Credit: Kyle Dean ReinfordAs Lollapalooza's founder, Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell is known as one of the godfathers of alternative rock. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Farrell remembers hanging out with the biggest legend of the '90s alternative scene: Kurt Cobain.
"I met him briefly," Farrell says of the late Nirvana frontman. "I must admit, I got high with him in the basement of the Palace when he came to Los Angeles, and I hung out with him at one of the MTV awards shows. We had a mutual respect."
Farrell also gave his thoughts on Montage of Heck, the first fully authorized documentary about Cobain. "Look, they're scraping together things," he says. "[Cobain is] gone now, so you can't very well ask him to do another take, can you? He's very high. And if it was me, I would have said, 'I need a change of clothing.' But I thought he was a very gentle soul and who knows what would have become of him had he lived."
Nirvana was scheduled by headline Lollapalooza in 1994, but they pulled out of the tour just days before Cobain committed suicide.
As for the 2015 Lollapalooza lineup, Farrell says he used to really dislike Metallica, who are headlining this year's festival. While he insists that he "like[s] their music now," Farrell used to consider Metallica the opposite of what he wanted for Lolla.
"I was very angry the first time they played Lollapalooza," Farrell says. "I helped create the genre alternative, and alternative was against hair metal, teased-out hair, spandex, bulls**t rock music. Metallica, in my estimation at that time, wasn't my thing."
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