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Jimmy Chamberlin

Legacy above finances; artistry above fame.

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Jimmy Chamberlin

Even though I’m a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.

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Jimmy Chamberlin

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don’t take it for granted, not even for a second.

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Jimmy Chamberlin

I’ve learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it’s not, really. It’s pretending that it’s a band.

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Jimmy Chamberlin

I always wanted to be in this role, as a songwriter. In the Pumpkins, it was always impossible because Corgan would wake up and write five songs. He was so prolific, there wasn’t a lot of room for anyone else.

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Jimmy Chamberlin

After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.

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Jimmy Chamberlin

I want to be ‘Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who’s done many things,’ not just ‘that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.’

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Jimmy Chamberlin

Part of the reason that I left the Pumpkins is because it was becoming all-consuming. Being the only member of that band who had two kids and a wife, it was a hard decision, but ultimately it was a decision I’m comfortable with.

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Jimmy Chamberlin

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

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Jimmy Chamberlin

Today’s consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That’s something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?

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Jimmy Chamberlin

I left the Pumpkins in 2010, and I just took a year off to hang with my family and be with my daughter and my son and my wife, and just get acclimatised to being off the road. Then I started looking at what was going to be the next part of my career/legacy, whatever you want to call it.

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Jimmy Chamberlin

Music is my life. It is sacred.

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