Date: 1994-08-01
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Venue: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park

Setlist: Unknown

Surfaced: No

In Archive: No

Notes:

“The year is 1994. The Breeders had just broken huge, and somebody had given Kim’s sister Kelley a copy of my band The Psyclone Rangers‘ debut album. Kelley listed one of the songs as one of her 10 favorites that year in Rolling Stone’s end-of-the-year wrap-up. So I get her on the phone and we hit it off, and she invites me and the band to come hang out backstage at the Philly stop of Lollapalooza. I don’t remember much except it was hot and muddy and famous back there. The Psyclone Rangers were about to record our next album down in Memphis. We had a song we wanted that patented Deal-sister vocal on, and Kelley quickly agreed to sing on it. The night before she was supposed to fly down she called to say she was too sick to leave town. She sounded pretty out of it. Boy, were we bummed. Was it something we said or did? A few days later, when a newsflash came on MTV News that she got busted for receiving a FedEx envelope full of heroin, we put two and two together.” – Jonathan Valania

The Daily Pennsylvanian – Mike Tuhy – 1994-08-04:

The cheers for Love were matched only by those that greeted Nirvana’s hit “All Apologies” as it was played over the sound system just minutes before The Breeders were about to perform. As the opening notes pervaded the relatively silent park — no bands were performing on either stage at that time — a deafening scream filled the area and attendees didn’t so much sing as scream along with Cobain, perhaps as an homage to the man that meant so much to modern rock and gave so much to his fans. And it was ironic that the song was played before The Breeders hit the stage –– they were the opening band on Nirvana’s final tour last fall. But Kelley Deal, singer and guitarist for The Breeders said backstage at Lollapalooza that Cobain was not exactly glorious off the stage or away from the TV set. It appears his well-known heroin addiction was more severe than he led on to the fans. “He [was] always kind of pre-occupied — He was a junkie,” Deal said. “Junkies spend most of their time looking for drugs, doing drugs, and crashing.”

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