- Post date
- 15 Mar 2018
- Event date
- 12 Mar 1994
- Caption
- Here’s the poster for Revolución ’94. This festival led by Caifanes manager Marusa Reyes was conceived with a very significant premise: to include emerging Latin American bands alongside with popular U.S. Alternative bands. It was promised to be the Latino Lollapalooza of sorts. Revolución did feature a solid line-up of Mexican rock bands: Caifanes, Maldita Vecindad, La Castañeda & Santa Sabina. However, the first edition generated a buzz based on the rumors of (im)possible headliners (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chilli Peppers!) albeit none of these materialized. Instead, the festival had to settle for old school SoCal punk outfit Red Kross, producer Adrian Belew, and then unknown Live (they went to become a pretty popular band in the mid 1990s). While short on recognizable mainstream US bands, Revolución paved the way for these cross-over festival of sorts.
The poster was created by cartonist Lalo Alcaraz (La Cucaracha) as his former comedy troupe, Chicano Secret Service also performed. Plus, there was an impromptu Chicano Art exhibit in the lobby of the venue that featured artwork by Los Four.
All in all it was a memorable festival and one of the first ever rock latino concerts at The Universal Amphitheatre. This at a heghten political time, the EZLN uprising had just taken place and the prop. 187 campaign was about to be unleashed onto California.
- Location
- Universal Amphitheatre
- Type
- poster
- Language
- Spanish
- Bands
- Adrian Belew
Caifanes
Chicano Secret Service
La Casteñada
Maldita Vecindad
Redd Kross
Santa Sabina
- Producers
- Budweiser Concert Series
MCA Company
- View on Instagram
- https://www.instagram.com/p/BgWWb4mAR3d/
- View on Internet Archive
- https://archive.org/details/19940312100u_201906