James Iha not in the new Smashing Pumpkins
 

heard it first, Rollingstone.com

At least you can still see sonic youth live with the original members (we're not counting bert anymore..really) , no reunion crap either.

not surprising, him and corgan hate each other.
I remember reaind that Iha left teh metro after the last pumpkins show without saying a word to Corgan.

Iha will be rocking, with or without Corgan.

why would he go back to the pumkpins when a perfect circle are a much better band??? just putting that out there.

is D'arcy in it?

Smashing Pumpkins fucking blow.

hahahahahahaha, funniest post in quite a while.

Haha, indeed.

I don't give a shit if Iha's not in it, it'll still be good.

Ok, I give a little bit of a shit.

But all it really needs is Billy and Jimmy.

No Iha?

Okay, the small, microscopic thread of hope I had of this Pumpkins album being decent, is now gone.

The most I can even say to this is like... "lol."

No surprise, though.

I'm holding out on judgement until I hear the new stuff.

Because, James was responsible for a lot of the crazy guitar stuff. And, he wasn't a control-freak like Billy. Also, I drawn a lot more inspiration from James than I do Billy.

I can understand D'arcy not getting involved either, but I can also understand why not on both sides.
Billy: D'arcy=Crackhead
D'arcy: Billy=control-freak

Edit:
For the record, I do like some of their later stuff without D'arcy. "Real Love" is in my top 10 Pumpkins songs.

If we're talking Machina II, I'd like to mention my love for "In my body".

I can't wait to hear where they go with this.

Edit: Going to give Real Love another listen now.

Haha, yeah! Testify!

Hopefully they will play some UK dates other than the reading and leeds festivals. I'd like to see them just to hear some of the old pumpkins songs live.

This is indeed sad, I was really hoping for it to be a full reunion. D'arcy has to be in the pumpkins shes sooooooooo hot!....as is james actually

D'arcy is currently running 3 antique shops and looking after horses according to wikipedia!