Venue: State Theatre
Location: Detroit, MI
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: ?? Detroit. Oh, Detroit.
-AWFUL
CL: Hi.
Audience screams.
CL: I need a drink, hold on.
MADM: Oh, Detroit. Wow. I love Detroit.
Audience screams.
MADM: From Motown to rock. The Motown in this city ??
CL: I love you very, very much, Melissa.
Audience screams.
CL: I am so…I don’t mean to ?? ’cause after five years you needed to.
MADM: I am PMS’ing and there’s a difficulty in communication.
CL: I know, but you know what? I need you to yell at me more, I really do. it’s so cool when you do it. She needs to get it out on me more, right? Tell Melissa…I’m a bitch, tell Melissa she needs to yell at me ?? I’d totally respect you if you’d just do that. I’d love you for it.
Courtney changes the lyrics to the next song to be about Melissa.
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-HEAVEN TONIGHT
CL: ?? honestly ??
-GET READY
CL: ?? I was fucking into it. That was fun. (Laughs) That was fun, Detroit. If you liked it, you have to make a heart. Thank you. Thank you.
CL: Fuck, man, let’s just do some Motown songs all night ??
Someone in the audience screams for Drag.
CL: You want to do…you want us to do Drag, really? I mean, I’d love to. Nobody else ever wants it. I’ll do it if we get an encore. I’d love to. That would be so cool. Melissa, will you do Drag for the encore? That’s me and Melissa’s song. Ok, I’m so glad you love it – and you’re wearing, like, a cool baby T.
CL: Ok, I didn’t write this song, ’cause we don’t write any of our songs, ’cause…Elvis wrote this.
-MISS WORLD
CL: I’m really into this thing lately of putting a few people on stage. I’m just gonna end it soon, this is probably the last city we’ll do it in, ’cause we’ll probably get sued for it or something, but…but if you’re a jock, don’t bother. You’re gonna get a job.
Audience screams.
CL: I want girls and disenfranchised boys. I don’t want you big, muscle boys – you’ll get laid tonight.
CL: This is a song about being very, very pretty. PRETTY!
-REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
CL: So wait, wait, wait – you all wanna get out of Detroit? Yeah?
Audience screams.
CL: Ok, listen, so all you gotta do is while you’re on the stage, it’s a little high school thing…alright, all you gotta do is you gotta get one of these or one of those or one of those and you start a little band and you’re good and then you get to leave!
Audience screams.
CL: And come back home for Christmas! And bring pride to your community – unless you’re me.
-MALIBU
CL: Hi.
Audience screams.
CL: Do you like it?
Audience screams.
CL: Do you like it? Well, do you like it? Are we any good? Honey, you’re a jock, you are not getting up on the stage ??
Audience screams.
CL: One second, Eric. I’m a little tired. I got off an airplane three hours ago ?? I am giving you my all! We all are! ??
-DYING
CL: Thank you, ?? Look, if we’re gonna play this, let’s play the shit out of it, ok? Miss…Miss M, Miss M, let’s just play the shit out of it, like, let’s just scare it, let’s scare the devil out of this.
MADM: ?? play it like we have penises ??
CL: ?? It’s about sex and stuff, just fuck it up, Melissa…just get a little, just…no rules on this song, just play it how you want.
-USE ONCE & DESTROY / IMPROV
-HOLIDAY (TEASE)
CL: Listen, we’re having a really loose show tonight, we’re not pros, I’m real sorry to the rock critics out there, but y’all are having fun, right?
Audience screams.
CL: Ok. So can we try a Madonna cover, ’cause Sam really wants to. She’s from Michigan, right? We’ll fuck it up, we’ll make it rock, it’s good, no – listen, there’s some good songs in the canon. What do you want to do? I don’t know any words, I don’t have a Madonna record. What do you know?
Eric starts playing Take Me Out to the Ballgame.
CL: ?? You know Justify My Love? But we can’t…that’s not a song. See, I know me and Madonna have issues or whatever, but I really don’t…I don’t own a Madonna record. I only know that one song, La Isla Bonita. Dude, we’ll practice it, I know Michigan will be a really good place for it.
MADM: Come on girls, do you believe in love? ‘Cause I’ve got something to say about it…and that’s all I know.
Melissa sings the next song.
-EXPRESS YOURSELF (TEASE)
CL: We suck, you’re gonna have to forgive us. I’ll make it up to you. I’ll make it up…I’ll put ten of you on stage, I’m really sorry about that Madonna cover. Ok. You, you, all girls please. Let go of me, you fucking jock, stop it.
CL: We’re having a loose show, this happens sometimes. This is what real rock bands do, not your fake, fucking shitty ass…he knows what I’m talking about. Real rock bands have loose shows. (Laughs) ??
-DOLL PARTS
Courtney holds the mic out to the audience after she sings, “Someday you will…”
CL: Do better.
Courtney holds the mic out again and the audience finishes the lyric.
She screams at them, then does it again. This happens one more time.
After the song:
MADM: Sorry it took us four years to get back to you, but we’re here ??
CL: Ok, now let’s play.
-BOYS ON THE RADIO
CL: Thank you ??
CL: Thank you. Hey, I’m sorry this show was so loose, we’re not Matchbox Twenty, we’re not pros. So we’ll try to be professional from now on, ok.
CL: You know, fuck being professional. You want my cigarettes? Here. Being professional is stupid. Alright, wait, if you’re gay and male, you can come on my stage ?? Shh. Shh. Shh. You can come up on stage during the rock songs, but be quiet during ballads.
-NORTHERN STAR
CL: Thanks ??
The opening chords to She Walks On Me start and then stop. Opening chords to Drag start.
CL: Do that then.
MADM: This is a B-side.
-DRAG
Note: The recording cuts out during Drag.