Word: lollapaloozas
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...little like having your mother move into the compound with ^ you. There's just something traumatic when the college-radio band you love ends up as background music on Melrose Place. After the critical and commercial success of Jane's Addiction, Farrell wisely sought out new challenges. He founded Lollapalooza, the traveling summer carnival of music that showcases pop's avant-garde (this year it will feature such acts as Arrested Development); he made a low-budget feature film called Gift (out in limited release this year); and, along with former Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins, he created Porno...
...BANDS OF SUMMER BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN -- GENESIS -- GRATEFUL DEAD -- BONO OF U2 -- ERIC CLAPTON & ELTON JOHN -- METALLICA & AXL ROSE OF GUNS N' ROSES -- HAMMER & HIS ENTOURAGE -- LOLLAPALOOZA '92 WITH RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS -- ICE CUBE -- THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN -- PEARL JAM & MORE Touring shows are booming again, as superstars hit the road with performances in which the sounds are enhanced -- and sometimes swamped -- by high-tech, multimillion-dollar special effects and gimmicks, from floating autos to body piercing...
...whole thing is such a lollapalooza that that's what they call it -- the Lollapalooza '92 tour. The show, which began on July 18 and will play 30 cities through Sept. 13, has already sold out in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and New York City, where it took just 30 minutes for fans to snap up all 36,000 tickets. Lollapalooza, now in its second season, is the cutting edge of summer concert action, and it is pioneering the new byword of touring: value-added. Superstars aplenty are plying the circuit this summer -- Phil...
...clear, gripping and as fast as a rocket. In the second act, the narrative splinters and slows down. The ideas seem less fresh -- especially a much too long visual riff on links between demagogic politics and celebrity culture -- and emotional payoffs are few, though one is a lollapalooza. But the failings are fixable. The high spots are thrilling. And even for an antirock curmudgeon like this writer, for whom music ended with Mahler, the show is never less than fun to hear and, especially...
...long standing, and, rapid-fire, he rattles off his favorites: Black Flag, Judas Priest, Blue Oyster Cult, Hendrix, Slayer. "I like the aggressiveness and anger of hard rock," he says, and he proved it last summer by appearing with a collection of metal bands on the successful Lollapalooza tour...