2009.08.09 Grant Park, Chicago, IL

[bman]

Is the Janes set going to be streamed? What about ATT Blue room this year??

[hydro]

Is the Janes set going to be streamed? What about ATT Blue room this year??

Hey bman;)
I haven't came across anything confirming Janes will be broadcast anywhere live although Perry did say this in the helicopter trick interview posted above

the concert is being filmed for possible theatrical release (in 3D, no less);

as far as the AT&T blue room
this will explain

But after last year, AT&T dropped the fest like a troublesome cell phone call.

"AT&T is proud to have delivered exclusive webcasts of the Lollapalooza Music Festival from 2005-2008," AT&T spokeswoman Meghan Roskopf said Tuesday. "Our contract with the festival ended last year and we decided not to renew based on a variety of business goals and objectives."

"You'd have to ask AT&T" why it is no longer a sponsor, said Shelby Meade, spokeswoman for Lollapalooza and C3 Presents. "We enjoyed our association with them." But the relationship wasn't always a smooth one.

In 2007, AT&T's "Blue Room" Webcasts from the concert caused a controversy in the music world after Pearl Jam complained that singer and Evanston native Eddie Vedder had been censored via an audio drop-out when he made non-profane comments criticizing President Bush. It was later revealed that several other artists at Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo, including the Flaming Lips, the Nightwatchman, the Jon Butler Trio and Lupe Fiasco, also had been silenced by AT&T when making similar political comments.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/derogatis/200 ... ago_2.html

[hydro]

listen to Perry on CNN talk about Lolla
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video ... w.cnn.html

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Perry Farrell Lollapalooza 2009

By Aranya Tomseth
Frontman of Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros and Satellite Party. Solo artist, philanthropist, environmentalist and co-founder of the successful, long-running Lollapalooza music festival. No matter what the project, Perry Farrell has always thrown himself into his personal pursuits with total fervor and ambition. Playboy recently spoke with the alternative music visionary about Lollapalooza 2009, which kicks off August 7 in Chicago's Grant Park. Farrell ruminated on the evolution of the nearly two-decade-old event that started off as a farewell tour for Jane's Addiction, and shared his thoughts on Lollapalooza in 1991 versus Lollapalooza in 2009.




PLAYBOY: What bands on the roster of this year's Lollapalooza do you personally not want to miss?

FARRELL: Lately what I’ve been doing with my solo stuff is combining electronics with live players and there’s a couple of people doing that, like Animal Collective and Lykke Li. Also, Santigold—I really love her voice. It’s more on the young tip as far as the people experimenting with that sound.

PLAYBOY: Do you think this fused sound of electronica and live bands is the future of music?

FARRELL: That’s exactly where I think music is going. Perry’s is the DJ area of the festival and it's something I really love. In Grant Park there is the beautiful Buckingham Fountain at the entrance, so if you come in and make a left, that whole area is electronic music—but it’s electronic music meets live music. And this year we’ve got LED screens because these days DJs are starting to include visuals. The DJ hardware out there now allows DJs to deejay and VJ at the same time. So this is the place for them to do that live. That whole area is carved out to hold 10,000 people.

PLAYBOY: This year there is new technology designed specifically for Lollapalooza, such as the iPhone app that allows you to map out your own custom schedule, and the feature on the Lollapalooza website that keeps tabs on attendance by showing how many people have added a particular artist or band to their personal roster. What do you think about applications like these?

FARRELL: The technology is definitely something people are applying to their phones. It's fantastic, because for years we would always run games at the festival. I think we were a bit ahead of the curve in thinking of how people could be involved with us technically. Personally, I’m not crazy about the whole tallying thing. It’s wonderful that you can register on people's Facebook pages, and I think it’s wonderful that you can put your schedule together. But I also think it might be hurtful to artists who don’t get super high counts. I also think it can be kind of wangled, if you want to know the truth. There could be people calling up and registering 1,000 times for one band, just to make them look better. I am glad people are using the technology and the good thing is that they are using their cell phones to engage in the festival. Once we’ve got them doing that we can go back to the gaming system a little more and go back to handing out prizes and stuff like that. We used to give people prizes like kegs of beer, and that was really fun.


PLAYBOY: How do you think the expectations of today’s concertgoer differ from the expectations of the typical concertgoer in the 1990s?

FARRELL: I think they are very different. In the 1990s before Lollapalooza, there weren’t really any festivals. Now there are festivals in almost every state. I’ve got young kids and sometimes when they play with the computer, or play with the phone, or play with a video game, I look at them and wonder if they really realize what an amazing creation it is that they have in their hands.... I'm not really sure they truly grasp how incredible it is. It's the same with the evolution of the festival—a lot of people don’t have the same appreciation for it. Back then, it was a miracle. It was like, "A traveling festival—wow!" But now they have a lot more options, although of course, they are of varying degrees of quality and success. At Lollapalooza we have to constantly keep evolving so that they come and they say, “Wow. I remember that year when they had that amazing LED tower in the DJ area.” I’m bringing a new sound and a new way of experiencing sound to people in the Chicago area. With Jane’s Addiction in 1991 we did the first Lollapalooza and that was also a miraculous experience because there was no such thing as a traveling festival. When we got back together this time, one of the things I wanted to do was to hit up Lollapalooza and do a live theater presentation. So we’re really beefing up our live theatrical presentation this year. For a band, it’s an investment you put into your show and I’m happy to say that with Jane’s Addiction, we've done that.

PLAYBOY: You have mentioned the possibility of making Lollapalooza a touring festival again in the future. Do you still see that happening?

FARRELL: I don’t see it right now. I’m reading the American landscape of where people can do festivals. You still have the scenario of being put in an amphitheater, or promotion being corporatized with a huge conglomerate. I work with the 3Cs [Charles Attal, Charlie Jones, and Charlie Walker of C3 Presents, the promoters of Lollapalooza] because they are a business that comes out of Austin, Texas. It is amazing at putting parties together, but it's not these whipped promoters working for a big conglomerate. They’re their own men who work on their own.

PLAYBOY: How do you envision Lollapalooza 10 years from now?

FARRELL: It’s not easy to answer that question. Usually the greatest evolutions happen so you see them maybe three years coming—like the whole changing of what the music is going to be like. It's definitely getting more electronic and less about groups and rock bands. The music industry is not growing rock bands, and the young people playing music are doing home studio production. So the sound is going to change and the look of the music and the musicans is going to change, and you try to guide it like that. As far as major things, you know, you almost kind of have to wait to see. I would probably go two to three years at a time. But I do think the Perry’s area will grow.

http://www.playboy.com/articles/perry-f ... index.html

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lollapaloozaJust Announced! Country music superstar LeAnn Rimes performing @ Kidzapalooza Fri @ 3:30pm w/ Perry Farrell! One time only - don't miss it.
half a minute ago from web

[Mudget]

I just love this (regarding Perk):

He had to stay in the hospital for a couple days, which is hell for a guy like Steve Perkins. He was looking for a place where he could smoke his weed, but he just couldn't seem to get away with it.

[hydro]

I just love this (regarding Perk):

He had to stay in the hospital for a couple days, which is hell for a guy like Steve Perkins. He was looking for a place where he could smoke his weed, but he just couldn't seem to get away with it.

my fav quote also

[hydro]

interview w/Perry @Lolla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qu-fXlfENg

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Perry and LeAnn Rimes performing at kidzapalooza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTa_VIEACMA





http://www.flickr.com/photos/41326572@N08/3800389670/

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