Assume you’ve received what it takes to carry your personal alongside Billy Corgan? Now’s your probability to show it.

Smashing Pumpkins have introduced an open name on social media for a further guitarist to affix the band. The group, which consists of frontman Corgan, guitarist James Iha and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, is wanting so as to add a fourth member to the collective after guitarist Jeff Schroeder introduced his departure from Pumpkins in October.

“The quantity of unimaginable recollections created over the past 16 years with the band are nearly too quite a few to quantify,” wrote Schroeder on the group’s Instagram web page on the time. “Though it was a really troublesome resolution to make, I’ve determined to go away the band to make some house to discover a barely totally different path.”

Schroeder initially joined Pumpkins as a touring member in 2007 as a part of its reunion tour to help the album “Zeitgeist.” He continued to play on subsequent albums up till final yr’s “Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts,” which was launched in quite a few installments via 2023.

After all, the band has had quite a few lineup modifications since its founding in 1988. Corgan and Iha established Pumpkins with bassist Darcy Wretzky and Chamberlin, and through the years has cycled members out and in together with Melissa Auf der Maur, Mike Byrne and Nicole Florentino. Corgan has remained the only constant member, barring the group’s breakup in 2000 and reunion in 2006.

Potential new guitarists are inspired to ship a resume and supplies to Pumpkins’ administration firm. The brand new member might have a shot at beginning on a excessive notice, because the group is scheduled to hit the highway in 2024 supporting Inexperienced Day on their world The Saviors Tour.