Transcript: August 6, 1995


Venue: Walnut Creek Amphitheater (Lollapalooza)
Location: Raleigh, NC
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).


CL: Melissa, your stomach’s really flat. Do you work out?

CL: Fix my fan, dammit! I want it to hit me so it looks like, you know, the wind’s ??

CL: Hi.

-PLUMP

-MISS WORLD

CL: That was really good, Eric.

-GUTLESS

-THE ROSE

CL: A little present.

-ASKING FOR IT

Eric makes some distorted guitar noise.

CL: Something with a melody in that.

Girl in Crowd: Courtney!

CL: No, we gotta box, hold on. I’m ready to kick your ass! ?? six years.

-HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF

CL: Best goddamn song ever written. You know it and I do too. Oh, you never liked Duran Duran – LIAR!

Girl in Crowd: Teenage Whore!

Opening chords to Sugar Coma.

CL: Hold on, my guitar went out of tune.

CL: This is new, it’s really pretty. Shut up.

-SUGAR COMA

-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD

CL: Um, ?? says no more Cabbage Patch dolls or your ass is grass. ??

-BEST SUNDAY DRESS

-PENNYROYAL TEA

-I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE

CL: Go. I’ll start talking…you better go.

-DROWN SODA

CL: Thank you.

CL: What? What?

Guy in Crowd: Beautiful Son!

CL: No, we’re over that. Someone just yell Skynyrd, really southern, ok? I just want to hear it, c’mon do it, shh. ?? hear this. Just say…fucking say Freebird really loud. Eric, shut up, this is my experience. Say Freebird.

Audience: Freebird!

CL: (Fake Southern accent) I only know Allman Brothers songs, sorry. (Normal voice) Why are you the Blues Traveler, asshole?

-DOLL PARTS

(CUT)

CL: Fuck it. That’s good, that’s good. That’s what you’re supposed to do.

Girl in Crowd: We love you, Courtney!

-VIOLET

Guy in Crowd: I love you, Courtney!

CL: ?? No, but he said it was really retarded.

Guy in Crowd: Courtney!

CL: Have a great day.

-OLYMPIA/SHE’S LOST CONTROL

CL: I forgot the melody, Eric.

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, that’s where I begin.

-OLYMPIA (RESUMES)

CL: (Singing) I know whose porno that you burn and I’ll be everywhere you turn, ??, so damn young, so damn young, SO DAMN YOUNG, SO DAMN YOUNG!

-OLYMPIA (RESUMES)

CL: ?? I’ll get it.

CL: Eric, stage dive, they won’t let me. GO ON! YES, Eric! ?? a penis for a second – DO IT! One inch nail.

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