Angst-ridden, avant-garde troubadour, Billy Corgan, apparently is no longer happy going it alone. In a full page advertisement in today's Chicago Tribune for his first solo effort TheFutureEmbrace, Corgan declared his wish to reform the Smashing Pumpkins:

When I played the final Smashing Pumpkins show on the night of December 2, 2000, I walked off the stage believing that I was forever leaving a piece of my life behind. I naively tried to start a new band, but found that my heart wasn’t in it. I moved away to pursue a love that I once had but got lost. So I moved back home to heal what was broken in me, and to my surprise I found what I was looking or. I found that my heart is in Chicago, and that my heart is in the Smashing Pumpkins.

For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to be among the first to know that I have made plans to renew and revive the Smashing Pumpkins. I want my band back, and my songs, and my dreams. In this desire I feel I have come home again.

The band's original lineup included James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, D'Arcy Wretzky and Corgan. Melissa auf der Maur replaced Wretzky in 2000 shortly before the group disbanded.

In post break-up message board musings, Corgan blamed Iha for the split and took a swing at Wretzky:

The truth of the matter is that James Iha broke up the Smashing Pumpkins. Not me, not Jimmy, but James. Did it help that D'arcy was fired for being a mean-spirited drug addict, who refused to get help? No, that didn't help keep the band together, not at all.

Hmm, good luck getting all of the original members back, Billy.