Any of you attend Woodstock '99??

LukinFan

My girlfriend went - I know her favorite performance was RHCP

Nami

yup was there..... grew up a lot that weekend.. seen and heard shit i never saw before. too many people, no control, expensive food, heat stroke, and scared shitless the last night. seen the hip, dmb rhcp, kid rock, rhcp to name a few big acts.

oh yeah... one more thing...never fucking again

Indifference71

I was 16 and remember begging my parents to buy the pay-per-view for me. They did and I watched all weekend thinking how cool it would have been to be there....shows how dumb you are when you're 16...I prob would have died.

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.

josevolution

I was there would never ever attend a shit festival like that again , the only good thing was I came back with all new camping equipment ......

AndySlash

samjam wrote: »

Every time I read a new story or watch a video I haven't seen of this event, it solidifies that Woodstock '99 probably would have been my worst nightmare haha

i've love going to and have been to many festivals, but even i think this one would have broken me.

rssesq

I had a great time. Me and three friends drove up from CT without tix. We were able to get a nice parking spot on someones lawn who had an outdoor shower set up and fire pit. Some locals who were working the gig sold us 4 weekend wrist bands for $100. I remember being on that tarmac in the day when DMB was playing and it was like 110 degrees. By mid-afternoon saturday people had had enuff of the $5 bottles of water and no waterfountains or even enuff outhouses. I remember commandeering an ice cream cart an tossing free ice cream to the poors.

ikiT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBC_3UKPFxs

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.

guacamolejoe

josevolution wrote: »

I was there would never ever attend a shit festival like that again , the only good thing was I came back with all new camping equipment ......

Slightly used camping equipment.........nice :-B

Wasn't there in 99 but had a GREAT time in 95 >- . Way too many stories to relay today, but ask me another time & I can rehash them like it was yesterday :-?

josevolution

No brand new people broke into the trailers for the outdoor equipment vendor kids were throwing out brand new tents , sleeping bags everything all in bxs

rssesq

it reminded me of that scene in Taps with chubby Tom Cruise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppMQ2Jvekfg

evenflow82

realmgeorge wrote: »

I was there..... Arrived on the Thursday morning before from St. Louis. They hadn't opened the grouds yet so the highway was at a dead stop for 15 miles. Got out on my car and took pics of the highway each way. People were playing hackie sack and smokin weed on the highway.... CRAZY!!!

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!

Still sounds better than PJ's Wrigley Field disaster.

eeriepadave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h62RmIsx6MA

darthvedder

Weird timing, I just watched the festival episode of "This is Pop" on Netflix today. They also discuss Woodstock '99 (but not Woodstock '94, oddly enough).

Loujoe

94 was great. Didn't do the other one. Seemed dangerous. Cool james brown played. Didn't know that.

josevolution

99 Woodstock was a giant shit show it sucked and would be my last camping festival period! It just sucked the best thing me & friends did was leave during the day time and hit the nearby lake swimming in crystal clear water was fun! 

josevolution

evenflow82 said:

realmgeorge wrote: »

I was there..... Arrived on the Thursday morning before from St. Louis. They hadn't opened the grouds yet so the highway was at a dead stop for 15 miles. Got out on my car and took pics of the highway each way. People were playing hackie sack and smokin weed on the highway.... CRAZY!!!

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!

Still sounds better than PJ's Wrigley Field disaster.

Not even close! W99 was a disaster 

2-feign-reluctance

94 will always be my favorite! 

Loujoe

^^we were camping off show grounds @2-feign-reluctance and i remember leaving to go back to tents with Aeorosmith opening song in the I'm back in the saddle again...I'M BAAAAACK! What a great time. Also the hit the all night rave with dee lite!!! I didn't even know she was playing. Waking up to joe cocker feelin alllllright...porno for pyros, blind melon, bob dylan, rhcp, nin. I missed a lot of great acts because there were so many! What an experience. Stayed out of the mud!

dankind

Watched most of the doc yesterday. Gross. Gross. Gross. Just disgusting all around. 

I can definitely see the “horror” film’s argument of the Woodstock 99 generation begetting MAGAism. 

ComeToTX

Looks like what I imagine hell would be. Other than a few good bands.