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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.

His girlfriend, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1973805/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Hole</a> bassist <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm4224634/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Kristen Pfaff</a>, died of a heroin overdose in 1994.

Was the only member of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1973805/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Hole</a>, aside from <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0001482/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Courtney Love</a>, to remain with the band for all 10 years.

Was the guitarist for the band, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1973805/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Hole</a>, from 1989-1999.

He is of Swedish, German, and Irish descent, and a descendant of Martin Luther.

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