Hole – Celebrity Skin

Eric's good friend Pat Smear [ex-Germs, Nirvana and Foo Fighters] lent him a bunch of axes, including a Hagstrom 12-string (heard on "Hit So Hard") a Burns baritone (capoed high and played on "Use Once & Destroy" and "Boys On The Radio," "Playing Your Song" and "Celebrity Skin"), a Gibson SG and a Gretsch White Falcon.

Eric's good friend Pat Smear [ex-Germs, Nirvana and Foo Fighters] lent him a bunch of axes, including a Hagstrom 12-string (heard on "Hit So Hard") a Burns baritone (capoed high and played on "Use Once & Destroy" and "Boys On The Radio," "Playing Your Song" and "Celebrity Skin"), a Gibson SG and a Gretsch White Falcon.

For Celebrity Skin, Erlandson put his Velenos, his '68 Tele and numerous other guitars through a unique setup he devised with producer Michael Beinhorn. The signal from the the guitar was split. One side was sent to a SansAmp and a chain of vintage analog synthesizers that included a Serge modular system, an Arp 2600 and a Moog Modular system with a Boda frequency shifter. The other side of the signal went into a Watkins Dominator, a small but deadly vintage British combo amp. "The boda thing has octaving, phasing, flanging plus a frequency analyzer and shifter all mixed in," says Erlandson. "So I threw out a lot of plans to use a lot of pedals. Meanwhile, the Watkins provided tons of low end."

For the Celebrity Skin sessions, Love plugged into a variety of amps, including Fender tube gear, Matchless, Ampeg, Silvertone and a solid-state 1976 Randall Commander that formerly belonged to Love's late husband, Kurt Cobain. "He did like his Randall Commander," she says.