Venue: Irvine Meadows Amphitheater (KROQ Weenie Roast)
Location: Irvine, CA
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
Announcer: Way back during Acoustic Christmas, we didn’t let Courtney finish her set, so she came back six months later. Please welcome – Hole!
Audience cheers.
-CINNAMON GIRL (RIFF)
Girl in Crowd: (During song) Notice the long sleeves.
Guy in Crowd: (During song) Track marks.
Girl in Crowd: (During song) Covering her tracks.
Guy in Crowd: (During song) I said tracks.
Girl in Crowd: (During song) Oh, ok.
-PLUMP
Girl in Crowd: (During song) I need a beer – I can’t sit through this.
Courtney pants heavily into the mic.
-BEAUTIFUL SON
Guy in Crowd: (During song) She looks like, man, uh that Private Benjamin girl.
Girl in Crowd: (During song) Oh, Goldie Hawn, except that she’s cuter.
Guy in Crowd: (During song) Oh, I know – she looks like an ugly Goldie Hawn.
CL: Thank you.
CL: We’re Hole, as in asshole.
CL: This is Melissa Auf der Maur and Patty Schemel – and Eric Barrymore! (Laughs). Eric was my boyfriend once. Eric was my boyfriend once! He won’t admit it, ’cause I’m too ugly.
-MISS WORLD
Guy in Crowd #1: Courtney!
Guy in Crowd #2: What am I missing? What am I missing?
Girl in Crowd: Not much.
Guy in Crowd #2: Yeah, yeah, get her a new guitar. Hehe. These effects aren’t too special. Hehehe.
-ASKING FOR IT
CL: Thank you. How are all you fuckers?
Audience screams.
CL: Are you punking out, you punkers?
-TAKE AWAY JAM
CL: Thanks. We have some water, but that was nice. This is our next single.
Guy in Crowd: Yay.
CL: Bless your hole too.
-SOFTER, SOFTEST
CL: Thanks a lot.
Girl in Crowd: Courtney!
-ANGELS TOOK HIM AWAY (TEASE)
CL: I’ve shown you my underwear plenty of times. I’m getting bored of it – and so are you.
Guy in Crowd: Yep, sure am!
-VIOLET
CL: This is a new song.
-SUGAR COMA
Girl in Crowd: I feel like the whole time she’s ??
Guy in Crowd: (Laughs) Fucking fake.
MADM: That was called Sugar Coma and it’s about eating too many sweets. It makes you sick.
CL: Not eating your vegetables.
MADM: And throwing lightbulbs at us.
CL: Who’s doing that? Stop it now. I’m very weak, but I can still kick your ass. (Note: Courtney had been hospitalized on June 11, 1995 for an overdose).
Audience screams.
Guy in Crowd #1: Beat me, beat me, c’mon eat me…where’s Ted, man? Where’s Ted?
Guy in Crowd #2: Take it off!
Guy in Crowd #1: (Laughs) Take it off!
CL: Now a song…no, this is the second song by Chris Cornell.
Girl in Crowd: What?
CL: How come guys can play with their shirts off?
Guy in Crowd: Take your shirt off!
CL: Yeah, I saw all you little punkers out there calling Green Day sell-outs, but you paid money. Ha ha.
-OLYMPIA/TOUCH THE SKY/BURN BLACK
Courtney stage dives.
Audience screams.
Courtney returns to the mic and sings a few lyrics from an unidentified song.
Guy in Crowd #1: Dude, how much of the shows you got?
Guy in Crowd #2: What?
Guy in Crowd #1: You got everything all day or what?
Guy in Crowd #2: Yeah. Nah.
Guy in Crowd #2: She’s only 36 minutes?