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Pfaff's time in Seattle was a creatively rich period, and she formed close friendships with Eric Erlandson and Kurt Cobain. While working on the platinum selling album Live Through This, Pfaff and Erlandson dated, and stayed together for most of 1993, remaining close even after splitting up.
L-R: Kristen Pfaff, Patty Schemel (drums), Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson (Credit: Erica Echenberg/Redferns) ... and Hole wanted to prove themselves as a band, not just Kurt Cobain’s wife’s band.
[27] Although the band members denied Cobain's involvement in the songwriting, they have openly stated that Cobain was briefly in the studio and performed uncredited backup vocals with Kristen Pfaff on two of the tracks: "Asking for It", and "Softer, Softest". [3]
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.
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.
Doll symbolism and a child resembling Cobain are prominent in the song's music video. 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.
The album was dedicated to former Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff and Kurt Cobain, both of whom died in 1994. [ 2 ] The first four tracks on the album originate from the band's first studio sessions in a "Los Angeles basement" at Rudy's Rising Star studio, where they recorded " Retard Girl ", along with the tracks "Phonebill Song", "Johnnie's in the ...
A critical and commercial success, Live Through This was released a week after the death of Love's husband, Kurt Cobain, and two months prior to the death of bassist Kristen Pfaff. The band postponed the album's supporting tour and recruited bassist Melissa Auf der Maur.