nd album. But then also got into the 1st album. When the 3rd album came out i got into them even more. Always loved Chamberlins drumming. When i saw them live he made the drumming look so effortless. When Adore came out and i saw it was a new drummer i wasn't happy. But Adore ended up being one of my favorite albums from them even though it was stylistically different. And i saw the tour for that album. Other drummers came after that and albums i didn't like so much like the Machina albums. and i ended up losing interest in the band until i heard the album Oceania which got me back into them again. But after that album i only heard a handful of newer songs that never peaked my interest enough to check out the entire album. So i can't really give an opinion on the albums after Oceania. Maybe Jimmy should try playing with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson of RUSH. Or a new band and try something creatively different.
4:20 Thanks to Kurt Cobain unleash Alternative/Grunge music in 1991. It was ok to listen to other bands. All those bands that came BEFORE got popular and platinum, after the Release of Nevermind. I was, we where, there. We remember the Early 1990s. FACT.
I saw them with the original line up. Someone in the crowd shouted something lewd at Darcy and Billy stopped singing and started lecturing the audience. This prompted hundreds of teenagers to catcall and proposition her. They played the rest of the set without any enthusiasm and left without an encore. It was a rubbish gig.
Yeah, the band was high drama... But worth every penny. I saw them 3 times on siamese dream tour and they were top of their game world class killers live. I think that in the first 5 times I saw them, and of the times Billy stormed off the stage for any variety of reasons. He was a grunge Morrissey, in that sense. But man, there was no one better when it was good
Favourite album from The Smashing Pumpkins?
Melancholy And The Infinite Sadness for me. Although Siamese Dream is pretty close to equal
Siemease dream tied with Melancholy and the Infinite sadness
In my opinion, Melancholy And The Infinite Sadness is their masterpiece. I prefer the albums before MATIS, but not so much the ones that came afterward.
hard to decide but, as astounding as Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness is, the Siamese Dream/Pisces Iscariot era is untouchable, those songs transport me to an amazing place in my heart and soul
Adore (My favourite album ever - from any band)
Jimmy’s brother, Mr. Chamberlin, was our middle school football coach and teacher. I’ll never forget the time jimmy showed up to class to give something to his brother. He came and went and I asked, “who is that guy, he looks like the drummer for the smashing pumpkins.” Mr. Chamberlin said, “That’s my brother, Jimmy, and he is.”
Clearly you are an adult now, there are millions of Mr Chamberlins, you can address him by his first name.
Wow that's really cool!
Badass
@@CodeNameV13🤣 that still happens
I am very glad we didn't lose Jimmy to his addiction.
Absolutely. We’ve lost too many of the greats.
This is the old establishment narrative to keep the drugs pumping in the new generation.
Glad he's been well for years now. He's an absolute killer on the drums. One of the best.
no doubt an absolute animal on the kit
Anthony Kiedis said Jimmy Chamberlin was a “Monster... Who drank and used and caroused like a fucking gorilla...” which is quite telling of how crazy I bet Jimmy was. Literally coming from a guy who witnessed one bandmate die, and another try his hardest to, unsuccessfully thankfully. Glad a few made it out of the crazy 90’s
Anthony Kiedis is one to talk... Chester that he is.🙄💯💀
I listened to way more Smashing Pumpkins than I did Nirvana back in the day. Jimmy is probably the greatest drummer in America, possibly the world, and I mean that.
Must be the only bands ypu heard lol
Siamese Dream is definitely one of the best albums ever made.
Mellon Collie too
Yes. But GISH kicks more ass
@@radiohead68stay off the drugs. Gish is not better than Siamese Dream lmao. That’s insane.
He is one of the best drummers, it's that jazz background which makes great drummers too I've noticed. Pity he hit the drugs, downfall of many stars. Good to see him back on the straight and narrow.
My former boss is neighbors with Jimmy Chamberlain. He’s still around the Chicago area, and I’m glad to hear he’s doing well.
My former landscapers brothers sister -in laws husband’s second cousin doesn’t live in Chicago at all.
One of the best drum/guitar combos to come out of the 90s. Saw them in Austin after Jimmy had already been replaced, was bummed but still a good show
When I was a kid in the 90s learning to play drums, the Smashing Pumpkins were the band I would try to learn to play the most. Just the two albums SD and MIS had such a diverse sound and tons of great tracks. I still remember trying to learn tonight tonight and finally getting it without messing up the ending. Wish I still had time to play like when I was a kid.
Still playing, still trying to get jelly belly perfected. Just found a live show from 1993 on TH-cam, them at their peak and it is INCREDIBLE
intro to jellybelly is no picnic
@@grahamjarman it gives me nightmares. Hell I pushed thru it. I basically took drum lessons for 3 months in 03. Then nirvana came into my scene. Literally stoped drums just to play guitar like kurt.
THEN in 05 I was with my mom driving home idk if we had the station on or we flipped to it. But once I heard, the world is a vampire......
Snapped my head told my mom to shut up. I remember getting more and more and more interested. Which then made me say over and over" Who is this! Mom who the fuck"
Found out it was the smashing pumpkins, Billy corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain were my everything. Fuck nirvana that's shit boring. Billy plucked me up and said " HERE, you go Dylan I'll help....."played full albums gish, siamese, melon, adore machina was a little iffy for me idk why. Anyway Chamberlain was my guy, It was right when Youtune just came out and just being astonished with everything. I played guitar and drums to those albums. Drums took a while, but you push thru it, you watch what he does over,and over again. Then I started my own groove. Play you heros thru and thru doesn't matter if your wrong just DO IT
@@hollowify_tensa_zangetsu machina has a few tracks i like but the mix and production is fuct
I never got to see the full line up. I saw them during the Machina tour when Melissa Auf de Mar replaced Darcy. I hope you'll cover her departure.
Same here. Saw her with the Pumpkins at the Tsongas arena in Lowell Mass back in 2000. Her 2004 solo CD is amazing. Also saw her with Hole in 1998.
Same for the first time I saw them, San Diego Open Air Theatre, 2000. Anyone from this era also blown away by the resurgence of the Machina Era cover of 'Once in a Lifetime' at recent live shows?
Yeah the Darcy story is more interesting and arguably sadder. The circumstances around her departure were quite odd. She thought she was gonna be a movie star, the movie never got made and she was arrested by Chicago police a year later for buying crack. Her plastic surgeries were botched and she has sadly lost her beauty. I'm just glad she is sober and healthy now, from what I've heard.
Im the latest Dickies drummer, and have been for this past decade. Sometimes this story is somewhat haunting. Like a message from Melvoin, telling me every now and again, "be careful".
If you life long enough you'll learn that everything comes full circle, sometimes more then once so it's best to remember those who were with you from the start, not just for the ride & to be with you at the finish line. Kudos for Jimmy & Billy maturing past their past and embracing the new while honouring what brought them together in the beginning. Fuck me I miss the good old '90's.
90s were such a good time my dude
I miss the 90s, the 00s, before everything turned to dog shit.
So do i! I like the 2000s and 2010s enough during the good times, but nothing like the 1990s in my 20s!
Some things do come full circle but "everything"?
Really?!
Jimmy also rocked with Billy in the short-lived, but good, Zwan. I saw them live at a small venue in Nagoya, Japan. Excellent show!
Glad to see him overcome what he had gone through over the years prior. The dude has amazing chops, definitely one of the standout drummers of his era
The dude recorded United States in one take. sick skills!
The not fatal overdose was in Portugal not Spain. @7:30
The Everlasting Gaze is deff an underrated tune
Hey dude
I'd love to see some longer form docos from you dude. You seem to dig up some amazing facts for your short vids. You ever thought about doing a 20 or 30 min doco on one of your fav bands orisoc industry stories you've heard or found?
I have to say, it’s so great to see the healing and growth both WPC and Jimmy have had, and to see the group (mostly) together again, creating and enjoying themselves. Too many talented and loved people leave us, these stories could have turned out so differently and much worse. Great work RNRTS.
One thing I appreciate about this channel...
You never sneak in video advertisements.
It gets really annoying after awhile.
I was at that Madison square garden show..Crazy times!! Was lucky enough to see pumpkins in the 90s and also a few years ago..new to the channel and loving it so far!!
Amazing video and great content as usual. If I may, I suggest pausing some more in recording the storyteller voice-over. Especially, following the commas and points. It will give a much more pleasant experience for us to listen to and engage with. Hope it helps, keep up the great work!
He's a fantastic drummer, I love his style. Watch some of the interviews with him when he plays.... he's just amazing.
One of my favorite bands. I saw them a few shows after they resumed the US tour after firing Jimmy Chamberlain. The friendship between Billy and Jimmy is probably the strongest of all the original Pumpkins members. Billy probably did save his life by firing him.
You said the problem was "egos" plural. I belive it was "ego" singular. And that ego was Corgan's.
Is there something wrong with the video? I'm just seeing blurry visualizations.
The overdose wasn't in Spain. It was in Portugal, Cascais after a concert in a bull fight arena
heroine?
Why is the whole video blurred out?
Siamese Dream... Definitely in my top 5 favorite albums of all time. So fucking good man.
An absolutely amazing drummer, with endless reach and such a groove to his style. It is impressive how many years he has been playing with Corgan. Now, I am a huge fan of Corgan as a songwriter, but he is surely no easy guy to live alongside on a bus for a decade or two. But it is for the greater good that these two geniuses found each other.
Im fairly sure nobody misses Iha, but Im sad that D'arcy and Jimmy aren't in a band together. They were such an awesome rhythm section really. JC, you are badass.
You do know that James Iha returned also?
And he was missed. D'Arcy had the least talent in the band by a long way.
@@chilly6470 I would say D’arcy plays the bass better than Iha the guitar. But I was actually talking about personality; Jimmy and D’arcy from the get go seemed like the two most likable members - Corgan and Iha unbearable.
Saying this as a fan since 94! xD
Nobody misses Iha because you don't really miss someone if they're currently in the band. Billy Jimmy and James have been the core members since 2018.
I remember this going down. I saw the pumpkins in Perth Western Australia shortly before the drama.
Best drummer of the 90s alternative era!
Such an epic band. The real deal kids !
Chamberlain is one of the very few drummers who have a distinctive tone. I've been a guitar player for over 30 years, so I don't pay much attention to drummers, I could tell immediately that he was back in the band before ever hearing anyone actually saying that he was, just from hearing the first song from the album when I heard it on the radio.
Sam Mccandless is an amazing kick ass drummer too that is incredibly underrated
No pay attention?? Drummers mus pay att to all instruments ..u mus not b 2 gd jus a solo guy in tune wit only urself
@@INFJparadox I'm just coming at it from the point that I cant tell many drummers from what they're playing, like I can with other guitar players or (obviously) singers.
I remember being in the car with my friend going through a drive through carwash with the hard rock station on, and hearing a Pumpkin song that was clearly new. And just from the snare drum I could tell. I said "this sounds like the old drummer," and my friend said "I was just about to say the same thing." The DJ confirmed it. That's Judy something that stands out to me.
Definitely not "very few". You need to step up your musical ear game.
@@Pugetwitch okay dude, I'll sleep well at night knowing you're out there doing it.
Learn to spell and communicate in full sentences and then maybe you'll have something to contribute.
Probably on of the most slept on drummers of all time. The guy is a beast on some tracks!
This whole video is just a blur. I don’t get it
Maybe you should research how healthy and positive Jimmy is as a person, especially now. Sensationalists gonna be sensational.
Been a fan since Gish and so glad I got to see the Pumpkins back in the day with D'Arcy. We could have lost Jimmy so many times and thank God he is still with us. Can't wait to see them again in November, but wish D'Arcy was on tour with them. That is an interesting backstory of Billy not asking D'Arcy to re-join the band. 💜💜💜
Yeah you have to wonder if it's just Billy's ego, attitude and viewpoints, D'arcy herself or a combination of both.
@@The_Real_DCT unfortunately, I think it’s Billy’s ego
@@The_Real_DCT I read a while back that Billy didn't think she was actually good enough. Also--and this shocked and saddened me--the band were never actually *friends (of course not including James and D'Arcy since they were together). D'Arcy said she would have come back had Billy asked. Yes, I'm sure Billy has a big ego--he is a genius after all ;-)
I don’t think Darcy can play well enough anymore
Darcy is not a musician. She's just there for the "cool" factor of having a girl on bass. But she can't play at all. She's a joke. This is why eventually these hacks get cycled out. The other people in the bands get tired of the sound and vibe being dragged down to unacceptable levels. Same thing happened to Alec Jon Such from bon Jovi. Enough was enough. Get it together. Learn how to actually play.
8:53 'Metal health stability'. Hell yes.
Interesting video. I remember circa 1994 passing by the Reading Festival on the road to London and it happened that I asked the car driver to scan through the radio stations, I didn't know SP were Live on stage, anyway I heard SP live broadcast on the radio and I said turn it up, I love that band. But it got even louder, we were confused for a minute until we realised the actual volume of the bass at the gig was passing into the car as we drove past the Festival😂
Being a drummer I was amazed Jimmy was playing those fast songs waayy faster live but the tempos were a bit all over the place so I figured he was coked up at the gig.
Jimmy was and IS the greatest drummer of all time. My wife and I had the pleasure of seeing the Pumpkins twice and I always told her to clap the loudest for Jimmy!
Jimmy was nothing short of BRILLIANT in those years with The Pumpkins. If you want to hear how incredibly versatile he was.. give listen to _Pastichio Medley_
One of the greatest drummers of all time, second of the 90s after Danny Carey (the greatest of all time IMO)
Never been a fan of the Pumpkins, but do remember watching Jimmy play Tonight Tonight back in 95 I think and being blown away at how clever he played in that.
Saw the original band many times. They were never the same after 1996.
It was like a lime green colored set. He had his kit for the Machina tour painted that same color. Great video on a sad subject. So glad he's still here and still working... he could have slipped away with Jonathan that night in New York. His work here was not done... not by a long shot.
I've been to four Pumpkins shows:
MCATIS, Machina pre-tour, Machina, and Zeitgeist.
So I've never seen the original Pumpkins lineup, but I've seen each of them playing.
SP was nothing to sneeze at with Matt Walker on drums, then Melissa auf der Mar on bass, and then Jeff Shreoder on lead guitar. However,
The MCATIS material played by Chamberlin was quite a different animal than Walker's. It went from a vicious domestic pet to feral animal spotting rage and violence. The Adore songs were amazing on the album, burning like embers of good memories of the horrible years. Chamberlain crushed those; him playing them turned them into black diamonds, like hard and sharp, and beautiful and cursed. To Sheila and Ava Adore were absolutely pornographic with his drums and he turned Perfect into a lava flow of biting and searing sarcasm. There's Billy and then there's Billy with Jimmy. Billy always plays and sings like he's assaulting your soul; when he's with Jimmy it's as if he's trying to murder you with his music.
I always researched this thing with the keyboard players death, here and in other outlets they say the band was playin in NYC at MSG. I was at I believe Melvoins last show, I went the second of 2 nights at the USAir Arena in Landover MD on July 10th 1996, if there was any show at MSG it was cancelled.
Jimmy's yellow drum kit was among Billy's quarrels? What color is the Gish guitar again?
one of the best drummers of the late 90's for sure... i saw one of the last concerts in late 2000 with the original lineup, it was a very sad, depressing show even, like they were just looking forward to it being over.
Why not the early 90s?
Uh best of the early not even close, maybe the Alice in chains guy
My memory of the Pumpkins as a band throughout the 2000s/2010s is of Corgan AND Jimmy, he stuck with Billy as much as his addiction let him.
My friend Steve was his sponsor in Narcotics Anonymous back in the day. Sadly, Steve passed away a few years ago due to his addictions. He was a solid dude and I can still picture his face and voice. Sometimes I wonder if Jimmy knows that Steve died.
At 6:25. wtf is blurred out
I have a suggestion for a topic that you could make your shortest story ever. List of people Billy Corgan never had a feud with :)
I still think Jimmy brought a LOT of that jazz style playing to the rock side of things. I am so glad that he beat his demons and that Billy brought him back into the fold. Smashing Pumpkins is THE sounds for 90's youth.
This was really good. Thanks bro…
Cheers jimmy is one of my fav drummers with Stephen perkins and tim alexander
Wow. TH-cam made you blur out cherubs? Jeezus.
James did the best thing he could do by playing with A Perfect Circle. A perfect circle is what Smashing Pumpkins was supposed to be..
No.
Saw them in 2019, Corgan, Iha and Chamberlain no Wretsky but they sounded great
🔥THNX!🔥
Now I absolutely love Adore BUT the Pumpkins totally lost their magic once Jimmy was gone.
True. Jimmy's drumming is definitely a part of The Pumpkins' magic. Everything after Zeitgeist until Jimmy's return in 2015 is more like Corgan solo work. Of course he and James are back and the new rock opera album is going to be epic.
I feel like the base sound of the Pumpkins is Corgan and Chamberlain, I like James and D’arcy. But, Corgan and Chamberlain is where the sound is!
Jimmy’s drumming is essential to the bands early sound. Especially “Gish”.
Was a big pumpkins fan until Billy assumed the uncle fester look. Seen them for 9.98 low dough show sponsored by 98rock at the ritz theater in Ybor city. This was the Gish tour I'll never forget he came out in some day glo polyester dress from the sixties and killed it . I was hooked. They was just in town with Janes addiction I would assume they was co headliners because Janes addiction ain't gonna play a 45 minute set and be done that would be criminal.😀
To me Siamese Dream is in my top 5 albums of all time.When that album came out my grades that semester in college suffered because I took so much time locked in my bedroom at my dirty 5 guys living in a slob house trying to learn every note on guitar,both guitars.
I dunno. Every band I've ever played in has had a "If you're wired, you're fired" rule; i.e. if you were too messed up to play/rehearse/dealwith band business/tour without causing problems, you were encouraged to take your instrument and find somewhere else to play.
8:55 Safety is incorrectly spelled.
I am so glad that addiction didnt take another brilliant person from us. Thankfully he is here and still kicking ass!
Joliet is pronounced JOE-lee-et. Not trying to be an ass or anything, but I hear people mispronounce it all the time.
Tomato/Tahmato.
@@SteveFrench_420 not in this case. The way I phonetically spelled it out is the way the city’s name is supposed to be pronounced.
Please do more videos on Stryper, Winger, Nickelback, and Creed
In the 90's, l listened to The Smashing Pumpkins more than anyone.
The drumming of SP, UØ & TMV, made me who I am today. JC, tyty for all you showed me.
I seen them in Charlotte. I think it might of been the last show of the tour or the last one they played as a group It was a great show billy corgan didn’t wanna great home. He closed the show out by himself. It was epic
I worked that show. The local paper Creative Loafing had given the Pumpkins a bad review, said they were long-winded and pretentious.
We were supposed to load out by 11 and Corgan soloed until way after midnight…
Those Midwest vowels, yeesh
Make a video about Zwan Please!😁
Jimmy will always be my favourite drummer.
The best drummer of the four horseman bands hands down, jimmy chamberlain is an idol to me always will be
cant see shit..... all blurried
Cool story. He worked for MUSICIAN PRINCE, lmao. How bout icon, Prince was the coolest cat on earth ya dig. And I'm glad Jimmy got the help he needed.
Saw the SPs on Kimmel tonight, it was Jimmy C on the skins & they still rock hard.
It's because he was junking it up! I'm glad he got over that period of his life. The whole band was a bunch of weirdos but JC was probably the one person in the band that was actually friends with BC back then.
One of the greatest rock drummers of all time.
Nope! Not at all. Rick Allen is imo
@@nortondone5311 Allen is unreal! More talent in one arm than most drummers.
Jonanthan Melvoin was the brother of Suzannah and Wendy Melvoin from Princes band. I didn't know he was part of "The Family" too. Small world. Sad he had to die from drugs. I'm sure we would have had lost many more if the Fentanyl situatoion had started decades earlier
Jolly ette Illinois 😅😅
Dude, Dave Navarro is Janes's Addiction guitarist. He played BRIEFLY in RHCP. Wow...
He was in RHCP at the time when he was Jimmy’s sponsor though…
Al Jourgensen is the vocalist for Ministry. Connolly was in the band for a short period but was not the singer
Great video.
I got in SP with there 2nd album. But then also got into the 1st album. When the 3rd album came out i got into them even more. Always loved Chamberlins drumming. When i saw them live he made the drumming look so effortless. When Adore came out and i saw it was a new drummer i wasn't happy. But Adore ended up being one of my favorite albums from them even though it was stylistically different. And i saw the tour for that album. Other drummers came after that and albums i didn't like so much like the Machina albums. and i ended up losing interest in the band until i heard the album Oceania which got me back into them again. But after that album i only heard a handful of newer songs that never peaked my interest enough to check out the entire album. So i can't really give an opinion on the albums after Oceania. Maybe Jimmy should try playing with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson of RUSH. Or a new band and try something creatively different.
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4:20 Thanks to Kurt Cobain unleash Alternative/Grunge music in 1991. It was ok to listen to other bands. All those bands that came BEFORE got popular and platinum, after the Release of Nevermind. I was, we where, there. We remember the Early 1990s. FACT.
I'm currently taking lessons from Jimmy's teacher Charlie Adams. He's maybe the best drum teacher in Nashville.
I saw them with the original line up. Someone in the crowd shouted something lewd at Darcy and Billy stopped singing and started lecturing the audience. This prompted hundreds of teenagers to catcall and proposition her. They played the rest of the set without any enthusiasm and left without an encore. It was a rubbish gig.
None of this is news.... all of this was known almost 30 years ago
Yeah, the band was high drama... But worth every penny. I saw them 3 times on siamese dream tour and they were top of their game world class killers live. I think that in the first 5 times I saw them, and of the times Billy stormed off the stage for any variety of reasons. He was a grunge Morrissey, in that sense. But man, there was no one better when it was good
Great story!
Such a great drummer.....and Gish is their best album.
Damn I kinda thought he was dead! Glad he’s not and it’s time for a Smashing Pumpkins to release a banger album.
Corgan wouldn't be shit without Chamberlin, he came to that realization in the 2010s