Lollapalooza 20th Anniversary Time Capsule

[hydro]

an insanely AWESOME page built to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Lollapalooza...have a look!!!
http://www.lollapalooza.com/timecapsule/

[Mike]

That's really cool and sorta right up my alley.

[hydro]

this was my first Lolla and this article helps me remember a lil more about the day

Jane Scott witness to rock history: New Lollapalooza most exciting festival since World Series of Rock
Published: Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 12:45 PM Updated: Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 12:49 PM
Jane Scott, The Plain Dealer By Jane Scott, The Plain Dealer The Plain Dealer


The seven-band, sold-out "Lollapalooza Festival" Monday at Blossom Music Center was the most exciting and varied lineup since the World Series of Rock at the Stadium.

It was a perfect day in the 70s - sunny but not humid, with the late-night temperature still in the 60s. The 9-hour traveling alternative concert began on the dot of 2 p.m. with the Rollins Band, followed by the BH Surfers and wound up with host band Jane's Addiction at 11:30 p.m.

And it proved that young people have a huge hunger for alternative music, bands that don't get played on the average Top 40 station. It also proved that the Lollapalooza advice to Blossom executives to "keep the concert loose" (not hire too many guards) was a mixed blessing.

It gave the desired freedom to fans. But even before the encores the crowd went out of control at times, surging down the aisles, knocking fans out of their seats. Probably no amount of guards could have prevented this. Later, ushers discovered smoke from a bonfire set on the lawn during the Jane's Addiction set.

At first the schedule seemed a little skewed. Hot item Ice-T in the middle of the lineup? But his momentum built up to homeboys Nine Inch Nails. Then Living Colour and Siouxsie and the Banshees steadied the show until the finale.

Ice-T, with the strongest booming voice and presence, took the Blossom crowd like the Indians took the Texas Rangers that night (9-0). He chipped away at another Ice - rapper Vanilla Ice - along the way.

He was the only one to do a rap and metal rock show and to make a strong civil rights statement. "Two things," he said. "Rock 'n' roll has nothing to do with race. The only race is the human race. And rock 'n' roll is a state of mind."

He worked the alternative audience deftly, putting down milder metal groups. His hometown, south Los Angeles, has streets named Slayer and Megadeth, not little suburban drives like Poison Court (boo!) or Bon Jovi Cul de Sac (more boos!) he said.

Ice-T's new hard metal band, Body Count (lead guitar Ernie C., drummer Beat Master Vick, bassist Moose and rhythm guitarist De-Nice), thrashed out superbly on such tracks as "There Goes the Neighborhood," "Colour" and "LBGNAF," (the letters are better left unexplained, Ice-T said.) The final song, "Cop Killer," was dedicated to Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates, and the police who stopped the rapper on the way to Blossom.

Nine Inch Nails, an industrial-strength group formed in Cleveland, started with the energy in "Terrible Lie" that most bands hope to build up to. It had the advantage of playing after dark and made effective use of dry-ice mist. It showed why many major labels are courting lead singer Trent Reznor's small TVT label.

During the the flaming finale, "Head Like a Hole," bassist Eric Avery and guitarist Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction joined in, then dove into the audience along with Reznor and the Nails' guitarist Richard Patrick. Reznor lost his T-shirt in the fray and Patrick was skinned down to his shorts.

The front of the pavilion was turned into a pit, with seats removed. Fans were given a yellow plastic bracelet and allowed to slam dance and stage dive. The diving turned into a fever during Jane's Addiction's show.

Grammy Award winners Living Colour, founded by guitarist Vernon Reid, had a classy mix of rock and funk. Vocalist Corey Glover's voice was the most fluid of the singers, and he roller-coasted his voice. The band was a standout in its own way even though it couldn't reach the fire and frenzy of the others.

Siouxsie Sioux (Susan Dallion) in a harem-style black outfit, was a good contrast, the only major woman on the tour. Her low, sultry voice was especially effective on her Top 6 hit, "Kiss Them for Me." However halfway through, her constant dancing became monotonous, with songs difficult to distinguish.

Jane's Addiction, led by Perry Farrell, was the natural high for most of the crowd. He had put together the "Lollapalooza" concept, including an open-air tent structure with local art selected for exhibit as well as booths for such causes as Greenpeace and the League of Women Voters. Though his loud, storming songs were wildly received, his highlights were a poignant "Three Days" and a fine "Then She Did" with Cincinnati-bred violinist Morgan Fichter joining in the latter song.

However Farrell's section was marred a bit by his personal sexual statements and his emphasis on a mock lesbian love scene by his two blond singers.

By Jane Scott, Plain Dealer Rock Writer

(Originally published in The Plain Dealer Aug., 7, 1991)

http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2011/ ... his_1.html

[mothra665]

LONG LIVE Jane Scott,
I used to spot her out at so many Cleveland shows.

From - Megadeth, WASP, Slayer, Napalm Death to Soundgarden, Faith No More, MManson, P4P and countless others.

Usually in the balcony [@ The Agora] with her pen and pad, she was sorta easy to spot because of age [back then]!

Bless her, she is a TRUE RnR Journalist and should have a spot in the "HALL of FAME"

...or write a book

[mothra665]

DAMN she hit 90+
Give this lady an award



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUvmPrkjOao[/youtube]

[Mike]

this was my first Lolla and this article helps me remember a lil more about the day

I remember this show like it was yesterday.
One of the funnest days of my life.

I was just talking to Dave about it last night on Dark Matter until they started busting my balls.

This article reminds me that I still need to add my scans for this show and others that I got from the library last year.
One of them is this very article sans that great picture.

I guess Perry saying he wanted a blow job from god was a bit to much for poor Jane.
To be honest I lost my buzz for a quick second when I heard it.

[Mike]

DAMN she hit 90+
Give this lady an award



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUvmPrkjOao[/youtube]

Yeah it's hard to believe she was 70 when this show took place.

I can't help laughing when I look at the youtube clip you posted.
It looks like Pete is having a good look at Jane's breasts.

[hydro]

An Oral History of the First Lollapalooza
By Jonathan Zwickel on May 17, 2011 4:31 PM

Twenty years ago, Jane's Addiction's attempt at a farewell-tour extravaganza accidentally defined a generation and changed the music industry. Seven or eight bands in 20 cities sounds paltry compared to the 100-plus that will play Lollapalooza in Chicago this August, but ask anyone involved in that inaugural year: There was more at stake.

In August of 1990, Jane's Addiction released their second studio album, Ritual de lo Habitual. Within a year, the album sold more than one million copies. But there was one big problem. [Magazine Excerpt]

MARC GEIGER (booking agent): Jane's was going into a tailspin because they were really not getting along.

TED GARDNER (manager, Jane's Addiction): We were coheadlining the Reading Festival that year, and there was this crazy little bunker in London we played the night before.

GEIGER: A warm-up show at a tiny, 200-seat club. It was so hot and humid, the walls were sweating. It was amazing. The next morning, Perry's voice is gone. He's fucking crying, he's bummed out.

GARDNER: We looked into specialists, and they said he shouldn't sing. So we had to cancel our performance at Reading.

GEIGER: [Jane's Addiction drummer] Stephen Perkins and I go down to Reading, and we're hanging with all the bands and having an unbelievable time, and Perkins says, "This is so fucking great, why don't we do this?" And I said, "That's the idea: Let's bring Reading to America. And that will be your farewell tour."

PERRY FARRELL (lead singer, Jane's Addiction): I told Marc, "I'm out of here after the tour, so let's do something good." And he looked at me and said, "Perry, you can do whatever the fuck you want." And I said, "I'm going to hold you to that."

DAVE NAVARRO (guitarist, Jane's Addiction): "Tailspin" is accurate. I don't know if it was supposed to be a grand send-off. It may very well have been, but I wasn't aware of it. But the tailspin led to some pretty spectacular performances from the band.



ERIC AVERY (bassist, Jane's Addiction): I had put my notice in at that point. Everyone knew the end was nigh.

GEIGER: I got a phone call at home at one in the morning from Perry. He goes, "Hey Marc, I got the name! Lollapalooza!" I say, "Where the fuck did you get that from?" He goes, "I just saw it in a Three Stooges episode!"

FARRELL: I did hear the Three Stooges say it, but I didn't have that in mind initially. I was flipping through the dictionary, and the definition of lollapalooza was something or someone great and/or wonderful. And definition two: a giant swirling lollipop.

AVERY: People were ready for something different, something that pushed them a little outside of their comfort zone. Like a reason to come out and see live music.

Jane's enlisted their favorite bands (Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nine Inch Nails, Butthole Surfers, Living Colour), and friends from the Los Angeles scene (Ice-T's metal band Body Count, Fishbone, Rollins Band). Marc Geiger and Don Muller of the Triad Agency booked the bands. Ted Gardner organized the production, from sound and lights to backstage hospitality. Missy Worth solicited local artists and activist groups to appear at each tour stop. Michael "Curly" Jobson and Kevin Lyman were brought in as stage managers; four years later, Lyman graduated from Lollapalooza and founded the Warped Tour.

GARDNER: Geiger made the mistake of giving us an office at the Triad building. They'd be going about their business and we'd be telling jokes, listening to music, and smoking pot. Reading was the genesis of the idea of the festival, but the traveling festival was uniquely ours. It wasn't a way that you toured.

MICHAEL "CURLY" JOBSON: We had festivals in Europe long before Perry had dreadlocks.

FARRELL: There were some heavy things going on right at that time: Michael Jordan's first championship with the Bulls, the beginning of the World Wide Web, and Lollapalooza. That's really what is remarkable about 1991.

GEIGER: We were hoping to kill hair bands and MTV. Get the crappy music out and the good music in.

FARRELL: Geiger and myself chose the bands. It might look like we were pooling from L.A. groups, but back in the day, L.A. was the epicenter of music.

NORWOOD FISHER (bassist, Fishbone): Lollapalooza was a culmination of things, as what was happening on the fringes got more and more popular.

FARRELL: Punk rock couldn't last, only because their attitude was "Fuck everything." Mine is "Include everything."

AVERY: There was a good amount of naïveté in '91. Lollapalooza was an experiment. I know I like Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Butthole Surfers and Ice-T, but who the fuck else does?

GIBBY HAYNES (singer, Butthole Surfers): People in the industry didn't really have confidence in it. Perry knew it would work out. I knew it would work out.

MISSY WORTH: Everybody was in it together because we wanted to prove that we were smarter than everyone else, that the alternative could be the mainstream but stay alternative.

JOBSON: It was quite a big show from a public standpoint, but production-wise it was relatively small--the fact that it wasn't a slick, overproduced event gave it that element of cool. Lollapalooza was a little ramshackle errand.

On July 18, 1991, the Lollapalooza tour launched in Tempe, Arizona, in appropriately ramshackle fashion.

DANNY ZELISKO (promoter): Compton Terrace in Tempe, which I'd been booking for about seven years, was owned by Jess Nicks and Gene Nicks. Jess is Stevie Nicks' dad, and Gene is Jess' brother. Those two and Stevie were the three principals. So, Stevie Nicks presented the first Lollapalooza, in a way.

HAYNES: That place was just a flat, thankless expanse of land. Fucking miserable.

JOBSON: It was so hot you couldn't even put your hand on the steel the stage was constructed from. And we're in some rodeo shithole in Arizona. Someone really thought that one out.

ZELISKO: And here come Nine Inch Nails, walking up all in black and chains and safety pins. Pretty dark for the middle of the afternoon in Arizona. And they weren't into their set more than a minute or two when shit started screwing up onstage. Next thing I know, they're breaking guitars and knocking over amplifiers and swearing, really pissed off.

JOBSON: You use electronic equipment and you don't have direct cooling for it and we're doing a show in 115-degree heat--what's going to happen?

RICHARD PATRICK (guitarist, Nine Inch Nails): This power cable--a $15 thing called a quad box--kept short-circuiting and would shut everything off. Here we are, first show on the most important tour of our lives, and this whole thing goes down in a nightmare. So we trashed the stage and went on our crazy little punk-industrial rampage and stormed off. Blamed everybody, but it was really just one bad cable.

JOBSON: I remember a fistfight between Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro on the first rehearsal day, which was quite entertaining. Perry's a tough cat, actually, in a fight. Dave got the short end of it there.

NAVARRO: That took place during the performance. It wasn't during a rehearsal.

FARRELL: Dave didn't want to go back on, and I felt that we should've given them a longer show. He said he's not going, and I was like, "You are." Then I picked him up--in those days, I used to watch pro wrestling--and I gave him a pretty good body slam. We ended up going back on.

NAVARRO: From that point on, everything went smooth. We didn't necessarily iron anything out, we just got past it.

AVERY: That's just so...that is Jane's Addiction right there.

http://www.spin.com/articles/oral-histo ... llapalooza

[Mike]

Great article and some nice pics at the link.
No Jane's pics though.

[hydro]

DAMN she hit 90+
Give this lady an award



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUvmPrkjOao[/youtube]

Yeah it's hard to believe she was 70 when this show took place.

I can't help laughing when I look at the youtube clip you posted.
It looks like Pete is having a good look at Jane's breasts.

awww Jane passed away yesterday at 92yrs old:((

stories are legendary
Monday, July 4: 4:07 p.m.
Posted by Jim Henke
Photograph courtesy of the Plain Dealer
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Legendary Cleveland rock writer Jane Scott died early today. She was 92 years old. Jane worked at The Plain Dealer, Cleveland's daily newspaper, for 50 years. She started out as a society writer, but seeing the Beatles' first Cleveland show at Public Hall in 1964 changed her life. She became the paper's rock writer, a job she held until she retired in 2002. She was one of the first female rock writers in the country, and she covered all of the major bands, from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who to Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin and David Bowie.

Her stories are legendary. Springsteen always gave her a shout-out from the stage when he played shows in Cleveland. She interviewed Paul McCartney when the Beatles played their second show here, and the two became friends. She went car shopping with Jimi Hendrix, and he wound up buying a Corvette at a dealer in Shaker Heights. She drank beers with Jim Morrison in 1967. Bob Dylan gave her two kisses when he first met her.

I had the great fortune to get to know Jane when I worked at The Plain Dealer back in the mid-Seventies. What impressed me the most about her was that she was totally open-minded about the bands and artists she was covering. She held no biases. It didn't matter if it was a punk band, a heavy-metal band or a mainstream pop artist, Jane treated them all the same. And she loved covering the music. Rock and roll was her life. And she continued to write about it into her seventies and eighties. As she liked to say, she was "the world's oldest teenager."

Jane, we will truly miss you, but thankfully you had a wonderful 92 years on this planet. And you have left behind many amazing stories. Thank you so much!

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