Rage Against The Machine’s Lollapalooza set was marked by crowd surges, gate-crashers and fence-jumpers (as many as 2,000, according to some estimates), injuries, and Zack De La Rocha admonishing the hyperactive crowd to “save that shit for the streets.” [Jim DeRogatis / Photo of crowd surge via Getty]
Rage Against The Machine’s Lollapalooza Set
August 3rd, 2008 // 7 Comments
idolator
Rage Against the Machine at Lollapalooza? What year is this again?
@Captain Wrong: It’s 1993 of course. Hopefully Fishbone and Primus are also on the bill.
Maybe this is too much hair-splitting, but no one jumped a fence. The Lolla organizers stupidly opened a security gate – against the advice of the security they hired – across the street from where a few hundred people were listening in a park. To no one’s surprise, they rushed in before cops closed it off with officers on horseback and ATVs.
@Our Man In Chicago: The linked article says that fences were jumped twice. But you’re right, I should have said “gatecrashers” about the 2,000+ instead of “fence-jumpers.”
“Throughout the day, countless people jumped the fences to gain free admittance; the Sun-Times photographed some of them, reports were plentiful from many other journalists on the scene and Perez even saw a whole family–a man, a woman and their toddler–jump the fence before the Rage set.”
“The flying wedge of gate crashers entered the park and broke into two contingents, one simply rushing down the stairs and into the field and another hopping a high fence to gain access to the field through the V.I.P. areas and luxury cabanas.”
Brollopalooza
I went home early that day…but honest they did have some current artists there!
@Our Man In Chicago: Nope, there was definitely fence-jumping, too.