June 2nd
Mesa, Arizona :Mesa Ampitheatre
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Review donated by JW
Hey everyone!!, I just got back from seeing HOLE in Arizona and I had
the best time ever and it was the GREATEST concert experience of my
life. You'll never believe what happened to me, I still can't believe it
my self. Well here's how it went. (It's pretty long,LOL)
My girlfriend and I arrived at the Mesa Amphitheater, which is an
outside venue, at about 3:30 that afternoon.. About ten minutes later
we heard the sound check that HOLE was doing to get ready for the
night's show. We ran up the the gate that surrounded the amphitheater
and saw Eric practicing and tuning both his and Courtney's guitars. The
background was of palm trees and a fountain and had a red velvet theater
curtain along the top and side of the picture. Within the two hours that
we waited in line, we heard parts of songs like Beautiful Son, Plump,
Malibu and a few more. Finally at 5:30 they let us in. Because it was
general admission, my girlfriend and I were in the front and dead center
of the stage. At about 7:00 Queens of the Stone Age came on and to my
surprise they were all guys. I guess the title threw me off a little.
LOL They played only for like 40 minutes and weren't to bad. Then came
the hour that would feel like forever. This is also the time we found
out that Mesa has a curfew of 10:00 on a weekday. We waited and HOLE
finally came out at about 8:45. This is when so many unbelievable things
would happen to me and only me.
The lights went out and the black sheet that covered HOLE's back drop was taken down.
The beginning of
Credit In The straight World/Old Age started and out came the band.There
was a faint black light that filled the stage so you couldn't' see much
except for shadows walking across the stage. Then came Courtney, walking
out with fairy wings and a lit cigarette. The lights went on and HOLE
busted out with Violet. Courtney spit out her cigarette and sang. She
was wearing a white muscle shirt with the words" Desert Storm" scribbled
on it, white fairy wings, layers of shear material(although we could
still see her really little bloomer-type shorts), lavender fishnets and
ballerina shoes. Her make-up was oh so beautiful. Eric was wearing a
sleeveless KISS shirt with black jeans.Sam was also wearing a KISS
shirt. Melissa wore a small black shirt with some logo on it, small
black and silver sparkly shorts. and high go go type boots. They all
looked so awesome. We were jumping and screaming and yelling, as was
every one else. When Violet finished, Melissa told the crowd "Doesn't
something about the desert air make you wanna rock harder?" Then
Courtney said "Doesn't something about the desert air make you wanna
have sex?". Next was Awful and we tried to get Courtney's attention
but nope she still wouldn't look at us or at me anyways. She came up to
the edge of the stage many times and I was hoping that my Pretty On the
Inside shirt would catch her attention but still nothing. So then I
thought "oh great she's not gonna look at me because I'm a 6'5" tall guy
and she REALLY doesn't like guys". When they finished Awful, Courtney
gave her wings away and apologized for her voice and said that her
throat was shot and that they almost cancelled the remaining 3 dates.
She then said " I didn't write the lyrics for this song, He did."
Pointing at Eric, they started Pretty on the Inside. Then it went into
Heaven Tonight. This is the song that I'll remember the most because of
what happened. Courtney started singing and then went over to one of the
security,climbed on his shoulders and had him take her up and down the
security area. When she came back our way to where we were standing, we
held out our hands, like everyone else, so that we could touch her. Her
hand ran down my arm and she grasped my hand AND WOULDN'T LET GO! She
looked straight down at me and was singing to me! She was so happy and
had a huge smile on her face. When she started the part "I cant believe
that i could be happy, someone will come again..." she came closer to
where we were two inches away from each other. the only thing between us
was the mic. She smelled beautiful, of patchouli oil, i think. She sang
that whole part to me and when she was finished she gave me a kiss on
the cheek, A FUCKIN KISS!!! OMG!!! She jumped back on stage and finished
the song. By this time, being the guy that I am, I had tears running
down my cheeks from happiness because of my love and adoration for
Courtney. LMAO This wasn't the last time she payed attention to me
though. The next song was Miss World. After the song finished, Courtney
came up to me (OMFG!!!) and said " YOU, I WANT YOU! YOUR FUCKIN HOT! GET
HIM ON STAGE NOW!" The whole crowd went crazy. The security tried to get
me out with me facing the stage but it didn't work so i turned around
and they still couldn't get me out because the crowd was pushing upwards
trying to get my spot. Just when they were gonna give up my girlfriend
said that Courtney ordered them to get me up on stage through a hand
gesture. They finally got me out and up on stage.I had sit in front of
the drums so i didn't see Sam much after that. The next song was Reasons
To Be Beautiful, then Malibu,Use Once and Destroy,Dying in which glitter
and red and white pieces of paper shot out,and Doll Parts. Somewhere in
between the songs she gave away her layers of shear material,took off
her muscle shirt and her shoes. She was left in her shorts,fishnets and
a purple bra through the rest of the concert. She was saying something
like "If you've been teased by someone, don't make a pipe bomb. Pick up
a guitar and drums...." She also jumped on one of the amps and sang for
a while and then jumped off. I cant remember much more. When they
started Boys on the Radio, Courtney went over to the left side of the
stage,jumped down to the audience and was singing. We couldn't see her
because the amps were in the way but all you heard next was Courtney
saying,"Stop, Stop,Stop!" the rest of the band kept playing and she
yelled " Stop you guys!" The song stopped and Courtney was saying "Help
me out you guys, your big." I guess the audience had pulled her into the
crowd. "This is the first time this has happened, our only night in
Phoenix and you guys wont let me sing." She got back on stage and said"
You guys'll stay down there and I'll be the Rock Star up here. I'm sorry
guys we'll have to start the song again, It's my fault." They started
the song again from the beginning and when the were done said good night
and went off stage. By this time there were about 8 girls, me, and 2
other guys on stage, although none of them had been verbally hand
-picked by Courtney like I was.LOL. Courtney and Eric came back out for
the Encore. Courtney,again, looked me in the eyes and gave me her
Gatorade bottle complete with lipstick smudges. She had pulled out the
strap of her baby blue g-string, and it just hung out of her shorts.
They both did Northern Star, and then Melissa and Sam came back out for
Celebrity Skin. This is when I pulled out my sign, in hopes that I would
get her guitar. I didn't, but I still had one of the best experiences of
my life. Celebrity Skin finished and She gave out 2 of her guitars, ran
to me with the mic and asked me directly " Whats your opinion on Geeks
versus Jocks, you've got 3 minutes."she then handed the mic to me, ran
off stage and the sound was cut off.The security escorted all of us off
stage. I ran to the merchandise booth and bought 4 shirts, 2 stickers, a
hat, and a bear. I met up with my girlfriend and we went back to our
hotel. We then decided to get something to eat. We went back out in
search of food. We passed the amphitheater one more time and we saw a
black luxury car zoom passed us with about 10 cars chasing. We pulled up
next to the car and the back window was open and guess who was in the
back seat? Eric and Courtney. Courtney had her foot up on the frame of
the window. We started yelling and the light turned green and off they
went, with all those cars following them. We decided to follow,too. It
all ended with Courtney and maybe Eric getting on a private jet. We got
something to eat and went "home". Well everyone there's my review.
UNBELIEVABLE, HUH? I still cant believe it myself. See ya all
laterz!!!!!
JW
Review donated by Chil
Well, this was my first Hole show, and my first show at the quaint
amphitheater in mesa. (the first time I even heard of it was in Nov. When the
infamous "Sheriff Joe's boys" chased Rob Zoomie out of the theater.
supposedly he escaped in a catering truck and they chased him all the way to
Casa Grande, 60 miles to the next county) Anyway I digress.....
The setting of this concert was so awesome. This is an open air
amphitheater very small, when I was checked though security the girl checking
my bag laughed when she saw my binoculars. By the way everyone was checked
incredibly thoroughly I might add. My hubby and I where split into sperate
lines and everyone was patted down, made to empty there pockets, backpacks,
unfold blankets, and view the contents of packs of cigarette pack and coin
purses. The seating is all lawn sitting with maybe ten grass terraces, It
was a totally perfect night, usually June in Mesa, AZ is around 115 and if
your luck by night it is 100, but this night was perfect, it was a cloudy
what people here call a "cool" day maybe 75 degrees out when some noise
making riot came on stage. I think they where called Queens of the Stone
Temples, I spent that time watching the crowd of badydoll dressed girls crowd
around a fence where you could see a tour bus (I assumed Hole's but no one
got out, see I did need binoculars)
About an hour later the crowd lights went down and the lavender twilight
engulfed the small crowd. The opening to Credit In The Straight World played
and then in an instant the black clothe covering the stage fluttered down and
there was Hole in all there glory jamming out Violet. Wow is was so
beautiful, Courtney looked like a sprite with white butterfly wings, a light
blue kinda cross between genie's pants and a Stevie Nick skirt thing, with
light blue short shorts underneath, (when I was a kid we called them daisy
duke's), a white half shirt with gold writing on it I wasn't sure if it Hole
or angel (she was such a ball of energy one really couldn't tell), and no
shoes. at the end of the song she apologized for her voice, which sound great
to me, she said that she was going to cancel the show but decided not to and
just give us what she had, she lite a cigarette to a long drag blew it out,
called for Gatorade for her throat guzzled some took and another drag threw
the cigarette to the ground and the band burst in to awful with Courtney
scream sing the intro. I can't tell the order of the rest of all of the songs
she didn''t do any quiet riot as I have seen on other set list or any
Madonna, she did do Teenage Whore.
Melissa had on long black boots, a short black skirt and what looked like a
gold and black camisole Samantha was were a jersey of some sort tennis shoe
and black shorts and Eric had a cream colored shirt and black or maybe gray
pants.
After Awful Courtney told the crowd "I love the desert it makes me feel
sultry, sexy, it make me feel like having sex." After the next couple of
songs she took off her shirt (to reveal a blue swim suit top or maybe a bra)
and her genie pant-skirt thing and stated that "rocking makes me fell like
taking off my clothes, so I ware lots of layer so I can take them off, not
all of them I a mother now and you know" Then she told us that rocking out
doesn't make Melissa want to take her clothes off. During Heaven Tonight she
told the folks in the back sitting on the terraces if you don't get up and
move I am not going to give you a good show, I will give it to the people
down here but not to you". She crowd surfed a few times pointed out people in
the crowd that security help pull on to stage, which started with a young man
she wanted brought up on stage because she thought he was fine. At one point
Courtney said "I am sorry I am not talking to much tonight but Sam is try to
get me to stop smarting off and to let our music do the speaking, but before
I let the music speak I want to say to all you kids that feel lost, learn to
play guitar, bass or drums, then you can make the jocks sit in the back when
your a rock star. Just don't go making pipe booms or killing yourselves."
She climbed a speaker tower and then was helped down by security during boy
on the radio she went off to the far left of the stage where the wasn't a lot
of a crowd and was walking across the open lawn, the crowd moved in around
her as she sang. after being over shouted by the crowd she began to shout
"STOP, STOP" Then "Eric STOP, this puck fuckers are recking our song" by now
security was all around her and escorting her back, As she told the crowd
"You guys failed, I wanted to come out there and hang with you, but you
failed, You know I did this in Boston and didn't have any problems." by then
she was up by the speaker stacks and could get across, getting irritated that
she couldn't get across she shouted to the security "help me your big" once
back on stage she told the crowd "you guys blew it, guess I have to be rock
star girl now but that's OK I know how to do that"
After the encore she gave away her guitar to a girl in the crowd and then
when another girl in front complained she said to her "I know you wanted the
guitar but so did she" the fan continued and Countey gave in saying "Oh, get
her a guitar too, your making me feel like shit," she left the shaking her
head said I am never doing giving shit away again. Then suddenly with all the
crowd lights up she appeared on stage and put on a promotional coke a cola
shirt that were being handed out free.
I have been to ALOT of concerts and I was very impress at this performance,
it was interment, wild, fun and Courtney made you feel like we all just came
to party, It was a great time
Thanks
Chil