Dear Ms. Jepsen:
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This letter is in response to your article in the July 12 issue of the Rock, Etc. column “Pasture-ized.” I am just wondering why you think it’s cool to try to emulate the already overly bitter ranks of the Reader’s rock critics. Please, tell us something we don’t know! As someone who attended the first four Lollapaloozas, I can tell you that to most people like myself, it has been a widely accepted fact that Lollapalooza “sold-out” basically as soon as the second year, and definitely by the third year when “alternative” became a marketing buzzword and Q101 trashed the Chicago music scene. (This is not to say that all the bands sucked, but rather that the general vibe did.) The point, however, is none of this is news to the Chicago musicians and music lovers who probably, like myself, read the Reader to find out what’s good, and in small unobvious doses find out what’s not.
A Tried and True
