Melissa Auf Der Maur Joined Courtney Love’s Band Hole, and She Took Notes

Melissa Auf der Maur on Courtney Love, Billy Corgan and surviving ’90s alt-rock

The bassist’s memoir, ‘Even the Good Girls Will Cry,’ explores her time in Hole, Smashing Pumpkins and more.

Melissa Auf der Maur joined Courtney Love’s band Hole, and she took notes

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Melissa Auf der Maur was a music-mad Montreal teen when in the summer of 1991 she found herself at tiny local shows by the fledgling alternative rock bands Hole and Smashing Pumpkins.

From Hole to the Smashing Pumpkins: Melissa Auf der Maur’s raw memoir on growing up at the epicentre of the 1990s alt-rock scene

Melissa Auf der Maur has little interest in the usual rock’n’roll tell-all. Her memoir is not one that settles scores or provides a catalogue of excess, as per so many rock bios.