Background
In September 1995, Hole completed the final leg of their year-long of tour in promotion for their second studio album, Live Through This (1994). Although the band remained unproductive in the months following the tour, the members of Hole began work on individual projects. Frontwoman Courtney Love was cast as Althea Flynt in the The People vs. Larry Flynt alongside Woody Harrelson, lead guitarist Eric Erlandson collaborated with Rodney Bingenheimer and Thurston Moore in a short-lived project Rodney & the Tube Tops, bassist Melissa Auf der Maur recorded Ric Ocasek's album Troublizing (1997), and drummer Patty Schemel was a guest musician with The Lemonheads on the tribute album Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks.
Following Love's promotion of The People vs. Larry Flynt, the band reunited to write new material for Celebrity Skin. According to Love, the embyronic versions of the songs "weren't very good" and "not written well." However, the songs developed following the band's relocation to several parts of the United States, including Nashville, Memphis, Tenneesee and New Orleans. During their time in New Orleans, the band recorded a number of demos, including an early version of "Awful" and songs which later developed in to "Dying" and "Hit So Hard." Despite reports, these sessions did not result in the recording of a complete album and the master tapes were not stolen on a airplane. Erlandson debunked these claims in 2002. The writing process was completed in under a year and the band went through "fruitless attempts" at finalizing the songs before the band were satisfied enough to enter the studio.
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