Bass player for
The Smashing Pumpkins; born May 1st,
1968. Originally from
Michigan, D'arcy was flying to an unknown location and had a stopover at
Chicago's
O'hare Airport. She never reboarded her flight and stayed in Chicago (must have been the apostrophe in the airport's name). In 1988, she met head Pumpkin
Billy Corgan outside a club where she's rumored to have called him a "pretentious asshole"; after a short trip to
Germany she joined the band. She had no training or experience on bass, but Billy liked her attitude (it's also rumored that Billy played most of the bass and guitar parts on
Gish and
Siamese Dream anyways). Around 1994 she and Pumpkins guitarist
James Iha started their own record label,
Scratchie Records, at one time home to
Luscious Jackson and
Chainsaw Kittens. She also married
Catherine drummer
Kerry Brown. In late 1999, police found her on the
West Side of Chicago allegedly in possesion of
crack cocaine. In 2000 The Smashing Pumpkins released their last album featuring D'arcy on bass,
Machina: The Machines Of God. Their subsequent (and final) tour featured former
Hole bassist
Melissa Auf Der Mar in place of D'arcy.
sources:
www.spfc.org
and various magazine articles locked in the attic of my mind