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: You’re a little jaded, aren’t you? You’re a jaded Palo Alto crowd. Scream ’cause you know Anna Sui ?? next season.
Guy in Crowd: Let’s see your arms, baby.
CL: One time my mother was fucking this guy on acid and I was conceived and he…and he lives in Palo Alto, this guy. He’s kind of funny and stuff but boy, is he a scammer. All my bad qualities come from him. We call him Fat Daddy. He lives in Atherton. His name is Hank, stay away.
Audience cheers.
CL: You don’t have to cheer. I’m just telling you my whole life story.
-PLUMP
-NEVER GO AWAY
-BEAUTIFUL SON
CL: Lighting guy – put the light on them. I want to see ’em.
Audience screams.
Guy in Crowd: You rule!
CL: Do that every once in a while. It makes me feel better, lighting guy.
Courtney sings the first line of Miss World, then her voice trails off on the second line. The audience is singing along.
Audience screams.
CL: Alright. I had this old boyfriend give me a pill today and…
-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 ?? with our T-shirts, eh?
CL: She looks like Boticelli’s Venus.
Audience cheers.
CL: LOUDER!
Audience screams.
CL: When I say something, I want it always. Hold on, I need to smoke, ok. Pick each other up and fuck each other.
CL: Shut up.
Someone in Crowd: I love you, Courtney!
CL: Will you get me some whiskey for my voice? In a little shot. Not you ??
Guy in Crowd: Doll Parts! Doll Parts! Doll Parts for sale.
-JENNIFER’S BODY
CL: Levi, a lot of reverb. 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: I promise. It’s a fact.
-SOFTER SOFTEST
Guy in Crowd: Doll Parts!
CL: Look at my water, Melissa. Trent. They’ve made a cup.
MADM: Watch or you might get wet.
CL: This is Patty’s request. Ok, ready?
CL: (Singing) In the chamber of hello, hello, hello, hello, hellos.
CL: Oh, are you gonna pretend you don’t know it? Alright, Eric, Eric, it’s time for…
Eric is playing with his drum machine.
CL: Stop, stop with the techno shit. Two weeks with Nine Inch Nails does not give you carte blanche to be Al Jourgensen, alright.
CL: Ok, this is the best song ever written in the history of the world.
-HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF
CL: I knew everyone in this room had that record. I’m just a Portland girl, you know. I don’t hide my new wave roots.
CL: Look, I’m really sorry about my voice, ok, and I’m…I’m gonna try and 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 people in Olympia.
Audience screams.
CL: It’s not the one you’re thinking. This is about ?? (Laughs)
Opening chords to Gutless start and stop.
CL: What’s wrong? What’s wrong?
CL: Just suck my dick for a minute, ok.
Guy in Crowd: Courtney!
CL: What?
Audience screams.
CL: I’m a dog.
Guy in Crowd: R.E.M.!
CL: We could do Pretty Persuasion.
-GUTLESS
CL: (Singing) Suzanne takes you down to her place by the river, she can hear the boats go by, she can spend the night forever…and she’s on a bunch of fucking heroin.
CL: (To Melissa) Ok, I know you’re from Montreal, don’t get offended.
CL: What? Does…do I owe anyone here money? Did I fuck anyone here ??? No, not Palo Alto. What is that a girl? She get…what?
Guy in Crowd: Show us what you got! Show us what you got!
CL: I’m fat? I weigh 120 lbs, I’m 5’9, I’m fat? Wrong. Talk to me when I was 17 ?? Ok, let me see your dick.
Audience screams.
CL: You think 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. Charge me, I’ll pay.
-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 line from my kind of first boyfriend, I think, sort of…there’s so many.
Guy in Crowd: Teenage Whore!
CL: Will you listen to my voice? I can’t sing Teenage Whore right now. I won’t have a voice. I won’t have a voice for my grungers in Seattle if I waste it on you. No, I’ll try, I’ll try.
Girl in Crowd: Pretty On the Inside!
CL: I want you to know it’s not true or anything. I was never a stripper or a whore or anything – I worked at a bank.
Guy in Crowd: A sperm bank.
Guy in Crowd #2: Show us your tits!
-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, we kiss, what do you think I’m gonna do now, like, you know.
CL: Shut up or I’ll beat you up.
Audience screams.
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 beat out of me. And Rozz – if you’re here, you destroyed me.
Girl in Crowd: Drown Soda!
CL: Only a girl can have this.
Audience screams.
CL: 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 in ??. I had to live 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. Third time that’s happened, I take it as a compliment. They can’t top me. And Veruca Salt, another good band.
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: You wanna go? Go. Frat boy. What do you do? ?? you get stoned? No, I mean, I used to be a stoner. 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.
Girl in Crowd: Retard Girl!
Guy in Crowd: Rock Star!
Guy in Crowd: Are you pregnant?!
Guy in Crowd: Why don’t you play something that’s not on your setlist?!
Girl in Crowd: Garbadge Man!
Guy in Crowd: Are you pregnant?!
CL: Is this punk? (??) Is this a frat T-shirt? It’s a frat T-shirt, that’s Spring Break if I ever saw it. I gotta ask you 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? You know, 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!
Guy in Crowd: Chicken shit.
CL: I’m a chicken shit?
-DOLL PARTS
Guy in Crowd: It’s reverence. We’re not worthy.
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 and sing this, alright.
Guy in Crowd: Rock Star! Rock Star!
Girl in Crowd: Garbadge Man!
CL: It’s about pig motherfucking guys who ??
-VIOLET
-NEVER GO AWAY
(Cut)
MADM: Allô Claire. Patty dit ‘Bonjour’, ce soir. (Translation: Hey Claire, Patty says ‘hi’, tonight).
CL: So the truth about who I’m fucking this week is, um, Tom Selleck.
MADM: We have threesomes, the three of us. Patty ??
CL: Who do you think I’m fucking this week?
Audience screams.
CL: No, Trent’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!