How Woodstock '99 Went Off the Rails
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- The 30th anniversary celebration of the Woodstock music festival took place in Rome, NY, from July 22-25, 1999. But what was originally conceived as a modern homage to the landmark hippie-fueled musical lovefest of the 1960s ended up mutating into a disaster marked by aggression and mayhem. By the end, Woodstock '99 was being referred to as "The Woodstock '99 Riots."
What caused Woodstock '99 to become such a low point in music history? The major culprits were oppressive summer heat, jacked-up prices, violent party crashers, and a lack of logistical oversight. When more than 220,000 people arrived to Oneida County that weekend, no one - especially the festival's organizers - were prepared for what was about to happen.
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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.
sad, very sad indeed
Sad. It is a failure and crime of negligence by the organizer.
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 got to
Nobody talking about Travis Scott tho
"Lets recreate the peace of the 60's"
"Lets hire Limp Bizkit"
T.R.O.L.L
it wasnt their fault really but shit just happened
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.
@@chuckgraham527 yeah but fred durst instead of stoping the concert went surfing in the audience on a torned out plywood
Lol 🤣
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.
Women were getting raped in the mosh pits? That’s horrible
@@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.
Yeah !!! And did he just kinda gloss over that part 😒
@@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.
Completely agree with this. Only one person was arrested for sexual assault even though hundreds of sexual assaults happened. Absolutely sickening.
No one was molested.
@@yearight5303 haha..... WHAT?
Fun fact: some of you were conceived there
Not me, thank the lord
Sounds like experience talking
fun fact : most of those who were dont know their farther !
@@imbetterthanyouis wow
Right there in the sewage soaked tent.
My friend's father attended Woodstock in 99 and all he said was "Oh yeah, it was one sh1tty experience"
did he really put a 1 instead of an 'i'
Mantro pretty shonetty indeed
@@Mantrooo It's so the comment doesn't get accidentally marked as spam or removed. It sometimes happens.
That sounds like a accurate, description, by looking at the pictures.🤔
I got footage of the riots of 99 with Wilder Valderamma nd Danny Masterson... can you spot the Slayer shirt?
/w\METAL/w\
The organizers wanted to rip everyone's off to the bone. The audience got pissed and destroyed everything. Shocker, who would have predicted it.
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.
@@dariog36th XD Where are the concerts with cheap amenities? Everyone I"ve been too has been pricey AF!
@@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!
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.
I still have a good sized piece of that red wood fence
Yeah, the music was epic but I was not upset that I didn't end up going after I heard what happened.
The security and safety of concertgoers was on the people paid by taxes to do their fkn job!
@@slipknot6789red, as in, blood?
@@lonelybro77 ... ya probably lol
Wow. I remember being 16 years old and being so bummed out that I couldn't attend this concert. I am so glad I didn't go.
One of my best pals said the same thing and I'm glad he didn't go. :)
I was working at McDonald’s at the time and lived in Federal Way/Tacoma,WA. My classmates relatives went and said the whole event was bullshit.
I went. It was great.
@@sislertx thanks for sharing! Much love!
most epic experience I've ever had. Sorry you missed it.
My friends and I were there and I’ve always said it was “the most fun I never want to have again.”
What were the campgrounds like? They were on the runway too?
I’d agree!
For the last 22 years I've been trying to find the perfect sentence to describe those 3 days and I found it. Perfect..
Wow, you have finally put words to my feelings. Still glad I went, still glad we left Sunday morning, but mostly glad it was a one time thing.
Type 2 fun.
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.
Sometimes in life, we feel like were losing. But then it turns out in the end that you were really winning the whole time, you just didnt know it.
I love your story! Thank you for sharing ;)
them: "imagine quarter of a million people trapped in a concrete pen surrounded by barbed wire and shutting off the water supply"....
me: uh oh
Its Gaza on a smaller scale
@@captainCaybrew without the rocket attacks and Israeli troops shooting kids
@@bezdomny5882 true
Its called Melbourne Australia (currently) only BIGGER.
No one was trapped, the base was huge. Oh and there was no barb wire
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.
Did you get the ID card?
@@ConanObrien22 Bruh. Nobody, a kid especially, had ID cards in the 90's 😀
@@RegulareoldNorseBoy He said he was 25 and on the older side of the crowd
@@ConanObrien22 Anywhu
I reckon we never see anything like woodstock 69 or 99 ever again
@@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''
"In defense of Limp Bizkit" is a sentence I'd never thought I'd hear spoken.
It would be the best sleeper agent activation phrase ever.
@@hoodatbug6424 It ranks right up there with "I'm getting sick and tired of this orgasm".
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.
Right?!
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
Do you ever wonder what your life would be like if you’d married her and have children?
I hope she sees this too ❤ .....Good luck to you,.
Creeper
I was the girl
@@coronaguy1829 you are a frigging dude 🤣
“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.
The doofus who wrote that is clueless. The 60's and 70's were crazy, especially from about 1967-1972.
Wasn't half the country on fire from race riots at the time? Also the cold war was happening.
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
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.
But also blame the people because they did it
I remember the outhouses with a foot of crap above toilet seat, 3 pm first day. Also people jumping up and down on top of the brinks truck.
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.
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.
i’m going to hell for laughing at this
I was there and it was even worse than this video. 4 days of hell but with some good music as the score.
David Prevost ... not to mention a LEGENDARY story to tell at the bar.
Jesus
My only question is who threw the leg?
Who’s here after the Astro world debacle today
Yes. So devastating
Me
Me
Me my mom and aunt said woodstock 99 was their Astroworld incident and Astro world is my generation fail and I was like wowww
@@Jazzygurl8665 mos definitely
The original Woodstock expressed to a large extent the spirit of the age. Perhaps Woodstock 99 simply did the same thing for it's own age.
Spot on.
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.
Yes people were well-behaved generally speaking in 1969 because people were raised more tough as my father would say. They had respect for others
@@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
"Fuck man, it's apocalypse now out there" I'm pretty certain that's the most accurate statement by a musician ever
Cue Flight Of The Valkyries and Wagner.
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'm about to do to you what Limp Bizkit did to music in the late 90's"
- Deadpool, 2016
Lol. So true.
Or what Ryan Reynolds did to fourth wall breaking in the mid 2010's...
After watching this video i finally understand the real story behind that joke🤣
My son brought me to see that movie. I now have a new appreciation for it.
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.
What girl in the van?
@@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.
@@natedoggcatagood to know good to know
@@xmjd4x703during one of the techno sets, a van drove trough the crowd and a girl was raped in the back of the van
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.
Write the book. You are very interesting!!!
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…
@@MraidsanThats horrible! Glad you made it out alive.
start a small concert venue , and just keep the assholes out for your kids sake .
“To get in you get frisked, to make sure you aren’t bringing in any food or water.”
Not alcohol, drugs or weapons, but food and water. 🤪
Yep we had to dump everything we brought before going in.
Yep. One gigantic pile...walked in with 2 coolers - walked out with nothing...because our campsite was mowed over and burnt.
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...
Yeah, get frisked for bringing in essentials. 🙄
Tells you where the priorities were, doesn't it? They cared about your wallet, not you.
Organizers: “hey uh, can you calm these people down?”
Limp Bizkit: *”HEY LETS PLAY BREAK STUFF”*
I was there for the kick ass set, Limp B. they didn’t set off shit and got a bad rap. You had to Actually be there you see to understand..
as if it is the performers job to do anything but perform "hey can can you organize our festival for us?"- the organizers
Didn't ICP send a cop through the table
@@KawaiiJackHonne SHXHAHDHAH HAHAHA
@Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho who hurt you
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.
I was 14, and remember this also. I wanted to go, but my parents said heck no. Probably for the better seeing how it all turned out.
@@ladylove2310 Was 14 also and asked my parents to get it on pay per view, they ended up more interested than I was.
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!
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.
😂 sometime good music lol
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.
Anthony Kendall Sadly Limp Bizkit was popular in that era, but there were plenty of good bands to make up for it
I feel dirty just looking at some of these pictures
all these old people that keeps saying "kids nowadays are stupid".
well this is that memory that will make these old people cringe at themselves
@@mynamejeb8743 Boomers and millennials keep beefing against each other while forgot the Gen X aint saint either.
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.
*"The peace candles became the kindling for the fire."*
You can't sum up the event any better than that, hahaha.
"When nu-metal ruled the ariwaves"
Shows picture of Red Hot Chili Peppers
RHCP are a shithouse live band.
@@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".
Not sure if you're aware of this... but nu-metal fans LOVED the Chili Peppers.
@Sam Kiedis is one of the only singers who has made an entire career out of singing flat. Everything they put out after Mother's Milk was utter crap.
@@riffgroove Chad Smith once mocked the nu metal bands saying he wished they wouldn't cite RHCP as an influence.
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.
@@JubeProductionsah another stupid statements made by stupid a stupid person
@@hexagonalsheep2142 😂 yo for fuckin real huh smh
I remember trying to get sleep in that same movie playing hangar while they were playing a super gory movie... didn't work out too well.
@@JubeProductions of course you need to make everything about trump.
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.
@@walkthebeat512
no the assaulters 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
Now history repeats itself with Astroworld.
I was waiting for someone to say this lol
Astroworld was harmless compared to this. 😨😨
@@druhill2011 there were three deaths at woodstock 99 and 9 at Astroworld. I wouldn’t say it was harmless at all
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.
@@WaywardPondering why is it 2 females for 1 latrine?
@@switchplayer1016 It takes them longer to do their business. That's pretty common knowledge.
Burning Man is also a different... more chill and better... demographic.
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 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.
Sounds like how several cruise ships ended up when engines and generators failed. They had to live on patios. Lol.
I did it once and regretted it. 4 days.
@@davidprevost6670 Lol you say Trash Humans so you are literally calling yourself trash
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.....
This whole event just goes to show that the scariest and most dangerous thing on our planet is a fellow human being.
Why not actually show footage from the festival instead of random stock pictures!?
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.
@@EskimoCreamKing ya and think mobile phones with a camera that can make videos wouldn't come out for closet to 10 years
Maybe copywriter and having to pay a buttload to use em. Same as using music. Gotta pay
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.
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 TH-cam). 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.
@@beardedlonewolf7695 They literally talk about how Woodstock 69 was just as bad, you absolute liar.
I just randomly happened to watch this today and there's a HBO documentary on this subject airing this Friday. Sometimes, I think the world really does revolve around me.
It does!
travis took inspiration from this ☠️
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.
did you get hurt by any of the mosh pits? and what did you think about the whole nude shit going on there
@@thomasaveryy2077 that dude don’t remember all that he was high
I made it through both 94 and 99 Woodstock’s ! No way I would ever do something like that again ! I wouldn’t survive it these days
@@danfarrelly2732 how was it lol
@@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.
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 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.
My late cousin attended. May he rest in peace
So, did he die at Woodstock?
“This is going badly.. the crowd is violent! Let’s give them fire”
That IS rock and roll!
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 Port-A-Johns were exploring? How terrifying.
you are a survivor, sir. Nothing can stop you.. :D
$8.50 in 1999 dollars or 2020 dollars?
@@kighr3 1999 dollars
i didn't see 8.50 but by day 3 i wasn't looking either.
The fact of how dangerous and insane the conditions were with the fact of shit LITERAL SHIT being on the ground and ppl having no idea what they were rlly jumping and sliding in, the fact that by the second day the water supply was contaminated with feces, the fact people were brutally raped, assaulted, molested, and sexually assaulted, the fact that the pricing of food and drinks were so high that the people would pass out from heat because they could not afford it, the fact that people came out of there with broken body parts literally abt to die from being trampled the fact that so many of the staff of everything involved and the people who came had so much dangerous around them that people could being raped and sexually assaulted right infront if the stage or mosh pit even the rave and ppl wouldn’t do anything, the fact that almost no one wanted to pick up all the trash that was flying by wind literally bashing over ppl in the crowd, the fact that in that van a girl was raped several times over, this whole event was an absolute fuck up and horrible condition for all those people to walk into
That thing about the girl in the van is the most shocking thing of it all, to me anyway. I literally cannot believe a crowd of people not only allowed that to happen, but danced on top of the van while it was happening. It's just completely insane to me how nobody stopped that.
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. 😆🤣
Idk why but Noodle’s comment about how a venue that was built by hitler was more hospitable then WS made me laugh a lot
imagine putting woodstock on a military base. blasphemy
They should’ve known this shit was gonna happen by doing that smh
Lol... the irony... Woodstock protested the military
They cursed themselves doing that.
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. 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.
"Looters were everywhere" Uh huh. The looters were the concert promoters. The people reacted accordingly.
Absolutely
Yes! Exactly! I was there and that is exactly what happened.
Yup, they got too greedy. Europe does festivals much better.
Lol spoken like a true POS. “I’m angry so let me steal some shit”
@@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"
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.
@Stellvia Hoenheim I've seen many people saying it was better in the 60's, and they were there.
That’s how I remember it as well.
@@bonniehowell4259 The 90s were already gone by 1998.
@@Tornado1994 You ain't lyin.
imagine cleaning this mess after the event
"Hey John! look at that! Somebody shit all over the place, here.."
John, the janitor at WS99 : "Honey, you don't know what shit is.."
No thanks
I recommend just buying a massive rug, then just covering it all up and running off
@@dynad00d15 Kevin (another Janitor in WS99): *Vietnam flashbacks
Probably had a bunch of privates in the military do the cleanup. Thinking Army and National Guard on their drill weekend.
I remember watching Woodstock 94 on TV, and promising myself I was going to the next one. To my delight, Woodstock 99 was announced, and I went solo, ( def the best way to go, judging by the thousands of ppl who lost their partners). I traveled from Canada to Rome NY and to this day, I'm so so glad I got to experience this historic weekend ✌️
I was a working photog and had worked so hard to lose the misanthropic attitude of my youth. Thanks to Woodstock '99, I was only off my hatred for a couple years. 23 years and still disappointed in us 2-legged creatures... Only now I know it's justified.
Could you imagine being in a crowd of 200k+ and losing the people you’re with?
This was before everyone had a phone and even then they would work with that kind of data traffic anyway.
What a nightmarish thought.
🤡 "I'm so glad"
"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
Yet it didnt.
*Woodstock just sounds like medieval peasant Europe.*
tbh any mega festival in Europe looks like medieval Europe.
@@telmomoreira7616 what do you want to say???
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.
oh a really low budget porno
Yeah, that sums it up.
Fun fact:
It was never *on the rails* to begin with.
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!
Fact
Stupid people will always do stupid things.
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.
Pov: youre here cause of what happened at astroworld
There was an air of violence present during that entire weekend that just expanded more and more as the days wore on. There were some brilliant performances here and there but one could sense the powder keg throughout. The Saturday night triple bill of Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine and Metallica should have surprised no one that it would inspire aggression. We bailed the Sunday afternoon after Elvis Costello and headed back for the Canadian border. By the time we hit the border the reports out of Rome were already coming in about the rioting, looting and fires. Killed my love for festivals for over a decade. The worst moment for me had to be walking back from the main stage in the dark when someone yelled hey its raining only to look up at the top of a trailer and realize they were being pissed on. Aren't people lovely?
Even as a teen I couldn’t stand that type of music from those 3 groups you mentioned. I listened to them here and there but the mood that music puts you in changes you. Imagine being in an uncomfortable place, hungry, thirsty, covered in filth, burning up, all while listening to that music. Kind of sounds like hell.
@@Adam-vs2in. It's how Metal is supposed be. What do you expect it to be, Justin Bieber or Backstreet Boys?
@@flipkiller8521 well I never liked them either lol.
That was my generation in a microcosm. Then 9/11 smacked us in the mouths and we had to grow up.
@Lil Heinz94 as one of these new kids I can atest for most of us when I say its not helped us grow up much if at all sadly
JPhoenix attest *
@Lil Heinz94 if by grow up you mean stay at home and play video games, sure, we're all paragons of maturity.
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....
that's kinda like it is now except instead of 9/11 and Woodstock 99 it's covid-19 and racism
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.
Trust me it was better you didn't. It was the worst time I've ever had at a show. Probably the worst time I've had doing anything.
I was also 16 at the time.
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.
@Maggot Giver She's just trying to share a story
Idk the Korn set was crazy as shit
the energy of the crowd as seen in videos is second to none. I would have hated to have been there in person tho
I was 21 at the time and had tickets on hand, vacation time requested from work okayed for 10 days to take the 1900 mile road-trip with 6 of my friends from the Midwest.
Leading up to the early portion of July, 4 out our 6 decided to not go because of not getting time off from work which left just two of us. We debated if it was even worth it as my best friend and coworker who is the biggest music fan even to this day said “Bro…I got a bad feeling about this show and the road-trip if we roll with just the two of us, let’s just sell off our tickets for a few extra bucks above retail and watch it on PPV”, I was pretty pissed off with him wanting to puss out missing a part of music history.
Long story short we did sell our tickets even below retail a week before the show and watched the PPV totally appalled by every hour that passed and we watched every minute of that broadcast. Still crazy to this day.
Long story short…what brought me here was the Netflix documentary on the show and after putting those thoughts and opinions of the show to bed a long long long time ago being the world has changed so much the last 23 years and I’m almost 50 now it’s still crazy how I felt watching the documentary last night. My emotions were really weird that I couldn’t sleep well and had to share with my wife the scenario.
Craziest thing is now I currently live not even two hours away from Rome, NY and didn’t even think about once until last night. Time flys by and generations get older while new ones are born. Life is short and we’re not guaranteed tomorrow. Enjoy what time you do have and never forget the good times, learn from the bad.
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 have come to feel comfortable when I hear this guy's voice.
I appreciate that, Ty.
For the record, I mostly blame the organizers for this chaos, not Limp Bizkit nor RHCP. Both frontmen weren't clear enough on what they said to the crowd nor did they know how bad it was. Yes, I defended both artists and I like some of their songs, bite me.
I agree. Putting a large group of people together with barely any shelter from the sun for 3 days, little access to bathrooms and water, and then price gouging is a recipe for disaster.
2021 has astro world
When your naked bass player is second-guessing things you know there’s a problem 😂
Edit: Thanks for the likes guys, you’re all awesome.
That's Flea, he's naked but not unreasonable.....
😂😂
Flea was yelling at the guys in front of us for grabbing some ladies boobs.
@@michaelnadle310 I had bailed by Sunday morning. Was it hell for you also?
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 remember feeling so jealous that I couldn't attend Woodstock 99 until the news broke how it turned into a complete disaster.
So many sexual assaults took place. Absolutely disgusting:(
Agreed, it's sad :/
Unfortunately, completely disgusting
I'm sure there were more at the original woodstock but women just had to go along with it back then
who’s here because of tragic scott astrofest
Lol when flea is the voice of reason asking if they should actually play “fire” thats wild bro
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 liked going to concerts back in the 90’s. Used to go to Country and Rock USA in Oshkosh. Good times then. But I’m glad I didn’t go to this Mess!!
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
Was 94. Weather and prices sucked but Thank God I wasn't at this f -king fiasco!
tolfan Saw Frampton, Skynard in the 70's & Yes in the 90's
I was supposed to go, but had to work. I had friends go. They were some of the kids that broke into the truck containers full of supplies, looting and passing out water. It would get up to 130 degrees on the black top during the day, the tents they had to support heat stroke victims were overrun. Woodstock 99 was about consumerism, not peace and love or fun. It was probably the biggest event of my life at the time, and I’m glad I didn’t go. The people who set the show up should have been sued or prosecuted.
This Woodstock just shows the edginess and aggressiveness of the 90s
It was because of greed. Had nothing to do with the 90's or a certain generation. The promoters and the producers were very greedy and didn't care about the conditions that everyone was in for 3 days. And that's why they got mad. Everyone that paid $150 for a ticket to be there were completely taken advantage of and ripped off. And they were very angry and rightfully so.
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
This story is now “past, tents”. ...amiright!
Badum tss
This video didn’t even get into the drug part..
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
Classic novice .always take a personal flag .thing os at this place it would of probarly been used as toilet paper
True story ,I only found mine because we were right near a main gate.lol
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
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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.
Oh there was one in 94 also? God I forgot. I was 13 that year.
That wasn't mud
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.
Thank you for subtitles
Almost sounds like Seattle and Portland when going downtown 😆
Woodstock 99 walk so Fyre festival could run.
except this one had bands
Fyre festival was edm
@@acidducks9476 one of their headliners was blink 182 lol
Galantian Crusader fyre was one dude with a speakers. 😂
@@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 was a kid when this went down I lived in Rome all anyone could smell was shit coming from the base and the after math OMFG
Man I really hope they bring back Woodstock festival. Looked wild
Yeah did you see how terrible that shit was? You hope to bring that back?! Sure if it were in a better location and the promoters actually cared about the venue then sure, however I watched an expansive documentary about this festival and even the waste management committee leader said that it was not going to last long before something popped off.
Woodstock could never be replicated. Peace and love seem so far away these days.
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! 🤣🤦♂️
Glad someone brought this up!
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.
It was when being a Hippy started going mainstream and douchnozzles started trying to Force people to "explore" against their will
@@ericjami3hane579 thats disgusting
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 and the fear in the MTV lady's face as the crowd started to shake the tower she was on
I will literally never get over the whole mud thing, like why.. how did they not... I can’t.
I was at this festival. I had a great time but I have never been to another festival this big again. It was a great experience but once was enough.
a fitting end to the 90s decade, musical-wise
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.
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.
Very well said and good point, you're correct.
Bob,tell us you saw Woodstock 69 on TV.
@ 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.
Moral of the story, people are dad, people in large numbers are worse.
You spelled Jimi wrong, odd for such an expert..and didn't notice the mention of Yassgur's "Dairy" farm, odd for such an expert. Busted.
"..Were swarming with kids who peeled off each structures' protective plywood like worn band-aids."
Thank you for this.
I remember watching all of this on MTV thanks Carson Daily
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.
bruh what even was woodstock 99 it just sounds like the purge
Hey watch your profanity because you say the s word
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
And also michael lang who orginazed the original woodstock and those New version of woodstock in 94 and in 99 died in the past year 2022
So who will organized woodstock 2024? anybody?
Fred Durst knew what he was doing the moment Limp Bizkit started playing "Break Stuff"
Agree. Such a Durst move too.
Throwaway That’ll stay legend
Dave Barnett the crowd started burning shit when the Red Hot Chili Peppers started playing and they started handing out lighters..very stupid mistake
Yeah he knew that doing it meant people would still be talking about it 20 years later
I don’t blame the bands I blame the promoters
Watching this after Travis concert 😯
I went to Lollapalooza in the early `90's and they searched us, too. You weren't allowed to bring blankets, you weren't allowed to bring food or water, etc.. The ONLY reason I went was to see Fishbone and Primus. Both played the same day so, I only had to be there for that.Fishbone went on in the afternoon, not long after we got there. (See their video for "Servitude" to see some of what happened.) Primus went on just after dark so, I just kinda wandered around the venue for a while between both bands. I really didn't care about any of the others playing that day. For all I know, I left shortly after Primus was done. The one bad thing that happened was that they started playing their song, "My Name Is Mud" and people in the audience started ripping up album-sized portions of the grass they were on and threw them at the band. After a few moment, they stopped playing and Les said, "Looks like I opened up a can of worms, there!" Then tried to get everyone to stop, said that they weren't gonna play until it stopped and said he didn't spend 15 years practicing bass to be hit with dirt. I wasn't very happy with this, either because, not only did I not want to get hit with any but, with all that dirt and grass washing over the entire area, my allergies to both went nuts and I couldn't stop sneezing and blowing my nose for about half an hour!