One of the coolest guys from my high school went and became paralyzed from the waist down because he was trampled on by a crowd. It was heartbreaking to see this tall, good looking punk/skater kid come back to school a few months later in a wheelchair. He was a year older than me and held back a grade because he skipped school to skate all the time and was trying to become pro.
That’s terrible😭. I’m so sorry for all he’s lost. I hope he’s found a way to be happy after all these years, has found love and a purpose that gives him joy.
I was there. After the Limp Biscuit set the promoters turned down the volume of the music in a foolish attempt to get the crowd to calm down. Rage Against the Machine came on after them and no one could even hear the music. That is when the shit really hit the fan. It was late Saturday afternoon, me and my gf headed for the exits, as we could see how quickly the festival was devolving into utter chaos. Women were reportedly being raped in the mosh pits. The portopotties were turned over an lit on fire. The 5 miles of plywood fencing were all torn down. Broken glass littered the ground everywhere. You could just sense that it was going to get worse. The vendors, and the security started to leave. We left before the looting. This disaster was the result of a culmination of factors, but basically the lesson is that good human nature and society are very thin veils. When it breaks down, it breaks down fast and people become like barbarians.
if i was you i wouldve acted like a total shield for my gf and would not let my guard down until when we were of the festival terrian. Im only 19 but damn i wouldve prob already left friday night
You cannot compare yourself to him and/or judge him based on claims about what you would have done, especially if you haven't been there. The "probably" you use later seems more appropriate, because it seems to signify your awareness of that fact. Also, he did not know then what we know now, and therefore none of us has the right to assess his decisions in the situation he was in and we weren't.
If it wasn't meant as criticism of the original poster and you actually wanted to communicate a play of thoughts without any judgment, then I'm sorry. In this case I have interpreted it the wrong way. I just noticed that it might be read multiple ways and wanted to set my above answer into the context of how I understood your message, so as not to answer in a way that misrepresents your actual intent.
@@rutgr3696 Friday night was a good time as far as I remember. It was a huge party. I think we saw the Roots, and P. Funk. My girlfriend was not assaulted, and we were never in real danger other than from dehydration, and sun poisoning, but the vibe definitely went from party do natural disaster in what seemed like no time. I think we left at a good time.
I understand the disdain for the corporate greed, and I agree with that completely. BUT the mere fact that women were being sexually assaulted, molested, had their clothes ripped off, or even raped makes all of the anger meaningless. You cannot fight greed and corporatism and then condone harming women. Of all the people that suffered at this festival, I REALLY sympathize with the women. The greed caused a lot of suffering and death, which is the fault of the organizers. But the sexual assaults were the fault of the festival goers, no way around it. Just ridiculous.
@@brittneyharmon6647 He's decided it's not right for his video I imagine - a video interspersed with old slapstick comedies, so, not the most serious exploration.. I guess he thinks people won't watch it if it doesn't feel a bit easily consumable and light viewing, but the content would appear to make that impossible.
I was there... I was 25 and on the older side of the crowd. It was actually an amazing an surreal experience for me. There are so many stories to tell. I have one life regret here though... At the end of the Chili Peppers, right when all hell was breaking loose, I found a wallet. It was probably from someone crowd surfing. I opened it and it was packed with money... like maybe $1,000 worth. I was worried that this kid needed his cash to get home so I gave the wallet to a security guard. I wish I would have kept the wallet to mail to him later because I doubt the real owner ever saw it after that.
@@ConanObrien22 I had this top-comment on the Limp Bizkit video on youtube yrs ago 1000's of likes, which was removed by youtube. ''The peak of white youth culture. one-way street from here''
They are a band that played their set. Don’t blame an act for the idiotic organization that constructed it. Probably shouldn’t hire 90% of the bands using your logic.
I was there all 3 days and can say this is a pretty accurate rundown of what happened. A couple facts to add. The water prices were different depending on the vendor. $4 was the average price, but I also saw & paid for water ranging from 6-10 dollars as the days progressed. Next is the attendance. It was way more than 220K. By the 2nd day people ripped holes in the fence perimeter and non-ticket buyers entered in droves. I'd estimate altogether it was closer to 300K by day 3. Loved the experience looking back on it now, but make no mistake the conditions were horrific. This tragedy is on the organizers heads, not the bands.
My best friend and I flew all the way from L.A. for Woodstock '99 expecting an epic 3 days of music and instead, we ended up dehydrated, overheated, broke, and wading through literal shit for a drink of water. We talked to several girls who were groped and worse. The 3rd night was absolutely terrifying. There were fires, overturned vehicles, people throwing shit, looting, and just pure chaos everywhere you looked. We saw some incredible performances and took some cool photos, but it didn't balance out the overall nightmare of the event. Maybe 3 days of peace, love, and music is impossible when corporations run the world.
That's sounds crazy,I never heard of no shit like that,they weren't prepared,lack of security,overpricing for food and water,the heat was like 100 degrees,on a old air force base on concrete,I've been to some outdoor festivals but never one like this ,I just watched some shit on you tube,people rolling around ,they thought was mud,but rolling around in human fecies 🤢🤮
@@christopherfava2529 From what I saw. That wasn't poorly planned. They knew this was going to happen and didn't care. All the promoters and the other people cared about was money. And they didn't care what happened to those kids. They didn't care about sanitation for the paying kids that showed up. They knew it was going to be hot outside in July. To not allow people to bring in their food and drinks outside on very hot days. And their only option for clean drinking water was pay $4-$20. That was very cruel. The people in charge of that event knew what was going to happen to people. 4 people died of dehydration because of their greed and cruelty. Many ended up sick, badly burned from sunburn, got heat stroke, heat exhaustion, and much more. From what I saw in that documentary. Those kids should've hunted down as many people that were in charge of that event. And beat them within the inch of their lives. I was 17yrs old at the time. So those kids were my age. I wasn't there. But from what I saw in the documentary. I'm angry for them.
Don’t blame the corporations, blame the generation. All the same things that happened in the original Woodstock to us boomers and worse, no one acted like this generation of uncivilized animals. We had no roads to get to the venue, torrential rain downpours, no food, no security. Half a million people and we didn’t act like you guys did. We did a few drugs, skinny dipped, had some sex and enjoyed the music.
And you probably shouldn't have lol, they kinda...... really fucked up. Not the riots, but yeah there's a huge comment I just wrote somewhere here if you're interested.
Hey, Limp Bizkit has some decent stuff. Granted they have to be directly involved with The Rock and Steve Austin's feuds to be called good, but if still counts!
To the most beautiful girl at Woodstock 99, the one that was on my shoulders when Bush performed this song...we met during this set at this show and hung out during the entire Bush performance. Out of 250,000 ppl , you were HANDS DOWN the ABSOLUTE PRETTIEST girl at the entire weekend show! Unquestionably. And you were soo super sweet! If you happen to see this , please say hi to me. I was devastated when I fell asleep and missed meeting back up with you at the airplane Hangar for the Rave. I looked for you for the next two days but never saw you again. I seriously wanted to cry. If yall would pin this JIC she miraculously happens to see this, that would be amazing. She was so genuinely nice, I always have wondered about her, and hate thinking she may feel I stood her up
I go to Burning Man, and for a city of 70,000 we have roughly 1,400 portable toilets. Those toilet banks get serviced four times a day, every day. Service trucks make round trips of hundreds of miles to reach the desert of Northern Nevada. At a lot of the crews get cases of beer as gifts from Burners. The math on this is really simple. Each human body on the playa is going to produce x amount of waste, and the total capacity of the holding tanks is y. Failing to provide for adequate servicing of the toilets should have led to the state shutting the show down.
In the Army for field sanitation, the ratio is 4 male soldiers to 1 porta john or latrine. Women it is 2 females to 1 latrine. After that class it really sunk in how the Army has numbers and SOPs for everything.
I went to the first field day in London. They run out of drink. The next year they had enough drink but didn't provide enough toilets. There were loads of people being tackled (and evicted) by security for urinatiing by the perimeter fences. How do these amateurs get control of a festival?
I was in attendance & everything that was said was 100% accurate. I got separated from my group & wandered aimlessly for a day, another person was in the hospital for dehydration & another friend and I sold beer along the roadside for $2 & bottled water for $1. I watched a guy try to tackle a port-a-potty like an NFL linebacker only to break through and fall face first into ****. It was like hell with (sometimes) good music playing in the background.
Yo, for some reason the guy tackling the portajohn sounds REALLY familiar...any idea what day it was, which side of the base? Day 2? Was it near the camping on the side of the small stage - as you came around towards the mist tents? The opposite side of the hangar with the nightly raves? (I know I'm being real specific and it was 20 years ago, I just really remember this whole thing like it was a couple years ago.)
"I watched a guy try to tackle a port-a-potty like an NFL linebacker only to break through and fall face first into ****. " - Well at least it had some comic relief.
Brendan Carpenter This happened right after the Chili Peppers ended their set, as we were headed back to the tent area to collect our things I saw Mr Drunk Football guy crash into the shitbox.
Yeah most people there were teens and people in their early 20s who were probably broke and didn’t have enough money to last them 3 days of $4 water bottles and $10 meat by products.
$4 per bottle for water? I remember MTV news reporting after day 1 the orgs raised it to $10-$20 per bottle. This was the main thing that got ppl pissed the fuck off.
@@Joaquin546 this is back in the 90s. I would go to music festivals where 12oz cans of soda and 16oz water bottles would sell for a dollar each. Now, it’s not uncommon to see a water bottle for $8.
@@dariog36th At the FIRST woodstock they were complaining about the prices of prepared food at the concert! Complaining about amenities at a concert has been going on since the greeks I bet!
That's horrible that went down the way it Did but that was the most laugh i have had in a while 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's sounded so hilarious!! Compare to today's Rage this time it's kill
Give me a break! Anthony should have spoke up against women being raped out there in those crowds. He spouts some cool sounding line then proceeds to run off into a waiting limo!!!🖕
I was in high school when I went. It was so hot - unremitting. I remember I thought I finally found a cool spot when I went to an old airplane hanger with no windows that was playing movies 24 hours day - I laid down and realized that people had been urinating around the inside perimeter so there were streams of urine spiderwebbing across the whole floor - some people were too hot/dehydrated to care and laid down to sleep anyways. There was literally nowhere to get out of the heat. The water situation was actually worse than this video makes it out to be - the taps were broken and the only place I found to get water was from a shower that, because of the overflowing port-a-potties, was in the middle of a pool of human waste (the wait was about 2 hours). There were literally ponds of human waste around the port-a-potties and whole camping areas had to be abandoned because of the human waste. Oh, and the crowd was horrible, especially after day 2 when the surrounding fence was pulled down - think large gauge earrings, flame tattoos and straight bill NY Yankee hats that were drunk and yell-talked into your face (sorry if that describes you but, well . . . yea, sorry) - batches of these guys would be verbally/physically harassing women - the thing that bothered me the most fro the whole trip was when a women was crowd-surfing they would be groped and robbed AND PEOPLE WOULDN'T LET THEM DOWN TO GET AWAY - I'm sure there are videos of this because I saw it multiple times; even the guys crowd surfing would have their pockets picked and their shoes taken. I was so glad to be back home.
That was when Bro Culture was at it's peak. Frat Boys and obnoxious Sports fans that liked Limp Bizkit (or however the fuck you spell it) and the rest of the late 90's rap metal and faux grunge MTV bands. They were shot out on shitty coke, fake ecstasy and cheap beer, they had fresh lids and pumped up kicks and thought they could do whatever they wanted because they were you, white, males. Now they are Trump supporters.
We stopped in Rome an the six of us each bought a 30 pack.....when we got there we threw am over the fence....security dudes just looked at us an laughed...
My 22 year old self made it up to exit 16 on the thruway, heard it was sh*t show on the radio, decided to take Rt. 17 toward Monticello instead and ended up at hanging out at the original site that weekend with a bunch of older hippies. It was awesome. At the time I was bummed, but in retrospect it was a smart move I guess.
I personally can't comprehend having any desire to find myself in the midst of multiple thousands of people for days without any real amenities like waste disposal and water. That's just on the surface, add to that no sense of civilized behavior. The organizers ought to have been sued. It was just short of a battle zone.
That's not how it was billed, we didnt go there for chaos. We thought itd just be a good memory...it was absolute mayhem. And yeah, the organizers should have had been sued for everything they had. The thing that has always bothered me most was them kicking out the church group that was giving out free water to absolutely dehydrated concertgoers. People were dropping like flies...but nope, Woodstock '99 had to get its taste. Fucking trash humans. And they've tried to do it twice since then.
@@Pssnmeoff i took about 300 black and white pictures while we were there. One was just people lined up forever at the ATms. No water but plenty of ways to get to our money. Thankfully me and my friends left early sunday because we felt energy in the air and it wasn't good. I was never more happy to leave a place especially when we found out what happened later in the day. ICP was my favorite part of the whole weekend but i lost all the pics and didn't even care just a memory from youth not worth looking back at.
My Dad rented the feed of this on Pay Per View for me. I knew things were off when I saw someone’s prosthetic leg fly across the screen. That was on the FIRST night. Watching this from the comfort of my home was crazy. I had friends that went there.
@@bennuballbags2 It depends on the period... Initially it was all funk-punk and they didn't need precision and to play clean, but mainly energy, power and groove. Then with Californication, a more pop album (gorgeous anyway), RHCP needed more clean playing etc. Chad is a guarantee, he always plays in time and is powerful, with groove at the top; Flea is Flea, and John was just back in the band, after rehab, so he wasn't at the top; Anthony had some technical limitations (although you have to appreciate his conviction and his energetic presence on stage). He started singing pretty well since 2002 (more or less) ... Just look at Slane Castle ... Then with Stadium Arcadium, from 2006 onwards they became phenomenal live (La Cigale / Alcatraz di Milano / and every 2007 show). Then there would be so much to talk about, but basically that's It. Anyway great band, great music and great "image".
I was there a bottle of luke warm water cost $8.50 a day old Half Sub Sandwich was $12.50 a t-shirt was $40. & The Port-A-Johns where all clogged & exploring & there where Juggalos everywhere & everything was on fire & or broken
“The peaceful spirit of the 60’s” I feel like we really have a terrible conception about that era, because of how seriously fucked up and tumultuous it was.
randy bray there were race riots. Police riots. Assassinations. Vietnam. Insane organized crime. Crazy high murder murder rates and poverty. Just a lot of bad shit. That’s why people were rebelling so hard.
Spare me. The hippies and former beatniks weren't selfish scumbags like these people. To compare the music or the attendees of 69 to the douchbags in 99 is ignorant
And sure there was unrest in the late 60's. Why wouldn't there be. A war we never should have been in, civil rights and that right wing piece of lying shit Nixon
I was there too and this video is a pretty accurate description. I remember after the RHCP performed and they did a laser tribute to Hendrix they just said "thank you, goodnight" or something to that effect and expected the remaining raging hundreds of thousands of people to just calmly get their stuff and leave. I went back to my tent exhausted dodging fires and rioters. I got in my tent and actually successfully blocked out what was going on outside and got what I felt like was a few hours of sleep. I was woken up by my friend who was on adrenaline overload. He told me about him doing an interview like he was in a warzone and protecting vendors as best he could. I stepped out of the tent and there was a full fledged glowstick war going on-- they must have raided a semi filled with glowsticks. It looked like glowing neon hell- a neo-pagan wet dream. Groups of shirtless people with demonic glowstick horns were literally dancing around fires while glowsticks flew through the air like missiles. People had tied them together with string and managed to "decorate" one of the few trees like a Christmas tree. A lake (probably sewage) was lit up from within all multicolored-like. We managed to make it back through the wreckage and took some sections of the spraypainted plywood walls surrounding the event as souvenirs. We decided to abandon our tent because it was beyond salvageable so we had some freed up space in the car for the souvenirs. The best part was trying to drive away through the madness with fires and screaming behind us and turning on the radio to hear news that it had devolved into chaos but "fortunately noone was hurt or killed"... My friend said "tell that to the guy I saw get crushed like hamburger meat under a semi trailer."
Duuuuuuude!!!!!!!!! There’s another comment I’m here that is long and VERY VERY discripted like you!! That had ACTUALLY ALSO MENTIONED That communications trailer or whatever it was get pushed over and almost completely crush a drunk man!!! Fuck that’s epically scary!
@@RedsBigRig Whoa! I just found the comment you're talking about and read it. Yeah it sounds like his experience was pretty freaking close to mine except I had driven up from NC with my friend so we didn't hop on a bus to get back, we actually started the long drive home right then, exhausted as balls.
@@sc0rpio79 thank you for taking that time and sharing your story btw. Honestly really enjoyed it and played it out in my head! I was only 4 at the time so now being 25 and reading these experiences man I can ONLY TRYYYYY to imagine lol.
Holy fuck! This is one of the concerts I’d have loved to go to, I’m 18 so I’m passed that period as of now but after hearing all this I’m kinda glad I wasn’t an 18 year old in 99 wanting to go. Lmaoo
I had a blast but thank god I was very young. It was so horrible, was 17 at the time and me and 5 of my best friends just graduated high school. We left before the fires, we were completely exhausted from the whole no water, excessive drinking, drugs and overall disgusting state all of us were in.
@@thomasaveryy2077 We were in the mosh pits for Korn and Metallica. We didn't get hurt but we were 17 and in decent shape. I can't imagine going now at 40 year old fat man.
Then 9/11 hit and you all fell for the propaganda Seriously, 9/11 was predicted decades in advance and the US had been fucking around in those other countries for even longer and terrorists/hijackings were not unknown You just werent old enough to remember or recognize it, as is often the case with children, then those around you fomented ignorant hate in you....
Walking on that tarmac in insane heat was brutal, & even before the riots broke out we knew we weren't at anything that should be called woodstock. Fist fights & robberies everywhere, groups of guys walking shirtless side by side starting shit with everyone they encountered. It was stupid, plain & simple. That was the weekend I realized I didn't like being a 90s kid. I did have a blast for alot of the time but yeah, that was no Woodstock
There is a reason they called Woodstock 99' The Day The Music Died. I wasn't there, but know what you mean. 1999 really did taint the image of that decade as a whole. That concert seemed to just serve as an odd send-off to an era we loved and brought forth one that we were not ready to accept.
it could also be seen as a victory, because a place of war becomes a place of peace. Now the ones who organised this were a bunch of amateurs and greedy bastards and i hope they all got broke.
But where else do you find that much land available? It's not often a Max Yasgur comes along willing to rent a massive piece of land out for a festival
I was there. Despite all the chaos, the heat, the prices, and disorganization I actually had a great time. I had been to woodstock 94 and knew a few tricks on how to sneak in supplies, plus we brought a big 3 gallon water jug that we filled at the free water spiquet the 1st night. That helped a lot. The music was great, I met some really nice people and I knew better than to roll in the "mud". Other than my friend getting sun poisoning on his leg because he forgot to put on sunscreen we didnt have any issues until the last night when all hell broke loose. That was crazy. It felt like a war zone. One of the refrigerated vendor trucks caught fire and started exploding not far from us. People were flipping port o pots with people in them! We were lucky to have been camping pretty far from the stages, so we managed to get back to our tent by going around the perimeter to avoid the cops in riot gear. We actually stayed in our tent until morning and woke up to the aftermath, which was a sight to see. It was a crazy experience and we were lucky nothing bad happened to us, but it wasn't all bad.
I am going to agree with Amy. There was a lot of evil lurking and if you were smart, you knew how to avoid it. But I went with a girlfriend and we took her 8 year old son and as far as people and music, had a great time. We went without tickets and drove a 69 VW camper van all the way from Oxford, Mississippi, so we had already endured 2.5 days of hot @ss road warrior stuff. When we got to the gate and saw it was on a military base, the idea of the gates cooming down the first day disappeared. I told her, "Let's wait for the cool guy" and in about 5 minutes secured bootleg armbands for $30 each that we had to hand back over once we were in (only paid $10 each the second day and kept those). As far as food, water and relief from the heat, that sucked pretty bad. We spent nearly ALL of our money on water the first day, but since we had a kid with us, we were offered a good bit of free drink for us and the kid. THe kid did a LOT of interviews for the cameras (I hope one day to find one on RU-vid). We went with a positive attitude and got a lot of positivity back, but also saw a lot of bad things. Saw one guy passed out for 2 days near the entrance and thought for sure he was dead. Had to explain to teh kid there would be boobies and things he had never seen before. He loved every minute. We were parked about 2 miles straight out from center stage and having the VW camper van made it so much easier than those car camping. Did a lot of trading ham sandwiches (and giving some out) for water and a little smoke because we had food but just enough cash to get gas for the ride back to Mississippi. Sunday morning we woke up and neighbors told us if we did not start making our way out, it may be Tuesday before we could get out so we pulled in line around 11 and listened to bands from the van on Sunday and we inched our way out. We made the exit gate right at sunset as the place started to fall into chaos (I have pics from the drivers seat of people walking past with pieces of the wall and flames in the background). My point of view was there were so many who didn't have tickets and got drunk and mad and finally had enough and tore the place to the ground. Did it deserve to be ripped apart...absolutely. Greed and no consideration for the music fans killed what could have been a GREAT thing. Am I glad I went...yes, even with the heat. It was one of those things...you had to be there to know.
People and cameras always make it look worse than it really was, the documentary Woodstock '99 is pure woke racist garbage and only talks about the bad side of the festival like if 69 was better and all "peace and love" lol riiight.
@@fumblefingers69 so you saw a guy passed out two days in a row… Did you do anything to try to secure help for him? What, did you just tell your girlfriends son that he was dead? This was definitely a different era because no way in hell a responsible parent would take an eight year old child to an event like this, today. At least y’all had the vehicle to keep the kid in at night instead of a tent
@@spiralrose You're absolutely right irresponsible parents. An eight-year-old at a concert like that. Concerts like this fuel emotionally unstable and mentally ill people. Add drugs and it's like putting gasoline on a fire.
Bingo. Nothing will ever be replicated with what was seen in 1969 because the culture at the time was wildly different. Pair it with the war and the extreme shift in culture with music, it was a special moment in history that will forever be contained to that event only. 99’s moment was special, as well, but for all the wrong reasons. It was a mirror put up against the culture at that time with our music, media, and our generation in general during that era fed up with corporate greed and aimless wandering. I mean, the line-up with the bands kinda’ spoke for itself and what was popular at the time. Netflix put out a documentary recently that covered all of this, which made me go back and watch these old videos about the event. Outside of obvious mismanagement and greed, it really was the embodiment of what the 90s was for many of us at that time. It served its purpose in that manner.
Absolutely true. The peak of tolerance for misogyny, aggressiveness and complete lack of responsibility and awareness. I would have loved to go to Woodstock '99 back then, but it was as possible as time travel and going to the original Woodstock for me. It's everyone's and no one's fault what happened. It's the zeitgeist of the late 90s and early aughts.
@@TwoBs this is all extremely true and I agree with it. But an even simpler explanation for the shit show was the lineup attracted a vastly different audience. I wouldn't say Korn and Limp biscuit evoke peace and love and understanding lol
If you go to any of the medieval/pirate reenactment camping events that aren’t sanctioned by the SCA, you see a lot of the same stuff: women just being gross and nude for the sake of getting attention, drunken fistfights, uncontrolled fires, sexual predation, etc. Yes, the logistics at Woodstock ‘99 were a problem, and yes, the prices do seem unreasonable. However, if you go to a local airshow and bake in the sun all day, the pricing is about the same, because the vendors allowed on-site have such a poor profit margin, and not enough sales volume to justify lowering the price. The original Woodstock, itself, was not a loving, peaceful event. Hardly the riot that occurred in ‘99, it was a drunken, stoned mess of disease, filth, and sexual promiscuity that women, later regretting, consider assault. Woodstock and all it’s incarnations, the disorganized medieval/hippie campouts, they all turn into this dystopian nightmare in such a short period of time. It’s not a function of corporate greed, a water shortage, or weather patterns, but rather the people who like these events and who can’t function in normal society.
to that girl in the van, i am so so so sorry that that happened to you and can’t imagine the emotional, mental, psychological, and physical toll that took on you. and for that i am desperately sorry.
@@xmjd4x703 I think he's talking about the HBO documentary. They had an interview with a cop or EMT. He encountered a 15 year old girl who was completely naked, barefoot and covered in bruises. She had been gang raped.
William Thompson It was like a war zone. Me and a couple of my friends heard that the fences were broken down and you could get in for free. So we decided to try and see the Chili Peppers. It was surreal as hell. Halfway through the show we noticed shit was getting crazier by the minute. I’m glad we decided to get out of there while we did.
I was 16 and a group of my friends really wanted to go. We liked going to outside concert all the time, but our parents put a stop to it due to distance (I'm from Illinois) and we were too young.. Probably good thing. But, I had already seen Limp, Korn, and etc - so I didn't think this would have been all that crazy. After I saw what happened on TV and hears about the sexual assaults, I told my parents they were right.
It was my summer before college. I totally thought my group of friends should go as well. My mother (a total hippie) talked my entire group of friends to drive from Chicago to go to the Tibet Freedom Concert in Alpine Valley instead. I had an absolute blast and felt very safe (though it was muddy and rainy) - to this day, I am so glad my mother talked us out of it.
I was a photographer for Canon & Kodak (yeah... Kodak worked with Canon & Nikon before lifting the technology we know & love today)... we were treated like rock stars ourselves with clean bathrooms & unlimited food, as well as private housing. I brought food out for the kids (I was 41 in '99), but what everyone was REALLY interested in were the clean bathrooms. Man, it was HOT!!! Even at night. And I was introduced to the new era of photography: Turn in your card, take a new one, and get out & shoot. No breaks for soda or water... no cooling off in the tech trailers. Get back out NOW! On Sunday morning two girls in their mid-teens offered to perform a sex act on me so they could eat. These were middle-class, kids! I still haven't gotten over my PTSD from this clusterfuck. We were all locked down early on, with the crowd having no chance to buy cheap eats in town. Glad I had a shoot early that Monday and left Sunday afternoon. But Rage Against The Machine were assholes on Saturday night, and it took Metallica to whip the crowd into line. July 23rd & 24th of 1999 were pure HELL for any sane person in attendance!
For reals, good question and also a very obvious one at that. It's not like every tv station in the state was there along with every major media outlet in both tv and print media. Shit the amount of photos on a single Google search could have been more than necessary to provide viewers with a complete audio and visual depiction of the shitty event. I doubt we will ever know the answer and no matter how I attempt to try to find an answer that could possibly be accurate, I can't come up with anything other than it may have been faster to create a video with stock images. But that answer is lame.
All of the images will be copyrighted and probably quite difficult to use in a video without getting flagged seeing as mobile phones were no where near as common then.
Because all of it was copyrighted, and the video would get a copyright strike immediately if they were to show some. Also, lots of the video from the event was quickly squashed by the organizers because of how embarrassing this whole thing was. Most of the local news stock footage was of crowds of angry people surrounded by fire at the time.
Literally happened right in my backyard, grew up right near the edge of Griffis Air Force Base in the town of Floyd nearby, by Sunday all you could smell was smoke in are house, it really shook this little town for us locals, we were really maligned needlessly by the national media, like it was out fault or something, it was the fault of the organizers, the whole thing was just sad, a bad memory if you're from Central New York
So true. Had college friends from Rome back in those days and it certainly was a mess. The feeling that people from Rome were somehow responsible is definitely not talked about enough.
I remember the locals being blamed.. That’s part of the “skill set” for festival “organisers” - no all (but the 90s? Pretty much all!) blame the bands, the locals, the police, the punters.. by the time the mess has died down, you’re long gone with the money! We had one in the UK, Treworgey in Cornwall.. lt all went a bit mad there too..
I went to Woodstock '94 and it was an amazing time. By '99, I was moving in with my wife so there was no going to Woodstock '99. Damn glad that I moved that weekend.
@@Casey5693 That's true. In terms of musical festival clusterfucks, I think Fyre comes out on top. As shitty as Woodstock 99 was, it at least actually had music at it. Given that music is kind of a key part of, y'know, a music festival, Woodstock 99 managed to succeeded in one category, whereas Fyre failed in all of them. Both are clusterfucks, but Fyre comes out on top.
I like going to concerts so every Rock concert from mid 70s to 90s in Philadelphia. I think going to concerts is a good way to grow up no matter what decade
@@tolfan4438 Definitely! Some of my best concerts were back in the 90’s while in the Military. Saw Pantera in Hawaii. I was stationed up by Seattle. Saw quite a few there. Metallica, Sound Garden, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, just to name a few 👍
@@GodofWarChuka I was born and raised in Philadelphia every Rock And Roll tour came through Philadelphia either the Spectrum or the Tower Theater or a couple Park venues there's a lot of music came through Philly
I was at Woodstock 94 and 99 and I've attended probably over 100 concerts, biker bashes and benefits throughout my life and looking back I cannot believe we lived through it! My husband Marty and I were married just weeks after Woodstock 99 on the Anniversary of the original Woodstock. It was a beautiful outdoor hippie style wedding on Friday August 13th. Marty and I had met only a couple of days before Woodstock 94 which I had a ticket to so he decided to come with me and I take his chances on getting in without a ticket. He even drove his gas guzzling baby blue 💙 Chevy blazer with a missing back window. We had to park 20 Miles outside of the concert grounds where law enforcement stopped us and told us to turn around and go home. We said hell no, we came here from Paradise PA and we are not missing this! So Marty pulled his truck into a median and parked and we began walking with my Navy Sea bag strapped to my back containing hopefully everything we would need. It was a muddy mess! But Woodstock 99 was definitely the scariest crowd I've ever had to escape! I had to be pulled onto the stage from a surging, stampeding crowd during the Offspring performance one night. Then my friend Chrissy and I barely escaped getting crushed by a tractor trailer bed that we were standing on that the crowd flipped over during the Red Hot 🔥 Chili peppers performance of "let me stand next to your fire!" We knew we had escaped a bad situation but I don't think I ever realized exactly how bad it was until now watching the news and seeing how all of those people were killed at the Travis Scott concert. It prompted me to watch videos of the craziness we had endured at Woodstock 99. But I wouldn't trade my experiences for anything in the world! 🌎 However, having experienced what I have it makes me sad for my children or anyone else's for that matter, that may never get to experience a concert the way we did. It truly breaks my heart 💓 my friends have always told me I should write a book about my life and experiences. I'm actually thinking about doing that.
I was in the crush section during Astroworld…scariest shit I’ve ever been in. Couldn’t breath, broke a rib, and saw multiple people pass out all around me, one of whom ended up dying. Currently involved in a class action lawsuit due to my injuries. Scary scary shit…
When was Woodstock ever a well-oiled machine? It is NOT Woodstock if there aren't glitches somewhere! ALL three of them had fucked up in some aspect of their organization and logistics!
After narrowly avoiding disaster in 1969 and a successful documentary to reinforce the Woodstock legacy, Michael Lang must have thought it was easy peasy. No wonder he was so nonchalant about 99, but it will forever be a blemish on the Woodstock brand and 23 years later its still getting people riled up.
The original was a crapshow, too...Mythology makes people forget the bad stuff. It was a Ticketed event that they had to MAKE free to prevent such a riot as happened 30 years later...plus...hippies...you know...lol. The promoters badly underestimated the crowd that would show up. By the time Jimmi was on stage, most people had gone home, and were done with the place. What was left aftewards was acres of garbage and mud...If you weren't there, you only hear about the legend, not the reality.
@ I was too young, and I don't think it was ever on TV until years later. But my parents had plenty of (a few years younger) friends who did go or tried and failed to get there in time. I was only 5. They told slightly less rosy stories than they talk about in nostalgia pieces. Plus: facts told by the promoters and volunteers themselves, years later.
I went to Woodstock 94 it was great but the whole place was covered in stinky disgusting mud with water bottles everywhere smashed into the mud, the music was good, used syringes laying all over the place,me and my friends walked through a kicked down fence seen the whole thing for free Cheers Socrates New York
I feel like that's every festival lol Warped, Skate and Surf, Lala, This is Hardcore... They all are hot, stinky, and over priced. Everything goes to shit by the end of day one.
And that's why Woodstock '99 was held on a tarmac surrounded by barb wire fences, to prevent concert goers from getting in free. And if that wasn't enough, they overpriced everything, even bottled water. And this was held in the middle of summer, when the weather is most hot. I even heard some church group was booted out of the festival for handing out water free of charge. Ain't that a bitch? And people wonder why everyone at that festival lost their damn minds and started burning the place to the ground. They want to point the finger at this artist or that band, when the blame should be put squarely on those greedy incompetent promoters who did such a piss poor job of organizing the festival.
I was there too in 94. I’m so glad I didn’t make it in 99. Looked scary. I remember the huge, makeshift wall of cardboard of people looking for their friends that they lost at the festival. What would we do not without cell phones. LOL. I remember the food was expensive and a bit disgusting. People were fed up with the overpriced items at booth near our tent. Before I knew it, about five guys jumped over the rail and started handing out pizza, water and Pepsi to everyone waiting. There was no security in the park (besides the front of the stage) by Saturday. They also had their own currency. That was a fun, exhausting weekend.
I remember watching it "live" on Mtv and it was pure chaos. I was honestly surprised it was still airing. I was only 9 years old so my memory is hazy but I will always remember the guys crowd surfing on sheets of plywood.
Oh yeah Wal-Mart had a sale on two man tents at this time and most people bought the same tent so you spent the whole day doing drugs in the hot sun and had to find what tent was yours among a sea of the same tent
Lol we bought our cheap 2 person tent at ames i think lol we were too poor to buy drugs or beer and didnt bring any because they said they would search but no one cared we only had some granola bars some sunny d and some water and we hid that lol
I watched the HBO Music Box documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage. What angered me the most was the way the promoters tried to act like "Hey, don't blame us! Everything was hunky dory!" During press conferences, they were combative and standoffish when reporters called out the many glaring problems like crumbling infrastructure, lack of security and medical assistance, trash and sewage throughout the venue. What angered me the most was when they brought up the assaults of the women at the venue, and one of them basically said "don't get me wrong. It sucked that that happened to them. But if they are going to go topless or naked, what do you think is going to happen?" In other words, victim blaming.
I mean, just bc you "victim blaming" doesn't mean he wasn't right. Its an unfortunate truth for them, and a lot of other ppl, but its made them victims.
how does that make you a victim?? someone might leave their front door open, but that doesn't mean they want to get burglarized. ntm the various very young women who were treated like objects who didn't even go topless. an act literally had to stop his set to tell men to stop groping girls crowdsurfing smh @@walkthebeat512
I remember friends asking me if we should all go to this festival. I flat-out refused. We'd been attending music festivals for years, and the experience seemed to degenerate slightly each time we went. I remembered David Crosby's reaction to Woodstock '94; he seemed scared! apparently "peace, love and music" had firmly been supplanted by "greed, anger and Let's-go-nuts!" What made anyone think this was going to be as good, let alone a better experience than '94? Knowing where it was held, what the weather was going to be, who was performing, who'd be attending, and the overall corporate greed structure that drove the event, I expected a modern-day Altamont! Thankfully, I was wrong, but not by a hell of a lot! What baffles me is that so many people seemed surprised by what happened. Really? REALLY!? I saw fires set at other shows and festivals, for seemingly no good reason. I attended an outdoor concert that didn't last 15 minutes before descending into a riot that spilled into the surrounding neighborhoods. At one festival security confiscated the lemon juice my friend was going to apply to his hair to lighten it; no outside food, you know! Most of my friends who did go came to regret the decision. Two of them saw where things were headed and wandered away from the venue, sleeping the bushes at a nearby golf course. The others came back in a state of shock. They abandoned most of their gear, and pretty much ran for dear life. One of them never attended another concert since!
I've been to incredible concerts and music festivals my entire life right up to the coronavirus. But yeah, I guess people can cry about major historic events that were disasters and vow to shun music and concerts, if that's how you want to live your life, well, it is your life 🤷🏼♀️
69 had a lot of similar issues. Aside from burning down the food stand for overpriced hot dogs they were still more chill. Not here so much....ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RwxcKLN_yrE.html&ab_channel=Bandsplaining
In 2019, the promotors of this fiasco wanted to do a 50th anniversary festival of the original Woodstock just down the road from the 1999 festival, at a harness racing track in Vernon,NY. They had no success with getting any permits or approvals. They were unsuccessful in getting permits in various other towns as well.
I went to both Woodstock 94 and 99, and I had a somewhat different experience than is documented here. Perhaps that's because we camped and stayed the entire time. Woodstock 94 had mud everywhere and $8 two-liter bottles of soda, but it was nowhere near as violent. At 99, you had a quarter-million young people on a hot Air Force Base with no shade. But what I think set this debacle apart was the two types of crowds that attended. The daytime crowd were the hippie-style and pop bands, and the night time was the metal bands. You could see two distinct shifts coming in and out as the band lineup changed and the sun went down It wasn't fun by any stretch. I do remember holding it in for a few days before finally sitting over a log and taking a dump. There was mud and shit everywhere. On the last morning, we woke to people trying to break down the plywood fences that many people had decorated. A friend of mine got sun poisoning and had to wear a cup over one eye the entire time. Seeing the turn for the worse during the Chili Peppers' set was shocking. Fire, riot police, looting of trailers for whatever was inside.
And also imagine if there a woodstock 2004 2009 2014 and of course the cancelled woodstock 50 in 2019 and imagine if there will be a woodstock 2024 in the next year 2024
I was there, and although the prices were way out of control, and the fires on Sunday sucked, it was still an amazing weekend that I'll never forget, I was 18 years old and had the time of my life.....
I find it funny how Woodstock 69 is painted in such a positive light compared to Woodstock 99 but that event was pretty bad as well and traffic was so bad people were stuck there for days.
The organizers of 69 did NOT expect such a crowd crush in the first place! LOL! Woodstock historically was a lot of things, but a well-oiled machine IT AIN'T! 🤣🤦♂️
The amount of dehydrated KIDS (17 and under) who were given acid laced water, juice, and koolaid without their knowledge during the first Woodstock is Disgusting.
I think bands, or certain band members, had to fight the temptation to "do something provocative" to be cemented and immortalized in the Woodstock lore. Its sad, but years of making legend and cultural reference to 69 set this whole thing up. Go on Anthony, do something "Edgy"! Poor Flea has an understanding of the vulnerability of the people out in that sea of humanity. Flea did try to do the right thing.
They misrepresented Flea in that clip. If you watch right before they play "Fire" Flea goes, "u wanna do it? wanna do it" not in a concerned way at all. He was just asking Anthony. Anthony replied, "fuck yeah!"
It was fukin' great.. after days of unexpected starvation, massive dehydration, sunburned to Hell, commercialization overboard.. we were all disgusted with the entire thing. $12 for a taco $4 for water. Ppl were already singing "we don't need no water let the mutherfuker burn". Bonfires burning, then give starving, thirsty ppl free candles n RHCP says play "Fire".. End Show. Riot on steroids. I deserve a I survived Woodstock "99" T-shirt.
I watched most of it on tv and I remember watching limp bizkit and the RCP’s set. I looked at my friend who was watching with me and said “Damn all hell is breaking loose!” The funniest moment though was when Green Day went up and people kept throwing mud at them. Billie Joe Armstrong told them to stop or they’d leave. Someone threw a huge mudball that hit his guitar right in the middle for all to see, he got pissed said “Alright we’re gone!” flipped off the crowd and walked off stage. I laughed but kinda felt bad. Lol
No. He said "everybody say 'shut the fu** up' and we're gone". "Shut the fu** up!" "Okay. We're gone." That's after Billie Joe had a 10 minute mud fight with the crowd.
I remember taking a walk through the fires and debris everywhere. Mind you we weren't supposed to but we avoided the security. It was so bad. Literally looked like a war zone. People were taken advantage of and just lost it. $12 for the worst tiny pizza you ever had. We walked through a huge area one of the days and I couldn't count how many pizzas were thrown on the ground with hardly anything eaten...thousands of them. $12 then is about $20 today for a tiny inedible pizza. We did find a full case of bottled water during our walk and brought it back to our trailer. I remember saying this is the best possible find we could've made.
Yep. Like I said in another comment: Woodstock 99' seemed like an odd send-off to an era we adored while introducing another we were not prepared to accept.
@@irismercedes4167 Agreed. What a sick and meaningless narrative to construct around this. There's so much cope from people who went to try and paint it as some kind of epic rebellion but they also became beasts too. I'm so glad I grew up when I did but I'm really disappointed and I reject the idea this has anything whatsoever to do with great times in the 90s. Comparing it and our generation to the 60s is also serious cope.
Pretty much every figure in news journalism at the time was saying this was a terrible idea and not just for being a nostalgia exploiting cash-grab. The organizers were unprepared from the start and there was consistent news of the fest being inches from DOA. The location was seemingly chosen to maximize space and not with amenities or basic health in mind. As for the shitbird vendors, on the scene journalists were commenting that they were anticipating a few trucks being torched or raided due to the prices. If anything good came out of this it was the death of nu-metal as a popular genre. People finally saw these bands for the smooth-brained mooks they were rather than tortured artists they posed as.
Hey nothing against Nu Metal. It’s just as good or bad as any other Metal Genere. The quality of music stands and falls with the Bands not with the Genre.
Begining of the 90's was outstanding. Nirvana, Tool, Rage against the Machine on and in and on. It's an established thing, the industry comes in and Floods the market with garbage at the end of the decade. Same thing went down on the 80's.
I was there in “99” the fault was the promoters. After everyone partings for three days instead of shutting things down Sunday afternoon so people would have gone home, they stopped the music at midnight and left thousands of tired and many hungry (cause everything costed five bucks) kids in the dark
@@JohnDoe-vn1we They made a good point though. They left thousands of exhausted, frustrated, and thirsty people in the dark. If you create a hostile environment, expect chaos. I'm not defending the people that sexually assaulted or physically hurt innocent people... I'm just saying that their poor planning lead to thousands of extremely hot,thirsty, tired, and angry people to eventually hit their breaking point.
I had just graduated college when this took place and just gotten my first IT job. So when a group of friends decided to go I had to pass on their invitation. And it was a good thing too. They were only their a couple of hours. It was hot, there was virtually no shade, drinks were expensive af and the crowd was too rowdy and they couldn't hear the music let alone see the stage. Meanwhile, I'm seeing a lot of this unfold on MTV and I was thinking, OMG my friends are their. They'd already left by the time things got really nuts so that was cool. But holy shit, I am so glad I didn't go. When they got home and told me what it was like and seeing it on MTV I thought to myself "I'll probably never go to an outdoor concert again." BTW, I've been to Bonnaroo twice so I did go back to outdoor festivals. Anyway, good video.
When the speaker tower came down at the end, I grabbed a piece of one of the straps and wore it around like Chewbacca’s sash. What a weird time. I have a ton of stories from that weekend.
I remember watching the ending of this on MTV when I was just a teenager. It was probably the most surreal thing I'd seen on television until 9/11. I can't believe it's been 20 years, 1999 seems like some other lifetime ago...
I have that same exact memory. I was around 16 at that time and was so jealous I couldn't go. However, once I saw the news reports from Mtv News showing that it looked like hell on earth, that jealousy subsided.
I was there. My nephew asked me to take him and a couple of his friends. I met with the parents and told them I was willing to take them, but I could not baby sit them 24/7. The first night, the crowd was mellow, the next night less so. It got rowdier as it went. Their was a lot of resentment towards the vendors. The free water was easy to get as I recall, but the bottled water tasted better. Food was expensive, too. The cars were parked at a remote location. If you wanted to go to town to buy food at a supermarket, you had to wait for a bus, take a long ride, shop, wait for a bus back to the festival and take another long ride. You'd miss half a day doing that. When we woke up on the last day I told the kids to pack because I thought things would get out of hand. They did not complain at all. I think they wanted to leave as much as I did.
Look Woodstock ‘94 was the soft reboot sequel and ‘99 was the amped up third movie. Selling my ticket and deciding not to go (in '99') may have been the smartest decision I made at that time. ‘94 and ‘99 never should have happened they were both shallow corporate events that put profits over the safety and well-being of the attendees. Fyre Fest ain’t got shit on CorporateStock.
I think a lot of young people - and promoters - went there, forgetting what the original Woodstock was based upon... Peace and Love! :-( The original Woodstock was more humanitarian and not commercial at all! They were a bunch of hippie kids who had disavowed money /the use of money, for the most part, anyways. :-)
@@chivalryalive The earlier born Boomers were so financially privileged (because their parents created a giant, easy to join middle class) that they could be pretend to not care about money and careers. The Boomers, as they came to power, eventually pissed away what their parents created, and nowadays young adults are much worse off than young Boomers were.
@@ryanjacobson2508 common people by the band Pulp sum up the comment you posted quite well. I'd given a listen to on here if you've not heard it before 🎵🎵
Good comment. There was a more positive energy at '69 but from the people I knew who attended it wasn't that pleasant of a scene physically, especially after the rain.
Actually, if you actually know how to study history instead of finding ideologically driven nonsense and random facts inspiring arbitrary conclusions, youth culture back then was very special. They broke with their parents who were racist, for conquest wars like Vietnam, and embraced a youth culture about free love, spirituality, and experiences rather than empty materialism and careerism. Notice the yoga centers and vegan stores? Legal pot? Civil rights for blacks and women? Those are among the legacy of 60s.
@@smkxodnwbwkdns8369 watts and Harlem riots that killed many and destroyed mainly poor minority communities, jfk assassination, mlk assassination, Manson murders, the zodiac killer and his murders (still unsolved...just fyi), the Birmingham church bombing, and the renowned racist lbj actually winning his own term as president when he was elected in 1964... actually, except for that last one, I have no actual idea about what ideology your talking about. The history of the sixties was actually and factually filled with violence and awful...just like Woodstock 99. Love that they got pot and vegan stores as well but don't make this political...it's actually the truth I'm after ( except for the whole lbj thing...I admit that's just me not liking a racist).
@@everyoneash If its the truth you’re after, you are very poor and inept at finding it. First of all, those few violent isolated events have NOTHING to do with what the 60s were like. If that’s your argument, then every decade is equally violent no more or no less, because you can find equivalences for those every ten years because duh we live in the world and violence happens. That doesn’t mean that the entire era was violent. In fact, rather than cherry picking what made the headlines and arbitrarily defining an epoch (you would fail your history class), why don’t you look at the statistics for violent crimes, deaths, and assaults? because those have been steadily declining every decade since the early 1900s at least. Today, despite the school shootings that make headlines and I suppose would inspire the worst historian of all-time, you, to make declamations, the last decade has been the least violent decade in world history. You have clearly never took history courses in college or have never even read a single history book by a serious historian in your life. Don’t you think that’s a good starting point? To not sound like a blubbering idlot talking out of you az? history is too complicated for someone like you arbitrarily reading a couple pages on wikipedia and to create any kind if legit description. There are people that devote their lives to writing about and recording history. It is an extremely important job. Those people are called historians. If you want to understand western culture during the 60s and counter-culture, the internet is notorious for superficial and inaccurate information, find a good book written by an expert with sources and credibility. Take the assassinations you mentioned. If anything, those are examples of it being less violent, not more. The murder of a single person is not historically significant it literally happens every day. The political assassination of men whom sided with the youth revolution and at the time made people believe the military was behind it or Nixon, etc. says a lot more. while the hippies didn’t establish world peace and harmony, we no doubt live in a society today that is much more tolerable and empathetic compared to the culture beforehand which was defined by thinly veiled hostility, grandiose competition, and bigotry.
@@smkxodnwbwkdns8369 first off I don't care about other decades... we're talking about the sixties here so every other time period is pointless unless you're having another argument I don't know about. Also, yes, not a historian but everything I brought up is true...and I'll even bring up more for you. Not exactly few events, more like a lot, but maybe we disagree on word usage since, again, everything I've brought up is true and you somehow have an issue with truth. Here goes: Malcolm X assassination: 02/21/1965 RFK assassination: 06/05/1968 Medgar Evers assassination: 06/12/1963 My lai massacre (fyi.. this is Vietnam): 03/16/1968 Apollo 1 tragedy: 01/27/1967 Stonewall riots: 06/28/1969 Detroit and Newark riots of 1967 (also fyi, Detroit riot, at the time, was considered worse riot since 1863 new York city draft riot) And another terrible president, this time Richard Nixon so I can keep a bit of ideology going, was elected for his first term in 1967 All true...and all events that took place in apparently your favorite decade which was not all free love and peace.
I was there but I attended as a working press-member. My experience was not like the general public. We had a tent with all the water and snacks you could want. We had our own bathrooms and a mellow camping area with trees and grass. We even had showers inside a building. Those got shut off but I still found a water specket on the side of the same building where I could bathe at night. When I went out into the venue it was appalling. Imagine rolling around in mud then trying to sleep in a hot tent? When the fires broke out we just chilled in the press area like nothing bad was happening. We left the next morning like it was nothing.
I was 19 and actually thought of going and then I remembered the stories from my father of the first Woodstock. I do not regret going in the slightest. 😆🤣
I wasn't there but I was 18 at the time and my Dad paid for it on PayPerView. I had friends over all weekend to watch a lot of our nu-metal faves. By the last day my Dad was incredibly disappointed by what happened and further explained the importance of the original Woodstock and exposed us all to it afterwards. Now that I am older I really appreciate that he did that for me and my friends. He was always a musical influence on me. There is a reason there will never ever be a true Woodstock festival EVER again.
I was 9 I remember watching Kurt Loder reporting from the scene and seeing the blaze of the fires. Ten years later I went to a comparatively small festival in Rothbury, Michigan (the Rothbury Festival) that definitely felt like more of an authentic ode to the original Woodstock. And they let us bring in all the food and drink we wanted. It was the funnest experience of my life.
No way...that party would have ended WAY differently, had the had a bunch of Hell's Angel's standing around, with the idea that THEY were security, instead of what the actual "security" consisted of. As long as you weren't taking shit, breaking shit, physically hurting or harassing anyone...you were free to drink your "bootleg x2" beverage, sell or buy some smoke, take a toke and watched (or joined in on "The Great Glow Stick War of Woodstock", while being a witness to mayhem, enduring anarchy as it unfolded and surviving chaos in It's physical form....until the following morning, when your bus home would arrived and you were able to board it for the journey home, entitled to the memories you managed to maintain and forever included in an exclusive "family" of survivors who's membership includes the unique and individual tale of your journey, from the moment you first heard of, got a ticket and/or showed up at the event, til the time you left... for better or worse. 😜 We should hold a 25 yr reunion in 2024. 😂🤣😂
Lived about 10 minutes from here, I could hear the bands from my porch if the wind blew right. Was so glad I wasn't actually on the base. The organizers made so many idiot mistakes, PLUS they turned this into a capitalist venture - which the original woodstock definitely was not! I was actually in support of the riots. Letting 200,000 people either pay you all their money first day for water, or dehydrate. I had friends who worked the medic booths. Heatstroke was the most common complaint. The hospitals were overflowing with dehydrated people. Not to mention how much hospital bills cost. And Rome, NY is NOT equipped to suddenly house and feed 200,000 people. Maybe back when Griffiths was still an actual air force base, but after it was decomissioned, jobs in Rome became sparse, and the restaurants and hotels that were there were not ready to house a festival like this, not at all. Plus, NY has plenty of other, better places to house a 4 day outdoor festival. Hell, the state fair grounds 1 hour away would have been more than adequate for it. And already have all the amenities set up for huge crowds. Air-conditioned buildings, water stations, etc. Woodstock 99 was a desperate money grab by a bunch of local greedy concert organizers.
They keep saying that they did not better when in fact they knew exactly what they were doing to people. It was an experiment performed by the military/industrial complex to cause as much chaos as possible!!!!
My sister and I and some friends set up our tent in the “campground “ that was on the edge of the airbase where the old officers club and golf course was located. It was a sea of tents, nothing that i can recall to differentiate the areas, no signs or whatever. We lived in Rome at the time and were some of the lucky ones who were able to go home at night, that tent was never slept in the whole time. I don’t know how I would have been mentally after those 3 days if I had to camp the whole weekend. The food was insanely priced, it was hell for the attendees. The music was awesome, some really good memories of the music.
@@firemarshal2629 stuck there for the weekend, insane heat, no clean water, expensive food, no security, walking and sleeping in literal shit and piss. You are dense if you think that this is just people being "angry"
Truth. Ever notice the nation flew off the rails the minute the spoiled boomers took charge? Our generation paid the price for their stupidity, and we still are.
Here's a video idea Native people in the Pacific islands did not know what was happening around them during WW2. American soldiers built airports and bases on the island the natives live on and when the Americans left,the native people began to worship them and wanted them to come back. So they built life sized models of planes and tanks and even the earphones the airport commander wore out of anything they could find. There is some more to this and would love to see a video on it.
"instead it choked the life out of the 90's and threw it's lifeless corpse on top of a 20' tall bonfire" hell of a way to say goodbye to the millennium
There were trailers here and there inside the event area people crawled under for shade, I spent a few hours hanging out with a group of strangers, we were all sunburnt to the point of being completely covered in blisters. Close to the stage we took turns gathering empty water bottles to crowd surf out and refill at the closest free "not potable" water source to ride the crowd surges back to the front to hand back out. I think it was the second day we woke up to commotion of medical personnel digging through the packed camping area to get to a man having a medical emergency, after the event i read he died in the hospital. On the last day my friend and I had the shade of a trailer to ourselves when a large lady came and dropped her pants within a foot of where we were sitting to piss as we scrambled to escape the stream. By the last day there was graffiti everywhere about stealing the food, we'd watched a food stand get attacked and looted the night before. When the fires started in the camping area it was almost tribal, there were people using buckets as drums as half naked people danced around the bonfires. Everything was being torn down and added to the flames, we just took it all in for a bit until the destruction moved closer to our tent, we packed up quickly and watched the fires burn from the safety of my car in the parking area. I was there, it was an amazing, awful, and frightening experience.
I had the time of my life at Woodstock 99... we made a tent village with about 75 kids from my town on a grassy lawn we found .. not far from the main stage... Ate an eighth of shrooms about 40 minutes before Korn came on.. it was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. Even to this day lol... If you watch Korns opening 5 minutes you can see a Roman Candle (firework) shooting from the crowd... I was about 5 feet to the left of that...You can see it clear as day on the video... Love it!
Bro,...when they came on said "ARRRRRREEEEEE YOOOOOOOOOUUUUUU REAAAADDDDDDYYYY!!!!????" I was tripping balls......I turned around away from the stage and all the people running to the stage looked like STAR WARS warped speed to me......best times of my life!!!!
@@MikeStAmant-fm8mx it was great man.. I remember the crowd jumping looked like waves.. One of lifes great moments.. I had been in the beer garden drinking keg beer off a fake ID .. Ate my shrooms on the way to see Korn.. They kicked in as they were coming on.. fucking glorious
