KidViciou$: Uh....the drummer, Jimmy Chamberlin, ISN'T DEAD!
When they were touring behind "Mellon Collie", longtime junkie Jimmy managed to OD the SP's touring keyboardist Jon Melvoin (trivia: he was Wendy Melvoin's brother. She used to play guitar for Prince in the Revolution and was in Purple Rain) and get arrested, so Uncle Fester booted him out of the Pumpkins.
SP used session drummers and drum machines on the gawdawful "Adore" and Jimmy went and cleaned up and raced cars. Billy, knowing that they sucked without him, brought him back for "Machina", which is why those albums RAWK.
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