Post #81857 by donhonyc on Fri, Mar 19, 2004 10:24 PM

Not sure how to put this but two days ago if you asked me, I would have told you that Courtney Love was the Leona Helmsley of Rock music and that I had wrote her off as a posuer a long time ago. Highly skeptical I was indeed. Today, after seeing our dear Ms. Love perform last night at the Bowery Ballroom, my opinion is slightly differerent. Without getting into too much detail Courtney performs the way other so called rock stars wish they could. Her show isn't so much a string of songs and stage patter, but literally the 'Courtney Love Show'. Yeah she sang, even though she was losing her voice, but she didn't hide that fact. This wasn't so much a 'rock concert' as it was a forum for a super ego-maniac white female rockstar to just do what it was she wanted; leaping in the crowd several times, stripping down to her underware, and to make a long story short, just putting on a highly charged, emotional rock show. This is not an act like Britney f*ck-face Spears or Madonna. This is who Courtney Love is love her or hate her. Don't get me wrong. As for as her persoonal life goes, it sounds like she's a selfish mess, and I feel for that kid of hers and Cobain's. Hopefully she won't become a casualty of the 'Love Life' But as far as her show goes, I have to say I was at the very least 'entertained' for lack of a better word. Yeah she's gross looking and fucked-up, but if you check your history and look at bands like the New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, Stooges, MC5, Ramones, Patti Smith, Joan Jett, etc. one has to remind oneself that Rock 'n Roll ain't supposed to be pretty, and once upon a time, that's what it was all about.

[ Edited by: donhonyc on 2004-03-19 22:27 ]