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~*HOLE'S ERLANDSON COMES CLEAN ON NEXT ALBUM*
From Launch

Although Hole's Celebrity Skin is still fresh in the minds of alternative music lovers, the band is already thinking about its follow-up effort. Guitarist Eric Erlandson says that the road will have a lot of effect on the next Hole album.
"I know it's going to be different than [Celebrity Skin]. It might be a lot moodier. I'd still like to work with a real producer, more of an old-school-type producer...that's into making sure things are recorded right and working on the songs instead of just throwing it down." Erlandson says that he would have liked to work with legendary country producer Owen Bradley, who died in 1998 at the age of 82 (LAUNCH, 1/9/98).
In a related note, Erlandson came clean about why Hole pulled out of the Marilyn Manson tour halfway through the trek. "A lot of our audience couldn't go to those shows," he says. "They weren't allowed in...Either they weren't into that other band or they had parents saying, 'No, you can't go'...And also just being pulled into this wrestling match thing that was going on in the press between the two frontpeople in both bands, [and] what was being said onstage. [There was] just a lot of negative energy around it."
Erlandson adds that the tour wasn't exactly lucrative for Hole, giving them more impetus to pull the plug. "We found out financial reasons why it didn't make any sense. So I think it's important when something is going wrong you stop it and try to fix it sooner rather than later, so that's what we did. I think [we were] real wise by doing that when we did instead of carrying it on and then suffering."
In other Hole news, Courtney Love recently told the Boston Globe that Hole will play five Lilith Fair dates; the only problem is that Lilith officials have yet to confirm the band's participation in the tour.