Venue: The Edge
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
CL: ??
CL: One time my mother was fucking this guy on acid and I was conceived – and he lives in Palo Alto, this guy. ?? All my bad qualities come from him. We call him Fat Daddy. ?? His name is Hank, stay away.
Audience cheers.
CL: Don’t cheer. I’m not telling you my life story.
-PLUMP
-NEVER GO AWAY
-BEAUTIFUL SON
CL: Lighting guy – put the light on them. I want to see ’em.
Audience screams.
CL: I do that every once in a while. It makes me feel better.
Courtney sings the first line of Miss World, then her voice trails off on the second line. The audience is singing along.
CL: ??
-MISS WORLD
CL: My voice is fucked. I’m sorry.
CL: This is Melissa Auf der Maur.
Audience cheers.
CL: LOUDER!
MADM: We’re selling ??
CL: She looks like Boticelli’s Venus.
Audience cheers.
CL: LOUDER! When I say something, I want all of this. ??
CL: Shut up.
Someone in Crowd: I love you, Courtney!
CL: ?? my voice is shot ??
-JENNIFER’S BODY
CL: ?? My voice is about to die.
Girl in Crowd: We love you, Courtney!
Guy in Crowd: Take out your tits!
-ASKING FOR IT
Guy in Crowd: Courtney, we love you! Courtney!
CL: What?
Guy in Crowd: I love you!
CL: You don’t love me ’til you’ve fucked me.
Guy in Crowd: Courtney, I love you!
CL: It’s a promise. It’s a fact.
-SOFTER SOFTEST
CL: Look at my water, Melissa. Trent. They’ve made a cup.
MADM: Watch and you might get wet.
CL: This is Patty’s request. Are you ready?
CL: (Singing) In the chamber of hello, hello, hello, hello, hellos.
CL: Oh, are you gonna pretend you don’t know it?
Eric is playing with his drum machine.
CL: Eric, stop with the techno shit. Two weeks with Nine Inch Nails does not give you carte blanche to be Al Jourgensen, alright.
CL: This is the best song ever written and it’s ??
-HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF
CL: ?? Everyone in this room had that record ??
CL: Look, I’m really sorry about my voice, ok, and I’ll really try to get through this punker and if I miss a note, fill in, ok. It’s either I suck or I get coagulative steroid shots, I mean.
CL: This is about ??
Audience screams.
CL: ?? This is about ?? (Laughs)
Opening chords of Gutless start and stop.
CL: What’s wrong? What’s wrong?
CL: ??
Guy in Crowd: Courtney!
CL: What?
Audience screams.
CL: I’m a dog.
CL: We could do Pretty Persuasion.
-GUTLESS
CL: (Singing) Suzanne takes you down to her place by the river, you can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night forever…and she’s on a bunch of fucking heroin.
CL: (To Melissa) Look, I know you’re from Montreal, don’t get on my ??
CL: What? Do I owe anyone here money? Did I fuck anyone here? (??) What is that a girl? Is she here?
Guy in Crowd: ??
CL: I’m fat? I’m 120 lbs and 5’9. Talk to me when I was 17. Ok, and let me see your dick.
Audience screams.
CL: I’m fat? I haven’t been fat for five years. Shut up.
Guy in Crowd: You’re fine!
CL: Alright, this is the deal – Patti Smith’s husband died two days ago. So you all need to send um, flowers to Detroit. ??
-I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE
CL: (Singing) That is the sound of Michelle getting raped in the other room, you don’t do anything…
CL: I stole that one from my first boyfriend, I think. There’s so many.
Guy in Crowd: Teenage Whore!
CL: ?? I won’t have a voice for my grungers in Seattle if I sing ?? No, I’ll try, I’ll try.
Girl in Crowd: Pretty On the Inside!
CL: You know it’s not true or anything. I was never a stripper or a whore or anything – I worked at a bank.
-BEST SUNDAY DRESS
CL: Go try and fuck each other. I’ve gotta take a puff.
Someone in Crowd: You love heroin, Courtney!
CL: Yeah, I’ve got a needle hanging out of my ass.
Guy in Crowd: You’re on drugs, it’s cool! Go find some dope!
CL: There’s some mud wrestling frat fuckers. Like when KISS first came out, you know.
CL: Shh. Shut up or I’ll beat you up.
CL: Oh, like I was the bully in high school. No, I went to high school with Kennedy. Kennedy was the bully. I was the stoner that got the shit kicked out of me. And Rozz – if you’re here, you destroyed me.
Girl in Crowd: Drown Soda!
CL: Only a girl could have this ?? I’m just so bored. Make this more interesting for me.
Guy in Crowd: Take it off!
CL: I know you go to Stanford, I know you fucking live out here and ?? I lived out here once. It sucks.
CL: We’d like to thank our opening bands, um, Star 69, with my ex-boyfriend, Roddy Bottum, who then became gay after me. Every time that’s happened, I take it as a compliment. They can’t top me. And Veruca Salt.
Audience cheers.
CL: Even though they were mean to Star 69 – Nina, I’m talking to you.
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD
CL: ?? Frat boy. What are you gonna do? (??) Are you a frat boy or what? How many frat boys are in this room?
Audience screams.
CL: C’mon up here. I’ll beat you all up at once.
Audience screams.
Guy in Crowd: Why don’t you play something that’s not on your setlist?!
Girl in Crowd: Garbadge Man!
CL: Is this punk? (??) This is a frat T-shirt. It’s a frat T-shirt, that’s ?? I gotta ask a question – why is it every time I stage dive, like Eddie or Kurt or Mark Arm, I can’t get past like there, before everyone takes my clothes off? I just want to go like all the way to the back and all the way to the front, like Kurt used to do or Mark or – why? They’re like…why? Why do you guys take off my clothes? Am I asking for it?
Girl in Crowd #1: No!
Girl in Crowd #2: Garbadge Man!
CL: I’m a chicken shit?
-DOLL PARTS
CL: (Panting) I faked it every time.
Audience cheers.
Guy in Crowd: Burn Black!
Girl in Crowd: Garbadge Man!
CL: Let’s just talk. What do you want?
Audience screams.
CL: You want to suck my clit?
Audience screams.
CL: I don’t like that. It makes me feel alone.
Guy in Crowd: ??
CL: I’m a little more cerebral, honey. Frat boy.
Audience screams.
CL: What do you want?
Girl in Crowd: Burn Black! Burn Black!
CL: My voice is shot. I’m gonna try to sing the last song.
Guy in Crowd: Rock Star! Rock Star!
Girl in Crowd: Garbadge Man!
CL: ?? kiss my ass.
-VIOLET
-NEVER GO AWAY
(Cut)
CL: ?? So the truth about who I’m fucking this week is, um, Tom Selleck.
MADM: ??
CL: I just made it up. Who do you think I’m fucking this week?
Audience screams.
CL: No, that’s history.
Audience screams.
CL: It’s Tom, Tom Selleck. He’s not a fag.
-I’M SO HIGH
Guy in Crowd: Rock Star!
CL: ?? This is a song about my most hated town in the nation.
-OLYMPIA/HUSH LITTLE BABY
CL: (During song) This is the sound of Michelle getting raped in the other room.
Courtney stage dives.
CL: Who stuck their finger up my pussy without asking? Come up here, little dick man. There – right behind you. Right behind you. Turn around, turn around. Get his ass up here, I’m gonna kick it. Right up my pussy without…without asking.
Audience screams.
CL: Frat boy!