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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 · The stain of Woodstock '99 has been so dark that future attempts to revive the festival have never gotten off the ground, including a proposed 50th anniversary concert which was canceled in 2019.
- Robert Balkovich
- The Water Problem
- Hot Tarmac
- Insane Clown Posse‘S Money Giveaway
- Kid Rock’s Recycling Program
- Dave Matthews: Hornball
- America, Fuck Yeah! The Tragically Hip Get Shouted Down
- Verne Troyer
- A Truck Randomly Driving Through The Audience
- Runaway Cops
- Crowd-Surfing
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. Now imagine turning off that city’s water supply. With temperatures hovering from the high 80s to, in some accounts, hitting the 100s, water became a necessity. Unfortunat...
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. On top of that, there was a 1.5-mile walk between the festival’s two main stages, so festivalgoers had to trek acros...
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. Considering h...
While much of the chaos at Woodstock ’99 came on Saturday evening, Kid Rock planted some seeds of aggression during his early-afternoon set. Sandwiched between slots by the Tragically Hip and Wyclef Jean, Kid Rock took to the stage and, according to the San Francisco Examiner, “demanded that the kids pelt the stage with plastic water bottles,” perh...
The amount of flashing in the audience during the Dave Matthews Band’s set inspired their namesake singer to remark, “Today, there’s an abundance of titties.” Yes, Dave Matthews said that out loud, into a microphone, in front of thousands and thousands of people. Somehow he topped the ridiculousness of the “Too Much” lyrics: “Ooh, traffic jam, got ...
When the meathead crowd wasn’t hectoring ladies on stage, they were getting their xenophobia on. When long-running Canadian alt-rockers Tragically Hip started singing “O Canada,” the same crowd that cheered when Rage Against the Machine lit an American flag on fire was somehow patriotic enough to shout back with “The Star Spangled Banner” (and also...
Where Woodstock ’69 had Abbie Hoffman and Wavy Gravy, Woodstock ’99 had Austin Powers‘ “Mini-Me” serving as emcee on Saturday. Woodstock ’99 was full of odd casting, and it also served as a master class in how to not schedule a festival lineup. Take for instance the East Stage lineup he was introducing on Saturday, where the mellow trifecta of Coun...
Yup, it happened during Fatboy Slim’s set in the festival’s rave area under an airplane hangar. As MTV reported, “The set was stopped momentarily after someone accidentally started to drive a truck into the area. After a 10-minute delay, Slim playfully threw on a 45-second snippet of Carl Douglas’ 1974 disco hit ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ before returning ...
Who watches the watchmen? Even though the crowd wildly outnumbered the law enforcement presence — roughly 500 New York State Troopers plus local PD — the authorities were supposed to have a little more support courtesy of volunteer security recruited from New York City. However, many of those volunteers unceremoniously walked off the job by wanderi...
There are few more un-self-aware breaches of crowd etiquette worse than crowd-surfing during Alanis Morisette’s performance of “Ironic.”
Aug 5, 2022 · Woodstock '99, which sought to recreate the hippie spirit of the legendary 1969 music festival, ended up having nothing to do with peace and love. Instead, Woodstock blended chaos, violence...
- Molli Mitchell
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Aug 5, 2022 · While festivals can be some of the best experiences of a lifetime, Netflix ’s new three-part documentary, Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99, shows just how wrong they can go when shockingly poor...
Aug 2, 2022 · Here's Why Woodstock '99 Was Such a Monumental Failure. By Chrissy Bobic. Published Aug. 2 2022, 4:07 p.m. ET. Source: Netflix. When the idea for Woodstock '99 came about, many assumed it would be similar to the original 1969 Woodstock festival.
Aug 3, 2022 · 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, more than double the...
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....
