Venue: Commodore Ballroom
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
CL: Nardwuar, the Human Serviette.
-PLUMP
-NEVER GO AWAY
-BEAUTIFUL SON
CL: That is so fucking weird – this is like playing on a trampoline. ?? in my mouth, it’s so weird. I’d like to thank the guy at Orange Number 5 who let me stay there. He didn’t pay me much. I was fat.
CL: Oh yeah, and some guy that would stay at his house. It was nice. In Vancouver.
CL: Look, I just found some things really weird. Nobody’s commented on this to you, but…
-MISS WORLD
CL: This is Melissa Auf der Maur, of Montreal.
Audience cheers.
CL: A little louder, Canadians.
Audience cheers louder.
MADM: Though I come from the other side, thank you…
CL: Melissa, do you have like, an East/West rivalry thing?
MADM: What?
CL: Um…
MADM: You know, that’s exactly what I was about to say. It’s the other side, but it is my home somewhere.
CL: I like ’em both. I think this is nice and Montreal. It’s the in between I can’t stand.
Audience screams.
Girl in Crowd: Courtney, we love you!
CL: If you’re so hot, take me to Saskatchewan! Canada’s been very good to me!
-JENNIFER’S BODY
-BIBLE BELT
Girl in Crowd: Courtney, we love you!
CL: Then do something!
-ASKING FOR IT
Girl in Crowd: Teenage Whore!
CL: Another good Canadian thing ?? We’d like to thank Candy 500, from Portland, Oregon, and Veruca Salt – two fine bands.
Audience cheers.
CL: A little fucking louder, if you please.
Audience cheers.
CL: Why are you so fucking mad? Are we in L.A.? (??)
-GUTLESS
Guy in Crowd: I love you Courtney! I love you!
CL: Once I was in this 21 Jump Street. I played a whore.
Audience cheers.
CL: I call that typecasting!
CL: We don’t feel like playing anymore. We don’t wanna be bounced.
-SOFTER SOFTEST
CL: I hope my friend Craig Marks was listening to that song.
CL: Tear me a new asshole? Ok.
Guy in Crowd: She Walks On Me!
Girl in Crowd: Babydoll!
CL: Hey, hey, hey, we’ve got a lesbian in our band. Stop that.
CL: Let’s give a little, uh, moment of silence for Patti Smith’s husband, Fred Smith.
Audience cheers.
CL: They don’t know if they should cheer or shut the fuck up.
Girl in Crowd: Courtney!
CL: Yes?
Girl in Crowd: ??
CL: What?
Girl in Crowd: ??
CL: Oh, I don’t need those conspiracy theories, ok.
-I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE
Someone in Crowd: Garbadge Man!
Courtney picks up a letter that a fan has thrown on stage.
CL: Ok, I’m a psychic. Dear Courtney, you’re so strong and you’ve saved me and I’m gonna kill myself unless you call me right now. Watch, watch…(Reading) I’d really like to give you a demo tape of our band. (Laughs) Oh, sorry. ?? It must be embarrassing.
Girl in Crowd: Garbadge Man!
CL: WHY DON’T YOU JUST GO AWAY?! START A BAND!
Eric is playing with his drum machine.
CL: Yeah, that’s a drum machine. Eric’s gonna join Nine Inch Nails.
Opening chords of Pretty On the Inside.
CL: Speaking of…
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-BEST SUNDAY DRESS
Someone in Crowd: She Walks On Me!
Girl in Crowd: Garbadge Man!
CL: I’m so bored of myself.
Eric plays the riff to Gary Numan’s Cars.
CL: Go, Eric.
-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD
CL: I got ??
Someone in Crowd: She Walks On Me!
Someone in Crowd: Teenage Whore!
CL: This is the best song ever written.
-HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF
CL: I hear you baby ??
-TEENAGE WHORE
CL: (Singing) I got a handful of shit, what do I do with it? I got a barrel of piss, what do I do with it? I do it clean. I do it clean. I do it clean. I do it clean.
CL: Water! Water!
-DOLL PARTS
-WHOSE PORNO YOU BURN (BLACK)
CL: Another note – (Reading) Dear Courtney…You are God.
CL: Thank you!
CL: This song is gonna be shit.
-VIOLET
-NEVER GO AWAY
CL: Thank you.
CL: ??
(Encore break)
Audience starts chanting “Hole.”
Audience screaming.
MADM: ??
MADM: I can see a few Canadian friends I know standing right…I can see you. Are you laughing at me? Mike and Betty and Dave.
CL: We’re big rock stars ?? in my rider.
CL: Alright, Vancouver – who am I fucking this week? Shut up, Eric, I wanna see if they know who I’m fucking. We know who you’re fucking. Who am I fucking this week?
MADM: You’re trying to steal my man.
CL: I hear, like, four names at once. Michael? That’s who I’m with? Trent? Who – David Soul from Starsky & Hutch? Wow. To tell you the truth – I’m fucking Tom Selleck, that’s right. We’re actually fighting over him, but she won’t…do you want him?
MADM: You can have him.
-I’M SO HIGH/IMPROV (GOODBYE TO YOU)
-SHE WALKS ON ME
CL: Me and Kurt and Patty wrote this next song and, um, we were drunk and we were in Rio, so we just call it Drunk in Rio. I don’t tell people usually before ’cause then they’ll pretend to like it, ’cause Kurt wrote it too, but fuck you guys, you’re in another country – and the guy at Orange Number 5 let me live there, so…
Opening chords to Drunk in Rio.
CL: No, Eric, I can – I’ll start it. I wrote it.
-DRUNK IN RIO
Eric plays the riff to Gary Numan’s Cars.
CL: Eric, if you play the whole thing, I’ll sing it.
-CARS
CL: Assert yourself, Eric, come on. Eric, come on, assert yourself. Finish the riff or I’m not doing the next song.
Eric plays the riff.
CL: Eric is the unspoken guitar God – and for six fucking years I’ve put up with his shit and tonight, I’m gonna cut his dick off.
Audience screams.
CL: POOR DREW!
Courtney recites the Buddhist chant Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha.
-OLYMPIA/HUSH LITTLE BABY
Courtney stage dives.
CL: That’s the first time I’ve stage dived in eight weeks and nobody took off my clothes or touched my tits. You guys win! You guys win!
Audience cheers.
CL: That is so cool. In eight weeks, every other audience has torn off all my clothes…you win, I’m so proud of you. Ok, I’m so proud of you that me and Eric are gonna do a special little thing.
MADM: ??
CL: Good audiences get the treat.
Eric is playing with his drum machine.
CL: Eric…stop that shit. Look, you can fuck Trent, alright. Stop, I don’t ever want to hear that fucking thing again.
Audience screams.
CL: Play it. We’re gonna play the song…
NOTE: The recording ends here, but the band played Where Did You Sleep Last Night? for the final song.