Matt Sweeney, who initiated the band with Corgan, said in 2017, “We had a friendship from before he was famous. One on one, we had a pretty great thing going. We had a great year where we made like a hundred songs. Nobody’s ever heard that stuff. But once it…
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A decade after Zwan’s demise, Corgan’s stance would soften regarding performance of its material. He included Zwan songs in a set of mostly Smashing Pumpkins material during a solo show in August 2014, and the following year announced a Smashing Pumpkins acoustic tour that would also incorporate Zwan material in…
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In the May 27, 2005, edition of Entertainment Weekly , Corgan elaborated on his version of what went wrong:
In August 2004, Corgan wrote a blog entry in which he finally commented in more detail about the dynamics behind the breakup, calling Pajo, Sweeney, and Lenchantin “dirty, filthy people who have no self-respect or class” whose “main concern is whether or not their indy friends still like them.” He…
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Billy Corgan announced the band had broken up on Chicago’s WGN on September 15, 2003. “I really enjoyed my experience with Zwan, but at the end of the day, without that sense of deeper family loyalty, it just becomes like anything else,” Corgan said.
Djali Zwan, an acoustic incarnation of Zwan, which also featured cellist Ana Lenchantin , Paz’s sister, was to film and record the making of a new album in the studio in the fall of 2003, with an album and DVD to be issued in early 2004. Corgan spoke with Rolling…
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Billy Corgan, Linda Strawberry , and Matt Sweeney came together to create the soundtrack for the movie Spun (2002), directed by Jonas Åkerlund , and were credited as The Djali Zwan.
Following the breakup of the Smashing Pumpkins, Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin joined forces with Matt Sweeney (formerly of the bands Chavez and Skunk ) to start Zwan. Corgan had been friends with Sweeney since early in his career and Sweeney was thanked in the liner notes to the Smashing…
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