24 Years of the Warped Tour
b'In the early days of rock\\u2014and we\\u2019re talking the 1950s here\\u2014the most efficient and cost-effective way to put acts on tour was to bundle them together as a package and put them on the road\\u2026\\n\\nIn some cases, there would be a common backing band for most of all of the artists\\u2026PA equipment\\u2014such as it was in those days\\u2014was often supplied on site\\u2026\\n\\nThese became known as caravan tours\\u2026guys like Alan Freed, the pioneering disc jockey and Dick Clarke\\u2014you know him, right?\\u2014took all these acts on the road playing places like theatres and county fairs and wherever else they could find a booking\\u2026\\n\\nThis package tour approach was pretty common until the late 60s when music business was producing artists big enough to tour on their own and play areas and later stadiums\\u2026that\\u2019s where the real money was\\u2026that and big festivals\\u2026\\n\\nBut then along came Lollapalooza in 1991\\u2026Perry Farrell, singer for Jane\\u2019s Addiction, put together a multi-act bill to support what would be the last-ever tour for Jane\\u2019s Addiction\\u2026the net effect was very much like those old caravan tours\\u2026\\n\\nThat \\u201991 tour was successful enough for Lollapalooza to try again in 1992\\u2026this time, things were expanded across multiple stages and multiple attractions\\u2026and for the next couple of years, Lollapalooza was thetouring music festival for the alternative generation\\u2026\\n\\nThis spawned imitators:\\xa0 Edgefest\\u2026Lilith Fair\\u2026Summersault\\u2026Another Roadside Attraction\\u2026and for a while, it was all pretty cool\\u2026\\n\\nThings are different now\\u2026Lollapalooza is a static festival held in Chicago ever August\\u2026Edgefest, Lilith Fair, Summersault, and Another Roadside Attraction are all defunct\\u2026\\n\\nBut there was one travelling music festival that survived for 24 years\\u2026and it\\u2019s been so big that no one knows for sure how many acts have played it\\u2026\\n\\nThis is the history of the Warped Tour.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'