17 Facts About D'arcy Wretzky

D'arcy Elizabeth Wretzky was born on May 1,1968 and is an American musician.

D'arcy Wretzky was the original bassist of the alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins and is credited on their first six studio albums.

D'arcy Wretzky has been a member of Catherine and performed with Filter.

D'arcy Wretzky later referred to her father, Jerry Wretzky, a pipefitter with a love of horseback riding, as "a very strange man".

D'arcy Wretzky moved to Chicago and later joined the Smashing Pumpkins.

D'arcy Wretzky was married to musician Kerry Brown from 1993 to 1999.

D'arcy Wretzky accepted, and Jimmy Chamberlin completed the lineup a few months later, after Joe Shanahan encouraged Corgan to add a live drummer.

D'arcy Wretzky often contributed backing vocals on some songs on studio albums and in concert.

D'arcy Wretzky discussed her appreciation for the band Silversun Pickups, who have a sound influenced by the early Gish era of the Smashing Pumpkins.

D'arcy Wretzky mentioned that she lived on a farm in Michigan, that she had briefly lived in Austin, Texas sometime during the previous decade, and that her former fiance Wendell Green had died.

D'arcy Wretzky was jailed on February 1,2011, for missing four court dates related to a ticket she received for failing to control her wild horses, allowing them to freely roam the streets at night causing interference to local traffic and farmers, as well as trespassing on public property and stealing vegetables from the local farmer's market storage.

On February 14,2018, D'arcy Wretzky gave her first interview in nearly 20 years.

D'arcy Wretzky said that she had been offered a contract to rejoin the band on the Shiny and Oh So Bright Tour, but that Corgan rescinded the offer soon after.

D'arcy Wretzky has repeatedly been invited out to play with the group, participate in demo sessions, or at the very least, meet face-to-face, and in each and every instance she always deferred.

D'arcy Wretzky appeared in the video for Four Leaf Clover.

At the time, D'arcy Wretzky was married to Catherine drummer Kerry Brown.

D'arcy Wretzky contributed vocals to the track "One and Two" on James Iha's 1998 solo album, Let It Come Down.