What in the Courtney Love of God is going on with this train wreck? Love was seen yesterday on the streets of New York City looking like a concentration camp victim.
So I started researching to see what other than heroin Courtney has been up to lately, and supposedly she’s doing some Hole reunion — and I fully admit that saying “Hole reunion” brings out the adolescent 16-year-old that lurks within me. There’s just one problem: Her Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur knows nothing of it. According to Auf der Maur:
“We have not been in touch too much,” Auf der Maur recently told Explore magazine. “We’ve been in touch this year after 10 years of no contact, I will say that.” Though Love remains her “soul sister”, Auf der Maur said her contributions to Love’s new album are due to the involvement of producer Michael Beinhorn, who also worked on the final Hole record.
“Michael Beinhorn and I had an incredible working relationship on Celebrity Skin,” Auf der Maur said. “And he called me and asked me if I would sing on [Courtney’s] new solo record – which is what I understood it was. And I said ‘Yes’ because I enjoy working with him and … well, she and I have a history of making music together. And I’m happy to visit her again in the future.”
But rights to the band name aside, Auf der Maur believes this isn’t a Hole project. “I think you can’t take a Hole reunion that lightly. It’s gonna take a little more organising than just ‘I’ll come and sing some backups and then we got Hole.'”
Initially, Nobody’s Daughter was to be a collaboration between Love and songwriter Linda Perry. Unhappy with the results, Love scrapped those sessions, travelled to London and teamed up with English guitarist Micko Larkin, formerly of Larrikin Love. Their collaboration – still officially a Courtney Love solo project – was initially scheduled for a January release.
Instead, Love declared that Nobody’s Daughter would be Hole’s first album in 11 year, despite the absence of band co-founder Eric Erlandson and Auf der Maur’s merely tangential involvement.
We could sit here for days and try to unravel how things work in the fun mirror that is Courtney Love’s brain, but her former band mate summed it up best: “She’s a nutbag…”
Like Winehouse, she’s a very talented nutter. I’ve seen Hole 3 times and got all 4 albums and if she put anything else out I’d buy it. The Hole tour that she did after Celebrity Skin was especially good, I think she’d recovered a bit from the dramz of 94 and she rocked big time.
tehehehe, “fun mirror”.
Holy ghost face Batman! Are you guy’s sure that’s her?
My husband refused to believe it was her.
AUGH what the hell??
Holy shit! That’s the kinda pic you need to save for “after the jump.”
Seriously. That is gross.
I am so sad to see this. Almost cried.
“She’s a nutbag, [but] I really do care about her.”
That was the full quote. Poor Wendie, do you always take only what fits into your sad little story? Poor bitch.
And I used to LOVE Courtney and Hole – sad to see she ended up this way.
Have to agree on that one… and what’s up with those concentration camp-comparisons on this site all the time? It’s just distasteful…
Did you see her arms? That’s what they reminded me of.
photoshopped?
she is starting to look like she did in the Larry Flint movie, at the end when she is just about to die…:(