Venue: Arco Arena
Location: Sacramento, CA
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: Hi. Listen, sweetheart, you throw one more fucking thing – like, a full glass at Eric…you can throw shit at me ’cause (Laughs) I was a witch for 55 lifetimes now, its like ?? You throw one more thing at Eric, I swear to God, you can have your goddamn fucking burning cross. I don’t give a shit, we’ll walk right off – and you know what? Your girlfriend won’t like it, ’cause she likes me.
Audience screams.
CL: Wait, Eric, you see, these are these roses they threw at you. Wait, Eric…Eric, you Buddhist…look at…poison, medicine – they threw you roses. Ok. Thank you. Do that again, you little shit to him – you can do it to me, I don’t care. I enjoy stuff being thrown at me, I’m used to it. Ok, it feeds my Christ, um, complex (Laughs).
CL: Alright, this is a song about girls.
-AWFUL
During the song, Courtney stops singing and coughs away from the mic. She stands up on a monitor to sing part of the song.
CL: Hey, I’m a little bit sick tonight.
Courtney has picked up a cup of tea and is drinking from it.
CL: I’m gonna do my goddamn tea and I’m gonna entertain you. I was gonna cancel, but I’m here with my fever, so just deal with it.
CL: I wrote this song about Jewel. I did…I don’t mean to be mean ?? Actually, I wrote this song about Britney Spears. It’s a little ballad about how se…how pretty I feel…most of the time.
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-HEAVEN TONIGHT
During the song, Courtney stands up on a monitor, then squats down. A crew member helps her climb down. By the end of the song, she is sitting on another monitor, facing the audience.
CL: My voice is really weak tonight. I’m sorry I’m sick.
Still sitting on the monitor, she lifts her legs up.
CL: Guys, now I feel like I’m in a strip club – oh my God, I’m regressing (Laughs).
Courtney gets up and walks over to Melissa.
CL: This is Melissa – if she wasn’t here, I would die.
MADM: No, no, no, no. Oh Sacramento, I’ve never had you before.
CL: What does it say? Hold your sign up.
Someone in the audience holds up a sign.
CL: Oh, you guys, thank you. That’s really nice. You made me wanna cry.
Courtney takes off the white, wrap-around top thing that she was wearing. A crew member puts a new guitar on her.
CL: Hey, Sacramento.
Audience screams.
-MISS WORLD
CL: Hello, go.
-REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
Near the end of the song, Courtney picks up a coat (?) that someone threw on stage, then she kneels down and puts her hand in the audience.
CL: ??
She gets up and goes back to the mic.
CL: Ok. It’s ok, they’re not gonna hurt me – and if they try, they know I could beat them up (Laughs).
CL: Is this near Auburn, California?
Audience screams.
CL: Ok, I went to high school there and I got my, um, California proficiency test there…and I smoked a lot of pot.
Audience screams.
CL: But I don’t do it anymore, don’t cheer – you got the next band with the big drugs sign, that ain’t me, honey.
-MALIBU
During the song, Courtney rolls around on stage, then stands up on the monitors by Eric. She goes over to Melissa’s side of the stage and climbs up high on something. A crew member is nearby to help her down.
CL: You guys are getting the best out of me, I have no idea why.
Audience screams.
CL: We’re not actually this good on this tour, so…if you haven’t recognized that we’re being good by now…I don’t want to jinx it, but, um, actually – if you have any taste, you’re getting one of the better rock shows of your entire lives. Oh wait, I mean…I mean, by my value system, I mean (Laughs) but then again, I always think Nine Inch Nails, not Kiss, so. Nine Inch Nails is a great band, excuse me.
Audience screams.
CL: We miss them, right? Despite the fact that he’s bad in bed, we do miss them. It’s just me and my taste – he might be good in bed for you, I don’t know. Here’s a sad song I wrote about little Trent Reznor.
-DYING
Confetti pours down during the song. Courtney stands on a monitor near Eric, then squats down.
CL: I never even told my band what that song was about – now you guys know.
Melissa and Courtney have an inaudible conversation.
CL: Um, you want us to leave?
Audience screams.
CL: ‘Cause you can have the other band. You can have it, I don’t care, I’ll leave. You in your little Nirvana shirt – hey, guy. Um, do you want us to leave? Oh, that’s really unconvincing. I’m out of here, bye. I don’t know, let me hear for it…would you like us to leave?
Audience screams.
CL: That was good. Alright, alright, alright, good. I’m sorry, I need this reassurance, ’cause you know, there’s so much…the other show’s so, um, good and there’s lots of stuff in it…and all we have is emotion and songs and a ton of glitter.
-DOLL PARTS
-BLESS ME FATHER
CL: Ok, fucking Sacra-fucking-mento. I lost my virginity in Auburn, California. REO Speedwagon was playing (Laughs). You know, and I lost my ?? not very far from here…and it was not a very good experience. Ok, so I wrote this song about losing my virginity.
-CELEBRITY SKIN
Confetti pours down during the song.
CL: Thanks.
(Encore break)
CL: Hi. This tour is really hard to be feminine on – and all of the cock rock stuff takes our womanhood away from us. How many girls are here tonight?
Audience screams.
CL: Oh, fuck, that’s so excellent. Maybe we shouldn’t quit this tour. Are there really that many girls here? See, we’re thinking about quitting, we really are. I don’t like paying for the ‘Drugs’ sign, I just don’t…I mean, I was a big, huge junkie and everyone knows that, but I don’t wanna pay for the ‘Drugs’ sign, it’s horrible. So, are there really that many girls? ‘Cause, I…no offense to boys, ’cause I love them, but really?
Audience screams.
CL: Maybe I should quit. I’m thinking I’m gonna quit, you guys, I really want to. I just…it’s not any band’s fault, it’s just that…it’s like this weird energy, this cocky, dick, you know, Whitesnake, Tesla, Guns ‘N Roses, dick energy and it’s getting to us. I just want you to know that…you, Sacramento, who are getting (Laughs) the best show of this tour, just now. So there’s really that many girls?
Audience screams.
CL: You’re helping me think. Right, well. And how many of you are not with your boyfriends?
Audience screams.
CL: Oh, well that’s interesting. Ok. This is the most depressed I’ve ever been, when me and Eric wrote this song.
-NORTHERN STAR
During the song, Courtney climbs onto a bouncer’s shoulders and he carries her into the audience.
CL: Thank you very much, Sacramento.