Lollapalooza

We're coming on 19 years since the first Lollapalooza festival (wow! 19 years!?!), and I seem to be getting more and more requests to put up a show from that tour.

We older fans had a hard time sharing our favorite band with the masses, but they didn't disappoint us, nor the friends who we cajoled into going early to see them. Oh sure, they were forced into a 2PM time slot outdoors, rendering films and smoke and strobes useless, but the band was beginning its "rock" phase anyway, so they just went out there and did what they always did best...rock.

The 1991 tour pre-Lollapalooza was a real barn-burner. The speed at which they blazed though sets made them more of a punk rock band than the psychedelic act we were used to, but they still could drop some mind-melting jams, even at break neck speed...

It's this more 'honed' Butthole Surfers that we see on the Lollapalooza tour, but despite the obvious commercial trappings inevitable with playing shows like this, the band did not fall prey to playing what could be considered their most accesible material. A look at the best show of the tour to surface, August 11 at Waterloo Village in Stanhope, NJ, demonstrates this best. It could be held against any show from the four piece band and stand its ground.

A 10+ minute jam with the Rollins band set the stage fer a full 60 minute set of their own...playing as long as the headlining act and ditching "Roky", "1401" and "Hey" fer songs like "No Rule", "Shah" and "Ricky".


While the set here is slightly less impressive than the NJ show, the sound is amazing (being a SBD Master), and it has never been circulated from this source...it also was the show requested...and I do aim to please...;)) I don't think it will disappoint...though short, it is still a great one, and probably more indicative of MOST of their Lollapalooza sets than NJ is anyways...



Butthole Surfers
‘Lollapalooza’
World Amphitheatre,
Tinley, IL
8/3/91

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1) Bong Song
2) 1401
3) Blindman
4) GJK
5) You Don’t Know Me
6) Watlo
7) Hey
8) No Rule
9) Nee Nee
10) Fast
11) Gary Floyd
12) Graveyard
13) Human Cannonball
14) Blue Cheer
15) Booze, Tobacco, Dope, Pussy, Cars
16) Pittsburg to Lebanon


Enjoy, but please keep this in a lossless format if yer gonna give it to a pal...and NEVER EVER sell it to anybody!...

Here's the link!:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J0FUUJPN

Remashing

Remashes

1) The Revenge of Anus Presley intro (reverse)
2) Butthole Surfers - Perry intro pt 1 (speed increase)
3) Butthole Surfers - Perry intro pt 2 (reverse+speed increase)
4) Annoying Song (reduced speed)
5) The Things They Said That I Saw (reverse)
6) Hay (reverse+decrease speed)
7) The O-Men (reduced speed)
8) Strangers Die chat
9) Strangers Die chat (speed increase)


So here is a silly project I did with windows sound recorder.

I tried to capitulate the songs into some cohesive thing. It may keep ya interested. May not…in my opinion, however, songs like “The Things They Said That I Saw”, “Hay”, and the “Perry” intro jam are almost as interesting without the studio effects.

Sure “Annoying Song” lumbers, but ya gotta admit…it isn’t quite as annoying…;)

Ya get to hear Paul’s amazing “cyborg lust” vocals on O-Men too…and Gibby’s vocals, while still indecipherable, take on a more sinister growl, rather than the manic frenzy on the true version…

I left the original version of the “Strangers Die Everyday” outro. It is from an unknown gen demo of the sessions, and was left off Caso Raro…hell, even a 2nd gen version I got of most of the session didn’t have it…so there ya have it…

This in no way blows up the band’s spot…this might actually show how technically proficient, as well as severely fukked they are as a band…if not, at least it may make ya chuckle. Consider it an April Fool’s joke…

GRAB IT here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TPMYZ3GC