Venue: Mesa Amphitheater
Location: Mesa, AZ
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Samantha Maloney (Drums).
-OLD AGE INTRO
-VIOLET
-AWFUL
CL: Thank you. Thank you, weirdos. Thank you.
MADM: Isn’t there something in the desert air that makes you rock harder, kind of?
Audience screams.
MADM: The desert does that to people and I love it. Rock, rock.
CL: Isn’t there something in the desert air that makes you kind of…it makes me kind of want to just fuck. Doesn’t it, Melissa? (Laughs) It’s sultry. Here, you want my lighter…
CL: It’s so sexy here. Um, my voice is kind of bad tonight. I, um…I’ve been singing too much, so just forgive me. I’m giving you the last of my voice. I was gonna cancel and I’m not, but just you’ll have to forgive me for my sucky voice. I’ll try really hard.
CL: I didn’t write this song here.
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
Courtney takes off her fairy wings.
-HEAVEN TONIGHT
During the song, Courtney climbs on a bouncer’s shoulders and he carries her into the audience. Near the end of the song, Courtney goes over to Melissa and leans against her while she sings.
CL: ??
CL: ?? I wear a lot of clothes ’cause I feel like taking ’em off when I play.
Audience screams.
CL: I’m not taking them all off ’cause I get in a lot of trouble and I’m a Mom, but ?? let me take off some. It’s just a thing…I want to take off my clothes – I do, but Melissa doesn’t.
CL: Will you give me my Gatorade, please? It’s my voice.
-MISS WORLD
CL: You all back there…you all…don’t fuck with me, I ain’t giving you a good show unless I see you move.
Audience screams.
CL: I just play to them (gesturing to an area in the audience). You fucking…what are you, Gen X? You’re cynical. I ain’t giving a good show unless I see some response…no I will, I just won’t give it you, I’ll give it to them. I want you up on my stage, ’cause you’re fucking hot, come here. Just sit and behave, son.
-REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
During the song: A guy is brought up from the audience to sit on stage. Courtney goes over to Melissa’s side of the stage and climbs up very high on a stack speakers. Eric goes over to Melissa and plays next to her for a minute. Courtney climbs down from the speakers.
CL: (During song) ?? (She gestures to someone in the audience, then points to the words “Desert Storm” on her tank top).
After the song, Courtney takes off her tank top (she still has a bra on).
-MALIBU
During the song: Courtney goes over to Melissa and leans against her while singing for a minute. A few girls are pulled up from the audience to sit on stage. One of them hugs and dances with Courtney before sitting down.
(This audience convo happens during the Malibu outro and only appears on the audio recording).
Guy in Crowd #1: (During song) You a big Hole fan?
Guy in Crowd #2: (During song) Huh?
Guy in Crowd #1: (During song) You a big Hole fan?
Guy in Crowd #1: (During song) Do you think she’s gonna show it?
Guy in Crowd #2: (During song) Huh?
Guy in Crowd #1: (During song) Do you think she’s gonna show it tonight?
Guy in Crowd #2: (During song) No, I think she’s gonna ??
CL: Samantha rocks – again. Oh my God, Samantha gets this every night. Samantha gets is the…Samantha, being one of the better drummers in all of North America…gets a big sign every night, can I have it?
The person in the audience with the sign hands it to Courtney.
CL: Hey, do you know how hard it is to be a girl drummer, number one, and the best drummer in North America, number two?
Samantha stands up and holds out her arms. She blows kisses to the audience.
CL: It ain’t easy, ok.
Courtney gives Samantha the “Samantha Rocks” sign and she holds it up. The audience screams. Samantha puts the sign in front of her drums.
CL: That’s like being the best, uh, quarterback in the NFL and having ovaries.
-DYING
During the song: More kids are brought up to sit on stage. Confetti pours down.
MADM: ?? about sex.
CL: This is a song about fucking that Melissa wrote.
-USE ONCE & DESTROY
During the song, more kids are brought up to sit on stage.
CL: Thank you. Thank you. I’m sorry I’m not talking a lot tonight. I know I’m not, but see, Samantha, who rocks, has basically dared me to get through a show without being a smartass, so…(Mocking voice) let the music do the talking, don’t make fucking jokes. (Normal voice) I just have to make one statement and then I’ll…and then I’ll let the music do the talking. So, like, if you’re in high school and everyone’s picking on you ’cause you’re a freak, I have a really good suggestion for you, from all of us in this band, it’s – go and get a guitar or drums and start a band, ’cause you know what? Then you can become a really big rock star and throw shit at the jocks (Laughs) – and then when you’re on stage, you can only let the cool kids up and all the mean jocks that beat up the freaks, they have to stay in the crowd. Don’t go on the internet and read that fucking shit, go get a guitar or drums or bass. Do you guys think that’s stupid? CAUSE IT’S FUCKING NOT! It is fucking not! Yo, you can get two…two turntables and a microphone, I don’t give a fuck what you get, just don’t build a goddamn pipe bomb, that’s all I’ll say.
Guy in Crowd: FUCKING RULE!
CL: And that’s my whole advice ?? for tonight.
-DOLL PARTS
During the song, more kids are brought up to sit on stage.
CL: (During song) Let her up.
Courtney holds the mic out to the audience after she sings, “I fake it so real I am beyond…”
CL: WHAT?
Audience: FAKE!
Courtney holds the mic out to the audience after she sings, “Someday you…”
Audience: Will ache like I ache!
Later in the song, Courtney holds the mic out again after she sings, “Someday you…”
Audience: Will ache like I ache!
CL: LOUDER!
Courtney holds the mic out again, singing, “Someday you…”
Audience: Will ache like I ache!
CL: Oh, you fucking ??
She holds out the mic again, allowing the audience to finish the lyric.
-CRY BABY CRY
-BOYS ON THE RADIO
During the song, Courtney climbs down into the audience.
CL: (During song) I’m trying to sing. Shut up…shut up or I’ll go back.
CL: Oh, this isn’t Oprah…stop, you guys, stop, stop, stop. Stop, stop. Stop, Eric! Eric, Eric, just stop.
CL: This was really dumb of me.
Courtney emerges from the audience, heading back to the stage.
CL: You know, only in Phoenix have I gone out in the audience and not been able to sing. I’m sorry, guys, you failed. (She’s trying to get back up to the stage). Help me, God, you guys are all big.
CL: Alright, we have to start that again. I’m sorry, my apologies. You know, in Boston it was just fine, we did it in…
MADM: It’s that crazy desert air, it makes you insane.
CL: What’s you guys’s problem? I was, like, coming out to hang and you had to fuck up our song. You little punks.
MADM: They’re proud of it too.
CL: Now I have to stay on stage.
Opening chords to Boys On the Radio.
CL: Now I have to be, you know, a rock star girl. Ok, fine. I know how to do that.
-BOYS ON THE RADIO
During the song, Courtney struggles to pull a girl up from the audience. A bouncer helps and they get the girl up.
After the song, Melissa, Eric, and Samantha walk off stage.
CL: Goodnight. Don’t piss me off and come with your hard-core punk rock shit, this is, you know…fuck you, man, I ain’t coming out there. (Waving at someone in the audience) I’m going away now.
Courtney walks off stage. (At some point, the gauzy skirt that she was wearing at the beginning of the show got torn off).
(Encore break)
The audience is chanting, “Courtney!”
Courtney and Eric return to the stage.
Opening chords to Northern Star.
CL: Shh. Shh.
-NORTHERN STAR
Samantha and Melissa return to the stage.
-CELEBRITY SKIN
During the song, Eric stands high up on some speakers, then he walks over to Samantha’s drum riser.
CL: I’m giving out a guitar.
Courtney picks up a T-shirt that was thrown on stage and puts it on. She gestures to someone on Eric’s side of the stage.
CL: ?? That little bitch, I want you up here.
Courtney walks over to Eric’s side of the stage with a guitar. She points at someone in the audience. A girl is brought up and Courtney hands her the guitar.
MADM: Rock that desert sweat for us, ok? Bye.
CL: It’s not a beauty pageant, I just give out my guitar to whoever’s there. Don’t get mad if you didn’t get it…God, now I feel shitty, ’cause I know you wanted it.
Melissa is talking to the fans who are sitting on stage.
CL: I know you love me, but she had an EVOL shirt on. Alright, c’mere, c’mere, I’ll give you one too, c’mere, alright, I’m never doing…I’m never doing this again…
Courtney goes over and another girl is pulled from the audience.
CL: Give her a guitar, fuck…
The girl sits on stage with the rest of the fans.
CL: Go get a guitar, give her a guitar. I fucking feel like it’s a beauty pageant, I was trying to do something nice.
CL: Hey, did you like us at all?
Audience screams.
CL: ‘Cause I know we’re not Matchbox Twenty, I’m sorry. No sequencers here. It’s the real thing. (Laughs) Goodnight, you punk rock fuckers.
Courtney goes over to a guy who’s sitting on stage. She puts the mic in his face.
CL: You’re Oprah now. Come on, this is your microphone and you have about three minutes. Pass it around, talk about what you want. Let’s talk about the issues of the day. How do you feel about jocks verses geeks? Ok, I’m leaving now – goodnight!
Courtney walks off stage.
A club remix of Malibu plays.