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And Finally Beef Of The Week
CMU Beef Of The Week #03: Melissa Auf der Maur v Courtney Love
By Andy Malt | Published on Saturday 23 January 2010
I have a feeling that Courtney Love is going to become a regular fixture in this column as time progresses. Barely a week goes by where she doesn’t accuse someone of stealing all her stuff, or attacking her in the street, or getting needlessly upset when she reforms a band but doesn’t tell any of the other members.
Ex Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson already tackled the subject of Love’s sudden decision to rename her solo band (and the band name on her perpetually in production second solo album) to Hole. He suggested last year that he had a contract that barred her from using the name without his involvement, though Love recently hinted that money and lawyers had made that little problem go away.Whether that other former bandmate, bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, was party to any of the money or lawyer, it’s not certain. Whatever, she’s still not happy about it all.
Speaking to Spinner, Auf der Maur said: “I want to make it clear that I have nothing to do with this series of concerts. I’m a little surprised by this turn of events. I am surprised and disappointed that they are going to jeopardise a real Hole reunion, which I think would be great for Hole fans and fun for us, the band. It means so much to me and I’m so proud, having been a part of it”.
She continued: “Us as women, the impact that we had on a male-dominated landscape is very important to me and I would protect and nurture it in any way I could. That being said, the person that anyone should be talking to right now is the Hole co-founder, Eric. It really is jeopardising the Hole reunion, which is not impossible, but it will be if this continues”.
I give it a week before Courtney starts saying that Melissa stole all her dresses.
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