- Born
- Birth nameEric Theodore Erlandson
- Nickname
- E
- Height6′ 5″ (1.96 m)
- Eric Erlandson was born on January 9, 1963 in Los Angeles, California, and raised in nearby San Pedro. Erlandson attended Loyola Marymount University, and was working as a royalties manager for Capitol Records when he responded to an advertisement placed by Courtney Love in a local paper about wanting to start a band.
Love and Erlandson established the band, named Hole, in 1989, and would go on to release three successful studio albums between 1991 and 1998. After their third release, the Grammy-nominated Celebrity Skin (1998), the band split up and Love and Erlandson parted ways. Erlandson continued working with other music projects, including Rodney & the Tube Tops with Thurston Moore, and later RRIICCEE and Vincent Gallo.
He has also released several books of free-form poetry and artwork. In April 2012, the mid-'90s era lineup of Hole reunited for a brief performance in New York City in celebration of drummer Patty Schemel's documentary Hit So Hard (2011), which charted the band's 1994-1995 world tours through archived home video footage.- IMDb Mini Biography By: S.H.
- SpouseRebekah Davies(2020 - present)
- His girlfriend, Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff, died of a heroin overdose in 1994.
- Was the only member of Hole, aside from Courtney Love, to remain with the band for all 10 years.
- Was the guitarist for the band, Hole, from 1989-1999.
- He is of Swedish, German, and Irish descent, and a descendant of Martin Luther.
- Has six siblings.
- We've always been more interested in the feeling of a song than in technical performance. - June 1994
- The most frustrating thing for me is that people view most female artists as this single person. The thing is, I know for a fact that we're more of a band, and we've always been more of a band. I don't want to be in a 'backing band,' and Courtney doesn't want that either. That's not the way we work. - July 1995
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