Venue: Community Theater (Live 105’s Green Christmas)
Location: Berkeley, CA
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
The recording begins with an introduction from Live 105’s DJ, Roland West.
Roland: Here they come – Hole. Live 105, on our Green Christmas.
CL: How about the fucking Go Gos? My God. YES!
Audience cheers.
CL: I can’t believe that. Ok. How about fucking Richard Butler? AH!
Someone in Crowd: I love you, Courtney!
CL: (Singing) Good King Wenceslas went out on a winter morning, Good King Wenceslas went out…
-PLUMP
-NEVER GO AWAY
-MISS WORLD
CL: Merry fucking Christmas.
CL: (Singing) We three Kings of Orient are, like the…we traveled afar, onward leading, we’re proceeding, guide us to the star.
CL: The star being, Belinda Carlisle! AH! This is so retarded. We’re not actually headlining on top of The Go Gos or Richard Butler, we’re like the garbage band that’s last. I mean, there’s no way we’d headline over the two greatest bands. The Go Gos…I don’t know, Patty, would you be here if it wasn’t for The Go Gos? No. Would you be here if it wasn’t for The Psychedelic Furs? But Melissa, you’re kinda younger – would you be here if it weren’t for Duran Duran? (Laughs) Oh, that gives me a really good idea. Oh, we gotta do that next.
-ASKING FOR IT
CL: Thank you.
Guy in Crowd: I love you, Courtney!
CL: My broach. Thank you, Chad. Will you plug me in? Did you guys have fun tonight?
Audience cheers.
CL: Weren’t The Go Gos great? It was so cool. Except they didn’t do Our Town…This Town and, um…we can do that.
CL: (Singing) This town is our town, this…
CL: You fucking forgot?
-HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF
-HE HIT ME (AND IT FELT LIKE A KISS) (TEASE)
-BEST SUNDAY DRESS
CL: That’s new. Thanks. I gotta drink something.
CL: This is Melissa Auf der Maur, she’s our new bass player.
Audience cheers.
CL: LOUDER! LOUDER FUCKERS! We played your secret favorite song, Hungry Like the Wolf, you be louder.
MADM: But there’s no snow here. How can you have Christmas?
CL: I was born here, Melissa. It’s just a thing you get used to.
MADM: ??
CL: It’s a…it’s a San Francisco thing. Do you only get real…
MADM: ??
CL: I was born here, here in this town. Not Berkeley, the other side.
Eric is playing with his drum machine.
CL: Eric, shut up! It was only eight days with Nine Inch Nails, please…and what an eight days it was. I’m sure you read all about it in the tabloids. This song has nothing to do with that.
-DOLL PARTS
CL: Thanks.
Guy in Crowd: Take it off!
CL: I gotta take this little poll for the William Morris booking agency for Lollapalooza just…scream louder when I tell the artist that you want to headline, ok? Oh, it’s San Francisco, try to be objective like I’m being. Ok. Neil Young?
Audience cheers.
CL: Green Day?
Audience screams.
CL: Nine Inch Nails?
Audience screams loud.
CL: You are the only guys that want them. Well, I’m not putting up with it all summer. What is that? What – do you want like local? Like Neil or Green Day? One day I’m gonna spill the beans on this, you know. No, we are playing, it’s just we’re playing second under one of these…people – and I said I’d do a poll every night and you guys lose, man. You’re the only ones that want that band. Are you all goths or something? I would like The Go Gos.
Audience cheers.
CL: That would be the best. Can I have a fucking light? I know we’re running out of time. I just need a light, I can’t…I learned this from Richard Butler.
Guy in Crowd: Oingo!
CL: Did you say Oingo? You’re a dork. I mean, even us Duranies didn’t like Oingo.
Guy in Crowd: Pennyroyal Tea!
CL: Well, I’ll play a rock song.
-VIOLET
-HE HIT ME (AND IT FELT LIKE A KISS) (TEASE)
-OLYMPIA
CL: (During song) Good King Wenceslas went out on a winter morning, (indecipherable lyrics) la la la la la la…
CL: (During song) There’s no such thing as waterproof mascara, there’s no such thing as an unfaked orgasm, there’s no much…(Laughs)…there’s no such thing as a guy that can fuck.
CL: (Singing) Just one kiss, just one kiss, just one kiss, just syphilis, just one kiss of the syphilis, my sweet tooth has burned a hole into the Nazi kitchen you call your soul and you won’t remember anything you felt when he cuts you all apart with his bible belt.
-NEVER GO AWAY
CL: Merry Christmas. Goodnight. Thank you.
Live 105’s DJ comes back on the recording.
Roland: Hole, on Live 105, on our Green Christmas. Amazing set, very interesting. I think of all the artists we’ve heard tonight…
Courtney can be heard again on the recording.
CL: Thanks to The Go Gos and, uh, Love Spit Love and ??
Roland starts talking again, drowning out the rest of what Courtney says.
Roland: I think of all the artists we’ve heard tonight, I guess it was only Tom Jones who didn’t utter the F word. (Laughs) Tom Jones is too good for that, he’s not gonna say that. He’s from a whole different generation as a matter of fact. Courtney Love saying her goodbyes, walking off stage, a very interesting, uh, set…especially, I, you know…I’m not sure how many people real…Courtney’s gonna take the Christmas tree. She’s just dragged the Christmas tree off stage, spilling her drink, barely dangling on to her cigarette as she takes off. Very wild. Very wild Hole on Live 105…and I thought Steve was gonna pop up there and say goodnight, but I guess he got lost in the shuffle too. Um, the start of the Hole set, I’m not sure what you heard at home, but we had William Reed out there, who, uh, I think was joking around with Courtney and then walked out there and basically said, “Who the hell is Hole anyway?” and threw the microphone down in sort of a punk rock style and as they carted William Reed off, it looked to me like he got slugged. It looked like one of the stage hands slugged him and then shoved him off stage, ‘get the hell out of here’ kind of thing. Anyway, we are all out of time. We are gonna head back to the Live 105 studios. I just want to say, uh, thank you and congratulations to the Live 105 promotion staff for putting together a great show, can we…can we…Steve…
Steve: Let’s hear it for Hole. Courtney, alright, that was wild. It’s Live 105. Thanks a lot for all the bands for playing and everyone for showing up. It was really cool. Steve Masters, Live 105, thanks a lot for checking out the Green Christmas show. Unbelievable. Let’s hear it for everybody. Come on, give it up. WOOOOO!
Roland: Steve’s trying to rev up the crowd one more time.
Steve: It’s Live 105, thanks a lot.
Roland: We certainly want to thank the folks who showed up tonight and purchased tickets and all the money, I don’t know, the net proceeds or something, some financial wizard is gonna figure out how much actually goes to The Wilderness Society, to preserve ancient forests. Every Christmas for the last three years now we’ve been doing this concert for The Wilderness Society, so I know they thank us and we thank them for letting us be a part of the whole thing. Fine, fine performances tonight from Hole and The Go Gos, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Live, Luscious Jackson…mmm, Sheryl Crow, Tom Jones, and all the Live 105 staff. We thank Gabby…Gabby Medecki, our promotions director, who made this all possible, and Spud and Patty and Chee and Michelle and I could go on and on and I undoubtedly would forget names, so I won’t do that. Instead we’ll go back to the Live 105 studios, I’m Roland West…