Post by Lauren Curtis on Dec 17, 2006 4:42:46 GMT -5
Patricia Theresa Schemel (born April 24, 1967) played the drums on the last two albums Live Through This and Celebrity Skin by American girl punk-rock band Hole, replacing their previous drummer, Caroline Rue, who left after the recording of the debut album. On Celebrity Skin, the final album, she performed alongside frontwoman Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson (guitar) and Melissa Auf der Maur (bass) Hole split acrimoniously in 2002.
She also performed on Courtney Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, for which she took some partial songwriting credits. As well, she has recorded with Phranc, playing drums on the Goofyfoot EP and with Juliette Lewis's punk rock band Juliette and the Licks, for which she played drums on their debut 6 song EP ...Like a Bolt of Lightning before leaving the band before they recorded their second CD You're Speaking My Language. She also toured as the drummer for LA band Imperial Teen (which is led by Courtney's friend Roddy Bottom, formerly of the band Faith No More).
She is known to be a lesbian, and it is also known that one of her girlfriends acted as Courtney Love's personal assistant during Hole's 1994-1995 world tour, while promoting Live Through This. Around that time, she commented to Rolling Stone magazine on the issue of sexual orientation:
"It's important. I'm not out there with that fucking pink flag or anything, but it's good for other people who live somewhere else in some small town who feel freaky about being gay to know that there's other people who are and that it's OK."
She also performed on Courtney Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, for which she took some partial songwriting credits. As well, she has recorded with Phranc, playing drums on the Goofyfoot EP and with Juliette Lewis's punk rock band Juliette and the Licks, for which she played drums on their debut 6 song EP ...Like a Bolt of Lightning before leaving the band before they recorded their second CD You're Speaking My Language. She also toured as the drummer for LA band Imperial Teen (which is led by Courtney's friend Roddy Bottom, formerly of the band Faith No More).
She is known to be a lesbian, and it is also known that one of her girlfriends acted as Courtney Love's personal assistant during Hole's 1994-1995 world tour, while promoting Live Through This. Around that time, she commented to Rolling Stone magazine on the issue of sexual orientation:
"It's important. I'm not out there with that fucking pink flag or anything, but it's good for other people who live somewhere else in some small town who feel freaky about being gay to know that there's other people who are and that it's OK."