![]() Instead, with promotion, marketing and life as they knew it shattered by the successive deaths of Love’s husband and Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff, Live Through This moved only about 100,000 copies - initially. If Hole’s popularity were based only on celebrity, they would have sold a lot more records by now. Paying homage to Blondie, their page is emblazoned with the proclamation, in big rococo letters, that “Hole Is a Band.” A band that definitely intends - in between Love’s inevitable rants, stage dives and column inches - to speak very loudly for itself every night on the Lollapalooza stage. Hole provide a definitive answer in this year’s Lollapalooza program book. (What was initially reported as an overdose was eventually termed “an adverse reaction to prescription medication.”) His worst fears put to rest, Erlandson was skimming the rest of the article when it hit him - a development that was somewhat surprising and most definitely pleasing. His thoughts swirled from annoyance to concern to confidence that everything was surely all right before settling on a slightly jaded “Wouldn’t it just figure if Courtney died while I was on vacation?”Ī quick look at the story revealed, of course, that Love was just fine. The day-old newspaper beckoned him from across the sand. ![]() Given that Hole’s other founding member is one Courtney Love, Erlandson’s blissful, worry-free escape simply wasn’t to be. After nine months of touring, he was on a much-needed break, his last before the summerlong playground of Lollapalooza. Hole’s guitarist and co-founder was vacationing with his girlfriend, Drew Barrymore, and thus deliberately out of the loop. Eric Erlandson was sitting on a beach in Mexico when the headline caught his eye. ![]()
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