Morello Pumped for ‘Palooza
After a five-year hiatus, the multi-stage music festival
Lollapalooza will travel to thirty-three North American cities this
summer, starting July 3rd in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Headlined by
Jane’s Addiction, Audioslave, Queens of the Stone Age, Incubus,
Jurassic 5 and the Donnas, the roving rock fest is now scheduled to
wrap up August 30th in Syracuse, New York.
Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello, a veteran of Lollapalooza with
Rage Against the Machine, promises the tour hasn’t lost its
progressive, activist bent. “When Lollapalooza first emerged, it
was probably the most important tour to ever trek across the United
States,” he says. “Today’s current musical climate is really
hurting, I think it’s very important for Lollapalooza to
reestablish itself as the tour.”
According to Morello, a booth from his newly formed Axis of
Justice group will to sit alongside one for Perry Farrell’s pet
cause, alternative fuel, at tour stops.
Farrell, Jane’s Addiction frontman and the mastermind behind
Lollapalooza 1995 debut, explained his decision to resurrect the
tour with a surfing analogy: “It’s never a bad idea to take a rest
and wait for the perfect wave. With the music industry, the bands
that were out there and our availability, it just seemed like this
was the perfect wave.”
2003 Lollapalooza tour dates:
7/3: Grand Rapids, MI, Ionia County Fairgrounds
7/4: Indianapolis, IN, Verizon Wireless Music Center
7/6: Minneapolis, Target Center
7/8: Kansas City, MO, Sandstone Amphitheater
7/9: St. Louis, Riverport Amphitheater
7/11: Milwaukee, Marcus Amphitheater
7/12: Chicago, New World Music Theater
7/13: Columbus, OH, Polaris Amphitheater
7/16: Cincinnati, Riverbend Music Center
7/18: Detroit, DTE Energy Music Theater
7/19: Pittsburgh, Post-Gazette Pavilion
7/20: Cleveland, Blossom Music Center
7/23: Holmdel, NJ, PNC Bank Arts Center
7/25: Boston, Great Woods Amphitheater
7/27: Philadelphia, E-Centre
7/30: Virginia Beach, VA, GTE Amphitheater
8/1: Washington, DC, Nissan Pavilion
8/2: Raleigh, NC, ALLTEL Pavilion
8/3: Atlanta, Hi Fi Buys Amphitheater
8/5: West Palm Beach, FL, MARS Music Amphitheater
8/8: Dallas, Smirnoff Music Centre
8/9: San Antonio, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
8/10: Houston, Cynthia W Mitchell Pavilion
8/13: Denver, Fiddlers Green Amphitheater
8/15: Phoenix, Cricket Pavilion
8/16: Los Angeles, Glen Helen
8/17: San Diego, Coors Amphitheater
8/19: San Francisco, Shoreline Amphitheater
8/21: Salt Lake City, USANA Amphitheater
8/23: Seattle, White River Amphitheater
8/27: Hershey, PA, Hershey Stadium
8/28: New York, Randall’s Island
8/30: Syracuse, NY, Vernon Down’s Raceway