Venue: The Joint
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Samantha Maloney (Drums).
-OLD AGE INTRO
-VIOLET
CL: (During song) I need voice.
MADM: Hello, Vegas. You make us feel lucky tonight. Lucky in Vegas.
CL: Melissa, fuck that. I love…I love Gucci and Sonia Rykiel tonight.
CL: Ehhhhhhh.
-AWFUL
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-HEAVEN TONIGHT
CL: I hope this is local kids and not a bunch of tourists.
Audience cheers.
CL: Right. Alright, if you’re local, man. If you…if you’re a girl or you’re gay and you’re not a jock, and you can make it up here, I’ll help you up on stage.
Audience screams.
CL: And you can…it’s so easy to be a rock star, I don’t know why everybody isn’t. It’s not that fucking hard…so if you get here, you’re in little rock ‘n roll high school, but you’ve got to get past the bouncers, you just have to be liberal and not right-wing and Mormon about it, yea-huh. Girls, you know what, if you want up here, you gotta get up here.
CL: My psychiatrist told me I have deep rescue fantasies about women, well, the best I can do is, like, if you can get up here, I’ll help you.
CL: I have this one friend named Sally and she might be here and she might not, but if my friend Sally’s here, this song is for her, ’cause she’s a bad…she should have been a rock star, but she got some scissors instead. I think she’s here. Yeah, Sally, you fucking bitch.
-MISS WORLD
-FUCK YOU (IMPROV)
-REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
Guy in Crowd: Courtney!
MADM: Is this a reminder that rocking in Vegas is fun?
Audience screams.
MADM: Wow, thank you. We wore costumes just for the event.
CL: Give me that girl. Come here, honey. I want to teach you a thing or two. Give me that girl. It ain’t that hard. Just sit over there. It’s fun if you can make it on the stage. I want you to – any of you! Boys, girls…
-MALIBU
CL: Are you ok? Are you ok, dude? Alright, you fucking freak on methedrine. You’re a jock. You get pipe bomb recipes off the internet. Don’t come up here for your pipe bomb, guy. I don’t want to deal with that shit. I like the company of, um…I like the company of freaks. I don’t like the company of pipe bomb recipe makers. ??
MADM: There’s trouble on the Easter hunt, it appears. Someone got rowdy.
CL: I think he was on, like, wacky drugs that we don’t even know about yet, ’cause…
MADM: Ok, no more of him, but…
CL: No more of him.
MADM: Everyone else, you’re invited.
CL: So, hold on a second.
CL: Sam…oh my God, look Samantha, you got a ‘Samantha Rocks’ sign for the 85th time. Could I have it?
Courtney gets the sign from the audience. The audience screams.
CL: Do you know how hard it is to grow up and be a girl drummer? And, like, the best drummer in America? Samantha.
Audience screams.
CL: Do you…that’s like being the best girl football player and better than any guy, ok. Alright, fuck that, man, that’s so cool.
-DYING
CL: Come here. Come here and behave.
CL: Did you like that? Did you like that? Did you like that back…way in the back?
Audience screams.
CL: I’ve got a bigger ego than that, I need more.
Audience screams.
CL: That was good, but Melissa needs more.
Audience screams.
CL: Eric is a fucking diva, you guys, he needs MORE!
Audience screams.
CL: Alright.
MADM: Eric is our King of our lovely family. Eric is the King of this sweet girl family. He’s a guy.
CL: You’re cute.
-PLAYING YOUR SONG
– …BABY ONE MORE TIME (TEASE)
CL: Ah, fuck that bitch, it’s all Pro Tools. (Laughs).
CL: I think you’re really cute. If you can make it on the stage, I will put you on the stage, ok. You sexy boy. You come up here, come on.
CL: You’ve gotta do some sit-ups, baby, though. You could be like so much…look at this boy, he could be so cute. Do some sit-ups. Please. You’re so foxy. If you had good taste in music, I might even go out with you. Shit, Melissa might even go out with you, maybe. Nah, I don’t know. You guys are weird. Are you half-tourists or something? This is like the weirdest show. Look at you, showgirl girl. I would have sex with you. No, but you know…you have this…you’re a stripper, right? I was too. Ok. You’re the weirdest crowd I think we’ve ever played for. Come on up here. Come here, stripper girl. I’m gonna teach you how to get out of being a stripper, come on up here. I know how to get out of being a stripper. Come on. It ain’t that fucking hard. I hope you’re accommodating. (Laughs) Here’s my stripper girl. I think you’re sexy, c’mere. But I need you to shave your head and declare yourself a lesbian, this is the important thing.
-DOLL PARTS
Courtney holds the mic out to the audience after she sings, “Someday you will…”
CL: Oh, FUCK YOU! MORE!
She holds out the mic again after the lyric.
CL: NO! GIVE ME MORE!
She holds out the mic again.
CL: That’s good.
-BOYS ON THE RADIO
CL: (During song) Oh, come here, bitch. Come on. Just climb up.
CL: Thank you. Goodnight. Do you want to get up here? Come on.
CL: Los Vegas. Uh…I…I would say we’re gonna go off now. Thank you, thank you so…much. (Screams).
(CUT)
CL: Y’all could go to just Siegfried and Roy or some fucking shit, man. If you don’t want us, I’ll leave. I don’t care. I want you to prove…there’s a lot of business people here tonight…prove to them that Las Vegas is, uh, is, uh, is…has rock fans. ‘Cause they think you’re all tourists. Seriously, they’re up there. They know you want Jewel. Come up, baby. Come on.
CL: Alright, anyone else who gets on this stage has to be really sexy. That’s the next rule.
Opening chords to Northern Star start.
CL: I know Sally’s sexy, that’s about it.
The chords stop.
CL: Start again.
-NORTHERN STAR
CL: (During song) That’s my girlfriend.
CL: Yeah, one second.
Opening chords to Get Ready.
CL: We are gonna do something so dorky and karaoke and you’ll just have to put up with it, you know why…wait, don’t even start, don’t even start, I have to explain this – stop, Melissa. You know why? ‘Cause we happen to be one of the best bands in the world.
Audience screams.
CL: So we…we know that. I’m sorry to be arrogant, but we know that. We know that you don’t get this from, you know, track bands. Dude. We’re gonna do something really dorky, just ’cause we fucking want to, ok. ‘Cause I don’t want to be white.
-GET READY
MADM: The Temptations.
Courtney laughs.
CL: Hold on. Hand me my water, it’s right behind you. Dude, that’s…that’s drugs…I mean, that’s alcohol. Give me the water, right there. Alright, this is for my friend Woodrow, who’s here. This next song. He’s…my friend Woody Harrelson is here tonight.
Audience screams.
CL: This man changed my life, I love him so much. And you know what? He has a punk rock soul. Give it up for Woodrow please, he’s so good.
Audience screams.
CL: (Laughs) Yeah. That fucking son of a bitch.
CL: No, Celebrity Skin.
The sample plays.
CL: (Laughs) Oh, our one Backstreet Boy moment. Go fucking ahead with the sample.
The sample plays again.
CL: Ok, we are trying to do, like, one half second of a sample. We’re so fucking rock that we can’t even do samples like every other dorky band. Just do it again, you assholes, come on.
-CELEBRITY SKIN
CL: (During song) Come on, baby.
MADM: Oh, Viva Las Vegas, please.
CL: Who wants a guitar? Who is not going to sell it to this fucking casino?
Audience screams.