Does a newly posted picture probably tease the return of Gap‘s basic lineup? In a brand new Instagram submit from the From Her to Eternity account, Courtney Love and bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur are seen hanging out collectively in a studio, with the caption noting it is the primary time they have been “in studio collectively in 24 years.”

The Gap Reunion Story

Courtney Love recorded three ’90s albums with Gap, every with guitarist Eric Erlandson. For a majority of that run, the band additionally included bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur and drummer Patty Schemel. However the 2000s led to lineup modifications and by 2010 a fourth album from the band with Love as the one member of that core 4 was launched.

Within the time since, the reunion of the band’s core has oft been mentioned, however not often have they performed collectively. The lone time got here in April 2012 with the 4 members coming collectively onstage for the primary time in 15 years at a present in Brooklyn. The efficiency happened on the Public Meeting in Williamsburg as a part of an after get together for a documentary viewing of Hit So Exhausting concerning the band’s drummer Patty Schemel.

That appeared to open the doorways for a Gap reunion, and in April 2014 Love declared that she had been again working with the basic lineup. However a month later she appeared to bitter on the reunion, claiming {that a} reunion would solely imply one thing in the event that they did one thing related and by the summer time she dominated out the reunion claiming she was not within the “oldies circuit.”

In 2016, Love reignited hope of a reunion by posting previous images on-line and talking publicly of her want to play with the band once more, however nothing got here of it. Then, in 2019, she said that Gap had been “positively speaking about” getting again collectively once more.

However, in 2021, she as soon as once more threw water on the opportunity of the band reuniting telling Vogue, “No, completely not. And also you guys have gotta recover from it. Our previous supervisor Peter Mensch calls every year to ask a few reunion: ‘Hey, simply doing my factor I do yearly with you and Jimmy Web page [of Led Zeppelin].’ And I’m so honored to be in that firm, however it’s simply not gonna occur.”

She went on so as to add, “We’re all actually good associates and Melissa and I are particularly shut—we speak daily,” mentioned Love. “However Eric is kinda off-the-grid proper now—I believe he’s in Japan actually changing into a monk. I’m not even kidding. Melissa, Patty, and I believe he’s turn into a monk or one thing on that degree of aestheticism.”

In recent times, Love has spoken about engaged on new music and digging into writing her memoir. However so far as Gap’s future, Love hadn’t supplied a lot by way of an replace till a visitor look earlier this 12 months taking part in with Billie Joe Armstrong’s cowl band, The Coverups, again in February. As she exited the stage, she informed the group, “Later …. I will be again in Gap.”

In fact, Love’s declare that she’ll be again in Gap would not essentially imply a full-fledged reunion of the basic lineup. She has beforehand recorded below the Gap moniker with none of the opposite ’90s members.

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What Else the Picture Might Imply

As Love said, she and Auf Der Maur have remained shut associates via the years. It is notable that the submit appeared on the From Her to Eternity Instagram. The account was set as much as “have a good time the contributions of girls to music,” with Love serving as one of many Instagram account’s curators.

The sequence of images look extra like they’re for a photograph shoot with no devices or recording tools noticed in web site. So this “studio” reunion could possibly be extra to discuss the contributions of girls in music than it’s the pair figuring out some tunes.

Nonetheless, the sight of Love and Auf der Maur hanging out collectively raises our hopes that we could finally see the basic lineup again onstage collectively sooner or later.