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This week's Spotlight focuses on the Austin, Texas-based rock band White Denim, which is scheduled to play Club Congress Saturday.
White Denim's lead singer is James Petralli, whose father is former major league catcher Geno Petralli.
Geno Petralli played 12 seasons for the Rangers and Blue Jays.
Petralli led all of baseball in passed balls with 35 in 1987, 20 in 1988, and 20 in 1990. His 35 passed balls established a Major League single-season record.
Most of Petralli's past balls occurred when he was catching a famous knuckleball pitcher.
For a chance to win an audio book tell us the name of that knuckleballer, who pitched until he was 46 years old.
Star reporter Kevin Smith is an avid collector of mornings after, enjoys bands in which members wear white belts, and could murder a pint of Stella at this very moment. He can be reached at the north east corner of Reid Park, between the hours of 1 and 6 a.m.
Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin leaves Smashing Pumpkins
03/20/2009 04:37 PM Kevin Smith
In better days…or worse. Probably worse.
I know, I know.
Try and contain yourselves.
Statement:
“The SMASHING PUMPKINS’ guitarist, singer, songwriter and founding member Billy Corgan has announced that drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has left the group. Chamberlin joined the band Corgan founded in Chicago in 1988 and played on all their albums except Adore (1998). Corgan will continue to write and record as SMASHINGPUMPKINS with plans to head into the studio this spring.”
Shouldn’t it now be known as “Smashing Pumpkin” then?
Sorry to lay this devastating news down on a Friday, you guys, but it’s better you hear it now.
This is probably going to spread like wildfire at SXSW and cast a tall, bald, nasally shadow over the whole weekend.
At the least, it’s totally going to steal the thunder of that Limp Bizkit reunion.
My guess is time will tell he got fired. This breaks my heart. Jimmy is the best in his game, and now we’ll have to hear Billy/Axl correlations which will be unwarranted.
Why unwarranted? Because Billy wrote all the music. Axl wrote virtually none. In my eyes, Billy gets to keep the name… though maybe it is time to retire it.
What’s with the sarcasm, jackass? One of the best bands of the 90s loses a member and you sit there and pass judgement on their work from your post as a blogger for a Tucson newspaper’s website? F you. The Pumpkins were never the pretentious SXSW type and should never be mentioned in the same article as Limp Bizkit. I’m not even sure why I’m bothering to respond since only two people have responded to your stupid post since Friday. There are too many snarky bloggers out there polluting the internet. You’re nothing new and many people do it better than you. I only hope you learn your place and stop criticizing the people who actually put something out there for people to enjoy.
Oh my christ, this is terrible.
— Ace 03/20/2009 04:53 PM #
My guess is time will tell he got fired. This breaks my heart. Jimmy is the best in his game, and now we’ll have to hear Billy/Axl correlations which will be unwarranted.
Why unwarranted? Because Billy wrote all the music. Axl wrote virtually none. In my eyes, Billy gets to keep the name… though maybe it is time to retire it.
— Lono 03/20/2009 10:47 PM #
What’s with the sarcasm, jackass? One of the best bands of the 90s loses a member and you sit there and pass judgement on their work from your post as a blogger for a Tucson newspaper’s website? F you. The Pumpkins were never the pretentious SXSW type and should never be mentioned in the same article as Limp Bizkit. I’m not even sure why I’m bothering to respond since only two people have responded to your stupid post since Friday. There are too many snarky bloggers out there polluting the internet. You’re nothing new and many people do it better than you. I only hope you learn your place and stop criticizing the people who actually put something out there for people to enjoy.
— Spanky 03/22/2009 08:07 PM #
….Billy?
— Kevin 03/23/2009 09:00 AM #