No Rock And Roll Fun

IT WASN'T ME: Four years on, and Billy Corgan at last reveals "the truth" about the Pumpkins split - it was all that James Iha's fault, see, and that statement about how he was tired of fighting and everything? Just a cover to save Iha from - from what, exactly? Did Corgan think that Iha would have been so overwhelmed with people trying to shake his hand for bringing increasingly embarrassing Smashing Pumpkins project to an end? The whole thing puzzles us - no, really. We're getting the feeling that back in 2000, Corgan was such an ego he wanted people to believe it was all his decision - his band, his way, his choice, his pulling of the plug; but with hindsight he's thought it might look better if he wasn't the one with the fingerprints all over the candlestick in the library, so he's now released this statement through his website which is designed to make him look so good, so caring...

Although the real bottom line is: It's the year 2004. Who really cares who it was who broke up a fantastically over-rated band in 2000, which was four years after they'd released Mellon Collie and had become obviously just destined to disappear up their own ass?