Kristen Pfaff: The Mysterious Death of Hole’s Ex-Bassist
The mysterious death of Hole Bassist Kristen Pfaff
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Born in a suburb of Buffalo, New York, Kristen Pfaff would go to catholic school where she learned cello and piano at a young age. Her parents would divorce when she was young, but her mother would remarry and she would have a younger half brother. School mates of Pfaff who attended the same catholic school as her described her to the buffalo news as and i quote “bright, happy, always peppy,” Not only that but she excelled in school achieving good grades and getting scholarships.
She would attend Boston College and do an exchange program in the Netherlands. It was ffter from returning overseas she would study English and literature at the university of Minnesota starting in 1988. It was while she was a student at the University of Minnesota, she was an important figure in the development of the University radio station called Radio K. There’s even a clip of her on YouTube hosting a show if you guys are interested.
Her father would tell the buffalo news “That’s when Kristen’s life really changed. She learned to play bass and wanted to be in a band.”
She soon quit school and took up bass and started playing in a 3 piece called Janitor Joe that was part of the Minneapolis music scene.
Janitor Joe played angst ridden and loud music and that caught the attention of local indie label AmRep who signed the band and put out their debut record Big Metal Birds in 1992. It was while on tour with Janitor Joe that Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson attended one of their gigs. At this point in time Hole was without a bassist and needed one for their upcoming European Tour in 1993. Erlandson would tell Spin Magazine “I found Kristen in L.A. and said, “Come with me to meet Courtney [Love] and Patty [Schemel] when you get to Seattle.” She joined the band, she moved to Seattle, and that’s when all the songs came to life, literally. She was the star of her band and so she was bringing that to Hole and that created sparks in everybody; we all saw an even greater potential than before. Patty Schemel (pronounced at 0:20 mark here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTdVsAnNLyg) would add to Spin “Her playing was heavy, and she was knowledgeable, and she had command of her instrument. When she played, that was it: We knew.”
It was during that European tour that the band debuted material that was going to make their next record and the response was overwhelmingly positive. Sean Slade who worked on Hole’s second record Live Through This as an engineer and producer would recall to spin how once he heard the demos from the band he noticed that with the addition of Pfaff the band sounded more musical. The band would travel to Atlanta in October of 1993 to record the album.
Jim Merlis, a rep from Geffen Records, the band’s label would tell the buffalo news “”Kristen was really excited about making a record with Hole. She was so enthusiastic. She couldn’t wait to start touring.”
It was during the recording sessions for live through this that Erlandson and Pfaff were involved in a romantic relationship. In the book It was also speculated that peer pressure from her bandmates and friends in seattle led her to start using heroin.
Schemel would tell Spin: Kristen became Eric’s girlfriend, so they were tight. … Then there was me and my addiction with alcohol and drugs. Kristen and I would get together, and we were always trying to keep the amount of drugs we were doing secret. “Don’t tell Eric.” There were so many secrets. We were all frustrated, and we all had a lot of downtime. And so to deal with that, there was a lot of “hanging out.” I was frustrated. I wanted to play. I wanted to record. Erlandson would add in the same interview that during the making of the album he and Pfafff had broken up and there was noticable tension while recording the album
But it wasn’t just Erlandson and Pfaff who had tension between them as the bassist started to butt heads with frontwoman Courtney Love. Pfaff while new to the band was outspoken about musical ideas and that apparently rubbed Courtney Love the wrong way. Another factor contributing to Love’s resentment towards Pfaff at least according to the book Love and Death the murder of Kurt Cobain, was that the bassist had
@rnrtruestories
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
So what do you think happened to her?
@SoundOfDentage
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Is snow white?
@DEC3267
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Courtney shut up Kris P
@ExtremelyOnlineGuy
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Yes. She was murdered by Courtney love. Just like everyone else who knows who she really is and leaves. Kurts death is finally being investigated. Dude would be a grandpa by now man.
@luisalejandroayalayanez9466
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Courtney Love murdered Kristen, Eric, Eldon Hoke, and Kurt Cobain. The Seattle police are all involved. That's why they don't reopen the cases. But divine justice will not fail.
@consueloramirez3045
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
We were roommates in Minneapolis when we attended University of Minnesota
😢
@larrypowers2515
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Courtney Love. The Yoko Ono of the 90s.
@alexc.c.4025
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
The officer Antonio Terry was also investigating the amount of heroin that Kurt had in his system and didn't believe he could have possibly taken his own life with that amount of heroin in his body. Antonio was allegedly told to leave the case alone, but got killed instead.
@alexc.c.4025
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Tragic!!! Courtney at fall surely. She was already deep into drugs. Her father presented her, when she was 17. to an Irish man that had sex with her and later brought her to the UK, were Courtney provided musicians with drugs. She did the same later back in the US, but only after being on world tour of as a stripper and surely more than so. This Irish man later told Courtney's father that he was an agent.
@JoelSmith-1974
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Hey Courtney, if you're reading this: Hell awaits.
@cinnamongirl5410
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
She was killed. Because she had a story someone did not want out.
@JaredHancock-sw6ou
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
El duce was from the executioners and the documentary Kurt and Courtney cover the story
@jcdova29
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
She was still doing drugs. As all heroin addicts do they lie and try and get that last high. Heroin is the devil incarnate.
@klmullins65
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Why return to drugs, after getting clean, and finding happiness?? Just having to ask that question shows how drugs, especially heroin and opiates, take hold of not only the body, but the whole soul. Nobody is happy while being addicted, but no matter how successfully a person is able to get clean, the thought of copping is floating in their subconscious.
@GloomyLittleGlowworm
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
I truly think Courtney “Love” is a malignant narcissist. Read their traits, she checks all the boxes.
@DeathToPigs666
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Look at all the people being payed by Courtney to downplay the strangness
@DeathToPigs666
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
I hope Kristen and Kurt are together in heaven
@majdapetrovic8749
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
FIRST OF ALL,WHY THAT ERICKSON DIDNT SLEEP IN THE SAME APARTMent WITH PFAFF SO HE COULD PROTECT HER ⁉️SECONT OF ALL ,WHY WOULD THEY KILL HER ,FOR WHAT ⁉️⁉️THIRD OF ALL ,SOME POEPLE LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE HAPPY,BUT ON THE INSIDE THEY ARE NOT ,SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH ERIC ,AND WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY TALKED THAT ONE HOUR⁉️MAYBE SHE SAID ,I CANT HENDLE THAT ANYMORE AND THEN SHE TAKE OVERDOSE ,BY THE WAY ,SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH KURT TOO ……❗️
@WildThings-s4i
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Yes she was murdered she was
@LuigiMarione
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Courtney "love" is a serial kllr
@patsgarage8593
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Courtney Love was involved no doubt. Maybe Kurt was banging her while she was banging Billy Corgan
@trollbunden1
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
This "cosmetic bag" is connected to CL she aways hands out H kits this way.
Same coronor. All pages ripped out referring to the time Kurt passed and the tape he gave here vanoahed too that she heard on loop acc to Eric …. Kurt left messages like i want to live i dont want to die. This tape gone. But Eric didn't dare to speak more he only did poems later only poems Letters to Kurt and he wrote about the serpentine
@TheKimba1234
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Eric from HOLE was the last to see Kristen alive. I don't trust that Eric or Courtney Love.
@TheKimba1234
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Wow right after Kurt Cobain was. Kristen was good friends with Kurt, I wonder if Courtney Love was jealous???
@Halloweenthunder
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Always thought Courtney Love had something to do with it
@carolinerose1
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
My nana died in 1996. I reckon Courtney killed her too. Courtney's kill list still has 9,538 names left on it. Just so you know.
@bunnycat4153
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
What about the connection between Courtney and the Grateful Dead tho? Courtney’s true story is on some other ish forreals!
@crisgallardo4239
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
She probably knew too much
@KevinsCards22
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
We all know who was involved. Kurt and Her Death. Idk Courtney knew the guy that did both odtopsy. It's so obvious
@haroldhead7555
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
I'm not saying Courtney had her killed and Eric Erlandson was the instrument, I'm not saying it.
@kenon6968
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
The way that people speak about Courtney Love like some Machiavellian Mastermind you'd think she would be able to engineer still being relevant.
If you spend any amount of time with drug people you quickly find out that they're all feck ups, they're doing drugs for a reason, and they're likely to relapse because addressing those reasons is difficult.
@rj8877
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
The mysterious death of how a reformed drug addict in an area where said drug was readily available relapsed shortly before leaving said area and overdosed due to a lowered tolerance from cessation.
Geez must be that darn Courtney 🙄
@gaztaylor4178
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Damn i think Courtney has a lot of blood on her hands,there's many victims blood on her hands,why are there always suspicious death's when she's around 🤔 she's one shady lady indeed and needs to be held accountable one day,she knows a lot!!!!!
@ajmlbtickets
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Cortney never being arrested for murder is just unbelievable
@theciscokid999
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Courtney love – the hillary Clinton of rock n roll
@elenapoceirobea2655
February 25, 2026 at 1:04 pm
Not, heroine kill her 🙄
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