{"id":3295,"date":"2015-01-20T11:32:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T11:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2017-02-11T15:25:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T15:25:03","slug":"t-a-z-blog-lollapalooza-1994-the-limit-of-the-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/print-art\/t-a-z-blog-lollapalooza-1994-the-limit-of-the-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"T.A.Z. BLOG
LOLLAPALOOZA 1994 – The Limit Of The Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Originally conceived by Perry Farrell in 1991 as simply a \u201cfarewell tour\u201d for Jane\u2019s Addiction, Lollapalooza immediately and irrevocably entrenched itself in the history of live concert festivals touring the nation. In 1994, TAZ continued the Lollapalooza tradition with elaborate and explosive fanfare. Lollapalooza \u201994 booked Nirvana to headline, but they officially dropped out of the show on April 7th<\/sup> and the very next day Kurt Cobain was found dead in Seattle. Nonetheless, this festival had an astounding line-up that included The Smashing Pumpkins, George Clinton, Beastie Boys, L7, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, A Tribe Called Quest, Guided by Voices, The Breeders, and some seriously fantastic side stage acts, to boot. SPIN Magazine included Lollapalooza \u201994 in its list of the five best Lollapalooza line-ups ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For this markedly sensational festival, TAZ worked closely with Perry Farrell and, in Evans\u2019s words, \u201cdecorated every square inch of the place.\u201d TAZ was once again responsible for the creation of the Lollapalooza \u201894 poster, something Evans describes as embodying a \u201cnew tribalism,\u201d a refreshing and provocative metaphor for the impassioned message the music and art was broadcasting \u2013 a new way of thinking, seeing, being, existing. Evans considered the \u201cfans as shock troops carrying a fresh idea\u201d and TAZ\u2019s magnificent, azure 60-foot screaming Buddha\u2019s flanking the main stage and their diminutive counterparts adorning the posters \u2013 these represented this fresh idea, as well. They were compelling visual goads for a strong message of universality and higher, deeper, greater forces that aren\u2019t easily discernible.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>TAZ was also the creator of the breadth of Lollapalooza \u201894\u2019s myriad signage, t-shirts, and backstage passes, the stage backdrops, as well as the cover of Teeth<\/em>, an off-the-charts experimental, one-of-a-kind publication of put together exclusively for this particular festival. Why \u201cTeeth<\/em>\u201d? \u201cBecause everyone\u2019s are different,\u201d quipped the cover.<\/p>\n

Lollapalooza \u201994 was, for all intents and purposes, a wholly mid-90s happening, a wild and reckless merging of performance art and moshing and technological evolution. While the \u201cworld wide web\u201d was still in its nascent form where the general public was concerned, the \u201cElectric Carnival,\u201d a \u201cphreaky cyber sideshow\u201d invited the show\u2019s attendees to step in and check out the internet, \u201ca sprawling anarchic spider web of computers connecting people with each other and sharing information. You can play games, hang out in virtual coffeehouses, and visit entire cybercities.\u201d
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With the Electric Carnival\u2019s Alien Voices, Animation Sandbox, and Telemorphix \u201celectronic oddities,\u201d the most intrepid and trippy of Lolla lovers could create their own digital movies, digital puppet shows, and distort their voices for the sake of gleeful, ephemeral \"\"<\/a>entertainment. Presenting a queue of regular \u201croad poets,\u201d an LSD Flight Simulator (called \u201cThe Chameleon\u201d), a Rain Room, chanting Tibetan Monks, and an unbelievable second-stage line-up including The Verve, The Flaming Lips, Luscious Jackson, and Stereolab, Lollapalooza \u201894 was everything odd and extraordinary and wonderful that Perry Farrell had imagined. As Evans so succinctly describes: \u201cit was a seamless art experience . . . one gigantic rolling party.\u201d<\/p>\n

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