Venue: Target Center (KEGE’s Twisted Christmas)
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
Announcer: …93.7 The Edge. Thanks for coming out, buying your tickets. All the proceeds go to The Minnesota Literacy Council and the Hearing Aide. Everybody ready for Hole?!
Audience screams.
Announcer: They’ll be out in just a minute.
CL: ??
CL: On three, I want you to say bitch really loud. One…two…three…BITCH!
Audience screams.
CL: Just get that out.
-PLUMP
-NEVER GO AWAY
-BEAUTIFUL SON
CL: This is Melissa Auf der Maur.
Audience cheers.
CL: LOUDER! LOUDER!
CL: I’m gonna smoke now. Pick each other up…off.
CL: Ok, I’m gonna ask a question…someone asked me today, it’s um, to decide for Lollapalooza if Neil Young or Nine Inch Nails should headline. So when I say Neil…wait, wait, wait, shut up, I wanna take a consensus. When I say Neil, the ones that really want him to headline, tell me, and when I say that other band, tell me. Ok, so – Neil!
Audience cheers.
CL: Ok, I heard it ?? Neil. Um, nine, uh…one inch…Nine…oh. One inch – Nine Inch Nails.
Audience screams.
CL: FUCK YOU, YOU’RE PIGS! Well, we’ll see. See – ’cause, me and Melissa, we…we are really the ones that are gonna decide. Hey, it’s your 30 bucks.
CL: I need to get laid.
-MISS WORLD
CL: Hey, give it up for, um, Love Spit Love, ’cause without Richard Butler, none of you would be here. YAY!
Audience screams.
CL: Especially me. Psychedelic fucking Furs, best band that ever walked – other than Fleetwood Mac…and Big Black. (Laughs)
CL: So, here we are at the Target Center (Note: She pronounces it Tar-jay Center). Hey Kat, are you even here? Alright, this is the third time we’ve played and you don’t even come out to see me. Where are you Kat? KAT! That’s my friend, she lives here. This song is dedicated to her.
-JENNIFER’S BODY
Courtney changes one of the lyrics to “Pieces of Kat Bjelland’s body.”
CL: That song’s really about being tied up and liking it. It is. Thank you, Chad.
CL: Does anyone remember Goofy’s, the strip bar that used to be here?
Audience cheers.
CL: Yeah, I remember it too. I worked there.
Opening chords to Asking For It.
CL: Eric, wait, no wait. Wait, wait…this is a Minneapolis thing. Remember the year the Twins won? So, like, we were ?? and I made no money, ’cause I was fat – but I’m not fat anymore! So you can tip me. The more you tip, the better the show.
-ASKING FOR IT
CL: So, two in front, in front of a large group of people. I couldn’t play guitar for five years until I learned this trick. If you’re a girl, I want you to listen to me. Ok, this is the deal – you know how guys have those bigger hands and they can do these (she strums a chord on her guitar) AC/DC power chords? Well, my friend Jennifer from L7, she showed me how to rip off all of my honey’s catalog by simply pressing two fingers like a bass player does and then you can write a whole record. I just want you to know that. DON’T be the nurse, be the doctor, ok! When we did the Nine Inch Nails thing and all of those groupies were back there thinking they could get their mouth around Trent’s little weenie, let me tell you something – every one of them can be in a fucking band, alright. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of groupies. I don’t want to see anymore. Stop it. Alright, I mean it. Stop it. Stop it. And I’m not talking about boys…I love you, but I’m not talking to you.
CL: When Kurt was in fourth grade, there was this girl Sheila in his class and she always smelled like pee and he made fun of her and I always smelled like pee too, so I wrote this goddamn song.
-SOFTER SOFTEST
Opening chords to Best Sunday Dress.
CL: Me and Kat wrote this.
-BEST SUNDAY DRESS
-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD
CL: Oh, my guitar’s out. Not like it counts, ’cause I can’t play it. Um, Chad? My guitar’s gone. I’m powerless. Madonna doesn’t have a guitar, but I…I have a cock. We’re going over time, ’cause I am the proto punk c*nt. I like words like bitch, c*nt, n*gger. Those are good words. I’m taking ’em back. What I don’t like is the word riot grrl, ’cause it means that we’re creating a culture that we’re tiny and we’re insulted and we’re also teeny and tiny and my name is ?? and maybe we made out with Dave Pirner that one time. We’re sorry, I’m really being a bitch tonight, you know, but I’m like that every fucking night! I will crown myself the Queen of all bitches. Alright, one more time, on three – bitch. One, two, three –
Audience: BITCH!
CL: You liked that, didn’t you? I liked it too.
Girl in Crowd: I love you Courtney!
CL: Oh, now I’ve gotta get goddamn sensitive. Shit.
-DOLL PARTS
CL: Don’t keep guns in the house. ?? No guns in the house. It’s good. I started…I can’t play guitar. I suck.
-VIOLET
CL: (Panting) I was faking it all the time.
Audience screams.
CL: I only did coke once in my life and it was with Mick Jones…sorry to out you. It was when I was 16. Before you decide to be a groupie, you know, the only option is like, that you’re gonna hang around bands you meet. I mean…?? if you’re gonna be a rock star, then you kinda be like this semi-groupie…why am I telling you? Do you got anything to say? ‘Cause, you know…all I…I’ll, I’ll…??
Audience screams.
CL: Ok, since…since the horrifying tragedies of my life, which I keep myself quite inebriated to not remember, I have risen above the petty things, but you know, this last song is just about the one little petty thing I have left. It’s a little complaint I have about riot grrls.
-OLYMPIA/HUSH LITTLE BABY
Courtney changes the lyrics to “When I went to school, with AmRep.”
CL: No sense in stage diving when all the Grateful Dead shirts are in the front. What the fuck is that tie dye thing? ?? Ok, you’re gonna hate me for life, but you are wearing tie dye, ok? Are you like a Deadhead? Merry goddamn Christmas, ’cause I’m not gonna be having one.
CL: (Singing) It’s the Grinch, the Grinch, the Grinch that stole Christmas.
CL: I’d like to thank Mick Jones for doing coke with me when I was 16.
CL: Thanks a lot. Thank you so very much. Would you like to see my new fake tits? I do not have fake tits! That is a lie! I am not fucking Billy Pumpkin, Trent, or Stipe, ok – I’m fucking Tom Selleck. This is so not punk, sorry to say. Ask these guys – when me and Lori Barbero put on our only surfer show ?? and then I got run out of town – this town. For stealing people’s boyfriends – but I didn’t really do it. Ok, here we go.
Guy in Crowd: Suite 49!