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It wasnt just Ice-T. Lollapalooza wasnt the only rock festival in the early 90s booking Black artists.
Public Enemy headlined Englands longest-running fest, Reading & Leeds which served as an early model forLollapalooza in 1992.
But Perry Farrells event was happening under the backdrop of American racism.
ButLolladirector Michael John Warren understands there was something deeper at play and tries to unearth it.
Lollaeven reckons with one of the festivals clumsiest moments.
The performance is an obvious relic of the early 90s.
But rather than quickly writing it off, John Warren sits with the moment.
Sometimes thats how it works, you know.
That, however, is whereLollas accounting of its early sins stops.
It smacks of fucking tokenism, the Jesus and Mary Chains Jim ReidtoldRolling Stoneat the time.
Its like Farrells dream for the first Lollapalooza: Viewers coming for fun could actually learn something.
