Biography

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.

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