The Smashing Pumpkin’s frontman Billy Corgan has spent a year creating excitement and mystery over a possible reunion tour. He’s even talked about an album. The tour, however, was supposed to include all of the band’s original members; D’Arcy Wretzky, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin and Corgan. However, Wretzky isn’t included in the new tour.

A photograph Corgan posted of himself with Iha and Chamberlin in a recording studio conspicuously left D’Arcy out. D’Arcy told BlastEcho that the Smashing Pumpkins “decided to go with a different bass player” for their tour.

“My apologies to all of the Smashing Pumpkins fans out there who are excited about this oncoming reunion tour of the original members of the band. I know this is a huge disappointment for me, as well, but it’s not going to happen,” she wrote in a text message sent to BlastEcho.

Corgan and Wretkzy, though friends, had an often combative relationship during their time together in the band. Corgan told reporters that he fired her “for being a mean-spirited drug addict who refused to get help,” after she’d been arrested for trying to buy cocaine. it is unclear why she’s been left out of the tour; Corgon responded warmly when Wretzky reached out to him in 2016.

The Smashing Pumpkins’ original lineup produced ten studio albums together. They broke out in 1993 with Siamese Dream, which sold 21 million copies. Corgan wanted The Smashing Pumpkins’ sound to reject the punk rock elements of their contemporaries, and to embrace more progressive, dreamy and sometimes gothic sounds. Corgan’s whispery voice and Iha’s layered guitar are some of the group’s signature characteristics. D’Arcy sang on many of the song’s that she played bass on and co-wrote their hit, “Daughter.” Corgan might reveal more information on why the group did not invite D’Arcy in the coming days.

Photography Credit: Raymond Flotat