Jeff Schroeder Leaves the Smashing Pumpkins After More Than 15 Years With the Band

Jeff Schroeder is leaving the Smashing Pumpkins, the guitarist and his former bandmates introduced in jointly shared statements right this moment. “Though it was a really tough determination to make, I’ve determined to depart the band to make some area to discover a barely totally different path,” Schroeder defined. “I want the band all of the success sooner or later. I can be watching and listening.”

Of their assertion, the Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, and James Iha mentioned: “We thank Jeff for his ceaseless dedication to the band and our nice followers. Phrases can’t categorical our gratitude and appreciation for the buddy he’s, and being there for SP within the good occasions and the robust occasions, too.”

Schroeder joined the Smashing Pumpkins when the band reunited within the mid-2000s, initially serving as a substitute for founding guitarist James Iha (who ultimately rejoined the band and performed alongside Schroeder). He didn’t carry out on the 2007 comeback album Zeitgeist, however did participate within the accompanying tour. His first studio album with the group was 2012’s Oceania, and he went on to play on Monuments to an Elegy, Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun., Cyr, and this 12 months’s Atum.

Jeff Schroeder:

It’s straightforward to say now that after I joined The Smashing Pumpkins in 2007 I had no thought what I used to be stepping into. The chance appeared to have come out of nowhere. I used to be at UCLA engaged on my doctorate in comparative literature when an in depth buddy messaged me and mentioned The Smashing Pumpkins have been searching for a guitar participant. Being an enormous fan of the band, the audition was one thing I threw myself into. It was the most effective selections I’ve made in my life. The quantity of unbelievable reminiscences created during the last 16 years with the band are virtually too quite a few to quantify. Though it was a really tough determination to make, I’ve determined to depart the band to make some area to discover a barely totally different path. I wish to thank Billy, Jimmy, James, and Jack [Bates] for being each fantastic bandmates and even higher pals. I’ll completely miss sharing the stage with you. I want the band all of the success sooner or later. I can be watching and listening.

The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, and James Iha:

We thank Jeff for his ceaseless dedication to the band and our nice followers. Phrases can’t categorical our gratitude and appreciation for the buddy he’s, and being there for SP within the good occasions and the robust occasions, too.