Troubled rocker Courtney Love's disjointed Music Midtown performance as the closing act on the Miller Lite/99X stage Sunday night left many wondering about her emotional and physical well-being and her future in music.

During Love's 90-minute performance, she frequently swore at the crowd, repeatedly bared her breasts in front of a platform full of uniformed Atlanta police officers, forgot lyrics and chord changes, consistently slurred her words and stumbled around the stage.

The show concluded with the members of her all-female band trying to gently pull her offstage after she performed a snippet of Nirvana's "Pennyroyal Tea" in tears. After someone at the soundboard cut the power to her guitar, Love was finally coaxed off stage by a guitar tech.

"She just unraveled right in front of us," said Leslie Fram, director of programming for 99X and Q100. Fram has followed Love's career and has often talked with the rocker over the past decade. "I've always been a big supporter of Hole [Love's former band], and I was looking forward to a great show. Instead, it was just sad. I've never seen anything like it."

Love's latest album, "America's Sweetheart," garnered good reviews when it was released in February, but multiple court appearances have recently sidelined the singer.

She pleaded innocent Friday to drug charges in Los Angeles and was arrested in March in New York after throwing a microphone stand at a fan.

The album's first single, "Mono," has received little radio airplay.

Frances Bean, the 11-year-old daughter of Love and late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, was recently taken away from Love, who is trying to regain custody.

Onstage Sunday night, Love railed out at some of her personal demons. "Give me back my kid, give me back my money, and I want to go on tour with my [expletive] band!" Love told a crowd of about 1,500, which shrank as the show went on. Some audience members threw things at the stage.

On accessAtlanta.com's Music Midtown Web log on Monday, fans posted mostly negative comments about Love's show.

Typical comments on the blog speculated on whether the singer needed therapy and how long she might live.

99X "Don Miller Morning Show" co-host Jimmy Baron said Monday that he encountered angry fans Sunday night. "There were a lot of frustrated people hoping to see what they saw [during Love's successful appearance] in 1999 in Music Midtown. I saw people leaving in droves."

Rock manager Peter Asher, who has guided the careers of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, was backstage to take in Love's show.

"He appeared very frustrated," said Baron.

After her set, Fram said, Love went into her trailer and undressed in full view of waiting fans.

She later climbed into a vehicle filled with fans who wanted to take the singer to the Virginia-Highland neighborhood.

Virgin Records reps Hilary Shaev and Tracy Zamot declined to speak on the record about Love when contacted by the AJC in New York on Monday.