Hailing from Chicago, Illinois, alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins were formed in 1988 byfrontman Billy Corgan (lead vocals, lead guitar) and James Iha (rhythm guitar). The band has included Jimmy Chamberlin (drums), D'arcyWretzky (bass guitar), Melissa Auf derMaur (bass guitar), and currently includes Mike Byrne (drums), Nicole Fiorentino (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Jeff Schroeder (rhythm guitar) among its membership. Disavowing the punk rock roots of many of their alt-rock contemporaries, the Pumpkins have a diverse, densely layered, and guitar-heavy sound, containing elements of gothic rock, heavy metal, dream pop, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, shoe-gazing style production, and, in later recordings…electronica.
As he set to work on Monuments to an Elegy, the second "album within an album" within the larger Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project, Billy Corgan slowly whittled down Smashing Pumpkins to himself and guitarist Jeff Schroeder. This narrowing of the group – the duo is supported by the hired hand of Mötley Crüe's drummer Tommy Lee – ultimately doesn't matter much because ever since the Pumpkins' 2007 comeback, the secret of Corgan's complete control of the group was out in the open. …
Vieuphoria is a long form music video by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, originally released on VHS on October 4, 1994 and DVD on November 26, 2002. It was certified gold by the RIAA in late 1996. The video consists of various Smashing Pumpkins performances, mostly from the Siamese Dream tour, interspersed with comedy bits (including "Meet the Frogs"), interviews, featurettes, and other short videos. Smashing Pumpkins rose up from the Chicago underground scene, via Nirvana's indie label Sub Pop, to massive mainstream pop success. Innovative and influential, they were some of the oddball darlings of MTV. VIEUPHORIA is a collection of Pumpkins performances, captured between 1992 and 1994. It includes European TV performances of "Disarm" and "Geek U.S.A." and acoustic concert renditions of "Cherub Rock" (from MTV Europe) and "Mayonnaise." All performances are previously unavailable anywhere else.