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‘I watched society burn a woman at the stake’: Melissa Auf der Maur on her bandmate Courtney Love and the farce of the 90s
Wary of working with Hole’s ‘impossible, drug addict’ lead singer, the bassist soon found herself entranced. So why did she jump ship for the Smashing Pumpkins – and start a relationship with Love’s enemy Dave Grohl?
It took Melissa Auf der Maur almost 20 years to tell anyone, even her husband, how her father had died. It was April 1998 and she was the bassist in Hole, the blistering alternative rock band founded by Courtney Love. They were on a brief break from recording what would be the band’s hit – and, for a time, final – album, Celebrity Skin, while Love, clean from heroin addiction, was pursuing a Hollywood film career.
Melissa Auf der Maur Compares Joining Hole to ‘Living Life on the Edge of Chaos’
Melissa Auf der Maur joined Hole in the summer of 1994, during the darkest time for the band. Courtney Love‘s husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, died by suicide that spring; Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff died of a heroin overdose shortly after. Auf der Maur’s friend Billy Corgan recommended her to Love to replace Pfaff, and she declined. “I don’t really connect with the music,” she writes in her upcoming book Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A 90s Rock Memoir. “And then there’s the shitty pain of the overdose and suicide. I don’t want to be part of that insane fame.”
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