Time flies
One of the openers was Rage Against The Machine, who I had never heard. After the show, I bought their CD. On the second stage, there was a band no one ever heard of. They put on a helluva show and drew a large crowd from the main stage. There was moshing, dancing, screaming, drinking and all manner of fun. I watched in amazement. One hell of a set. That band was Tool. Later, I saw Alice in Chains put on one of the worst live shows I’ve ever seen. The sound was terrible. But that was followed by Primus putting on one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Layne Staley bummed a smoke from me.
That was 19 years ago at the Starwood Amphitheater.
Lollapalooza turns 20 this year. And MTV turns 30.
How did that happen?
August 4th, 2011 at 11:57 am
I missed out on Lollapalooza 1991 because I was overseas, but the 1992 show was amazing. One of the best days of my nerdy, grungey youth. (& I still have a piercing to prove it.)
August 4th, 2011 at 11:58 am
Fun flies when you’re doing time…
August 4th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Shush now, old man, don’t depress the young-uns.
π
How does it happen? You’ve lived, and can only live any given day once.
August 4th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
You got old, dude.
August 4th, 2011 at 12:09 pm
I was already too old for MTV when it came out, I had a job to do.
August 4th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
In the blink of an eye you go from, “Don’t trust anyone over 30!” to “You damn kids, GET OFF MY LAWN!!!”
August 4th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
I remember when Guns and Roses came to town with Motley Crue, and no one had heard of them.
August 4th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
‘Scuse me…Guns N Roses.
August 4th, 2011 at 12:28 pm
Man. I was at the Thorogood/Little Feat concert at the Great Woods outdoor concert venue in MA the week before the second Lollapalooza concert. 19 years ago today.
Thanks a lot for making me feel old, Unc…
August 4th, 2011 at 12:30 pm
BTW, I saw Alice in Chains opening for Van Halen at the For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge tour in 1991.
Your analysis of their performance is spot-on.
August 4th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
By buying that Rage Against the Machine CD you made a contribution to the Communist Party.
They are militant Communists (their own self description) and contribute a portion of the proceeds of CD sales and concerts to CPUSA.
August 4th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
@SteveP Can you provide citations? I’m intrigued because I can relate to RATM’s calls for stopping social injustices to some degree. But I am firmly anti-Marxist. Browsing the CPUSA sight, I am dismayed that links to RATM are prominent in the sidebar (along with links to Tom Morello and another RATM activist website).
Not that I am going to quit listening to their music, but at least I’ll be more informed about where they are coming from.
August 4th, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Out of curiosity, I googled “Tom Morello house”. Were I a True Believer, I’d have been shocked. Being a Jaded Old Fart, I wasn’t. Nice pool.
August 4th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Ha, I was at Lollapalooza 1991 at the kickoff in Vancouver BC. Rage wasn’t there because the drummer’s dad had just died. Tool was still on the small stage and kicked ass. Primus closed. They were great.
August 4th, 2011 at 2:04 pm
AIC was really hip deep in the addiction thing even then. Talented musicians but slaves to their addiction.
People put way too much stock in musicians and other entertainers’ politics. If you don’t like it…ignore it.
August 4th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
I had audiophile roommates two years in a row in college way back in ’77-81. They also worked at the college radio station and got demo records galore, which they played in the rooms constantly. While they both favored jazz over rock over pop, they would come up with the odd piece now and then, like Tibetan Bhuddist Monks chanting in resonance with each other, or Eno’s Discrete Music, or Haitian Voodoo Chants.
The last one was taken out in the yard, broken in pieces, covered in lighter fluid, burned to a crisp, buried, and pissed on. The music major who did that is now conductor of a major orchestra.
Good times, good times, and I learned way back then that obscurity and elitism are two hallmarks of the true music nerd.
August 4th, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Les Claypool is almost 50… :\
August 4th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
You Youngin’s with your Gallapolloza Shows. My first Rock Show was the “Kiss Alive” tour back in the Spring of ’76. Heck, by the time that Palooza Gala show was making its rounds, I’d already given up on that Noise they were calling “Music” and was looking forward to the day when REAL Rock and Metal was going to come on my Golden Oldies Station.
And that day is here.
Excuse me, there’s some kids on my yard I have to Chase Off. Where’s my Garand?
August 4th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
I saw that first Lola show, the best part was when Ice-T came out with Bodycount. I remember seeing Primus before they made it big when I grew up in Vegas. I miss the old scene and these darn EMO kids don’t know what its all about. RATM is like AC/DC as in if you listen to one album you have heard them all. I do like Tom Morello’s new thing with Boots Riley called Street Sweeper Social Club. I saw Bauhaus a couple years ago and Peter Murphy didn’t have tennis balls on his walker
August 4th, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Last Scorps tour someone asked me if I wanted to go, and I answered sure, I haven’t been to a Scorpions concert in 20 years.
And I felt old.
August 5th, 2011 at 1:13 am
You know Soundgarden is playing together again, right? π
August 5th, 2011 at 8:58 am
I saw Soundgarden a couple of weeks ago. They were fantastic! As good as they were when I saw them open for (and blow away) Guns N Roses some 20 years ago. But then, that was only a couple of years after I saw GnR open (and blow away) Aerosmith.