Venue: Toad’s Place
Location: New Haven, CT
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
Audience screams.
CL: Hi there. We’re the Rolling Stones.
-PLUMP
Crowd surfers knock over Courtney’s mic stand.
CL: That was my mic, ok?
Opening chords to Never Go Away (aka Sugar Coma).
Girl in Crowd: It’s a slow song.
-NEVER GO AWAY
-BEAUTIFUL SON
Crowd surfers knock over Courtney’s mic stand again.
CL: You knock over this mic one more time, I’m not playing here, ok? Is that clear? One more time and we’re not playing. One more time. Oh thanks, that was a nice way to throw it, but if you knock over this mic one more time, we will walk off this stage and you can have a fucking great night, ok?
Guy in Crowd: Fuck you!
CL: Yeah, fuck me, I would dare you to. Come on, wake up alive.
-MISS WORLD
CL: Thanks.
Crowd surfers are getting out of control.
MADM: This is really stressful.
CL: Calm down, calm down, calm down. That’s Melissa Auf der Maur, from Montreal.
MADM: Maybe if you don’t enjoy yourselves so much…I’m just, God, if you guys are moving like this we’re gonna have to…
Guy in Crowd: Shut up!
MADM: Have fun though, have fun.
CL: Yeah, have fun. Maybe they could just have fun by themselves.
Girl in Crowd: I love you, Courtney!
Guy in Crowd: Courtney!
Guy in Crowd: Eric!
Girl in Crowd: Teenage Whore! Teenage Whore! Teenage Whore!
CL: I just want to talk.
Audience cheers.
CL: I heard Kennedy’s in the house. Kennedy, get up here. I want you to do this job – I’ll trade. I’ll introduce Candlebox and you can do this. She’s here – Kennedy’s here. Someone find her.
-JENNIFER’S BODY
CL: That was a really good roll, Patty…that roll, I…it was a good one.
Girl in Crowd: Courtney! Courtney!
CL: I don’t know any Courtney. I changed my name to a symbol you can’t pronounce.
Audience cheers.
CL: Go, go.
-ASKING FOR IT
Girl in Crowd: Teenage Whore! Teenage Whore! Teenage Whore!
CL: Eric, go.
-BEST SUNDAY DRESS
Opening chords to Gutless.
Guy in Crowd: Gutless!
-GUTLESS
CL: I got dissed so bad…
Guy in Crowd: Who by?
CL: None of your fucking business, but…I got dissed worse than any of you will ever know, just the other day.
Guy in Crowd: What happened?
-SOFTER SOFTEST
Girl in Crowd: Teenage Whore!
Guy in Crowd: Teenage Whore!
Guy in Crowd: Doll Parts!
CL: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
-WHO IS THE BULLET?
-I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE
Guy in Crowd: You alright?
Guy in Crowd: No. No.
CL: That’s Craig, he’s a good man.
Guy in Crowd: Go Craig!
Courtney picks up one of the Barbie dolls that are scattered on the stage.
CL: She looks like a penis. You stuff it in your pants.
Eric is playing with his drum machine.
Guy in Crowd: How do they do that?
CL: (To Eric) Stop with that fucking evil NIN, techno influence. Five dates with Nine Inch Nails does not make you a man, I’m sorry.
Audience cheers.
CL: Ok, a band that has groupies and the ?? around, they are so punk.
Guy in Crowd: Just play!
CL: No, I don’t wanna. I want to talk, I don’t want to play.
Audience cheers.
CL: I’m just kidding – I have nothing to say.
Guy in Crowd #1: Just play, Courtney!
Guy in Crowd #2: Talk to us!
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD
-TEENAGE WHORE
Courtney throws a Barbie doll into the audience.
CL: She’s a Pisces.
MADM: You guys all want dolls?
Guy in Crowd #1: What?
Guy in Crowd #2: Pisces ??
CL: Here’s a little Scottish one. A little Highlander. I’d say this doll was a Taurus, wouldn’t you?
MADM: Oh, keeper. Oh.
CL: Nothing personal, Patty.
Someone in Crowd: Give me the head!
CL: I’m not giving you nothin’. See – I gave it all away and I got dissed, I got dissed. I ain’t giving nothin’ away no more. I’m keeping myself in the company of women and that’s it.
Audience cheers.
CL: Thank you. I don’t know. I’m not really a homosexual, but I’m gonna try, damn it.
Guy in Crowd #1: I’m all for it. (Laughs)
Guy in Crowd #2: Bend over!
CL: This song…if I bend over, what are you gonna do?
Guy in Crowd #2: Fuck you up the ass!
Audience screams.
CL: Come on, prove it. Do it. I want to see it.
Guy in Crowd #1: Come on! Go for it!
CL: I haven’t seen one for, oh, two days. The last one I saw was on a Rock God and boy, was it teeny. Not my husband, no, no someone else. Oh, not Evan. Oh my God. Evan’s nice, nothing personal.
Guy in Crowd: Iggy!
CL: You know, fuck you guys, alright. I didn’t…I…shut up.
-DOLL PARTS
Courtney changes the lyrics to “I am a bitch…very, a witch, I am a dog, I got dissed so bad.”
CL: Don’t give me that look. You’ve never been dissed a day in your life.
Guy in Crowd: Sorry.
CL: You’re gonna read about it on America Online, I guess.
Audience cheers.
CL: Shut up. (Laughs)
-VIOLET
CL: Good…night!
Audience cheers.
(Cut)
Guy in Crowd: Fuck you!
Man: Let’s hear it.
Guy in Crowd: Fuck you!
Girl: Courtney Love’s here. Give her a little love and she’ll come back…and all Hole. Anyway.
Man: Let’s hear it for Hole. Do you want her back?
Audience cheers.
Man: Teela Harrison, cowboy poetry. Come on, y’all. Come on!
Audience cheers.
(Cut)
Guy in Crowd: Rock Star!
CL: I can have one. I’m the one that got dissed, fuck you. I’ve got a lot of problems – give me one.
MADM: I was gonna ask, like you always get the flowers.
CL: Uh, I got…I got real bad luck, is what I got.
Guy in Crowd: Oh, shut up.
CL: I got dissed for a model! Just kidding – I didn’t get dissed. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
CL: That’s cute, thanks.
-I’M SO HIGH
Opening chords to Hungry Like the Wolf.
CL: The best song ever written.
-HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF
-OLYMPIA
CL: (During song) A fucking model.
Courtney stage dives.
Guy in Crowd: Courtney, we love you!