Opinion: It’s been 30 years since Lollapalooza opened the floodgates for a tidal wave of events and eccentrics on the shores of Kempenfelt Bay.
I know it seems like forever and a day ago, but there was a time when if you were a Torontonian who wanted to see the hottest acts of the still emerging alternative music genre, you headed north. About 100 kilometres up Highway 400, give or take.
Lollapalooza , Summersault and the Warped Tour weren’t the only circuses that came to Simcoe County in the years that followed. Festival-sized productions featuring Nine Inch Nails and a returning Soundgarden in 1994; Neil Young and Oasis in 1996 ; Beastie Boys with Canadians Choclair and Rascalz as openers, and Radiohead in 2001, all saw pre-smartphone audiences make a beeline to Barrie for the sole purpose of losing oneself in great music.
I’ve spent the last 30 years searching for bootlegged audio to corroborate this story, but halfway through “Even Flow,” Eddie Vedder stopped the song to tell the frenzied crowd to “Pick that big guy up. A human life is more important than any song.” It was a scary few minutes, sure, but the entire Lollapalooza experience was an exhilarating one for me personally.
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