Melissa Auf der Maur

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Melissa Gaboriau Auf der Maur (born March 17, 1972) is a Canadian singer, singer-songwriter, photographer, and actress. In 1993, Auf der Maur founded Tinker, the indie rock band formed while attending Concordia University.

In the summer of 1994, she was recruited as the bassist for the American alternative rock band Hole and was featured on several Hole albums, including the album Celebrity Skin (1998).

Auf der Maur briefly joined The Smashing Pumpkins for the 2000 tour and launched her solo career; her debut studio album, Out of Our Minds, was released in 2004 on Capitol Records, and her second studio album, PHI–MAdM Music, was released in 2010.

She has also worked with Indochine, Rufus Wainwright, Ric Ocasek, and Neverending White Lights. Auf der Maur is both a photographer and occasional actress.

Her photographs have been published in National Geographic and on view at Sotheby's.

She has appeared in How to Make the Cruelest Month (1998), Beyond Borders (2003), and Collaborator (2011).

On den Maur's 2009 multidisciplinary venture Out of Our Minds, which culminated in an album, a single, film, and a comic book, she performed as a film and record producer alongside her husband and filmmaker Tony Stone.

Stone and Auf der Maur, the creative directors and owners of Basilica Hudson, an arts and performance center in Hudson, New York, are among the residents. On its list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll in 2007, VH1 ranked Auf der Maur at number 68, and her solo albums have received glowing feedback.

Early life

Auf der Maur was born in Montreal, Quebec, to journalist and politician Nick Auf der Maur and journalist and literary translator Linda Gaboriau. Auf der Maur's father's family was Swiss-German and her mother's was mixed European-American. Gaboriau was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. As a result, she holds dual citizenship in Canada and America. "On the wall" in Monte Maur's surname translates to English, as "maur" is derived from the German word for "wall" (die Mauer). Theresia Schaelin-Auf der Maur Maur, her grandmother, was "always pounding my roots down my throat" while reminding me that I'm the last one in North America to further the name."

Auf der Maur did not know her father until she was three years old. After her daughter began questioning her about her father's identity, Gaboriau called Nick Auf der Maur. On the day, Auf der Maur said, "[my father] figured Linda was the love of his life because she'd accepted the gift of this child without any requests." [He] fell madly in love with her [and] spent two years in pursuit of her [and] adored her for two years. In 1978, Auf der Maur and Gaboriau married when Melissa was six years old. After the couple's divorce, Auf der Maur and her mother travelled around the world together. A portion of Onder Maur's childhood was spent in "a circus caravan in Wales," a red post-office box truck in Morocco, and a hut in Kenya with her mother. She had three bouts of malaria during her stay in Kenya and then returned to Montreal.

Auf der Maur of Montreal attended Fine Arts Core Education (FACE) School and Moving in New Directions (MIND) High School, both of which are alternative education institutions. She was a member of FACE and MIND, and she was "part of the little English elite" where she first met Lorca and Rufus Wainwright, Leonard Cohen's daughter Lorca. She became interested in photography at school and then enrolled Concordia University, where she majored in photography in 1994. Auf der Maur, a 19-year-old student at Concordia, began working part-time as a DJ at Bifteck, a well-known rock club, where she performed with many artists, including Steve Durand.

Personal life

Auf der Maur is married to indie filmmaker Tony Stone. River, they have one daughter (born in October 2011). Both the couple own Basilica Hudson, an arts and performance center in Hudson, New York, where they live.

Auf der Maur's half-brother, Yves de Fontenay, is a student at the University of Onder Maur's father, Yves de Fontenay.

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Music career

During her time as a DJ at Bifteck, Auf der Maur met fellow Concordia University student Steve Durand, with whom she formed Tinker in November 1993. Durand took over guitar playing and On der Maur began playing bass, using a Fender Precision Bass that her father had purchased for her 21st birthday. Jordon Zadorozny, a second guitarist, and a drummer, and the pair began performing at Montreal venues.

Auf der Maur, a keyboardist and guitarist who appeared at Les Foufounes Électriques in 1991, became close with vocalist and guitarist Billy Corgan. Onstage, Auf der Maur's roommate heckled the band between songs and threw a beer bottle, sparking "a fist fight" between him and Corgan.

Auf der Maur explained:

On den Maur and Corgan's pen pals, he became pen pals. Auf der Maur sent Corgan a letter demanding that Tinker open for the Smashing Pumpkins during their next tour date in Montreal after months of no contact. Corgan accepted her invitation and Tinker performed the most impressive show of their career to 2,500 people at Métropolis on November 30, 1993. "She patted me on the back," Corgan's Auf der Maur recalled. You're a really good bass player,' He said. You're going to be in my band for one day.' It felt like a dream came true, providing me with the confidence boost I needed."

Tinker had a short career, releasing two 7-inch singles "Realalie" and "Green Machine" on the independent record label Bear Records in 1994. In summer 1994, the group was disbanded after Auf der Maur accepted Courtney Love's invitation to become the bassist for the alternative rock band Hole, a position she had opposed: she left the army in summer 1994.

After Kristen Pfaff's death, Hole was in need of a new bassist in summer 1994. On her initial decision to decline Love's bid to join, Onder Maur recalled: "I said no because it seemed like a very sad situation to be going into... it seemed to be a very sad place to be in," Pfaff said, citing Pfaff's death as a "red flag" and a reason not to join the band. On the day of meeting Love and drummer Patty Schemel, On der Maur, she had "a flash of destiny in her eyes" and accepted the offer. (B.F.A.) She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) At Concordia, I was recruited as the bassist for Hole two weeks before its appearance at the 1994 Reading Festival. "Lou Barlow and Evan Dando were watching from the side of the stage," she recalled. "I certainly didn't even move." "As long as I get these parts correct, it'll be just fine," I thought.

On behalf of its second studio album, Live Through This (1994), Auf der Maur toured around the world from 1994 to 1995. During the tour's "dark and grey" atmosphere, Auf der Maur was referred to by guitarist Eric Erlandson as "bringing sunshine to the band," which was particularly difficult due to the band's recent bereavements, including the death of Pfaff and Love's husband Kurt Cobain, as well as Love's heroin use. Following the two-year tour, On the two-year tour, Maur befriended Patty Schemel and rented a house with her. Constant Comment, the two guys' side project, and they're releasing "Firecrasher" as a result of their split 7-inch single for the Record Industry. On der Maur, she has since stated that her friendship and musical harmonie with Schemel was based on a "redhead link; Schemel has referred to Auf der Maur as her "anchor" during the time following Pfaff and Cobain's death.

On several Hole albums, including the 1996 non-album single "Gold Dust Woman" and several live tracks on My Body, as well as the Hand Grenade (1997). She appeared on the band's third studio album, Celebrity Skin (1998), performing bass and co-composing five of the 12 songs. Celebrity Skin, a major social and commercial success, debuted at number 9 in the United States, and it debuted at number 9 on the charts. Billboard's 200 albums chart and number three on the Canadian Albums Chart, as well as its lead single and title track debuting at number 1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, with Billboard's 200 albums chart and number 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Both the United States and Canada have been awarded platinum. Following the tour in support of its emergence, Auf der Maur left Hole in October 1999 as her five-year deal with the band came to an end, and she wanted to develop in many new directions."

Hole was reforming, according to NME in June 2009. Love said that Auf der Maur was resurrecting as bassist on her forthcoming album Nobody's Daughter, which had been rebranded as a Hole album, and appearing on the support tour. Auf der Maur said she was "surprised and dissatisfied" by the news and that she had no intention of participating in the reformed band. Despite several court problems, Nobody's Daughter was announced as Hole's fourth studio album in April 2010, with Shawn Dailey replacing Auf der Maur as bassist.

Hole returned to life for a one-off appearance at Public Assembly in Brooklyn, New York, on April 12, 2012, the following day for Schemel's film Hit So Hard (2011). Originally On the Beach, Maur, Erlandson, and Schemel were performing as a trio until Love appeared on "Miss World" and "Over the Edge" in a whimsy. In April 2014, the Quietus announced that the four members had reunited, but Love downplayed talk of an imminent reunion in subsequent interviews. In an interview with Auf der Maur, she said in April 2016 that she no longer had time or energy for a full-fledged reunion, but that she would be interested in wrapping up the Hole legacy with a retrospective disc and a small collection of tour dates.

D'arcy Wretzky, the original Smashing Pumpkins bassist, left the band in September 1999 after the band's fifth studio album, Machina/The Machines of God (2000), was released. Auf der Maur was recruited as her replacement by Billy Corgan in October 1999, with whom she was still friends from her time in Tinker and Hole. "I knew I was going to do my solo project," she said. "But then, coincidentally, the week that I left Hole was the week D'arcy left the Pumpkins." Billy called me within a week and said, 'The stars have aligned: it's time for you to join my band.' "I had to do it."

Auf der Maur appeared on neither Machina/The Machines of God nor Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music (2000) as Wretzky's remaining bass duties were assumed by Corgan during recording sessions, but she appeared with the Pumpkins on the Machina tour from December 1999 to December 2000. According to Auf der Maur, the tour included stops in North America, Japan, Europe, and South Africa. "They will always be changing the arrangements and keys of songs," she said while on tour. The Pumpkins' work ethic is so full and so demanding... joining [the band] was more about career than about emotional experience." She appeared in various shows, including the band's last TV appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the band's last show at the Cabaret Metro in Chicago on December 2, 2000, as well as appearing in the band's music videos. At the end of the year 2000, Smashing Pumpkins came to an end.

Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin had signed a new management contract with Azoff Management, according to a spokesperson who confirmed that they had signed under the name "Brissing Pumpkins." "I'm positive as long as Billy has Jimmy," Auf der Maur said in a separate interview, and that when she inquired about her participation in the reunion, she said she was not planning to attend, but that "services are always there to play [her] favorite songs." "I'm always eager to be second in line" if D'arcy isn't available." Despite her earlier passion and Wretzky's absence, The Globe and Mail announced in April 2007 that Auf Der Maur would not be returning to The Smashing Pumpkins.

On der Maur's 2002 debut as a drummer in Hole, Samantha Maloney, Peaches, Paz Lenchantin, and Radio Sloan. The Chelsea, named after the Chelsea Hotel in New York, where Auf der Maur had lived for many years, was one of a handful of shows at Spaceland in Los Angeles, California, which featured original songs and cover versions. According to a Variety review, the show was poorly received due to a "actual lack of preparation" and early versions of songs Auf der Maur's "Gates of Steel" and early versions of songs on her debut studio album. While touring for her debut studio album, America's Sweetheart (2004), Courtney Love subsequently named her backing band The Chelsea, as well as attracting Maloney and Sloan in the process.

Hand of Doom, a Black Sabbath cover band in which she performed lead vocals, was formed later this year. Molly Stern, drummer Pedro Yanowitz, turntablist Joey Garfield, and guitarist Guy Stevens were among the band's members. The band launched Live in Los Angeles in March, featuring recordings from various performances. The album received warm feedback, with AllMusic writer Bradley Torrance describing it as a "fun, groovy, and, oddly sensual" album that "reveals the inner core to all the years of posturing," according to AllMusic's Bradley Torrey, adding that "it is Auf der Maur herself who is the album's key to the work. Hand of Doom, nicknamed "art-karaoke," appeared in North America during summer 2002 before disbanding in 2003.

Auf der Maur, who disbanded The Smashing Pumpkins, was unsure whether or not she should continue her music career. In an interview with Jam!, she said that her "relationship to music had deteriorated to a point where she was mainly military-oriented." I was a soldier, a hard worker whose lives were never fully satisfied by the music. I was curious if I was going to make my own record" at the time. Auf der Maur found old demo recordings in her house in late 2001, and she decided to pursue a solo career after "realized [she] had an entire album's worth of crap that had been sitting there for years."

Auf der Maur's debut studio album Auf der Maur was released on Capitol Records in February 2004 and was recorded from 2001 to 2003 at various studios in the United States and Canada. On der Maur, a producer who was not signed to a record label at the time of recording and post-production, she was unable to mix the album. According to Metacritic, she accepted a recording contract from Capitol soon after and then released Auf der Maur to "generally favorable reviews." The album's supporting singles, "Followed the Waves," "Real a Lie" and "Taste You," were moderately successful in the United Kingdom, charting in the Top 40 of the UK Single Charts. Auf der Maur has sold 200,000 copies around the world as of 2010.

Auf der Maur said in a 2007 interview with Billboard that she had finished recording her second studio album, which would be released as part of a multidisciplinary program that includes a concept film, an album, and a graphic novel that will be published in fall 2009. In August 2007, an official website featuring teasers of the project, as well as a film trailer, was launched, as well as a film trailer, which was updated by Auf der Maur's on a regular blog describing the various phases of the project. Following controversies with Capitol and being "caught up in some red tape" that delayed the project's unveiling, Onder Maur left the label to gain creative influence and release her music on "[her] own terms."

... An EP named... On iTunes, This Will Be Paradise was announced in November 2008 as a 7-inch and digital download. The three-track EP was released on Urbanited Music, an independent record label based in the Netherlands, and under Auf der Maur's abbreviated name MAdM, which she used for all succeeding launches. Following the introduction of the EP, a short six-date tour of Canada and northern Europe followed the release of her first live performances since the 151-date tour in support of Auf der Maur in 2004 and 2005.

Auf der Maur released "Out of Our Minds" and an EP, OOOM, in late 2009. On her official website, the single was available as a free download; PHI–MAdM Music Inc., her own record label, and PHI Centre Group, a division of the Montreal-based PHI Centre Group, were self-released; both the single and EP were free on PHI–MAdM Music Inc., her own record label. Auf der Maur also signed an international distribution agreement with Roadrunner Records, which is responsible for the distribution of the releases outside of North America. Out of Our Minds, her second studio album, was also released in March 2010 as part of the OOOM campaign. Despite charting in France, Greece, Spain, and the United Kingdom, the album received mixed feedback. However, Out of Our Minds' Best Indie/Alternative/Hard Rock Album at the Independent Music Awards in January 2011 was also a winner. Auf der Maur went on maternity leave in autumn 2011.

Since contributing bass and background vocals to his 1997 solo album Troublizing, Onder Maur briefly toured with former The Cars frontman Ric Ocasek in 1997. She performed in French with Indochine's song "Le Grand Secret," which featured a duet in French with Nicola Sirkis, to high praise in France. Auf der Maur performed the song on stage and appeared in the song's music video. During an Indochine show in Paris on February 22, 2002, she performed a rare, short, acoustic set of some of her solo songs. Auf der Maur has contributed bass and backing vocals to Rufus Wainwright's album Poses, as well as in his 1998 film "April Fools." In 2008, she collaborated with Canadian musician Daniel Victor on his music collaboration project Neverending White Lights. They made the video "The World Is Darker," which was released in March 2008. Aside from this, she has contributed to albums by artists such as Ryan Adams, Ben Lee, Idaho, The Stills and Fountains of Wayne.

Auf der Maur appeared on the Fountains of Wayne's album Traffic and Weather, supporting the phrase "Someone to Love" in 2007.

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