Venue: The Gorge (Lollapalooza)
Location: George, Washington
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
CL: FUCK YOU!
CL: Is that a T-shirt of my daughter? Can I have it for a second? I’ll give it back. I promise, I’ll give it back. Give it up here. I’ll give it back to the guy.
Guy in Crowd: What’s she gonna do – piss on it?
Courtney takes the shirt. She walks over to the side of the stage, where she hands it to Stacy Hubbard, Frances Bean’s nanny and Patty’s then-girlfriend.
Courtney takes off the sweater that she was wearing with her dress.
CL: You’ll get it back in a second – she’s gonna show her.
CL: I HATE THIS FUCKIN’ PLACE!
-CINNAMON GIRL (RIFF)
-PLUMP
CL: On three, I want you to say ‘bitch’ really loud. One, two, three…BITCH!
Audience: Bitch!
CL: Oh, man, you’re pussies, do it again. LOUDER! LOUDER! One, two, three…
Audience: BITCH!
CL: Do you feel better now?
CL: Eric, do you wanna do Over the Edge? Over the Edge?
-BEAUTIFUL SON
CL: Stacy, give me that T-shirt back.
CL: Was that a request for Freebird?
CL: This is Melissa Auf der Maur.
There’s mild cheering from the audience.
CL: THAT’S MELISSA AUF DER MAUR AND YOU FUCKING CHEER, YOU SHITS!
MADM: Enjoy your show. Shh.
Audience cheers.
MADM: And that’s Patty and Eric.
-MISS WORLD
CL: Where’s that shirt? I promised I’d give it back. Whose shirt was this? It can only be one person’s shirt! Ok, I’m keeping it until the real person…fucking liars. ALL MEN ARE LIARS!
Audience screams.
-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD
-I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE
CL: Chad.
CL: Stop mauling that poor girl or I’ll kick your ass.
Audience screams.
-SOFTER, SOFTEST
Girl in Crowd: Oh, no way, I can’t believe it.
CL: A frat trip to Tijuana.
CL: I’ve gotta show my manners or that I’m a really good pitcher, so check it out.
-GUTLESS
-THE ROSE
CL: Does anyone have a boner? I do.
Audience screams.
CL: Why do you keep holding…Victims of Internal Decay? Yes, we all are, ok. Is that your band? You wanted me to say that on stage? Are you, like, a Napalm Death band? Oh, with a Dwarves T-shirt right behind it. Ok, I get it now.
CL: Melissa, why don’t you…we just can’t stop listening to that Dwarves record, can we?
Girl in Crowd: Are you gonna get a picture of Courtney?
CL: If Jonathan Poneman is here, this song is dedicated to you, ’cause, you know…it coulda happened, baby. How do you think I got my Sub Pop single, huh?
-BEST SUNDAY DRESS
-DOLL PARTS
CL: (During song) Put her up here.
CL: (During song) Put her up here. Put her up here!
MADM: (During song) Yeah, do it.
CL: If there’s a fucking 90 lb girl, don’t kick her out. Yeah, c’mere.
CL: Do you know what it’s like down there, you guys? You get your pinched…your tits pinched and people stick stuff up your chynus and stuff.
Eric makes “wooo wooo” sound effects.
Guy in Crowd #1: I liked it!
Guy in Crowd #2: I wonder if they’ll let me up there, man?
Guy in Crowd #3: Yeah, they will.
CL: This is a song about a jerk.
-VIOLET
The band leaves the stage and Stacy Hubbard goes up to the mic.
Stacy: Hey, you guys, fucking listen to me.
A guy in the crowd laughs.
Stacy: Courtney Love wants to come back on stage but you have to get your shit together and quit picking on the fucking women, you know what I’m saying?
Audience screams.
Stacy: Women cannot be in a mosh pit and live. If you want Hole to get on stage, you fucking quit picking on the women.
Men in the audience are laughing.
Stacy: Men suck.
Guy in Crowd #1: You suck!
Guy in Crowd #2: Dudes rule!
Stacy: C’mon guys, if you guys want Hole to get on stage, you need to yell really loud.
There’s a mix of cheering and booing from the crowd.
Stacy: Say ‘Hole is a band’. Hole is a band. Hole is a band. Hole is a band. Hole is a band. C’mon, you guys. Hole is a band. Hole is a band. Hole is a band. Hole is a band. Hole is a band. Hole is a band. Louder. Hole is a band. Hole is a band. Hole is a band.
Some of the audience is chanting, ‘Hole is a band.’ There’s still some booing.
The band returns to the stage.
CL: I got toilet paper on my butt.
-WHOSE PORNO YOU BURN (BLACK)
CL: This song is called Sugar Coma. Shut up, Eric.
-SUGAR COMA
-OLYMPIA
CL: (Singing) Poor, poor, poor, Hugh Grant, Grant, Grant, caught, caught, caught, with his pants, pants, pants. Mary, Mary, Mary, dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, down her back, back, back, she flew so high, high, high, she touched the sky, sky, sky, flew so high, high, high, she touched the sky. I eat the rose and the shit it grows in, baby I don’t even know what hole that’s supposed to go in, I eat the rose and the shit it grows in, baby I don’t even know what hole that’s supposed to go in!
-OLYMPIA (RESUMES)
CL: Hey, chick with the bikini top – if you were at Rush, you’d take that top off. Oh, what, I’m a girl? So – he’s a guy, you know. TAKE IT OFF! C’mon, you’re the chick at the rock show with the bikini top. I wanna see it. C’mon, I gotta see this. C’mon. YES! Look! Do it again! C’mon, if you were at Van Halen, you wouldn’t be embarrassed. C’mon!
-OLYMPIA (RESUMES)
CL: Get that Pearl Jam shirt off, you little piece of shit!
Guy: Oy, I’d like to thank all those people who made this possible. Melissa rocks.
CL: That’s your entertainment fucking dollar, you got that?