The LA Weekly has a great pic of Courtney from 1984. Its a piece on Jeniffer Finch and the early days of Punk. Some cool pics of Flea, and Black Flag. Her pic is almost towards the end.

http://www.laweekly.com/general/features/14-and-shooting/14886/

Can she write on pitch?

clearly, courtney has run out of kurt's things to sell. what's next? frances' baby teeth on ebay?
i wonder how long richard lee has been waiting in line at u. books today?

Greg Graffin was HOT.

What on earth has Ms. Love ever produced that was valuable? Besides a baby, of course. She's not even the most interesting or valuable thing named "Courtney Love"; Lois Maffeo's old band takes that honor, by miles.

She wrote an interest piece a few years ago (I forget for what publication) on what to expect from a "hit record", breaking down the dirty who-gets-paid-how-much-for-what in the record biz.

Of course, Steve Albini wrote a better piece on the same topic that predates hers, but hers is still an insightful and well done piece. For the record I'm not a fan of her music, or, uh, her.

Fnarf: The works of Love's I value most are Live Through This (especially the lyrics she spent the early part of her life honing) and her performance in The People vs. Larry Flynt.

DougSF -

Actually, 'her piece', widely quoted from her keynote address at CMJ or somesuch (c. 1996), was an uncredited, word-by-word restatement of Albini's lengthy, detailed & hilarious send-up of 'major label economics' originally published in Maximum Rock & Roll (c. 1991) and re-printed in the Baffler (c.1992). The fact that Albini generated the piece as propaganda for his staunch indie-istic economic views and Courtney re-fashioned it to seem like an intellectually rigorous provocateur among her maj'-lab' peers is just another of the infinite, deathly, bottomless ironies that spin from her fascinating and pathological career. Is she some kind of fire? Or windstorm? Or maybe a new race of human video feedback?

The Eugene hippies will wreak their vengeance on the West.

Find a version of Steve's 1991 piece here:

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

Find Courtney's version here:

http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/

I see it was a speech in 2000 at the "digital hollywood" confernece. Note that she claims credit and leaves in the allusion to Taco Bell at the end of of the math.

Haha! Bald plagerism in a speech about free intellectual property! Hee Hee. The genius!

Richard Jensen:

Thansk for the links. I was operating on fuzzy memories having read those so far apart. Thanks for the links.

Albini's piece may be his take on label politics, but should still be required reading for bands looking for label representation.