Trent Reznor got nostalgic Sunday night. "Seventeen summers ago Perry Farrell asked me to join Lollapalooza," said the Nine Inch Nails frontman. "We were just kids from Cleveland who didn't know anything."
Reznor did indeed spend quite a bit of time in Cleveland and grew up in Mercer, Pa., about 90 miles away. He also attended school for one year at Allegheny College.
Nine Inch Nails rocked the Bud Light stage at the north end of Grant Park, mixing old hits like "Head Like a Hole" with newer songs like "The Hand That Feeds." Their light show was phenomenal and they played a few songs behind a cage-like fence. One of the encore numbers was "Hurt," the song Johnny Cash once covered.
Other highlights from Day 3 of Lollapalooza:
-Today was steamier than yesterday but still mostly tolerable.
-Lollapalooza is no place for an agoraphobe. Admittedly, I was tired of the scene a bit today--one too many people bumping into me, a few too many port-a-poddies. Still, a lot of fun overall.
-Girl Talk was fun. It was basically a guy with a laptop (Gregg Gillis, a former biomedical engineer no less), but he almost trumped Gnarls Barkley with a dance party atmosphere at the Citi stage.
-Saul Williams was interesting, harder than expected.
-Gnarls Barkley was good, but I felt played a few too many of their darker songs from their more recent album.
-This was a tiring weekend, and I'm running out of steam now.
Dune adventure
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Sonja, Celeste and I walked around Montrose Point today to investigate the
aftermath of the Halloween 2014 storm. The shoreline has been altered by
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2 comments:
I have been meaning to download the album by Girl Talk. I heard him on a mash up show on wrnn 103.1, a public radio station I like out of Charlotesville. Did you all catch Mason Jennings?
We did not catch Mason...he played at about 1:30 and we didn't make it any earlier than 3 on any of the days. We did see G. Love cover Jack Johnson's "Rodeo Clowns," which was kinda cool.
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