Trainwreck: Woodstock '99Trainwreck: Woodstock '99
Woodstock 1969 promised peace and music, but its '99 revival delivered days of rage, riots and real harm. Why did it go so horribly wrong?Episodes | TrainwreckEpisodes | Trainwreck
Woodstock '99
Release year: 2022
- How the F**k Did This Happen?
- The 1999 fest takes a hard swerve away from 1969 Woodstock co-creator Michael Lang's vision with a military base locale, profit focus and toxic vibe.
- Kerosene. Match. Boom!
- Endless trash and seething heat feed the chaos on day two as performers are pelted with debris and Limp Bizkit riles the crowd to its breaking point.
- You Can’t Stop a Riot in the 90s
- Tainted water and price gouging mar day three. Fear grips the finale, fires spread, and the mob takes over. Later, sexual assault allegations emerge.
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Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff (Live at Woodstock 1999) Official Pro Shot / AAC #Remastered
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I was there. My memory of this event is TOTALLY different than the way the media portrayed it. I was in the thick of the crowd when the Chili Peppers went on and the fires started. They weren't violent and even the fire marshal came on stage and said don't worry about it. The band actually played their cover of Hendrix's "Fire" right after that.
The "looting" at the end was honestly just vendors chucking product they couldn't sell because, well yeah, everything was overpriced. We brought our own food for the weekend and just had a feast when they started giving away free stuff. The crowd didn't take anything and didn't even ask. It was a massive dumping.
As to the sexual assault allegations, I can't speak to that. That is obviously horrific and I hope any guilty parties were brought to justice.
Concerning anything in public though, I was in the midst of the crowd the whole time and saw no violence, theft, or people being mean to each-other in any greater than average way. It was actually one of the happier music festivals I've been to, and I've been a full time professional musician since 2006. My first memory of thinking anything weird happened was calling my mom (on a pay phone) long after the Chili Peppers set and the endlessly feasting on Sunday night and her telling me how scary the media had made it seem.
I don't have Netflix right now, but I may have to check out this documentary. I've got a lot of pictures, but that was before the days when we all carried video cameras in our pockets.
Thanks for the first-person account. It's good to hear what really happened from someone who was there, the media often exaggerates.
I'm also not saying horrible things didn't happen. All I know is, I was in the thick of it and the only questionable thing I saw were the fires, which the fire marshal told us from the stage not to worry about. I saw lots of vendors giving stuff away at the end, which maybe looked kind of dubious on camera, but nobody was taking or extorting anything from them.
Just a few years back, I read "That Hideous Strength" and the whole part about the riot reporting in there resonated with a few experiences I've had, but this was the first one like that. It's a terrifying book if you're ever looking to experience a different side of C.S. Lewis's writing.
Yikes what absolute mayhem. Looks like the documentary is worth a watch though.
I saw it last year and it's definitely worth seeing
I knew some guys that were there
I remember when it happened
Fiat World
The price of a bottle of water has reached $12, equivalent to $22 in 2022. If you haven't seen it yet, you should