From Julie [js1wood@earthlink.net]
Hi, I went to see Hole at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim on Saturday and
it was so wonderful to finally see her live. She sounded great too and
sang songs from Pretty on the inside which she dedicated to Jewel and
then she sang songs from Live through this aswell. Then she said how
she had been to Anaheim once before. And told about her short lived
affair with Gavin from Bush. So she dedicated Awful to him and then
after the song she said something about Gwen from No Doubt aswell. She
mentioned Gavin
a few times more through out the show too. Then she told how they are
off the tour and the show at the Forum would be the last show for them.
She said she was tired of the Bible being ripped up overnight and the
burning crosses. During one of her songs, she was running from speaker
to speaker, the ones on the stage that are kind of small, amps I guess,
and when she got to the last one infront of Melissa, she jumped short
and ate it
right on top of the Melissa's mike stand almost taking her down with
her. It was pretty funny but, Melissa continued to play on and Courtney
got up and went on. She made her way to the fans via the security
guards and at the end, she gave one of her guitars
to a fan. It was a great show and I am glad that I got to see them
before they quit the tour.
Thanks to SICKGIRL1945@aol.com for this review!
This is my concert review for Hole's "Beautiful Monster's Tour" with Marilyn
Manson back on March 13th of last year at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim. The
show was the best. I was in the front row and saw everything first hand.. It
started dark, with just a silhouette of Courtney and a ciggerette in her hand
and then the lights came on. She started with Violet I think and then kicked
her shoes into the crowd and did the rest of her performance barefoot. She
sang mostly new songs off of Celebrity Skin and just a few off of Live
Through This. She then mentioned that Melissa had decorated the set (which
was beautiful ivy). But Before singing "Awful", Courtney admitted that she
wrote it about Gwen (from No Doubt) because the lyric "just shut up your
only 16" has to do with No Doubt's song "Sixteen" and she says she slept with
Gavin while he was with Gwen! Also, lots of glittered confetti fell out of
the sky when she sang "Celebrity Skin"!! Throughout the show, she kept
jumping from one amp to another until she fell flat on her face at one point
and started to bleed! Instead of ending the show though, she finished the
song she was singing on the floor with her legs up in the air and when she
finally got up she started to wipe her blood all over her face and her dress.
She mentioned this is how everyone wanted to see her "bleeding and dying".
As if this wasn't enough, she also sat on the shoulder's of different
bodyguards and shook hands with the people in the front rows (when she did
this I got a part of her dress)... She ended the show and came out a few
minutes later with a new cigerette and Eric, who acoustically played "Northern
Star" and then the best part of the night came for me.. Courtney mentioned
that we need more "girl rock stars" in this world and that she wanted to
give away her guitar to a girl..she looked throught the crowd and noticed
certain girls.."No, you're gothic, you didn't come here to see me, your here
for Manson.." she said and so on.." You're too pretty, you should be a
model.." she said to another girl.. then she looked at me.."I like you" she
said, "I want you to have my guitar"...and so the security guards pulled me
up out of the audience and Courtney handed me her black and white Fender that
I still own to this day.. It was really the best day of my life and the best
concert I've ever been too.