Festivals are fun!
I saw the first Lollapalooza in 1991. To the European readers, Lollapalooza was a concert festival that took place in the summertime and traveled 8-16 bands across the country on two or three stages.
It took it's lead from European festivals like Glastonbury and Lowlands, but lasted more than three days and moved around. And for a while it was the only festival in town.
Summertime 2007 and you can't swing a guitar and not hit a least 4 festivals in your 'hood.
I like festivals for their variety of bands, people, attitudes and foods. The community aspect of being in a crowd with 20,000 other people who think they were fans of Tool way before you were, fills me with a deep sense of belonging.
If you can't make one this year, recreating a festival is easy:Take a boombox with a mix tape(cd) in it outside with you. Press play. Rock.
Dress in layers,
Z-Teab
Boom Chicago
I saw the first Lollapalooza in 1991. To the European readers, Lollapalooza was a concert festival that took place in the summertime and traveled 8-16 bands across the country on two or three stages.
It took it's lead from European festivals like Glastonbury and Lowlands, but lasted more than three days and moved around. And for a while it was the only festival in town.
Summertime 2007 and you can't swing a guitar and not hit a least 4 festivals in your 'hood.
I like festivals for their variety of bands, people, attitudes and foods. The community aspect of being in a crowd with 20,000 other people who think they were fans of Tool way before you were, fills me with a deep sense of belonging.
If you can't make one this year, recreating a festival is easy:Take a boombox with a mix tape(cd) in it outside with you. Press play. Rock.
Dress in layers,
Z-Teab
Boom Chicago
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