WHAT A HEEL: A Hole Lotta Nothin’
The Washington Post describes a recent concert by Courtney Love that started an hour late, and consisted of equal parts of rambling monologue (“Ten minutes without playing a song? Sure, let's do that a few times”); barely remembered songs (“Song titles, lyrics, guitar chords - Love remembered only some of them, and infrequently.”); and barely sung songs (“[T]wo of her best and most popular songs - she turned the microphone to the crowd and didn't bother singing. Other times she skipped lines in order to cough or take a sip of water or just … not sing.”).
Having paid $45 a head for this “astonishingly and agonizingly awful performance that had a few fleeting moments of redeeming musical value,” the audience took umbrage:
It's safe to say the people yelling "Bull[expletive]! This is bull[expletive]!" didn't feel that 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 cliche. 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. …
Of the nearly 30 songs (or song fragments), not even a handful were completed without some minor disaster.
Talk about throwing your money down a hole.
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