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pretty darn cool, here is what it says on sp.com
Singer-songwriter-guitarist Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin of The Smashing Pumpkins will be inducted into Hollywood’s RockWalk on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at noon. Corgan and Chamberlin will be honored by fans with a special ceremony at Guitar Center in Hollywood.
The Smashing Pumpkins have created one of the most acclaimed bodies of work in music history. Formed in Chicago in 1988, The Smashing Pumpkins released Gish, their influential and platinum debut album in 1991. Their 1993 follow up, Siamese Dream, went four times platinum and produced the hit songs \"Disarm\" and \"Today.\" 1995 saw the release of a double album, Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard charts and spawned five singles \"Bullet with Butterfly Wings,\" \"1979,\" \"Zero,\" \"Tonight, Tonight\" and \"Thirty-Three.\" Following the release of this seven time Grammy® nominated and nine times platinum album, The Smashing Pumpkins contributed multiple songs to various compilations before releasing Adore, Machina/The Machines of God and Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music prior to their break-up in 2000.
On June 21, 2005, Corgan took out full-page advertisements in the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times to announce that he planned to reunite the band. More than two years later, Corgan and Chamberlin released the sixth Smashing Pumpkins album and first since 2000, Zeitgeist, which entered the Billboard charts at number two in July 2007 and earned a four star review in Rolling Stone. The acclaimed album also entered the charts in the Top Five in Canada (#1), New Zealand (#1), the U.K. (#4), Italy (#5) and Switzerland (#5), with more Top Ten debuts in Germany (#7), Holland (#7) and Australia (#8).
They also returned to the stage on May 22nd, 2007 in Paris, France before extensively touring the world including three overseas jaunts.
Hollywood’s RockWalk is the only sidewalk gallery dedicated to honoring those artists who have made a significant impact and lasting contribution to the growth and evolution of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Blues and R&B. The Smashing Pumpkins handprints will reside alongside the handprints, signatures, and faces of other equally accomplished musicians and innovators such as Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Bonnie Raitt, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Brian Wilson, Stevie Wonder, John Lee Hooker and Earth Wind & Fire among numerous others.
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i got this from a post on thepupkins.net:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters)
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan reluctantly accepted a low-grade honor in Hollywood on Wednesday, after revealing that he had spent a lot of time wondering whether it was \"a silly thing.\"
Corgan and bandmate Jimmy Chamberlin placed their hands in wet cement for the Rockwalk, a shrine of sorts outside a music instrument shop. A hundred or so fans turned up, outnumbered by the media and assorted band hangers-on.
\"I’m so used to bad vibes, people hating our band and throwing things at us. So it’s strange to be honored,\" Corgan told the crowd.
\"I had to think about it. I had to really lay in bed and think, ‘Is this a good thing? Is this a silly thing?’ I’m really honored. I’m really touched.\"
He expressed similarly mixed emotions about being in one of the most popular rock bands of the 1990s, saying membership in ’70s rock gods Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath might have been preferable.
Clearly in a philosophical mood, Corgan said Smashing Pumpkins represented \"an existential extension\" of himself. The only problem is that he does not always know who he really is.
\"So thank you for understanding that part of me that I don’t understand.\"
Corgan and Chamberlin, the band’s drummer, are the sole original members of the Chicago band, which enjoyed such modern-rock hits as \"Today\" and \"1979.\" Internal dissension led to the band’s break-up in 2000. Corgan resurrected the Pumpkins in 2005, but without guitarist James Iha and bassist D’Arcy Wretzky.
He told reporters after the induction ceremony that he has \"zero\" personal communication with Iha and Wretzky.
\"They should be here today. This is part of their legacy too,\" he said, adding they were not invited.
\"Our door is open, but … if people don’t walk through your door, what are you supposed to do? You can only be rejected so many times. You can only have so many overtures ignored.\"
Wretzky, who quit the band in 1999, has largely left the music business. Iha has kept busy with a variety of musical collaborations.
edit** i am adding pictures–got them from the sp.com website
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was it ever, cause i wore that crap, and you know what, to this day i can’t wear a tight pair of jeans. they have to be somewhat baggy, and cover my shoes. it’s that crazy? and i dress my son in pants like that. i just really like it. for the most part i think some of me is still stuck in the 90’s. i am glad billy isn’t, nice pink shirt, not a sweater.
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don’t get me started on mullets, ahhh
look what i just found on sp.com a video of the induction
here is the link
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