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* MTV ♪

Yo, what the fuck's up, Lollapalooza?

2nd MAN: Lollapalooza!

You don't deserve this,

but it's gonna be great anyway.

♪ Happiness hit her ♪

♪ Like a train on a track ♪

3rd MAN: There's a deep amount of meaning that comes

with playing on this stage here tonight.

2nd WOMAN: Oh, my God. This has made my life.

♪ Still no turning back ♪

It was magical.

I can't believe this is happening to us.

It was a coming together of ideas.

I'm going to get in this space bubble over here. Right?

Come on, motherfuckers, come on.

3rd WOMAN: We weren't just playing to city kids.

We were playing to suburban kids,

rural kids, and they got their minds blown.

-It delivered

culture to people who had never

understood what culture was.

We are all privileged

to see... our...

Pixies!

We did something that had never been done.

It changed the music industry,

and it certainly changed the concert industry.

It took outrageous musical artistry

and made it a global phenomenon.

Show me how it feels to be alive!

♪ Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father ♪

We're just at Lollapalooza '92.

We're traveling around, having fun.

♪ Leave all your love and your longing behind ♪

♪ You can't carry it with you if you want to survive ♪

♪ The dog days are over ♪

♪ The dog days are... ♪

All these years later,

it's still such a great festival.

But the thing that a lot of people don't understand is

this started out with Perry Farrell

and Jane's Addiction.

Perry Farrell is

the heart and soul of Lollapalooza.

When I started Lollapalooza,

all I thought this was, was a farewell party

for my band, Jane's Addiction.

♪ Gimme that, gimme back ♪

♪ That automobile, turn off that smokestack ♪

♪ And that goddamn radio ♪

♪ Hum along with me ♪

♪ Hum along with the TV ♪

I am not...

...music business. I'm an artist.

I want the greatest musicians

to be heard and seen.

But not if we're going to sell out.

Not if we're going to take the easy way out.

It's been my struggle.

Money doesn't always help art.

In fact, too much money destroys art.

I didn't know I was going to be a musician.

I came out to California to surf and skate.

And these guys that I was working with

as a graphic artist,

they started the Desolation Center.

We're not going to be...

standing on a stage performing for people.

The whole environment is going to be our stage,

and we're going to be using that.

We went out into the desert,

completely illegally,

and they were finding groups

like Einsturzende Neubauten

and Sonic Youth.

That was my indoctrination

into the Los Angeles

underground music scene and art scene.

That was the beginnings

of the ideas for Lollapalooza.

It was outside the status quo.

You know, it's where all the fuck-you heroes exist.

When I moved to Hollywood, I did not know at the time

that there was a bubbling underground scene.

One night, my friend Adam Jones,

who had later surfaced in the band Tool,

took me to a different kind of bar

with different kinds of bands in it.

They were making art for art's sake.

They were making something that was very, very authentic.

The shows were all do-it-yourself.

And the scene was one that was completely

kind of self-created.

And the high priests of that scene

were a band called Jane's Addiction.

♪ Coming down the mountain ♪

♪ One of many children ♪

♪ Everybody has their own opinion ♪

♪ Everybody has ♪

♪ Their own opinion ♪

♪ Holding it back ♪

♪ Hurts so bad ♪

♪ Jumping out of my flesh, and I said ♪

Well, what kind of music do you do?

It's kind of a cross between, uh...

I would say Duke Ellington

and...

- And Bad Brains. - And Bad Brains.

It was punk rock.

There was, like, 200 kids diving off the stage

and getting into mosh pits.

You know, it was like one of these--

my mouth was on the ground.

♪ I was coming down the mountain ♪

Don Muller, my partner, took me to maybe

maybe the second gig they ever did.

Right then, I think live music

from a darker place went next level.

♪ We had the same opinion ♪

And they all came out on stage in diapers.

Who are these people?

♪ And I say... ♪

♪ You better cash in! ♪

Perry was the greatest frontman

I ever saw.

It's like lightning bolts are

shooting through his body.

He's like, you know... with the most energy

I've seen of a human being.

♪ Yeah! ♪

Stephen Perkins is an incredible drummer.

Eric Avery drove the band with those incredible

bass lines and grooves.

And then Dave Navarro's guitar playing.

You know, it brought you back to the things that

you loved about Led Zeppelin and other heavy bands.

Jane's Addiction should be credited for

kicking down the door

for the true alternative explosion.

A lot of people think about Nirvana busting it wide open.

Personally, I think Jane's busted it wide open.

Sounds like a bunch of kids

just getting into no-good trouble.

But...

It actually...

we were-- we were creating culture.

But I didn't know that.

But that's where culture always...

Culture always comes from that place.

It... It is not a trickle down.

Okay. Come on.

Is that picking me up? Am I on? Okay.

Hi, I'm Kurt Loder with MTV News.

We're in East Hollywood, so I'm told,

with Jane's Addiction, a band you're gonna be

hearing a lot more about when their album comes out

later this year on Warner Brothers.

Were you surprised when this big bidding war

broke out among all these record companies?

Suddenly you were, like, the hottest thing in LA.

Were you shocked, or did you think it was--

- Not at all.

I had not one shred of a doubt

that they were gonna do whatever the fuck they wanted,

and good luck, Warner Brothers.

That's what-- I was crystal clear on that.

And that's what happened.

So, Jane's Addiction,

"Nothing Shocking," I mean, that was

such a bellwether for the subculture

being represented in a way that had

major label muscle, money,

and ultimately exposure.

But at the time, Perry's still an artist.

He's making album covers

that are art, that are then getting banned

and then having to release a censored album cover.

Censorship has taken a small shot to the head

in Royal Oak, Michigan, the town where police

last week, acting on a single anonymous

telephone complaint, entered a local record store

and seized a poster advertising

the new Jane's Addiction album.

Eight out of 12 major retailers

refused to carry "Nothing Shocking."

That seemed like a looming disaster,

but what it did was just make people really curious.

We are asking the recording industry

to voluntarily assist parents who are concerned

by placing a warning label on music products.

This is a time of the PMRC,

of Tipper Gore, of arguments

about the danger of rock and roll,

that this is going to corrupt teenagers.

And so it made Jane's Addiction

that much hotter of a commodity.

We're trying to make adults sick.

Didn't Wim Hof say, you know,

dunk yourself in the bucket of ice every morning?

It's good for your immune system to be shocking.

So, yeah, there you go. I'm helping humanity.

The last weekend in August,

festival season wrapped up in Reading, England,

where over 40,000 people

watched over 60 alternative bands.

It's nice for a change to actually go

and play outdoors. This is an open air festival.

- That's neat, you know? -What do fans think

makes a festival better than a plain old concert?

It's in a gig. You just go for a few hours,

and then you get home again. Whereas here you can just

get drunk for the whole weekend.

It's just the atmosphere.

When everyone's outside together.

It's totally different to the rest of your life.

Reading was a cornucopia

of artists and scenes

and curation, and it was such a vibe.

I remember saying, "Perry, we have to do it."

- One, two!

At that time, we were rocking.

Jane's Addiction was going off...

and England was waiting for us.

That's a big deal on a musician from America.

Jane's is now a big deal in London.

So, they played a club show the day before Reading.

Everybody's pogo-ing in the club.

The walls are sweating.

It's 300 seats.

They finish.

I remember saying bye to them.

We're standing in the alley after the gig.

And...

then they went off, okay?

Went back to the hotel, or whatever they did.

Next morning, Ted Gardner,

who was their tour manager,

God rest his soul,

said, "We got to cancel Reading."

And I was like, what? "Perry lost his voice."

♪ Three days was the morning ♪

What did I do? I go and get so fucked up...

I lost my voice.

♪ Oh... ♪

So I ended up not seeing...

Reading at all.

♪ Covered now by three days ♪

But my attitude with Jane's Addiction was

that my work with them...

for now was wrapping up.

We... really couldn't stand each other.

Either Eric had decided to leave,

or Perry had decided, that's enough, whatever,

and I'm going to end this... which was pretty sad.

And so they decided to do their farewell tour.

And I'm like, "I'm going down to Reading."

And Stephen Perkins,

who's called Perky for a reason, says,

"Let's go. I'm not-- I'm not sitting around here

in the hotel," and we go spend the weekend at Reading.

♪ I just want a lover like any other ♪

♪ What do I get? ♪

It was like being in a party

of all your favorite bands.

♪ What do I get? ♪

♪ Oh... what do I get? ♪

So I think I turned to Perkins and said,

"Why don't we just do this

in America as your farewell tour?"

And he said, "Oh, my God, that's a great idea.

Let's go back to the hotel and tell 'em."

And Perry fell in love with the idea.

Everybody fell in love with the idea.

♪ What do I get? ♪

Hearing from Marc, all the shit that I missed,

like what I could have participated in,

I just started to imagine

what would happen if we did it.

Perry said, "I wanna leave on a high note.

"I want to do a summer tour.

"I want to have seven opening acts.

"I want to have giant burritos,

"and I want art, and I want political boosts.

"I want the NRA set up next to PETA.

I want to be completely subversive."

And it's like, okay...

seven opening acts, all this stuff,

and we got some months to figure it out.

Okay, I guess we're gonna figure it out.

♪ You hear laughter ♪

♪ Cracking through the walls, it sends you spinning ♪

We round-robin'd around the room, everybody picked

their favorite band.

Dave said Siouxsie.

I said Pixies and Nine Inch Nails.

♪ Head like a hole, black as your soul ♪

Eric said Butthole Surfers.

Who said Rollins?

I wonder if it was Ted who wanted Rollins.

That might have been it.

- * Man, I see you... ♪ - Perry said Ice-T.

♪ Body Count's in the house ♪

We went and got everybody but...

The Pixies.

And so then, we decided at the time,

Living Colour was blowing up.

Vernon and Living Colour was on that Reading Festival.

They got the slot that The Pixies turned down.

♪ Look in my eyes ♪

♪ What do you see? ♪

We opened for the Rolling Stones.

And I was really looking forward to going

in the studio and working on our next record,

you know, 'cause we've been touring kind of nonstop.

But it was impressed upon me,

there's this festival that

you're being invited to be on, and you should do it.

♪ Cult of personality ♪

Got a call at 1:00, 1:30 in the morning.

It was Perry.

"Geiger, I got the name!

Lollapalooza. It's a lollapalooza."

I'm like, what the hell is that?

It's something and-or someone

great or wonderful.

- Huh? What? - And it's a giant,

swirling, colorful lollipop.

It was as if it belonged to me forever.

We bought something like 2,000,

2,500 lollipops,

and I had the press release printed

in white ink on red cellophane.

We wrapped that paper around each and every lollipop,

and that's what was sent out to the press.

At the time, nobody had done this.

There was no blueprint for this whatsoever.

It is hard enough to do one festival,

one festival day per year,

let alone tour with a touring festival.

It's insane.

In 1991,

there was 28 cities.

It was just a main stage.

And we said, "Okay, we'll do it."

not knowing, of course, if we knew how to do it,

but we tried to figure it out.

You have to understand that alternative music

back in 1991

didn't sell 18,000 seats, not even close.

But Perry believed that alternative music was

much bigger than

the radio stations were being led to think.

We had to convince the whole music industry

that we were going to do this,

so we would find people in their offices,

or we'd find people through the radio stations,

or we'd find people at record stores.

Whatever we had to do.

It was like...

will people buy a ticket? Will people show up?

Two-one-two, two-two-two-two-two!

One-two, check one-two two-two-two-two.

- Okay. - Whoa! Two-one.

two-two-two-two-two,

And... whoa!

Two, check, two-two-two-two-two-two.

Hi, I'm Kurt Loder, and this is the day in rock

for July 18th, 1991.

If you're tired of seeing the same old bands

going out on the same old tours,

then you'll definitely want to keep an eye out

for a wild new multi-act outing

called the Lollapalooza Tour.

Here at Compton Terrace, just outside

Phoenix, Arizona, the temperature

is over a hundred degrees, and the excitement is

running high, as the band sound check

for the opening night of the Lollapalooza Tour.

Phoenix, Compton Terrace, first show...

106, 110?

It's 106.

No cans, no bottles.

I'm going to say 109.

Once you're in, you're in.

I think it was 115 degrees.

Vernon, is it hot enough for you?

Yeah.

It was the hottest day

in the history of the world,

and...

We're starting at 1:00 or 2:00,

and people are out there in black.

- Are you hot at all? - Yeah, I am.

I'm really hot. I just moved here.

I'm not used to this weather.

I got the air-conditioned clothing, all holes.

Nice, lets a breeze through, you know? Keep it cool.

Light colors. Nothing too dark

except my boots, you know? It's hot out in the sun.

It was bad. It was bad.

It is a test.

Because you're exerting the energy of...

pro wrestler.

So, in the mornings, Henry would be pumping iron.

There was a weight set set up

right back-- you know, intimidatingly.

You had to cross the threshold.

It's almost like-- imagine if Arnold Schwarzenegger

was punk rock.

What if they locked you in here all day?

What if they just put up fences with German razor wire

all around this?

And what if they turned it into a concentration camp?

And they passed out

one gallon of water for all of you?

Cecil B. DeMille said, like, what's... when he was asked,

you know, how do you create a great epic movie?

He said, start with an apocalypse and work up.

I think the Rollins Band kind of, like, fulfilled that.

Uh...

extreme mental discipline.

Six days a week of weight training,

Climbing the rope, doing the bar dips,

and, uh...

a real belief in the total apocalypse.

Do you think that your place on this bill

reflects an increase in respectability

for Nine Inch Nails in particular

and industrial music in general?

I don't know. I mean, I don't know

that we're really an industrial band.

We've been tagged as that, and I don't mind it.

At the time, I found that I liked the sound

of... a drum machine.

And I like the sound of a computer

playing something super rhythmic

for certain things.

And that became what Nine Inch Nails was about.

We had a four-track cassette tape player on stage

where one track was a click. The drummer would play, too.

And if there was something that I wanted

the sound of the computer or the precision of that,

a sequence of some sort, we'd put that

on a playback track.

You know, today everybody does that,

or it's all playback or whatever it is.

It was a different world, but at the time

it felt like...

you could be picked on for your tape deck

being seen, right? It's cheating.

♪ You give me the reason ♪

♪ You give me control ♪

So Henry and I were watching them

for the first time.

And things were starting to sound real weird.

♪ Did you think I wouldn't recognize... ♪

What do you not want to happen...

when you've got a tape deck on stage?

There's only two things that can fuck up.

The tape breaks, you know, and the tape machine breaks.

♪ Lies, lies, lies... ♪

One of those happened in the worst way

during the first song because it stops for a second,

- duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh--

Uh-oh, but then it comes back on a little bit.

So, it's not broke, but something's just enough

that you're not-- you look and say,

"What the fuck's happening?"

♪ ...everything, well then, just give me a taste ♪

Nine Inch Nails' equipment, of course, had heat stroke.

He did the only thing one could do.

He's gonna punish the equipment.

And equipment got thrown around,

and they stormed off stage.

I didn't know what else to do.

What the fuck?!

So, I remember being on the bus like, oh, my God,

why-- I can't believe.

"MTV's here."

Well, we were officially the first casualty

of the Lollapalooza Tour here in Phoenix, Arizona.

And I guess what happened is

a lot of our equipment in the back was

sitting in the sun for quite a long time,

baking in the desert heat.

And since we are an electronic-based

kind of band, when the main part

of your sound becomes ruined and melted,

which I think is what happened,

it was cutting out and just becoming a nightmare.

That was the first band I've ever seen walk off stage

and not perform.

And people were not happy with that.

We came here to see them and have a good time

and stuff, party with them, and their equipment messed up.

I can understand they want their equipment to sound good

and stuff, but they just bugged out on us.

That wasn't cool, so...

From a business perspective,

what are we going to do?

Jesus. Do we have to give refunds?

Trent and the band are very sorry

about what happened, but shit happens,

and they're dealing with it the best they can.

They just couldn't go on with that show.

So, please hold on to your stubs because

they're gonna make it up to each and every one of you.

We didn't have our shit together.

You know, glance over at Living Colour,

and it's rack after rack of professionally--

you know, like, looks like fucking NASA, you know?

We've got...

We didn't know what we were doing, so...

Elvis has left the building.

Living Colour was a very, very important part

of Lolla '91.

And never really got the credit

as one of the cornerstones

of building the alternative arc.

♪ ...a reason to believe ♪

♪ We all won't be received at Graceland ♪

♪ I got a reason to believe ♪

♪ We all won't be received ♪

Until Living Colour,

you don't really see that many Black people

playing rock music on the radio

since Jimi Hendrix.

They opened the door for bands like Rage Against Machine.

Without Living Colour, Rage Against the Machine

doesn't get a record deal ever.

One of the hottest

rock and roll tours this summer

is a real Lollapalooza.

Mark Shearer reports on what all the noise is about.

Live, in "Living Colour,"

it's the Lollapalooza Festival.

In a summer of slumping concert ticket sales,

this is one of the few tours that's packing them in.

It's a traveling all-day festival featuring

seven of the loudest of what are called

alternative rock acts.

I just think it's a place where everyone can come and be

cool with each other, and listen to music

- and learn from each other. -In between sets,

thought-provoking messages are flashed to the crowd.

And in a tent, an array of

politically-correct organizations

do their best to proselytize.

This could be a huge commercial...

extravaganza, propaganda thing, but it's not.

And it's being used to hopefully

open a few eyes up to alternative ideas,

alternative ways of looking at things.

My idea for Lollapalooza

was to do things other than music.

That's pretty cool. Think you'll get a real one?

I wanted an art gallery.

With all underground, emerging artists.

This piece right here is called

"Shaking Off the Albatross."

And also... nonprofits.

Back in the '90s, I worked for

the Surfrider Foundation, an environmental group

for ocean-related issues.

I was in the office

when somebody called and said,

"The Lollapalooza Tour, headlined by Jane's Addiction,

"would like Surf Rider Foundation

to go out on the road as one of our nonprofits."

We're really pleased with the turnout.

Everybody's been really cool to us.

People were kind of coming

to Lollapalooza, looking for information.

This is a petition to help protect

access to health clinics.

- To clinics for abortion. - Right.

- And health care. - And health care.

And this one is to...

block the nomination of Clarence Thomas

to the Supreme Court.

It's a petition to overturn

Clarence Thomas's nomination.

They jump. They're like, "Where do I sign?" You know?

And how fast can they sign? And they go get their friends.

Communication was radically different

because there was no Google-- couldn't look this shit up.

We knew that there'd be a lot of

animal rights supporters here at Lollapalooza,

but there's so many vegetarians.

It seems like the youth of America has gone veggie.

- It's great. -Everybody was

fully invested.

Their attention was all-in.

There was no phones.

Well, we're here to build

support for the Brady Bill, and we're trying

to get President Bush to sign it into law.

He said he's gonna be supportive, and we just

wanna make sure he hears from people who support

a seven day waiting period on handguns.

Lolla '91 was this...

Johnny Appleseed tour.

That was the Declaration of Independence

of the alternative nation.

It was like "Revenge of the Nerds."

Back in the '90s,

I knew there was something bubbling

on the underground for the youth movement that

was happening, because I was part of it,

my friends were part of it.

Lollapalooza was the beginning of Generation X

making the world known that they were here.

I love you.

It was a complete gathering of the misfits

that had one thing in common, which was music.

I mean, if that's what society wants to call me is a fag,

maybe I'm proud of it.

You had the goth kids,

you had the punk rockers,

you had the intellectuals

that would wear Buddy Holly glasses

and the surfers and the skaters.

- Who did you come to see? - Jane's Addiction.

- Ice-T. - O.G.!

Original gangster!

Jane's Addiction. Definitely Jane's Addiction.

- Definitely Nine Inch Nails! - Butthole Surfers!

Living Colour. Siouxsie and the Banshees.

They're all good.

ICE-T: I just think it's the first

American...

truly eclectic concert series...

since Woodstock.

And even Woodstock wasn't as eclectic,

because Woodstock was pretty much all rock.

Yeah, my dad went to Woodstock.

- Really? - Yeah.

And you're like, is he happy that

- you're here right now? - He doesn't know

where the hell I am right now.

- Really? - Yeah.

You don't talk to him at all?

Well, I do, but not very often.

He bitches at me about

my nose ring and shit, so...

Well, the Gen X, I mean, these are the children

of the divorces-- the hippie divorce.

- Were your parents hippies? - No, they're yuppies.

Now they're yuppies, though.

Are you gonna do more drugs today?

- Yeah. -These are the kids

that saw all that hope

and how their parents even betrayed those ideals

and became materialistic.

I love you, Mom. I'm taking acid tonight, Mom.

It's gonna be fucking great.

- Do you love your mom really? - I do.

- She loves you, huh? - She does love me.

- Even though I do drugs. - Really?

Gen X had no pretensions to hope.

When Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction conceived

a Lollapalooza tour, the idea wasn't just

to feature a wide-ranging musical lineup.

Jane's Addiction, Iced T,

Siouxsie and the Banshees and others are

consistently filling the venues they play.

It was incredible. It was killer.

It was stupendous. I can't believe it.

It was mind-blowing. I was totally blown away.

I couldn't-- I saw the crowd. They rocked.

- Paul, what do you think? - Ditto.

Lollapalooza '91 is covered really heavily

by MTV and MTV News

and alternative radio.

♪ Booze, tobacco ♪

♪ Dope, pussy ♪

And so you had huge word of mouth.

Everybody being really excited,

going... what the fuck is this?

Whoa!

After the first show in Phoenix,

I think every band was like,

okay, this thing is off and humming.

At some point, Fishbone played a few shows.

Everybody had big sets.

It's my first chance in front of 20,000 people

in America, and everybody was powerful.

I think everybody knew and ultimately felt, wow...

I'm sort of lucky to be here,

I'm part of something, you know.

It was bigger than anything

any of these artists or fans have seen at that time.

Siouxsie was the grandam.

I think, out of that whole lineup,

to everybody, she was the legendary, iconic artist.

Shh.

I don't think I said very much to her

the whole tour because I was scared shitless.

♪ At the close of day ♪

♪ The sunset cloaks ♪

♪ These words in shadowplay ♪

It never felt like we were...

in competition, necessarily, with anyone else.

And this felt more like there's a curious audience...

...who are not distracted by other things to do

because there's one stage,

and they were receptive to ideas.

Let me tell you a little bit about rock and roll.

Rock and roll has its own community.

You have Slayer Avenue.

Anthrax Road.

Up in the suburbs, you have Bon Jovi Court.

But, Ernie, why don't you tell us

what the rock community as a whole said

when five motherfucking niggas

walked into the first rock club with guitars.

You know what they said?

There goes the neighborhood!

ICE-T: Lollapalooza's all white kids.

Because white kids can afford the tickets.

They can afford the tour jackets,

the T-shirts and everything.

♪ Here come them fuckin'... ♪

It's like... okay.

So this is when it starts to change,

where the music is starting to infect everybody,

and you're like... they're with this.

You know why? 'Cause I'm a cop killer!

That 1991 Lollapalooza tour

was just months after the Rodney King beating,

and here he was singing "Cop Killer" on stage

in front of 12,000 white kids

with Slayer T-shirts, losing their fucking minds.

♪ I got my brain on hype ♪

ICE-T: Metal was using

imagery of the devil.

You got Dio and them, and they sing about

dragons and shit, right?

I'm not gonna sing about that. I'm going to sing about...

the devil I know.

♪ I'm a cop killer ♪

ICE-T: I've never been out there

promoting murdering cops.

♪ Cop killer, fuck police brutality ♪

ICE-T: It's a metaphor.

♪ Cop killer, I know ♪

♪ Your mama's grievin'... fuck her! ♪

♪ Cop killer, but tonight we get even ♪

I loved how outrageous

and courageous it was to say it.

- * Fuck the police ♪ - Let me see the fingers!

- * Fuck the police ♪ - Louder!

ICE-T: "Cop Killer" became "Authority Killer,"

the establishment killer.

Now the big problem in America is

infecting white youth with Black rage.

- * Motherfucker ♪ - So as long as I sing

to Black kids, they don't care.

But when your white daughter

starts agreeing with me, we've got a problem.

Break it down!

Fuck the police-- I can't hear you.

- * Fuck the police ♪ - * For Rodney King ♪

- * Fuck the police ♪ - * For Darryl Gates ♪

- * Fuck the police ♪ - * For your freedom ♪

- * Fuck the police ♪ - * For Rodney King ♪

- Let me hear you-- - * Cop killer! ♪

- * I'm a motherfuckin' ♪ - * Cop killer! ♪

♪ In the neighborhood ♪

There goes the neighborhood.

And I can never tell what Ernie's doing at all.

- When he's playing? - Ever, no.

The other guy's pretty good, you know?

- Which other guy? - Did you hear him?

- The other guitar? - Yeah.

Well, all those power chords is him.

Yeah, but you know what? He solos.

Oh, yeah, I've heard him solo, too.

I'm saying, yeah, he's good.

But Ernie, yeah, his sound is something.

And the bass player is great.

- I love Moose. - Moose, man.

We had 28 cities on the tour.

Every show was selling out, 15,000 to 18,000 people.

Chicago, I think it was 30,000.

♪ All that I can do ♪

♪ Is break myself in two ♪

Never heard of that band before.

Never liked a band with keyboards before.

And... they kicked everybody's ass.

It was a clarion call

that there was a different kind of music

that could be harder than heavy metal.

It's exactly the opposite of Phoenix.

It was a fucking sock to the face

that took everybody by surprise.

♪ My purity you stole ♪

♪ Did you think I wouldn't recognize... ♪

I remember it being...

better than we'd hoped.

In my memory, that was kind of what tipped us

into a different place.

It felt like a stick of dynamite was about to be lit.

♪ Kiss... your fist ♪

Culturally, something was shifting.

There's an energy here that's

sick of corporate bullshit.

♪ The extent of my sin ♪

Felt like revolution.

There goes some of my friends right there.

Hi.

Wonderful day, right here on Lollapalooza visit.

What does this represent? Talk into the camera.

Dope.

I just wanna shake your hand, man.

She just wants to shake my hand.

- Just wanna shake his hand. - How do you like the concert?

- Excellent. She loves it. - Great time.

Great time. What a bargain.

What a bargain-- bargain! That's good in America.

We're about to go over to definitely

one of the happening parts of the tour.

This is Lollapalooza Vision.

- Oh, please, no. - We'd like to know

how long have you been waiting?

About ten minutes.

- Ten minutes. - It's terrible.

- It's just terrible.

Let her in!

ICE-T: Let her in, let her in!

We're gonna wait and see.

How long-- who's been making her wait?

You made her wait. Get out of here!

Get out of there. Go on in there.

And don't leave because tonight Ice-T

and Perry of Jane's Addiction are gonna

- do something incredible. - Oh, yeah, yeah...

At the end of the tour,

my work with Jane's was wrapping up.

So, at one of the last shows...

I knew that Ice was going to be out with me.

I felt like we had the power

to do something memorable,

and he said, "Yeah, man, let's do it."

♪ Don't call me nigger... whitey ♪

Holy shit. They're doing

that Sly and the Family Stone song.

I remember thinking to myself,

what's the audience gonna think about this?

♪ Don't call me whitey... nigger ♪

♪ Don't call me nigger... whitey ♪

ICE-T: Perry picked that song out

as an anti-racist song,

because it was written by Sly and the Family Stone.

♪ Don't call me whitey... nigger ♪

That was super uncomfortable for a lot of people.

Couldn't happen today.

Couldn't have a white person singing

the N-word today. Fair enough.

But I thought it was

a powerful thing when they did it.

♪ Don't call me nigger... whitey ♪

Here are a white man and a Black man

having that conversation on stage with a Sly Stone song

in front of an audience whose jaw is agape.

♪ Whitey! ♪

♪ Whitey! ♪

It really felt like...

- * Motherfucker! ♪ - ...like,

one, we were getting our money's worth and two,

that this was something that was

a different kind of expression

than you've ever seen on a stage that big before.

Whoo!

ICE-T: It was shocking.

No-no-no-no, it wasn't the only intention

because I wouldn't have done it just for the shock.

And at the end we come toward each other,

and then we tango off.

ICE-T: You know, and we start off

like we're enemies and stuff,

but at the end, we end up dancing across the stage.

It was wild.

Perry is about bringing people together.

This whole Lollapalooza thing was

about bringing people together.

The intention we had was to bring people together

and see how stupid racism was.

You got the hardest Black band out there,

and you got him, and we're showing unity.

Sometimes that's how it works, you know?

I can't maybe bring us together with,

♪ love your mother, hug your children ♪

You got to catch them with the shock value,

and then hit them with the love.

So, you know, if you're morally offended,

you know, go watch "Oprah."

Fuck out of here.

You guys ready?

'91 Lala was

the Jane's Addiction final tour.

So they want to be remembered

for the best they can possibly be.

♪ Yeah! ♪

They wanna slay their heroes.

You know, you're going to want to be

better than everybody else.

Jane's, I was really a deep fan,

and it was always a privilege to be able

to just hang around and watch 'em... you know,

and see what was going to happen,

because it was also a pretty chaotic,

combustible time then.

The band was incredible. Perry was amazing.

They went on to be one of my favorite bands.

I felt that it was great right there.

The best work we did,

we left on the stage at Lolla.

I'd just came from this...

Lollapalooza and Jane's Addiction.

And now I don't know what I'm gonna do.

And it felt kind of nice. There was tranquility.

I felt very free.

I had nothing, not even an idea.

But Marc called me.

And said, "Guess who's gonna be doing

Lollapalooza this year?"

"What?" I said, "What are you talking about?"

"We're doing it again. We've got to do it again."

"We're doing it again.

And the Chili Peppers already want to do it."

That's how it went.

"You know, it sounds like you're asking me

"to build a party again.

"Sure.

Let's start there."

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