SMASHING PUMPKINS INDUCTED INTO HOLLYWOOD ROCKWALK

Smashing Pumpkins were inducted into the Hollywood Rock Walk on Wednesday, April 23, and Corgan is glad it’s not another lame award.

The Smashing Pumpkins were enshrined in the Hollywood Rock Walk on April 23, and on hand to be presented into the walk and into the mud was Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. The band was arguably the biggest band of the 1990’s spawning such hits as “Disarm,” “Cherub Rock,” “1979,” “Bullet With Butterfly Wings,” “Zero,” and others.

After breaking up in 2000, the band reformed with a full page ad from Billy Corgan looking to complete the group. The band released Zeitgeist last year and toured the world once again, with the crowning performance at Live Earth. Corgan and Chamberlin talked about the honor.

[Chamberlin] “Yeah. It’s fantastic.” [Corgan] “I have to say I’m touched and kind of shocked. It’s so rare that something good happens to us.”

Corgan said the RockWalk means a lot to them as opposed to some of the awards in their genre, which he said sometimes go to “lame” bands.

“Coming from Alternative world you generally look at award suspiciously because for years those types of things went to the lame people. But looking out there at the people who have been inducted, it’s a lot of people we grew up listening to, and people we really respect. Even if the cool art world doesn’t recognize them, we still think they’re important. We feel we’re amongst the right group of people out there.”

Smashing Pumpkins join their rightful place next to The Cure, Ronnie James Dio, Slash, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and others.