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Review: Paramount Room
It’s difficult to choose only one performance that was my favorite from 2007 Lollapalooza. Polyphonic Spree's joyous performance captured my heart and made me remember what Lollapalooza and all music festivals are for — losing myself in the music. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs put on an energetic, tight set, and Daft Punk brought it all home with a phenomenal stage show that was never topped throughout the weekend.
The performance that was miles ahead of everyone else for me was Iggy and the Stooges. I came into the show with high expectations. He’s a legendary performer renowned for his live show — it’s impossible to not have any expectations. Those expectations were not only achieved, they were exceeded by far. Iggy ran out on stage to screams, mugged for the cameras, humped amps, ran out into the crowd, and never once stopped.
The mayhem factor grew even larger when he invited the crowd on stage much to the chagrin of the security. As hundreds of fans started climbing the barricade and storming the stage, my friend and I looked at each other with wide eyes; this could get out of control fast. Surprisingly, the stage exit of the fans was orderly, and Iggy continued the show just as possessed by the sound as before. During "T.V. Eye," Iggy kicked a cameraman while he was filming, and then later that same cameraman’s aide was slammed up against the stage scaffolding by a security guard. The set was always on the verge of mayhem, a little scary, a little sexual, a lot loud and very rock-n-roll.
Iggy’s energy never waned. He covered every inch of that stage making sure every member of the audience could partake in that energy. It was a rock-n-roll primer for every other performer on any stage this year at Lollapalooza, and I was happy to have been there for the schooling.
Photo of Iggy Pop by Olivia Leigh.
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Please stop the Lolla posts. You've made your point, move on.
12 posts! Is this a record?
going in to chicagoist's lollapalooza coverage, i had high expectations. let me tell you all about my expectations, because everyone cares about my precious expectations. i expected chicagoist would be concise, offer a fresh perspective, and not drown the site with coverage of a pseudo local event that attracts more out of towners than locals. it's impossible not to have expectations. needless to say, my expectations...who cares, shut up already!
Welcome to Pitchforkapaloozist.
Degotaris--or whatever his name is--from the Sun Times had the best coverage of this fest, by far.
LOL!
She just called Lolla scary!!
HAHAHA
I was at Lolla for all 3 days, and just figured I'd share a few experiences with anyone who cares.
First, amidst the critics trying to justify their decisions to see Daft Punk, nobody seems to be mentioning the Ben Harper show on Friday where Eddie Vedder showed up and did an awesome duet with Ben.
Second, Brian Aubrey from Silversun Pickups sounded less hoarse than normal live. Awesome set on Friday. Than Nicki Monninger (the bassist) showed up for a duet with Snow Patrol (I wasn't there) on Saturday, and then with Peter, Bjorn and John on Sunday. You couldn't charge me enough to see this class act.
Third, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah beat all predictions of doom on Saturday. 5 of 6 people in our group agreed that was the performance that most exceeded expectations.
TV on the Radio seemed overhyped, sorta generic stuff, but the singer's vocals don't really match up well with the music. Sorta like Plain White T's (not that Plain White T's were there).
Muse was awesome on Saturday, and Pearl Jam was prolly 'bout a 90/100. Too much talking and politicking, and for quite a few people there, the crowd singing along was louder than the music from the stage. Weird.
Awesome peaceful crowd generally, though when Lolla asks me (and they will), I'm going to recommend that they either ban liquor sales until 6 or 7, or they limit sales to 2 or 3 per adult for each day. There were too many drunks at night on Friday and Saturday, and quite annoying at that.
Finally, the closest I saw to a riot was a few stoned pimply 14 year old boys at the TV On the Radio show. People were walking around barefoot all weekend, and about 50 densely packed people get to witness one of these assholes take a liquor bottle out, finish it, and then stomp on it to shatter it. Still don't have an answer on what anyone was supposed to do 'bout that one.
All in all an excellent weekend.
Hello miss mcCoy!! (if it is you, you'll know what i'm talking about)
I ran into this by accident. We used to drink together before you (and your click) just blew me off back in 1996 or so. Don't worry i'm not trying to get in contact with you. I was just wondering, what became of the rest of the gang (your gang that is).
Russel
Dana
Brenda (what was here real last name)
Jenny
I couldn't figure out how to send you an email so I posted this as a comment.
I'll check it in a week or so.