Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlain has reassured fans that his band will produce more music, following the publication of an interview in which he appears to suggest that the group won't release any more albums after 2007 comeback 'Zeitgeist', and which fans interpreted to mean that a split was pending.
Clarifying what he meant, Chamberlain explained that it's just the album format they want to leave behind, not the music. The drummer said in a statement on the band's website: "The Smashing Pumpkins, will continue to write, record, release, and perform as long as we are able. Some of you may have read bits of an interview that was done in confidence by yours truly in which I say that the Pumpkins probably won't record CDs anymore. What I meant by this is this: although we may not use the 'album' or 'full length CD' as a format anymore, we will write and record music until we are dead".
Obviously a bit sore at the fact that his comments were made public, he continued: "We are not going away. I could go on about how I was stolen from, violated, lied to by some ignoble journalist, but what's the point?"