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--where they are encouraged to smash televisions and other electronic items.
Lollapalooa: Music and more with hottest alternative bands
The Associated Press
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Lollapalooa: nine hours of loud music, political pep talks, performance art and tattoos.
The festival that caters to the MTV generation's answer to counterculture kicked off its U.S. tour at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View on July 18. The remaining dates on the tour are tomorrow in Atlanta and Sept. 11-12 in Los Angeles.
It offers a deafening array of America's hottest alternative bands, including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, Jesus and the Mary Chain, and Ministry.
"Kids are fed up paying 28 bucks to see one band," said Peter Barsotti, the Bill Graham Presents producer who set up the "concourse of oddities and curiosities" accompanying the music at all 35 venues. "We give them an all-day event that features the best of the new cutting-edge bands, a circus sideshow. ... You will definitely see things here you have never seen before."
Now in its second year, Lollapaloozia is the brainchild of Perry Ferrell, former lead singer of the defunct Jane's Addiction, a socially conscious thrash band. The event was inspired by England's Reading Festival, a similar tour of alternative bands in that country.
Aside from music, the festival offers audience members a host of activities, entertainment, artwork and foods on a concourse outside the main arena. People lined up to take turns in the "crush box," an area
Destruction, angst and anti-censorship were dominant themes through
Southcentral Los Angeles rapper Ice-T, who has been at the center of a nationwide debate about the lyrics of his song "Cop Killer," introduced many of the bands. He did not perform.
Many negative references — some too explicit for print — were uttered about Tipper Gore, the wife of Democratic vice presidential nominee Al Gore and the chief advocate of placing labels warning of explicit lyrics on albums. Jello Biafra, who performed with the disbanded Dead Kenneds, suggested locked Tipper Gore in a padded cell with Ministry as he introduced the eardrum-shattering band.
Heart patients would be well advised to stay away. At points, the music was so loud that vital organs would pulsate to the beat. Rapper Ice Cube's lyrics in one 40-minute set could have kept Tiptor Gore's Parents Music Resource Center busy for a year.
As the music blared, young women browsed through 1960s-style floral dresses at a stand on the concourse. A few feet away, a group of muscular, shirttle young men beat sticks on an sculpture constructed, in part, of hanging hubcaps, 55-gallon drums and other hunks of metal.
"I came here to see all the weird people, to see all the types of life that
are around and to hear good music," said Toby Curtis, a 23-year-old lifeguard from Reno, Nev. "It's a big flashback. It's almost like the early '60s or late '50s. I think we're in the middle of a big revolution, or real close."
It's a culture influenced by punk rock, surfing, hip-hop and hippies. Tattoos are a fashion must.
"It's so hot, and so many females are wearing black — but they look good," said 22-year-old Gloria Contreras of South San Francisco.
MTV News filmed it all: young women sipping amino acid-packed "smart drinks", readings of bleak, anti-establishment poetry, politically correct speeches and a backstage interview with Ice Cube.
Another component of Lollapalooza was Jim Rose's Circus Side Show, where 10 performers show off their somasociatic talents: "I thinkpeople are really looking for something live, raw and dangerous," said Rose, whose specialty is placing his face in broken glass while a member of the audience walks on the back of his head.
Barsotti said the festival was designed so that someone could not possibly see everything. "We're trying to give people more than their money's worth, he said, then paused to greet a female friend, who summed up it best. "It's so mega. It's so mega."
"The Amazing M. Lifto" lifted heavy items affixed to his pierced nipples.
"The intense pain, you learn to channel it," Lifto said "I do it for the drug-high."
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Musical performance schedule set
Monday-Thursday 10-8 Friday and Saturday 10-5 Sunday 12-4
By Silvia Peralez
Special to the Kansan
in "Rigoletto" Oct 25
Musical performances for the University of Kansas Concert Series, Chamber Music Series and New Directions Series have been selected for the 1992-93 school year.
Arthur Pizarrar, piano, Nov. 17, at the Crafton-Preyer Theatre.
Of the five scheduled performances in the 90th season concert series, all but one will be at the Topeka Performing Arts Center. The dates and performances in the concert series are:
■ The National Tour of "Porgy and Bess," Feb. 9.
National Opera Company of Italy
BalletMet with Cynthia Gregory, March 11.
Canadian Brass, April 13.
Number music series are
Juillard String Quartet, Sept. 13
Performing in the 40th season of the Chamber Music Series are:
Juillard Square, Sept. 13.
American Chamber Players,
Oct. 13.
Waverly Consort, Nov. 5
■ New World String Quartet with Phyllis Hyllis, April 2.
Peter Serkin, piano, and Pamela
Frank, violin. March 7
Performing in the sixth season of the New Directions Series are:
Culture Clash, Oct. 8.
The Mysteries and What's So Funny? Oct 31.
Sweet Honey in the Rock, Jan. 31.
The Last Sasani Story, April 20.
Transportation will be available for performances scheduled at the Topee Performing Arts Center. Information may be obtained from the Murphy Hall Box Office, 864-3982.
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