Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan says his future will be a blank after the band plays its final two concerts in Chicago this week.
I haven't been this unstable in seven, eight years," he told the Chicago Tribune in Sunday's editions. "The band coming to an end is a very stressful idea to me. I know it's the right thing, but I'm wondering what it means."
The band is calling it quits 13 years after debuting in a Chicago bar.
Corgan said he will take at least a year off to "create a little bit of space between me and what people think of me."
"I want to be sure if I play music again that I'm really confident about what I'm doing," he said.
The sold-out final shows Wednesday and Saturday are among the hottest tickets on the Internet; one posting on the band's fan-club site sought as much as $1,000 a ticket.
The group's half-dozen albums have sold more than 22 million copies worldwide. – Albawaba.com.
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