Venue: First Avenue
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
Note: Most of the banter has been cut from the recording after Best Sunday Dress.
-PLUMP
-NEVER GO AWAY
-BEAUTIFUL SON
CL: Thank you. I’m Bob Mould. This is Melissa Auf der Maur from Montreal.
Audience cheers.
CL: Louder please. I know a lot of you are scenesters, but uh, cakes please.
MADM: But we’re in competition with the great show on earth across the street – the wild animals. And what are we?
Someone in Crowd: You’re the greatest show on earth!
Guy in Crowd: Lions and tigers!
MADM: Lions and tigers and bears.
Someone in Crowd: Oh my!
Someone in Crowd: Oh no!
CL: Melissa sings back up all in French.
Someone in Crowd: Melissa!
Someone in Crowd: Courtney, you rock!
CL: Why don’t you guys upstairs just talk and fuck each other? Be like AmRep people.
Someone in Crowd: Courtney!
CL: (To Melissa) I lived here for a year – did you know that? Great time in my life – and now I’m gonna exact my revenge.
CL: I just wanna talk. How many of you guys have I fucked?
Audience screams.
CL: Well, you’ve all got VD.
CL: How many of you do I owe money for your phone bill?
Audience screams.
Guy in Crowd: Right here!
CL: Ask for it after.
-JENNIFER’S BODY
Eric’s having problems with his guitar.
CL: (To Eric) I’m really sorry. Oh, oh, are you alright? Can I play it now? Ok, what song do you want? (??)
CL: Hey man, just keep ’em.
Audience cheers.
-MISS WORLD
CL: Thanks.
Someone: Hey, Eric.
CL: Yeah Eric, are you ok?
-ASKING FOR IT
The band’s amps have blown a fuse.
CL: That’s because I lived here. It’s a curse thing, it’s all these hexes. You’ve gotta read that, um, pyschic protection book, then you’ll know about it.
Someone in Crowd: That’s our preferred Courtney.
MADM: It’s a small club and there wasn’t enough power for the amps.
MADM: This is a fine establishment. Everything’s going fine.
CL: Yeah, I saw Sinéad O’Connor here once, you know…I used to dance here, me and Lori and Kat. We’d do the Siouxsie dance on new wave night.
CL: This song’s about, um, how, um, well, my fame and my problem with Minneapolis, which to sum it up, ?? I was standing over there, it was… me and Kurt started going out first and uh, I was standing over there where that guy in the checkered shirt is and we were kissing you know, and it was about three years ago to this day, and somebody in the club, twenty people, took my coat and ripped it into, um, a bunch of pieces and threw it in the trash. That’s Minneapolis for me. So here’s this song for you, ok?
-SOFTER SOFTEST
CL: Thanks.
The opening chords to Gutless start and then stop. More technical difficulties.
Audience laughs.
Girl in Crowd: I want a SPAM shirt.
CL: Is this where Big Black played their last show? We can’t aspire to such greatness, but maybe this is our last show. I heard Albini’s really well hung, for you ten scenesters that are here.
Guy in Crowd: What a drag!
CL: What?
Guy in Crowd: What a drag!
CL: That he’s well hung? I know, ’cause you can’t make fun of him as well.
CL: Oh, you can hear a pin drop. That’s nice. I got another one – I got a friend over here, 17, 18 years old, puts out a little fanzine, then what happens? She can’t even fucking walk down the street, ’cause these ten scenesters here make fun of her so much. Fuck you guys. C’mere, I’ll take you all on after the show. Meet me at the bus.
Audience screams.
CL: Look at these little kids, they want to start bands – all you fucking do is give them shit. My two best friends that live here, they have a band – all you do is talk shit about them. Fuck you. Scenesters. I will exact my revenge on you, you will not…
Girl in Crowd: Work it girl!
CL: Anyway, you’ve all turned into junkies… (??)
-GUTLESS
-I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE
Girl in Crowd: Hi, is this your 21st birthday? Oh yes, it’s 35th birthday – right here. 25.
Girl in Crowd: 25th birthday party.
Guy in Crowd: We just made it upstairs.
CL: We’d like to thank, uh, Madder Rose and Veruca Salt for playing with us. Two really cool bands, who get to live in scenes where they thrive and don’t get squashed. You guys should really clean up your scene. You could have cool bands again and stuff. I’m not talking about you – I’m talking about them.
Eric plays the opening chords to Hungry Like the Wolf.
CL: Do it. This is the ?? This is my favorite song. I just want to play it.
-HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD
-BEST SUNDAY DRESS
CL: My friend Kathy Bjelland wrote half that song in 1986, but we made it more rock. Don’t worry, you’ll get publishing. Don’t get your lawyer on me.
-TEENAGE WHORE
-WHOSE PORNO YOU BURN (BLACK)
-DOLL PARTS
CL: Thanks.
Guy in Crowd: I thought you said shove over.
Girl in Crowd: Unless you want to switch.
Guy in Crowd: No, I’m totally fine.
-VIOLET
-NEVER GO AWAY
CL: Goodnight. Thanks.
MADM: Goodnight.
(Cut)
-I’M SO HIGH
-SHE WALKS ON ME
-DRUNK IN RIO
-OLYMPIA/HUSH LITTLE BABY
CL: (During song) (Panting) I’m faking it.