Hole

But I'm Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins.

My partner is Courtney Love from Hole.

And my dog is Kurt Cobain, the deceased former rock star Kurt Cobain.

She

Billy Corgan dated for a while.

They did.

Courtney Love from Hole.

Yes.

It's like we'll fly Courtney Love up to fuck you guys, you know, and try not to get to the two loose lifts in the post-coital fucking cigarette haze.

So by the late 80s, she was in L.A. and had started Hole.

She also got married around this time to a local punk musician named James Moreland.

The Leaving Trains.

There are a weird subsect of people that you'll meet out in the wild sometimes where it's like, yeah, I mean, I just love, like, you know, like, dying my hair and just fucking popping pills, partying, rock and roll, and small government, and immigrants are destroying this country, and I think we should be the police of the world, you know? And it's like, wait, wait, wait, what?

So she goes from Portland.

She goes to L.A. and starts Hole.

And before meeting Kurt Cobain, she also dates Trent Reznor and Billy Corgan.

She's a rock and roller.

And she was running around with a guitar player in Courtney Love's band, Hole, a guy named Eric Erlandson.

So we would all go out in Hollywood and I met Drew through Eric Erlandson.

And Drew goes, I have the rights to Charlie's Angels.

Tell me if I've got this wrong.

My memory was of a big day out, which was co-headlined by Marilyn Manson and Hole with Courtney Love.

And as they went around the country, they alternated who was the actual last act on the main stage.

And I do remember when Marilyn Manson was on a big sort of a light bulb sign came up from the back that just said drugs.

I can't imagine parents getting slightly concerned about that.

Anyway, but...

The apocryphal story was that you and Brad were invited to play with Hole.

What it

I'm Carmel Holt.

Canadian-born artist, musician, and author Melissa Oftemauer is best known as the former bassist for Hole and Smashing Pumpkins, two alt-rock bands that helped define the music and popular culture of the 1990s.

Hole in particular paved the way for so many women in music, pushing through an extremely male-dominated landscape.

Now, over three decades after joining Hole in 1994, this year, Melissa has published two incredible books that document that time.

Even the Good Girls Will Cry, a 90s rock memoir.

and a companion photography book called My 90s Rock Photographs, which showcases a vast archive of photos that Melissa took during that decade while on tour, backstage, onstage, and in the crowd.

My manager will call you to book you a flight, she said.

Oh, and bring your bass, and then she hung up.

And then Joseph Campbell's Power of Myth was kind of his Bible, he said.

He also said Holes Live Through This, the band Hole, their song Live Through This was the song he was thinking about the most when writing The Craft.

he said it's that raw power of adolescent pain after Filardi finished the script Wick said it was good and they started looking for a director with possibly that director rewriting the script for their voice Wick reached out to Andrew Fleming who had previously done a horror film called Bad Dreams and then followed that up with a dramedy called Threesome Fleming said he thought the script was only a rewrite job.

And he said he once he finally got invested in the rewriting it, he really wanted to step in and direct it.