Lolla Day 3: Girl Talk Surfs Off The Stage In A Raft, Kanye West Doesn't Piss Anyone Of...

Kanye West resurrected himself from his Bonnaroo performance with his toned down set Sunday night, closing out Lollapalooza 2008. West along with industrial rock's Nine Inch Nails shut the 3 day festival down, in a year that marked the highest attendance ever for Lollapalooza.

With no video wall or any other extravagant set-up to delay the start of his set, West jacked the crowd up giving shout outs to the city. Musically the set started off like all of West's other Glow In The Dark performances "Good Morning" and "Hey Mama" segued into Journey's "Don't Stop Believing," as West recomposed himself. Unlike Bonnaroo, there was no drama just a good time and the crowd loving it and doing a good job singing along to "Golddigger," and "Harder Faster Stronger." A supposed "Kanye Sux" chant got started at the NIN stage, but NO ONE at West's stage was thinking that. The only complaint: no fireworks going off behind who performed the Graduation track "Homecoming," with the lyrics "Baby, do you remember when fireworks at Lake Michigan," only a few 100 yards from that very lake.

(Kanye West)

The only place there was massive drama was at the Girl Talk tent, where I snuck up on stage and danced along with Gregg Gillis and Co.

(Girl Talk)

Security guards displayed massive agro issues, beating up anyone who tried to bum-rush the stage, leaving the VIP crowd on the side stunned and snapping photos for lawsuits against them. One kid got beat up so bad by the security team they had to take him away on a stretcher. Ambulances were summoned too. While Gillis sampled everything form the Band to 106th & Park hip-hop hits, the highlight for everyone was the toilet paper blowers - toilet paper rolls attached to a leaf blower that projected the TP into the outer reached of the audience - that GT's entourage, clad in police uniforms, used.

Another impressive crowd turned out for Chromeo. Kid Sister, who performed earlier that day, took video of the audience as her boyfriend's (DJ A-Trak) older brother performed hits like "Bonafied Lover" "Fancy Footwork" and "Momma's Boy." When the crowd wanted more they shouted Oh Oh Chromeo. It was impressive and way better than Gnarls Barkley's set.

(Chromeo)

Another one that I didn;'t do it for me was the Black Kids. Left after about two songs thniking, " Meh. Just hype." Flogging Molly I alwasy see on marquees, but never go watch cause i don't think it will be the type of music I'd listen to ...ruled! It was part Irish pub drinking music, part heavy metal - like nothing I had ever heard. Irish flags were being waved in the air in a small yet intense mosh pit.

(Black Kids)

(Flogging Molly)

Other highlights of the final day included Mark Ronson and Saul Willams, which Kanye West even trekked out to see. Ronson's set, which included a string section, a horn section and a slew of MCs, started off pretty mellow but kept building and building in adrenaline and fevor. The producer/musicina responsible for making Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse household names added himself to a list of performersI'm gonna tell my friends to see.