Patty Schemel

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Patricia Theresa "Patty" Schemel (born April 24, 1967) is an American drummer and singer who rose to fame as the drummer of alternative rock band Hole from 1992 to 1998.

Schemel left Hole in 1998 and became reunited with Hole frontwoman Courtney Love in the early 2000s, and later played for Juliette and the Licks.

Schemel continues to play music and give drum lessons as a result of owning a dog daycare/boarding company.

Schemel joined Upset, a British rock band formed by Ali Koehler, a founder of Vivian Girls and Best Coast in 2013.

Death Valley Girls, Larry Schemel's brother, formed a rock and roll band.

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Life and career

Patricia Theresa Schemel was born in Los Angeles, California, on April 24, 1967. She is the middle child of three children and grew up in Marysville, Washington. Both her parents are from Brooklyn, New York, and they were emigrated to Washington state right after Schel's birth. Schemel's parents were members of Alcoholics Anonymous, which Schemel characterized as crucial to her upbringing in her memoir, Hit So Hard.

Schemel started playing drums at age 11, after her father bought her a drum set and performed with her brother Larry, who played guitar.

Schemel came out as a lesbian to her family as an adolescent. Schemel reflected, "I discovered I was a lesbian." "Thank you for punk and rock music." You could be whatever you wanted." Schemel's early influences included Echo & the Bunnymen, AC/DC, and Wire, among other punk rock bands. Schemel recalled being one of a small number of her classmates who shared a passion for punk rock music in her high school. The Milkbones, a fifteen-year-old girl from England, formed her first band at age 15. She and her brother Larry formed the Seattle punk band Sybil, which was renamed Kill Sybil in honor of the artist of the same name.

She joined Doll Squad, Seattle's all-female punk rock band. Schemel, along with bassist Annette Billesbach, lead guitarist Cathy Watson, rhythm guitarist Helen Halloran, and singer Mara Dralle, was one of the original members of Doll Squad prior to their 2008 reunion. The band was active from 1987 to 1989, winning an indie following in Seattle, performing alongside Nirvana, and releasing a self-released demo tape.

Schemel, a member of Kill Sybil and Doll Squad, performed drums for Everett, a Washington-based band formed with poet Raegan Butcher, local singer Danny Darst, and guitarist Tommy Suzuki.

After the departure of Chad Channing, Nirvana's drummer, Kurt Cobain, Schemel was considered by Kurt Cobain as Nirvana's drummer. Cobain had been a fan of Schemel's former band Sybil, which had also based in Seattle. However, Schemel became Cobain's second choice after Dave Grohl's audition, and he and Schemel formed a close friendship.

Following the departure of Hole's original drummer Caroline Rue, frontwoman Courtney Love recruited Schemel at the suggestion of Cobain; after an audition in Los Angeles that stunned Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson, the band's frontwoman, Schemel left work in Microsoft's fulfillment center in 1992. Schemel's first appearance with Hole was on the release of their fourth album, "Beautiful Son," on which she also appeared on the b-side "20 Years in the Dakota," with Love playing bass. Schemel had developed a heroin use during this time and refused to participate in Kurt Cobain's drug intervention in March 1994, saying doing so would be hypocrisy because she "was strung out [...] how dare I go and tell someone else's abuse when I'm doing it myself."

Schemel appeared on Hole's second critically acclaimed album, Live Through This (1994). She went on to tour with the band for the promotion of Live Through This, which included dates at the Reading Festival, Big Day Out, and Lollapalooza. Schemel became the first woman to be on the front page of Drum World magazine while on tour in April 1995. Planl stood out in a 1995 band interview with Rolling Stone saying, "It's important" and that "not out there with the fucking pink flag or something else, but it's good for those people who live somewhere else in a small town who are "not out there doing it" and that it's OK," she said, while promoting Live Through This, Stacey's 1994-1995 world tour.

She appeared on the 1995 Goofyfoot EP around this time, also with Phranc. Schemel played drums on Hole's cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman," the first track on the soundtrack to The Crow: City of Angels. She has also performed backing vocals and appeared prominently in the song's video. Melissa Auf der Maur, a Schel and Hole bassist, founded Constant Comment, a short-lived side project during this period. The band appeared at a select number of shows before disbanding.

Hole returned to life in 1997 and performed Celebrity Skin (1998), the follow-up to Live Through This. Schemel worked on the album's production and made all of the drum parts herself. Love and Erlandson, on producer Michael Beinhorn's insistence, suggested recording the drum tracks for the album. Schemel left the studio and quit the band on the band's line, and producer Beinhorn's final drum tracks were recorded. Schemel did not appear in band interviews and was eventually replaced by Samantha Maloney for the album's tour in the months leading up to its release. Schemel's name and photograph were also included on the album sleeve, owing to her contribution to the album's writing and its demos.

Schemel's departure from Hole at the time were split, with Love arguing that Schemel's later heroin use was to blame, fueling circulating rumors, but Schemel denied this was due to "musical differences." Schemel left Hole in 2011 due to personal and musical differences between her and Celebrity Skin's producer Michael Beinhorn. Beinhorn said she was "fully psyching [her] out in the studio," and after a band meeting, Beinhorn brought in a session drummer, to whom she felt "betrayed by the band."

Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson expressed regret for the decision to replace Schemel in the album's studio work later that day, while Love described Beinhorn as "a Nazi." Melissa Auf der Maur also commented on the occurrence, but she added that she "didn't have much of a say" in it.

Schemel stopped in touch with her family and friends after leaving Hole in 1998 and became homeless for more than a year. Schemel approached her asking for funds, but only under the condition that she attends therapy, according to Courtney Love. Schemel had attended rehabilitation and recovered sobriety by 2001.

Schemel reunited with Love for Love's short-lived project Bastard, which featured Veruca Salt's Louise Post on guitar and Gina Crosley of Rockit Girl after overcoming heroin use. Despite a few demos, the group was disbanded shortly thereafter. Schemel performed drums for their album Tacoma Ballet (2002) as a drummer for the experimental group Lucid Nation. Schemel and her brother Larry were subsequently named as key composers and performers on Courtney Love's debut solo album, America's Sweetheart (2004). Juliette Lewis' punk rock band Juliette and the Licks, with whom she performed drums on their debut 6 song EP...Like a Bolt of Lightning (2004).

Schel appeared in a bonus video for the VH1 show Sober House on March 18, 2010 with Dr. Drew addressing her heroin use and sobriety. In 2010, she attended the MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert, which is primarily focused on women's transition from heroin use to sobriety.

Schemel was the subject of P. David Ebersole's documentary film Hit So Hard, which chronicles her childhood, time in Hole, overcoming heroin use, and life after quitting Hole. The film includes interviews with the band as well as a home video video clip shot by Schemel of Hole's 1994–1995 Live Through This Tour. For the first time in thirteen years, the film premiered in New York at The Museum of Modern Art in March 2011. In June 2011, Hit So Hard was also the Documentary Centerpiece at Outfest in Los Angeles, and it was released theatrically and on home video in 2012. Following a screening of Hit So Hard, Schemel joined Melissa Auf der Maur, Courtney Love, and Eric Erlandson for a reunion performance at the Public Assembly in Brooklyn, New York, in April 2012.

Schemel joined Upset with Ali Koehler in January 2013. She formed the Death Valley Girls with her brother Larry in the same year.

In 2017, Schemel released an autobiography, also called Hit So Hard: A Memoir, published by Da Capo Press. The book was praised for its candor, honesty, and humor. Fame, heroin, going out, and other topics are among the topics discussed.

Schemel appeared on Marissa Nadler's eighth studio album, For My Crimes (2018), the following year. Patty set a new record with Upset, a Redd Kross' Steven McDonald.

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