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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Justin Tonation on March 18, 2004, 12:05:00 am
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Talking, not performing. Watch it or set yer VCR/Tivo/whatever. This'll be a real trainwreck.
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yeah it's pretty creepy
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Seemingly, Courtney was arrested (http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/18/love.arrested/index.html) after the Letterman appearance.
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I saw the commercials for the show earlier in the evening, so I taped it. Haven't seen it yet, but they replayed virtually the whole thing on Howard Stern this morning. She's an absolute crackpot. Will share video if anyone's interested...
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She falls squarely in the category of "should have given up years ago." I mean, come on...
I was at a Hole show in, oh, was it 95? Anyway, there was some guy in a business suit in the front and she yelled at him and had security escort him out with some "you can't buy your way to the front of my show" rant. What a freak.
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I don't suppose anyone here has gotten or heard her new album? I like old Hole, but don't feel like bothering with America's Sweetheart just because she's such a loon (and I have two Hole albums, which seems enough...)
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Originally posted by chimblysweep:
She falls squarely in the category of "should have given up years ago." I mean, come on...
I was at a Hole show in, oh, was it 95? Anyway, there was some guy in a business suit in the front and she yelled at him and had security escort him out with some "you can't buy your way to the front of my show" rant. What a freak.
i'll bet it was staged, seeing as on the lollapalooza tour she always ended her sets by kicking over her amp. verses the arrest last night, going quietly without a fuss indicates that the mic stand throwing antic went wrong.
if i were letterman i would have rather just seen drews orbs :o
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Originally posted by Bags:
I don't suppose anyone here has gotten or heard her new album?
I have it. It's louder than "Celebrity Skin". Less aggressive and more melodic than "Live Through This". If you like Hole, you'll like this. If you don't like Hole, this isn't going to change your mind. I happen to like it, but she's definitely not breaking any new ground here. The first track could easily be mistaken for The Donnas.
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Originally posted by Skeeter:
Originally posted by Bags:
I don't suppose anyone here has gotten or heard her new album?
I happen to like it, but she's definitely not breaking any new ground here. The first track could easily be mistaken for The Donnas. [/b]
I think it's the 'not breaking any new ground' that will keep me from buying it. There are just some bands that I think, "you know, two ______insert band name________ albums are all a person needs." Some of my examples (which will be roundly mocked, I'm sure) are Duncan Sheik, Freedy Johnston, Cocteau Twins, Tori Amos, Kate Bush.
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I agree. Mine was a gift. I probably wouldn't have it otherwise.
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http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/000761.html#000761 (http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/000761.html#000761)
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She's such an idiot -- 'According to fans at the gig, Love came out before the show and said "If any of you are planning on getting injured, please go outside and get yourself arrested now."'
Ahm, hello, you're the one who gets arrested when you injure a fan, not the injuree, you doof. Look at me, trying to make sense of Ms. Love...
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COURTNEY'S NEW YORK STATE OF MIND (NME)
COURTNEY LOVE has just finished a gig at the NEW YORK BOWERY BALLROOM - where she spoke for the first time about yesterdayâ??s dramatic arrest.
As previously reported, Love was arrested after a secret gig at New Yorkâ??s Plaid nightclub on Wednesday (March 17).
The star is facing charges of reckless endangerment and third-degree assault after a mic stand was allegedly thrown into the audience, striking a member of the crowd.
A nightclub spokesperson claimed the stand hit a 24-year-old man in the head, who suffered minor injuries. Unaware of what had happened the band continued, but the star was greeted by police when she came off the stage.
Last night (March 18) Love was back playing live at the larger Bowery Ballroom.
According to fans at the gig, Love came out before the show and said "If any of you are planning on getting injured, please go outside and get yourself arrested now."
After the first song, she added: "I'm losing my voice. Jail does that to you."
Fans say that the singer complained about her voice, and at one point gestured to a roadie and said: "I want that thing I kill people with. A mic stand."
The starâ??s trip to New York has been eventful, almost from her arrival. Love also performed and was interviewed on David Letterman to promote her current solo album â??Americaâ??s Sweetheartâ??.
During the interview Love appeared to bare her chest away from the camera while standing on Letterman's desk.
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I have America's Sweetheart. It's a very good record. It's not the disaster you would expect from seeing her on Letterman or reading about her. Too bad she can't pull herself together because she really made an excellent record.
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Wouldn't be surprised if the producer made a good record as opposed to Love. Haven't seen her live and don't really have a clue what she's like to work with; musically, that is. She draws in the money so the record company would be much more willing to hire all the extras needed to pull off a polished product. I just can't for the life of me imagine her being able to do much without an army of professionals by her side to clean up her total wreck of a life.
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This was great T.V.!! This is one guest that producers love to have........a total train wreck that you don't know where or when exactly it's going to jump the tracks.......this appearance ranks right up there with some classic Dave.....Crispin Glover and Farrah Fawcett come to mind.....I would love to see her host her own show maybe one hour a week......I'm just in awe of a woman who has all the money in the world and a large fan base,and has no idea how to keep it all together.....amazing stuff.....
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This was great T.V.!! This is one guest that producers love to have........a total train wreck that you don't know where or when exactly it's going to jump the tracks.......this appearance ranks right up there with some classic Dave.....Crispin Glover and Farrah Fawcett come to mind.....I would love to see her host her own show maybe one hour a week......I'm just in awe of a woman who has all the money in the world and a large fan base,and has no idea how to keep it all together.....amazing stuff.....
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March 20, 2004
ROCK REVIEW | COURTNEY LOVE
Love Lives Through This, Rasping 'Take Care of Me'
By KELEFA SANNEH
The New York Times
During her decade-long reign of terror, Courtney Love has taught us at least one valuable lesson: how to appreciate her.
She has devoted herself wholeheartedly to the myth of rock 'n' roll and halfheartedly to the music, and if that sounds like an insult, then you haven't learned the lesson yet. She has turned her life into a continuing work of guerrilla theater, a nonstop orgy of neediness and swagger, drugs and cops, makeovers and misbehavior.
On Wednesday she engaged in a much-publicized day of theater: it started on "Late Night With David Letterman" when she stood on Mr. Letterman's desk and flashed him; it ended when she was arrested and charged with assault and reckless endangerment after striking a fan with her microphone stand, the police said, during a performance at the downtown nightclub Plaid.
So most of the fans and gawkers who spent two hours waiting for her to appear at Bowery Ballroom on Thursday night weren't really there to hear her sing. Which is just as well, because she didn't really sing.
`I'm sorry my voice is shot," she croaked soon after she appeared onstage, struggling to get the words out. "Jail will do that." Jail â?? or something â?? had sabotaged her guitar-playing, too, but no matter. She was brilliant, stumbling through a riveting, chaotic set full of pithy asides ("I want that thing that I kill people with," she said, meaning she wanted a microphone stand) and grand, desperate gestures.
Over and over she rasped, "Take care of me!," then surrendered to the crowd, letting herself be passed around like a life-size doll; eventually a pair of grim, dark-suited bodyguards waded in and extracted her. This is exactly the sort of exhilarating ritual that seems to sustain her, but she also leaves open the possibility that it's slowly destroying her. That's the sickening undercurrent of the Courtney Love show: maybe it's our fault, too.
Her new album, "America's Sweetheart" (Virgin), is an odd, appealing collision of precise hard-rock riffs and glassy-eyed screeds. Not surprisingly, these songs sound even better when they're half hidden in a haze of jail-induced hoarseness and who knows what else.
During an erratic version of "Sunset Strip" Ms. Love snarled, "Rock star, pop star, everybody dies/All tomorrow's parties, they have happened tonight." Near the end the noise subsided and she delivered the half-spoken bridge. "I got pills 'cause I'm blond," she mumbled. "I got pills 'cause everybody knows I'm a crack whore." She had wriggled out of her velvety dress and, after the song was done, asked an assistant for a T-shirt to cover her pink bra. A white tank top was procured, emblazoned with a three-word epithet.
Ms. Love performed with her all-female band, the Chelsea, which includes the ferocious drummer Samantha Maloney (formerly of Mötley Crüe), who seemed a bit frustrated by all the chaos onstage.
But while Ms. Love was in no condition to sing, she did keep control. When one Love-struck young woman in a black dress tried to embrace her, she grabbed the fan by the neck and hissed, "Sit!"
The last song of the night was "Celebrity Skin," an ambivalent ode to all things skin-deep. "Take care of me!," she cried one last time, saying she wanted to crowd-surf all the way back to the bar. She succeeded but just barely (some security guards helped convey her the last few feet), and when she made it back to the stage she looked triumphant.
"You guys should be really, really proud of yourselves," she said, sounding every bit like an actress thanking her supporting cast. Then she walked offstage, no doubt preparing for her next act.
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Rocker Courtney Love Owes Millions - Report
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Add financial woes to the long list of worries bedeviling rock star Courtney Love (news).
The trouble-prone musician claims in the upcoming issue of Blender magazine that she has been swindled out of $40 million, while a former business associate says she is in debt to the tune of at least $4 million.
Love, the 39-year-old widow of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, is already dealing with a stack of legal and health concerns, and her music career suffered a recent blow when her long awaited debut solo album bombed.
"I'm covered with loser dust," she was quoted as telling Blender, whose May issue featuring the Love cover story will hit newsstands on April 20.
Love told Blender that "... $40 million has been stolen from me and (11-year-old daughter) Frances by a fiduciary institution."
She added, "I found out that our dog walker was making $100,000. One person put a BMW on my credit card. My daughter's trust fund has been stolen from to the point where she may have, like, nothing. I can't let this happen to Frances."
Blender said "multiple parties close to Love agree that a large sum of money is unaccounted for," while a former business associate who had access to her accounts in the past six months told Blender she is at least "... $4 million in debt."
Love faces two separate trials in Los Angeles, one for misdemeanor disorderly conduct and being under the influence of a controlled substance, and the other for two felony counts of unlawful drug possession. She also temporarily lost custody of Frances, her only child with Cobain, who shot himself in the head 10 years ago.
Love's album "America's Sweetheart," released by EMI Group Plc Virgin Records unit, spent just four weeks on the Billboard Top 200 chart
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&e=1&u=/nm/20040414/en_nm/people_love_dc (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&e=1&u=/nm/20040414/en_nm/people_love_dc)
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