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Was last night's three-hour, hiccup-filled Hole show in Washington, D.C., the best concert ever or a complete trainwreck? "Of the nearly 30 songs (or song fragments), not even a handful were completed without some minor disaster," reports the Washington Post's David Malitz — although there are commenters claiming that the show was great! There's much, much more; my favorite bits are about the attaché of Courtney Love's who was onstage shooting the show with an iPhone for the entire night.
I don't know what I like, but I know art.
The best part is that there was a new Behind the Music episode of Courtney Love that aired over the weekend which touted her to be sober once and for all. But seriously, I would be dissapointed if I paid money to see her and it WASN'T a total trainwreck
I watched that episode yesterday. I enjoy Courtney from a distance with a mute button readily available.
You have to set your expectations for any Courtney Love experience.
I once saw a Cat Power show that I would characterize as including about "30 songs (or song fragments)," during which she didn't make eye contact with the audience once. I have to say it was pretty awesome, actually!
I think that's every Cat Power show.
Prior to Chan going to rehab, that is. Now she just does that reheated Dusty Springfield crapola.
I don't read that many music reviews because my personal collection mostly consists of old country music that generally falls within my own very limited vocal range, so I don't have much depth for comparison, but I thought this was amazing.
Something died in her throat a little bit.
Can one win a Pulitzer for a concert review? Because this is one damn fine account.
I can't stop laughing at the Li'l Wayne comment. What was that woman's reaction to that question?
Live through this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydj86dfm-zA
True, this is sad (most of the beach boys' repertoire is sacred to me, but I can still admit when something is garbage)
But the difference between this and Love, to be fair to B. Wils, is that he's alone on a Piano. Barely any reverb on his vocals, clearly struggling after a complete mental breakdown. Considering…it's not that bad. There's no good way to replicate Good Vibrations without at least one other musician. It's not going to sound good. Bad idea.
Hindsight + nearly 35 years have made be charitable this abomination. . .but, having seen it live, and learning the circumstances by which it came to be, this is an Oreo Double Stuf of Ugh.
& pardon my syntactic abomination.
All that said, Ms. Love has made a career out of shoving her garbage in people's faces, and that's said w/ some respect to her, ahem, Art.
More like…Ritz Bits cheese sandwich of Ugh. Mostly because I so very rarely get an opportunity to name drop Ritz Bits.
From the comments: Going to a Love show is like eating feces for feces-eating people.
That is my favourite comment ever. I hope to use it as often as possible.
And it works because of the way he makes you realize the connection:
You can find videos on the internet of people eating feces. hmm, that's right, I suppose I can!
They are not forced to do that. Hmm, he/she is right, nobody forces anyone to eat feces.
They like it. That's what they want. yes…that's true. Nobody's paying them to eat feces. They just like doing it! And sharing it!
It's like paying to see a bad movie like the Room or Troll 2, except (1) 45 bucks is steep, (2) 3 hours is forever when you're probably standing around with a bunch of other people, (3) the money goes straight to Courtney to pay for her stupid things. Feces-eating indeed. I'm all about Schadenfreude as much as the next dude, but I mean…yo, it's FREE like most of the time, everywhere. Go to an open-mic night, pretty much anywhere. Comedy bars are great for this.
@djfreshie:
And not that anyone who bought a ticket knew this going in, but Lisa The Heavily Tattooed Assistant's iPhone footage is probably up on YouTube right now, free for viewing, with tons of poorly spelled comments possibly made by Ms. Love herself.
Hahaha! I know! I love the defense that some people make, eg: "Anyone who had high expectations got what they deserve. I paid $45 to see drama, and I got drama! And I can say that I was there" Well that's awesome that you can say you were there when Courtney Love had one of her hundreds of shitty shows. You know what else thousands of people will say soon? "Oh yeah, that shitty show? I seen it on YouTube. That was really shitty. I feel sorry for anyone that paid a bunch of money to see that."
"[Love] said that her "gays" are real and Kathy [Griffin]'s are fake."
There is one reason gays would hang out around Love, and that is as emissaries OF Kathy Griffin.
I said that last part, too.
From the comments: Meanwhile, over in Columbia MD the greatest live band in the history of music was making thousands of people feel alive and in love with music.
Who is this greatest live band in the history of music, you ask? I wasted 5 Google minutes to determine that it's Phish. What's the Phish guy doing commenting on this Hole review especially since he apparently was at the Phish concert and not at the Hole concert? So many questions.
@HelloTitty:
Because anyone who, without irony, asserts that Phish is the greatest anything (except 'sad mistake') in the history of music is clearly unhinged and has probably been all over the internet today chastising everyone who wasn't with him experiencing the horror of a jam band in Columbia MD.
They probably aren't done playing yet.
Obviously Phish dude is no hipster or he'd name check the awesome venue in Columbia MD.