I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. Way back in the 90s, before Lollapalooza was just another giant festival.

It was a culture-shaking, traveling carnival that helped define that thing we used to call alternative.

There's a super fun new book out called Lollapalooza, the uncensored story of alternative rock's wildest festival by Tom Bojure and

Richard Beanstalk that really digs into the stories from those years, with bands from Pearl Jam,

to Sonic Youth, to Smashing Pumpkins, to Metallica, to Hole. And I have Tom and Richard here today

to share some of the wildest moments from the book. Guys, last time around I spoke to you about your great book about 80s hard rock.

How did you get the idea to do Lollapalooza is your next thing?

We had done a previous book together, nothing but a good time, which is not the 80s hard rock

industry.

And when it came time to do the next project, I mean, we threw around some ideas, but I think

Lollapalooza was the one that we both

landed on and we're really excited about doing because I think a few things. One, you know,

as much as I'll just speak for me, but maybe Tom feels the same way, as much as the 80s stuff in

the last book was my childhood. 90s Alternative rock is my childhood, too. I went into high

school in 1990. So, like, Lael Paloosa was my high school years, and that was the music that I was

listening to. It's sort of where the last book left off, which is grunge and alternative coming in

and sort of destroying that whole scene. That's kind of where this book starts and a lot of the guys that are in this book guys like

Kim Thail and guys like Jerry Cantrell were in our last book at the end sort of talking about

the beacon ins of this scene so it was a really easy flow to just go into this book and then

I think that the Lollapaloo is a part of it too mean, you get to tell the story of the creation of this

festival industry, really, in the U.S., and that's where it all starts. And so you get to tell

it's like a dual story, the rise of alternative rock and also the rise of festival culture.

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