'90s Nostalgia: Kennedy Goes Loco For Lollapalooza

Kennedy Saves the World

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Festival season is just around the corner, and without Lollapalooza, many fan-favorite events wouldn't exist. Debuting in 1991, the four-day extravaganza originally served as the farewell tour for Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction. Over thirty years later, music-loving youngsters make the pilgrimage to Chicago's Grant Park to bask in the glory of their favorite acts. Former senior editor of Guitar World magazine, executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine, and co-author of Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival, Richard Bienstock joins Kennedy to discuss the new book and reminisce about the festival's early years and '90s alternative rock. P.S. You can also catch a little bit of Kennedy if you make it far enough into the book! Follow Kennedy on Twitter: @KennedyNation Kennedy Now Available on YouTube: https://bit.ly/4311mhD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World.
0:12.8	Today I'm so excited.
0:13.8	We're talking about Lollapalooza.
0:15.9	It's the book that everyone has been talking about.
0:19.3	If you were alive and cogent in the 90s, you did whatever
0:23.2	you could to go see Lollapalooza.
0:25.9	I was lucky enough to see the first go around in 1991, and I think it was at Irvine Meadows.
0:32.0	And it was absolutely phenomenal.
0:34.4	And I circled my neck so hard to Jane's addiction to this day.
0:40.4	I have lifelong neck injuries from that event.
0:44.9	And then, of course, Lollapalooza took off.
0:47.4	It took on a life of its own and was really one of the places where some of the most
0:52.8	important bands from the 90s
0:54.6	cemented their relationship with each other and also with the audience
0:59.5	and really became synonymous with what Lollapalooza was intended to be.
1:04.2	One of the authors is here, Richard Beanstock.
1:06.4	Welcome to Kennedy Saves the World.
1:08.1	Thank you for having me.
1:08.9	So how did you get interested in the subject matter?
1:11.7	Is this a book that has been percolating for like a couple decades?
1:15.4	How did this come to be?
1:17.1	Well, certainly for a couple years, I went to the first three Lollapaloozes.
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