Venue: Cal Expo Amphitheater (Lollapalooza)
Location: Sacramento, CA
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
Note: This is a partial transcript. A complete recording of this show has never surfaced.
Girl in Crowd: Oh God, well this is a good outfit – she’s got hose on. Oh…
Guy in Crowd: Melissa! Courtney!
CL: ?? You write one shitty thing about me and I’ll have you kicked off AOL. I spend my life online because I have no life.
-PLUMP
CL: Something’s wrong with my voice. (She makes a croaking sound). Well, I’m no Sinéad, that’s for sure.
Girl in Crowd: What’d she say?
CL: Maybe I should stop smoking.
Audience screams.
CL: Now that I’m a woman.
CL: My daughter will be three tomorrow.
Audience cheers.
Guy in Crowd: Frances Bean! Frances Bean!
CL: On three, I want you to say Frances.
Guy in Crowd: Frances Bean!
CL: One…two…three – Frances!
Audience: Frances!
CL: Snot, she takes after her Dad. I don’t think there’s one of my genes in her.
-MISS WORLD
-IMPROV (SO DAMN YOUNG)
CL: I douche with Molson’s beer – and when I want to get real romantic, I put a keg in the bathtub with my boyfriend, whichever one it happens to be that day.
Audience screams.
CL: It’s good for redheads, blondes, brunettes. They didn’t pay me to say this. What the fuck has happened to me, between friends? Forty five minutes for half a million bucks, that’s what they’re paying us. Well, you get up here and do it, you know. Put my daughter through fucking Yale, dude. This boy is different. How are you different? Well, let me go into my riot grrl – you have a penis, thus you are a rapist. All men are rapists, goddamit. C’mon, fuck me.
-JENNIFER’S BODY
CL: Levi, lots of reverb. My voice is gone. Like, like goth reverb, ok? Like Head Like a Hole, you know, reverb.
CL: What the hell am I the Queen of though? Fucking idiots?
CL: It’s a Birkenstock.
-ASKING FOR IT
(Near the end of the song, Courtney starts laughing).
CL: Queen of boys.
CL: I could crown him the Queen of assholes.
Girl in Crowd: Courtney rocks!
CL: If you’re a girl and you’re gonna start a band, um, all these guy rock stars tell me that they come behind their big, um, Les Pauls, get a Mustang ’cause then you can kind of stick it up your cooch while you play. Seriously. All these guys tell me that they, like, come when they play and uh, trust me, I know ’em all, ok. So, uh, everyone of ’em says that they, like, come, like, behind their guitar, right, so if you’re a girl, wait, get this and put it up your cooch and no one will know what you’re doing. It’s kind of like your ?? HA! Ooh, ooh, are you boys mad that I suggested that girls get guitars? Ooh, ooh, my, my.
CL: Kathleen Hanna wants me to get anger counseling. I don’t think I need anger counseling. It’s either that or a jury trial. I’d go for the jury trial, ’cause I could kick her butt. I mean, she did it first. Anger counseling once a month – she has to do it, I have to do it. $200 fine, what do you think? Less press, it would be less press. You guys don’t even know what I’m talking about, ’cause, like, you are so out of it, right? I mean, I even know what ?? is about. My IQs, like, one point higher than the guy in Pavement’s.
CL: What am I gonna do? Stage dive? They won’t let me. It’s insurance. It’s an insurance thing. This is called Sugar Coma and it’s what you get when you eat too many desserts.
-SUGAR COMA
CL: That’s Eric Remschneider. He makes me sound way better – and his shirt is really good tonight. What happened to the crown? Well give it back, bitch.
CL: You’re, um, you’re going down from the crown?
MADM: I’m resigning, I’m giving it all to you.
CL: You’re the Queen of the, uh, Un-Corporate Boys and I’m the Queen of the Corporate Boys or um, ?? right? Oh, Melissa, ??
MADM: No boys. No more boys!
CL: Girls! Let’s just check the scene out. This is a pretty good gene pool up here. You’re a pretty girl. ?? but, you know, we’re not dykes, but, you know, we’d like to be. It’s a better idea. It’s a better idea than boys. Boys are trouble.
-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD
CL: I wrote this with my husband…
Opening chords to Best Sunday Dress.
CL: No, not, no, shut up.
-PENNYROYAL TEA
CL: Um, Kurt hated that picture – hated it. The one you’ve got in your hand – with the eyeliner. Fucking hated it, that fucking picture. Alright, this a song that me and Patty and Kurt wrote.
-DRUNK IN RIO
CL: We were drunk.
The recording cuts out.