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


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