ROB TANNENBAUM (journalist, author) I’m trying not to use the word “lifestyle,” but I guess I have to. This was a lifestyle, and if you went to Lollapalooza what you realized was that the lifestyle was bigger than just, “I’m going to see a band.” It made you feel not just that you were part of the Jane’s Addiction Fan Club, but you were part of the world that embraced, you know, tattoos.
STEPHEN PERKINS (drummer, Jane’s Addiction) I tell you, man, nothing is better than playing to a roomful of people that want your music. They know the lyrics, they’re there for you. There’s a union. And Perry, he’s a shaman when he’s up there. You can go into the room and let him take you somewhere.
JIMMY CHAMBERLIN (drummer, Smashing Pumpkins) Mike D was instrumental in teaching the Tibetan monks how to play basketball. It was so out of their wheelhouse and something that they could kind of latch onto. They were all pretty athletic guys and they actually got pretty good at it. By the end they had a pretty good scrimmage team!
Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival
Richard Bienstock, Tom Beaujour
Note – Recommended Book
LOLLAPALOOZA 1994 DATES: JULY 7–SEPTEMBER 5
MAIN STAGE: Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, George Clinton and the P-Funk Allstars, the Breeders, A Tribe Called Quest, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, L7, Boredoms (first half), Green Day (second half)
SECOND STAGE: Flaming Lips, the Verve, Guided by Voices, the Frogs, Shudder to Think, Luscious Jackson, the Boo Radleys, Lambchop, Girls Against Boys, Stereolab, various