Lollapalooza Tour Cancelled (anti-Bush crowd can't sell tix)

Fox News ^ | 6/22/04 | AP

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LOS ANGELES — The Lollapalooza music festival (search) tour has been canceled just three weeks before it was supposed to start.

Tour organizer Perry Farrell (search) writes on the tour's official Web site that his "heart is broken" from scrapping the tour. He blamed poor ticket sales.

The tour co-founder, Marc Geiger, says he's in "utter disbelief" that fans weren't buying tickets for what he says was "the most exciting line-up" he's seen in years.

The tour would've featured Morrissey (search), Sonic Youth, P.J. Harvey (search) and the Flaming Lips, among others.

Fans who bought tickets will get full refunds.

[GSWarrior]

What a crappy lineup. They expected this to sell?

[Constitution Day]

The Pixies just got back together and were supposed to be on some of those dates.

I would definitely see them if they were coming anywhere close to me, but I don't think they are.

[GSWarrior]

I have that image on a T-Shirt. I bought it here

[j_tull]

but I won't overlook crappy music for politics, and I really doubt that a lot of fans will... and Sonic Youth are as crappy as it gets! They warmed up for Neil Young and Crazy Horse in the Arena (before it was Key Arena) in '92. While I'm glad I didn't I nearly walked out before Neil came on.

[Hank Rearden]

When I went to Lollapalooza in 1993, it was Rage Against the Machine, Primus, Arrested Development, Fishbone, Tool, and Alice in Chains.

So it was incredibly lame and ridiculous even way back in 1993? How did it manage to stagger into 1994?

[sharktrager]

You know, for years before anyone knew who they were, record store owners would play Flaming Lips at closing because nothing would clear the store faster (and I am not making this up).

[Badeye]

You'd think with the implosion of the Dixie Chicks, these entertainers would learn the simple lesson implied:

Just Shut Up and Sing.

Oh well.....

[Stew Padasso]

LOL! That is the kind of music which will never have broad appeal (no hook or catchy beats).

[rocky88]

thanks

[trebb]

I'll be darned - people wouldn't buy their "product" and not one word of a "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" of censorship. Someone must be napping...

[StriperSniper]

Ministry, '92, moshing to the front in the mud of Waterloo Village, climbing on top of a fire engine(with permission) with a naked chick...

Ahhhh....the memories...

[B Knotts]

Morrisey? Geez, if I want to hear a sixty-year-old man whine and moan, I can go kick my dad.

ROFL

Quote of the day!

[SShultz460]

Same...Best Lolapalooza ever put together

[B Knotts]

BTW, I saw the (free!) "proto-Lollapalooza" show in 1989.

It was a lot of fun. Jane's Addiction, Mary's Danish, and a number of long-forgotten bands. There was no politics. Just a bunch of great (and OK) music.

Mary's Danish were throwing trinkets out to the crowd, and then people were throwing them back up on the stage.

By the time Jane's Addiction got on stage, they had the crowd rowdied up to the point where people continued throwing up on stage. One guy threw his shoe. Perry Farrell yelled at the guy, "Hey, I got two feet, a$$h--e!" Great moment.

But this current lineup Perry's trying to sell is weak, and I'm not surprised he's having trouble selling tickets.

[bad company]

"the Flaming Lips"

I didn't know monica could sing.

[Harold Hill]

Make it three Flaming Lips fans!

[B Knotts]

BTW, Stephen Perkins did an awesome drum solo on a plastic picnic-type cooler at that show.

[Constitution Day]

Lollapalooza in 1993

I went to that one, in Raleigh, N.C.
I remember some of it, most notably Alice in Chains.

[B Knotts]

people continued throwing up on stage

LOL...unfortunate typo.

Should be "people continued throwing stuff up onto the stage."

[NYC Republican]

Puddle of Mud and White Stripes are really good. Especially White Stripes- almost a throwback to 70s and early 80s rock (some of their stuff sounds like Bon Scott-early AC/DC stuff).