Courtney Love digs a deeper Hole…
In celebration of the band’s 11th year of not doing anything relevant, Courtney Love plans to regroup Hole. Yes, after milking the Nirvana franchise for all its worth, releasing solo albums to empty fanbases, publishing diaries everyone would rather keep hidden, and losing her own husband’s remains… Love is hitting the panic switch.
What was slated to be the follow up to her 2004 solo debut, America’s Sweetheart, Nobody’s Daughter will instead be the fifth studio album for her former grunge unit, Hole. It’s not by choice, but rather where the album took her, so she says from the studio. And if you can handle the rambling, then by all means, check out the nine-minute plus video below. However, Rolling Stone summarizes it just fine:
In a video of the studio visit, with Love fittingly surrounded by doll parts, Love said that because the scope of Nobody’s Daughter had changed — it was originally conceived as an introspective “Blood on the Tracks,” but Love now likens it closer to the bombast of Davie Bowie’s Diamond Dogs — that the return of “Rock Courtney” meant the return of Hole.
As of now, the only former member on board is bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, and only for backing vocals, too. Though Love hints that she might tag along on the inevitable supporting tour. In the meantime, guitarist Micko Larkin (of Larrikin Love) is helping out around the studio, filling Eric Erlandson’s former shoes (he must be breathing a sigh of relief). Fans should be torn; however, does she need the former members? It didn’t stop Billy Corgan, who, speak of the devil, collaborated with Love on the upcoming album.
Whether or not it’ll still be sponsored by tampons and tequila remains to be seen.
I saw her at lollapalooza in Vancouver years ago, and she mentions Crazy girls - my ex girlfiend used to work there, and it is a cool place to hang if you want to star watch at night… but yeah, Courtenay may e messed up, but like all good train wrecks, you can’t help but listen and pay to see the show.
hole were a great bang, too bad that she became such a freak.
live through this & celebrity skin are both great records.
Hole pretty much sucked and still will
And see, that’s exactly what I wanted to read!
between 98 and 02 she was still ok. 99 - 01 was spent on the celbrity skin tour, which was fantastic and making movies and fighting with universal over hole’s contract. after that she got back on the crack and then it all went downhill, skidding through the train wreck that was ‘america’s sweetheart’ and being carried out of her nyc loft on a gurney to a mental hospital. then she lost the kid (again!) and got really fat, had all those crazy lawsuits and made an ass of herself in court, on letterman and on the pam anderson roast.
as for the money, it’s not hers. she didn’t make that much and what she did make was snorted up her nose up to the time she made america’s sweetheart.
the money she has now was from selling part of her rights to her portion of the nirvana catalogue a few years back.
Yeah, I doubt it’s even her husband’s money at this point. She kind of spent all that between ‘98 and ‘02.
the leaked tracks are shit. way to spend your dead husbands money.
Jun 23rd, 2009 at 3:48 pm
[...] a Hole reunion is just wishful thinking — on account of Courtney Love’s. In response to Love’s recent video from the studio, where she announced her new solo album would be under the Hole moniker, bassist Melissa Auf Der [...]
Jun 23rd, 2009 at 11:30 am
[...] a Hole reunion is just wishful thinking — on account of Courtney Love’s. In response to Love’s recent video from the studio, where she announced her new solo album would be under the Hole moniker, bassist Melissa Auf Der [...]