![]() I’m just talking about the whole thing, walking around with hundreds of thousands of people, or 50,000, or however many there are … But the people who run this thing have been very neat, really good people. I get a little claustrophobic – not onstage. I’ve never fit in real well with masses of crowds. “That helps people feel like they have some commonality. “A lot of other bands that we’ve talked to, they’re people that we can generally relate to,” Boquist says. The eight shows – four per tour – lost money and labored in the shadow of Lollapalooza, the heavyweight festival launched by then-Porno for Pyros bandleader Perry Farrell. The lineup then featured a handful of rootsy bands that were in their element playing live: Blues Traveler, Aquarium Rescue Unit, Phish, Spin Doctors and Widespread Panic. The ’96 campaign has been the biggest and most ambitious yet since Blues Traveler front-man John Popper – assuming the role of rock impresario – first launched HORDE (Horizons of Rock Developing Everywhere) in 1992 with a pair of one-week tours. ![]() ![]() Can they do it again next year? Indications are they’ll be back to try. The HORDE Festival’s date in South Florida is the closer in a 42-show tour that has rivaled, if not surpassed, Lollapalooza for sheer buzz and box-office blast. When Blues Traveler plays its last song Sunday night and the lights come up at Coral Sky Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, the HORDE will disperse for 1996, leaving the music world to wonder what the organizers of this roots-rock extravaganza can possibly do for an encore. ![]()
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