Vocals are real, guitar is fake.

This claims to be the mix as heard in the room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HDMp8j7i1E

Yeah, both could easily be real. Vocals for sure, you don't need this special mix to tell how awful she sounds. With four other guitars on the stage she's just posing with hers.

If someone wants to really cause trouble, this should be done with Sid Viscious.

Actually she's better than I thought she would be, which says a lot.

The source also posted a full mix of the same performance (though I can no longer find it on his channel) that pretty well verifies the singing is really her. No way for me to tell on the guitar part, however.

Maybe all those other shred videos were real too... dun dun dun!!

Courtney Love is nothing but an endless string of off nights.

If that is indeed the guitar, I think we're well beyond an off night here.

The guitar part's hard to buy. Even if she has no talent at all, you'd pick up enough technique to play a few power chords in 20+ years of performing.

"Courtney Love is nothing but an endless string of off nights."

Don't fret, EvilHomer. She strikes a chord with someone out there.

Courtney was actually my next door neighbor for about a year in a foster home. She was a lot older so I didn't go to know her but she was the cool kid that all the older kids would talk about. I like strong female vocalists and in a way I hear Mia Zapata channeled in her songs sometimes, not to mention Greg Sage, whose Wipers cover is done better in my opinion by Love.

Unless maybe you knew your guitar'd be dialed down to 0, and you enjoy getting so fucked-up that actually trying to fret notes cleanly seems like a big hassle, so even though you know the chords, which helps make it look a lot like you're really playing, and hey man, you DID play on the album some so fuck those critics trying to stop you from having a good time anyway, so now you can concentrate on looking really cool and saucy when you strum, and you can look confident because you'll never fuck it up anymore, your band's got your back, and so fuck it, let the audio guy patch in and listen if he wants, but no one else will hear you play so why even bother trying, anyone got a spoon?

I really can't put myself in her heels. I'm not a huge Hole fan but I grew up on it like everyone else. One thing that pissed me off was, and it was random, was her being booed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame awards. Kim Gordon and Joan Jett took over Kobain's part. It was pretty weird to watch. I think Thurston Moore's an asshole now and won't listen to Sonic Youth anymore but Courtney didn't kill Kurt anymore than Casey Hopkins killed Darby Crash. Don't know who that is? Don't worry. As far as I know she wasn't in the spotlight until the suicide attempt and quickly faded away. Love was doing her own thing, and for a minute there, at least according to the Rocket, a local rag, bigger than Nirvana. That's gotta be hard to live with. Like if some money went missing from a store, I'd feel guilty because people might think it was be and I couldn't prove I didn't do it. Older friends who saw them fucking around at the Satyricon knew what the relationship was all about: it's punk love: fuck in a bathroom and make sure the toilet's not covered in vasaline in case you feel like doing some lines. The shit she got really isn't fair. She didn't destroy Kurt, he destroyed himself.

well, since kingarthur submitted this and then turned around and defender her, here's your 1-star.

Please share with present and future dumbfucks who think she's "not that bad" just cause they heard it in high school a lot or whatever other shitheel reasons they have for giving this asshole a free pass.

This is why we can't have nice things, even when those things are punk rock or whatever.

If it's not, I gotta hand it to whoever recorded the bogus track as they did a far better job than the "shreds" guy.

Counterpoint: Amy Winehouse could _sing_.

The ability to sing is pretty overrated when it comes to determining the quality of music. Many of the widely considered best and most celebrated bands in history had vocalists who couldn't sing worth a damn. Meanwhile the mainstream pop scene bore out of American Idol and it's knockoffs is full of people with great voices who can sing wonderfully, and we all write their music off as shit and ridicule them.

Not that I'm even attempting to put Love or Hole on a pedestal, I never would, hell I'm not even attempting to claim their work is good. I was just saying she can perform (or at least, could perform) and I enjoy some of their work. But then, I enjoy work from lots of people that probably everyone here would call garbage, and I'm totally okay with that. I'm well aware that the vast majority of music I love is trash from an artistic standpoint. The difference between me and everyone else is that as long as it entertains me I just don't care, and neither should you, but I'm sure you do.