May 26th
Detroit, MI:State Theater
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Violet
Review donated by Steve
Ok, here is the long-awaited story:). Last night we went to see Hole at
the State theater. it was originally supposed to be Me, trent, cera,
courtney, and claire, but court had a back injury and couldnt go and
claires a bitch and pulled out at the last minute (oh well, her loss!).
So, trent and i got there at about 6:40 (the show was to start at 7:30),
and there was already a huge line. Cera and janet showed up at about 7 and
we all went in. they had a LOT of shirts, and some really really cute
ones, but no one had any money:( the main floor was about half full, but
the people were scattered, so we scooted up to about 8 rows behind the
barricade. My tummy was hurting all day so it sorta sucked and i was
unhappy. oh well.
Imperial Teen was the opening band and they were great (though they were
sooooo much older than i had expected!). The crowd started to get pushy
and riled up during the last few songs. Before and after imperial teen,
there was this NASTY mullet who was hitting on all the little girls around
him, asking if they like chest hair and if they like "to clench it when
they orgasm". it was really nasty and the guy should be shot. He was very
vulgar. then this little girl decided to stop taking his shit and started
bitching him out. i thought she was going to hit him, it was really funny.
she totally held her own.
There was about 50 minutes between imperial teen and hole. now THAT was
uncalled for!!! during that time it got really pushy. we went from being
6 rows behind to being shoved onto the step, about 3 rows behind the
barricade. It was so crowded, i have never been so smashed before (it
seemed it was more crowded then than during the show!). people just kept
pushing. meanwhile the mullet and the girl were still fighting. Some guy
came up and was like "hey, man thats my sister!" and acted like he was
protecting her which grossed me out because she was totally a-ok on her
own. soon the security guards caught wind of the mullet and threw him
out. then the OTHER guy started like hitting on them and had his arms
around them the whole time and was licking their hair and it was just
downright SICK!.
Anyways....so we are like about to pass out (one girl did), because we
cant breathe, when the lights when out and a recording of the first part
of "Credit in the Straight World" came on (my favorite part of Live
THrough This!) Everyone pushed even more (though there was nowhere to go).
Then the whole band came out together and everyone went crrrrrrrazy....
Now for their outfits, just because they were dressed so cutely. Courtney
was wearing a slutty little thing with slits, and some really cool
butterfly wings. Melissa was wearing little shorts, wicked red boots and a little white
tank top with "I (heart) MOWTOWN" written on it w/ a marker. Sam was
wearing a KISS shirt (so trent says, i dont remember), and eric was
wearing a star wars storm trooper shirt w/ a playboy bunny on the back. They started
out with VIOLET. then they did AWFUL. They sounded great!!! i dont care
what ANYONE says, they are an awsome band!!!!!! melissa was sooo cute.
anyways. They pretty much did every song off the new album. they only
did 3 from Live through this (doll parts, miss world, violet), and they
only played about a minute of Pretty on the Inside. the crowd went the
craziest during Doll Parts (i seriously do not remember any of the song, i
got kicked in the head with a platform boot and i was woozy).
Um, after about the 4th song, the girls who were trying to crowd surf out
of the pit were put onstage. it was really really random. By the end of
the night there were like 30 young girls onstage. Everytime a big guy
tried to get on courtney was like "NO! you're a jock! you can get a job!
we only want girls and disenfranchized guys!" By that time i was 2nd
behind the barrier, so of course i waved frantically screaming "right here
right here!" but the secguards ignored me:(. anyways.
So, during Heaven Tonight (my fav hole song), courtney JUMPED onto that
huge motherfucking KNIGHT on the side of the theater and she began
CLIMBING IT. she sang the entire song from the top of the knight!!! how
ranmdom is that?! Also, courtney and melissa were reallly obsessed with
the mowtown thing. as a matter of fact, they did a version of the
Temptations song "Get ready". the crowd went wild and sang
along. courtney said something about putting the girls onstage because
she wanted to help them get out of this shitty town. awwww. haha. Anyways,
they also RANDOMLY broke out into Madonna's Holiday!! they sang the first
part of the song when courtney was like "i dont know any other madonna
songs. i dont own a madonna record!" [yeah, right, courtney, whatever].
Then melissa started in with "Come on girls! do you believe in love? cuz i
got something to sing about it!" and the entire crowd sang along to
Express Yourself. it was soooo funny!!!!
During one of the songs (i cant remember which i think it was Dying), there was a big POOF
noise and suddenly there was HUGE glitter EVERYEWHERE. all you could see
was silver everywhere!!! and it stuck to everyone because we weere so
sweaty it was such a simple thing...but probably the best little effect i
have ever seen at a show just because it was so fucking cool. but then
someone threw a beer at me and i got drenched :(. hahaha.
Um, what else...hole's set was kinda short....they did maybe 13 songs at
the most...which was annoying since we waited soooo long after imperial
teen. but they were great, so its ok i guess.
after their 3 song encore (northern star, drag, celeb skin) melissa threw
like 10 of her guitar picks that said "nice ass, melissa auf der maur".
Trent caught one. We hung around awhile in the state but nothing cool
happened. so we went out to the busses...their were 3 or 4 (hello, rock
stars). anyways, there were a LOT of people waiting and i thought we were
fucked. we stood in the back and then melissa popped her head out of her
dressing room window!!!! she started throwing pamphlets out to everyone.
hehe. then she started throwing anything she could get her hands on --
fruit, papers, courtney love's underwear. it was funny. then she threw a
bunch of Celeb Skin flats that she had signed!!! trent got two, and gave
one to me (sweetie). AHhh i was SO happy! when we left that day we were
like "all i want is melissa's autograph and i'll be happy!" And we got it!
yay. she was sooooo fucking cool! then we went to the other side of the
street and she popped up again, one floor up, and started blaring "The
locomotion" on a little radio. it was funny. then she had a little fairy
magic wand and waved it above everyone and threw it down to the crowd.
then she came out and danced a little with her radio and went back in.
so, then trent and i went back to the crowd and waited FOREVER....a lot of
people had left when Eric erlandson came out about an hour and a hlaf
later. he signed everybody's stuff and was really nice. about a hlaf hour
later, melissa and sam came out and signed stuff (we got our cds signed
byt all of them). Then the guards told us that when courtney came ou;t
she would come right to us as long as we didnt rush her. Well, it took
like a freakin hour and a half for her to come out! we really didnt think
she was going to show. Someone said she was on the bus getting a message
and acupuncture. When she did come out there was only like 30 people
left there (as opposed to the couple hundred that were there before) so
that was cool. she was really really wet because she just got out of the
shower and it was really really cold out, so i guess it was cool that she
came out. she's a bitch, but she isnt a complete bitch because she did
come out. we got our stuff signed (including a ticket for courtney who
couldnt come!) and left.
OH I ALMOST FORGOT! JOEL! (YES, TORI's JOEL!) and steve!! they worked for
hole!!!! they were putting the little girls onstage!!!!!! i met some
random tori people and we kept syaing HI JOEL! ahahahahah it was soooo
funny. he waved at us confusedly. evidently they talked to him before the
show and he said tori was currently in england recording the new album! :D
hehe
it was a really great night and hole is a really motherfucking great
band!:) The show seemed really loose (thats actually the word courtney
love used) and not straight off a setlist. it was cool. courtney kept
saying "sorry the show isnt really that professional...we think that's
lame...i mean we cant be as good as matchbox 20" hahahaha. she was funny.
trent and i had a blast
though i still have a headache
and i am still sore
and i still smell like grossniss even though i showered (i think it's my
boots...)
anyways
i probably left a lot of stuff out...oh well:)
steve
Review donated by Julie
Wow! Where do I start, this is going to be long and scattered, so if you
wanna skip over it, that's fine. The crowd was huge, and I was second row
center, along with my bf. The opening band, Imperial Teen was the best
opening band I've heard before, but then again, I've been to 2 Tori Amos
concerts and a Mustard Plug concert(local band). Now this was the most
exciting night of my life because I've been waiting to see Hole for 7 years.
My older brother brought home POTI when I was 10. And when Hole came around
for Lollapolooza, I was 13 and my ride bailed and my Mom said no. So...
we got there at 4 and I ran into Joel, Tori Amos' body guard (he's
orgionaly from Detriot), and my bf and I talked to him and found out that
he's going to Europe in 2 wks to help her record the new album(just a lil
info for Toriphiles!!!)
Then we went to wait for everyone to get off the tour buses. First Sam
walked off and then Eric. Melissa never got off and Courtney either, at
least that I did see, because Courtney flew in from LA, I guess she had some
Blockbuster Awards or something.
We waited in line, blah blah blah! So anyway, I was in there and I was
second row center and then my bf came in and I made him save my spot and I
bought the Pretty Monster t-shirt and the Courtney Love shut up t-shirt.
When I came back, my bf went to buy me a Hole tank top for my Graduation
present and then we watched the concert.
Opening band, blah blah blah. There was a long wait and then the lights
went down. When the lights came on Courtney was wearing a pink dress and it
was glittery and so was she. Not to mention, the faerie wings!!! Eric was
wearing a Star Wars StarTrooper t-shit and sparkly black pants, Melissa was
wearing a white tank top that she wrote I love(heart) Motown, a small black
skirt and tan sweade knee high boots, and sam was wearing a dark pink tank
top and black pants.
While they came out, the beginning of Credit in the Straight World, and
then they opened with Violet. The crowd pleased and surprised Courtney
because EVERYONE was singing along. Eventually she stopped singing and let
the crowd sing it, she walked up and down the stage and since there was a
space between the stage and crowd that she sat on top of a bouncer's head
and did it(My bf and I rubbed his head). For some reason, Melissa yelled at
Courtney and CL told M that she loved her in the mike. She got the audience
to tell M that she was a bitch(that CL was) and that it was great that she
yelled back at her. Then they broke into Awful. After that was Heaven
Tonight. During the song CL was climbing around on the knights set back on
the walls on the sides, so she was above the audience and was pulling girls
out. After the song was over, a couple people over, a guy was screaming for
Courtney to play Drag. She aked him 'what, Drag? I love Drag, I would love
to play it for like the encore' So he ended up being pulled out of the
audience. They played some Motown song, I knew the words then, I forget now,
(if some one there remembers please email me privately)Afterwards, Courtney
said, 'that was surreal' Courtney said something about playing Motown songs
all nite long and asked the girls if they wanted to get out of detriot and
if so they need to get one of these and one of these and one of
these(pointling to each member of the band) 'and then you form a band and
then you can get out'... then they broke into Pretty On the Inside and then
Miss World. Then they played Reasons to Be Beautiful (During this time I
didn't see as much because I had gone over the bar trying to get on stage
and was working my way back up to the front)and then Dying. In between every
line she would say 'sushhhhh' in the beginning of the song. And of course
all the silver strips of confetie came flying down (I grabbed some for later
artwork) Then something about how she hated this song because it reminded
her of Michael Jackson or something and broke into Doll Parts and she pulled
ten people out of the audience to help her sing it (at this point my bf got
to grab her hand, grrrrr)After Doll Parts, the played a small part of
'Holiday' the Madonna song and then CL commented on that Madonna was from
Detriot and that they should play a Madonna song but she didn't own a single
Madonna album, and then they played part of Express Yourself. It was a riot.
Then they played Malibu and then they walked off stage.
A few minutes later Eric came back out and then Courtney in a pink
leotard/tutu thing and pink fishnet nylons with pink rhinestones on them and
pink mary janes. Courtney yelled for everyone to be quiet and that they
could scream on the other songs but they had to shut up on the ballads. So
they broke into Northern Star, but Eric wasn't playing loud enough and she
tried to get him to but he wouldn't and she couldn't hear him, so she went
up to him and screamed the song at the guitar. She was soooo pist at him.
Then Melissa and Sam came back out and they played Drag and finished the
concert with Celebrity Skin and red and pink confetie came flying down
(grabbed some of that too) then walked off of the stage. I felt bad for CL
because she was sooo frustrated.
After the concert Imperial Teen threw stuff and then Melissa threw
stuff like picks and autographed promos. Then she put a boombox up to the
window and was playing Locmotion and was dancing in the window and then she
came downstairs and outside and played it and danced. Then she disappeared
and then came back a lil while later playing the Jackson 5. It was cute.
Now I've read that Courtney threw out boas and her faerie wings and I
left before then and now I'm pist. Ah well, I've finally seen her after
waiting 7 years, and it was by far the best nite of my life.
Julie
Awful
Heaven Tonight
Dying
Doll Parts
Celebrity Skin
Reasons To Be Beautiful
Boys on the Radio
Celeb Skin
Holiday/Express Yourself (madonna song)
Get Ready (temptations)
Malibu
Drag
Northern Star
Pretty on the Inside
Miss World