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San Francisco: The '90s Are Half Back With Smashing Pumpkins Sorta-Reunion

If at first you don't succeed, you might be Billy Corgan. The most recognizable member of alternative standard bearers the Smashing Pumpkins has never quite been the same since the band broke up in 2000; short-lived side projects like Zwan and his solo album got noticed not as much for their musical merit as for comments Corgan made about his past among the squash fruit. Yet in 2005 Corgan took out a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times announcing he wanted to reunite the band. So, the Smashing Pumpkins are back!

...Kinda. It's true that a band called the Smashing Pumpkins will be in residence at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium from July 22 until August 1, playing new and classic songs both (according to the San Francisco Chronicle's CultureBlog). But guitarist James Iha and bassist D'Arcy Wretzky won't be there; they never agreed to be in the "reunion," and somehow that's not mentioned anywhere on the press releases. So, for full disclosure: That pie is only 50 percent Pumpkin. Buy tickets ($25) at your own risk.

[Photo: The Chronicle Baby Blog]

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