Fact #153670
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On their Jubilee Tour, Jane's Addiction play at Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. Support act Courtney Love plays so badly that the promoters have her unplugged and physically carried off the stage by security men.
Full article:
Stephen Mirkin (reviewer, Variety) : The much-anticipated return of Courtney Love was something of an embarrassment. “Hi, we’re Molly Hatchet,” she joked as she stepped on stage. The unlamented Southern boogie band could only have been an improvement over Love’s slapdash set.
Backed by a four-piece band that included former Redd Kross member Steven McDonald on guitar and original Hole drummer Patty Semel, their 35-minute set was breathtakingly awful: unrehearsed, rambling, incoherent and out of control.
Ranting that the audience was eating during her set, she tossed a pumpkin into the crowd and led a group of fans in a conga line. Mixing Hole songs such as Malibu and Live Through This with undistinguished new material such as All the Drugs in the World, she refused to leave the stage after her allotted time was up. Telling the crew that “Perry Farrell can punch me,” if he wanted her off, she remained on stage for nearly 40 minutes after the plug was pulled, playing acoustic guitar to the front rows until she was bodily removed to the wings.
(Source : review in Variety magazine, Oct 29, 2001)
Andrew Hewitt (co-promoter) : She wanted to finish not just the song we allowed her to finish, but a couple of additional songs.
(Source : interview in Variety, June 2015)
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Backed by a four-piece band that included former Redd Kross member Steven McDonald on guitar and original Hole drummer Patty Semel, their 35-minute set was breathtakingly awful: unrehearsed, rambling, incoherent and out of control.
Ranting that the audience was eating during her set, she tossed a pumpkin into the crowd and led a group of fans in a conga line. Mixing Hole songs such as Malibu and Live Through This with undistinguished new material such as All the Drugs in the World, she refused to leave the stage after her allotted time was up. Telling the crew that “Perry Farrell can punch me,” if he wanted her off, she remained on stage for nearly 40 minutes after the plug was pulled, playing acoustic guitar to the front rows until she was bodily removed to the wings.
(Source : review in Variety magazine, Oct 29, 2001)
Andrew Hewitt (co-promoter) : She wanted to finish not just the song we allowed her to finish, but a couple of additional songs.
(Source : interview in Variety, June 2015)