On Monday night, members of Hole present (Courtney Love) and past (Eric Erlandson, Melissa Auf Der Mar, and Patty Schemel) appeared on stage together at New York’s Museum of Modern Art for the first time in 13 years. The occasion for the reunion of the band’s classic lineup was the premiere of Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel, a new documentary detailing the drummer’s ups and downs, comprised of archival footage she’d had in storage for years, plus new interviews.

As one would expect, having (the real) Hole assembled in one place after over a decade apart raised the question (and hopes) of whether they’d record as a band again. “If something’s not relevant, I don’t want to do it,” Love told the audience. “So for me, as much as I love playing with Patty, and I would play with her in five seconds again — and everyone standing on this stage — if it’s not moving forward, I don’t want to do it, that’s just my thing… If it’s not miserable, and it’s going forward, then I’m happy with it. That’s all I have to say about that question.” According to Rolling Stone, Erlandson, Auf Der Mar, and Schemel indicated they were open to the possibility. So definitely maybe then?

If the release of Hit So Hard helps to mend fences among the foursome, and decide one day to give Hole a go once more, the band will still have a tough time recapturing former glories. Especially with an album like 1994’s Live Through This looming large in Hole’s history.

Live Through This came out 17 years ago this month. A couple of weeks prior to the album’s release, I scored a promo CD of first single “Miss World” from a radio station PD who happened to moonlight as one of my college instructors. The CD didn’t leave my Discman for days, spinning its single track over and over and over again. Hole’s bassist, Kristen Pfaff, who would die of a heroin overdose that June (replaced by Auf Der Maur), contributed the chorus’ memorable couplet, “I made my bed, I’ll lie in it / I made my bed, I’ll die in it.”

Purchase Hole – “Miss World” via iTunes, Amazon MP3 (where Live Through This is just $3.99 right now).