Anybody who listened to Hole during their peak knows that the band was dominated by frontwoman Courtney Love. Her personality was so outsized and her voice so big and distinct that there was little room for anybody else in the band to really shine. But Hole were an incredibly efficient rock machine, and a lot of that was because of the savage precision of drummer Patty Schemel. Drummers tend to get short shrift in any band (save for iconic singularities like Keith Moon, John Bonham or Neil Peart), so it's about time that one of the more talented members of the time-keeping fraternity gets the attention she deserves.
That attention comes in the form of "Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death of Patty Schemel," a documentary about Schemel's life and career behind the kit. The film, which borrows its title from a song from Hole's 1998 album Celebrity Skin, is the brainchild of director P. David Ebersole and features interviews with many of Schemel's great contemporaries, including former Veruca Salt frontwoman Nina Gordon, former Luscious Jackson drummer Kate Schellenbach, Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum (who also provided the score for the film) and Hole bandmates Love, Eric Erlandson and Melissa Auf Der Maur.
In this exclusive clip that premiered on the MTV Movies Blog, some of Schemel's best friends and bandmates zero in on one of the drummer's greatest unsung traits: her winning sense of humor.