Venue: Orpheum Theatre (WBCN X-Mas Rave)
Location: Boston, MA
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Samantha Maloney (Drums).
-AWFUL
CL: Oh, it’s still out. ??, come turn this up or I can’t fucking play this show. DAMMIT! ?? I’ll show them how it’s done. It keeps going out. Ok. It’s out again – I can’t sing. ??
-REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
CL: ??
CL: ?? Melissa, she’s Boston-Irish. ?? Canadian though. ?? I feel like a poser. You’re supposed to be wearing vinyl or something.
MADM: I know, excuse the ?? I was born on St. Patrick’s Day and I think ?? St. Paddy’s born.
CL: I’ve never slept with anyone from Boston. Like you haven’t!
Guy in Crowd: It’s called Christmas, Courtney.
CL: I need a smoke break. Shirley doesn’t, but she’s in better health than me. Isn’t it great, that band Garbage? Aren’t they fucking great?
Audience screams.
CL: ?? Vow better and they just sold 28 million records and I’m just so happy that I can’t be a bitch about it. You might say I was a curmudgeon, but I think they should be like stadium Gods. She’s a better rock star than me. ?? She’s just a fox. Right? ??
CL: Alright, I know what we’re supposed to do now…a little regressive. I want you to imagine me doing this next song in a Versace gown.
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-HEAVEN TONIGHT
CL: It was so hard to sing a happy song. It was so kind of cool for a cynical, jaded person – oh my God, that’s so liberating. Did you like that, Melissa? You didn’t like it? You didn’t like it? I don’t care, it was really fun. I like going ‘Slut, kiss, bitch, won’t you, smack…Heaven Tonight.’
CL: Wait, I’ve gotta have a fag.
CL: Did you like that last song? Did you think it sounded like The Bangles? It’s supposed to.
CL: This next song is about how I go out with boys and then I want to be their Mom. It’s really pathetic.
CL: ?? Why don’t you start it?
Opening chords to Beautiful Son.
CL: Oh wait, stop, stop. ??
-BEAUTIFUL SON
CL: Are you…are you like Dutch people tonight? Are you like stoned, elitist Dutch people? Like, fucking get up or…just. Christ, we haven’t played in four years in this fucking country, give me some fucking, you know…energy. Oh no, I know…??
Girl in Crowd: They won’t let us!
Courtney flashes her breasts at the audience.
CL: That is so Howard Stern.
Courtney flashes her breasts again.
CL: Boring.
-DYING
CL: ?? but it’s a joke. ?? Sometimes if you’ve been playing guitar a few years and you’re not actually good at it, you just put it away. ?? Whatever, anyway ?? ??
-CELEBRITY SKIN
Courtney sings a few lyrics from an unidentified song.
-PLUMP
CL: Aren’t The Lyres from Boston? I mean…who knows who The Lyres are in this audience?
Audience cheers.
CL: Oh my God, that is such a small minority. The kids, the kids, the kids, they just had some Snoop, they don’t know who The Lyres are. It’s not ’cause ??, it’s cause I have good taste. The Lyres are a great Boston band. ?? Goddamn it, a tribute to them.
CL: Stop searching for the lost ?? player.
Guy in Crowd: Play some music!
-IT’S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE
CL: It was a Bob Dylan cover. Goth kids, you know, come backstage, and I’ll give you an education. You’ve gotta learn your history. You know, there’s a guy in L.A. who runs the alternative station ?? he’s second in command, he doesn’t know who The Pixies are! I’m gonna kick his ass. What a fucking dick. ?? a former infatuation. ?? Alright, who knows who The Pixies are?
Audience screams.
CL: ?? Wait dude, I suck at this. I’ve been practicing. We’re just ??
-MALIBU
CL: Turn my guitar up (?)
-MALIBU (RESUMES)
CL: I wrote this song in Boston. I did. I wrote it because, um, the person that I married that one time – remember him?
Audience cheers.
CL: Well, check it out, I thought he was, um, going out with a busker from Boston and I was really sad and I drank a bunch of Codeine cough syrup and sat in this girl Joyce’s bathroom and I wrote this song. That’s the story of this song ?? busker from Boston or that one chick from Bikini Kill ?? but I did write this here.
-DOLL PARTS
CL: Oh, so it’s a radio show, so you just want, like, the hits? ?? We will play them, but they’re not, it’s not, like, you know, ironic or something. ??
CL: This is a very Melissa song. This is Melissa’s true self.
-USE ONCE & DESTROY
CL: ?? See, that’s Melissa’s true self. ?? Play Teen Spirit or, like, Disarm. ?? That was a funny fucking joke, at my own expense.
MADM: Oh, Boston, you’re my home.
CL: ?? recognize the influence. Did I hear…did I hear some confrontation? ‘Cause ooh, I’m in the mood. ?? I would stage dive, but you’re so genteel. ??
-DRAG
CL: That’s Samantha Maloney, um, from Queens. Aren’t you jealous? Fucking 22. ?? Amazing. And that’s Erica…
Audience cheers.
CL: ?? Eric, do you remember when we went out? He fucking hates me. ??
-BOYS ON THE RADIO
CL: Thank you.
(CUT)
CL: ?? I feel so stupid, like Madonna, stop it. Do you think it’s really dumb? ?? It’s really dumb, right? No, thank you, but it’s not Versace. ??
-NORTHERN STAR
MADM: This is dedicated to the sweetest Bostonian that we know, which is…
CL: Evan Dando. That we both dated.
MADM: Evan Dando. We love him dearly.
CL: We like him.
MADM: Good boy.
CL: Will you get mad at me when I say we both dated him?
MADM: What’s that?
CL: Evan.
MADM: What?
CL: Oh, I don’t know either, ’cause I definitely made out with him…
MADM: ??
CL: There’s a picture of it too.
MADM: ??
CL: ??
CL: Thank you for helping, the tabloids.
-INTO YOUR ARMS
MADM: (During song) Boston!
CL: Oh, sweet Evan, what happened to you?
MADM: Boston, you are my home. You are my home.
CL: I love that fucking dirty water.
CL: Let’s not do the showgirl thing again unless you do it too. I mean, it’s been so long. You know, the Beatles dressed the same. Oh my God, Melissa’s getting nasty ?? This is what she does in private.
Opening chords to Violet.
CL: Been a while, so…
-VIOLET