Word: pfaff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bassist Melissa Auf der Maur--have been waiting, relaxing on couches. Hole has a terrific new CD out, Celebrity Skin, the band's third release. The group has gone through many changes since it formed in 1990--musical changes, philosophical changes, personnel changes. The band's last bassist, Kristen Pfaff, died of a heroin overdose in 1994. Hole's current drummer, Patty Schemel, is on leave for unspecified personal reasons. "If she can deal with her problems, she can come back," says Love obliquely. "I can't be responsible for that again...
...William Pfaff, writing in the Arizona Republic, suggests an elaborate explanation for all this "personal chemistry" in American individualistic religion: "American Protestantism is missionary and evangelical, and holds that salvation occurs by a direct relation between God and man. The individual 'finds Jesus' in his heart, and is saved...
...Pfaff objects that this sort of convincing is unnecessary. We can imagine other sorts of relationships between nations, Pfaff urges. The United States could act like a business partner, coolly professional, with no regard for "personal chemistry." The problem with our foreign policy, Pfaff concludes, is that we insist on the more personal form of relationship, regardless of the realities...
...While Pfaff is right to point out that there are more distant yet peaceful kinds of relationships in the world, he is wrong to declare that nations need not share ideas. Real peace between nations requires a mutual recognition, if not a mutual appreciation, of ideas. Rousseau expressed this sentiment in his conclusion that we cannot live in peace with those we believe to be damned...
...rock stars, it has been an all too popular way. The music industry has been rocked, in the past few years, by the drug-related deaths of Nirvana's Cobain and Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff, and more recently Blind Melon's front man Shannon Hoon and Smashing Pumpkins keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin. As for Nowell, his bandmates say they tried to help him. Recalls Wilson: "If you tried to talk to him about it, he would get mad. He thought he was invincible. When someone would die, other artists, he'd just go, 'O.K., they're stupid, they shot too much...