Monday, April 14, 2014

WHEN I WENT TO SCHOOL [ ] [ ] IN OLYMPIA:  This week's also the 20th anniversary of the release of Hole's Live Through This, an album which absolutely withstands the test of time as a fierce, feminist masterpiece. Spin Magazine (remember them?) has a nice history of its creation, which involved a lot of drugs, and not any of the "Kurt really wrote it" of urban legend. Drummer Patty Schemel:
During basic tracks, me and Courtney ended up leaving and going to New York to see Nirvana on Saturday Night Live. I was so drunk that I could not see straight. It was so fucked up. RuPaul was there. And I remember coming back and then having to do more recording and being completely wasted for that. When I got back, I was like, "I gotta pull it together." So that's when I did a bunch of crystal meth. We pretty much finished up our basic tracks and then we were kind of imbibing.