Hit So Hard

Hit So Hard is a 2011 American documentary film directed by P. David Ebersole. The film details the life and near death story of Patty Schemel, drummer of the seminal 90s alternative rock band Hole, and charts her early life, music career, and spiral into crack cocaine addiction. The film weaves together Hi8 video footage Schemel recorded while on Holes 199495 world tour with contemporary interviews with her, bandmates Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson, and Melissa Auf der Maur, as well as her family members. The film also features interviews with other female drummers and musicians, including Nina Gordon, Kate Schellenbach, Gina Schock, Debbi Peterson, and Phranc.

Hit So Hard was conceived after Schemel discovered a cache of Hi8 video footage which she had recorded herself during her world tour with Hole promoting their second album, Live Through This 1994. In the process of digitizing the footage to preserve it from deterioration, Schemel and Ebersole sought to utilize the footage in order to tell Schemels story.The film begins with discussion amidst Holes 1994 and 1995 world tour, then works backwards to Schemels childhood growing up in Marysville, Washington, and details her coming out to her family as a lesbian, as well as her immersion in Seattles music scenes, where she would eventually cross paths with Kurt Cobain. Through contemporary interviews with Schemels bandmates Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson, and Melissa Auf der Maur, her beginnings in Hole are detailed, including her audition with Love and Erlandson in Los Angeles amidst the Rodney King riots, as well as her time living with Love and husband Kurt Cobain, and the songwriting process between Love, Schemel, and Erlandson. Additional commentary from fellow female drummers, musicians, peers, and friends of Schemels are provided throughout. After the death of Holes bassist Kristen Pfaff in 1994 only two months after the suicide of Kurt Cobain, the band embarked on a world tour with Auf der Maur as Pfaffs replacement, and Schemel, along with Love, began heavily using heroin. Schemels drug use leads to a breakup with her girlfriend, who acted as Loves personal assistant on the tour, and Schemel reflects on her time in a rehabilitation facility she checked into with Love after the conclusion of the tour in 1995. ........

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