{"id":1196,"date":"2010-07-07T20:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.71.127.204\/wordpress\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2015-10-15T16:03:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:03:03","slug":"hole-house-of-blues-houston-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/07\/hole-house-of-blues-houston-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Hole – House of Blues – Houston, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Written by Abel Carmona <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 07, 2010 at 10:00 PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Image\"It\u2019s been seventeen years since the death of Kurt Cobain. It doesn\u2019t seem like it\u2019s been that long from the day we all heard the news. I never realized that Hole\u2019s first album was released around the same time as all this was going on. But after the news broke the only thing I remember was all you heard about was Courtney Love. I had never really heard of her before all that and then all of a sudden here she was with her band getting loads of media coverage, if you were around at the time and had MTV it was hard to miss.<\/p>\n

Since that time, we would get these little news stories about how Love was arrested, or about how bad her drug use was. So, when I heard Hole was coming to town I felt this sense of pure curiosity, Kind of like when you see a car wreck and you know you\u2019re going to see some bad shit but you still look anyway. That was my frame of mind in coming out tonight, I just kept thinking to myself I might see some crazy stuff tonight.\u00a0 Courtney Love could be wasted, high, pissed off or even better\u2026 all of the above.<\/p>\n

I knew Hole was supposed to be going on at 9:45pm so I made my way in right about 9:40pm, got up to the stage front and waited\u2026 and waited. I started talking to another photographer and he starts telling me \u201cyou know she is notorious for being late\u201d so we continued to wait till about 10:20pm, then the lights go down and the band comes out. Finally, out of the darkness, here she comes, Miss Courtney Love.<\/p>\n

My thoughts on seeing something wild were added to as her first words in to the mic were \u201cSorry I\u2019m late, I couldn\u2019t find my bra.\u201d For the most part, the night was pretty calm. She busted out with a cover of the Rolling Stones’ \u201cSympathy for the Devil,\u201d which wasn\u2019t great but I have always liked the song so thought it was cool for her to cover.<\/p>\n

After she went into \u201cSkinny Little Bitch\u201d off of the new Hole album \u201cNobody\u2019s Daughter\u201d, Then she goes into another cover song. I think it was an old Nina Simone song or something, but it got me wondering what was up with the covers. Following that, Love starts in on Hole\u2019s \u201cMiss World\u201d and about half way she can visibly see her trying to remember lyrics as the vocals would go quiet as the band played on.<\/p>\n

And then\u2026another cover song, this time it was Nine Inch Nails \u201cCloser\u201d and I finally came to realize something. Courtney Love has apparently been so messed up these past few years, she must have forgotten all of her own songs and has decided to just play other peoples. Other covers of the night included the Fleetwood Mac song \u201cGold Dust Women\u201d.<\/p>\n

While I didn\u2019t care much for any of the covers Hole did, they did great on a few of their own songs. Both \u201cViolet\u201d and \u201cDoll Parts\u201d were pretty killer, it didn\u2019t hurt that I actually have always liked these two songs.\u00a0 So as much as I was disappointed not to get to see the drugged out wasted Courtney just make a mess of the place, I can say the evening was an interesting one none the less.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Abel Carmona Jul 07, 2010 at 10:00 PM It\u2019s been seventeen years since the death of Kurt Cobain. It doesn\u2019t seem like it\u2019s been that long from the day we all heard the news. I never realized that Hole\u2019s first album was released around the same time as all this was going on…. <\/p>\n

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