Venue: Great Woods Center (Lollapalooza)
Location: Mansfield, MA
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
CL: Hey there. Um, it’s Thurston’s birthday today.
Audience screams.
CL: ?? we have to sing happy birthday to him, because he’s watching, ok? Ready?
The audience and band sing ‘Happy birthday.’
CL: ?? YOU MOTHERFUCKERS ?? Start again. Melissa, walk away from the…the mic for the start, ok?
Happy birthday resumes.
CL: LOUDER! LOUD!
CL: (Singing) Happy birthday to you.
CL: You guys are kinda wussy, I gotta say.
CL: That is the worst joke you’ve ever told in your fucking life.
-PLUMP
CL: This one’s dedicated to, um, Annie from Elastica.
-MISS WORLD
CL: Thank you.
CL: This is a bad rip off of I Wanna Be Your Dog, but, um, what isn’t? Why are you guys so fucking quiet? You’re annoying me.
Audience screams.
CL: Have any of you ever completed The New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle? I just want to know.
Audience screams.
Guy in Crowd: No!
CL: No.
-BEAUTIFUL SON
-WHOSE PORNO YOU BURN (BLACK)/JUST DO IT
CL: Are you trying to act British? Take it off? That’s so English. Fuck you. Chop it off. Chop it off. Chop it off. Chop it off. You’re gonna want to get some better ?? than that. You have to be quiet. Who’s my next victim? What?
Audience screams.
CL: Get up to this stage and I’ll teach you a fucking a lesson. If you can make it up to this stage, then you win. If you can get past that guy. ??
CL: Melissa, I know you’re Mom’s here. I’ll just do my dress. You can start anyway. I can play, I can play. C’mon, Chad, man. Thanks. ??
CL: Go.
-ASKING FOR IT
CL: ?? Go get the other one, ok? No, I’m not even wearing a Wonder Bra.
CL: It’s the third time someone’s screamed, ‘Who’s your next victim?’ What the fuck is that? What is that?
-SOFTER, SOFTEST
-INSTRUMENTAL JAM
CL: You’ve gotta tell your Mom to change her fucking top.
-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD
-BEST SUNDAY DRESS
CL: What? Ok. After us is the band formerly known as Sonic Youth, now called Washing Machine, because they’re gonna…they’re gonna get rid of all the poisons that come before ?? Melissa, Patty Schemel and Eric Erlandson – they’re poisonous. ??
-I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE
CL: Dear Mr. Vernon, we’re willing to give up a Saturday, but we’re not willing to write a composition telling you who we think we are, in the most containable, definable term – a jock, a princess, a basket case, a criminal – signed, the Breakfast Club.
Audience screams.
CL: Ok, sportos. (To Melissa) You can be Molly Ringwald, Claire. Only if I can be Judd.
CL: WHAT?
-DOLL PARTS
CL: I wrote that song in Boston. When I talk about Boston, I think of that fucking paper – what is it? The Boston Phoenix. You give me that editor. I’ll kick his ass, man.
CL: Eric, I’m just waiting for you to do something, you know, impromptu.
-VIOLET
CL: I don’t want ?? How about that Nine Inch Nails one with it?
-DROWN SODA
-SUGAR COMA
-PENNYROYAL TEA
-OLYMPIA
CL: (Singing) Mary, Mary, Mary, dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, up her back, back, back, she flew so high, high, high, she touched the sky, sky, sky, she flew so high, high, high, she touched the sky. It’s all whores, it’s all pain, it’s all disease, man, it’s all the same, my little Judas, my little twin, where you start is where I begin, I want it now, I want it now, I want it now.
-OLYMPIA (RESUMES)
CL: (Singing) I know whose porno that you burn, are you everywhere you turn, the luminescent celebrity skin, I will always, I always win, luminescent celebrity skin, I will always, always win, have you ever seen a cripple dance, you paid your money, well now’s your chance, HAVE YOU EVER seen a cripple dance, you paid your money, well now’s your chance, have you ever seen a cripple dance, you paid your money, well now’s your chance, use once and DESTROY, take anything for another boy.
-OLYMPIA (RESUMES)
CL: Next up – The Washing Machine! Squeaky clean.