Jimmy Chamberlin
Jimmy Chamberlin
James Joseph "Jimmy" Chamberlinis an American drummer and record producer. He is best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. Following the 2000 breakup of the band, Chamberlin joined Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan in the supergroup Zwan and also formed his own group, the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex. In 2005, Chamberlin joined Corgan in reforming The Smashing Pumpkins; he eventually left the group in March 2009, though he would return again in 2015 for a summer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth10 June 1964
CountryUnited States of America
I can't take days off and play like I did last night. Maybe some people can, but I can't.
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.
All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.
The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.
You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.
My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.
Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.
I feel really good in the teacher role.
I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.
I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.
My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.
If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.
When I'm at home I practice everyday.
The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.