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Kristen Marie Pfaff (née Parco; May 26, 1967 – June 16, 1994) was an American musician, best known as the bassist for alternative rock band Hole from 1993 to 1994. Prior to Hole, Pfaff was the bassist and backing vocalist for Minneapolis-based band Janitor Joe .
Hole was an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1989.It was founded by singer and guitarist Courtney Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson.It had several different bassists and drummers, the most prolific being drummer Patty Schemel, and bassists Kristen Pfaff (d. 1994) and Melissa Auf der Maur.
It was also the only Hole album to feature bassist Kristen Pfaff, and the final album to be released during her lifetime, as she died two months after the album's release. In critical circles, Live Through This is considered a contemporary classic, [ 5 ] and was included in Rolling Stone ' s 2020 updated list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All ...
Hole in 1994. L-R: Kristen Pfaff, Patty Schemel (drums), Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson (Credit: Erica Echenberg/Redferns) ... The bass and drum tracks were recorded live and without a click track ...
Days before the release of Hole's second album, Live Through This, frontwoman Courtney Love's husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, committed suicide in their Seattle home. [1] The Live Through This Tour was slated to begin in the summer of 1994, but was temporarily halted after the death of the band's bassist, Kristen Pfaff, of a heroin overdose.
The music video for "Doll Parts" was directed by Samuel Bayer [22] —who had also directed music videos for The Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana—and who Hole commissioned following the death of bassist Kristen Pfaff. Jennifer Finch of L7 is featured as the bassist in the video.
It is the only music video by Hole that features bassist Kristen Pfaff. Directed by Sophie Muller , best known later for No Doubt 's " Don't Speak " video, the video features the band performing the song at a beauty pageant, in which Love is seen as the title character, Miss World; pampering herself, receiving flowers, being crowned, adored by ...
[37] [30] During his tenure in Hole in the 1990s, Erlandson was romantically involved with the group's bassist Kristen Pfaff until her death in June 1994. [32] Erlandson has also dated actress Drew Barrymore [ 4 ] and Courtney Love .