The 90s Part 9: The Festivals
b'I don\\u2019t know if you realize this, but the music festival isn\\u2019t a modern creation\\u2026people have been gathering in fields to hear music for centuries\\u2026and in some cases, those original festivals are still happening\\u2026\\n\\nEver hear of Fiera Della Frecagnola?...it started in the village of Cannalonga, up in the mountains in the south of Italy\\u2026as far as we\\u2019ve been able to tell, the first gig was in 1450\\u2026and it\\u2019s still happening today\\u2026\\n\\nThere are other long-timey festivals in Germany, England, India, Latvia\\u2026so this isn\\u2019t a new thing\\u2026\\n\\nThe first modern music festival\\u2014the thing that would be recognizable to us today\\u2014would be Monterey Pop, which was held in San Francisco in the summer of 1967\\u2026that led to Woodstock, Glastonbury, Roskilde and a ton of others\\u2026\\n\\nBut the 1990s was the decade where the festival really came into its own with a series of regular events that reappeared year after year in the same spot\\u2014or ones that moved from place to place\\u2026\\n\\nEuropeans were pretty used to standing in fields in the mud and the rain and the heat\\u2026but we north Americans were late to the party\\u2026there was no tradition of us doing anything like that\\u2026we\\u2019d go to the occasional outdoor gig, but it wasn\\u2019t the lifestyle thing it had become in other parts of the world\\u2026\\n\\nBut by the time the decade was over, we had embraced the summer festival\\u2026now we have our own events and traditions\\u2026and it couldn\\u2019t have happened without the 90s alt-rock nation\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'