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Jimmy Chamberlin
(August 2005 Issue)
Zwan Song When Smashing
Pumpkins disbanded in late 2000, vocalist Billy Corgan and
drummer
Jimmy Chamberlin decided to take a year off before working together on
another project. Those plans quickly
changed. "After three months of
complete boredom," Chamberlin recalls, "Billy asked if I wanted to go
out to Salt Lake and
work on some songs. I said, "Of course!""
Once
in Salt Lake, the two unexpectedly hooked up with a long-time
friend,
guitarist Matt Sweeney. The trio began recording together and
discovered a great chemistry. "It was a weird cosmic
thing," Jimmy
remembers. "We figured we should do some shows and have fun." Guitarist
David Pajo and bassist Paz
Lenchantin completed the lineup of a band
they named Zwan. "We all shook hands and decided Zwan was going to be
a
long-haul thing," he says. Their debut, Mary Star Of The Sea, was released in January 2003.
Zwan's
touring schedule kept Chamberlin on the road for the first half
of 2003, as the band played extensively stateside and visited
Europe
and Japan. "The Pumpkins have a huge fanbase in Japan," Jimmy says.
"It's cool to see a lot of them are
hanging in there with Zwan. The
band is still very much in the embryonic stages, but every night's show
is better than the
night before."
Gail Worley
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