Any of you attend Woodstock '99??
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Who did you see and what do you "remember"?
I've been watching youtube clips all day of KoRn, RHCP, Offspring
I've been watching youtube clips all day of KoRn, RHCP, Offspring
2005: Borgata 2, Philly
2006: Camden 1&2, East Ruth 1&2
2008: BONNAROO, MSG1, MSG2, Hartford
2009: Philly 1, 2, 4
2010: Hartford, MSG1, MSG2
2012: Made in America
2013: BK1, BK2, Hartford
2015: Global Citizens
2016: MSG 2 (ISO MSG1)
EV Solo: NJPAC 2008; Tower Theatre, PA 2009; Hartford 2011
2006: Camden 1&2, East Ruth 1&2
2008: BONNAROO, MSG1, MSG2, Hartford
2009: Philly 1, 2, 4
2010: Hartford, MSG1, MSG2
2012: Made in America
2013: BK1, BK2, Hartford
2015: Global Citizens
2016: MSG 2 (ISO MSG1)
EV Solo: NJPAC 2008; Tower Theatre, PA 2009; Hartford 2011
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2006: Camden 1&2, East Ruth 1&2
2008: BONNAROO, MSG1, MSG2, Hartford
2009: Philly 1, 2, 4
2010: Hartford, MSG1, MSG2
2012: Made in America
2013: BK1, BK2, Hartford
2015: Global Citizens
2016: MSG 2 (ISO MSG1)
EV Solo: NJPAC 2008; Tower Theatre, PA 2009; Hartford 2011
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http://www.myspace.com/pearl_jamn_it
Got in on thursday, and walked 3 miles to the front gate from where we parked. It ended up being 100+ degrees the whole weekend. Picked our camping spot and set up.... Hung out all night and they had some locals playing all Thursday.
Friday morning, James Brown opened up one of the 2 main stages and from there it was insanity.... The most amazing experience of my life.... I remember the tension in the crowd as everyone waited for the first heavy band (Korn) on Friday night.... Running up to the crowd, people shooting off fireworks everywhere, and then they start Blind. I've never been so scared as when they kicked in to the first heavy part and that wave of people hit... UNBELIEVEABLE!!! Watch the performance of Blind, you can see the wave...
The next night on Saturday, the headliners were (in order) Limp Bizkit, Rage, and Metallica. I remember the last person before Limp was Alanis, and everyone was booing her. The whole vibe was getting fucking violent and dark fast.... Limp came on, and the place went fucking insane. Specifically, during "Break Stuff" when Fred did his whole speech "Take out all your anger at this fucking festival now.... The heat, the no water, the camping, DO IT NOW" or whatever he said and then they hit the "Give me something to break" shit.... Insane vibe.... After them was Rage, they were delayed playing by like 2 hours, the crowd was super pissed by the time they came on. After that was Metallica, and they just delivered.... After Metallica ended about 1:30am, we were walking back to the campground and we hit some mud, I put my girlfriend over my shoulder, and walked through calf high mud... Got to the end of the mud and realized that all the fucks going crazy had over turned all the Johnny on the Spots and the field turned into a field of human shit. I remember washing my legs with 100's of others in the hand washing station, people were all "What the fuck man" and we are all "YOU WANNA GET THE SHIT OFF OUR LEGS?!?!?!" Also, by friday night the Johnny on the spot service people had quit, so all the johnnys had a shit piss tampon mountain coming out of all the toilet holes. And on Saturday to conserve costs, they cut off the drinking water for 2 hours from 12-2pm... This was during 105 degree weather.... All the showers were open shower areas divided by sex, and guys would climb up the girls shower area's and hang on the roof and look in..... It was just getting more insane and more insane. Plus the prices were RIDICULOUS for 1999. It was 6 dollars for an 8 ounce bottle of water, 10 dollars for a hand rolled tortilla.
By sunday after sleeping in a pool of my own sweat for 3 days, we decided it was enough and started to head home. Got a hotel in Weedsport NY and watched the riot on TV... Can't say I was suprised at all..... Still, I prayed for a woodstock 2004, and still pray for one anytime in my lifetime. I would DEFINATELY GO AGAIN, I would just be more prepared. CRAZY TIMES!
2006: Camden 1&2, East Ruth 1&2
2008: BONNAROO, MSG1, MSG2, Hartford
2009: Philly 1, 2, 4
2010: Hartford, MSG1, MSG2
2012: Made in America
2013: BK1, BK2, Hartford
2015: Global Citizens
2016: MSG 2 (ISO MSG1)
EV Solo: NJPAC 2008; Tower Theatre, PA 2009; Hartford 2011
worst memory.. holding in #2 for 4 days... i was not about to use those "facilities"
best memory... going totally nuts when RHCP came out and played FIRE!
scariest memory.. going back to our tents.. our tent neighbors came back a bit later and were like "guys there are riot police throwing tear gas... friend and i look at eachother like "hey should we go?".. so we look out at the parking lot and everyone and there mother was leaving at 2am. screw that.. we waited till the morning, nobody was around, cleaned the ashes off car and left with no traffic problems and a night of sleep:)
first thing i did when i got home... go to the bathroom
friday was pretty fun. the field still looked green. everyone was in a good mood. we had also brought these water guns that we shot people with between shows. friday night, my sister wanted to go in the pit during the offspring and then we would meet up and head to the other stage for george clinton. i spent most of korn's set looking for her. i will never forget the way the crowd moved during their set...insane. i never found her so i hung around for bush's set. (i walked back to the tent and she was asleep inside).
saturday was not as fun. it was like having a concert on a landfill. they had stopped emptying the trash and the toilets were nasty. and it was sooo hot. they were showing movies inside of this hangar. it was the only place to get out of the sun. you had to find a piece of cardboard box and carry it in with you so you could have something to sit on (the floor was covered with trash, so basically you sat on the box on top of trash). by the end of the night, i was exhausted. after rage we limped back to the tent.
sunday morning, we woke up and my sister freaked out. she said my face was burned. i grabbed a mirror and looked. it was covered in blisters. we went to the first aid tent and they gave me cold compresses. it was strongly advised that i not spend any more time in the sun. i was hurting so we left. i had booked a hotel for sunday night in rome months in advance (i figured we would go there after the last show that night). we camped out in the lobby for 4 hours until our room was ready. then we showered and went to have a real dinner. we came back to the room and my eyelids were starting to swell shut. when i woke up monday morning, one was completely closed and the other was very close. i had to go to an urgent care office and pay $200 to get a prednizone shot to open my eyes and a special cream for the sun poisoning on my face.
i am glad i went. i am very glad my sister was with me. i learned two things....
i hate mud......and.....sunscreen has an expiration date.
I do have the entire pay-per-view of the whole thing on video tape. It is on like 10 or 11 6-hour tapes. The best part was that since there was more than one stage, whatever they did not show live they filmed and showed overnight so all the bands were on it.
I can remember thinking how it did not look like a lot of fun in 1999. I had a blast in 1994 though...
Best of Times: Willie Nelson on Sunday morning. To me, this was the highlight and the antithesis of what became of the whole event itself. People were sitting on the grass, standing around, there wasn't a pit for a change. It was a great way to begin the day considering what would happen later.
Other highlights: RHCP set, Rage's set, the 14-hour car ride back home, the rain that came during Metallica's set, Korn, George Clinton, the Roots.
Worst of Times: $4 water. 90 degree weather. The cancellations, most notably Al Green and Aerosmith. Sweating inside a tent. Not taking a shower for four days (there was a foot of "standing water" in the showers). Getting back to my campsite after the Chili Peppers set and freaking out because I could not find my tent (people I went with saw what was going on with tents being thrown in fires and dragged all of our tents to the parking lots...thank God). Watching the fires from the parking lot.
Overall, it was not the best concert experience of my life, and I realized that I am not a big fan of festival shows.
Yeah, I didn't think that it was that good. Looking back now.
But he still looks back lovingly. He loves those kind of things. He still does the Gathering of the Vibes every year.
I remember listening to it on the radio.
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
My friend and I looked at each other and said "Fuck Korn!" We then proceeded to go to one of the other stages just as George Clinton and the P. Funk Allstars were going on and saw an incredible set that Korn could never have pulled off in a million years...
...I was always a DeadHead, but when I first heard Winston Rodney, aka the Burning Spear, sing, I became a SpearHead too!
bored now watching some of the clips.
Did not know Bush replaced Guns N Roses at the last minute and covered Fuckin' Up
best mosh pit: Korn- Blind
Forgot Flea played naked, LOL
RATM burning the flag:
Limp Bizkit- Break Stuff
fun fact: also a young unheard band named Muse played there
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
~not a dude~
2010: MSGx2
2012: Made In America
2013: Pittsburgh, Brooklynx2, Hartford, Baltimore
2014: Leeds, Milton Keynes, Detroit
2015: Global Citizen Festival
2016: Phillyx2, MSGx2, Fenwayx2
2018: Barcelona, Wrigleyx2
1996: Ft Lauderdale
1998: Birmingham
2000: Charlotte, Tampa
2003: Tampa, Atlanta, Phoenix
2004: Kissimmee
2008: West Palm Beach, Bonnaroo, Columbia
2010: MSG2
2012: Music Midtown
2014: Memphis
2018: Wrigley 1, Fenway 1
2022: Nashville
2023: Ft. Worth II
2024: Baltimore
Upcoming: 2025 Hollywood, FL Night 2
oh yeah... one more thing...never fucking again
That mosh pit during 'Blind' is one of the most insane things I have ever seen. So crazy. I have that version of 'Blind' on my workout playlist...always gets me all fired up. That Bush cover of 'Fuckin' Up' is pretty awesome too.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go get lost for the next couple of hours watching video clips from Woodstock 99 on youtube.
i've love going to and have been to many festivals, but even i think this one would have broken me.
head to 19:19 and let it run...
For a long time I only had the audio of this 1 song and that was my entire Woodstock 99 experience. Just hearing that 1 song, I knew that the whole scene was an out of control zoo. I can't believe it was still daylight. I wanted to go, in retrospect, I am so glad I did not. Like the NFL, it's better on TV. I never even thought of watching on the You Tubes. I'm going to start watching tonight, Rage first. then Bush, then Ice Cube, the RHCPs and then Metallica.
Slightly used camping equipment.........nice :-B
Wasn't there in 99 but had a GREAT time in 95
What You Giving
I suggest you step out on your Porch.
Run away my son. See it all. Oh, See the World!