Funny, I don't seem to remember these guys doing a "Rock Against Clinton" album :P
Posted on 06/22/2004 7:48:37 AM PDT by ICX
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.
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Another Flaming Lips bump!
I know it's too much to hope they might have a rightward tilt--still with lyrics like this:
"...to fight is to defend. If not now then tell me when?"
and from what my son tells me, the band's music is sometimes called "pro-war" and threatened with being banned in Europe -- who knows?
Once you get used to the singer's quavering vocals it becomes quite endearing--give them a try:
http://www.flaminglips.com/main.php
Funny, I don't seem to remember these guys doing a "Rock Against Clinton" album :P
If you haven't seen George Clinton before ... he really brings all 30 people out on stage at once. Everyone had a different funky costume. Quite a spectacle ... from what I remember :-)
As for the Beastie Boys, that's about the time when "Sureshot" just came out. Before that concert, I thought they would come out on stage with just the DJ. I had no idea that they each play their own instruments.
Utter disbelief? It should have been obvious why this tour would be a flop. The bandlist was an alternative-style oldies tour, but nobody over 25 wants to go to Lollapalooza and sit in the heat on the grass all day and use disgusting porta potties. Meanwhile, the audience who enjoys drinking and doing drugs all day in the middle of a field during the summer is not going to be attracted to the acts there.
Uh, man...Damageplan Pantera played live for my *high school* graduation decades ago...
They may play nu-metal now, but "new" they ain't!
Well, "better" implies that those in the Lollapalooza tour, made "music".
But I'm one of those that need to have the notes and instruments make some sort of pleasing sound when put together.
Uh man, didn't say they were new (and I am familiar with Dimebag etc.). However, they have a new cd out and it sounds great. Better than Mud Puddle or whoever that Kurt Cobain wannabe is.
I liked it..!!
FRegards,
I'm just funnin' wit ya!
I would definitely see them if they were coming anywhere close to me, but I don't think they are."
I just know there's a joke in your post somewhere......but I'm not clever enough to think of one right now. Hehehee...
FRegard's
I went that year as well!!! Things have sure changed! :o
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Lollapalooza 2004: R.I.P.
by Josh Grossberg
Jun 22, 2004, 12:00 PM PT
Let's just call it Lollapa-loser.
Not even a stellar lineup--Morrissey, the Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, the String Cheese Incident, Wilco and a reunited Pixies--couldn't save this summer's Lollapalooza festival, which has been deep-sixed due to poor ticket sales just three weeks before its launch.
Organizers made the announcement on the fest's official Website, lollapalooza.com, blaming "competitive ticket prices" and a weak summer touring season as the reasons for the cancellation.
"I'm in utter disbelief that a concert of this stature, with the most exciting lineup I've seen in years did not galvanize ticket sales," tour cofounder Marc Geiger says in a statement.
Taking the bad news especially hard was Lollapalooza cofounder Perry Farrell, whose band, Jane's Addiction, headlined the inaugural fest back in 1991 as well as last year's edition, which revived the traveling carnival after a five-year layoff.
"My heart aches along with the bands and all of our employees, whose hard work developed one of the most exciting and important tours that this nation was to see. My heart is broken," says Farrell.
The 31-date, 16-city trek was supposed to kick off July 14 at White River amphitheater in Auburn, Washington.
Organizers had intended this year's outing to be the most ambitious yet--a two-day jamboree with an eclectic rotating roster that would have seen the likes of PJ Harvey, the Polyphonic Spree, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Modest Mouse, Danger Mouse, Le Tigre and Elbow at various venues, along with the requisite body-art booths, ethnic food stands and progressive political stumping (this year's second stage was supposed to be powered by hydrogen fuel cells).
Fans who've already bought tickets will be issued refunds.
Geiger says the demise of Gen-X's signature touring festival can be chalked up to soft sales across the board, even though promoters tried to make Lollapalooza affordable by offering reserved seating at $49.50 per day, lawn tickets at $29.50 per day and a special two-day lawn package at $50. Those prices are a relative steal in today's concert market, where acts like Madonna, the Rolling Stones and the Eagles, routinely charge hundreds of dollars for stand-alone gigs.
"I'm surprised that given the great bands and the reduced ticket prices that we didn't have enough sales to sustain the tour," says Geiger. "Concert promoters across the country are facing similar problems. Many summer tours are experiencing weak ticket sales."
That's a far cry from Lollapalooza's glorious grungy days, when the road show's main stage played host to such bands as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Beck, Nirvana, Sinead O'Connor, Metallica, Snoop Dogg, the Smashing Pumpkins and the Beastie Boys, making it the hot ticket of summer.
But with poor sales plaguing last year's installment and now scuttling this year's, we may have seen the last of Lollapalooza.
Never went to a lollipop tour. I did go to a H.O.R.D.E. tour with Blues Traveler, Big Head Todd and The Monsters, Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies and Jimmy Cliff. In Santa Fe, 1994 I think it was.
I think my brother and I were the only two people who weren't smokin weed.
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Gee, I wonder why it failed to draw people. Maybe they should have brought in Micheal Moore and Al Frankin since they are such popular entertainers and their projects are doing so well
I could overlook politics for something like the Texas Jams of the late 70's early 80's.
God help us, we did'nt know how to dress back then but the music was good.
ROTFL!!
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