Jimmy Chamberlin

Jimmy Chamberlin ( Joseph James ' Jimmy ' Chamberlin, born June 10, 1964 in Joliet, Illinois) is an American drummer who was best known as a founding member of the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins.

In the late 1980s he was, together with Billy Corgan, D' arcy Wretzky and James Iha to the first occupation of the Smashing Pumpkins. He was thrown for drug problems from the band in 1996. He joined temporarily the band The Last Hard Men at in which he of the Breeders grossed a self-titled album with Sebastian Bach of Skid Row and Kelley Deal, which was not published until 2001. One of their songs, a cover version of Alice Cooper's School's Out, was for the soundtrack of the movie Scream - Scream! be used. In 1999, he got back in the Smashing Pumpkins and published with these albums Machina / The Machines of God and Machina II / The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music, before the band finally broke up.

Chamberlin in 2001 founded the project, Jimmy Chamberlin Complex, which he recorded the album Life Begins Again on Sanctuary Records released in 2005. In addition, he played between 2001 and 2003 with Corgan in the band Zwan. With the reunited Smashing Pumpkins in 2007 he published the album Zeitgeist, which he also co-produced. In March 2009, Jimmy left the band. Since then, he is the group's drummer Skysaw.

Chamberlin has been married since 2002, with his wife, he has a son and a daughter.