Pumpkins News

[liner]

billy's supposed to be announcing something on the site today. he's rehearsing with mark tulin, kerry brown and linda strawberry but there's no word if that'll be the new touring band. ginger's pregnant, lisa'a got a full slate with solo projects coming up so who knows?

those of you that still care, they were on the chris isaac hour last week, it'll probably be re run a bunch, it's on a&e or something. they recorded it in december so jimmy's still on there and he sounds super dedicated and is actually really mean about james and d'arcy with billy trying to be the nice one which was weird. they played mostly acoustic style, 99 floors, owata, sunkissed, rose march, and a cover with isaac doing weird backup vocals, of nowhere man. it was the full 9 piece band and they sounded good. also, for you old schoolers, it was neat and a shock to see billy play a couple of seconds of spiteface on isaac's acoustic during the interview.

[veryzer]

why does billy insist on having female bass players? and who are those people?

[liner]

tulin plays bass for a band called the electric prunes, kerry brown is an older dude, a drummer and he was married to d'arcy in the beginning. linda is basically a solo artist and billy hanger-on. she's been in a couple videos, sang to sheila a few times at the residencies, designed artwark for some posters (like the 20th anniversary stuff) and most recently did the artwork for "if all goes wrong". she's been playing keyboard at the rehearsals. like i said though, so far there's been no indication that this is the new lineup. they may just be helping billy work through some new stuff.