Beck performing for Lollapalooza Festival in Tinley Park, Illinois on July 15, 1995
Photo by Jim Newberry
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Previously Unseen Photo. Exclusive to my blog.
Lollapalooza. July 4th, 1995. George, Washington.
📸: Jeremy Meyer. I have 9 other unseen photos from this gig that I posted over on my Instagram. You can see those photos there as well as read the crazy story behind this gig!
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slut kiss girls
won't you promise her smack?
is she pretty on the inside?
is she pretty from the back?
(...)
there is no power, like my pretty power
my pretty power... my ugly!
pretty on the inside - hole
Courtney Love live at Lollapalooza in 1995, and live at The Rathskeller in 1991.
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Sonic Youth - Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, California, August 18, 1995
Weird times in the summer of 1995! Sonic Youth was facing the Alternative Nation as the headliner of Lollapalooza, sharing a bill that included Beck, Pavement, Cypress Hill, Elastica, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Jesus Lizard and — most notoriously — Hole. Throughout the tour, Courtney Love grabbed the lion's share of the attention thanks to her chaotic antics, both onstage and off.
Lee Ranaldo sets the scene:
"There was this slightly strange pall hanging over the whole tour, like, this is the spawn of Nirvana. . . . For a lot of people in the indie community, there was a bit of ambivalence. People wondered, is this good for our community, that these bands we've come up with are now on this big, high profile tour? Is this the beginning of the end? Or the end of the end?"
Here in Mountain View, we're at the end — of Lollapalooza '95, at least. Following what was an especially crazed/truncated Hole performance, Thurston takes to the mic to dedicate their set to "one of the great hippie punk rock geniuses": the recently departed Jerry Garcia, who had just played Shoreline a few short months later. (Interestingly, former Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten hung out with Sonic Youth backstage this evening at Lolla!) Does SY then break into a Jerry-style "Expressway To Your Heart"?! No, but they do float into a massive "Expressway To Your Skull," joined by Pavement's Stephen Malkmus, howling along on vocals. Incredibly fun.
What follows is equally fun, with the band dipping into the back catalog for excellent renditions of "Mote," "Brother James" and "100%" in addition to a heaping portion of Washing Machine, which wouldn't be released into the wild for a few more weeks. The title track is a motorik marvel, with Steve Shelley surging and soaring, Kim Gordon delivering an impossibly cool/enigmatic vocal.
The peak, of course, is "The Diamond Sea," a nightly ritual that boils over into a seething cauldron of beauteous feedback, stormy clangs and ineffable noise. Is this the end of the end? For some other bands, it might have been ... but it's inspiring to see that even at this midpoint in their career, Sonic Youth was forging forward, making some of the best music of their lives. Time takes its crazy toll ...
Bandcamp | Merch | Concert Chronology
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jancy weekend day 2: music
music is how we decorate time- Jean-Michel Basquiat
a decade of decorating time
1989. their favorite albums of the year.
1990. records shop date. jonathan gets nancy 'faith' by george michael. nancy picks out 'peepshow' by siouxsie and the banshees for jonathan.
1991. left under their door from their neighbor after they played pet shop boys the whole night at high volume.
1992. a gift from nancy to jonathan. the cure's 'wish' pendant necklace.
1994. lollapalooza, taken from jonathan’s camera.
1993 & 1996. two of many concert ticket stubs.
1995. nancy is learning how to play the guitar. they make the drive to hawkins, humming along to fantasy by mariah carey.
1997. scribbled on a piece of paper at a bar. then endlessly fretted over and tweaked and added until it feels right.
1998. nancy's new cd player to listen to while writing. jonathan puts his own spin on the cd covers.
1999. after an evening at an unplugged gig. photo taken by will.
the only truth is music….music blends with the heartbeat universe and we forget the brain beat- Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
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Beck at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington on July 4, 1995 during the 1995 Lollapalooza Festival
Photos by David Walega
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If you throw one more drop of liquid on my body I’ll kick your fuckin' ass.
Courtney in Colorado. July 1995.
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quick everyone give me some suggestions for titles/topics of the fake research paper i'm going to pretend to be working on so i can gain access to [redacted university]'s private collections in order to read the lollapalooza 1995 tour diaries which are only available to buy elsewhere for $500.00
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