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Smashing Pumpkins are conducting open auditions for a brand new guitarist — giving followers an opportunity to hitch the band.
The Smashing Pumpkins introduced on Instagram on Friday, January 5 that they’re looking for an extra guitarist, and purposes are open to anybody.
At present, the band contains Billy Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlin, having misplaced their guitarist in October when Jeff Schroeder stepped down after 16 years. Schroeder joined the band via an open audition in 2007.
“The Smashing Pumpkins are looking for an extra guitarist. The applying course of is open to anybody who is perhaps ,” reads the band’s announcement. “Candidates might submit a resume and associated supplies right here.”
In Schroeder’s farewell assertion, he revealed he auditioned on a whim after a buddy messaged him in regards to the alternative whereas learning comparative literature at UCLA. “Being an enormous fan of the band, the audition was one thing I threw myself into. It was probably the greatest selections I’ve made in my life,” writes Schroeder. “The quantity of unbelievable recollections created over the past 16 years with the band are nearly too quite a few to quantify.”
“Though it was a really tough resolution to make, I’ve determined to depart the band to make some house to discover a barely totally different path,” he continues. “I wish to thank Billy, Jimmy, James, and Jack for being each fantastic bandmates and even higher pals. I’ll completely miss sharing the stage with you and need the band all of the success sooner or later.”
Smashing Pumpkins are heading again on the street for his or her European tour beginning June 7 — so the band has a couple of months to pick a guitarist and present them the ropes. After the European tour, the band is heading again to the States to hitch Inexperienced Day’s Saviors Tour, beginning July 29 in Washington, DC.