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Gen X remembers when Lollapalooza changed everything
['Chris Riemenschneider', 'Chrisr Startribune.Com', 'Tim Ivy']
Star Tribune
But the memory most people have of the first Lollapalooza tour — which made its St. Paul stop 35 years ago Saturday — is physical.
Star Tribune photographers captured the mayhem when Lollapalooza hit Harriet Island in St. Paul in 1991, drawing about 18,000 fans despite a lineup of non-mainstream rock acts.
"It taught these kids there's a bigger world out there than St. Paul," music journalist Jessica Hopper, a Minneapolis native, said in the Paramount docuseries.
Chris Wheaton, now a St. Paul attorney, remembered him "being a great kickoff and finishing by saying, 'No less, no more, no encore!'"
"Take the whole day off," read the ticket stub for Lollapalooza's St. Paul debut in 1991.