Full Description
Thanks to a thrown beer bottle and a fan letter to a P.O. box, Melissa Auf der Maur's first band scored an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins in her bohemian home town, Montreal. Sensing Melissa's talent, Billy Corgan recommended her to Courtney Love. Whisked from her local scene, Melissa joined Hole just after the deaths of Kurt Cobain and Hole's prior bassist, Kristen Pfaff, with the just-widowed Courtney Love at the centre of it all.
That was only the beginning of Melissa's journey through alternative rock, a trip she undertook alongside 90s luminaries including Rufus Wainwright, Michael Stipe and her former boyfriend, Dave Grohl. Even the Good Girls Will Cry is a vivid dispatch from the last analogue decade, capturing that bygone era in all its messy, angsty glory.
Contents
Chapter 1: Dreamy Frontline Feminist Chapter 2: The Saint and the Wall Chapter 3: The City, She Raised Me Chapter 4: Late Bloomer, Music Lover Chapter 5: Moving in New Directions Chapter 6: A Couch to Crash on, a Beer Bottle, and the Apology Chapter 7: 1991: The Song That Changed Everything Chapter 8: Grounding the Fairy Chapter 9: Vermont and the Satin Minidress Chapter 10: Sunburst Precision Chapter 11: Death Rears Its Head Chapter 12: One-Way Ticket to Seattle Chapter 13: The Self-Destruct Tour: Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson Live Through This Tour: 1994-1995 Chapter 14: Warrior Goddess Chapter 15: Sensory Overload Chapter 16: Down Under Chapter 17: Hole Goes to Therapy and Gets Unplugged Chapter 18: Engaging with Hole Chapter 19: The Abscess and the French Hospital Chapter 20: Funny Shit and the Smoking Vagina Chapter 21: Hole Is a Band; Courtney Love Is a Soap Opera Chapter 22: The Arctic Circle, Madonna, and MTV Chapter 23: The Witch of New Orleans Chapter 24: For Love and Honor Chapter 25: Rhythm-Section Sisters Chapter 26: Sick Nick and Music on the Rise Chapter 27: Making Celebrity Skin Chapter 28: My Bass and the Rise of the Digital Soul-Sucking Monster Chapter 29: The Hollywood Hills and My Father's Halo Chapter 30: Introducing: Death Chapter 31: Montreal's Daughter in Mourning Chapter 32: Dance with Death Chapter 33: The Drummer and the Bass Player Chapter 34: My Drug? Crushes Chapter 35: First Loves Save the Day Chapter 36: Out of a Hole, into a Pumpkin Chapter 37: Trapped in Mythological Webs and Shadows Chapter 38: End of an Era Chapter 39: It's the End of the World as We Know It Afterword: Home-Planet Earth-2024
