 The final years of Lollapalooza saw the festival lose its focus. Farrell, who had been the soul of the festival, quit the organization to concentrate on his new festival project, ENIT. Ideas and musical genres that had been edgy and risqué at the beginning of the 1990s were now mainstream or passé. Efforts were made to keep the festival relevant, such as including more eclectic acts such as country superstar Waylon Jennings, and emphasizing more heavily electronica groups like The Prodigy. By 1997, however, the Lollapalooza concept had run out of steam, and in 1998 failed efforts to find a headliner willing to do the show rang the deathknell for Lollapalooza.
In 2003, however, Farrell reconvened Jane's Addiction and scheduled a new tour. The festival schedule included venues in 30 cities through July and August. The 2003 tour achieved only marginal success with many fans staying away because of high ticket prices and heavy corporate sponsorship. Another tour scheduled for 2004 was canceled in June due to weak ticket sales across the country.
Lollapalooza lineups by year
1991: Main Stage: Jane's Addiction, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Living Colour, Nine Inch Nails, Fishbone, Violent Femmes, Body Count (with Ice T), Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band Side Stage: No side stage in 1991
1992: Main Stage: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush, Temple of the Dog Side Stage: Jim Rose Circus, Sharkbait, Archie Bell, Porno for Pyros, Cypress Hill, Stone Temple Pilots, Rage Against the Machine
1993: Main Stage: Primus, Arrested Development, Alice in Chains, Dinosaur Jr., Fishbone, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Babes in Toyland, Front 242 Side Stage: Sebadoh, Cell, Mutabaruka, Luscious Jackson, Mosquito, Mercury Rev
1994: Main Stage: Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, Green Day, A Tribe Called Quest, The Breeders, L7, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Boredoms Side Stage: Stereolab, Charlie Hunter Trio, Shonen Knife, Lambchop, Guided By Voices, The Flaming Lips, Verve, Boo Radleys, Cypress Hill, Black Crowes
1995: Main Stage: Hole, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Moby, Beck, Superchunk, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Jesus Lizard, Sinead O'Connor, Elastica Side Stage: Yo La Tengo, Patti Smith, Coolio, Brainiac, Redman, The Roots
1996: Main Stage: Waylon Jennings, Rage Against the Machine, Violent Femmes, Cheap Trick, Soundgarden, Metallica, Cocteau Twins, Wu Tang Clan, Devo, The Tea Party, Steve Earle, Rancid, Screaming Trees, The Ramones, Shaolin Monks, Psychotica Side Stage: Ben Folds Five, Cornershop, Soul Coughing, You Am I, The Melvins Indie Stage: The Cows, Crumb
1997: Main Stage: Devo, Orbital, The Prodigy, The Orb, Tricky, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tool, KoRn, Julian and Damian Marley and the Uprising Band, James, Failure Side Stage: Eels, Porno for Pyros
2003: Main Stage: Jane's Addiction, Queens of the Stone Age, Jurassic 5, The Donnas, Audioslave, Incubus, Cold, A Perfect Circle, The Distillers
2004 (CANCELLED DUE TO LOW TICKET SALES): Morrissey, PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, The Killers, The Flaming Lips, The Von Bondies, String Cheese Incident, Modest Mouse, Le Tigre, Gomez, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, DJ Danger Mouse, Polyphonic Spree, Broken Social Scene, The Datsuns, Bumblebeez 81, The Secret Machines, The Thrills, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Elbow, Wheat, The Coup.
The Simpsons
In a 1996 episode of The Simpsons called Homerpalooza, Homer takes Bart and Lisa to an alternative music festival called Hullabalooza. It includes Cypress Hill, Peter Frampton, The Smashing Pumpkins and Sonic Youth.
The 2004 tour, featuring Morrissey, Sonic Youth and The Flaming Lips, had been set to begin July 14 in Auburn, Wash., and continue through August, including stops in Toronto, New York, Atlanta and Dallas.
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