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Lollapalooza

I haven't had a chance to blog about Lollapalooza. A friend gave me tickets to it for my birthday. It was on Sunday, outside, in August, in Texas. It was fucking HOT. It's AFRICA hot! (guess the movie that is from and I'll give you...well... nothing)
We had lawn seats and after the long walk from the parking lot on cement, we had an UPHILL walk to get find a place to sit. I was sick that day anyway, so this didn't help. By the time we found a spot and spread out our blanket, I told my friend I wasn't moving and if he wanted to go visit the second stage and all the hippy booths, he could go alone. And he did...
He called me from down there later to tell me about this cool band playing on the second stage but Jurassic 5 was playing on the main stage in front of me and it was loud so I just hung up on him.
He made his way back to me and told me about this band called 30 Seconds. I said "30 Seconds to Mars??"
So, I went back down there and sure enough it WAS 30 Seconds To Mars but their set was over and chicks were hovering around their lead singer, Jared Leto.
I did get to see him up close and even with the long stringy hair and the freaky tattoo on his forehead, he's dreamy.

We missed The Donnas on the mainstage but while we were down there, they were signing autographs so I got to stare at them for a few minutes and I guess that's as good.

By the time we made it back UPHILL to our spot, I wanted to die. I felt like dying. I was praying to God to take me right that moment. I kept telling my friend I was going to hurl if I didn't get some water right then. (Am I high maintenance?)
About that time, Queens of the Stone Age came on and they were pretty awesome. Perry Farrell came out and sang The Sky Is Falling with them and that was cool.
Incubus was next and man, they were really good. I've always liked them but wasn't a huge fan but they made a big fan out of me that day.
I felt suddenly old when they broke out into a Lionel Ritchie song, Hello, and I was able to sing along with feeling. I looked around and the parents of a 15 yr old and I were the only ones singing.

Audioslave was next and OH MY GOD. They were amazing. Utterly amazing.
Chris Cornell is a freaking GOD. Tom Morello tore it UP!
One of the best moments of the night was when they did an awesome rendition of The White Stripes song, Seven Nation Army.
That was great!

We stayed for one Jane's Addiction song. Just so I could leer at Dave Navarro for a few minutes. I'm not a Jane's Addiction fan so I figured this would be a good time to beat the crowd leaving the pavillion.

My friend wasn't an Audioslave fan going into this show, but he is now.
You should be too!

Posted by De at August 15, 2003 12:58 PM