Editing Hole (band) (section)

==Background==
{{quote box|width=27%|align=right|bgcolor=lavender|quote=In Euripides' ''Medea'', when she kills the bride and her own child, she says "There's a hole that pierces my soul." [And] my mother's this kind of new age psychologist, and I said "You know, I had this terrible childhood," and she said "Well, you can't have a hole running through you all the time, Courtney." You know, and then [there's] the genital reference, go ahead and make it if you will.|source= —Courtney Love on the origins of the name Hole, 1995.<ref name="jools">{{cite episode|series=[[Later... with Jools Holland]] |airdate=1995 |title=Courtney Love and Hole |first=Courtney |last=Love |location=London, United Kingdom |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTOcqd7SSQ4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031150415/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTOcqd7SSQ4 |archive-date=October 31, 2013 }}</ref>}}

Hole formed after [[Eric Erlandson]] responded to an advertisement placed by [[Courtney Love]] in ''[[The Recycler]]'' in the summer of 1989.  The advertisement read: "I want to start a band. My influences are [[Big Black]], [[Sonic Youth]], and [[Fleetwood Mac]]."{{Sfn|Brite|1998|p=100}} Erlandson recalled of their first meeting: "We met at this coffee shop, and I saw her and I thought 'Oh, God. Oh, no, What am I getting myself into?' She grabbed me and started talking, and she's like 'I know you're the right one', and I hadn't even opened my mouth yet."<ref name="cohen">{{cite magazine|title=Hole: Life in a Band with Courtney Love, Rock's Wildest Diva |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=August 24, 1995 |author=Cohen, Jason |page=66 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/hole-is-a-band-19950824 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151114195707/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/hole-is-a-band-19950824 |archive-date=November 14, 2015 }} (re-published in ''The '90s: The Inside Stories from the Decade That Rocked'' by Rolling Stone LLC)</ref> In retrospect, Love said that Erlandson "had a [[Thurston Moore|Thurston  [Moore]]] quality about him" and was an "intensely weird, good guitarist".{{Sfn|Brite|1998|p=100}} In his 2012 book, ''[[Letters to Kurt]]'', Erlandson revealed that he and Love had a sexual relationship during their first year together in the band,{{Sfn|Erlandson|2012|p=7|ps=: <q>My girlfriend and bandmate at the time, Courtney Love, and I were introduced to him in the parking lot after a Butthole Surfers show at the Hollywood Palladium&nbsp;... We had kept our relationship a secret. Courtney did not want our band to lose its sex appeal. She believed that couple bands were too unavailable. The fact was, for more than a year, we had shared a deep and powerful, if codependent, bond.</q>}} which Love also confirmed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fuse.tv/2012/03/courtney-love-eric-erlandson-hole-cobain-book |work=Fuse |title=Courtney Love Is Not Gonna Be Happy About New Cobain Book |date=March 8, 2012 |access-date=September 13, 2012 |author=Shapiro, Dave |quote=I wish [Eric] well. Even more than Dave [Grohl] and [Krist] Novoselic, Eric was family&nbsp;... I just hope he didn't write that we dated. We had sex, yes, but I don't date. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311053257/http://www.fuse.tv/2012/03/courtney-love-eric-erlandson-hole-cobain-book |archive-date=March 11, 2012 }}</ref>

Love had been living a nomadic life prior, immersing herself in numerous music scenes and living in various cities along the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]].{{Sfn|Marks|1995|pages=47–48, 79}} After unsuccessful attempts at forming bands in [[San Francisco]] (where she was briefly a member of [[Faith No More]]){{sfn|Behind the Music|2010|loc=event occurs at 16:07}} and [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], Love relocated to Los Angeles, where she found work as an actress in two [[Alex Cox]] films (''[[Sid and Nancy]]'' and ''[[Straight to Hell (film)|Straight to Hell]]'').<ref>{{cite news|title=Courtney Love: Force of Nature|work=BBC News Worldwide|date=February 4, 2003|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2725377.stm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306040614/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2725377.stm|archive-date=March 6, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/milwaukee/events/it-came-from-kuchar,155451|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104024331/http://www.avclub.com/milwaukee/events/it-came-from-kuchar%2C155451|work=The A.V. Club|title=It Came From Kuchar|date=June 15, 2010|archive-date=November 4, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Erlandson, a Los Angeles native and a graduate of [[Loyola Marymount University]], was working as an [[accountant]] for [[Capitol Records]] at the time he met Love.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mason |first1=Darryl |year=1995 |title=Hole: A New Lease of Life |journal=The West Australian |issue=January}}</ref>

Love originally wanted to name the band Sweet Baby Crystal Powered by God, but opted for the name Hole instead.{{Sfn|Brite|1998|p=101}} During an interview on ''[[Later... with Jools Holland]]'', she claimed the name for the band was partly inspired by a quote from [[Euripides]]' ''[[Medea (play)|Medea]]'' that read: "There is a hole that pierces right through me."<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1eICAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA41|title=Feminism Amplified|journal=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|first=Kim|last=France|date=June 3, 1996|publisher=K-III Magazine Corporation|page=41|access-date=October 11, 2016|via=[[Google Books]]}} {{free access}}</ref> She also cited a conversation with her mother as the primary inspiration for the band's name, in which her mother told her that she couldn't live her life "with a hole running through her".<ref name="jools" /><ref name="flipside">{{cite journal|title = Hole|number=68|date=September 1990|journal=[[Flipside (fanzine)|Flipside]]|location=Los Angeles, California|author=Al & Gus}} Scans available [https://courtneylovescans.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/1990-hole-flipside/ here] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313040740/https://courtneylovescans.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/1990-hole-flipside/ |date=March 13, 2017 }}.</ref> Love also acknowledged the "obvious" genital reference in the band's name, alluding to the [[vagina]].<ref name="jools" />