Metallica and Soundgarden are playing Lollapallooza this year!?!? Didn't
Soundgarden play just a few years ago? I didn't know they were repeating
acts that had already played for them. Well I figured Lollapalooza'd lost it
when they gave George Clinton only 45 minutes for his set. I mean geez,
don't these promoters have _any_ sense of the music they're putting out
there? I guess the argument could be made that as long as some of the music
gets out then it's ok, but what part of the music are you really putting out
if Clinton's (e.g.) music is based on being able to play for 5 hours (like
he did later that night at the Fillmore)? But if you're going to put
pop-alternative music out in a shitty context, better Orbital than Stone
Pimple Toilets.
Speaking of, at the first one, the Butthole Surfers fucking blew all the
other bands away, even at 2pm. Sure, they didn't have the sex-change films
on the screen next to an episode of Charlie Angels, but Shoreline
Amphitheater has one of THE hugest sound systems I've ever come across and
they know how to work those speakers. Much bigger than the ones Ozzy had
when I saw HIM a couple weeks ago (at a larger venue!).
eric the shameless mainstream ticket buyer and metal fan