BILLY CORGAN Auditions NEW SMASHING PUMPKINS DRUMMER 19 yr old MIKE BYRNE for 1st Time 

"The idea of where ideas come from...it starts with the idea of why we even bother to express an idea..."

I love how nervous Mikey is when he's talking to Billy.

How the hell does he make such good music with that voice, it works so good, WTF

I want to meet Billy some day

Byrne can actually sound a lot more like Chamberlin than I thought. Surprising, given the Teargarden recordings we've been giving so far. No one can fill Chamberlin's shoes, but I'm glad we at least have this guy. He's got skill.

Billy's amazing. I love the way he expresses himself.

That drummer is fantastic.

"That's not gonna work, Billy." HAHAHAHA David is such a mensch!

I always thought Jimmy Chamberlain was irreplaceable, but Mike Byrne is actually a really awesome fit for Smashing Pumpkins. He sounds great!

Lol, 4:30 John Dolmayan from SOAD xD

That kid has a huge Chamberlin influence along with the jazz chops (and of course Jimmy himself was a jazz drummer....) I can see why Billy "picked" him.

Finalmente una bella storia di un ragazzo giovane che si rompe il culo a studiare per anni ( come il sottoscritto e migliaia di altri ragazzi) e ha la sua vittoria nel suonare con un gruppo storico che ha scritto una bella fetta di musica rock. Speriamo che gli smaghing siano di esempio per tante altre band! Grande Mike

I imagine Billy at 80 years old standing like 1:00 all of the time ... he's always been so hunchy lol

haha I suppose my statement did go alittle overboard. I'm just a little mad that yet another original member of Smashing Pumpkins is replaced, and sadly replaced by a 19 year old drummer. It would be really awesome to have the original pumpkins back together before 2012.

Wow, Tear is such a better song than Eye, and in context of Lost Highway it makes sense too. It really is one of the best on Adore.

hes a good drummer

Thanks this was awesome!!

i bet corgan could dunk over shaq

@jonkbaby It's a clip of the Pastichio Medley from the Zero EP if I'm not mistaken.

Rewatching this video 2 years later- I can see why Billy went with Mike. Dang man! Also, want to know if 6:23-6:37 is a real song

Mike Byrne= Wunderkind

@thisxgreatxdecay Certainly - I along with most SP fans at first was a bit like "Wow he is a bit young and inexperienced!" - but with this video and the record day show they did he has really come along.............will be exciting to see how he develops - hope Billy keeps him on.

Ha HA...That was awesome.

is billy talking in the interview about Mike???

@Ksimp9 im afraid that just isn't going to happen. each member had their reasons for leaving. Besides james and darcy weren't the reason the band was what it was in the early days. just check out hummer at Terminal 5 in new york 2010 if you're still on the fence about mike, the new drummer, really amazing stuff. That said there's no reason to dislike the pumpkins new line-up, because they're is making incredible music, waiting to be discovered by anyone chooses to give it a try.

@Ksimp9 this is why you're their current drummer, right?

Nice hat

@jerrylentz episode of what?

@roelran The quotation marks were attempting to imply that (judging from the auditions in this video anyway), there wasn't much of a choice. Poor attempt at humor on my part.

i bet him and tht chick got it on after tht interview lol shes so on to him

@thedrummerdude777 but good chebs!

dilf TV

I would refuse to work with that one guy simply because he has a ridiculous, pretentious haircut.

2:06 Gay xD

Well definitely wont be bying the new S.P. album.Did he get that hat from Gomer Pyle and does Bill have A.I.D.S.

Billy Corgan probably thinks the "great killer of art is the voice that comes in and says that's not good enough or that's not interesting enough" because that's probably any voice that hears any of the garbage he has made in the past 14 years.

geez man Id like to see that kid jam out on drums, because just from what Ive seen im probably a better drummer than him. i should be in the smashing pumpkins.