Are you a strapping young lad who plays bass and/or keyboard? Do you have nice cheekbones and toned biceps? Do you want to play music with the man who penned the groundbreaking album The Future Embrace? Well, you’re in luck all 92 of you who answered ‘yes’ to that last question. Billy Corgan — the Smashing Pumpkin who has become somewhat of a media punching bag for the past, I don’t know, 10 years or so — is holding auditions to find a couple presumably young, strapping, nice cheek-boned, toned bicep’d men to “man” the drums and keyboards for his revolving-door incarnation of The Smashing Pumpkins.
Corgan “hired” Mike Byrne last year, after holding auditions for a drummer to replace Jiminy Cricket Chamberlin. But what about his current band? Apparently, current bassist Ginger Pooley has to attend to her newborn, while Mark Tulin (Electric Prunes) has agreed (contractually??) to stay on board until a new bandmate can be “hired.” Tulin: you need a newborn to get out of this one.
Anyway, if you’re interested, email your resume and prog-rock background (seriously) to pumpkinsbass@gmail.com or pumpkinskeys@gmail.com. All submissions are due March 31.
Oh, and in case you weren’t keeping track, The Smashing Pumpkins have only released three tracks of the proposed 44-track album, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope. Though, I’m honestly more excited to see how many musicians Corgan will have to go through to actually finish the album.
• The Smashing Pumpkins: http://www.smashingpumpkins.com
• The Future Embrace (Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_Embrace
