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WANNA BE A SMASHING PUMPKIN?

POSTED BY MELISSA_ATTREE, MARCH 10, 2010 01:48 PM | PERMALINK | 0 VOTES

Audition to Join the Smashing Pumpkins!

Another day, another lineup change with the Smashing Pumpkins -- but this time YOU could end up joining the ranks of the alt-rock band!

Billy Corgan announced today that bassist Ginger Pooley -- who replaced Melissa Auf der Maur when the Pumpkins "reunited" in 2007 -- has left the band to "to raise her new baby with her husband." So, The Bald One is launching a search for a new bassist the same way he found 20-year-old drummer Mike Byrne, who replaced founding drummer Jimmy Chamberlin when he left last year: by holding open auditions.