Great Concerts: Hole at Roseland Ballroom May 18, 1999
This post is going to be a little different than our first installment in the Great Concerts series. The last was about the legendary David Bowie and was literally a historic concert. This one is more personally historic, although there’s a lot of history behind this one as well. Let’s begin.
The year is 1999. Hole has released their 3rd album Celebrity Skin
) and commenced an ill-fated co-headlining tour with Marilyn Manson that fell apart. Hole hadn’t toured in years and the album alone was a long time in the making, but the fans still wanted to see the band (even with new drummer Samantha Maloney replacing Patty Schmel). So for once the band did the right thing and went back out on the road alone. This would be the final Hole tour (except no one knew it yet). They sold out 2 shows at NYC’s famed Roseland Ballroom, appearing on David Letterman right across the street in the process(the appearance would air on the 20th, but was taped earlier in the week).
