Venue: 9:30 Club
Location: Washington, D.C.
Band Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Micko Larkin (Guitar), Invisible Dave (Guitar/Keyboard), Shawn Dailey (Bass), and Stuart Fisher (Drums).
NOTE: This is a partial transcript pieced together from videos. Some songs might be missing or not in the correct order.
– PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
– SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
– SAMANTHA
– MISS WORLD
– VIOLET
– PRETTY YOUR WHOLE LIFE
– CLOSER
– THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY
Guy in Crowd: Honey!
CL: (Pointing at him) Um, we might do Honey, actually. Do you want us to do Honey?
Audience screams.
CL: Ok, we might. That wasn’t a very enthusiastic Honey. It takes…it takes a lot out of my voice.
Audience screams.
CL: This is like a deeply, deeply powerful ballad and it’s…and it’s…I didn’t even write it and usually, you know, I co-write, but…Linda Perry is a God.
Opening chords to Letter to God.
Courtney’s assistant, Lisa, records her on an iPhone, blocking the audience’s view. The audience screams at her to get out of the way.
CL: Fuck you. She’s with me.
– LETTER TO GOD
Courtney goes over and leans close to the audience. People are screaming requests for the next song. Courtney goes back to the mic.
CL: ?? Live Through This. Live Through This.
Opening chords to Asking For It.
CL: Fuck it. I can’t hear.
– ASKING FOR IT
The song ends, then Courtney starts talking.
CL: Wait. No, no, no, no, no…and then it goes ?? and then after that it goes, (Singing) And if you live through this with me…
The band starts to play.
Courtney sings the chorus. The following are interruptions during it:
CL: Not that part. I’m singing.
CL: (To Micko) ?? the chorus.
CL: Where’s the guitar? ?? my guitar.
CL: I need my guitar. Hold on.
Courtney finishes singing.
CL: (To Micko) In that song, there’s that pause and then it’s just E to C, so…
ML: ??
CL: (To Micko) Exactly. Do you remember that song that goes, um…uh…(Singing) when I went to school in Olympia?
(CUT)
CL: ?? (Singing) How’d you like to be Madonna? Wouldn’t it be fun to be Madonna? ?? Ok, ok.
CL: ?? Jennifer’s Body. Eric wrote the song ?? and I hate it, but I gave it to my friend Diablo for a movie, but…but I like the next part, like, um, ok ??…I know it. Can you play ?? haven’t played it in five years.
– JENNIFER’S BODY
CL: Hold on. I only know four chords ?? Alright, I’m gonna try ??
– OLYMPIA
CL: Do you want to know how that song really went? ?? Like, In Utero was my title and I gave it away because of the whole thing, so anyway, this was…this guy Slim Moon made up this kind of rhyme and then I ??…listen.
– ROCK STAR (ORIGINAL VERSION) (TEASE)
CL: No? Ok, I’m just doing a big rehearsal in front of all of Washington, D.C. The Post didn’t even like the record, so fuck it. Are you having a good time?
Audience screams.
CL: Watching me rehearse?
Audience screams.
CL: That’s because, see that guy over there (Gesturing to Shawn)…he’s supposed to be the best fuck in America, but every night he tells me he’s gonna learn a new song and then he doesn’t.
Audience boos.
CL: Alright, but let’s give him a shout out anyway because he’s a really good bassist.
Audience screams.
CL: His name is Shawn. Think of all the hot chicks that could be standing there right now and singing, but he’s such a good bassist that he’s made himself indispensable. However, this not knowing 20 Years in the Dakota thing, it’s just gotta go.
CL: I think now, like, you know…I mean, like, see how you were helping me before, ’cause you really were…ok, so, like, ?? if that, but I need, like a pop, so um…
CL: (To Micko) I know…I know one we could play…that one that we talked about earlier. Really kind of relevant if we get through it. Let’s see if we get through it. Right now. ??
– PLUMP
CL: Oh, Micko. Do the real Pretty Your Whole Life…right now.
– PRETTY YOUR WHOLE LIFE
CL: It’s…it’s a little riff. Do you like it?
Audience screams.
CL: I mean, it’s not a song yet, it’s just a riff. Do you know those people, like…I have a lot of friends like this who are…and my daughter too…they’ve been pretty forever, like they never had a ?? ever not…like, maybe one zit once. So I was thinking about people like that, because a lot of my friends are like that and I’m not. Did anyone see that Behind the Music thing?
Audience screams.
CL: Ok, first hour – awesome, right? You see the teepee, you see my fat sister, you see my stepfather…you can see why I liked him, right? He’s a good guy. Um, you see Kat.
Audience cheers.
CL: I mean, the Bank of Love-Cobain is closed, we’ve purchased her two houses now, um, and she’s wearing a Tom…sporting a Tom Peterson watch that she stole…and Finch, from L7, how great was she?
Audience cheers.
CL: And Jackie, who was Franny’s first nanny, um, who drove her home from the hospital, ?? not Janey…when Janey would come in the room, Kurt would throw things at her head and say “Get the fuck out, fatty” so…he was hard…no, it was hard on her head…but…but Jackie is my partner now because she has terminal cancer and she’s dying ?? in New York, you know, you put up every band, you know, ?? fucking super famous people, but still they all slept at your apartment ??…she gets cancer, not one fucking person helps her. I mean, Jackie Farry, like all ?? Ryan Adams, I mean…The Strokes, everyone…so I decided to make it my ??
– PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY
CL: (During the song) (To her assistant, Lisa) That’s a bad angle.
– SUNSET MARQUIS
– HONEY
– CELEBRITY SKIN
– SOMEONE ELSE’S BED
CL: (CUT) did you talk about…did you talk about someone else incessantly? (Raises her arm). Ok, how many of you have a crush on someone who doesn’t have a crush on you? (Raises her arm again) And do you talk to your friends about it incessantly? (Raises her arm). Do you think there’s a remote chance that, like, the person might actually ?? (Raises her arm). See, I’m the one deluded person in the room. Alright. At least you’re all realists. Is there anybody here who’s, like, related to politicians?
A guy in the audience screams.
CL: One fucking dude?
Guy in Crowd: My Dad’s a Judge!
CL: Is he a Judge?
Guy in Crowd: He’s a Judge!
CL: What kind of Judge?
Guy in Crowd: Pennsylvania Criminal Court and Family Court.
CL: Ah, so I think I’ll be seeing him soon. (To someone else in the audience) So, um, what does he do? What does he do? Oh, you’re related far, far away. ?? My great uncle was Douglas Fairbanks, but no one calls me Courtney Fairbanks, I mean. Can you imagine? Drew Barrymore…what a life it would have been. ?? Brando…if my name was Courtney Brando ?? I would have no problems. I wouldn’t be sitting here right now, I’d be at the fucking White House. What a snobby country, I swear to God. I am the daughter of many bastards. Ok, so. ??
Opening chords to Skinny Little Bitch.
Courtney directs Lisa, her assistant, to sit directly in front of her on a monitor and record her on an iPhone.
– SKINNY LITTLE BITCH
CL: Day off tomorrow, so, um, we can play a long time if we want.
Audience screams.
CL: I love a little African American guy that actually knows rock. This is crazy. (To someone in the audience) Come here. (CUT)
(Encore break)
The band returns to the stage. Courtney has changed into a skin-colored top without a bra underneath. She asks the audience to throw her a bra and someone does. Courtney turns her back to the audience and takes her top off to put it on. She doesn’t like the bra because it’s too big.
– DOLL PARTS
– PLAY WITH FIRE
– MALIBU
– BOYS ON THE RADIO
– TAKE THIS LONGING
– CAR CRASH
– AWFUL
– THIRTEEN
– NEVER GO HUNGRY
– NORTHERN STAR
During the song, Courtney takes off the bra she had put on earlier and tosses it aside.