Zwan Auditions...

Juan Alderete de la Peña, perhaps best known as the kick-ass bassist for Mars Volta, recounts his audition with Jimmy Chamberlin, Billy Corgan and Matt Sweeney...

http://pedalsandeffects.com/throwback-thursday-another-audition-billy-corrigan-and-zwan/

I don't undertstand Tumblr because I'm old....

but if you're young and hip, a fellow JC fan runs this page here: http://chamberatics.tumblr.com/ has a facebook set up https://www.facebook.com/Chamberatics if YOU'RE DOWN...

 

Also,don't forget Chamberlin will be playing tracks from his new record with Frank Catalano and Percy Jones @ Andy's Jazz Club in Chicago 31/08/2013. SO THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SPIN - Greatest Aleternative Drummers

 [D'oh- Just doing a bit of house-keeping behind the scenes and I realised I forgot to post this when it was published (21/05/2013). Also, to note Spin fucked up, they put an 8 on the number by accident]

#18 - Jimmy Chamberlin (Smashing Pumpkins)

So much of Smashing Pumpkins' classic sound is defined by Jimmy Chamberlin's titanium snare slaps and gargantuan fills, it's nearly impossible to imagine that when the now-48-year-old musician first saw Billy Corgan's then-trio in Chicago, it was accompanied by a drum machine. Corgan gets credit for writing (and, let's face it, playing) nearly all of the Pumpkins' songs, but their depth and drive are all rooted in Chamberlin's forceful redefinition of psychedelic hard rock. He trained as a jazz drummer, which helps explain how he can turn on a dime from militaristic rolls to swinging cymbals to tight rim shots on a track like "Tonight, Tonight." But his taut, thunderous playing on Gish opener "I Am One" and "Tristessa" and Siamese Dream's "Cherub Rock" and "Quiet" are the rudders that kept Corgan's turbulent ship on course.
Most Booming Moment: Siamese Dream standout "Geek U.S.A." marches to the beat of Chamberlin's smart, syncopated monsoon. CARYN GANZ

http://www.spin.com/articles/best-drummers-list-alternative-music/?slide=83 

Tyson Todd Meade... Updatearama

Think this video gives a good sense of some of the reasons Chamberlin may have chosen to work on Tyson Meade's new record...

THIS LAND PRESENTS: Tyson Meade from THIS LAND PRESS on Vimeo.

In other news, in his most recent update for backers of his kickstarter campaign, Meade writes;

Earlier this year I worked in my dear pal Trent Bell’s recording studio, and he has already mixed several of the songs. He clearly put his heart into it, and his personal commitment to this record has touched me deeply... I can say the same for Jimmy Chamberlin’s contributions. When I first heard his drum work from the first track he and I collaborated on, I cried. I knew that whatever Jimmy would contribute to this record would be amazing, but the way the songs he and I have worked on have turned out demonstrate just how much of his heart he put into this project. WOW is really all I can say, except to add how much I love Jimmy as well!

>>>>>>

http://absolutelygroundbreaking.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/hey-go-buy-this-now.html