When 300,000 People Share Six Toilets
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- The in-depth story of how the infamous Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival (aka "Bull Island Festival") of 1972 turned into "the worst festival of all time".
It was billed as the "Woodstock of the Midwest" - a massive three-day festival featuring the biggest names in rock and roll. 300,000 eager fans made the pilgrimage to a marshy site near Evansville, Indiana, lured by the promise of iconic acts like Black Sabbath, The Eagles, and Fleetwood Mac.
They expected a laidback celebration of music, but things went horrifically off-script at the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival. The event would, however, become infamous, not for its music though but as one of the most disastrous music festivals ever staged...
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Hiring "Karate Experts" for security is the most 70s shit ever
Yeah, the last video had Hells Angels bikers as security, bikers who brutalized the fans with pool cues. And then in this video I see karate experts and my head explodes.
Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting!
😂😂😂😂
@@ihaveinsomnia1those cats were fast as lightning. Huh!
@@ihaveinsomnia1More like Kung Flue Fighting
You know the food scarcity was BAD when hippies went and killed a cow 😂
Lmao
Damn, I didn't catch that lol.
True
Dont have a cow man....on second thoughts....
😂
Hippies were never virtuous.
love how hippies are all peace and love the earth but then leave TONS and TONS of trash during these events lol
Hippiecrites.
5/13/24....JUST LIKE THE CLIMATE CHANGERS + EV LOVERS + SOLAR ENERGY BELIEVERS!
@@wattage2007 Think for a moment -- how many people out of 50 or 60,000 does it take to leave trash, or loot? It may be 5 percent of those who attend a concert. Note the Burning Man festivals - they always leave the places where they hold those without a speck of trash or damage.
Besides, rock concerts are big business operations. Their downsides are reflections of capitalism.
It's basically a one-time space so you need a lot of good solutions to minimize trash, and even then it gets tough to manage!
I am impressed. Just two dead? ... despite 300.000 ppl... it could been endlessly worse.
may be others were eaten?
There were probably more deaths. Disneyland started the practice of not including deaths of patrons when they were removed off-site and declared dead at a hospital. Keeps comp figures down & avoids negative publicity. It is still used today - Astro world had more, but again they were declared off site. It costs the insurance company, artist & organiser less money. Not so good for the injured or the deceased, however!!
Did they drown in one of the 6 toilets?
Woodstock 99 had zero deaths, if I remember correctly? That was a huge dumpster fire as well.
Edit: Thanks Azalago, I was not remembering correctly.
i was hoping for a much higher number.. i guess 2 people translate to 20 today
the title alone gave me anxiety
Find a bush
@@wedabestradi096 tick wrote that
Same.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@loonastrawberrylmao
The epitome of "imagine the smell"
Smells like raw, human shit and horrific body odor.
'A hippie is someone who looks likes Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah'
It's an old saying but I've got nothing against them!
That was my first thought. My second thought was "imagine the nasty stench of B.O. & crotch rot when opening a tent from drug fueled (& sober) hippie sex". Hell, one probably didn't even need to open a tent, the whole damn grounds probably smelled like excrement, B.O. and crotch rot for miles and miles.
The sink would be delicious
Still better than smash players
If each person has 1 minute in the restroom it'll only take 209 days for everyone to get a turn.
Your pesky math had no power over those promoters!
Idk how you calculated that, but it should be 35 days
300000people/6toilets/24hours/60mins = around 35days
@@sandraaiden8587 He neglected to factor in that there were 6 toilets, so his calculation was 300,000/60mins/24hrs.
@@feponcio that should give around 180 days tho
@@sandraaiden8587 If you multiply 30x6, then you get 180. But remember that your correct answer was 35 days (approx.) not 30 days. So you should be multiplying 35x6.
I was there, age 17. This is mostly accurate and has more pictures and video than I've seen anywhere else, but there were a few differences from the description. One is the toilet situation. People on the outer edges may have walked into the woods but for the most part everyone just dug a hole where they sat, did their business, and filled it back in. They left out a few of the more bizarre things going on too, such as all of the people having sex on the ground in the middle of the crowd and people just walking around naked.
As I understand it, the open sex & nudity happened (and still does) at other such events. What horrifies me, though, is that having sex in such unsanitary conditions is a recipe for severe illness!
@@scottcharney1091 If you don't get the clap from the dirty hippies, you'll get dysentery from the dirty ground.
@@davidcox3076 Once you don't get one of those laboratory viruses you'll be fine, lol.
But did you enjoy yourself at all?!
@@drips1030 as far as I know, lol. I mostly remember thinking that it would be a good story someday when I was an old man, like 30.
The guy who sued because his cows supposedly died from marijuana inhalation is the best part of this video
Lol they probably didn't die, but he couldn't sell their meat I imagine... hence he considered it a 'loss'.
@@RaeHadzega maybe I doubt the concentration of smoke effected them in the slightest he prolly was just pissed off all these hippies were on and around his land and saw an opportunity to cash in so he churched it up alittle bit but who knows . I doubt many of those lawsuits got paid out anyway
@@RaeHadzega bullshit, it was a money grab.
Shouldve sold them to McDonalds to make really happy meals....
😂
*Moorijuana 🐄
The smells of waste, being able to barely hear the music, a bunch of tweaking people. No thanks, I’m good. I’d rather buy the damn record.
💯💯💯 🎶🎶🎶
Good times 😂😂😂😂😂
And the smell of hippies !
But no food would eventually mean no more poop, either. So it's not all bad. 😆
Same thing I've always said 💯 😂
The thing that goes swept under the rug at these events is the amount of sexual assaults.
Very true
I've met women who told me of recollections of waking up from drug induced unconsciousness to find one or more males on top of them or groping them. And not necessarily at big events, but also at small parties. What we have been told to think of as "progressive" and "enlightened" often is not at all. The patriarchal system wears many facades.
Play stupid games with drugs amongst hundreds of thousands of people, win even stupider prizes...
Yep.
@@CellarDoorx06 while I agree with this if these same people got the same punishment or worse they wouldn’t even do it but since people often don’t punish people properly for SA it’s almost like a free crime card
I went to a free concert that was organized at the last minute back in November of 1991 in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. 300, 000+ people showed up in memorial of iconic Bay Area concert promoter, Bill Graham, nine days after he died tragically in a helicopter crash. The 'Indian Summer' weather could not have been better and multiple HUGE acts including the Grateful Dead, Robin Williams, and Journey performed. It was an all day event starting at 10:00 AM. Food was largely scarce save for one little neighborhood grocery store across the street that quickly sold out of EVERYTHING. However, event had PLENTY OF PORTA POTTIES and medical tents to service that enormous crowd. It was a GREAT event despite my having had no sleep the night before, and partying all day. Great memory to have in light of the tragic circumstances which inspired the concert.
You mention an Indian summer. Yet how can there be an Indian summer if there is no winter in San Francisco?
@@wokeeye6441it’s a San Francisco weather thing. Like Mark Twain said, “The coldest winter I ever had was summer in San Francisco.” It gets cold there so an Indian Summer’s possible.
Yeah 1991 isn’t 1972.
I was at that show... I love the Grateful Dead & I miss Jerry...
This is my personal idea of hell. Lots of crowds, no privacy, and 6 damn bathrooms for 300k people. Absolutely 9th circle of hell.
I can't unsee the poop pyramid.
There was 300 toilets at one stage. They probably shouldnt have burned them all at the end of the day lol.
Wdym people were shitting outside randomly@@lucideuphoria7092
Speaking about privacy, imagine walking in the open space to find a place to take a dump, and you see all those people doing the same, and need to walk miles to find a decent spot, and while walking all that view... 🤣, i wonder how women felt, and also what they used instead of toilet paper 😆
But what im most amazed is what they left behind them, so much garbage plus burning the food trucks, so sad...
LMAOO even funniee now that I’m studying Dante
I don’t like crowds. I don’t like people. I don’t like sharing bathrooms. An absolute nightmare. It’s college, times x100.
Same. Never understood the benefit of staying with strangers who are dirty, no privacy, shared bathrooms, big groups... makes no sense. It is not a good social setting at all.
I'm 100% there with you. I mean, at a distance, but you understand.
its like living with nasty roomies or a fat house. disgusting@@swedishhousemfia
Things like this don’t even half feel appealing. More than 10 people is pushing it
@@faenethlorhalien😅😅😅
I like how these hippies talk about peace and love but they all turn into rats when pressed for simple comforts.
Yes, that's what a breakdown in society does.
This IS a breakdown in society. If this had been a survivalist festival it would've been a ball and a biscuit. These people had no idea how to survive despite living a lifestyle that has become synonymous with living in unity with the planet.
I know it's easy to say but why didn't more of them leave after so many bands didn't go up? They wanted to get fucked up and do fucked up shit. Hippies suck. 😂
@@alaeriia01Society would breakdown as it is now with only six toilets. 🤦
simple comforts? like food? water? restrooms?
Yea the stuff readily available at any Starbucks.
*Can't say I feel sorry for the attendees. They ruined it for themselves by destroying 300 toilets, tweaking, looting, and stealing*
The BBQ must have been shitty!
Oh that was the authentic hippie experience. Happened just about every time hippies gathered anywhere in the world.
What they didn't mention here, was the fast spreading of several STD's I'm sure happened as well. A woman once told me, that she had 5 different ones at the same time at 16, after having hitchhiked randomly around in Europe in the summer of 1970.
To be fair, this is pre-hindsight
Not saying it's anything good; we just have the infrastructure and ideas that can make these not more violent than actual metal/punk fests
300 toilets still wouldn't have been enough. Especially if you have no way to empty them (the roads were clogged so trucks to pump the port a potties weren't going to get there). This is all on the organizers.
An unplanned festival in a city might be fine. City infrastructure can take a lot of the strain. But once you're in the middle of nowhere, you have to provide *EVERYTHING.*
Yeah the main problems I could think of for having it poorly planned and managed in a city instead of a large rural open space would be rioting damage, or a crush incident, like happened with the Love Parade dance festival in Duisburg, Germany in 2010. But even that latter one would depend on the geography/infrastructure quirks of the urban area itself, and chance.
People are also you know mostly incompetent so if there's not a bunch of super obvious infrastructure they'll just riot 😂
the city would never allow it as these hippies where basicly savage animals that destroy everything in their path
Defo . A point lots of sheltered folk might not realise
Depends on the city.
Basically, never underestimate the stupidity of humans, or visitors will use 300 wooden toilets as firewood instead of as toilets, and choose to poop out in a field. I'm not saying the organisers wasn't to blame, they definitely deserve the biggest blame, but I don't get how the presumable stench from the poop field alone didn't make people go home. And how did some visitors react to finding out that there was no more food in some food trucks? They torched them, as if that would solve their food shortage. On top of that, some people took things in their own hands, and chose to illegally slaughter a nearby cow to get food, rather than realise that maybe it was time to go home. Madness.
100% !
One word: Drugs (and to add more words....more than just a little MJ....)
Its because hippies are stupid af, their brains already not existent after all the drug and cannabis abuse… I mean look at this crowd, half of them look like cavemen or apes
Yeah hippies are trash. Look at the aftermath of any protest. Remember "the chaz"? Ruined a whole block
And they burned their source of food.
“Turd Fields” would make a great name for a band.
and now we have a new comer on the stage, everyone cheer for turd fields with their new hit single "turd fields forever"
😂😂😂😂 first laugh of the day..6-4-24👍😋
Forget the band, a dark comedy drama movie about this dumpster fire of a festival with that same name would be epic!
Legend has it, someone is still waiting in line to take a crap.
Guy entering the toilet and witnessing a pyramid of shit had me laughing so hard!
Seen the great pyramids on the construction site porta potty’s
Just imagine the person before him, "Well I guess I will just stay standing."
@@GLJosh lmfao
But, just as with the ancient Egyptians, it begs the question: "how did they build it?"
@@Oheng75 now it all makes sense
The concert goers took apart 300 toilets to use as fire wood. If that's fact, well, they did it to themselves somewhat.
There were only 6
@@spiritthingw "There were only 6" ... left...
i personally can't blame 'em for it. if this festival wasn't such a mess then maybe they wouldn't need to resort to that
@@ORANGEAFROS Yeah, protect the druggies
@@spiritthingwtells you someone didnt watch the video 7:38
These are the same people that continually lecture us on how civilization should operate.
Why do have parents so much to teach … they did the shit themselves they warn about!
I bet some people who were there think it was the greatest festival they had even attended. Side note - did anyone else see the kid walking with their parents in one shot? Can you imagine being ten and going to this?
You called them parents…….
@@richardcranium3579 I meant it strictly in the scientific sense.
My cousin and I were around 15 and we took my brother who was 10 to see Kiss in concert. When the lights went dim the smoking of Marijuana began. The cloud of pot smoke was so strong my brother almost choked. He yelled out what's all this smoke about.
yeah the drug dealers thought it was the greatest festival they ever attended. imagine charging 140 bucks for an ounce of weed, I bet they bought a car or a small house after this.
What kind of parents would have stayed with their 10 year old?
Only the bad kind.
Woodstock was unforgettable. This was unforgivable. People need to stop trying to be better than Woodstock. Every event that advertises to be “bigger and better than Woodstock” always turns into chaos…
Trying to repeat Woodstock is like trying to capture lightning in a bottle…twice. Promoters should hire excellent performers, ensure the safety and health of the attendees, and call it a day.
Woodstock was already chaos. Both the original (a biker gang being used as security) or more famously '99 (No, Fred Drust didn't have anything to do with the bonfires)
@@JosieJOK Yeah. Even '99 was better then this, because the true chaos was actually done after the music was over.
Different kind of people back then.
I was at Woodstock and it was surreal...nothing will ever touch it. It was beautiful.
When in your late teens and early 20's you get called lame and boring for avoiding anything involving crowds or loud music. But, when stuff like this happens,
I thank my lucky stars that I am a lame and boring introvert.
Same mate, same
Kindred spirit here
Same
I only go to concerts in citites and either alone or as an engineering student with fellow university students. The key thing is to avoid dumb people who have no graduation after 12th class.
Im not that introverted myself but i hate music festivals and concerts. Even if they are good they always give me these 2 day long headaches, haven't gone to one in years
they tried to recreate a Woodstock but they ended up becoming the original Fyre Fest.. 🤦♂
doesnt look much different than woodstock really
6 Toilets for 300k people?
Organizers: "Nah, it'll be fine."
Third world countries: First time?
I like how the population of my hometown has ballooned to... nearly half of 300,000.
they had 300 before the hippies destroyed them all
Yeah they had 300 "wooden toilets" but destroyed them all for firewood.
I went to a well ran festival and the corner of port-a-potties was so huge I actually took videos and called it the "Backrooms Hall of Shitters"
Your fest ain't shit if you don't have the Backrooms Hall of Shitters
“Karate Experts” … lol these promoters were like twelve years old .
Whoever watched the most Bruce Lee movies.
@@joemiller9931 lol
😂
Karate Experts were serious business back then... Probably
"Look, I saw it in a movie"
-The organizers, more than likely
Hippie documentaries: There was no crime or fights in the festivals, everyone was just high and chilling.
Real hippies:
They ran outta weed lmao
Great mini documentary!
Not to be a quibbler, but a "bad trip" is not the same as an "overdose" .... definitely quibbling 🤷♀️😆
First a poop cruise from hell, and now this…
Please don’t tell me this is a recurring theme.
Nah we need a poop story in the sky too, and under the sea
It’s a sign.
@@N3therWolf Plenty of the former to go around. IIRC, a guy had such a bad case of diarrhea, that he sprayed it all over his seat. Later, a a woman and her young child sat on those seats and noticed a very pungent smell during the flight. After they started complaining, poop was found all over the floor underneath those seats. Turns out the cleaners missed a few spots.
@@N3therWolf There was a case of Japan Airlines food poisoning in 1975 where a lot of people fell sick shortly after eating in-flight meal. Pure luck that the pilots ordered something else to eat, can you imagine a plane crashing because pilots were stuck in toilet due to diarrhea?
@@anupvshanbhag1813 the horrors! Don't know if they had it then already, but a pilot has to have a different meal than his copilot . Maybe that's the reason they implemented that😂
You know what's best about a festival, you can watch it perfectly recorded from your cozy home.
Yeah, and hear the bands.
Nah that’s lame,but better than this for sure
Where your restroom and all the beer and food you can ingest...is right nearby....no rain either.
Not in the 70s.
you can't compare tele-vision with real-vision and real-experience.
Advice for bands, from another musician: Never, ever, agree to perform at a "first" or "first annual" anything. If the promoters haven't done it before, successfully, they have _no idea_ what it takes.
Many 1st events never see a second
@@ObsessedCollector Exactly.
My father's first (And only) rock show. He was more into R&B and Motown. He had a free weekend but couldn't get back home with us, so he went with some friends. Never saw any music and the car they went in was stolen. Combined with the people there (He dispised hippies and similar types.) it just confirmed his low opinion of them.
Turning the wooden outhouses into firewood epitomizes mob lack of foresight, lmao
or really good drugs.
Open sewers, water pollution, massive amounts of litter, presence of dangerous chemicals (in this case, drugs), and the need to bury the site by bulldozer... I believe this satisfies the prerequisites of being considered an "environmental disaster". Good job, hippie-crittes.
Maybe it was really cold. There will have been a reason why they decided they will sacrifice the toilets and sh*t in the bushes. Imagine that there is today a festival that promises all the A-listers. (But humans have done much weirder sh*t. Like in your beloved pagan times, we sacrifed humans. Thats stupider mop action, isnt it? We still have some known ancient ritualistic places here (with high levels of protein in the ground^^)
Yes, choice between freezing and taking a shit indoors.
@@idr121 Freezing in July?
what a shitshow..... literally
Thanks for using "literally" correctly.
lolol😂
Wow, and people say today the world has gone mad. Every time I hear about events from the 70's-80's I think about how it seemed so dangerous and crazy. I know the world is crazy now but I don't think it's any worse than it was back then.
It was really crazy back then. Somehow, I managed to survive it.
I’ve never heard of this disaster of a festival and it’s so unbelievable. The “promoters” were probably warned several times along the way about what could happen but their greed and hubris kept it going. Hope those venders and esp the farmer got compensated.
My Ma went to Woodstock, she took one look at where they had this event and decided not to go. She was glad she didn't.
Huh you just said your ma went to this event but then decided not to go. So did she go or not.
@@user-zu2wj1mq8q She went to Woodstock, not the Bull Island Festival.
She’s glad she didn’t go to one of the most legendary musical events in history?
Reading comprehension really plummets in this comment
You people need Jesus.
Hungry, Hungry Hippies!
@@iviewthetube *exacerbated
HAA! Good one.
This makes fyre Festival look like a picnic
Seeing a crowd of people like this makes me sick, it never surprises me to see the stinch people can live with.
So Grandma and Grandpa used to party, don't let them fool you 😂
Imma 60's/70's kid-yeah, we've seen/done/had it all...including the internet! :)
Every generation parties. Homo Erectus probably had some proto - drum circles, with whatever plants gave them the best high.
Lol my grandparents grew up in the 60s and they were still smoking weed when I was a teenager, selling it even
Boomers be like: "Why my descendants are so leftist and vote for Biden, me I've never been like that!"
The very same Boomers in the '60s and '70s: communist dr*g addicts which looted the very same Rock festivals they went to 😆😆...
My dad used to lie to my face as a teen about quitting smoking and booze well before I was born, he didn't think my toddler ass could remember him doing those exact things at parties or with relatives.
No food, mud and human excrement everywhere, no security, hippies killed a cow, ~300 wooden toilets burned, food vans and trucks set on fire, rubbish everywhere, traffic jams, ... sure sounds like hell on earth.
But as far as bad concerts go, the Rolling Stones Free Concert at Altamont Speedway also deserves special mention.
And a metric ton of acid, just for a cherry on top.
Between songs when The Rolling Stones were playing the hells angels stabbed a guy to death caught on film at that festival
I recall a concert where it was first come first serve for sitting and only one door was open on one side. Lots of folks where trampled to death. The 70s sure had a lot of dumbasses, no wonder their kids are dumb too. All those drugs 😂
Hell was what hippies brought. Not this "peace and love" caricature we get today.
@@nyki7fykxtjxyiit’s when they had Hells Angels for security
I live like 30 minutes from where this took place and never heard of this till now. Indiana and Illinois TOTALLY buried this festival in hopes we would forget lol
Man, I thought I was the only one who liked pooping in a grand piano.
Hahaha!
I was there that night! After Canned Heat, all that I can remember is I took a trip down Alice and Wonderland Lane, I was found hours later naked in Turd Field stacking dookies..
Cool story bro
Yuk
This actually is a good story
Nasty. The lack of hygiene with hippies frightens me
Hey,Shit Happens……
Still better than Fyre Festival
Or Woodstock '99!
How so? Fyre might have been a fraud but nobody died, and there was not anywhere near the amount of destruction, filth, drug use, discomfort, etc as this. Fyre was a minor inconvenience in comparison.
@@ian3580I was thinking how Fyre and '99 were poorly organized so that nothing that concertgoers were promised were in place; such as acts, food or sanitation.
@@ian3580 Fyre didn't end up even being a music festival though. They just arrived to no music and a lack of facilities.
@@bigballz4u If it's the one I'm thinking of, didn't it have music on day two, but the organizers told people to stay away due to bad weather, only for the people, who went home to later find out they were lied to?
Videos like this offer a grounded view of historical events that are often glamorized to and by the public over the years.
All the guys who fought Iwo Jima or at Normandy probably couldn't believe this is what their kids got up to.
I was once at a pretty big show at an outdoor venue, which basically had a whole neighborhood of porta-potties adjoining it. At the time I thought it was overkill but now I am NEVER gonna complain about having a surplus of places to poop.
Kinda strange that they used the outhouses for firewood.
That musta been some smelly wood. xD
Supplied by the Birch John Society.
that just shows how society behaves if completely unregulated. They didnt think of the consequences at all
They were cold. It pissed down with rain, so was probably a cold part of the year.
Just imagine if the toilet was a sentient object, I don’t know if it would be overjoyed or beyond traumatized to be used by all those people!
Thanks for covering this. We all know about Woodstock '99 and Altamont as colossal festival disasters, but not much is heard about the huge piece of garbage -- literally -- that was Bull Island. Those two "promotors" were out of their league. And that crowd. Holy shit, they were as bad as the '99 audience.
I can’t even stand sharing a bathroom with my sister.
Well known to the masses that women are extremely gross in the bathroom area. I used to clean them 15 years ago and have seen some nightmarish things. Men's rooms will have water and TP on the floor. No biggie. Women's rooms? Vomit, pee, and poo everywhere except in the toilet. On the stall walls, floor, seat, and sink.
Hopefully your sister is understanding of your decision.
0:58 Red flags should have went up when both creators had two first names for names. That’s always a bad sign
Yup! You have no idea xDD
One of my life rules. Don't trust anyone with 2 first names
There does seem to be a precedent.....
ikr? it's like if their parents cant even decide on a single name then that is already a great start for bringing up and educating their children.
In the UK many hair salons have such names. Richard John etc
“Six toilets?! Are you insane?”
“I have spoken.”
There were more than that but the people burned them for firewood. So to say that only 6 were provided isn't really true.
Burning toilets for firewood is a sentence I never thought I’d hear (or read)
Seven toilets. Don't forget the grand piano
Hello protobean
"When 300,000 people share six toilets" is actually a pretty good name for a punk band
I saw "Pure Filth" in 2003
sounds like a fall out boy song title lmao
My dad’s side of the family lived just south of Bull Island in New Harmony. I can confirm that the traffic was complete chaos all around there.
This made me think of Woodstock 99, really hope an in depth Netflix or MAX doc made of this
The Woodstock 99 Docu was epic … entertaining!
I personally know someone who has compiled a documentary about this. I'm not sure if it's publicly available or not.
Still somehow more successful than the Fyre Festival.
Obviously you don't know the details of the Fyre festival or this one to make that comment.
@@ian3580 I do actually know the details of the Fyre Festival.
This was way worse brother 😂 it's quite obvious you don't I ow much about anything 😂
Unless it takes place at a dedicated, permanent concert site, most outdoor rock music festivals were for the birds. Most of the people that I knew who attended Woodstock hated it. These middle class kids were used to comfort----me too. I once attended a festival that featured Ike & Tina Turner and ten minutes into their set, a huge thunderstorm ended the whole shebang. There was a small pond on the site and people used it as a giant swimming hole and commode. Thousands of cars got stuck in the muddy field that was used as a parking lot. The car I rode in was one of them, and it took ten hours to get it out. The music was O.K. but it wasn't worth all of the problems.
I honestly dont understand why people torture themselves with these festivals, I'd rather go out camping in nature before i camp with 300000 unwashed hippies.
Yeah. Even with relatively civilized sites like wineries within a suburban area and just a one-off show, you can get bad problems. I remember one Robbie Williams concert held at a winery in my city, where the traffic just didn't move. The people who had taken the complementary buses from the nearest train station were caught in the traffic jam, ended off walking several Kilometers on foot and barely arrived in time to see the main act. Some people who had parked at the venue waited in their cars for 5 hours to be able to even get out of the carpark afterward.
And that's in a city, with a single main act. The amount that can go wrong with a multi-day festival in the wilderness is just compounded.
I loooove watching concerts from the comfort of my home.
title is truly a worse fate than death
Man. People think planning events is easy. It isn't. Shit takes so much to pull together.
"Shit takes so much to pull together" That's why it was all over a field.
I never pull on my shit. It comes out automatically.
This upload has created one of the best comment sections ive seen in years. Great example of teamwork and individual innovation. Im excited for the commenter who decides to tackle the dreaded piano which was 'used as a toilet'. Id love to wager that it becomes a pinned comment. Let the creativity ensue fellow subscribers, and lets all be thankful we were not a part of this predestined Fyre Festival ❤
It's kinda hilarious how only organizers are blamed when 80% of things are on the junkies. They caused violence, they overdosed, they dismantled the toilets..
The violence was probably an abject fury at the lack of organisation and not hearing the bands they paid to see. I'm assuming it was a cold part of the year (it rained?) so people tried to stay warm, when maybe the organisers should have considered a different time of year or warmer place; also, there should have been proper security to kick out anyone vandalizing the infrastructure.
The overdoses are not strictly the organisers fault necessarily, but it's interesting that they had pill testing; we keep getting told that pill testing at festivals would prevent overdoses, but I've never believed it and it's possible it contributed to a false sense of safety in the drug abusers.
*"With thousands of people taking to the Wabash River to bathe."* - With only six toilets for 300,000 people, I'll bet "bathing" wasn't the sole motivation for jumping in the river that day.
2:14 - "REO *SPEEDWAGOM"*
It also says Nazerath lol So unprofessional from the beginning
Seven toilets. Don't forget the grand piano
I think I might have suggested this to you. I have lived in Evansville since 77(I was 2 yrs old) and you would think that it would be a local legend but I never heard about it till I stumbled across something online about it.
Great how the promoters just fly away.
This is like an accidental experiment to see what humans will do/resort to when in the mass together without structure or government. Whether it be following, hysteria, rage, freedom, dance etc its a great way to analyze how mass amounts of people react under extreme stress and frustration.
and drug-addled stupidity.
I'd say it wouldn't make for a particularly good one unless you specifically wanted a behavioural model for smelly hippies as the crowd does not exactly make for a good cross section of society.
And this is why I don't go NEAR music festivals.
The OG Fyre Festival.
It’s pretty hard to feel sorry for the people having to share 6 toilets when there were 300 wooden ones and they used them for fireword. How can you sympathise with those involved with doing such things insane and disgraceful things? Same with looting and burning the food stall when you’ve almost run out of food. I imagine it was a case of “well I can’t afford the crazy prices they are charging and was too disorganised to bring any food with me, so I will make sure nobody eats”. I do feel for those who just wanted to go and listen to bands, but it sounds like a lot of them behaved like animals and had no morals at all. They then burned the states and looted cars from others who were parked there.
I’ve been at festivals in the 90’s and 00’s that had 2 feet high human waste piles in the Biffy’s. Also in gas station bathrooms around the venues. Can’t get these images out of your mind.
Oh shit! 😂
So they complained about having few toilets... After they took down the wooden toilets?
I can't even... They were asking for this. You can't fix stupid.
Yeah, that seems a bit strange.
Have that image in my head … someone taking a dump whilst others are dismantling the loo … 🚽
They wanted the wood to keep warm. The organizer should be responsible for not providing bonfires to the entitled hippies
God I love living not even 30 minutes from where this happened. Love hearing the stories of this chaos.
Turd fields lol😂. Sounds lovely.
Can you imagine … morning sunrise … fog slowly rising from the ‘Fields of Turd’ …
This festival gave inspiration for the popular board game _Hungry Hungry Hippies_
6 toilets for 300,000 visitors... so.. a standard Phish concert.
Except better music for the festival
there was more but the event goers turned them into firewood
Zip to Zap was much smaller, but just as crazy. National Guard chased us out of town. 1969 in ND.
Where do you hide money from a hippy? Under a bar of soap.
Their biggest mistake was booking the acts before they had a place for them to perform, especially after Evansville was still angry about the Freedom Fest fallout. And the restraining orders from counties didn't help matters. It would have been easier to cancel and return all of the money.
No wonder people hated these type of crowd...
This is the best video on TH-cam.
I wanna know how the 'waste' even got 2 feet above the seat
Yeah, you'd think after it reached 1 inch, the fields would be looking infinitely more appealing.
They were pooping while standing up
Sounds like a real Shitty situation to me!!
Imagine the anxiety poops and the dread of needing to go. This was an outbreak of severe gastroenteritis waiting to happen.🤢🤮Edit…what’s the point of going somewhere, putting up with all the hassle of a festival, being right there with musicians you’ve wanted to see, then getting totally wasted? If you’re going to do it you might as well save money and do it at home.
I...have...no...words. 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
Ahh yes, “peaceful hippies.” 😂
How were the doors supposed to preform in 1972 when Jim Morrison died in 1971 ?
Hologram!
THE DOORS made two albums after Jim died. You didn't know that????
Hold on. Loss of livestock due to marijuana inhalation?? 🤔
Yeah, that's milkin' it....
even nowadays enough people would believe that.
hahhahahahahhahahhahahahaha
it ends up looking like the result of one of Nikocados "Hot spicy chicken wing" mukbangs...
😳😱the horror
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Figuring each person spent 2 minutes using the porta potty, it would be 69 days before everyone got a single chance to use one.
Nothing more dangerous than a *HUNGRY HIPPIE* lol...
The cows did a much better job keeping that piece of land green & fertile. While humans, who are so "evolved", only took 3 days to destroy it.
I’m wondering how ONLY 2 people died.
How? Like seriously, HOW?
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I wouldn't attend an outdoor concert under the best of circumstances. What a hell hole.
I'm sure misspelling "REO Speedwagon" on the flyer didn't help either!
As soon as I read the title I thought "Fuck that I'd just shit myself"
Seems like plenty of people had the same thoughts 😭