www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSS-B1ltd4c

Other videos:
Someone Else’s Bed
Skinny Little Bitch (rehearsal)
Jeremy (cover)
Malibu
Intro & Pretty on the Inside + Sympathy For the Devil (cover)
Celebrity Skin
Plump
Reasons To Be Beautiful

Photos: Gran Teatro

It’s often been posited that the people who make the best music aren’t necessarily the most likable. I figured that one out at 14, when I realized that although Appetite for Destruction was the ultimate record in my high-haired universe, Axl Rose was the kind of guy who could break more than a girl’s heart. That he’d go home and write “Sweet Child o’ Mine” for her didn’t make it any better.

If you’re an original Seattleite or been here long enough, you’ve heard or have your own juicy Courtney Love story. The Green River Killer has a better Northwest reputation. And maybe she has been: a jerk, a bad parent (a trait male rockers are rarely called to task for), an addict, completely Fruit Loops, and the maker of a record so bad it may be the most successful at sucking ever. But she’s also made two good albums—including her latest, Nobody’s Daughter—one great one, and another as next to perfect as it can be.

For me, Hole’s Live Through This was a life-changer. The rallying cry that inspired me to get out of my 800-person town in North Dakota. And for all you shouting that “She didn’t write that record!”, I say prove it and/or fuck it. I don’t really care. I, and a lot of other girls, needed to hear those words come out of that mouth at that time in our lives. And I’m grateful enough to forgive her crimes, the worst of which is being a self-saboteur, and learn from them. Lesson one: While reveling in addiction, do not, under any circumstances, let someone near your face with a scalpel.

Seattle will never be a Courtney town for the same reason it will always struggle to have a successful sports franchise: It shuns the embrace of excess. Seattle teams strive to be just good enough to keep up attendance, but they never shell out the “Yankee Cash” or tolerate the superstar-type players it takes to win. And if Courtney Love is anything, she is too much. Too loud, too blonde, too opinionated, too damaged, too wasted, and the ultimate Seatown taboo: too ambitious.

Everyone knows that if Emerald City success should come your way, don’t act like you want or like it, lest a scarlet “S” for “sellout” be tattooed on your forehead. It’s a sentiment that transcends music, forcing tech millionaires to sport Old Navy polo shirts and rich girls to shop Pacific Place in pajamas. In cities like New York or L.A., where too much applies only to the number on the scale, opinions of Love are more favorable.

So go see her headline the ‘Shoot hoping for disaster, ready to snicker safely in the crowd and talk smack you’d never say to her face. Why? Because women as smart and crazy as Courtney have been scaring the pants off people since the beginning of time. But be warned, if caught, you’ll likely get punched in your shit-talking face.

Source: Seattle Weekly

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4sxjIcwltU

Other videos:
Skinny Little Bitch
Northern Star
Pretty on the Inside>Sympathy For the Devil (cover)
Miss World
Honey
Jeremy (cover)

Photos: Andrea Ciucci/LoudVision

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BkRsR8w-P0

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em1WJFBIqBI

Photos: Splash News

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO8qHUMGu-k

Other videos:
Jeremy (cover) -- better audio, poor video
Violet
Celebrity Skin
Honey
Pretty on the Inside>Sympathy For the Devil (cover)
Sympathy For the Devil (cover) + Skinny Little Bitch
Reasons To Be Beautiful
Doll Parts
Never Go Hungry
Letter To God
Miss World

Photos: BelgaPicture, EPA/Leszek Szymanski

Hole will perform at Poland’s Orange Warsaw Festival on this upcoming Saturday, August 28th.

Photos: PacificCoastNews.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MbFSRNwIgg

Other videos:
Miss World
Pretty on the Inside>Sympathy For the Devil (cover)
Sympathy For the Devil (cover) + Skinny Little Bitch
Jeremy (cover)
How Dirty Girls Get Clean
Pacific Coast Highway

Photos: WireImage

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Photos: X17online

Laird Norton Tyee, a Seattle-based wealth management and investment firm, has given up its quest for all business documents including sealed correspondence and exhibits from the Frances Bean Cobain guardianship case in Los Angeles.

Laird Norton, the governing trustee of Cobain’s trust fund filed a subpoena for the records Feb. 11, 2010 to use in their case to remove Courtney Love from her daughter’s trust fund as a trustee in Seattle.

Mary Dinius White, an attorney with Trope and Trope, and through Love’s general counsel of Pryor Cashman, responded on Love’s behalf by filing a motion to quash the subpoena in the Los Angeles Superior Court, Mar. 11.  The online case file shows the Laird Norton firm never filed an argument against it.

A Los Angeles judge cancelled a hearing scheduled for June 9 after receiving a status report and notification from Laird Norton that it withdrew the action on June 4.  No explanation was given in the court files, however court records in King County Superior Court in Seattle show that attorneys from the guardianship case, Geraldine Wyle and Jeryll S. Cohen, filed sealed declarations May 14.  Redacted copies of those declarations were filed June 18 but reveal little:  five paragraphs from Cohen’s three-page declaration were eliminated from public inspection.  The number of paragraphs omitted from Wyle’s four-page declaration is unclear but substantial.

Meanwhile, Laird Norton withdrew the subpoena and Trope and Trope dropped the motion to quash on behalf of Love, says the status report filed by Laird’s attorneys.  A request for comment from Los Angeles-based attorney, Curtis Graham, was unreturned.

Fair News asked White why she thought Laird had dropped the action and she said, “I don’t know why. I can’t really comment.”

Love lost custody of her daughter in December 2009.  Laird Norton filed a petition for instruction from the court in January to remove Love from the her daughter’s trust.  Love responded by filing action to remove Laird from the trust.  A trial, without a jury, is scheduled for Sept. 23.

Source: Fair News Spears