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Thanks to our good friend anonymous, we got a tip that Chamberlin will be playing the drums for a new record by Tyson Meade.  Meade, if you've never heard of him, is of influential & Billy Corgan favourite (who could have guessed) "Chainsaw Kittens". 

In an interview with NewsOK, Meade outlines the soon to be kickstarted project and that; "his old friend, ex-Smashing Pumpkin Jimmy Chamberlin, has agreed to play drums on the album."

So this
plus Chamberlin, could be rather interesting...

Be Awesome...

"Be awesome and just be different from every other drummer"

Lostprophets drummer, Luke Johnson, echo's Jimmy Chamberlin's (incidentally "[his] favourite drummer of all time") ethos in a new interview in Rhythm Magazine. 

I trust that in terms of legacy the most significant contribution an imitator will make is to illuminate and authenticate the true brilliance of the original.

Corgan Compares Chamberlin to Bonham

Corgan talks some sense this time;

Are there other things you admire about Zeppelin?
When John Bonham died, they announced the band is done. They didn't step back and think about it. I've always respected that, because he was their brother and they knew it wasn't gonna be the same without him. And I had to learn those lessons the hard way. When Jimmy Chamberlin left the band in '96, I thought, "I'll just get somebody. The band is big and we'll find somebody great. It won't be the same, but it'll be just as good in a different way." It just doesn't work like that. You just don't replace your brother like that.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-billy-corgan-on-vocal-smashing-pumpkins-fans-led-zeppelins-greatness-20120618#ixzz1yBBqjS1z

 

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