Lollapalooza 1991: Now THAT was a concert!

Wednesday, August 7, 1991: A sunny day at Toronto’s CNE Grandstand, and what a lineup:

Butthole Surfers
Siouxsie and the Banshees
My first chance to see Nine Inch Nails
Living Colour
Ice-T and Body Count
Rollins Band
Jane’s Addiction

…and after the show, we continued the fun at a normally sad nightclub near the airport that had their “alt-rock” night on Wednesdays.

There was already a feeling that interesting things were happening in music. Big Audio Dynamite had put out their single Rush a couple of months prior…

…and we had no idea of the musical gems that were still forthcoming:

Nirvana hadn’t yet released Nevermind,
Pearl Jam hadn’t yet released Ten,
Soundgarden hadn’t yet released Badmotorfinger,
Red Hot Chili Peppers hadn’t yet released Blood Sugar Sex Magik,
U2 hadn’t yet released Achtung Baby,
Metallica hadn’t yet released Smell the Glove — but seriously, the black album (the one with Enter Sandman),
Ministry hadn’t yet released Psalm 666,
Public Enemy hadn’t yet released Apocalypse 1991…The Enemy Strikes Black (with the heavy metal version of Bring the Noize),
2 Unlimited hadn’t yet released Get Ready for This,
A Tribe Called Quest hadn’t yet released The Low End Theory,
Black Sheep hadn’t yet released A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing,
2Pac hadn’t yet released 2Pacalypse Now,
Del tha Funkee Homosapien hadn’t yet released I Wish My Brother George Was Here…