Transcript: November 14, 1994


Venue: Moore Theater
Location: Seattle, WA
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).


-PLUMP

Girl in Crowd: I love you, Courtney!

-NEVER GO AWAY

-BEAUTIFUL SON

-IMPROV (DON’T WALK DOWN THE BLOCK)

CL: Thanks.

Girl in Crowd: We’re The Tree People!

CL: What?

Girl in Crowd: We’re The Tree People!

CL: Does that mean you’re greeners?

-MISS WORLD

Courtney offers the audience a towel.

CL: Do you want this?

Audience screams.

CL: Fight over my snot. (Laughs) I have secret body fluids you don’t even know about.

-JENNIFER’S BODY

CL: So, Patty Schemel’s gonna be the first female ever on the cover of Modern Drummer.

Audience cheers.

Girl in Crowd: Alright, Patty!

CL: Let’s go.

-ASKING FOR IT

Someone in Crowd: We love you!

Guy in Crowd: No whispering!

Guy in Crowd: Play Burn Black!

CL: This is the fucking quietest audience I’ve ever heard.

Audience screams.

CL: Honestly, you might believe in local media, but…in every other town, no one’s this quiet, just…it’s not A Current Affair. It’s chill.

CL: We’d like to thank Veruca Salt and Candy 500, two really good bands.

Audience cheers.

CL: Candy 500, Portland band, excellent band.

Audience cheers.

Guy in Crowd: Gutless!

CL: You’re psychic.

-GUTLESS

CL: How sexy is Mark Lanegan? He’s so sexy. I bet he didn’t even come…tonight. Have you met Mark Lanegan yet, Melissa? He’s really sexy.

Girl in Crowd: Tell Stacy about The Tree People!

CL: This is a weird crowd…it’s just a weird crowd, it’s like playing for A Current Affair.

Audience cheers.

CL: Stop, no one else cares. Don’t do this.

CL: Oh, we went on tour with, um, Nine Inch Nails and Eric has a drum machine now. Play it.

Eric plays the drum machine.

CL: (Singing) Head like a hole, butt like a hole.

CL: Stop, stop. Eric, stop it.

-SOFTER SOFTEST

CL: Thanks.

CL: On the count of three, I want you to say ‘bitch.’ One, two, three…bitch!

Audience: (With her) Bitch!

CL: Just get it out of your system. Do it again, a little louder. One, two, three…bitch!

Audience: (With her) Bitch!

CL: That’s good. Now you feel better, right?

-I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE

-BEST SUNDAY DRESS

CL: Well, I’ve got a stool sample, you want that? Would you put the light on the audience, please? Oh no, back there – the jaded ones, I mean. I can’t see ’em, c’mon light guy, go all the way back there, house lights even, Fugazi. INDULGE ME! Where’s the light guy?

Audience screams.

CL: I can’t see the, um…secret members of Pearl Jam that are back there.

Audience laughs.

Girl in Crowd: I love you, Courtney!

CL: I care. I like…I like to watch famous people. We saw Charlie Sheen the other day and Danny DeVito. Who else did we see? Um, Brad Pitt and, um, Keanu…

MADM: Juliette Lewis.

CL: Juliette Lewis. Came to our show. They’re all after Melissa. Drew, you know. Should we a play the Duran Duran song now?

Audience: Yes!

CL: I know they don’t deserve it. Let’s just do it anyway.

-HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF

-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE

-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD

CL: We didn’t write that song, but the guy that wrote it hates that we cover it, ’cause he said we made it like a pornographic Zeppelin song. So, I won’t say who it is, but the greeners love him. A pornographic Zeppelin – I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I love Zeppelin just as much as you…Stone Gossard…and I love Mudhoney so much that I ripped this song off when I was a young child.

-TEENAGE WHORE

-WHOSE PORNO YOU BURN (BLACK)

CL: We just made that up.

CL: You could stop doing so much drugs. It’s ruining the reputation of this town.

Guy in Crowd: She likes heroin!

CL: I’m not one to talk, but this is my vibes.

Eric plays the tune of If I Were a Rich Man, from the musical Fiddler on the Roof.

CL: Eric, would you stop that.

Audience laughs.

CL: It’s because I’m Jewish. He’s making fun of me. (Singing) Head like a hole…

CL: Do the…what? Say hi to who? To who? Happy birthday to who? Nina? Nina? Don’t say happy birthday to Nina? Why, ’cause she’s 34? Melissa, are you embarrassed to be in a band with me?

MADM: ?? No, no, no.

CL: Say it, say it – tell me.

MADM: It’s a privilege, Courtney.

CL: Oh, fuck you.

Audience laughs.

CL: Ok, you’re off salary. You get publishing.

Guy in Crowd: Nice moves!

CL: Shut up now, we’re getting sensitive.

-DOLL PARTS

-BIBLE BELT

CL: Oh, fuck. (Laughs)

CL: Sorry about ??…this one’s gross. This is a gross one.

Guy in Crowd: ??

CL: Oh, you’ll get your treat later.

Audience cheers.

Girl in Crowd: We’re The Tree People!

Guy in Crowd: Rock Star! Play Rock Star!

CL: I’ll only play Rock Star if you tell me who I’m fucking this week. No, no, Trent’s history. Come on. Gary Numan? Gary Numan! RIGHT!

Guy in Crowd: ME! ME!

Guy in Crowd: Tony Bennett!

CL: Tony Bennett’s a little old for me. No.

Courtney points to the painting of Tom Selleck that’s on stage.

CL: See that – that’s Tom Selleck. You gettin’ the hint yet?

-VIOLET

-NEVER GO AWAY

CL: Goodnight.

(Cut)

-SHE WALKS ON ME

CL: Me and Kurt and Patty wrote this next…piece of shit. Go.

-DRUNK IN RIO

CL: Well, I am now above the petty things in life, but for one and it’s this last song. A very petty little complaint.

-OLYMPIA/HUSH LITTLE BABY

CL: (During song) (Panting) I faked it.

Courtney stage dives.

CL: Goodnight. Night night night night night night night night.

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