Best. Concert. Evah.

Sure, bloggers often engage in a little hyperbole.

Even I, as level headed and objective as I am, have been known to engage in a little exaggeration from time to time.

Not this time tho. This time, I mean it.

This may have been the GREATEST. CONCERT. EVAH.*

I mean, don't take just my word for it, check out this review:

You get the Bruce Springsteen set, sorry."

Courtney Love muttered those words at some point during Hole's show Sunday night at the 9:30 club. It's hard to remember exactly when. Time seemed to stand still for so much of the evening. If she meant that we were in for a nearly three-hour concert, then yes, her statement was true. If she meant that we would experience a well-oiled rock-and-roll machine and everybody would leave feeling satisfied they got their money's worth ... let's come back to that one.

It's safe to say the people yelling "Bull[expletive]! This is bull[expletive]!" didn't feel like their $45 was well spent. There were more than a handful of patrons shouting and cursing at the endlessly controversial, occasionally coherent 45-year-old rock trainwreck. Many more simply headed for the exits. Three-quarters-filled at the start, the club was no more than a quarter packed by the excruciating end.

Make no mistake - this was an astonishingly awful performance that had few moments of redeeming musical value. Song titles, lyrics, guitar chords - Love remembered only some of them, and infrequently. Then again, what was really the best-case musical scenario? A competent recreation of songs more than a decade old, played by Love and her latest hired hands? Is that what people wanted to see - Courtney karaoke versions of '90s MTV buzz clips? Maybe. But probably not. Perhaps a bit more professionalism would have been nice but in 2010 you pay your $45 hoping for the Courtney Love Experience. And Sunday night was an experience like no other.

Yes. I was one of the 1/4 of patrons at the 9:30 Club who stayed through the whole, enchanting evening.

No, I was not the person referenced in the article who allegedly was "waiting to have sex with Love after the show."

But there is always next time. Oh yes. There is always next time.

Anyway, read the whole article. It really captures the trainwreck in all its derailed and dismembered glory.

*And by Greatest Concert Evah I mean an abject and total abomination. But, once you realized it was all gonna be downhill, the ride was a hell of a lot of fun.

UPDATE: Link added. Courtney Love isn't the only one who suffers from black-tar heroin inspired bouts of memory loss and...what was I saying?

posted by Jack M. at 01:25 PM

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