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