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- However, at Woodstock '99 elements of poor management, budget cuts, high temperatures, misogyny, inadequate security, the music, a disgruntled crowd forced to pay high prices, and the lack of sanitation were a disastrous cocktail, eventually spilling over into violence, sexual assault, riots and even death.
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Mar 12, 2020 · Organizers of this epic (for the wrong reasons) music festival had hoped to capture the electric counter-culture energy of the 1969 four day concert that became a touchstone of youth culture of that era. Unfortunately what they and festival-goers got was nothing but misery. So what went wrong?
- Robert Balkovich
Aug 5, 2022 · From charged crowds of chaos to the promoter’s sheer incompetence, Woodstock 1999 was about as far from peace and love as it physically could have been. Here’s what happened. The heat. Set on a...
- The Location
- The Role of The Organizers
- The Music and Limp Bizkit
From the get-go, there were issues with Woodstock '99's location. It was nothing like the green hills of Woodstock '69 and attempting to learn from the mistake of '94 where over 190,000 people broke in for free, organizers wanted to find somewhere no one would get in without paying. The festival washeld at the former Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome...
Wodostock '99 was organized by Michael Laing, John Scher and Ossie Kilkenny. Speaking in Trainwreck: Woodstock '99,Scher admitted he knew nothing about the lineup he had booked, which consisted of nu-metal acts, playing one after the other. When problems started to surface, he told cameras in Trainwreck: Woodstock '99:"We were having fun. We had wo...
Whereas 1969 saw the likes of Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix perform, Woodstock '99 saw a lineup consisting of mainly heavy-metal and nu-metal acts from Korn to Limp Bizkit, Rush, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more. As heard in Trainwreck: Woodstock '99,some people believed the heavy music may have contributed to the chaos that unfolded over ...
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- The Water Problem. With about 220,000 people in attendance and another 10,000 working the festival, Woodstock ’99 temporarily made the festival site the third most populated city in New York state.
- Hot Tarmac. If the late-July heat was absorbed by greenery like at most fests, the temperature wouldn’t have been as much of an issue, but much of the Griffiss Air Force Base was tarmac and concrete — materials the sun’s rays just bounce off of.
- Insane Clown Posse‘s Money Giveaway. Insane Clown Posse created a little mayhem during their set at Woodstock ’99. Performing on the East Stage on Friday night before George Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic, ICP was the first act to incite the crowd “by throwing $100 bills into the audience and watching gleefully while a melee ensued,” the San Francisco Examiner reported.
- Kid Rock’s Recycling Program. While much of the chaos at Woodstock ’99 came on Saturday evening, Kid Rock planted some seeds of aggression during his early-afternoon set.
Aug 2, 2022 · Netflix's Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 details what went wrong and why people still blame Fred Durst for part of the mayhem at the 1999 festival.
Aug 3, 2022 · Courtesy of Netflix. The back story. Five years prior to ‘99, there had been a Woodstock ‘94 festival that also ended in catastrophe. Storms meant that the site was turned into a huge mudbath,...
Aug 27, 2019 · In 1999, a music festival in upstate New York became a social experiment. There were riots, looting, and numerous assaults, all set to a soundtrack of the era’s most aggressive rock bands....
