@@Jbailey2112 I do too.. it seems there was just some sort of mystical energy that was apart of all of them. In more ways than one. A lot of artists had their most iconic performances there. It wasn't the annual run of the mill Lollapalooza or Bonnaroo, they have their own unique vibes as well but there was just something unexplainable about Woodstock.
It gives you a more accurate picture of what was going on from their point of view. I mean I would have loved to have seen Metallica, Aerosmith and the Chili Peppers during this time period but what the fans had to put up with was ridiculous.
Rome is my hometown. I was 18 back then. I worked at the McDonald's next door to the Dunkin donuts you talked about. What a weekend. I will never forget it.
I'm so glad I came across these. I love hearing stories about Woodstock 99 . Granted I just watched it live on pay per view but man it was a huge part of my growing up and we are about the same age. I think about Woodstock 99 all the time .
I went in Dunkin Donuts waiting in line for bathroom. They started to let cars go to the base. I walked outside and my friend was driving my Taurus completely over all of the concrete slabs to rush to the front. It was so funny to see my car just bouncing up and down, we were on of the first 100-200 people in. I was 30 at the time. WILD
the mud wasn't water.....it was urine and feces...I know this for a fact, yes I helped....I was standing at the barricade for DMX as well, and i know what you mean. You got pushed up against it, I saw many people get taken over the barricade by security cuz they had trouble breathing ....300k people rushed the stage for Korn, INSANE!!!! I was in their pit also INSANE....they also had movies playing in the Hangars so people could get out of the heat...that center tower was called The Alamo
@sd At one point on Saturday they announced that there was around 400k people there. At the same time they announced that Woodstock 99 was the second biggest city in NY next to NYC. there was absolutely more than 300k
Thank you for sharing!! I’ve been watching every documentary on Woodstock ‘99 that I can get my hands on. Just absolutely fascinating watching how people act when they’re left to their own devices. It’s like the Pleasure Island scene in Pinocchio: they all turned into jackasses.
Really interesting to listen to your experience..im in UK and was 29 at the time and watched on MTV Highlights Limp Bizkit is the most powerful performance I've seen
Ha i come back to this periodically and always find little things that missed before like the FAN 😂. Still got that fan goin alo the time. I remember the little fan you had with the blue blades that made all the noise and your like NO I LIKE THAT NOISE 😂.
I was there too. We drove up from Baltimore. I had a good time but the prices were insane. We stayed right up until the fire. I remember sleeping in the big tent where they were showing movies.
These are some really cool videos . I was 14 and at the time a HUGE korn and limp bizkit fan. I was a fan of 98% of the music at woodstock actually haha I am from West Virginia and me and my buddy Ben were 13 and 14 years old and went to concerts all the time but we couldnt get the approval from our parents and no one wanted to chaperone us for 3 days haha which is understandable. Instead I remember turning my tv on the channel to that PPV and having a fresh brand new VHS tape in the vcr and for some reason where I lived every 30 minutes or so it would come in crystal clear and I would hit record haha so somewhere in an attic theres a lot of woodstock 99 footage. You could actually ehar it the entire time so I would just listen. But thank you for these stories. Very cool stuff.
I think the weekend before Phish played Oswego, NY and it was hot as hell. Just a 2 day festival as I recall, but before the weekend was over I was practically passed out on the concrete/asphault. The difference with that is people were selling stuff so things were cheaper, and there wasn't a bunch of rapey d-bags.
@@VandelayIndustriesLLC I did phish whole summer tour 98 amd 99. Oswego was ungodly hot. I remember trey making a comment about the fires and destruction at Woodstock 99 and was so glad our phish community wasn't destroying stuff
It was during the “intermission” I think that Dexter from The Offspring did the Back Street Boys thing haha. They ended on Self Esteem. I wish the NetFlix doc would have shown how Dexter also addressed the grabbing of women. Ending with “They should be able to crowd surf and have a good time and If a guy goes over your head I want you to grab his f**kin balls!”
I was there was 19 at the time. Unreal experience. My memory could be off but I remember the bottled water being $4. Could a Woodstock 2029 happen?! You never know.
@Scott Charney Stop simping bro. I was there and 99.9% of the women were fine. Believe it or not it was completely their choice to get naked and they had fun with it. Of course a few bad things are gonna go down with a bunch of drug-fueled young people at the biggest festival of the decade. Common sense would tell you not to get naked in a mosh pit.
@@Larry_Sycamore That's not what the women themselves reported. Sexual assault, from groping on up (or down) was rampant. Nudity is not the issue. Indeed, they got naked of their own accord; I have no problem with it at all, and it is *not* an invitation to get touched. Nobody has said that the women who got assaulted in the pits were naked before being attacked, and it doesn't matter if they were. It was a horrid situation. Have you watched either of the documentaries?
I was on top of the trailers the one's the eventually got burned down, there was a big group of use partying up there. Anyway we would could all tell when someone was going to get attacked by the mud people. At one point anyone walking to the port of pottys or near them would be walking minding their own business an out of nowhere a huge group of people would attack from all sides throwing mud at them an tackling them. It was messed up but hilarious at the same time, I felt so bad for them I would have hated to get caught in that.
It's amazing you were part of such a crazyyyy just... shit show or epic proportions. I don't mean that as an insulting way at all, because I can only imagine the extreme insanity of it all. Oh yeah, and I'm glad you didn't have to pay $4 dollars for that bottle of water you're drinking.
If you were that close to the stage you could have got help from security for your friend. They were picking people up over that were not in good shape at the barricade.
Dave Matthews Band was there but I think the Foos were recording a new album(There's Nothing Left To Lose) and they were a three member band at the time.
@@kothen4994 That is why Netflix did a BETTER JOB with the documentary, cuz they allowed you to feel you were literally there (showing both the good and the bad).... Too bad I was just 11 or so back then! Have I been ten years older, I likely would have gone there too! 🤣🤘
