An Oral History of the First Lollapalooza
On July 18, 1991, the Lollapalooza tour launched in Tempe, Arizona, in appropriately ramshackle fashion.
DANNY ZELISKO (promoter): Compton Terrace in Tempe, which I'd been booking for about seven years, was owned by Jess Nicks and Gene Nicks. Jess is Stevie Nicks' dad, and Gene is Jess' brother. Those two and Stevie were the three principals. So, Stevie Nicks presented the first Lollapalooza, in a way.
HAYNES: That place was just a flat, thankless expanse of land. ****ing miserable.
JOBSON: It was so hot you couldn't even put your hand on the steel the stage was constructed from. And we're in some rodeo ****hole in Arizona. Someone really thought that one out.
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