Smells Like Alternative

Let’s check out the quintessential festival from the 90’s, since this year’s line up has been announced and it’s founding fathers (Jane’s Addiction) are getting back together, at least just for one show for now.

• The festival was inspired by the “A Gathering of the Tribes”, which was held October 6 and 7, 1990 at Mountain View and Los Angeles, CA.
• “A Gathering of the Tribes” featured: Soundgarden, Iggy Pop, Indigo Girls, Ice T, Joan Baez, Queen Latifah and more.
• Perry Farrell attended the L.A. “A Gathering of the Tribes” and came up with a similar and diverse festival as a farewell tour for Jane’s Addiction.
• Lollapalooza means: “remarkable or wonderful person or thing”, and also means a lollipop.
• Farrell heard the word lollapalooza in a “Three Stooges” short.
• The inaugural line up in 1991 was: Jane’s Addiction, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Living Colour, Nine Inch Nails, Ice T & Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band, Violent Femmes.
• 1992 a second stage was added and the show included: Main Stage: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush   Side Stage: Jim Rose Circus, Sharkbait, Archie Bell, Porno for Pyros, Basehead, Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Sweaty Nipples, Arson Garden, Seaweed, Seam, Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., The Look People, Stone Temple Pilots, Vulgar Boatmen, Truly, Skrew, Tribe, The Authority, Samba Hell, Café Tacuba, Rage Against the Machine.
• 1992 often saw Pearl Jam and Soundgarden popping up during each others sets, even some Temple of the Dog reunions.
• 1993: Main Stage: Primus, Alice in Chains, Dinosaur Jr, Fishbone, Arrested Development, Front 242, Babes in Toyland, Tool, Rage Against the Machine       Side Stage: Tool, Sebadoh, Cell, Unrest, Mercury Rev, Mosquito, Free Kitten, Royal Trux, Tsunami, Mutabaruka, The Coctails, Scrawl, Luscious Jackson, Genitorturers, Truly, Eggs, Girls Against Boys, Thurston Moore, A Lighter Shade of Brown, Glue, The Karl Hendricks Trio, Hurl, The Goats
• Nirvana was offered to headline the 1994 edition, but declined. The Smashing Pumpkins replaced Nirvana after Kurt Cobain was found dead.
• 1994: Main Stage: The Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars, The Breeders, A Tribe Called Quest, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, L7, Boredoms (first half of tour), Green Day (second half)                                      Side Stage: The Flaming Lips, The Verve, The Boo Radleys, The Frogs (first six dates only), Guided by Voices, Lambchop, Girls Against Boys, Rollerskate Skinny, Palace Songs, Stereolab, Fu-Schnickens, The Pharcyde, Shudder to Think, Luscious Jackson, God Lives Underwater, King Kong, Charlie Hunter Trio, Shonen Knife, Blast Off Country Style, Souls of Mischief, Cypress Hill, The Black Crowes.
• 1995:  Main Stage: Sonic Youth, Hole, Cypress Hill, Pavement, Sinéad O’Connor (first few shows; bowed out due to pregnancy), Elastica (replaced O’Connor, as did Moby for a few shows), Beck, The Jesus Lizard, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones          Side Stage: Coolio, Doo Rag, Possum Dixon, Poster Children, Yo La Tengo, Brainiac, The Coctails, Geraldine Fibbers, Dambuilders, Laika, The Pharcyde, Tuscadero, Built to Spill, Helium, Redman, St. Johnny, Dirty Three, Mike Watt, Versus, Hum, Blonde Redhead, The Roots, Blowhole, The Zeros, Pork Queen, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Sabalon Glitz, Psychotica, Patti Smith, Overpass, Moby, Superchunk, Beck (acoustic, generally), Spring Heeled Jack U.S.A., Ariel, Incredibly Strange Wrestling.
• In 1996, Farrell quit the organization that planned the festival. The William Morris Agency bought most of the rights. And, the decline begins…
• 1996: Main Stage: Metallica, Soundgarden, The Ramones, Rancid, Shaolin monks, Screaming Trees, Psychotica  Main Stage on Selected Dates: Rage Against the Machine, Cocteau Twins, Waylon Jennings, Cheap Trick, Violent Femmes, The Tea Party, Wu-Tang Clan, Steve Earle, Devo, 311                                                                Side Stage: Beth Hart Band, Girls Against Boys, Ben Folds Five, Ruby, Cornershop, You Am I, Soul Coughing, Sponge, Melvins, Satchel, Jonny Polonsky, Fireside, Ass Dildo                                                                                                                                          Indie Stage: Chune, Moonshake, Lutefisk, Capsize 7, The Cows, Long Fin Killie, Thirty Ought Six, Varnaline, Crumb.
• 1997: Main Stage: Orbital, Devo, The Prodigy, The Orb, Tool, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tricky, KoЯn, James, Julian and Damian Marley and the Uprising Band, Eels, Failure                                                                                                                                 Side Stage: Beck, Summercamp, Artificial Joy Club, Jeremy Toback, Radish, Old 97’s, Inch, Porno for Pyros, The Pugs, The Lost Boyz, Agnes Gooch, Demolition Doll Rods, Skeleton Key, Molly McGuire, Orbit.
• 1998, the festival couldn’t land a headliner and ended.
• In 2003, the festival and Jane’s Addiction return.
• 2003 line up: Main Stage: Jane’s Addiction, Audioslave, Incubus, Queens of the Stone Age (7/5-8/13), A Perfect Circle (8/15-8/23), Jurassic 5, The Donnas, The Distillers, Rooney                                                                                                             Side Stage: Steve-O, Burning Brides, Cave In, Kings of Leon, Hierosonic, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Music, The Mooney Suzuki, Fingertight, MC Supernatural, Boysetsfire, Billy Talent, Campfire Girls, Mondo Generator.
• In 2004, Lollapalooza planned a touring two day festival, but was cancelled after poor ticket sales.
• 2004 line up, if it happened: Morrissey, PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, The Killers, Wilco, The Flaming Lips, The Von Bondies, The String Cheese Incident, Modest Mouse, Le Tigre, Gomez, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Danger Mouse, The Polyphonic Spree, Broken Social Scene, The Datsuns, Bumblebeez 81, The Secret Machines, Brayndead Freakshow, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Elbow, Wheat, The Coup, Wolf Eyes, The Dresden Dolls.
• In 2005, the festival becomes a three day at Chicago’s Grant Park.
• 2005 included: Weezer, Primus, Cake, The Killers, Liz Phair, Pixies, Billy Idol, Death Cab for Cutie, and a ton more.
• The festival returned to Chicago on August 4-6, 2006 and featured the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wilco, Queens of the Stone Age, Ween, Blues Traveller, The Racounteurs, The Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth and more.
• On October 25, 2006 the festival and the city of Chicago agreed to keep Lollapalooza in Chicago until 2011.
• 2007: Pearl Jam, Modest Mouse, Muse, Daft Punk, Silverchair, Kings of Leon, Iggy Pop and The Stooges and many, many more.
• August 1-3, 2008: Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against The Machine, Wilco, Kanye West, The Raconteurs, Gnarls Barkley, Blues Traveller and more.

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