Even the good girls will cry : a '90s rock memoir / Melissa Auf der Maur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auf der Maur, Melissa, author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auf der Maur, Melissa.

Smashing Pumpkins (Musical group).

Hole (Musical group).

Women rock musicians--Biography.

Women rock musicians.

Rock musicians--Canada--Biography.

Rock musicians.

Bass guitarists--Canada--Biography.

Bass guitarists.

Rock musicians--Biography.

Bass guitarists--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 417 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Boston : Da Capo / Hachette Book Group, 2026.

Contents:

Introduction: Through the looking glass

Act I Magic. Dreamscape #1: Even the good girls will cry ; Dreamy frontline feminist ; The saint and the wall ; The city, she raised me ; Late bloomer, music lover ; Moving in new directions ; A couch to crash on, a beer bottle, and the apology ; 1991: the song that changed everything ; Dreamscape #2: 3D sound ; Grounding the fairy ; Vermont and the satin minidress ; Sunburst precision ; Death rears its head ; One-way ticket to Seattle ; Nick Auf der Maur column interlude #1 "Bass guitar indulgence turned out to be a great investment"

Act II music. Melissa's dream of the '90's playlist ; The self-destruct tour: Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson ; Live through this tour: 1994-1995 ; Warrior goddess ; Sensory overload ; Nick Auf der Maur column interlude #2 "On tour with my daughter, the rock star from Ca-na-da" ; Down under ; Hole goes to therapy and gets unplugged ; Engaging with Hole ; The abscess and the French hospital ; Funny shit and the smoking vagina ; Hole is a band; Courtney Love is a soap opera ; The Arctic Circle, Madonna, and MTV ; The with of New Orleans ; For love and honor ; Rhythm-section sisters

Act III Death. Sick Nick and music on the rise ; Nick Auf der Maur column interlude #3 "Kurt Cobain had a shotgun, and I had cigarettes" ; Making Celebrity Skin ; My bass and the rise of the digital soul-sucking machine ; Romantic-comedy interlude: A play in three acts, starring Adam Sandler, Christ Farley, Ben Stiller, and Owen Wilson (with a cameo by Jim Carrey) ; The Hollywood Hills and my father's halo ; Introducing: death ; Montreal's daughter in mourning ; Dance with death ; Dreamscape #3: Your emptiness is calling me ; The drummer and the bass player ; High-fashion interlude: Milano Fashion Week, Fall 1998 ; My drug? Crushes ; First loves save the day ; Courtney says goodbye ; Out of a Hole, into a Pumpkin ; Trapped in mythological webs and shadows ; Dear Billy ; End of an era ; It's the end of the world as we know it

Afterword: Home

Planet Earth

2024.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780306833779 (electronic bk.)

0306833778 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40033207416

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.