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Lollapalooza 2007 Wrapup W/Photos

photo : michael maly

You’ve probably already had enough of Lollapalooza reports and photos, but I still have my collected thoughts on my first Chicago version of the Lollapalooza experience to share if you care to indulge. This was my first Chicago based version of Lollapalooza, as the festival has been resurrected twice since it’s original inception in 1991 by founder Perry Ferrell, and I had caught the original touring music spectacle sometime during it’s first few years of existence. My overall experience at this years’ festival was great, but the shining moment came while watching Perry Ferrell and his Satellite Party perform Led Zepplin’s “Whole Lot of Love” for all of the little Lollapaloozers on the Kidzapalooza stage. It wasn’t because it was the best performance I had seen, it was because it reminded me of seeing Perry Ferrell talk about why he had organized the Festival in the beginning. Why do you think he started this crazy thing called Lallapalooza and where did the name Lallapalooza come from? I know the answers to both and I hope that you do as well.

A Quick wrap-up of thoughts on my experience with some more personal favorite photos I have found while digging through the files and files of pics.

It was great to see Ghostland Observatory play to the sizeable audience that they did, and the fact that they secured a spot on the main stage is even more impressive. Being a band that gets little to no air play, they drew a much bigger audience than some of the bands getting plenty of airplay on the corporate airwaves.
Pleased to see Blonde Redhead recreate the wonderful sounds off of their latest release 23 in the live setting. I’m sure that there was a lot of gadgetry involved, but joyful nonetheless.
The lines for beer and porta-potties were unbelievably short if non-existent throughout the entire festival.
Seeing Patti Smith in the media area stop to take photos of a couple of cute little dogs with her classic Polaroid camera was priceless.

Everyone has to pee sometime…

photo : michael maly

The crowd for Cold War Kids stretched as far as the eye could see, and they definitely could have benefited from a larger stage, but the performance was right on as they have been each time I have caught them live.
Despite my hesitance to embrace Spoon’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga fully, the live performance was one of my favorite from the festival and they continue to improve in that area each time I see them.

Spoon

photo : michael maly

Aside from the lengthy trek from one end of the park to the next and the washed out sound on the Citi Stage that I experienced when some distance from the stage, I thoroughly enjoyed this Chicago Lollapalooza experience and look forward to next year.

Photos and some video of My Morning Jacket performing. The video comes compliments of Stereogum, whom it was a pleasure to meet.

Ghostland Observatory