
There was a lot of temptation in terms of drugs back then. I was able to do the kind of stripper economy which is … for every $5 I made, I would give Eric Erlandson three of them and that's how we bought our van and we bought our backline.Ībsolutely, and you have to be really savvy to do it.

To me back then, 300 bucks in a day was fine. But Jumbo's did give me more consistency. Yeah, Jumbo's…It's like in the Zagat guide, “Courtney worked at Jumbo's…” I didn't just work at Jumbo's, I worked at Nude, Nude, Nude! Century Lounge near the airport. Can you reflect on spots like Jumbo's Clown Room that always get mentioned?
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In the meantime, she promises a new book, as well as a full album by spring. Now living in New York, she says she'll be moving back to L.A. Love plays the Troubadour tonight, on the heels of a recent rough show in the area. Though there were lots of non-sequiturs and we got off track at times, she was clearly excited about the new material she's been creating, not to mention reconciling with her daughter Frances Bean Cobain and her “billionaire boyfriend,” whom she would not identify. (See below.) But Love practically volunteered most of the answers to questions before we even asked them, and she was in giddy spirits - our conversation was peppered with beeps, which sounded like her face accidentally tapping the phone.

We were a bit apprehensive to talk to her, considering her past issues with the Weekly. in 1989, she took steps to make her dreams a reality. Long before Courtney Love was a household name, a famous rocker, actress, drug addict, widow of an icon, estranged mother or social media rabble-rouser, she was Courtney Michelle Harrison, a girl from Northern California obsessed with music and consumed by dreams of Hollywood stardom.
