{"id":23201,"date":"2024-12-26T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/?p=23201"},"modified":"2025-01-05T21:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T21:07:15","slug":"i-never-thought-little-ol-15-year-old-me-playing-metal-guitar-in-the-bedroom-would-amount-to-this-moment-after-10000-applicants-kiki-wong-landed-the-smashing-pumpkins-gui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/2024\/12\/26\/i-never-thought-little-ol-15-year-old-me-playing-metal-guitar-in-the-bedroom-would-amount-to-this-moment-after-10000-applicants-kiki-wong-landed-the-smashing-pumpkins-gui\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI never thought little ol\u2019 15-year-old me playing metal guitar in the bedroom would amount to this moment\u201d: After 10,000 applicants, Kiki Wong landed the Smashing Pumpkins guitarist gig"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2024 Year in Review<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong> After 16 years with the band, Jeff Schroeder announced his departure from the Smashing Pumpkins late last year, and the iconic alt-rockers soon announced they\u2019d be holding a worldwide open-call audition for a live replacement.<\/p>\n

More than 10,000 applicants later, it was decided that Kiki Wong was the right person for the job<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought little ol\u2019 15-year-old me playing metal guitar in the bedroom would amount to this moment,\u201d she said not long after the announcement, adding \u201cit goes to show that hard work and perseverance truly pays off if you\u2019re willing to push through the tough stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

The guitarist played her first show alongside co-guitarists Billy Corgan and James Iha in Birmingham, England, in June<\/a>, with audiences praising how naturally she fit into the legendary Chicago group\u2019s dreamy wall of fuzz.<\/p>\n

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Amit has been writing for titles like\u00a0Total Guitar<\/em>,\u00a0MusicRadar<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Guitar World<\/em>\u00a0for over a decade and counts Richie Kotzen, Guthrie Govan and Jeff Beck among his primary influences as a guitar player. He’s worked for magazines like\u00a0Kerrang!<\/em>,\u00a0Metal Hammer<\/em>,\u00a0Classic Rock<\/em>,\u00a0Prog<\/em>,\u00a0Record Collector<\/em>,\u00a0Planet Rock<\/em>,\u00a0Rhythm<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Bass Player<\/em>, as well as newspapers like\u00a0Metro<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Independent<\/em>, interviewing everyone from Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy to Slash and Jimmy Page, and once even traded solos with a member of Slayer on a track released internationally. As a session guitarist, he’s played alongside members of Judas Priest and Uriah Heep in London ensemble Metalworks, as well as handled lead guitars for legends like Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols, The Faces) and Stu Hamm (Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, G3).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 Year in Review: After 16 years with the band, Jeff Schroeder announced his departure from the Smashing Pumpkins late last year, and the iconic alt-rockers soon announced they\u2019d be holding a worldwide open-call audition for a live replacement. More than 10,000 applicants later, it was decided that Kiki Wong was the right person for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23203,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23201\/revisions\/23203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}