Venue: The Metro
Location: Chicago, IL
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
-PLUMP
-NEVER GO AWAY
-BEAUTIFUL SON
CL: Thanks.
CL: This is Melissa Auf der Maur, from Montreal. She speaks some mean French. And thanks to, um, someone in this town – an ASSHOLE – she’s here…but, uh, uh, I’d like to thank him. He’s a dick.
-MISS WORLD
CL: Thank you.
Someone in Crowd: Courtney!
CL: What?
Someone in Crowd: Courtney!
CL: What? Ok, one more time – this is Melissa.
Audience cheers.
CL: LOUDER! LOUDER! Fuck you! Louder! Louder! Melissa, right here in front of all these people, I’d like for you to know you’re…you’re one of my favorite band members we’ve ever had, of the thirty-ones we’ve had.
Melissa puts her hand on Courtney’s cheek.
-JENNIFER’S BODY
Courtney goes over to Eric and says something inaudible.
CL: (To Eric) Don’t worry, uh…don’t worry, I…I played a lot of bars. I can do this. It’s ok. It’s alright if they’re broken, just it’s ok. Now it came up. Ok, do it again.
Girl in Crowd: Yes!
CL: Go.
-ASKING FOR IT
CL: I smell strange presences on this stage. People have been here before that I know.
Guy in Crowd: Courtney!
CL: What? What? No, no. What? Oh, I didn’t really hear that – what?
Audience: We love you!
CL: You don’t love me ’til you’ve fucked me.
-GUTLESS
Courtney throws a doll into the audience.
CL: Give it to a girl, c’mon!
Audience: Courtney!
CL: What?
Eric’s guitar screeches.
CL: (To Eric) Do I have to hear that feedback, honey? Please. Thank you.
CL: (To the audience) What?
Audience: We love you!
CL: Fuck you, fuck me, fuck…
CL: (Whispering) I like these quiet moments. Let’s just share our little… (Back to her regular voice). Look, you guys, why don’t you just talk and beat each other up and fuck each other or something ??
Eric is playing with his drum machine.
CL: Eric, stop with that new wave shit. One Nine Inch Nails tour does not make you a techno God, ok?
CL: Hey, hey, you know who I’m fucking this week? Tom Selleck. It’s true.
She points to the painting of Tom Selleck that’s on stage.
CL: This song is about girls that smelled like pee in fourth grade like me.
-SOFTER SOFTEST
CL: Thanks.
CL: Put the lights on them, I wanna see ’em. More please. MORE! C’mon. Are there any girls in this front row?
Audience screams.
CL: Oh. I didn’t recognize you. You have short hair.
Something is thrown on stage.
CL: Oh no, there are always presents. Melissa wants a beer can.
Something else is thrown on stage.
CL: Oh, thank you. That’s really sweet.
She picks up a bottle that was thrown on stage.
CL: And a bottle. You know, things I need, that’s fine. Thank you very much. And a ring. Thank you. I hope that’s a fucking diamond.
The audience continues to throw things on stage.
CL: Alright, what the fuck? I feel like I’m on Treasure Island.
CL: Throw some Melis…jewelry at Melissa, please.
MADM: ??
CL: I think you’re a hit here in Chi…Chi-town. Alright, It’s not Christmas, do this later, alright. That’s very nice. I’ll read it, thank you.
-I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE
CL: We want to say thank you to Veruca Salt and Madder Rose, two really, really cool bands that we’re really proud to be touring with.
CL: Um. (To Eric) Go.
-BEST SUNDAY DRESS
CL: (To Melissa) That song’s about someone that lives here. Did you know that? Well, you do now. (Laughs)
Audience: Courtney!
CL: WHAT?! I don’t understand…are you talking English?
Audience: Courtney!
Guy in Crowd: Teenage Whore!
CL: (To Melissa) Are we at The Viper Room?
Eric holds up a Confederate flag X above Courtney’s head. She doesn’t notice.
MADM: (To Courtney) No.
CL: No, I’m sorry, I’m disoriented.
MADM: It’s a pretty mature crowd though.
CL: What?
MADM: Well behaved crowd.
CL: Very well behaved. Tightally well behaved.
MADM: Very nice.
Eric continues to wave around the X above Courtney’s head. She is still unaware.
MADM: (Laughs) That’s pretty good, Eric. That’s very good.
CL: Let’s stop playing. Let’s just talk, you know.
MADM: Eric’s got the light show too. The techno and the light show.
CL: Hold on. Light show, fucking electric drum – ok throw it, throw it, just I dare you. Eric, do something, come on! Do it. You were in Little League, go ahead. ERIC! Now, you know six fucking years! I’m so fucking sick of you!
She goes over to Eric and gives him a little shove.
CL: Tell me what to fucking do with my life, you know – fuck you, Eric! In front of all these people, I’d just like to say fuck you.
Courtney hits her foot on something on the stage.
CL: Ouch. No, we love Eric – it’s a joke.
Courtney picks up a towel and sniffs it.
CL: Hmm.
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-WHOSE PORNO YOU BURN (BLACK)/BIBLE BELT (SMALL PART)
-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD
CL: Thanks.
Courtney says something inaudible to Patty.
CL: I smoke, I drink, you’ll just have to deal with it – and you have to deserve In the Pines, I don’t just ?? it out. I play it once in my life.
Guy in Crowd: Teenage Whore!
CL: Well, you’re a goddamn psychic, aren’t you?
-TEENAGE WHORE
Someone in Crowd: Where’s Frances?
CL: It…it’s past her bedtime. She…she’s two. Why would she want…She didn’t ask me to come on stage and impose that on her. It’s rude.
Someone in Crowd: ??
CL: Yeah, you can come on stage. Come on.
CL: Ok, shut up.
-DOLL PARTS
-IMPROV (YOUR DUMB MOUTH)
-VIOLET
-NEVER GO AWAY
CL: Goodnight. Thanks.
MADM: Goodnight.
(Cut)
Johnny Kick, drummer for Madder Rose, stands on stage with an older woman beside him. The recording cuts back in as he’s talking.
Johnny Kick: …Madder Rose and I am from Chicago, goddamnit. I was born and raised and this is my Mom. This is Mama Kick. Let’s hear it for Mama Kick. And Mama Kick is gonna tell you who she wants to hear.
(Cut)
Courtney has changed into a black slip for the encore.
CL: Hi.
-I’M SO HIGH
-SHE WALKS ON ME
CL: (Panting) I faked it every time…I just want you to know.
-DRUNK IN RIO
CL: Me and Kurt and Patty wrote that. I…I didn’t want to tell you before ’cause you’d pretend to like it.
Audience: Courtney!
CL: What?!
CL: There’s a guy with a Soundgarden shirt right there.
CL: How can you like us…oh, maybe he didn’t come first, unlike Soundgarden. Well, I’m above the petty things in life, but some things never go away.
-OLYMPIA/HUSH LITTLE BABY
Courtney stage dives. Her slip and one of her bra straps are ripped off. Now in her underwear, she’s lifted back on stage by a bouncer.
CL: You failed. Do you do that to all the guys? I liked that fucking slip. Thanks a lot.
Courtney starts knocking over things on stage. She walks off stage. Patty walks off behind her.