Transcript: April 8, 1995


Venue: Rockstore
Location: Montpellier, France
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).


Another artist’s music is playing.

CL: Bonjour.

Audience screams.

-CINNAMON GIRL (TEASE)

-PLUMP

CL: Merci.

CL: (Fake French accent) Melissa Auf der Maur.

Audience cheers.

CL: No, no, no, louder. Melissa Auf der Maur.

Audience cheers louder.

CL: Melissa.

Audience cheers.

MADM: Merci. Merci.

CL: Say something in French. She’s French.

MADM: On veut que ça soit très très fort. (Translation: We want it to be very, very loud).

Audience screams.

-BEAUTIFUL SON

Courtney pants heavily into the mic.

-MISS WORLD

-DROWN SODA

CL: What?

-JENNIFER’S BODY

-TAKE AWAY JAM

CL: I have to smoke. It’s this problem I have. Excuse me.

Audience screams.

CL: But you have really good cigarettes, the Gitanes…

-ASKING FOR IT

CL: We what…what? What do you want? Melissa. It’s that damn skirt.

Guy in Crowd: We want Melissa!

CL: You’ve got Melissa. The virgin, the whore, the little tits, the big tits – you know, you got it all. You got Patty.

Audience cheers.

CL: And you got this guy – we don’t know him. We don’t…we don’t know him.

Eric is playing with his drum machine.

Eric plays the tune of the Twilight Zone’s theme song.

CL: It’s some fucker. If you do that drum machine again…Eric, Eric, Eric, ERIC! If you do that drum machine again tonight, I fucking will break it, I swear to God.

Eric continues to play with his drum machine.

CL: You want to hear some techno? We’ll do techno. How do you do techno?

Guy in Crowd: You don’t want a ?? man!

The audience goes, “Ooooh.”

CL: What? What did he say?

Guy in Crowd: ??

CL: I’m not jumping. You’re cute. Melissa – look at him, he’s really cute.

MADM: ??

CL: He’s not too macho, he’s not…you’re really cute.

CL: ??

-GUTLESS

-IMPROV (THE ONLY DISEASE THAT I KNOW)

CL: Au revoir, cute guy.

CL: French boys are cute. Spanish boys all look like Eddie Vedder – they have that puffy face. I think French boys are cute.

Guy in Crowd: Thank you!

CL: My grandmother was from Lorraine – does that count? It makes me kind of French, right?

Guy in Crowd: Melissa!

CL: No, she’s French Canadian.

CL: So, this is my de Gaulle gown, see.

Guy in Crowd: You are the French ??

CL: Who are the French fuckers?

CL: What was that song by that little boy? ‘Me no baby, it’s so hard to be a baby.’

Guy in Crowd: You’re a sexy bitch! I love it!

CL: I know I’m a bitch. Duh. Alright, on three, I want you to say bitch really loud. One, two, three – bitch!

Audience: Bitch!

CL: Now do you feel better?

-SOFTER, SOFTEST

CL: You want it?

Audience screams.

CL: You want it bad? You gonna beg?

-JUST DO IT (BLACK DAY)

CL: We made that up.

Guy in Crowd: Babydoll!

Guy in Crowd: Teenage Whore!

CL: But I’m not a Teenage Whore anymore, I’m an old whore. (Singing) When I was a 40 year whore.

CL: Yeah, I just turned 40. Can’t you tell?

Guy in Crowd: Olympian!

CL: Well, if it was a Birkenstock, I’d get mad. Ooh.

CL: Eric, c’mere…

Guy in Crowd: Olympian!

Guy in Crowd: I want to fist fuck you!

Girl in Crowd: Good Sister/Bad Sister!

CL: You want to what? What?

Guy in Crowd: Fist fuck!

CL: He wants to fist fuck me? Nuh uh. I’m too small. What do you want?

Girl in Crowd: Good Sister/Bad Sister!

Guy in Crowd: You!

CL: I have that coat – the white furry one. I have the same one. What?

Girl in Crowd: Good Sister!

CL: You look like Steve Albini, what do you want?

Guy in Crowd: You!

CL: I can’t hear you, shut up. What? What is he saying?

Girl in Crowd: Good Sister/Bad Sister!

Guy in Crowd: We want you!

Guy in Crowd: Music!

CL: Oh, she’s smart, thank you very much.

-I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE

-IMPROV

-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE

-BEST SUNDAY DRESS

-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD

CL: What?

Girl in Crowd: Good Sister!

CL: I’ve gotta get my cigarettes.

-DOLL PARTS

CL: Goodnight! Thank you very much.

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