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♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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In telling the story
of Woodstock '99,
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it would have been really easy
to structure this as a comedy,
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poking fun of all things
late 1990s.
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The way people dressed,
the music they listen to.
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But, in reality,
as that weekend unfolded,
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it played out
much more like a horror film.
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(BIRDS CHIRPING)
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INTERVIEWER: Mike,
what's the worst part
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of running one of these things?
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-The worst part?
-INTERVIEWER:
What's the worst part
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about running one of them?
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MICHAEL LANG: I don't know.
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-INTERVIEWER: Huh?
-I don't know.
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-Do you dig it all?
-Yeah.
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I guess the biggest hassle
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is dealing with the politics,
you know.
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There are a lot
of politics involved,
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-you mean with the cities?
-MICHAEL: Yeah.
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And you got that solved?
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-Well, looks that way.
-INTERVIEWER: Looks that way.
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-Where are you gonna go
from here?
-(EXHALES)
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-I mean--
-You gonna do another one?
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-If it works.
-(BIKE ENGINE REVVING)
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♪ (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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RADIO HOST: Okay, guys.
It is hot out there.
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The National Weather Service
has already issued
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a heat advisory
for your day tomorrow.
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Which's gonna feel like
it's a hundred degrees.
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RADIO HOST 2:
How's the traffic coming in?
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MAN: It's bad.
It's just backed up everywhere.
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REPORTER: When the ball drops
on the year 2000,
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it will be a momentous event
for the world
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and for the US economy,
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which is closing in on
on its longest expansion ever.
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The decade has been marked
by strong growth,
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the lowest unemployment
in a generation.
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And yet remarkably,
little inflation.
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MAN 2: How you guys doing today,
welcome to Woodstock.
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Where you wanna go, East Stage,
West Stage, Center Stage?
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-MAN 3: Center stage.
-MAN 2: You wanna
stay straight--
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Straight ahead, okay?
Straight ahead.
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Okay, there you go.
Yup, just leave him up here.
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So have fun, okay, guys?
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-You guys okay?
You got your toilet paper?
-Yes.
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REPORTER 2:
A senate panel describes Y2K
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as a worldwide crisis.
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-Welcome to 1999 on MTV.
-Whoo!
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-CARSON DALY: Limp Bizkit!
-MAN: Woodstock '99.
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Stay home for the trip
of your life on pay per view.
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INTERVIEWER:
And what's the town like?
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WOMAN: It's pretty cool.
They're all nice.
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Like, this is the first, like,
concert I've been to
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where everybody that you'll meet
is really nice to you.
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REPORTER 3: The biggest news,
shortly before 1:30
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this afternoon,
President Clinton was impeached.
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BILL CLINTON:
I'm gonna say this again.
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I did not have sexual relations
with that woman.
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REPORTER 4: So this is the night
before, the night before
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the big day kicking off,
Woodstock '99.
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And right here is a little bit
of a party going on.
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What's happening
is 350,000 people
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are gonna be taken care of,
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by about 10,000 staff people,
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all looking over
the 350,000 people.
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♪ (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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-♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
-(CROWD CHEERING)
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♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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The biggest concert of the year
was Woodstock '94
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in Saugerties, New York.
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The fans not only wore the mud
at the festival,
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but they also ate it.
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What was initially predicted
to be an overhyped,
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commercial disaster turned out
to be nothing of the sort.
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♪ ("DREAMS"
BY THE CRANBERRIES PLAYING) ♪
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♪ Oh, my life ♪
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♪ Is changing everyday ♪
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♪ In every possible way... ♪
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JOHN SCHER: I get stopped
all the time
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by people who had
the time of their life
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at Woodstock '94.
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There was a tone that was set,
an expectation
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not only of the artists
that were performing
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but an expectation
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of how the audience
would perform.
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We had probably
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three or four hundred
thousand people at the festival.
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Its biggest problem
was the fences came down,
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so we lost money.
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Also, you know, it was raining.
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It rained on
and off all weekend,
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it was an absolute mud pit.
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People helped each other,
loved each other,
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no violence.
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It was sort of, probably,
the last hurrah
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for the baby boomers
and their kids.
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-Welcome to Woodstock 1994!
-Welcome to Woodstock 1994!
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MICHAEL:
When we did Woodstock '94,
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the idea was to function
as a bridge
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between the music
that we generated in the '60s
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and what was contemporary
in the '90s.
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And it worked really well.
The weekend was amazing.
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JOHN: We replicated a lineup
that was reasonably close
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to what '69 was.
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You know, the general peace,
love, and harmony thing
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-worked still.
-♪ (DOLORES VOCALIZING) ♪
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JOHN: After the festival,
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Michael and I looked
at each other and said,
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"Okay, let's do it again
in like five years."
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-♪ (VOCALIZING) ♪
-(CROWD CHEERING)
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MICHAEL: Woodstock seems
to remain the American festival.
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And I think we should do it
every five years or so,
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so a new generation of college
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and graduating high school kids
get to experience it.
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JOHN: In '99 we found
a perfect site
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in Rome, New York.
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They've got this
retired air force base
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that they don't know
what to do with.
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JOHN GRIFFO:
When Woodstock Ventures
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first approached us,
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I recognized and realized
that this was an opportunity
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for the big event
that a community
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could put their arms around.
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Bottom line is,
we wanna encourage people
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to buy some tickets
and come to Rome, NY
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the weekend of the 22nd.
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It's gonna be a memorable,
exciting experience.
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Five years earlier, we lost
the air force base here
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which obviously had
an enormous impact
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on this community emotionally.
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It was akin
to economic Armageddon
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because we lost
thousands of jobs
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and thousands of people.
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JOHN: The base was ideal
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because it had
a lot of infrastructure things
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that we would've
otherwise needed to build.
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JOHN: Also being
a former military installation,
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it was enclosed.
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Griffiss was well-suited
to make sure
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that people came with tickets,
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for a change.
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JOHN: And then from
a philosophic perspective,
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if you look at Isaiah
and the old beating swords
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into plow shares,
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well this was planes
into plow shares.
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NICK RIZZO: I can sure remember
the lead up to it,
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and it was really
all anybody could talk about.
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(PEOPLE CHEERING)
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NICK: There was a local bar
that was called Stockyard Inn
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and then they changed their name
to The Woodstock Inn.
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So, you know,
everybody was sort of trying
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to get involved and kind of
capitalize on the excitement.
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MATEO: Hi, I'm Mateo.
I'm from Rome, New York.
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Here at wonderful
Griffiss Air Force Base
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with a bunch of other talented
artists here
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who are working on the mural.
Two miles long,
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going all the way
around this entire park.
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ARTIST: These kids right here
helped me create
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a 500-foot mural
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that's kind of a celebrated,
happy version of a mosh pit.
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MICHAEL:
It was always our intention
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to do something that was not
your parents' Woodstock.
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It was definitely something
for the kids.
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DAVID VADNAIS: You know,
I had just graduated
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so once I got my money
for graduation
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I didn't really have
much of an excuse.
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It was expensive,
but I'm gonna see
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all these bands,
so it seemed like a no-brainer.
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My friend Dave De Rosia
was the guy
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who was like,
"Let's go to Woodstock."
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My older brother Rob
was next in line
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to join in
and then my younger brother
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and the girl he was dating
at the time wanted to go, too.
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It was gonna be awesome.
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MIKE ELLING: When I saw
the lineup, I was like,
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"Dude, I am going to this."
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Like, I can't imagine
a better lineup
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for the music
that I love right now
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and they're all in one place
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and it's called Woodstock
and I get to go.
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DAVID: Everybody wanted
to see Kid Rock.
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-KEN HINELY: DMX.
-MIKE: Korn. Metallica.
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KEN: Insane Clown Posse?
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JESSICA LEVIN: Oh!
Rage Against the Machine!
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KEN: And Limp Bizkit.
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In 1999,
those guys were massive.
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JESSICA: I remember
I had to beg my parents.
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I was working at a pizzeria
and I remember
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being on the phone with him
and being like,
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"Dad, I'll go for you. I mean
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you didn't get to go to '69,
I'll go to '99."
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I mean I'm graduating
like let's just go do this,
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this is gonna be... (BLOWS)
...like the big send off,
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you know? It's Woodstock.
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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JAMES BROWN:
One, two, three, four
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♪ ("GET ON UP"
BY JAMES BROWN PLAYING) ♪
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-♪ Get up, get on up ♪
-♪ Get on up ♪
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♪ Stay on the scene ♪
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-♪ Get on up, get on up ♪
-♪ Like a sex machine ♪
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♪ Get up ♪
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DAVID: I remember vividly
like coming up over the hill,
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and you're just--
you're blown away, right?
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The thing is huge
and there's people everywhere.
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There's people
dressed ridiculously
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or not dressed at all.
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And I was thinking like,
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"How did this many people
already get in here?"
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-Two lanes, two lanes!
-MAN: We got a founder.
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Let's go!
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One day this is gonna be
on some sort of documentary.
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MAN 2: Hey Vince,
you got it all?
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Motherfucking Woodstock, baby.
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BEN ABT:
Security was relatively minimal.
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Especially compared
to the TSA days of today.
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MAN 3: Our friend Andy
wound up making friends
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with the security guards
up front.
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And all the beer that they were
taking away from people
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and all the chairs
that they were taking away
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from people,
are right here right now.
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BEN: The peace patrol,
who were monitoring the gates,
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they just kinda looked
in your stuff,
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said, "All right,
you're good to go."
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Which immediately made me think,
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"Wow, I think a bunch of people
have a lot of drugs here."
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JOHN: We expanded Woodstock '99
by the pay-per-view
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and the MTV coverage.
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People running around
topless and...
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JOHN: In those days,
MTV held the heartbeat
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of the younger generation
in their palm.
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TARIQ TROTTER:
When we performed,
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it was like 1000 degrees.
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Somehow, the way my mind worked,
was that
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the fact that the sweater
I had on didn't have sleeves
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was going to... (CHUCKLES)
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...like that was gonna make
a difference
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in the temperature on stage.
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LIZ POLAY-WETTENGEL:
I remember it being really hot
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and I remember a lot of chaos,
a lot of confusion.
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People didn't know where
they were supposed to go
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and there was a lot
of white men.
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A lot of white boys
I should say.
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It felt really young.
Lotta of white boys
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wearing backwards baseball caps.
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-♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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JOURNALIST: (OVER PA)
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Our hopes are that people have
as good time this weekend
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as they did at Saugerties
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and as they did in 1969
in Bethel.
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I think this is
a better facility
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than any place we've been.
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So we think that this has
the potential to be, you know,
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one of the best things
we've ever done.
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And be an incredible weekend
for everybody who joins us.
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JOURNALIST: So, given
the distance between the stages,
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any advice for people
who are here for the music?
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Yeah, yeah.
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That's true. It's about
two-thirds of a mile.
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And in fact
we have over a 100 acts,
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so you're not gonna be able
to see everything.
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There's a tremendous amount
to do,
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you're not gonna
run out of things to do.
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You can go 24 hours a day,
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we're open all day
and all night.
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We've designed
a number of things in addition
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to the two main stages.
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There's an emerging
artist stage,
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there's the rave for those
who like to stay up all night
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and are more nocturnal
than I am.
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There is the 24-hour-a-day
film festival,
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there's the sports park,
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there are a lot
of non-for-profit booths
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that political conversation
and dialogue can take place.
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This is already very much
taken shape of its own city.
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MAUREEN CALAHAN: I mean,
you had two main stages
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that were a mile
from each other.
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They're on a black tarmac
in the middle of nowhere.
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I mean, think about the irony
of Woodstock on a military base.
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STEVEN HYDEN: The appeal
of Griffiss for the organizers
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was that it was a place
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that would be really hard
to gate-crash
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because the peace wall.
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And really, I mean, like
if we're talking about peace
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is a wall, like,
a great metaphor for that?
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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MICHAEL: Woodstock '69
was about trying to show
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that there was a better way
for people to treat each other.
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With more compassion
and more understanding
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and given the opportunity,
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people will behave that way,
will show their better self.
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And then, I mean,
what could be better,
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just not being hassled
by anyone, smoking a joint
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under the stars
listening to great music?
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STEVEN: Michael Lang
is who I call
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the Willie Wonka of Woodstock.
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He's this guy
who's eternally boyish,
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he's presiding
over this fantasy land
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that every generation of kids
wants to visit.
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But if you spend
more than a couple minutes
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at the chocolate factory,
you realize that
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it's not the idyllic utopia
that it presents itself to be.
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WESLEY MORRIS: The thing
about the Woodstock mythology is
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I feel like people
are being selective
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about how they're choosing
to remember
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what happened,
to suit their own ends.
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And the way in which we choose
to romanticize,
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it has everything to do
with who is telling stories.
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MAUREEN: Unlike
the prevailing lore
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would have it,
Woodstock '69 was anything
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but peace, love and, you know,
three days
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of sex, drugs,
and rock and roll.
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It was a mess, there were riots.
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The US Army
had to airlift supplies in.
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People died.
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STEVEN: Really,
it's out of sheer luck
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that it didn't end up
worse than it did.
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And there's really some
very near disasters
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that happened
at the original Woodstock
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that nobody remembers now.
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For instance,
there was this group called
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the Up Against
the Wall Motherfuckers,
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who were upset about
how much was being charged
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for food at the festival.
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So they set fire
to like a dozen food stands.
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The problem is that
instead of learning
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from the mistakes
that were made,
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we instead created
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this romanticized mythology
in the form of the documentary.
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People watched the film
and they chose to believe
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that that's the way
it really was.
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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♪ ("LIVE" BY
SELLING THE DRAMA PLAYING) ♪
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♪ And to love ♪
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♪ A god and to fear a flame ♪
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-Whoo!
-♪ And to burn ♪
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♪ A crowd that has a name ♪
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♪ And to right or wrong ♪
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♪ And to weak or strong ♪
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♪ It is known ♪
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♪ Just scream it from the wall ♪
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DAVID: And we ran around
just taking it all in,
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everybody's fired up.
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The music is great.
The fans are great.
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(PEOPLE CHEERING)
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-REPORTER: What band
you here to see?
-Metallica baby, yeah!
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DAVID: My friend Dave
wanted to see Metallica.
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That was his mission.
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And he was keeping a journal
the whole weekend.
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NARRATOR: "Add Live
to the bands seen.
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Very good.
And Jamiroquai, not good.
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I waited for people
to get me a coke.
355
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Listened to a horrible set
by Andy Dick."
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Here's my big fat fucking hit!
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NARRATOR: "Also met Mario,
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nice guy, but I got the feeling
he was beat.
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I, on the other hand,
am doing okay, but tired.
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I think we're going to head back
to catch Korn and Bush.
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I'll let you know.
362
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Also boob count is too high
to keep counting.
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I think we're at around 11,
or 14."
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Make a Woodstock baby, '99!
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♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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I came here with three guys.
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And I didn't remember
where the tent was.
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I had only been here
like an hour.
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WOMAN: This section
is for anybody
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who is lost
or is seeking somebody else.
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MAN: Hey, I'm looking
for a friend of mine.
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I brought him here yesterday
and lost him, and he's 65.
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DAVID: It is crazy
to think about it.
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Nobody had a cellphone.
Like, or if they did,
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they were very few
and far between.
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Back then, you really had no way
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of getting in touch
with somebody,
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finding somebody.
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It was massive, so it's not easy
to find people if you got lost.
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-MAN: Have you got a moment?
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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-WOMAN 1: We lost her...
-WOMAN 2: We lost her...
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-...and now, she's found.
-...and now, she's found.
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I can have fun at Woodstock now.
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-(WOMAN 1 CHUCKLES)
-(CROWD CHEERING)
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ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen
of Woodstock,
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a special treat for you all.
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The Backstreet Boys!
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♪ ("EVERYBODY"
BY BACKSTREET BOYS PLAYING) ♪
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♪ Backstreet's back all right ♪
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DAVE HOLMES: At MTV,
there was like a tug of war
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for the TRL charts at the time.
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It was the Disney teens
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versus the filthy boys
in cargo shorts.
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And it went that way
for a couple of years.
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And Woodstock '99
was sort of at,
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like, the pinnacle of that.
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All right,
you guys ready for this?
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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(GRUNTS)
401
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(GRUNTS)
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DAVE HOLMES:
1999 was an interesting time
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because the stage was set
for something new to happen.
404
00:17:57,699 --> 00:18:02,073
And what did happen
was teen pop.
405
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NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys
and Britney and Christina
406
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and all of them were,
like, at the top of the charts.
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And, as a reaction,
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there was all this
sort of weird,
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rap inflected,
aggressive rock music.
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And now falling
out of the number one spot,
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back to number three today,
here is Korn
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-with "Freak on a Leash."
-(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
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CARSON: In the moment,
TRL became
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that cultural touch point
for teenagers,
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it was must-see TV.
We had all this inner-genre
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of music melding together
in an hour
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where that would
never have happened
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even a few years ago.
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At the time
it felt like it's awesome,
420
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like TRL is a place
like the United Nations,
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like we all come together,
422
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everybody coexisted
sort of magically.
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But looking back on it now,
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you realize that we were really
probably playing with fire.
425
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I'm sick of the (BLEEP)
Backstreet Boys on MTV Live.
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I'm sick of that (BLEEP).
427
00:18:49,282 --> 00:18:51,824
-You know, it's fucking (BLEEP).
-Don't hold back on me.
428
00:18:51,907 --> 00:18:54,574
I'm not holding back.
I hate that (BLEEP).
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DAVE HOLMES:
It was a weird time for MTV
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because it seemed like
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their reputation changed,
their brand changed.
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The average viewer,
it seemed like,
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dropped five years overnight,
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where it had once been
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kind of a counterculture-y
kind of a place,
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suddenly it was like,
there's Nick Jr.
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and Nickelodeon and then MTV.
438
00:19:12,282 --> 00:19:16,449
And Carson definitely got such
a combination
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of like rage and jealousy
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because he was, you know,
at the center of it.
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So, I've never been more happy
to be overshadowed
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by someone
than I was that weekend.
443
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(CROWD BOOING)
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Awesome this right here,
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is Woodstock '99 at its finest.
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DAVE HOLMES:
From the second we got there,
447
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immediately we knew
448
00:19:39,449 --> 00:19:42,574
this is not a crowd
that wants us here. At all.
449
00:19:42,657 --> 00:19:43,699
They were mad at us
450
00:19:43,782 --> 00:19:45,157
because we took
their MTV away
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and gave it
to their little sister.
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We were in trouble.
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♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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MOBY: Growing up,
Woodstock in 1969
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figured more prominently
as like a cultural touchstone
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than anything else in my life.
457
00:20:06,699 --> 00:20:09,282
I can't think of anything else
that even competed
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with Woodstock
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for cultural significance
in the '70s, into the '80s,
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which is why when I got asked
to perform in '99,
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I jumped at the chance
462
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because it was
just such an iconic name.
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I mean, you think of everybody
who performed
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and like the number of times
I've like watched the movies
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and listened
to the soundtrack recording,
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and you realized it made it seem
even more magical,
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like that it happened at all.
468
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Like, everything that could have
gone wrong went wrong.
469
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But somehow it worked...
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like it was
as idyllic and utopian
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as a gathering
of 500,000 or more people
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has ever been in human history.
473
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And I know that sounds like
an exaggeration,
474
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but it really isn't.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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CAMERA MAN:
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MOBY: Problem was,
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see there's a little expression
of ATD, attention to detail.
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My name wasn't on the piece
of plywood.
480
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And there's this little piece
of plywood
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that welcomes you
when you come in.
482
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-CAMERA MAN:
And all the artists signed--
-And all the artists' names
483
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are on the piece of plywood
and my name
484
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wasn't on the piece of plywood
and I...
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
486
00:21:26,365 --> 00:21:27,991
MOBY: Who's ever even
heard of these bands?
487
00:21:28,073 --> 00:21:29,198
MAN: All have been slashed--
488
00:21:29,282 --> 00:21:30,532
Okay, let's find bands
we've never even heard of.
489
00:21:30,615 --> 00:21:33,657
Spitfire, Our Lady Peace,
The Umbilical Brothers.
490
00:21:34,741 --> 00:21:36,157
What's that one
that starts with an "O?"
491
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:39,157
Buckcherry. Oleander.
Buckcherry.
492
00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,323
MOBY: I remember.
I looked at the lineup
493
00:21:41,407 --> 00:21:43,365
and I was like, "What is this?"
494
00:21:43,449 --> 00:21:45,365
like, "How did this happen?
495
00:21:45,449 --> 00:21:47,741
How is this called Woodstock?"
496
00:21:47,824 --> 00:21:49,240
It would have made
so much more sense
497
00:21:49,323 --> 00:21:50,657
if it had been called like,
498
00:21:50,741 --> 00:21:54,782
Army Base Rock '99,
featuring Limp Bizkit.
499
00:21:54,866 --> 00:21:57,991
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
500
00:21:58,073 --> 00:22:01,282
MOBY: There is a sixth sense
that you develop
501
00:22:01,365 --> 00:22:02,532
when you spend your life, like,
502
00:22:02,615 --> 00:22:04,574
going to nightclubs,
going to venues.
503
00:22:04,657 --> 00:22:07,407
Like, I can tell you
a hundred feet away
504
00:22:07,490 --> 00:22:09,782
what the energy in that venue
is gonna be like.
505
00:22:09,866 --> 00:22:13,240
You develop it after decades
of being around venues.
506
00:22:13,323 --> 00:22:15,449
We got off the bus
and I was like,
507
00:22:15,532 --> 00:22:19,157
"Something's not right,"
and this was the first day.
508
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:20,741
And I was just like,
something...
509
00:22:20,824 --> 00:22:22,073
You could just tell.
510
00:22:22,157 --> 00:22:25,157
And, like, I started walking
through the crowd,
511
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:29,198
and like everybody was angry,
and everybody was hot,
512
00:22:29,282 --> 00:22:30,991
and everybody was complaining.
513
00:22:31,073 --> 00:22:33,907
and it had only been open
for six hours.
514
00:22:33,991 --> 00:22:36,407
And it was already
off the rails.
515
00:22:36,490 --> 00:22:37,574
(CROWD CHEERING)
516
00:22:37,657 --> 00:22:40,741
MAN: I need everybody
who can see me
517
00:22:40,824 --> 00:22:43,782
to put your motherfucking "X"s
in the air.
518
00:22:46,407 --> 00:22:48,240
DMX: Yeah,
that's what I'm talking about.
519
00:22:48,323 --> 00:22:50,699
Woodstock, where you at?
520
00:22:52,824 --> 00:22:54,824
Where ya at?
521
00:22:57,991 --> 00:23:02,032
TARIQ: DMX, at that time,
he was, you know, very much
522
00:23:02,115 --> 00:23:05,449
-a man of the people.
-Is it on?
523
00:23:05,532 --> 00:23:07,115
(CROWD CHEERING)
524
00:23:07,198 --> 00:23:09,991
Is it on?
525
00:23:10,866 --> 00:23:12,407
TARIQ: So I think
he had a persona
526
00:23:12,490 --> 00:23:14,741
that was very accessible.
527
00:23:14,824 --> 00:23:18,615
His performance at Woodstock
was unparalleled.
528
00:23:18,699 --> 00:23:22,073
I mean, I feel like he's a man
possessed in front of, you know,
529
00:23:22,157 --> 00:23:23,824
hundreds of thousands
of people and,
530
00:23:23,907 --> 00:23:25,282
I mean, that stage was huge.
531
00:23:25,365 --> 00:23:27,615
You know, the fact
that he was able
to sort of navigate
532
00:23:27,699 --> 00:23:29,824
and to own it, I think it speaks
533
00:23:29,907 --> 00:23:33,323
to what the moment
meant for him.
534
00:23:33,407 --> 00:23:38,824
-Oh-ho! Oh-ho!
-CROWD: Oh-ho! Oh-ho!
535
00:23:38,907 --> 00:23:40,490
WESLEY: It's call-and-response,
right?
536
00:23:40,574 --> 00:23:43,907
This is a classic,
Black gospel way
537
00:23:43,991 --> 00:23:46,657
of communicating in music form.
538
00:23:46,741 --> 00:23:48,198
The preacher says something
539
00:23:48,282 --> 00:23:50,407
the congregation knows
what to say in response.
540
00:23:50,490 --> 00:23:51,532
♪ ("MY NIGGAS" BY DMX PLAYING) ♪
541
00:23:51,615 --> 00:23:54,073
♪ You won't take this
From me, baby ♪
542
00:23:54,157 --> 00:23:58,407
♪ You will not take this
From me, baby ♪
543
00:23:58,490 --> 00:24:01,699
♪ Come on, come on, come on
My niggas ♪
544
00:24:01,782 --> 00:24:03,282
♪ Some niggas
That you don't wanna try ♪
545
00:24:03,365 --> 00:24:06,323
-♪ My niggas ♪
-♪ Some niggas
That's really do or die ♪
546
00:24:06,407 --> 00:24:08,824
-♪ My niggas ♪
-♪ Will have you cowards
Ready to cry ♪
547
00:24:08,907 --> 00:24:10,282
-♪ My niggas ♪
-♪ Will fry ♪
548
00:24:10,365 --> 00:24:11,991
-♪ My niggas ♪
-♪ Will Rob ♪
549
00:24:12,073 --> 00:24:13,365
WESLEY: You could hear it.
550
00:24:13,449 --> 00:24:14,907
You can hear
thousands of people.
551
00:24:14,991 --> 00:24:17,699
He says it,
and it comes back at him
552
00:24:17,782 --> 00:24:19,115
at twice the intensity.
553
00:24:19,198 --> 00:24:20,741
-♪ My niggas ♪
-♪ Is God ♪
554
00:24:20,824 --> 00:24:22,323
-♪ My niggas ♪
-♪ Will shine ♪
555
00:24:22,407 --> 00:24:24,824
WESLEY: And what's so chilling
about it is
556
00:24:24,907 --> 00:24:26,532
they were ready to do it!
557
00:24:26,615 --> 00:24:29,866
They were like hoping
that he would do this song.
558
00:24:29,949 --> 00:24:31,657
-♪ My niggas, my niggas ♪
-♪ Is fine ♪
559
00:24:31,741 --> 00:24:34,532
WESLEY: You have to understand
this sort of thing
560
00:24:34,615 --> 00:24:38,365
wasn't happening
on a regular basis in 1999.
561
00:24:38,449 --> 00:24:41,365
There weren't a lot of occasions
for Black rappers
562
00:24:41,449 --> 00:24:45,699
to command a crowd exclusively
almost of white people,
563
00:24:45,782 --> 00:24:49,032
where the Black performer
is essentially licensing
564
00:24:49,115 --> 00:24:52,949
the people in the crowd
to say this word with him.
565
00:24:53,073 --> 00:24:54,574
-♪ Is dogs ♪
-♪ My nigga ♪
566
00:24:54,657 --> 00:24:57,282
(CROWD CHEERING)
567
00:24:57,365 --> 00:24:58,574
DMX: Where you at, baby?
568
00:24:58,657 --> 00:25:01,240
WESLEY: To perform a thing
that they don't believe.
569
00:25:01,323 --> 00:25:03,907
Or maybe they do believe it,
but if you were to ask them
570
00:25:03,991 --> 00:25:07,198
what they believe, if you got
each one of these guys
571
00:25:07,282 --> 00:25:09,115
after the show and pulled
each one of them show aside
572
00:25:09,198 --> 00:25:11,949
and say, "Is it okay
to say the N-word
573
00:25:12,032 --> 00:25:13,574
under any circumstances?"
574
00:25:13,657 --> 00:25:16,365
They would, to a person, say,
575
00:25:16,449 --> 00:25:18,991
"I mean the right answer is no.
Right?"
576
00:25:19,073 --> 00:25:22,907
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
577
00:25:22,991 --> 00:25:25,574
WESLEY: And so I'm wondering,
what is it like
578
00:25:25,657 --> 00:25:27,907
for the other Black people
in a moment like this.
579
00:25:27,991 --> 00:25:29,407
What are they thinking?
580
00:25:29,490 --> 00:25:30,699
If they went with friends
581
00:25:30,782 --> 00:25:32,949
who they didn't think
were N-word sayers
582
00:25:33,032 --> 00:25:34,490
under any circumstances,
583
00:25:34,574 --> 00:25:36,907
what were those friendships
like? What happened?
584
00:25:36,991 --> 00:25:38,782
I mean,
what was the racial dynamic
585
00:25:38,866 --> 00:25:41,782
for the few non-white people
who were there?
586
00:25:41,866 --> 00:25:44,615
And imagine
being a non-white woman,
587
00:25:44,699 --> 00:25:46,532
what that experience
was like for you.
588
00:25:46,615 --> 00:25:50,490
(CROWD CHEERING)
589
00:25:50,574 --> 00:25:54,115
ANNOUNCER: Rosie Perez!
590
00:25:54,198 --> 00:25:57,073
(CROWD CHEERING)
591
00:26:07,032 --> 00:26:08,449
Aw, come on now.
592
00:26:08,532 --> 00:26:11,032
How are y'all feeling out there?
593
00:26:11,574 --> 00:26:13,532
(CROWD CHEERING)
594
00:26:13,949 --> 00:26:14,991
So...
595
00:26:15,949 --> 00:26:17,282
CROWD:
596
00:26:17,365 --> 00:26:19,574
I ain't showing you all shit!
597
00:26:20,323 --> 00:26:23,574
(CROWD BOOING)
598
00:26:23,991 --> 00:26:24,991
All right.
599
00:26:25,073 --> 00:26:26,824
MAUREEN:
There was a local radio station
600
00:26:26,907 --> 00:26:30,157
that rolled in
with a little trailer
601
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,157
and they had two naked girls
or topless girls on top,
602
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,824
so it had this anachronistic,
like Girls Gone Wild vibe.
603
00:26:36,907 --> 00:26:39,032
(CROWD CHEERING)
604
00:26:39,115 --> 00:26:41,157
DAVE MATTHEWS: Sometimes
there's an abundance of things,
605
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,282
and sometimes there's a lack.
606
00:26:44,365 --> 00:26:47,615
Today,
there's an abundance of titties.
607
00:26:50,949 --> 00:26:53,907
MAUREEN: If you look back,
the Girls Gone Wild cohort
608
00:26:53,991 --> 00:26:58,073
was a sort of reaction
to the first part of the decade.
609
00:26:58,157 --> 00:27:00,198
It was like "Girls, like, no.
Know your place.
610
00:27:00,282 --> 00:27:01,365
You're sex objects
611
00:27:01,449 --> 00:27:04,198
and you're supposed
to be pretty and shut up."
612
00:27:04,282 --> 00:27:06,657
LIZ: I think that
there's a generation of girls
613
00:27:06,741 --> 00:27:08,866
that were brought up
looking at Girls Gone Wild
614
00:27:08,949 --> 00:27:11,824
and thinking "Wow, this is what
I'm supposed to be doing.
615
00:27:11,907 --> 00:27:16,073
This is how real girls get men."
616
00:27:16,157 --> 00:27:18,282
MAUREEN:
There was just a feeling of,
617
00:27:18,365 --> 00:27:21,198
"Let's put these girls back
where they belong,
618
00:27:21,282 --> 00:27:23,365
in their cages,
in their boxes
619
00:27:23,449 --> 00:27:25,907
and let's show everyone
who's boss."
620
00:27:25,991 --> 00:27:28,032
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
621
00:27:28,115 --> 00:27:29,866
STEVEN: When you watch
the pay-per-view
622
00:27:29,949 --> 00:27:31,407
of Woodstock '99,
623
00:27:31,490 --> 00:27:33,699
it's pretty clear
that the cameramen
624
00:27:33,782 --> 00:27:37,365
are seeking out as much
female nudity as possible.
625
00:27:37,449 --> 00:27:40,657
Okay, I think you've looked
at the breasts long enough now,
626
00:27:40,741 --> 00:27:42,449
can you just move along now?
627
00:27:43,282 --> 00:27:44,741
STEVEN: And, it just seems like,
628
00:27:44,824 --> 00:27:46,490
if you're selling
this pay-per-view
629
00:27:46,574 --> 00:27:49,741
to a young audience that's part
of what you're selling.
630
00:27:49,824 --> 00:27:53,407
So the degree to which
exploitation of women
631
00:27:53,490 --> 00:27:57,157
was not only excused
but formalized
632
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,449
and made part
of the business plan
633
00:27:59,532 --> 00:28:02,699
of Woodstock '99, that certainly
created an environment
634
00:28:02,782 --> 00:28:05,323
where people felt
that exploiting women,
635
00:28:05,407 --> 00:28:09,032
abusing women, hurting women,
was gonna be okay.
636
00:28:09,115 --> 00:28:10,115
And you could get away with it
637
00:28:10,198 --> 00:28:12,282
if that's something
you wanted to do.
638
00:28:12,365 --> 00:28:16,991
WESLEY: In 1999, we were
still dealing with the fallout
639
00:28:17,073 --> 00:28:19,449
from
the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal,
640
00:28:19,532 --> 00:28:23,699
where Bill Clinton drove a truck
over her in trying to wiggle out
641
00:28:23,782 --> 00:28:27,115
of what had actually happened.
She was disposable essentially.
642
00:28:27,198 --> 00:28:29,449
I mean,
we were disposing of women
643
00:28:29,532 --> 00:28:31,407
left and right at that point.
644
00:28:31,490 --> 00:28:33,615
So you've got
your Maxim subscription.
645
00:28:33,699 --> 00:28:36,282
FHM. You've got
Girls Gone Wild.
646
00:28:36,365 --> 00:28:39,449
And it just feels like
women are basically there
647
00:28:39,532 --> 00:28:41,699
to just be sexy for men.
648
00:28:41,782 --> 00:28:43,782
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
649
00:28:43,866 --> 00:28:46,282
It's only fair, you know,
they're gonna do it to us.
650
00:28:46,365 --> 00:28:48,198
It's only fair. That's right.
651
00:28:48,282 --> 00:28:51,198
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
652
00:28:51,282 --> 00:28:53,407
JOHN: Unlike '94,
653
00:28:53,490 --> 00:28:57,866
there were so many naked women
walking in the fields,
654
00:28:57,949 --> 00:29:00,574
that you couldn't count it.
655
00:29:00,657 --> 00:29:04,365
MAN: I think we've pretty much
taken over Woodstock '99, so.
656
00:29:06,032 --> 00:29:08,198
It was the most promiscuous
657
00:29:08,866 --> 00:29:11,032
of my lifetime, you know.
658
00:29:11,115 --> 00:29:14,824
I don't see shows with
naked women running around,
659
00:29:14,907 --> 00:29:16,157
you know, anymore.
660
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,615
-Woodstock '99!
-Woodstock '99!
661
00:29:19,699 --> 00:29:21,532
(SCREAMS)
662
00:29:21,615 --> 00:29:23,866
JOHN: And, you know,
you gotta think
663
00:29:23,949 --> 00:29:25,032
you probably got an audience
664
00:29:25,115 --> 00:29:27,907
of an average age
in their early 20s.
665
00:29:27,991 --> 00:29:32,490
Guys in their early 20s
tend to be horny 24 hours a day.
666
00:29:32,574 --> 00:29:33,657
(CROWD CHEERING)
667
00:29:33,741 --> 00:29:38,490
Because of this MTV
spring break feeling in the air,
668
00:29:38,574 --> 00:29:41,782
you know, there was some people
who were disrespectful.
669
00:29:43,449 --> 00:29:46,407
Five-year plan!
Oh, I will be back again.
670
00:29:46,490 --> 00:29:49,866
JONATHAN DAVIS:
There was a definite
hyper sexuality to that time.
671
00:29:49,949 --> 00:29:53,657
Girls Gone Wild,
porn was in the mainstream,
672
00:29:53,741 --> 00:29:56,866
but that isn't an excuse
for some dipshit
673
00:29:56,949 --> 00:29:59,782
to grab a girl's titty
when she's coming up
over the pit.
674
00:30:01,615 --> 00:30:02,699
No artist wants that,
675
00:30:02,782 --> 00:30:04,615
no one sits there
and goes, "Oh, look at that."
676
00:30:04,699 --> 00:30:07,240
It's disgusting. It's not cool.
677
00:30:07,323 --> 00:30:08,699
And then that's
when you get pissed
678
00:30:08,782 --> 00:30:11,032
that you'll call out a fan,
that can beat that guy's ass.
679
00:30:11,115 --> 00:30:13,240
I'll get in trouble
and sued for it,
680
00:30:13,323 --> 00:30:14,991
beat that motherfucker's ass
right there.
681
00:30:15,073 --> 00:30:18,615
-"You. You just did that."
-(CROWD CHEERING)
682
00:30:21,407 --> 00:30:23,198
All right, thanks a lot!
683
00:30:23,282 --> 00:30:25,365
Hey, are you guys
having a good time?
684
00:30:25,449 --> 00:30:28,323
-(CROWD CHEERING)
-DEXTER HOLLAND: All right!
685
00:30:28,407 --> 00:30:30,907
Goddamn it,
I'm having a good time.
686
00:30:30,991 --> 00:30:32,365
But you know what,
I was noticing something
687
00:30:32,449 --> 00:30:34,699
I gotta call your guys attention
to here for just a second.
688
00:30:34,782 --> 00:30:36,282
I've been noticing
that there's a lot of girls
689
00:30:36,365 --> 00:30:38,824
coming over to the top here,
crowd surfing,
690
00:30:38,907 --> 00:30:40,407
and they're getting
really groped,
691
00:30:40,490 --> 00:30:41,699
you know what I mean?
692
00:30:43,157 --> 00:30:45,073
Now I think just 'cause a girl
693
00:30:45,157 --> 00:30:46,866
wants to go
crowd surfing or whatever,
694
00:30:46,949 --> 00:30:49,240
that doesn't give a guy
the right to molest them,
695
00:30:49,323 --> 00:30:53,032
-you know what I'm saying?
-(CROWD CHEERING)
696
00:30:53,115 --> 00:30:55,532
So if you're a guy and you see
a girl passing overhead,
697
00:30:55,615 --> 00:30:58,657
give her a break, all right,
you know what I'm saying?
698
00:30:58,741 --> 00:31:02,032
And if you're a girl and you see
a guy passing overhead,
699
00:31:02,115 --> 00:31:04,615
I want you to grab
his fucking balls!
700
00:31:04,699 --> 00:31:06,741
(CROWD CHEERING)
701
00:31:06,824 --> 00:31:08,782
♪ ("SELF ESTEEM"
BY THE OFFSPRING PLAYING) ♪
702
00:31:08,866 --> 00:31:13,032
♪ La, la, la, la, la ♪
703
00:31:13,741 --> 00:31:15,574
NARRATOR: "Friday, July 23rd.
704
00:31:15,657 --> 00:31:17,782
Caught the tail end
of Offspring.
705
00:31:17,866 --> 00:31:19,407
More naked boobs.
706
00:31:19,490 --> 00:31:21,032
It's kind of getting old.
707
00:31:21,699 --> 00:31:25,073
Outlook for a shower, not good.
708
00:31:25,157 --> 00:31:27,866
Tomorrow's goal
get on the Woodstock video
709
00:31:27,949 --> 00:31:29,449
by being in the Metallica pit."
710
00:31:29,532 --> 00:31:30,782
DEXTER: All right,
now do me a favor
711
00:31:30,866 --> 00:31:32,323
and sing along to this one,
all right?
712
00:31:32,407 --> 00:31:34,115
NARRATOR: "Rock on!"
713
00:31:34,198 --> 00:31:37,782
♪ I wrote her off
For the tenth time today ♪
714
00:31:37,866 --> 00:31:38,866
DEXTER: We are on the first day
715
00:31:38,949 --> 00:31:41,073
and it wasn't even quite
nighttime yet.
716
00:31:41,157 --> 00:31:44,699
And, I mean, I like rowdy shows
like that's a lot of the fun
717
00:31:44,782 --> 00:31:46,240
is the energy of the crowd
and stuff,
718
00:31:46,323 --> 00:31:48,782
and you could feel
something bubbling
719
00:31:48,866 --> 00:31:50,490
I can't quite put my finger
on it, but--
720
00:31:50,574 --> 00:31:52,657
NOODLES: It was all the shit
being thrown up on stage.
(CHUCKLES)
721
00:31:52,741 --> 00:31:54,782
-DEXTER: Oh, yeah, that kinda--
-And I don't think we even asked
722
00:31:54,866 --> 00:31:55,991
-for it, I mean--
-That's a tip-off.
723
00:31:56,073 --> 00:31:59,615
♪ That's okay, man,
'Cause I like the abuse ♪
724
00:31:59,699 --> 00:32:03,949
♪ I know she's playing with me ♪
725
00:32:04,032 --> 00:32:06,824
♪ That's okay 'cause I got
No self-esteem ♪
726
00:32:06,907 --> 00:32:09,240
It really seemed
like in pop culture,
727
00:32:09,323 --> 00:32:12,824
there's this dark energy
coming from young white males
728
00:32:12,907 --> 00:32:16,907
that entertainment is both
catering to and perpetuating.
729
00:32:16,991 --> 00:32:18,323
TYLER DURDEN: We've all been
raised on television
730
00:32:18,407 --> 00:32:20,574
to believe that one day
we'd be all millionaires,
731
00:32:20,657 --> 00:32:24,073
and movie gods, and rock stars
but we won't.
732
00:32:25,365 --> 00:32:26,907
We're slowly learning that fact.
733
00:32:28,323 --> 00:32:31,240
And we're very, very pissed off.
734
00:32:31,323 --> 00:32:33,032
DAVE HOLMES:
At the end of the millennium,
735
00:32:33,115 --> 00:32:37,115
a lot of movies marketed
toward young people with anger
736
00:32:37,198 --> 00:32:39,866
and with what is sexual assault.
737
00:32:39,949 --> 00:32:41,449
And we thought
nothing of it at the time.
738
00:32:41,532 --> 00:32:43,741
It was boys and girls alike
739
00:32:43,824 --> 00:32:45,782
clapped at the end of the movie,
and that was that.
740
00:32:47,115 --> 00:32:48,824
MAUREEN: You know,
you've got this festival
741
00:32:48,907 --> 00:32:51,991
that's supposed to be
espousing countercultural,
742
00:32:52,073 --> 00:32:56,699
loftier ideals when the '90s
were anything but that.
743
00:32:56,782 --> 00:33:01,824
So why attempt to manufacture
nostalgia for Woodstock '69,
744
00:33:01,907 --> 00:33:04,449
an event that none
of these kids were alive for?
745
00:33:04,532 --> 00:33:08,741
(CROWD CHEERING)
746
00:33:08,824 --> 00:33:11,615
WYCLEF JEAN: Hold on.
747
00:33:11,699 --> 00:33:16,490
-♪ (GUITAR PLAYING) ♪
-(CROWD CHEERING)
748
00:33:35,824 --> 00:33:37,574
ROB SHEFIELD: A theme
through the festival
749
00:33:37,657 --> 00:33:39,407
was that artists
kept making echoes
750
00:33:39,490 --> 00:33:41,991
about the original festival
that were completely lost
751
00:33:42,073 --> 00:33:43,490
on those that were there.
752
00:33:43,574 --> 00:33:45,490
Pat, who played
the "Star Spangled Banner"
753
00:33:45,574 --> 00:33:47,115
at the original Woodstock?
754
00:33:48,449 --> 00:33:50,282
-I can't remember.
-Come on, man,
755
00:33:50,365 --> 00:33:52,157
you gotta work with me here.
Try.
756
00:33:53,115 --> 00:33:55,282
Shit, is the name Jerry?
757
00:33:55,365 --> 00:33:57,824
ROB: Woodstock was something
that was talked about
758
00:33:57,907 --> 00:34:01,073
but not really like
a part of '90s rock culture.
759
00:34:01,157 --> 00:34:03,282
And '90s rock culture
was booming in a way that made
760
00:34:03,365 --> 00:34:07,115
'60s rock culture seemed trivial
and outdated in a lot of ways.
761
00:34:07,198 --> 00:34:09,490
-BUSH: Give me an F.
-CROWD: F!
762
00:34:09,574 --> 00:34:11,782
-BUSH: Give me a U. Give me a...
-CROWD: U!
763
00:34:11,866 --> 00:34:14,115
ROB: And then when Bush
led the crowd
764
00:34:14,198 --> 00:34:16,824
in a F-U-C-K cheer, you know,
765
00:34:16,907 --> 00:34:19,073
that had gotten
Country Joe and the Fish
766
00:34:19,157 --> 00:34:21,991
in so much trouble
back 30 years earlier,
767
00:34:22,073 --> 00:34:24,824
absolutely nobody in the crowd
got that joke
768
00:34:24,907 --> 00:34:27,365
or understood why
it was supposed to be amusing.
769
00:34:57,073 --> 00:34:59,198
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
770
00:34:59,282 --> 00:35:01,824
ROB: So, you know,
it's interesting,
771
00:35:01,907 --> 00:35:04,323
going back to the way Nirvana
on Nevermind
772
00:35:04,407 --> 00:35:05,824
with their little parody of,
you know,
773
00:35:05,907 --> 00:35:08,657
"Everybody get together, try
to love one another right now."
774
00:35:08,741 --> 00:35:10,824
♪ Everybody get together ♪
775
00:35:10,907 --> 00:35:15,073
♪ Try to love
One another right now ♪
776
00:35:15,157 --> 00:35:18,032
ROB: For the crowd
that was at Woodstock '99,
777
00:35:18,115 --> 00:35:20,449
the idea of Nirvana
and Pearl Jam was as outdated
778
00:35:20,532 --> 00:35:23,449
as seeing
Creedence Clearwater Revival
or the Grateful Dead.
779
00:35:23,532 --> 00:35:25,949
You know, it was not something
that was really in sync
780
00:35:26,032 --> 00:35:29,365
with the kids who were there
to see Korn and Limp Bizkit.
781
00:35:29,449 --> 00:35:31,907
(CROW CHEERING)
782
00:35:31,991 --> 00:35:35,657
♪ ("BLIND" BY KORN PLAYING) ♪
783
00:35:38,282 --> 00:35:41,157
♪ Are you ready? ♪
784
00:36:02,949 --> 00:36:07,741
♪ This place inside my mind
A place I like to hide ♪
785
00:36:07,824 --> 00:36:10,615
♪ You don't know the chances ♪
786
00:36:10,699 --> 00:36:13,907
-♪ What if I should die? ♪
-♪ A place inside my... ♪
787
00:36:13,991 --> 00:36:16,198
JONATHAN: I can't even put it
into words what I was feeling.
788
00:36:16,282 --> 00:36:18,574
I'm feeling numb.
I don't feel anything.
789
00:36:18,657 --> 00:36:21,490
I'm just like in the zone, like,
"Oh my God,
790
00:36:21,574 --> 00:36:23,741
okay, I gotta go out there
and kill this."
791
00:36:23,824 --> 00:36:26,615
And I know for a fact
they're not all Korn fans,
792
00:36:26,699 --> 00:36:28,574
so I gotta win
these fuckers over.
793
00:36:28,657 --> 00:36:30,907
(VOCALIZING)
794
00:36:30,991 --> 00:36:32,365
JONATHAN: The crowd was so big
that they had
795
00:36:32,449 --> 00:36:35,240
three sets of PAs set up
and they were time aligned,
796
00:36:35,323 --> 00:36:36,741
but you could see
how sound travels
797
00:36:36,824 --> 00:36:38,991
'cause they would jump in time
so that the crowd
798
00:36:39,073 --> 00:36:40,574
would do this wave effect.
799
00:36:40,657 --> 00:36:44,699
After that, I was like, "Fuck,
I don't have-- I left my body."
800
00:36:44,782 --> 00:36:47,323
I can't tell you what the fuck
happened after that.
801
00:36:48,699 --> 00:36:53,323
-Come on, Woodstock!
-(CROWD CHEERING)
802
00:36:53,407 --> 00:36:54,782
♪ (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
803
00:36:54,866 --> 00:36:58,449
JONATHAN: I just went as hard
and as intense as I could go
804
00:36:58,532 --> 00:37:01,615
and still sing,
but it was so fucking hot,
805
00:37:01,699 --> 00:37:03,615
I literally collapsed
after the last song.
806
00:37:03,699 --> 00:37:06,282
I walked backstage,
and I fell on the ground.
807
00:37:06,365 --> 00:37:07,741
They put bags of ice all over me
808
00:37:07,824 --> 00:37:09,782
and ran IVs
and put me on oxygen.
809
00:37:09,866 --> 00:37:12,073
I was that-- I was gone.
810
00:37:12,157 --> 00:37:16,782
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
811
00:37:16,866 --> 00:37:19,699
BEN: My only goal
is to be front row for Korn,
812
00:37:19,782 --> 00:37:21,699
so I fought my way through
and I remember
813
00:37:21,782 --> 00:37:23,866
thinking to myself,
"Wow there's probably
814
00:37:23,949 --> 00:37:25,574
50,000 people behind me."
815
00:37:25,657 --> 00:37:29,991
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
816
00:37:30,073 --> 00:37:31,365
BEN: And then
during the concert,
817
00:37:31,449 --> 00:37:32,991
I started feeling
a little funny.
818
00:37:33,073 --> 00:37:35,741
I was cold
and I thought to myself,
819
00:37:35,824 --> 00:37:38,240
"It's gotta be
110 degrees out here.
820
00:37:38,323 --> 00:37:39,574
Why am I cold?"
821
00:37:39,657 --> 00:37:43,699
And it dawned on me like,
"Wow, I think have hypothermia."
822
00:37:43,782 --> 00:37:45,991
My body's never felt
this way before
823
00:37:46,073 --> 00:37:48,782
and I said, "I think
I'm in trouble." (CHUCKLES)
824
00:37:48,866 --> 00:37:51,532
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
825
00:37:51,615 --> 00:37:53,365
DAVE HOLMES: I was very near
the stage
826
00:37:53,449 --> 00:37:57,032
and like person after person
was like pulled out of the pit.
827
00:37:57,115 --> 00:38:01,532
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
828
00:38:03,365 --> 00:38:05,866
DAVE KONIG: I worked
Hurricane Katrina
829
00:38:05,949 --> 00:38:07,198
and Hurricane Rita
830
00:38:07,282 --> 00:38:10,073
and Hurricane Sandy
but whenever people ask me
831
00:38:10,157 --> 00:38:12,282
about Woodstock '99,
I always say
832
00:38:12,365 --> 00:38:15,574
that it was
the greatest disaster
I ever went to.
833
00:38:16,782 --> 00:38:19,699
For any event like this,
environmental concerns
834
00:38:19,782 --> 00:38:22,032
are gonna definitely be
at the forefront,
835
00:38:22,115 --> 00:38:25,032
and the heat
was absolutely atrocious.
836
00:38:25,115 --> 00:38:27,449
So you had to worry
about heat stroke,
837
00:38:27,532 --> 00:38:30,198
heat exhaustion, hyperthermia.
838
00:38:30,282 --> 00:38:33,824
We need to make sure that people
are staying hydrated.
839
00:38:33,907 --> 00:38:36,699
Everybody that was there
was like packed together.
840
00:38:36,782 --> 00:38:39,032
And bodies generate heat
841
00:38:39,115 --> 00:38:40,741
then other bodies
right next to it
842
00:38:40,824 --> 00:38:42,157
are absorbing that heat.
843
00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:45,407
And then they have these
huge runways made of asphalt.
844
00:38:45,490 --> 00:38:48,615
It definitely added to increased
ground temperatures.
845
00:38:49,699 --> 00:38:50,907
Every single night,
846
00:38:50,991 --> 00:38:53,198
we were doing
like a thousand transports
847
00:38:53,282 --> 00:38:55,407
and a lot of them
were just dehydrations
848
00:38:55,490 --> 00:38:57,949
because people didn't have
enough water that day.
849
00:38:59,866 --> 00:39:02,574
I would say 90 percent
of the cases that we saw
850
00:39:02,657 --> 00:39:08,198
were caused by the environment
and the lack of access to water.
851
00:39:08,282 --> 00:39:09,824
REPORTER: The one thing
I would say is,
852
00:39:09,907 --> 00:39:12,699
if you don't like heat,
don't come to Woodstock '99.
853
00:39:12,782 --> 00:39:14,240
It is hot.
854
00:39:14,323 --> 00:39:19,198
Please don't come unless
you are prepared to be baked.
855
00:39:19,282 --> 00:39:21,699
-WOMAN: Anything else?
-MAN: Okay.
Another refreshment coming.
856
00:39:21,782 --> 00:39:23,323
NICK: Everything
was pretty highly regulated
857
00:39:23,407 --> 00:39:25,198
with the vendors all the water
had to be sold
858
00:39:25,282 --> 00:39:27,157
for four dollars a bottle,
859
00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:29,615
which, you know, even now
20 years later
860
00:39:29,699 --> 00:39:31,532
-is a ridiculous cost.
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
861
00:39:31,615 --> 00:39:33,323
BEN: I couldn't believe
that bottles of water
862
00:39:33,407 --> 00:39:34,907
were four dollars.
I wasn't prepared
863
00:39:34,991 --> 00:39:37,032
to pay four dollars for water.
864
00:39:37,115 --> 00:39:39,699
DAVE: When the beer
is the same price of water,
865
00:39:39,782 --> 00:39:43,157
as a kid if, if I had a choice,
I would choose the beer, too.
866
00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:45,115
And then on top of that,
the alcohol is actually
867
00:39:45,198 --> 00:39:46,615
dehydrating you further.
868
00:39:46,699 --> 00:39:48,615
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-MAUREEN: There were accounts
869
00:39:48,699 --> 00:39:51,782
that security guards
in searching kids
870
00:39:51,866 --> 00:39:55,282
before they came in
were told, "Under no means
871
00:39:55,365 --> 00:39:57,198
let them come in
with their own food,
872
00:39:57,282 --> 00:39:58,407
their own water."
873
00:39:58,490 --> 00:40:01,615
But when it came to drugs,
the guards were happy
874
00:40:01,699 --> 00:40:04,991
to take a 20 or a 50
to look the other way.
875
00:40:07,365 --> 00:40:10,157
JAKE HAFNER: In 1999,
I was 23 years old,
876
00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:12,657
and a good friend of mine
called me up one day
877
00:40:12,741 --> 00:40:15,866
and asked me if I wanted
to work security
878
00:40:15,949 --> 00:40:18,073
at Woodstock '99.
879
00:40:18,157 --> 00:40:21,782
JOHN: The security was hard
to hire. They're a lot of them.
880
00:40:21,866 --> 00:40:23,615
And we had to get licensed ones,
881
00:40:23,699 --> 00:40:26,449
which, you know,
was not that easy.
882
00:40:26,532 --> 00:40:28,949
JAKE: They had
a three-hour class I had to take
883
00:40:29,032 --> 00:40:31,574
and the instructor
basically spent
884
00:40:31,657 --> 00:40:33,365
the last two hours of the class
885
00:40:33,449 --> 00:40:36,282
going through the test
question by question,
886
00:40:36,365 --> 00:40:38,574
giving the answer
and then at the end of that,
887
00:40:38,657 --> 00:40:41,157
then he handed out the test
and we took it.
888
00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:44,323
It was kind of anyone that,
you know, was semi-lucid
889
00:40:44,407 --> 00:40:46,824
and could write their name
was eligible
890
00:40:46,907 --> 00:40:51,157
to be a security guard
at Woodstock '99.
891
00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:56,073
JOHN: At the gates, we had
our most trusted security guys.
892
00:40:56,157 --> 00:40:58,365
So if somebody was trying
to take money,
893
00:40:58,449 --> 00:41:00,407
it would have got caught.
894
00:41:01,073 --> 00:41:02,824
And with drinking water,
895
00:41:02,907 --> 00:41:06,157
it was unquestionably
lots of free water.
896
00:41:06,240 --> 00:41:07,615
MICHAEL: You know,
I mean, we worked
897
00:41:07,699 --> 00:41:10,532
with the health department
to create a water system
898
00:41:10,615 --> 00:41:12,699
that would accommodate
everybody who was there.
899
00:41:12,782 --> 00:41:15,866
You didn't have to buy water
if you didn't want to.
900
00:41:15,949 --> 00:41:19,032
JOHN: Yes, bottles of water
were four dollars.
901
00:41:19,115 --> 00:41:22,073
It was somewhat
on the high side,
902
00:41:22,157 --> 00:41:25,532
but it wasn't as ridiculous
as it got made out to be
903
00:41:25,615 --> 00:41:29,282
and if you're gonna go
to a festival,
904
00:41:29,365 --> 00:41:30,657
you bring money with you.
905
00:41:30,741 --> 00:41:33,907
This was not
a poor man's festival.
906
00:41:34,032 --> 00:41:35,365
INTERVIEWER:
What's this line for?
907
00:41:35,449 --> 00:41:36,907
-The ATM machine.
-CROWD: Yeah.
908
00:41:36,991 --> 00:41:38,365
-INTERVIEWER: The ATM?
-ATM.
909
00:41:38,449 --> 00:41:41,115
-INTERVIEWER: Oh!
-We've been waiting here
a long time.
910
00:41:41,198 --> 00:41:43,782
JESSICA: We're 18. I'm working
at a pizzeria for minimum wage.
911
00:41:43,866 --> 00:41:45,824
We're hot, we're sweaty,
we're tired.
912
00:41:45,907 --> 00:41:47,115
We didn't sleep well.
We're not starting
913
00:41:47,198 --> 00:41:48,782
on the best footing
to start our, you know,
914
00:41:48,866 --> 00:41:50,407
three day of adventure,
you know.
915
00:41:50,490 --> 00:41:51,907
MAN: Turn on the water!
916
00:41:51,991 --> 00:41:55,699
CAMERA MAN:
Dude, what do you think
about the water shortage, man?
917
00:41:55,782 --> 00:41:57,907
-It is fucked up.
-CAMERA MAN:
Shit is fucked up, man.
918
00:41:57,991 --> 00:42:00,198
-No more water.
-CAMERA MAN: Let's start a riot.
919
00:42:00,282 --> 00:42:03,032
Woodstock '99, the riots.
920
00:42:03,115 --> 00:42:05,157
MIKE: I'm a college kid.
I'm 20 years old.
921
00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:06,907
There's a lot of people
that were younger than me.
922
00:42:06,991 --> 00:42:09,032
There's a lot of people
that just like
923
00:42:09,115 --> 00:42:11,032
paid a lot of money
to go to this festival.
924
00:42:11,115 --> 00:42:15,949
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
925
00:42:16,032 --> 00:42:17,991
MIKE: You would go
to these little troughs
926
00:42:18,073 --> 00:42:20,449
where you're supposed
to be able to have a drink
927
00:42:20,532 --> 00:42:23,073
and there was people showering
in them.
928
00:42:23,157 --> 00:42:24,323
So, while you just wanted
929
00:42:24,407 --> 00:42:25,949
to like douse your face
with water
930
00:42:26,032 --> 00:42:28,782
or brush your teeth
or do something with water,
931
00:42:28,866 --> 00:42:31,407
there was just people like
full-on showering,
932
00:42:31,490 --> 00:42:34,365
you know, shampoo, soap.
933
00:42:34,449 --> 00:42:37,323
And then at some point,
I think somebody busted a pipe
934
00:42:37,407 --> 00:42:40,615
because they were so tired
of waiting for the water.
935
00:42:40,699 --> 00:42:41,949
So, then there was just like,
936
00:42:42,032 --> 00:42:44,657
all this water just going
all over the place
937
00:42:44,741 --> 00:42:46,866
near the campgrounds
and even flowing
938
00:42:46,949 --> 00:42:49,657
into the camp area,
which led to the mud.
939
00:42:52,282 --> 00:42:53,574
MAUREEN: The porta potties,
940
00:42:53,657 --> 00:42:56,615
it didn't take long for them
to become pretty much unusable.
941
00:42:56,699 --> 00:42:58,741
They were backing up
pretty quickly
942
00:42:58,824 --> 00:43:01,073
and then the sewage
was seeping out,
943
00:43:01,157 --> 00:43:03,991
to the point
where you had kids
944
00:43:04,073 --> 00:43:05,574
within the first 24 hours
945
00:43:05,657 --> 00:43:07,365
rolling around
in what they thought was mud
946
00:43:07,449 --> 00:43:09,949
but was really human waste.
947
00:43:10,032 --> 00:43:14,532
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-(SCREAMS)
948
00:43:14,615 --> 00:43:16,532
KEN: That mud
that these people were in,
949
00:43:16,615 --> 00:43:17,991
as far as I was concerned,
950
00:43:18,073 --> 00:43:20,198
based on what I saw,
it was mud and shit.
951
00:43:20,282 --> 00:43:22,824
So I did see
people covered in that,
952
00:43:22,907 --> 00:43:24,490
thought that was pretty strange,
953
00:43:24,574 --> 00:43:26,657
not a thing I would normally see
where I come from.
954
00:43:26,741 --> 00:43:27,991
CAMERAMAN: We are going
on a mission
955
00:43:28,073 --> 00:43:29,532
that nobody has ever gone on.
956
00:43:29,615 --> 00:43:30,782
Oh, you see. You can smell.
957
00:43:30,866 --> 00:43:33,157
-The place is gruesome... Oh!
-CAMERAMAN: Holy shit.
958
00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:35,073
ROB: Plumbing,
always a challenge
959
00:43:35,157 --> 00:43:36,240
at rock festivals. Again,
960
00:43:36,323 --> 00:43:37,615
this was something
that in the '90s,
961
00:43:37,699 --> 00:43:39,699
people did not think
there was a better way
962
00:43:39,782 --> 00:43:40,991
to do stuff like this.
963
00:43:41,073 --> 00:43:42,741
People, in the future,
964
00:43:43,699 --> 00:43:45,282
worth their weight in gold.
965
00:43:45,365 --> 00:43:46,866
-I'm telling you.
-(MAN LAUGHING)
966
00:43:46,949 --> 00:43:49,157
ROB: So the place
smelled pretty gross
967
00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:50,991
by even Friday afternoon.
968
00:43:52,282 --> 00:43:54,657
NOODLES: You know, there's
a festival grounds in Germany.
969
00:43:54,741 --> 00:43:56,866
It was literally built
by Hitler.
970
00:43:56,949 --> 00:43:58,699
And we've played there
a bunch of times,
971
00:43:58,782 --> 00:44:03,365
it's a great venue, lot of fun.
The airbase was less hospitable
972
00:44:03,449 --> 00:44:05,741
than the venue built by Nazis.
973
00:44:05,824 --> 00:44:07,866
(BOTH LAUGH)
974
00:44:07,949 --> 00:44:12,657
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
975
00:44:15,115 --> 00:44:17,198
PAX VOLUNTEER: Hi, we're with
an organization called PAX,
976
00:44:17,282 --> 00:44:18,532
what we're doing is
we're getting people
977
00:44:18,615 --> 00:44:22,115
to sign these petitions
against gun violence.
978
00:44:22,198 --> 00:44:23,574
It's a good thing.
It's basically trying
979
00:44:23,657 --> 00:44:25,532
to get people to stop
getting guns
980
00:44:25,615 --> 00:44:27,407
in the hands of kids, you know.
981
00:44:27,490 --> 00:44:29,699
We're giving away candles
for the...
982
00:44:29,782 --> 00:44:32,282
the light ceremony
tomorrow night at eight o'clock.
983
00:44:32,365 --> 00:44:34,323
So here, why don't you
just take one as a souvenir
984
00:44:34,407 --> 00:44:35,741
for coming by and seeing us.
985
00:44:35,824 --> 00:44:38,699
And stop by the candle ceremony
at eight o'clock tomorrow night
986
00:44:38,782 --> 00:44:40,365
and I'm sure you'll see
all the candles
987
00:44:40,449 --> 00:44:42,198
that we've given out. Thanks.
988
00:44:43,282 --> 00:44:44,657
♪ ("BAWITDABA"
BY KID ROCK PLAYING) ♪
989
00:44:44,741 --> 00:44:46,490
♪ Bawitdaba, da bang,
Da dang diggy diggy, diggy ♪
990
00:44:46,574 --> 00:44:48,741
♪ Said the boogie
Said up jump the boogie ♪
991
00:44:48,824 --> 00:44:51,741
♪ Bawitdaba, da bang
Da dang diggy diggy, diggy ♪
992
00:44:51,824 --> 00:44:54,824
♪ Said the boogie
Said up jump the boogie ♪
993
00:44:54,907 --> 00:44:57,198
STEVEN: I think about Kid Rock
coming out
994
00:44:57,282 --> 00:44:59,782
in this luxurious,
white fur coat.
995
00:44:59,866 --> 00:45:02,824
If you were looking
for an easy metaphor
996
00:45:02,907 --> 00:45:04,699
to explain the haves
and the have-nots
997
00:45:04,782 --> 00:45:08,407
at Woodstock '99 and in fact,
I think in 1999 in general
998
00:45:08,490 --> 00:45:11,115
to me,
like that sums it up perfectly.
999
00:45:11,198 --> 00:45:13,115
-(CROW CHEERING)
-DAVE HOLMES: It's a very
weird thing
1000
00:45:13,198 --> 00:45:14,657
that you see
at the end of the '90s.
1001
00:45:14,741 --> 00:45:16,907
There's just this
simmering anger.
1002
00:45:16,991 --> 00:45:20,449
And it manifested itself
through sludge and angst.
1003
00:45:20,532 --> 00:45:27,032
♪ My name is Kid ♪
1004
00:45:28,532 --> 00:45:29,741
♪ Is Kid Rock ♪
1005
00:45:29,824 --> 00:45:32,282
♪ Bawitdaba, da bang
Da dang diggy diggy, diggy ♪
1006
00:45:32,365 --> 00:45:35,323
DAVE HOLMES: The DJ
on stage became a weird trope
1007
00:45:35,407 --> 00:45:37,157
and you never really knew
why they were there,
1008
00:45:37,240 --> 00:45:38,282
just you would hear a faint
1009
00:45:38,365 --> 00:45:39,824
sort of wicky-wicky noise
in the background,
1010
00:45:39,907 --> 00:45:42,449
and that was enough to sustain
a whole band member.
1011
00:45:42,532 --> 00:45:46,490
It seemed like the kind of thing
that would break down barriers,
1012
00:45:46,574 --> 00:45:49,449
you know, hip-hop
and rock would be one thing.
1013
00:45:49,532 --> 00:45:51,115
But it really didn't.
1014
00:45:51,198 --> 00:45:52,866
WESLEY: If you look
at the history
1015
00:45:52,949 --> 00:45:56,198
of American music, nu metal
was just bound to happen.
1016
00:45:56,282 --> 00:45:58,949
This is a country whose music
was basically forged
1017
00:45:59,032 --> 00:46:01,741
in white people
impersonating Black people.
1018
00:46:01,824 --> 00:46:03,866
It makes all the sense
in the world
1019
00:46:03,949 --> 00:46:07,615
that that would wind up
in this sort of swamp
1020
00:46:07,699 --> 00:46:11,198
that nu metal basically becomes.
1021
00:46:11,282 --> 00:46:13,365
MOBY: You know, a lot of times
when white people
1022
00:46:13,449 --> 00:46:16,490
have embraced hip-hop,
they've ignored the funk,
1023
00:46:16,574 --> 00:46:17,699
they've ignored the R&B.
1024
00:46:17,782 --> 00:46:19,866
You know,
they've ignored the subtlety
1025
00:46:19,949 --> 00:46:22,449
and they've embraced homophobia
and misogyny.
1026
00:46:22,532 --> 00:46:26,032
♪ If you don't like Kid Rock
You can suck my dick ♪
1027
00:46:26,115 --> 00:46:27,824
MOBY: The same thing with metal.
1028
00:46:27,907 --> 00:46:32,115
There's a lot of wonderful,
celebratory, joyful, fun metal,
1029
00:46:32,198 --> 00:46:35,949
but somehow nu metal embraced
the troglodyte elements.
1030
00:46:36,032 --> 00:46:39,115
-(CROWD CHEERING)
-KID ROCK: Now listen close.
1031
00:46:39,198 --> 00:46:40,407
You want me to get political?
1032
00:46:40,490 --> 00:46:43,240
Well, this is about as deep
as Kid Rock thinks.
1033
00:46:44,282 --> 00:46:46,323
Monica Lewinsky is a fucking hoe
1034
00:46:46,407 --> 00:46:48,615
and Bill Clinton
is a goddamn pimp.
1035
00:46:48,699 --> 00:46:52,282
(CROWD CHEERING)
1036
00:46:52,365 --> 00:46:54,741
MOBY: And granted
this is over 20 years ago
1037
00:46:54,824 --> 00:46:59,032
and I'm still so baffled, like,
how it went from
1038
00:46:59,115 --> 00:47:01,490
the sort of progressive
enlightened values
1039
00:47:01,574 --> 00:47:04,240
of Kurt Cobain and Michael Stipe
1040
00:47:04,323 --> 00:47:07,407
to misogyny and homophobia.
1041
00:47:07,490 --> 00:47:13,490
And the rape, frat boy culture
that was at Woodstock '99.
1042
00:47:14,824 --> 00:47:18,907
MAUREEN: What happened
in the early '90s with Nirvana
1043
00:47:18,991 --> 00:47:24,699
was nothing short of
a generational overtaking.
1044
00:47:24,782 --> 00:47:26,449
The acts and the artists
1045
00:47:26,532 --> 00:47:28,240
that had been dominating
the culture
1046
00:47:28,323 --> 00:47:31,741
were wiped off the face
of the planet by Nevermind.
1047
00:47:31,824 --> 00:47:36,073
Boy bands, pop music,
hair metal, it was all done.
1048
00:47:36,157 --> 00:47:37,991
Nirvana actually gave a voice
1049
00:47:38,073 --> 00:47:39,574
to the unrest
that was happening,
1050
00:47:39,657 --> 00:47:42,741
that the gatekeepers
of pop culture
were not aware of.
1051
00:47:42,824 --> 00:47:45,615
And so, Nirvana just cracked
that door open,
1052
00:47:45,699 --> 00:47:50,365
and it gave an entire generation
this purpose and connection.
1053
00:47:51,574 --> 00:47:54,032
STEVEN: You had bands
that were talking about
1054
00:47:54,115 --> 00:47:57,782
feminism and LGBTQ rights
and anti-racism.
1055
00:47:57,866 --> 00:48:00,490
And I think a lot of people
looked at rock music and hip-hop
1056
00:48:00,574 --> 00:48:02,741
as these things
that could actually
1057
00:48:02,824 --> 00:48:04,574
make a difference in the world.
1058
00:48:06,198 --> 00:48:08,699
MAUREEN:
It was a sudden earthquake
1059
00:48:08,782 --> 00:48:10,949
in rock and roll and pop culture
1060
00:48:11,032 --> 00:48:14,741
in which the boys and the girls
want to level the playing field,
1061
00:48:14,824 --> 00:48:18,282
So you have Kurt in a dress,
gender bending.
1062
00:48:18,365 --> 00:48:19,615
You have Riot grrrl,
1063
00:48:19,699 --> 00:48:22,240
you have the second
most relevant band
1064
00:48:22,323 --> 00:48:24,073
of that decade,
The Beastie Boys,
1065
00:48:24,157 --> 00:48:27,782
maturing and apologizing
for their sexism and misogyny.
1066
00:48:27,866 --> 00:48:30,615
Especially in terms of like
girls becoming empowered
1067
00:48:30,699 --> 00:48:32,866
and becoming sure of themselves,
you know.
1068
00:48:32,949 --> 00:48:34,907
If we could help with that,
that was kind of cool.
1069
00:48:34,991 --> 00:48:37,907
MAUREEN: And on top of that,
you have this generation
1070
00:48:37,991 --> 00:48:40,699
of young men who really,
1071
00:48:40,782 --> 00:48:44,157
for the first time,
had been raised by moms
1072
00:48:44,240 --> 00:48:47,782
who came of age during
the real first wave of feminism,
1073
00:48:47,866 --> 00:48:49,866
or had been raised
by single moms,
1074
00:48:49,949 --> 00:48:51,490
and so you sort of felt
1075
00:48:51,574 --> 00:48:54,240
that there was
this unprecedented parity
1076
00:48:54,323 --> 00:48:57,699
in this generation
between the boys and the girls.
1077
00:48:57,782 --> 00:49:00,949
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1078
00:49:01,032 --> 00:49:04,198
But that said,
grunge was very short lived.
1079
00:49:04,282 --> 00:49:08,365
It became commodified
and commercialized so quickly.
1080
00:49:08,449 --> 00:49:11,282
This negative energy
just makes me stronger.
1081
00:49:11,365 --> 00:49:14,907
We will not retreat.
This band is unstoppable.
1082
00:49:14,991 --> 00:49:17,115
And then in April of 1994,
1083
00:49:17,198 --> 00:49:19,073
you have the death
of Kurt Cobain.
1084
00:49:19,157 --> 00:49:23,949
The hope that people had
in the early '90s was gone.
1085
00:49:24,032 --> 00:49:28,365
MOBY: Then like culture went
from progressive to aggressive.
1086
00:49:28,449 --> 00:49:32,741
It went from inclusive
to violent and misogynistic.
1087
00:49:32,824 --> 00:49:36,157
Honestly, and this might sound
overly simplistic and glib,
1088
00:49:36,240 --> 00:49:38,949
but it was money.
You know, the major labels
1089
00:49:39,032 --> 00:49:43,198
the alternative rocks stations,
MTV, Spin, Rolling Stone
1090
00:49:43,282 --> 00:49:47,198
all of a sudden, they realized
they made more money
1091
00:49:47,282 --> 00:49:49,490
because their demographic
was expanded.
1092
00:49:50,449 --> 00:49:52,866
SCOTT STAPP:
Our peak started around '99.
1093
00:49:52,949 --> 00:49:55,198
That's when nu metal
came in, too.
1094
00:49:55,282 --> 00:49:59,574
So we were all kinda blowing up
at the same exact time.
1095
00:49:59,657 --> 00:50:03,365
But post grunge, you know
where Creed was born,
1096
00:50:03,449 --> 00:50:07,073
we really had something to say
and we were looking inward,
1097
00:50:07,157 --> 00:50:10,949
really expressing these feelings
of frustration,
1098
00:50:11,032 --> 00:50:14,782
that time in our life
where the idealistic view
1099
00:50:14,866 --> 00:50:19,032
that we had of the world
was crushed and crumbled.
1100
00:50:19,115 --> 00:50:22,073
And then, the nu metal,
took it a step further
1101
00:50:22,157 --> 00:50:24,240
with its angst, this aggression.
1102
00:50:24,323 --> 00:50:27,240
It became the mouthpiece
of the generation
1103
00:50:27,323 --> 00:50:29,991
along with naivety, bravado,
1104
00:50:30,073 --> 00:50:32,240
talking trash, being rebellious
1105
00:50:32,323 --> 00:50:34,699
and I think
that's why it connected.
1106
00:50:34,782 --> 00:50:36,949
TARIQ: There was also
that underlying fear
1107
00:50:37,032 --> 00:50:40,949
of the unknown. The angst,
and anxiety associated
1108
00:50:41,032 --> 00:50:42,282
with just not knowing
1109
00:50:42,365 --> 00:50:44,157
what was gonna happen
at the time
1110
00:50:44,240 --> 00:50:45,449
of the new millennia.
1111
00:50:45,532 --> 00:50:49,824
And people needed some way
to sort of exhaust that energy
1112
00:50:49,907 --> 00:50:53,907
and I think that genre of music
provided the perfect vehicle
1113
00:50:53,991 --> 00:50:56,699
for people to just say,
you know, "Fuck it."
1114
00:50:57,490 --> 00:50:58,699
MAUREEN: You know these artists,
1115
00:50:58,782 --> 00:51:01,032
they tapped
into something very real
1116
00:51:01,115 --> 00:51:04,449
and something that had been
sort of pushed down
1117
00:51:04,532 --> 00:51:06,407
in the earlier part
of the decade.
1118
00:51:06,490 --> 00:51:09,073
And so I don't necessarily think
1119
00:51:09,157 --> 00:51:12,615
that acts like Korn
or Limp Bizkit
1120
00:51:12,699 --> 00:51:14,741
were fomenting something
in the culture
1121
00:51:14,824 --> 00:51:17,115
that wasn't already there.
1122
00:51:17,198 --> 00:51:20,157
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1123
00:51:20,240 --> 00:51:22,657
REPORTER: They hated jocks,
loved the internet.
1124
00:51:22,741 --> 00:51:24,782
They were known
as the Trench Coat Mafia,
1125
00:51:24,866 --> 00:51:26,657
question is
why didn't anyone know
1126
00:51:26,741 --> 00:51:27,824
they turned so violent.
1127
00:51:27,907 --> 00:51:29,699
And they, like,
started blowing up
1128
00:51:29,782 --> 00:51:31,782
and shooting everyone
in the cafeteria.
1129
00:51:31,866 --> 00:51:33,991
REPORTER: They are a group
of disenfranchised kids
1130
00:51:34,073 --> 00:51:35,407
that have threatened revenge
1131
00:51:35,490 --> 00:51:37,449
in the past
for kids making fun of them.
1132
00:51:37,532 --> 00:51:39,490
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1133
00:51:39,574 --> 00:51:41,866
STEVEN: Just three months,
before Woodstock '99
1134
00:51:41,949 --> 00:51:45,073
the school shooting
at Columbine took place.
1135
00:51:45,157 --> 00:51:48,032
And it's such an extreme act
of violence,
1136
00:51:48,115 --> 00:51:50,115
but I think it's an example
of people
1137
00:51:50,198 --> 00:51:52,449
who are really struggling
to be seen.
1138
00:51:52,532 --> 00:51:54,574
BILL: And we continue
our reporting
on the corrosive effects
1139
00:51:54,657 --> 00:51:57,824
of the popular music world
on some American children.
1140
00:51:57,907 --> 00:52:00,365
NEWS REPORTER: We now know
that one of them also posted
1141
00:52:00,449 --> 00:52:02,157
violent lyrics on the internet.
1142
00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:05,198
MAUREEN: I think the blaming
of artists, musicians,
1143
00:52:05,282 --> 00:52:07,657
filmmakers. It's all just
political maneuvering
1144
00:52:07,741 --> 00:52:11,240
and an easy way
to misdirect your eye over here
1145
00:52:11,323 --> 00:52:12,532
when the real problems
1146
00:52:12,615 --> 00:52:16,657
are so much more difficult
and really require digging in.
1147
00:52:16,741 --> 00:52:21,615
I think if anyone like Hitler
or Mussolini were alive now,
1148
00:52:21,699 --> 00:52:23,282
they'd have to be rock stars.
1149
00:52:23,365 --> 00:52:25,449
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-♪ (HEAVY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1150
00:52:31,532 --> 00:52:32,866
Hey, what's up?
1151
00:52:32,949 --> 00:52:34,365
-Are we doing all right?
-MAN: Yeah.
1152
00:52:34,449 --> 00:52:36,407
-Everything going good still?
-Everything's going great man.
1153
00:52:36,490 --> 00:52:38,282
We were just hanging out
with Puff up there, man.
1154
00:52:38,365 --> 00:52:40,657
-He's a cool guy.
-MAN 2: Yo, D!
1155
00:52:40,741 --> 00:52:42,699
-What's up, how you doing?
-MAN 2: What's up, man?
1156
00:52:42,782 --> 00:52:44,907
♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1157
00:52:44,991 --> 00:52:48,240
NARRATOR: "Saturday,
July 24th, 1999.
1158
00:52:48,323 --> 00:52:49,699
Busy day.
1159
00:52:49,782 --> 00:52:52,490
Just made it back
to the tent for some R&R.
1160
00:52:52,574 --> 00:52:55,907
We saw in this order
Tragically Hip,
1161
00:52:55,991 --> 00:52:57,365
I know why they do so well,
1162
00:52:57,449 --> 00:52:59,741
they bring Canada
to all their shows.
1163
00:52:59,824 --> 00:53:01,907
Kid Rock,
I'm getting that album.
1164
00:53:01,991 --> 00:53:04,490
He played every instrument
during each song.
1165
00:53:04,574 --> 00:53:05,741
That rocks.
1166
00:53:05,824 --> 00:53:08,991
Wyclef Jean
and the Refugee All-Stars.
1167
00:53:09,073 --> 00:53:11,449
I remember saying
of someone's mother once,
1168
00:53:11,532 --> 00:53:13,615
something about nothing nice
to say?
1169
00:53:14,699 --> 00:53:18,157
Counting Crows,
not the same live, but not bad.
1170
00:53:18,240 --> 00:53:21,032
Dave Matthews,
nothing needs to be said.
1171
00:53:23,157 --> 00:53:25,907
My shoes got soaked twice.
Oh, well.
1172
00:53:25,991 --> 00:53:29,198
Now to build up strength,
because I'm going to the pit.
1173
00:53:30,866 --> 00:53:33,866
(SIGHING) Hippies beating
on drums down the road.
1174
00:53:33,949 --> 00:53:35,282
Fucking hippies."
1175
00:53:35,365 --> 00:53:36,490
(METAL CLANGING)
1176
00:53:40,115 --> 00:53:42,574
MIKE: So there were these
trash can drum circles.
1177
00:53:42,657 --> 00:53:45,407
I had never seen anything like
that in my life.
1178
00:53:45,490 --> 00:53:46,741
(CLANGS)
1179
00:53:51,157 --> 00:53:54,615
MIKE: You would find the most
insane looking characters
1180
00:53:54,699 --> 00:53:56,866
just banging on anything
they could find.
1181
00:53:59,240 --> 00:54:01,699
BEN: All day long
for that whole weekend,
1182
00:54:01,782 --> 00:54:04,073
a bunch of people
had taken trash cans
1183
00:54:04,157 --> 00:54:05,991
and tipped them over
and were banging
1184
00:54:06,073 --> 00:54:07,240
on them incessantly.
1185
00:54:07,323 --> 00:54:09,824
Not really in rhythm
just banging, banging, banging.
1186
00:54:09,907 --> 00:54:11,949
And we thought it was kind
of funny
1187
00:54:12,699 --> 00:54:13,907
but we also thought like,
1188
00:54:13,991 --> 00:54:16,157
"Well, I wonder who is going
to put these trash cans
1189
00:54:16,240 --> 00:54:18,490
back over and put them back
where they were."
1190
00:54:18,574 --> 00:54:21,782
MAN: (ON MICROPHONE) Sixty-nine,
'94, a poster for '99.
1191
00:54:22,574 --> 00:54:23,699
Anybody else?
1192
00:54:42,741 --> 00:54:45,866
-...up here and you can do this.
-(PEOPLE CHEERING)
1193
00:55:00,449 --> 00:55:02,449
(PEOPLE CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1194
00:55:04,073 --> 00:55:08,490
On Saturday, you could see
that we, as a group
1195
00:55:08,574 --> 00:55:10,949
kind of abused the place.
1196
00:55:11,032 --> 00:55:15,198
You have so many people,
not enough receptacles.
1197
00:55:15,282 --> 00:55:18,532
So, like you would expect,
a camping trip, a lot of BO,
1198
00:55:18,615 --> 00:55:21,282
sweat, mud
and garbage everywhere.
1199
00:55:21,365 --> 00:55:23,115
Excrement, you know
it was not good.
1200
00:55:23,198 --> 00:55:25,532
It was not good. A lot of it,
you know.
1201
00:55:25,615 --> 00:55:29,240
ROB: Every night I slept
on a pile of pizza boxes.
1202
00:55:29,323 --> 00:55:31,157
Pizza boxes
were very good surface
1203
00:55:31,240 --> 00:55:34,741
to sleep on cause pizza boxes
are white and it's important,
because they're white
1204
00:55:34,824 --> 00:55:36,991
you can tell
if they've been urinated on
or not
1205
00:55:37,073 --> 00:55:39,073
because every flat surface
there had been
1206
00:55:39,157 --> 00:55:42,824
so thoroughly urinated on
by Friday evening.
1207
00:55:43,991 --> 00:55:45,407
KEN: The showers,
I wanted no part
1208
00:55:45,490 --> 00:55:47,073
of those things really
from day one.
1209
00:55:47,157 --> 00:55:49,741
They basically had just
one big communal shower,
1210
00:55:49,824 --> 00:55:51,907
like one for the women,
one for the men.
1211
00:55:51,991 --> 00:55:55,866
When we went in there,
the water was like shin
to knee deep,
1212
00:55:55,949 --> 00:55:58,449
so you're basically
just showering in filth.
1213
00:55:58,532 --> 00:56:00,365
Then, the women shower
was next to ours,
1214
00:56:00,449 --> 00:56:02,240
also separated by a tarp.
1215
00:56:02,323 --> 00:56:04,365
So, there were like dudes like,
1216
00:56:04,449 --> 00:56:06,198
pulling the tarp back to, like,
look at the women
1217
00:56:06,282 --> 00:56:07,824
who were showering next door.
1218
00:56:08,741 --> 00:56:10,365
WOMAN: I did not take
a shower there.
1219
00:56:10,449 --> 00:56:13,490
I definitely saw
that there were showers
1220
00:56:13,574 --> 00:56:16,782
and was not comfortable
with that.
1221
00:56:16,866 --> 00:56:18,866
That did not seem
like safe space.
1222
00:56:19,824 --> 00:56:21,323
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1223
00:56:21,407 --> 00:56:24,407
DAVE: The site, it reminded you
of like a refugee camp
1224
00:56:24,490 --> 00:56:25,866
from the movies.
1225
00:56:27,323 --> 00:56:29,907
That there had been
some sort of big battle
1226
00:56:29,991 --> 00:56:31,782
and there
was just trash all over,
1227
00:56:31,866 --> 00:56:34,115
so you just saw
that break down
1228
00:56:34,198 --> 00:56:37,449
of both the structure
and civility.
1229
00:56:37,532 --> 00:56:38,449
(ALL CHEER)
1230
00:56:38,532 --> 00:56:40,449
DAVE: Also,
it was just interesting
1231
00:56:40,532 --> 00:56:43,282
because the security
at Woodstock '99
1232
00:56:43,365 --> 00:56:45,323
was a little bit
of a different beast.
1233
00:56:45,407 --> 00:56:47,240
You could just tell,
1234
00:56:47,323 --> 00:56:49,574
just from the interactions
with them
1235
00:56:49,657 --> 00:56:53,532
that they just didn't act
like usual security guards.
1236
00:56:53,615 --> 00:56:54,866
CAMERA MAN:
How was your fucking job?
1237
00:56:54,949 --> 00:56:57,157
-Awesome time, man.
-Was it nice? Did you get pussy?
1238
00:56:57,240 --> 00:56:59,699
Did you use that pass right
there to get some pussy?
1239
00:56:59,782 --> 00:57:01,032
-Yes, I did.
-Did you?
1240
00:57:01,115 --> 00:57:03,323
-Yes I did.
-I hate you. I'm jealous.
1241
00:57:03,407 --> 00:57:05,824
The vast majority of them
were just doing whatever it was
1242
00:57:05,907 --> 00:57:06,949
that they wanted.
1243
00:57:07,032 --> 00:57:09,407
Security didn't really work
with anyone else.
1244
00:57:10,115 --> 00:57:11,449
(PEOPLE CHEERING)
1245
00:57:12,574 --> 00:57:15,449
♪ ("IRONIC"
BY ALANIS MORRISSETTE PLAYING) ♪
1246
00:57:22,741 --> 00:57:28,490
♪ An old man turned 98 ♪
1247
00:57:28,574 --> 00:57:34,532
CROWD: ♪ He won the lottery
And died the next day ♪
1248
00:57:34,615 --> 00:57:37,866
-♪ It's a ♪
-CROWD: ♪ Black fly ♪
1249
00:57:37,949 --> 00:57:40,490
-♪ In your ♪
-CROWD: ♪ Chardonnay ♪
1250
00:57:40,574 --> 00:57:43,490
♪ It's a death row pardon ♪
1251
00:57:43,574 --> 00:57:46,032
♪ Two minutes too late ♪
1252
00:57:46,115 --> 00:57:51,615
♪ And isn't it ironic
Don't you think? ♪
1253
00:57:51,699 --> 00:57:57,574
♪ It's like rain
On your wedding day ♪
1254
00:57:57,657 --> 00:58:00,699
♪ It's a free ride ♪
1255
00:58:00,782 --> 00:58:02,782
♪ When you've already paid ♪
1256
00:58:02,866 --> 00:58:04,699
JEWEL: Woodstock '99
definitely felt like
1257
00:58:04,782 --> 00:58:07,574
it lacked a cohesive feeling.
1258
00:58:07,657 --> 00:58:11,073
Was it because, in all honesty,
the Gen Xers and next generation
1259
00:58:11,157 --> 00:58:13,449
really weren't fighting
anything.
1260
00:58:13,532 --> 00:58:16,824
But we wanted to be angsty
and we wanted to be deep.
1261
00:58:16,907 --> 00:58:18,574
I think the only thing
we were really fighting
1262
00:58:18,657 --> 00:58:20,782
is we didn't feel like
we had a purpose.
1263
00:58:20,866 --> 00:58:23,741
You know, difficult times
galvanize you.
1264
00:58:23,824 --> 00:58:26,323
It galvanizes you
around a cause.
1265
00:58:27,365 --> 00:58:29,741
But the '99 Woodstock
just seemed like
1266
00:58:29,824 --> 00:58:32,824
it was trying to relive
a nostalgic moment
1267
00:58:32,907 --> 00:58:35,615
along with commercialism
and kind of capitalizing
1268
00:58:35,699 --> 00:58:37,907
and trying to maximize profits,
but not having
1269
00:58:37,991 --> 00:58:40,866
a real soulful purpose
for the show.
1270
00:58:40,949 --> 00:58:46,115
♪ It's like rain
On your wedding day ♪
1271
00:58:46,198 --> 00:58:48,240
BEN: Somebody made a decision
about this lineup,
1272
00:58:48,323 --> 00:58:50,407
like, we're gonna have a bunch
of metal bands here,
1273
00:58:50,490 --> 00:58:52,907
and we're also gonna have,
you know, Jewel and Cheryl Crow.
1274
00:58:52,991 --> 00:58:56,574
♪ Advice
That you just didn't take ♪
1275
00:58:56,657 --> 00:58:57,949
MAUREEN: I have no idea
what went
1276
00:58:58,032 --> 00:59:01,115
into the thought processes
of the promoters
1277
00:59:01,198 --> 00:59:04,657
in booking
only three female acts.
1278
00:59:04,741 --> 00:59:08,365
JOHN: I didn't think in any way
in terms of male-female.
1279
00:59:08,449 --> 00:59:11,615
You either had to be a rock band
or you had to have the charisma
1280
00:59:11,699 --> 00:59:12,866
to be able to pull it off.
1281
00:59:12,949 --> 00:59:15,907
We didn't say there has to be
X number of female acts.
1282
00:59:15,991 --> 00:59:19,198
We booked who we thought
belonged on it.
1283
00:59:19,282 --> 00:59:21,032
STEVEN: It seems like
it was a deliberate choice
1284
00:59:21,115 --> 00:59:23,991
because each woman
is on a different day
of the festival.
1285
00:59:24,073 --> 00:59:29,365
It was like there was a quota
for estrogen at Woodstock '99.
1286
00:59:29,449 --> 00:59:32,365
DAVE HOLMES: Saturday,
I remember watching
Alanis Morissette
1287
00:59:32,449 --> 00:59:35,282
and feeling aggravation
from the audience,
1288
00:59:35,365 --> 00:59:37,490
literal angst bubbling up
in the crowd.
1289
00:59:37,574 --> 00:59:39,157
And then I saw what
was on the bill
1290
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:41,323
for the rest of the night,
which was in a row,
1291
00:59:41,407 --> 00:59:42,866
Limp Bizkit,
Rage Against the Machine,
1292
00:59:42,949 --> 00:59:45,741
Metallica.
That is a lot of aggression.
1293
00:59:45,824 --> 00:59:50,866
♪ And isn't it ironic
Don't you think? ♪
1294
00:59:50,949 --> 00:59:56,907
♪ A little too ironic
And, yeah, I really do think ♪
1295
00:59:58,323 --> 00:59:59,741
(CROWD CHEERING)
1296
00:59:59,824 --> 01:00:02,574
ALANIS MORISETTE:
Thank you very much everyone.
I love you.
1297
01:00:02,657 --> 01:00:06,157
(CHUCKLING) So much.
Have a great night.
1298
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:07,907
-Bless you each.
-(CROWD CHEERING)
1299
01:00:11,449 --> 01:00:12,699
CAMERA MAN: How you doing?
1300
01:00:12,782 --> 01:00:15,490
-WOMAN: Good. How's it going?
-Woodstock, baby.
1301
01:00:15,574 --> 01:00:17,032
-We're here.
-CAMERA MAN:
You see Limp Bizkit?
1302
01:00:17,115 --> 01:00:18,991
I'm gonna go see him later
today?
1303
01:00:19,073 --> 01:00:21,824
There was a lot of buzz
around Limp Bizkit.
1304
01:00:21,907 --> 01:00:26,490
It was probably the apex
of their career and I loved it.
1305
01:00:26,574 --> 01:00:28,824
I kinda looked like Fred Durst,
1306
01:00:28,907 --> 01:00:30,949
and I was just ready
to be a part of it
1307
01:00:31,032 --> 01:00:32,991
and I couldn't wait
for their show.
1308
01:00:33,073 --> 01:00:34,323
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-We're here on MTV.
1309
01:00:34,407 --> 01:00:36,449
And we're ready for you,
Woodstock.
1310
01:00:36,532 --> 01:00:38,198
I'm here to see Limp Bizkit.
1311
01:00:38,282 --> 01:00:41,365
MIKE: The morning
before their show, I was on MTV
1312
01:00:41,449 --> 01:00:43,782
rapping Limp Bizkit lyrics
with a crowd behind me.
1313
01:00:43,866 --> 01:00:46,866
And I just started saying,
"I did it all for the 'Nookie.'"
1314
01:00:46,949 --> 01:00:48,198
"Come on. The nookie.
1315
01:00:48,282 --> 01:00:50,407
Come on, so you can take
the cookie
and stick it up your..."
1316
01:00:50,490 --> 01:00:51,615
-ALL: Ass!
-Stick it up your
1317
01:00:51,699 --> 01:00:53,490
-Your Ass.
-Stick it up your...
1318
01:00:53,574 --> 01:00:55,782
MIKE: People are screaming,
"Stick it up your ass,"
1319
01:00:55,866 --> 01:00:58,657
"Stick it up your ass,
Stick it up your ass."
1320
01:00:58,741 --> 01:01:00,574
This is Fred from Limp Bizkit.
1321
01:01:00,657 --> 01:01:02,198
Let's find out who we are
1322
01:01:02,282 --> 01:01:05,407
on Ultra Sound this Sunday
at 10:00. Punk.
1323
01:01:05,490 --> 01:01:07,991
Limp Bizkit, huge MTV artist
at the time.
1324
01:01:08,073 --> 01:01:10,323
"Nookie." A smash.
1325
01:01:11,365 --> 01:01:12,907
You know any time
we would put them on
1326
01:01:12,991 --> 01:01:15,824
or have them as guests
or whatever
it would rate really well.
1327
01:01:15,907 --> 01:01:17,240
Right now,
we've got another performance
1328
01:01:17,323 --> 01:01:19,407
from Limp Bizkit
who has an amazing album
coming out on...
1329
01:01:19,490 --> 01:01:21,407
CARSON: It was a mutually
beneficial relationship
between the two.
1330
01:01:21,490 --> 01:01:24,574
Yeah, like MTV and Limp Bizkit
were just, like, synonymous
1331
01:01:24,657 --> 01:01:26,157
it seemed in 1999.
1332
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:29,407
And that's one
of the greatest ascensions
1333
01:01:29,490 --> 01:01:33,073
of a band of that caliber
that I've seen in a long time.
1334
01:01:33,157 --> 01:01:35,365
-You want the worst?
-(CROWD CHEERING)
1335
01:01:36,782 --> 01:01:38,532
Well, you got the worst.
1336
01:01:39,490 --> 01:01:42,032
The one, the only...
1337
01:01:43,741 --> 01:01:46,657
-Limp Bizkit.
-(CROWD CHEERING)
1338
01:01:48,532 --> 01:01:51,615
MIKE: Before they took the stage
I looked around,
1339
01:01:51,699 --> 01:01:55,323
and I had never seen
that many people before.
1340
01:01:55,407 --> 01:01:57,157
(CROWD CHEERING)
1341
01:01:57,240 --> 01:01:58,824
KEN: In the moment,
it felt like, "Man,
1342
01:01:58,907 --> 01:02:00,907
we're seeing
something special here."
1343
01:02:00,991 --> 01:02:04,073
And the crowds
were fucking bananas for them.
1344
01:02:04,157 --> 01:02:07,282
MIKE: By day two, people
were like a little bit drunker,
1345
01:02:07,365 --> 01:02:10,532
a little bit hotter,
a little bit angrier.
1346
01:02:10,615 --> 01:02:12,699
And then Limp Bizkit's
bass player came out
1347
01:02:12,782 --> 01:02:15,782
and he was just giving everybody
the double middle finger.
1348
01:02:15,866 --> 01:02:20,282
Now, that was kind of the vibe
that Limp Bizkit started with,
1349
01:02:20,365 --> 01:02:21,907
and then Fred Durst stepped in.
1350
01:02:23,365 --> 01:02:25,532
This is 1999, motherfucker.
1351
01:02:25,615 --> 01:02:27,490
-(CROWD CHEERING)
-♪ (HEAVY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1352
01:02:27,574 --> 01:02:29,032
Take your Birkenstocks
1353
01:02:29,115 --> 01:02:30,782
and stick 'em up
your fucking ass.
1354
01:02:33,741 --> 01:02:34,949
MIKE: People
were just pumped up.
1355
01:02:35,032 --> 01:02:38,866
They had a lot of energy,
lot of like college dudes.
1356
01:02:39,782 --> 01:02:40,741
College white dudes,
1357
01:02:40,824 --> 01:02:42,157
it looked like
that was the crowd,
1358
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:45,699
just like angry white,
fraternity college dudes.
1359
01:02:45,782 --> 01:02:48,615
And that was when I realized
I was the kind
1360
01:02:48,699 --> 01:02:52,073
of the perfect demographic
for Woodstock to market to.
1361
01:02:52,157 --> 01:02:55,157
I was like the exact person
that they wanted to go.
1362
01:02:55,240 --> 01:02:56,365
(CROWD CHEERING)
1363
01:02:57,907 --> 01:02:59,157
DAVE HOLMES:
The typical festival
1364
01:02:59,240 --> 01:03:01,991
has many different cliques.
They tend to go
1365
01:03:02,073 --> 01:03:05,323
for different genres
and different fan bases
1366
01:03:05,407 --> 01:03:08,782
and whatever.
This seemed to aim directly
1367
01:03:08,866 --> 01:03:14,115
at the most furious 24-year-olds
in your life.
1368
01:03:14,198 --> 01:03:16,157
-Kid Rock, you going
to see Kid rock?
-MAN: Nah, bro.
1369
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:19,157
I'm going to check out
fucking Limp Bizkit,
1370
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:21,115
Rage, Metallica, bro.
1371
01:03:21,198 --> 01:03:25,532
BEN: When you have a crowd
who are excited, inebriated,
1372
01:03:25,615 --> 01:03:28,032
hot, and now you give 'em a band
1373
01:03:28,115 --> 01:03:31,282
that helped them release
that energy,
1374
01:03:32,240 --> 01:03:33,699
what do you think
is gonna happen?
1375
01:03:33,782 --> 01:03:34,866
(CROWD CHEERING)
1376
01:03:34,949 --> 01:03:37,282
FRED DURST: Hey, let me ask you
a personal question.
1377
01:03:37,365 --> 01:03:40,282
How many people here
ever woke up one morning
1378
01:03:40,365 --> 01:03:43,240
and just decided,
it wasn't one of those days
1379
01:03:43,323 --> 01:03:45,032
and you're gonna break
some shit?
1380
01:03:45,115 --> 01:03:47,615
-(CROWD CHEERING)
-(DRUM BEATING)
1381
01:03:49,407 --> 01:03:51,490
Well, this is one
of them days y'all...
1382
01:03:53,449 --> 01:03:55,866
where everything's fucked up,
1383
01:03:55,949 --> 01:03:58,032
and you just wanna break
some shit.
1384
01:03:59,615 --> 01:04:00,657
You feel me?
1385
01:04:00,741 --> 01:04:03,198
-(CROWD CHEERING)
-Let's feel it.
1386
01:04:03,282 --> 01:04:04,574
♪ ("BREAK STUFF"
BY LIMP BIZKIT PLAYING) ♪
1387
01:04:04,657 --> 01:04:05,991
♪ Its just one of those days ♪
1388
01:04:06,073 --> 01:04:07,657
♪ Where you don't want
To wake up ♪
1389
01:04:07,741 --> 01:04:09,949
♪ Everything is fucked
Everybody sucks ♪
1390
01:04:10,032 --> 01:04:12,741
♪ You don't really know why
But you want to justify ♪
1391
01:04:12,824 --> 01:04:14,032
♪ Rippin' someone's head off ♪
1392
01:04:14,115 --> 01:04:16,741
♪ No human contact
And if you interact ♪
1393
01:04:16,824 --> 01:04:17,991
♪ Your life is on contract ♪
1394
01:04:18,073 --> 01:04:20,907
♪ Your best bet
Is to stay away motherfucker ♪
1395
01:04:20,991 --> 01:04:22,407
♪ It's just one of those days ♪
1396
01:04:22,490 --> 01:04:24,073
♪ It's all about the he-says,
She-says... ♪
1397
01:04:24,157 --> 01:04:26,949
JONATHAN: They had the crowd
going insane, but by that time
1398
01:04:27,032 --> 01:04:28,907
people were walking around
in shit and piss
1399
01:04:28,991 --> 01:04:31,615
because all of the fucking
porta potties overflowed.
1400
01:04:31,699 --> 01:04:33,782
They were dehydrated,
passing out.
1401
01:04:33,866 --> 01:04:35,907
It was too many people
for what the facilities
1402
01:04:35,991 --> 01:04:39,574
they had, and then,
it just went from there.
1403
01:04:39,657 --> 01:04:42,907
♪ It's all about the he-says,
She-says bullshit ♪
1404
01:04:44,323 --> 01:04:45,490
♪ I think you better quit... ♪
1405
01:04:45,574 --> 01:04:48,157
DAVE HOLMES: And I know
that he had an image to maintain
1406
01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:50,949
and they wanna do, like, put
on a proper Limp Bizkit show.
1407
01:04:51,032 --> 01:04:56,407
But, you know, like even
a liquor commercial says,
1408
01:04:56,490 --> 01:04:58,866
-"Please Drink Responsibly."
-♪ (MUSIC PLAYING CONTINUES) ♪
1409
01:05:01,282 --> 01:05:03,532
Time to reach
deep down inside...
1410
01:05:05,073 --> 01:05:07,574
and take all
that negative energy...
1411
01:05:10,073 --> 01:05:11,824
all that negative energy.
1412
01:05:13,949 --> 01:05:16,407
And let that shit out
of your fucking system.
1413
01:05:18,115 --> 01:05:21,782
You got girl problems,
you got boy problems,
1414
01:05:21,866 --> 01:05:25,615
you got parent problems,
you got boss problems,
1415
01:05:25,699 --> 01:05:29,323
you got job problems,
you got a problem with me,
1416
01:05:29,407 --> 01:05:31,240
you got a problem with yourself,
1417
01:05:31,323 --> 01:05:33,866
it's time to take all
that negative energy
1418
01:05:33,949 --> 01:05:35,741
and put it the fuck out.
1419
01:05:37,741 --> 01:05:40,365
-You feel me, Woodstock?
-(CROWD CHEERING)
1420
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:42,949
All right, let's bring it out.
1421
01:05:44,407 --> 01:05:46,449
When this song kicks in,
1422
01:05:46,532 --> 01:05:48,365
I want you to fucking kick in.
1423
01:05:50,032 --> 01:05:51,115
You got it?
1424
01:05:54,866 --> 01:05:57,115
♪ I feel like shit ♪
1425
01:05:57,198 --> 01:06:00,157
♪ My suggestion
Is to keep your distance ♪
1426
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:02,365
♪ Cause right now
I'm dangerous ♪
1427
01:06:02,449 --> 01:06:06,407
♪ We've all felt like shit
And been treated like shit ♪
1428
01:06:06,490 --> 01:06:09,866
♪ All of those motherfuckers
Who want to step up ♪
1429
01:06:09,949 --> 01:06:12,615
♪ I hope you know
I pack a chainsaw ♪
1430
01:06:12,699 --> 01:06:14,657
♪ I'll skin your ass raw ♪
1431
01:06:14,741 --> 01:06:16,657
♪ And if my day keeps going
This way ♪
1432
01:06:16,741 --> 01:06:18,866
♪ I just might break
Something tonight ♪
1433
01:06:18,949 --> 01:06:23,115
♪ I pack a chainsaw
I'll skin your ass raw ♪
1434
01:06:23,198 --> 01:06:24,991
♪ And if my day keeps going
This way ♪
1435
01:06:25,073 --> 01:06:28,365
♪ I just might break
Your fuckin' face tonight ♪
1436
01:06:28,449 --> 01:06:30,282
♪ Give me something ♪
1437
01:06:32,949 --> 01:06:34,615
♪ Give me something ♪
1438
01:06:37,657 --> 01:06:39,365
♪ Give me something to break ♪
1439
01:06:41,991 --> 01:06:44,157
♪ How bout yer fucking face ♪
1440
01:06:45,574 --> 01:06:47,407
♪ I hope you know
I pack a chainsaw ♪
1441
01:06:47,490 --> 01:06:49,615
-♪ What! ♪
-♪ A chainsaw ♪
1442
01:06:49,699 --> 01:06:52,240
-♪ What! ♪
-♪ A motherfucking chainsaw ♪
1443
01:06:52,323 --> 01:06:53,991
♪ What! ♪
1444
01:06:54,657 --> 01:06:55,949
♪ So come and get it ♪
1445
01:06:56,032 --> 01:06:57,532
(CROWD CHEERING)
1446
01:07:00,198 --> 01:07:01,407
That's some tight shit
right there,
1447
01:07:01,490 --> 01:07:03,490
the crowd surfing
on the plywood.
1448
01:07:04,991 --> 01:07:07,699
JOHN: Fred Durst was a moron.
1449
01:07:07,782 --> 01:07:10,699
He was completely defiant
in between songs.
1450
01:07:10,782 --> 01:07:11,949
We went up to him,
1451
01:07:12,032 --> 01:07:14,824
you know, and said, "Hey,
calm things down" you know.
1452
01:07:15,824 --> 01:07:16,907
He was out of his mind.
1453
01:07:17,032 --> 01:07:19,032
He was completely
out of his mind.
1454
01:07:20,365 --> 01:07:22,866
Fuck, we're Limp Bizkit.
1455
01:07:24,949 --> 01:07:27,991
That's right. Fuck you, too.
1456
01:07:30,532 --> 01:07:32,198
MIKE: People tried
to blame Fred Durst.
1457
01:07:32,282 --> 01:07:33,615
I don't think you
can blame Fred Durst.
1458
01:07:33,699 --> 01:07:35,532
Fred Durst was being Fred Durst.
1459
01:07:35,615 --> 01:07:37,365
He was doing what people
wanted him to do.
1460
01:07:37,449 --> 01:07:38,991
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1461
01:07:42,449 --> 01:07:44,907
JOHN: A normal Limp Bizkit show,
he doesn't jump
1462
01:07:44,991 --> 01:07:48,282
into the audience on a piece
of plywood, get passed around
1463
01:07:48,365 --> 01:07:50,490
and keep screaming
"Break things, break things,
1464
01:07:50,574 --> 01:07:52,449
break things."
1465
01:07:52,532 --> 01:07:56,115
He caused a lot of trouble.
It's a miracle nobody got hurt
1466
01:07:56,198 --> 01:07:59,574
because we still
had another day.
1467
01:07:59,657 --> 01:08:01,323
CHRIS CONNELLY: How scary
was it for you up there
1468
01:08:01,407 --> 01:08:02,699
when they started ripping
that place apart,
1469
01:08:02,782 --> 01:08:04,365
when they started taking
the plywood off the towers
1470
01:08:04,449 --> 01:08:05,949
-and stuff?
-Oh, my God.
1471
01:08:06,032 --> 01:08:07,282
Dude, it's not our fault.
1472
01:08:08,741 --> 01:08:10,615
JONATHAN: It gets me pissed off,
you see I'm swelling up
1473
01:08:10,699 --> 01:08:13,991
right now. It makes me mad
because they blame us.
1474
01:08:14,073 --> 01:08:15,323
Rock music has always
been the escape,
1475
01:08:15,407 --> 01:08:17,323
I mean, "Hey, I feel
a connection with this person
1476
01:08:17,407 --> 01:08:19,157
'cause he's going
through what I went through,
1477
01:08:19,240 --> 01:08:21,240
and if he got through it,
I can get through it."
1478
01:08:22,574 --> 01:08:25,532
MAUREEN: To blame the artists,
I think it's too easy.
1479
01:08:25,615 --> 01:08:27,991
We never ask the deeper,
existential question,
1480
01:08:28,073 --> 01:08:30,657
"Why are so many young men
in America,
1481
01:08:30,741 --> 01:08:32,407
why are they so angry?"
1482
01:08:33,699 --> 01:08:36,115
STEVEN: It's very convenient
to say that,
1483
01:08:36,198 --> 01:08:38,407
"This aggressive rock band.
It's their fault."
1484
01:08:38,490 --> 01:08:41,699
But I think that if you look at
what was going on in the culture
1485
01:08:41,782 --> 01:08:44,741
and the rot that was setting in,
in a lot of places,
1486
01:08:45,407 --> 01:08:46,657
it's bigger than nu metal.
1487
01:08:46,741 --> 01:08:48,323
And it's certainly bigger
than Limp Bizkit.
1488
01:08:48,407 --> 01:08:50,449
-(CROWD CHEERING)
-♪ (METAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1489
01:08:55,449 --> 01:08:57,532
STEVEN: I think when we look
back on 1999,
1490
01:08:57,615 --> 01:09:00,699
it was a very top-down world
and I think in general,
1491
01:09:00,782 --> 01:09:03,657
the 20th century
was a very top-down era.
1492
01:09:03,741 --> 01:09:05,991
♪ ("KILLING IN THE NAME"
BY RAGE AGAINST
THE MACHINE PLAYING) ♪
1493
01:09:09,323 --> 01:09:11,240
♪ Killing in the name of ♪
1494
01:09:11,323 --> 01:09:13,365
STEVEN: It was very easy
for the government
1495
01:09:13,449 --> 01:09:15,949
or corporations
or whoever was in power
1496
01:09:16,032 --> 01:09:18,657
to dictate the way
that the world was going to be.
1497
01:09:18,741 --> 01:09:19,949
And there really was nothing
1498
01:09:20,032 --> 01:09:22,615
that the average person
could do to stop it.
1499
01:09:22,699 --> 01:09:25,407
♪ Some of those
That work forces ♪
1500
01:09:25,490 --> 01:09:28,282
♪ Are the same
That burn crosses ♪
1501
01:09:28,365 --> 01:09:31,198
MAUREEN: One
of the most offensive things
1502
01:09:31,282 --> 01:09:34,032
about Woodstock '99
was that these guys
1503
01:09:34,115 --> 01:09:36,407
who were relics of the '60s
felt that this was something
1504
01:09:36,490 --> 01:09:39,741
that Gen X needed,
that we somehow needed
1505
01:09:39,824 --> 01:09:43,198
our own experience
of what they had.
1506
01:09:43,282 --> 01:09:44,657
♪ Burn crosses ♪
1507
01:09:49,282 --> 01:09:50,782
♪ Killing in the name of ♪
1508
01:09:50,866 --> 01:09:52,866
WESLEY: The idea
of older generations
1509
01:09:52,949 --> 01:09:56,198
subjecting younger generations
to the way they wish things
1510
01:09:56,282 --> 01:09:58,532
would be,
is such an American thing.
1511
01:09:58,615 --> 01:10:00,782
And accepting that your moment
1512
01:10:00,866 --> 01:10:03,866
has passed is really hard
for people to fathom.
1513
01:10:03,949 --> 01:10:06,782
And you know a lot of what
doesn't get done in this country
1514
01:10:06,866 --> 01:10:09,198
doesn't get done
because older people
1515
01:10:09,282 --> 01:10:10,323
are scared of younger people.
1516
01:10:10,407 --> 01:10:12,282
♪ Now you do
What they told you ♪
1517
01:10:12,365 --> 01:10:14,866
MAUREEN: No one was asking
for another Woodstock.
1518
01:10:14,949 --> 01:10:17,115
There was no desire for it.
1519
01:10:17,198 --> 01:10:19,741
To me it's the narcissism
and the self-regard
1520
01:10:19,824 --> 01:10:24,282
of the baby boomer generation
which continues to hang on
1521
01:10:24,365 --> 01:10:26,907
to power in every way
in America.
1522
01:10:26,991 --> 01:10:29,282
It's political, it's economic,
it's cultural.
1523
01:10:29,365 --> 01:10:31,240
Like the reins have
not been turned over.
1524
01:10:31,323 --> 01:10:34,574
They will not be turned over
until they're all probably gone.
1525
01:10:37,532 --> 01:10:39,866
♪ Fuck you, I won't do
What you tell me ♪
1526
01:10:39,949 --> 01:10:42,282
ALL: ♪ Fuck you, I won't do
What you tell me ♪
1527
01:10:42,365 --> 01:10:45,198
STEVEN: In 1999, you're starting
to see instances
1528
01:10:45,282 --> 01:10:48,323
where power dynamics
were changing in the country.
1529
01:10:48,407 --> 01:10:51,449
And technology
was gonna make it impossible
1530
01:10:51,532 --> 01:10:54,365
for the world to continue to be
that way in the new century.
1531
01:10:54,449 --> 01:10:57,949
-♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪
-(CROWD CHEERING)
1532
01:11:02,115 --> 01:11:04,032
-♪ (MILD MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
-Welcome to Hastings.
1533
01:11:04,115 --> 01:11:06,032
NEWS REPORTER: Most of us
head out to a music store
1534
01:11:06,115 --> 01:11:08,323
to buy CDs,
but not Mike Chestworth.
1535
01:11:08,407 --> 01:11:11,574
He goes to napster.com to get
all the music he wants
1536
01:11:11,657 --> 01:11:14,115
and he doesn't pay for it.
1537
01:11:14,198 --> 01:11:17,407
STEVEN: For years you had people
who were being forced to spend
1538
01:11:17,490 --> 01:11:20,574
18 dollars on a CD
when they only wanted one song.
1539
01:11:20,657 --> 01:11:22,991
And there was really no recourse
for those people.
1540
01:11:23,073 --> 01:11:27,032
So, when there was finally
a means to circumvent
1541
01:11:27,115 --> 01:11:29,323
the record companies
in the form of Napster.
1542
01:11:29,407 --> 01:11:31,741
I think people knew
that they were stealing music
1543
01:11:31,824 --> 01:11:33,282
but they didn't care.
1544
01:11:33,365 --> 01:11:34,991
Part of what we're trying
to do here is make
1545
01:11:35,073 --> 01:11:38,866
people understand that what
they're doing is illegal.
1546
01:11:38,949 --> 01:11:41,115
I'm not even gonna get
into the moral issue.
1547
01:11:42,866 --> 01:11:45,323
MAUREEN: When Napster
came along in '99
1548
01:11:45,407 --> 01:11:48,907
and it looked like it was gonna
profoundly shift the way
1549
01:11:48,991 --> 01:11:51,824
that music was produced
and sold and consumed,
1550
01:11:51,907 --> 01:11:55,073
and what it meant for artists
and their revenue streams,
1551
01:11:55,157 --> 01:11:58,824
Lars Ulrich
had the very unpopular opinion
1552
01:11:58,907 --> 01:12:00,615
that this was not good.
1553
01:12:00,699 --> 01:12:02,782
It sort of seemed like
a cranky old man voice,
1554
01:12:02,866 --> 01:12:04,741
like you can't get in the way
of technology.
1555
01:12:04,824 --> 01:12:06,782
In all due respect to Lars
and Metallica,
1556
01:12:06,866 --> 01:12:10,449
I look at Napster as power
going back to the people.
1557
01:12:10,532 --> 01:12:12,657
DAVE MUSTAINE: For me I--
see I remember back
1558
01:12:12,741 --> 01:12:15,198
when I was in Metallica
that we used to trade tapes.
1559
01:12:15,282 --> 01:12:17,240
That's how we
even discovered bands.
1560
01:12:17,323 --> 01:12:20,782
I don't know, I can't blame Lars
for doing the things
1561
01:12:20,866 --> 01:12:21,991
that he does.
1562
01:12:22,866 --> 01:12:26,198
He-- who knows
why a guy does that?
1563
01:12:26,282 --> 01:12:28,240
I mean does
he have enough money?
1564
01:12:28,323 --> 01:12:29,657
Probably, right?
1565
01:12:30,991 --> 01:12:32,907
I mean I can't--
my brain's going
1566
01:12:32,991 --> 01:12:34,407
"Don't say it, Dave,
don't say it, Dave,
1567
01:12:34,490 --> 01:12:35,741
don't say it, Dave." (CHUCKLES)
1568
01:12:35,824 --> 01:12:38,741
And you're going, "Say it, Dave,
say it, Dave, say it, Dave."
1569
01:12:38,824 --> 01:12:39,991
(CHUCKLES)
1570
01:12:40,657 --> 01:12:42,323
(CROWD CHEERING)
1571
01:12:44,240 --> 01:12:46,365
We are Metallica.
1572
01:12:48,365 --> 01:12:51,490
And this is what we do best,
motherfucker!
1573
01:12:51,574 --> 01:12:54,866
♪ ("FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS"
BY METALLICA PLAYING) ♪
1574
01:12:54,949 --> 01:12:56,365
(CHEERS)
1575
01:12:58,782 --> 01:13:00,240
(ALL CHEERING)
1576
01:13:05,198 --> 01:13:06,782
DAVID: That second night
when Dave and I went
1577
01:13:06,866 --> 01:13:09,115
to see Metallica.
He was so excited,
1578
01:13:09,198 --> 01:13:10,615
and there was just
that very much, like...
1579
01:13:10,699 --> 01:13:12,907
(INHALES SHARPLY)
"This is it, this is the goal,
1580
01:13:12,991 --> 01:13:15,991
this is why I'm here.
I'm gonna get in the mosh pit.
1581
01:13:16,073 --> 01:13:17,365
This is my Everest."
1582
01:13:19,949 --> 01:13:22,282
I had never been
in a mosh pit before.
1583
01:13:22,365 --> 01:13:25,407
I was a little uncomfortable.
And people are crowd surfing,
1584
01:13:25,490 --> 01:13:27,657
and you're kinda
like getting kicked in the head
1585
01:13:27,741 --> 01:13:29,198
and whatever, but it's cool.
1586
01:13:32,407 --> 01:13:34,490
MIKE: It was so intense
and people just doing
1587
01:13:34,574 --> 01:13:36,532
their thing in the mosh pit
like throwing people around.
1588
01:13:36,615 --> 01:13:39,157
And you'd feel like
you could just get trampled
1589
01:13:39,240 --> 01:13:40,699
and nobody would care about you.
1590
01:13:40,782 --> 01:13:42,365
♪ (TRIPPY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1591
01:13:43,949 --> 01:13:47,782
It was a weird mass of humanity
where it was just a sea
1592
01:13:47,866 --> 01:13:51,115
and you just kind of undulated
in all four directions.
1593
01:13:52,532 --> 01:13:54,198
MIKE: It's so tightly
packed together
1594
01:13:54,282 --> 01:13:55,741
and it's so claustrophobic.
1595
01:13:55,824 --> 01:13:57,615
You literally cannot control
your own body.
1596
01:13:57,699 --> 01:14:00,741
You'd feel your feet getting
lifted up off the ground
1597
01:14:00,824 --> 01:14:04,240
and you move with the crowd
because the organism
1598
01:14:04,323 --> 01:14:07,907
becomes stronger
than any individual person.
1599
01:14:10,407 --> 01:14:12,073
DAVID: I just get to a point
where I'm like,
1600
01:14:12,157 --> 01:14:13,866
"This isn't for me,"
and I feel bad
1601
01:14:13,949 --> 01:14:15,449
because Dave's been cool,
you know,
1602
01:14:15,532 --> 01:14:19,657
but he recognizes even, like,
this isn't my scene,
1603
01:14:19,741 --> 01:14:21,991
you know, so, he's like,
"You can go if you want."
1604
01:14:22,073 --> 01:14:23,824
I'm like, "Well, I'm gonna try
to go that way,
1605
01:14:23,907 --> 01:14:25,282
I'm gonna try to go back."
1606
01:14:26,991 --> 01:14:28,866
I don't know how many people
I walked through,
1607
01:14:28,949 --> 01:14:30,365
I don't know
how many football fields
1608
01:14:30,449 --> 01:14:33,949
I walked through,
but I got out of there.
1609
01:14:34,032 --> 01:14:37,115
I'm usually the last person
at things that I go to.
1610
01:14:37,198 --> 01:14:40,157
But by Saturday night
I couldn't take it.
1611
01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:41,449
And I knew that Sunday
1612
01:14:41,532 --> 01:14:43,657
was going
to be even more brutal.
1613
01:14:43,741 --> 01:14:46,032
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1614
01:14:46,115 --> 01:14:49,157
BEN: After Metallica,
they had DJs every night
1615
01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:51,365
and I've never really been
to a rave
1616
01:14:51,449 --> 01:14:53,032
or I wasn't really into DJs,
1617
01:14:53,115 --> 01:14:55,240
but I thought, "Hey, we're here.
Like, let's check it out."
1618
01:14:55,323 --> 01:14:59,532
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1619
01:15:02,532 --> 01:15:07,574
MAUREEN: I felt the rave hangar
was very cynical, very soulless.
1620
01:15:07,657 --> 01:15:11,782
"Let's shove in some DJs,
and some drugs, and some kids,
1621
01:15:11,866 --> 01:15:13,991
and we'll just keep
this going all night."
1622
01:15:15,532 --> 01:15:17,574
MOBY: We were excited,
this is one of the biggest show
1623
01:15:17,657 --> 01:15:20,157
I'd ever played,
you know, it was Woodstock.
1624
01:15:21,073 --> 01:15:22,574
And the rave tent was supposed
1625
01:15:22,657 --> 01:15:25,282
to be sort of like
an idyllic separate area
1626
01:15:25,365 --> 01:15:27,449
from Woodstock,
but it still had been infected
1627
01:15:27,532 --> 01:15:32,615
by that like, broken,
dusty, sad, angry vibe.
1628
01:15:32,699 --> 01:15:35,741
♪ (UPBEAT SONG PLAYING) ♪
1629
01:15:35,824 --> 01:15:38,282
MAUREEN: It made no sense
to me, whatsoever.
1630
01:15:38,365 --> 01:15:43,323
There's no crossover,
there's no world in which a kid
1631
01:15:43,407 --> 01:15:45,615
who is there for Limp Bizkit
1632
01:15:45,699 --> 01:15:49,699
is also, like, looking to go
do ecstasy in the rave tent
1633
01:15:49,782 --> 01:15:52,449
and like bliss out to Moby,
it's just not happening.
1634
01:15:52,532 --> 01:15:55,115
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1635
01:15:55,198 --> 01:15:56,657
MOBY: We walked offstage
and we were like,
1636
01:15:56,741 --> 01:15:58,949
"Get out of here, like,
we need to leave right now."
1637
01:15:59,032 --> 01:16:01,615
Our plan had been to park up
and stay for the whole weekend,
1638
01:16:01,699 --> 01:16:04,615
but that, like, atavistic part
of our brains
1639
01:16:04,699 --> 01:16:07,657
-collectively said, "Leave now."
-♪ (HEAVY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1640
01:16:07,741 --> 01:16:10,157
It's bad
and it's not getting better.
1641
01:16:11,365 --> 01:16:14,449
MAUREEN: To have music going,
acts going,
1642
01:16:14,532 --> 01:16:16,073
like churning through the day
1643
01:16:16,157 --> 01:16:18,615
into night 'til 5:00 a.m.
and there's no rest,
1644
01:16:18,699 --> 01:16:20,115
there's no breaks,
there's no rhythm,
1645
01:16:20,198 --> 01:16:22,407
there's no come down,
1646
01:16:22,490 --> 01:16:24,282
what are you expecting
to happen?
1647
01:16:24,365 --> 01:16:27,991
Everybody's going like this,
and they can't sustain it.
1648
01:16:28,073 --> 01:16:32,991
It's gonna crash.
It's gonna crash in a very big,
1649
01:16:33,073 --> 01:16:35,574
cinematic, cataclysmic way.
1650
01:16:41,991 --> 01:16:43,407
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1651
01:16:48,574 --> 01:16:50,949
JESSICA: The last morning,
I remember
1652
01:16:51,032 --> 01:16:52,657
for a sleeping arrangement
it was--
1653
01:16:52,741 --> 01:16:56,115
I fell asleep
on the wood chips.
1654
01:16:56,198 --> 01:16:58,741
What woke me up basically
was someone yelling out,
1655
01:16:58,824 --> 01:17:02,741
"Tear down the wall!
Tear down the wall!"
1656
01:17:02,824 --> 01:17:05,407
And I was like,
"Holy shit, Pink Floyd is here?"
1657
01:17:05,490 --> 01:17:07,615
And I was like, "This is what
I'm talking about, man!"
1658
01:17:07,699 --> 01:17:09,032
I was like, "This is what
the Woodstock
1659
01:17:09,115 --> 01:17:10,532
I wanted it to be."
Like, they're gonna
1660
01:17:10,615 --> 01:17:13,032
have someone unexpected
like that to pop out.
1661
01:17:13,115 --> 01:17:17,866
And I ran and it was just people
basically pushing the wall down.
1662
01:17:17,949 --> 01:17:19,282
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1663
01:17:25,782 --> 01:17:27,365
JAKE: By Sunday, a lot of people
1664
01:17:27,449 --> 01:17:30,073
that were security,
that were peace patrol quit.
1665
01:17:30,157 --> 01:17:32,657
And essentially
I could have worked 24 hours
1666
01:17:32,741 --> 01:17:35,115
a day for all three days
if I wanted to.
1667
01:17:35,198 --> 01:17:37,407
We found that... (CHUCKLING)
...basically
1668
01:17:37,490 --> 01:17:39,866
the very first day,
a lot of the peace patrol
1669
01:17:39,949 --> 01:17:41,532
got their credential
and they got their shirt,
1670
01:17:41,615 --> 01:17:42,949
and then they just put
their credential
1671
01:17:43,073 --> 01:17:45,449
in their pocket,
and just waded off
into the crowd.
1672
01:17:45,532 --> 01:17:49,907
And them attendees were left
to their own devices.
1673
01:17:49,991 --> 01:17:51,490
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1674
01:17:52,574 --> 01:17:53,824
(ALL CHEERING)
1675
01:17:56,907 --> 01:17:59,073
GIRL: All these crazy people
breaking down this wall,
1676
01:17:59,157 --> 01:18:01,407
I think it's badass.
I know that it took time
1677
01:18:01,490 --> 01:18:06,032
to put up, but it's kinda like
a trademark of Woodstock '99.
1678
01:18:06,115 --> 01:18:08,407
I'm just destroying the wall
for fun,
1679
01:18:08,490 --> 01:18:11,365
-just 'cause I'm at Woodstock.
-MAN: We want Hendrix's face.
1680
01:18:11,449 --> 01:18:13,991
"Why not?"
That's the real question.
1681
01:18:14,073 --> 01:18:16,240
We got bored.
There's nothing else to do.
1682
01:18:16,323 --> 01:18:17,824
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1683
01:18:19,490 --> 01:18:22,866
I think it just symbolizes
the disrespect that people have.
1684
01:18:22,949 --> 01:18:25,365
I mean, people spent a lot
of time working on this.
1685
01:18:26,157 --> 01:18:27,449
You know it symbolizes peace
1686
01:18:27,532 --> 01:18:28,907
and they're just
like going crazy.
1687
01:18:28,991 --> 01:18:31,282
BOY: It's been a great time,
but there are a lot
1688
01:18:31,365 --> 01:18:34,657
of really stupid humans
around here.
1689
01:18:34,741 --> 01:18:36,866
Yeah, all we've been hearing
is "Show us your tits,
1690
01:18:36,949 --> 01:18:38,073
show us your tits."
1691
01:18:38,157 --> 01:18:40,907
MEN: Flash your tits,
flash your tits!
1692
01:18:40,991 --> 01:18:43,949
Flash your tits,
flash your tits!
1693
01:18:44,032 --> 01:18:46,949
Flash your tits,
flash your tits!
1694
01:18:47,032 --> 01:18:49,615
Flash your tits,
flash your tits!
1695
01:18:49,699 --> 01:18:53,240
Flash your tits,
flash your tits!
1696
01:18:54,657 --> 01:18:56,282
DAVE: I was taking like
a five-minute break
1697
01:18:56,365 --> 01:18:57,991
outside of the dispatch office.
1698
01:18:58,073 --> 01:19:00,032
And one
of the medic units pulls up
1699
01:19:00,115 --> 01:19:02,449
and there's someone
in the front seat with them
1700
01:19:02,532 --> 01:19:03,782
that I didn't recognize.
1701
01:19:03,866 --> 01:19:07,699
I was like looked and turned out
to be like some little girl.
1702
01:19:07,782 --> 01:19:10,824
The medic jumped out,
he's not wearing his shirt,
1703
01:19:10,907 --> 01:19:13,282
and grabbed his two walkies
and yelled over to me,
1704
01:19:13,365 --> 01:19:16,449
"Yo, do me a favor.
Watch that girl.
1705
01:19:16,532 --> 01:19:18,282
Don't let anyone near her."
1706
01:19:18,365 --> 01:19:21,991
And about two minutes later,
he comes out with a nurse.
1707
01:19:22,073 --> 01:19:25,157
So I back up a little bit,
he opens the door,
1708
01:19:25,240 --> 01:19:27,532
the nurse goes in,
she has a blanket.
1709
01:19:27,615 --> 01:19:29,907
She unfurls the blanket.
1710
01:19:29,991 --> 01:19:34,657
She puts it over the girl,
takes her out of the cab,
1711
01:19:34,741 --> 01:19:37,198
and you know, basically
guides her
1712
01:19:37,282 --> 01:19:40,449
into the main medical.
1713
01:19:40,532 --> 01:19:43,073
After that, I look at the medic,
the medic looks at me.
1714
01:19:43,157 --> 01:19:45,490
And I'm like, "Dude,
what's up with that?"
1715
01:19:45,574 --> 01:19:47,407
And he just looks at me
and he's just like,
1716
01:19:47,490 --> 01:19:50,699
"Dude, they're just savages.
1717
01:19:50,782 --> 01:19:53,365
-Just straight up savages."
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1718
01:19:53,449 --> 01:19:58,365
DAVE: And that's when suddenly
the light bulb went off
1719
01:19:58,449 --> 01:20:00,532
in my head, and I was like,
1720
01:20:00,615 --> 01:20:02,782
"Oh, she's wearing his shirt...
1721
01:20:03,949 --> 01:20:06,073
because she had no clothes...
1722
01:20:06,949 --> 01:20:10,449
because...
she was sexually assaulted."
1723
01:20:10,532 --> 01:20:11,824
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1724
01:20:11,907 --> 01:20:15,824
DAVE: This wasn't Woodstock '69.
This wasn't Woodstock '94.
1725
01:20:15,907 --> 01:20:20,699
This was gonna be Woodstock 1999
where love might be free,
1726
01:20:20,782 --> 01:20:23,115
it's not necessarily gonna
be given,
1727
01:20:23,198 --> 01:20:24,574
but it's also gonna be taken.
1728
01:20:24,657 --> 01:20:26,073
MAN: Hey, guys, back.
Give her some room.
1729
01:20:26,157 --> 01:20:27,574
You're gonna scare her.
1730
01:20:27,657 --> 01:20:31,240
JOHN: There's no question
that a few incidents took place,
1731
01:20:31,323 --> 01:20:32,991
but if you go back
in the records
1732
01:20:33,073 --> 01:20:35,282
of the police and state police
and stuff,
1733
01:20:35,365 --> 01:20:39,490
you're not talking
about a hundred, or even fifty.
1734
01:20:39,574 --> 01:20:42,782
-You're talking about ten.
-MAN: Woodstock '99!
1735
01:20:42,866 --> 01:20:44,449
JOHN: I am critical
1736
01:20:44,532 --> 01:20:46,365
of the hundreds of women
that were walking around
1737
01:20:46,449 --> 01:20:49,198
with no clothes on.
And expecting not to be touched.
1738
01:20:49,282 --> 01:20:50,741
They shouldn't have
been touched.
1739
01:20:50,824 --> 01:20:54,490
And I condemn it. But, you know,
I think that women
1740
01:20:54,574 --> 01:20:57,073
that were running around naked,
1741
01:20:57,157 --> 01:21:00,532
you know, are at least partially
to blame for that.
1742
01:21:00,615 --> 01:21:02,699
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1743
01:21:02,782 --> 01:21:06,198
MAUREEN: I mean, seriously,
the audacity of these guys.
1744
01:21:07,240 --> 01:21:10,532
How dare you say it's our fault
1745
01:21:10,615 --> 01:21:12,866
that men
can't control themselves,
1746
01:21:12,949 --> 01:21:14,741
so what does that say about men?
1747
01:21:17,699 --> 01:21:20,824
One girl told me
that she found herself
1748
01:21:20,907 --> 01:21:24,490
in the crowd surrounded
by young men
1749
01:21:24,574 --> 01:21:29,282
and that there were three arms
on each of her limbs,
1750
01:21:29,365 --> 01:21:34,490
and that they were penetrating
her digitally.
1751
01:21:34,574 --> 01:21:38,365
And that she heard one
of them yell, "Rip her apart."
1752
01:21:40,032 --> 01:21:42,699
When it was finally over
and she was just able
1753
01:21:42,782 --> 01:21:45,282
to just run out of there,
1754
01:21:45,365 --> 01:21:48,073
she didn't even really think
to complain to anyone,
1755
01:21:48,157 --> 01:21:50,615
to find anyone
to report this to,
1756
01:21:50,699 --> 01:21:55,198
and I think there must have been
an overwhelming sense
1757
01:21:55,282 --> 01:21:58,657
given the sheer anarchy
of what was going on
1758
01:21:58,741 --> 01:22:01,032
that, you know,
"What would be the point?"
1759
01:22:01,115 --> 01:22:03,782
Over there, we camp
out over there.
1760
01:22:03,866 --> 01:22:05,032
If you guys walk over there,
1761
01:22:05,115 --> 01:22:07,073
you're gonna hear
some noises from me.
1762
01:22:07,157 --> 01:22:08,949
Come on, bring everything
you got to 'em.
1763
01:22:09,032 --> 01:22:10,657
We'll fucking party
our asses off.
1764
01:22:10,741 --> 01:22:12,574
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-Yeah!
1765
01:22:12,657 --> 01:22:17,741
LIZ: There was a very masculine
centric attitude going on
1766
01:22:17,824 --> 01:22:21,407
that "I can do and take
what I want here at Woodstock."
1767
01:22:21,490 --> 01:22:23,657
BOY: Well, I'm just saying that
if you just do whatever
you want--
1768
01:22:23,741 --> 01:22:26,407
The laws of normal society
just don't apply here...
1769
01:22:26,490 --> 01:22:27,449
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1770
01:22:27,532 --> 01:22:28,824
Show us your tits for the media.
1771
01:22:28,907 --> 01:22:30,866
GIRL: No, we're not lifting
our shirts up!
1772
01:22:30,949 --> 01:22:35,407
I felt unsafe and so I left
for my own security.
1773
01:22:35,490 --> 01:22:38,532
Based on what I saw,
I knew that there was
1774
01:22:38,615 --> 01:22:40,532
so many women that didn't tell
their stories
1775
01:22:40,615 --> 01:22:42,991
or they certainly weren't going
to the police.
1776
01:22:43,073 --> 01:22:45,490
I wonder where they are
and how they're doing.
1777
01:22:45,574 --> 01:22:48,574
And so we started
this little organization
1778
01:22:48,657 --> 01:22:50,115
called Fans Everywhere,
1779
01:22:50,198 --> 01:22:53,699
and we put a little thing out
on the internet saying,
1780
01:22:53,782 --> 01:22:56,323
"Did you have a bad experience
at Woodstock?
1781
01:22:56,407 --> 01:22:59,532
Do you need somebody to talk to?
Do you need some advice?
1782
01:22:59,615 --> 01:23:01,282
We promise it's going
to be anonymous.
1783
01:23:01,365 --> 01:23:03,032
We promise
we're not gonna tell anybody,
1784
01:23:03,115 --> 01:23:05,032
but we're here to support you."
1785
01:23:05,115 --> 01:23:09,532
And I got dozens upon dozens
of emails
1786
01:23:09,615 --> 01:23:11,991
from women, young women.
1787
01:23:12,073 --> 01:23:16,157
Women as young
as 14 years old, saying
1788
01:23:16,240 --> 01:23:18,741
"I had a bottle shoved
up my vagina,"
1789
01:23:18,824 --> 01:23:22,407
or, "I had all of my clothes
ripped off in a mosh pit,"
1790
01:23:22,490 --> 01:23:26,282
or "I was raped in a tent
on Saturday night."
1791
01:23:26,365 --> 01:23:27,741
"And I was screaming.
1792
01:23:27,824 --> 01:23:30,032
And nobody did anything
to stop it."
1793
01:23:30,115 --> 01:23:35,032
And then to have all these girls
say, "But was it my fault?"
1794
01:23:38,073 --> 01:23:42,157
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1795
01:23:46,490 --> 01:23:47,657
DAVID: I woke up Sunday morning.
1796
01:23:47,741 --> 01:23:51,365
I kinda heard my brothers Rob
and Brian talking.
1797
01:23:51,449 --> 01:23:55,323
I come out of my tent.
And there's no Dave.
1798
01:23:55,407 --> 01:23:57,323
Nobody really knows where he is.
1799
01:23:57,407 --> 01:23:59,407
But we're thinking, you know,
1800
01:23:59,490 --> 01:24:01,115
"Dave was looking
for a good time."
1801
01:24:01,198 --> 01:24:04,949
So we wouldn't be surprised
if he went to the raves
1802
01:24:05,032 --> 01:24:07,115
that were out all night
or made some friends
1803
01:24:07,198 --> 01:24:09,282
'cause he was an easy dude
to like.
1804
01:24:09,365 --> 01:24:12,574
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1805
01:24:12,657 --> 01:24:15,115
DAVID: As the day kinda
went along, you know,
1806
01:24:15,198 --> 01:24:16,699
it kinda goes from that,
1807
01:24:16,782 --> 01:24:19,782
"Okay, he'll turn up,"
to "Where the hell are you?"
1808
01:24:19,866 --> 01:24:23,240
to, you know, "Where are you?"
1809
01:24:24,866 --> 01:24:26,615
I don't think any of us
were really overly concerned.
1810
01:24:26,699 --> 01:24:28,282
It was almost even like
there was more anger,
1811
01:24:28,365 --> 01:24:30,449
like, "Where the hell
is this guy?"
1812
01:24:30,532 --> 01:24:32,407
"What the heck, dude?" "Like,
1813
01:24:32,490 --> 01:24:35,115
the day's gonna start,
and we're leaving today."
1814
01:24:35,198 --> 01:24:37,073
"We wanna know what
the plan is."
1815
01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:41,782
So, we start the search
and kinda looking around.
1816
01:24:41,866 --> 01:24:43,991
Like, I would head out
to the east stage.
1817
01:24:44,073 --> 01:24:45,699
We'd take turns going
to the hangar,
1818
01:24:45,782 --> 01:24:46,907
like that central place
1819
01:24:46,991 --> 01:24:50,490
where the board was,
and kinda the first aid was.
1820
01:24:50,574 --> 01:24:52,991
Well, we just keep walking,
keep walking, keep walking.
1821
01:24:53,073 --> 01:24:55,323
And we keep going back,
and, you know,
1822
01:24:55,407 --> 01:24:57,532
I don't think anybody
had any real sense
1823
01:24:57,615 --> 01:25:03,657
of dread or fear. It was still
more of the "He better be hurt
1824
01:25:03,741 --> 01:25:05,866
because I'm kinda
getting pissed now."
1825
01:25:07,157 --> 01:25:11,282
And then Rob was the one
who finally found out
1826
01:25:11,365 --> 01:25:13,073
what had happened to Dave.
1827
01:25:15,407 --> 01:25:18,073
They said it was hyperthermia.
1828
01:25:18,157 --> 01:25:21,240
His body temperature rose
too high
1829
01:25:21,323 --> 01:25:23,866
when he was at Metallica.
1830
01:25:23,949 --> 01:25:27,866
But for some reason
they administered, you know,
1831
01:25:27,949 --> 01:25:30,574
paddles on him, in line
with what they were thinking
1832
01:25:30,657 --> 01:25:33,407
-that he was OD'ing.
-♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1833
01:25:37,949 --> 01:25:40,032
DAVID: It was crazy
because we didn't do anything.
1834
01:25:40,115 --> 01:25:43,198
(CHUCKLES) We didn't do drugs,
we didn't bring drugs,
1835
01:25:43,282 --> 01:25:46,323
we weren't drinking.
And then you would hear
1836
01:25:46,407 --> 01:25:48,407
nobody really seemed
to take his temperature
1837
01:25:48,490 --> 01:25:51,532
'cause they didn't have
the core thermometers,
1838
01:25:51,615 --> 01:25:55,073
that they weren't treating
him properly.
1839
01:25:55,157 --> 01:25:57,615
They were not prepared.
1840
01:26:00,574 --> 01:26:03,782
Dave was going to a show
to go see his favorite band.
1841
01:26:08,490 --> 01:26:09,532
I just...
1842
01:26:10,824 --> 01:26:14,157
It wasn't really something
you ever thought, you know...
1843
01:26:18,073 --> 01:26:20,323
I just remember thinking like...
(SOBBING)
1844
01:26:21,490 --> 01:26:22,782
"This didn't happen...
1845
01:26:23,782 --> 01:26:26,157
and somebody's gotta
go call his mom."
1846
01:26:30,490 --> 01:26:32,115
NEWS REPORTER: I need
to talk to you as well
1847
01:26:32,198 --> 01:26:34,907
regarding public safety
because it was such
1848
01:26:34,991 --> 01:26:36,323
a dangerous atmosphere
out there.
1849
01:26:36,407 --> 01:26:37,574
I was backstage.
1850
01:26:37,657 --> 01:26:40,407
The mosh pit medical unit
looked like
1851
01:26:40,490 --> 01:26:43,282
a Vietnam triage unit,
and not only that,
1852
01:26:43,365 --> 01:26:45,824
but MTV News was forced
to get off of home base.
1853
01:26:45,907 --> 01:26:47,490
We felt that it
was too dangerous,
1854
01:26:47,574 --> 01:26:49,949
there were people throwing
glass bottles everywhere.
1855
01:26:50,032 --> 01:26:52,907
In all of the concerts
I've seen-- come on,
there were kids.
1856
01:26:52,991 --> 01:26:55,615
I talked to kids later
who were petrified out there.
1857
01:26:55,699 --> 01:26:58,323
-And I'm sorry I'm not--
-JOHN: Excuse me,
do you have a question?
1858
01:26:58,407 --> 01:27:00,365
Can I answer your question
or you wanna editorialize?
1859
01:27:00,449 --> 01:27:01,949
If you'd like to editorialize,
come on up
1860
01:27:02,032 --> 01:27:03,824
and you can editorialize
for everybody.
1861
01:27:03,907 --> 01:27:07,449
Can I answer the question
if you'll stop talking?
1862
01:27:07,532 --> 01:27:10,365
MTV set the tone
because they would
1863
01:27:10,449 --> 01:27:14,824
only really go on the air
with people who were pissed off.
1864
01:27:14,907 --> 01:27:17,490
You think that aggro vibe
1865
01:27:17,574 --> 01:27:18,907
had anything to do
with what happened?
1866
01:27:18,991 --> 01:27:20,282
SHERYL CROW: Yeah, I mean,
I definitely think that
1867
01:27:20,365 --> 01:27:23,365
that's what drew the large,
young, white, male,
1868
01:27:23,449 --> 01:27:25,449
frustrated, upper-middle class,
1869
01:27:25,532 --> 01:27:27,115
"I've been given everything
and still I'm mad,
1870
01:27:27,198 --> 01:27:30,323
but I'm not really sure
why I'm mad," kind of attitude.
1871
01:27:30,407 --> 01:27:32,282
CARSON: As things started
to go down
1872
01:27:32,365 --> 01:27:34,490
I remember feeling like things
were literally going out
1873
01:27:34,574 --> 01:27:37,282
of control and there just became
a quintessential moment
1874
01:27:37,365 --> 01:27:39,741
where we were told
by our bosses
1875
01:27:39,824 --> 01:27:42,490
"MTV and, like, Viacom
can no longer
1876
01:27:42,574 --> 01:27:45,949
guarantee your safety." Like,
"Run for it", sort of thing.
1877
01:27:46,032 --> 01:27:49,157
And so we packed a van
and we drove in this white van.
1878
01:27:49,240 --> 01:27:51,490
I remember just, like,
speeding through corn fields,
1879
01:27:51,574 --> 01:27:53,866
like, to get away
from the Woodstock set.
1880
01:27:53,949 --> 01:27:56,741
-And it really was terrifying.
-♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1881
01:27:56,824 --> 01:27:58,824
JOHN: MTV news made it
into as if
1882
01:27:58,907 --> 01:28:02,157
it was an animal fest,
and it just wasn't.
1883
01:28:02,240 --> 01:28:04,157
Bloodthirsty maniacs trying
to kill me.
1884
01:28:04,240 --> 01:28:06,032
It was disgusting.
I was molested.
1885
01:28:06,115 --> 01:28:08,073
And I hate all men now.
1886
01:28:08,157 --> 01:28:11,240
JOHN: So it terribly
got manipulated by MTV,
1887
01:28:11,323 --> 01:28:12,949
especially Kurt Loder.
1888
01:28:14,115 --> 01:28:15,949
He just wasn't on the team.
1889
01:28:16,032 --> 01:28:18,490
There have really been
some scary moments here
1890
01:28:18,574 --> 01:28:19,866
just with crowd violence.
1891
01:28:19,949 --> 01:28:21,741
I'm just laughing.
I think Michael, at one point,
1892
01:28:21,824 --> 01:28:23,198
called him a war journalist.
1893
01:28:23,282 --> 01:28:25,574
That was really
what he wanted to be
1894
01:28:25,657 --> 01:28:28,032
and this was as close
as he was gonna come.
1895
01:28:28,115 --> 01:28:30,824
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1896
01:28:30,907 --> 01:28:32,741
JAKE: A film crew came through
1897
01:28:32,824 --> 01:28:34,824
and they had the promoters
with them.
1898
01:28:34,907 --> 01:28:38,240
And they stopped right
in front of us basically
1899
01:28:38,323 --> 01:28:39,407
and did a little interview.
1900
01:28:39,490 --> 01:28:43,282
And they talked
about how great everything was
1901
01:28:43,365 --> 01:28:45,032
and what a success it was.
1902
01:28:45,115 --> 01:28:47,866
And we're looking at each other,
thinking like
1903
01:28:47,949 --> 01:28:49,949
"What are these guys
talking about?"
1904
01:28:50,073 --> 01:28:52,282
Knowing full well
that in a few hours
1905
01:28:52,365 --> 01:28:55,949
this place was gonna turn
into a complete shit show.
1906
01:28:57,240 --> 01:28:59,240
INTERVIEWER:
We are backstage
at Woodstock '99
1907
01:28:59,323 --> 01:29:02,574
with the Woodstock organizers,
Michael Lang and John Scher.
1908
01:29:02,657 --> 01:29:05,907
How's it going?
You look all happy,
things must be going very well.
1909
01:29:05,991 --> 01:29:08,073
JOHN: So far, so good.
The music's been amazing.
1910
01:29:08,157 --> 01:29:09,949
-Right.
-JOHN: Kids are having
a good time.
1911
01:29:10,032 --> 01:29:12,407
The biggest problem
has been a little bit
1912
01:29:12,490 --> 01:29:14,699
of too warm temperature,
1913
01:29:14,782 --> 01:29:16,657
but other than
that we're doing great.
1914
01:29:16,741 --> 01:29:20,240
-MC: Woodstock!
-(CROWD CHEERING)
1915
01:29:20,323 --> 01:29:24,824
MC: Please welcome
Atlantic recording artist Jewel!
1916
01:29:24,907 --> 01:29:26,657
(CROWD CHEERING)
1917
01:29:27,949 --> 01:29:31,574
JEWEL: When I went out,
the crowd felt strange.
1918
01:29:31,657 --> 01:29:34,532
They felt really tired
and very depleted.
1919
01:29:35,866 --> 01:29:38,907
Felt like there was a grey,
dense fog
1920
01:29:38,991 --> 01:29:40,490
hanging over everything,
1921
01:29:40,574 --> 01:29:42,115
and for me to try
and figure out,
1922
01:29:42,198 --> 01:29:43,949
"How do I cut through that?"
1923
01:29:44,032 --> 01:29:46,240
"How do I create a tone,
or a voice, or a sound
1924
01:29:46,323 --> 01:29:49,032
that's gonna cut through
this really strange,
1925
01:29:49,115 --> 01:29:50,449
heavy energy,"
1926
01:29:50,532 --> 01:29:53,574
was definitely at the forefront
of my mind while I'm singing.
1927
01:29:53,657 --> 01:29:56,449
I didn't know what
was going on particularly.
1928
01:29:56,532 --> 01:29:58,991
-But you could just feel it.
-♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1929
01:29:59,073 --> 01:30:01,866
MAN: I think we should leave.
It's so hot in here.
1930
01:30:02,532 --> 01:30:04,115
I'm so weak.
1931
01:30:04,198 --> 01:30:06,949
-I can't feel my legs anymore.
-BOY: Me neither.
1932
01:30:07,032 --> 01:30:09,574
STEVEN: The thing, I think,
that amazes me most
1933
01:30:09,657 --> 01:30:13,532
is that so many people chose
to stay.
1934
01:30:13,615 --> 01:30:15,407
It does seem like
mass psychosis,
1935
01:30:15,490 --> 01:30:17,490
at some point on Sunday.
1936
01:30:17,574 --> 01:30:19,157
Because otherwise I have no idea
like,
1937
01:30:19,240 --> 01:30:21,449
why the hell you're still there.
1938
01:30:21,532 --> 01:30:23,741
-It's filthy.
-BOY: Piss and shit everywhere.
1939
01:30:23,824 --> 01:30:25,657
Piss and shit everywhere.
1940
01:30:25,741 --> 01:30:27,073
KEN: And you could just tell,
like,
1941
01:30:27,157 --> 01:30:30,240
people were not having fun
and happy to be there anymore.
1942
01:30:30,323 --> 01:30:32,490
And after Jewel, Creed played.
1943
01:30:32,574 --> 01:30:35,449
They brought out a guy
from The Doors
to play with them,
1944
01:30:35,532 --> 01:30:39,157
but as a 19-year-old, that meant
less than nothing to me.
1945
01:30:39,240 --> 01:30:41,073
They're trotting this guy
out on stage.
1946
01:30:41,157 --> 01:30:43,532
This is Robby Krieger
from The Doors, man.
1947
01:30:43,615 --> 01:30:44,699
(CROWD CHEERING)
1948
01:30:45,699 --> 01:30:47,365
SCOTT:
There wasn't this excitement
1949
01:30:47,449 --> 01:30:50,657
that I think people would expect
or assume,
1950
01:30:50,741 --> 01:30:54,490
that we had because it just--
it wasn't Woodstock '69.
1951
01:30:54,574 --> 01:30:58,449
But it was our, you know, way
of wanting to kind of bring
1952
01:30:58,532 --> 01:31:02,157
someone from that era to 1999.
1953
01:31:02,240 --> 01:31:05,449
And tie those two festivals
together.
1954
01:31:06,699 --> 01:31:08,365
DAVE HOLMES: I remember
you look at the crowd
1955
01:31:08,449 --> 01:31:10,699
and the crowd
is all 22 years old,
1956
01:31:10,782 --> 01:31:13,782
and Robby Krieger
could not mean less to them.
1957
01:31:13,866 --> 01:31:15,657
Like, Creed barely means
anything to them.
1958
01:31:17,032 --> 01:31:18,699
Thirty years ago
when this festival
1959
01:31:18,782 --> 01:31:20,157
first started...
1960
01:31:22,282 --> 01:31:23,741
people came together.
1961
01:31:24,574 --> 01:31:25,949
They came together to love.
1962
01:31:26,657 --> 01:31:28,240
(CROWD CHEERING)
1963
01:31:29,532 --> 01:31:32,032
SCOTT: They came
together to show the world
1964
01:31:32,115 --> 01:31:34,699
that they could unify
for one cause
1965
01:31:34,782 --> 01:31:36,532
and that
the young people's generation
1966
01:31:36,615 --> 01:31:38,532
could make a difference,
you know that?
1967
01:31:40,198 --> 01:31:43,615
DAVE HOLMES: By Sunday,
it's not the market
for nostalgia,
1968
01:31:43,699 --> 01:31:47,240
specifically nostalgia
for 30 full years ago.
1969
01:31:47,323 --> 01:31:48,991
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1970
01:31:53,323 --> 01:31:57,449
BEN: As we were walking
from one band to another,
1971
01:31:57,532 --> 01:31:59,407
I started seeing people
with candles
1972
01:31:59,490 --> 01:32:01,741
and I was like,
"Why do you have a candle?"
1973
01:32:01,824 --> 01:32:03,073
And there were more people
with candles
1974
01:32:03,157 --> 01:32:04,824
and more people with candles.
1975
01:32:07,407 --> 01:32:08,741
ROB: They handed out candles,
1976
01:32:08,824 --> 01:32:11,365
specifically trying
to get people
to set fire to them.
1977
01:32:11,449 --> 01:32:14,115
And hold them aloft, you know,
in a sort
1978
01:32:14,198 --> 01:32:17,157
of Melanie lay down candles
in the rain sort of vibe.
1979
01:32:17,240 --> 01:32:18,699
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1980
01:32:20,323 --> 01:32:22,073
MAUREEN: It makes
complete sense.
1981
01:32:22,157 --> 01:32:25,157
It's a horrible irony
that it was a group
1982
01:32:25,240 --> 01:32:27,741
of non-profit volunteers
1983
01:32:27,824 --> 01:32:30,657
who were looking
to hold a vigil in memory
1984
01:32:30,741 --> 01:32:32,365
of the victims of Columbine
1985
01:32:32,449 --> 01:32:34,198
that they handed
these candles off to kids
1986
01:32:34,282 --> 01:32:37,991
who then just torched
everything.
1987
01:32:39,198 --> 01:32:40,198
(CROWD CHEERING)
1988
01:32:40,282 --> 01:32:44,657
FLEA: Hey, if you have at home
or in your car,
1989
01:32:44,741 --> 01:32:46,282
if you have a gun,
1990
01:32:46,365 --> 01:32:50,157
be sure to throw it away,
throw it in the garbage.
1991
01:32:50,240 --> 01:32:52,032
Just get the fuck rid of it.
1992
01:32:53,532 --> 01:32:55,657
-Don't need that shit.
-(CROWD CHEERING)
1993
01:33:00,782 --> 01:33:02,323
MAN 1: The east stage
is on fire.
1994
01:33:02,407 --> 01:33:05,115
-MAN 2: East Stage is still
on fire?
-MAN 1: Yeah, they're on fire.
1995
01:33:05,198 --> 01:33:07,782
Hey, they started the east stage
on fire.
1996
01:33:07,866 --> 01:33:09,824
BEN: We started to make
our way over
1997
01:33:09,907 --> 01:33:13,240
to Red Hot Chili Peppers,
and we can see in the distance
1998
01:33:13,323 --> 01:33:15,032
big fires shooting up
in the sky.
1999
01:33:15,115 --> 01:33:16,991
♪ ("UNDER THE BRIDGE"
BY RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
PLAYING) ♪
2000
01:33:17,073 --> 01:33:21,907
♪ Sometimes I feel like
I don't have a partner ♪
2001
01:33:21,991 --> 01:33:26,949
♪ Sometimes I feel
Like my only friend ♪
2002
01:33:27,032 --> 01:33:30,240
♪ Is the city I live in... ♪
2003
01:33:31,115 --> 01:33:32,365
MAN 1: Shit, it's real fire.
2004
01:33:32,449 --> 01:33:34,365
MAN 2: What do you guys see?
What do you guys see?
2005
01:33:34,449 --> 01:33:36,490
Yo, the east stage,
fire there with the big trucks.
2006
01:33:36,574 --> 01:33:39,157
-Yeah.
-It's Lord of the Flies
down there.
2007
01:33:39,240 --> 01:33:41,240
-(CROWD CHEERING)
-♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
2008
01:33:52,449 --> 01:33:56,615
JOHN: Hey, guys, as you can see
if you look behind you,
2009
01:33:57,323 --> 01:33:59,198
we have a bit of a problem.
2010
01:33:59,282 --> 01:34:00,949
Chili Peppers
are gonna come back.
2011
01:34:01,032 --> 01:34:04,323
Calm down. We don't want
anybody to get hurt.
2012
01:34:04,407 --> 01:34:07,032
So the fire department
is gonna have to come in
2013
01:34:07,115 --> 01:34:10,532
with a firetruck to put
the fire out.
2014
01:34:10,615 --> 01:34:14,407
If everybody can cooperate,
we'd appreciate it.
2015
01:34:14,490 --> 01:34:18,532
You guys who are back there,
all the way back, near the fire,
2016
01:34:18,615 --> 01:34:20,866
if you can hear me, back away.
2017
01:34:20,949 --> 01:34:22,907
MTV HOST: This
is a very dangerous situation.
2018
01:34:22,991 --> 01:34:24,615
Everyone is trying to get out
of here.
2019
01:34:24,699 --> 01:34:26,032
-Yes.
-I think we're going to go.
2020
01:34:26,115 --> 01:34:27,657
JOHN: So let's back away.
2021
01:34:27,741 --> 01:34:29,407
Let the fire department
do their job.
2022
01:34:29,490 --> 01:34:32,198
-Make sure nobody gets hurt.
-(CROWD CHEERING)
2023
01:34:37,741 --> 01:34:39,782
JOSEPH GRIFFO: That night,
I went to Anthony Kiedis
2024
01:34:39,866 --> 01:34:42,240
and said to him,
"You need to help us.
2025
01:34:42,323 --> 01:34:44,115
We need to quell this crowd
2026
01:34:44,198 --> 01:34:46,949
in order to get there
and take these fires down."
2027
01:34:47,032 --> 01:34:48,198
Holy...
2028
01:34:48,282 --> 01:34:51,866
Holy shit.
It's Apocalypse Now out there.
2029
01:34:54,073 --> 01:34:56,532
Make way for the fire engine.
2030
01:34:57,699 --> 01:34:59,741
You wanna do it?
You wanna do it?
2031
01:34:59,824 --> 01:35:01,699
-Fuck you!
-(CROWD CHEERING)
2032
01:35:04,657 --> 01:35:09,615
♪ ("FIRE"
BY JIMI HENDRIX PLAYING) ♪
2033
01:35:09,699 --> 01:35:11,240
JOSEPH: And what he did
is went out
2034
01:35:11,323 --> 01:35:14,699
and on his encore played "Fire"
from Jimi Hendrix.
2035
01:35:14,782 --> 01:35:17,365
♪ You don't care for me
I don't-a care about that ♪
2036
01:35:17,449 --> 01:35:20,323
♪ You got a new fool, ha
I like to laugh at ♪
2037
01:35:20,407 --> 01:35:23,073
♪ I have only one
A-burnin' desire ♪
2038
01:35:23,157 --> 01:35:25,282
♪ Okay, let me stand
Next to your fire ♪
2039
01:35:25,365 --> 01:35:27,907
♪ Let me stand
Next to your fire ♪
2040
01:35:27,991 --> 01:35:30,282
♪ Let me stand
Next to your fire ♪
2041
01:35:30,365 --> 01:35:32,949
♪ Let me stand
Next to your fire ♪
2042
01:35:33,032 --> 01:35:35,198
♪ Let me stand
Next to your fire ♪
2043
01:35:36,073 --> 01:35:37,699
♪ Oh, come here, girl ♪
2044
01:35:39,323 --> 01:35:40,907
ROB: At that point, the violence
in the crowd
2045
01:35:40,991 --> 01:35:42,615
had already started to spread
and started
2046
01:35:42,699 --> 01:35:44,574
-to get really destructive.
-(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
2047
01:35:45,866 --> 01:35:48,741
ROB: All weekend long
the promoters spoke a lot
2048
01:35:48,824 --> 01:35:51,323
about turning swords
into plow shares,
2049
01:35:51,407 --> 01:35:53,323
but what we saw Sunday night
2050
01:35:53,407 --> 01:35:56,198
was a lot of turning back
into swords.
2051
01:35:56,282 --> 01:35:59,240
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING) ♪
2052
01:36:11,407 --> 01:36:14,073
(ALL CHEER)
2053
01:36:23,907 --> 01:36:26,824
KEN: Things escalated
pretty quickly.
2054
01:36:26,907 --> 01:36:30,365
There was tension in the air,
but by the end of that set,
2055
01:36:30,449 --> 01:36:33,282
-it was like a powder keg.
-(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
2056
01:36:40,365 --> 01:36:41,949
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
2057
01:36:59,824 --> 01:37:03,532
KEN: We kind of graduated from,
like, just trash and wood fires.
2058
01:37:03,615 --> 01:37:05,699
We ended up going to get
into the trucks
2059
01:37:05,782 --> 01:37:07,157
where they had the supplies,
2060
01:37:07,240 --> 01:37:08,782
like the food and drinks
and stuff.
2061
01:37:08,866 --> 01:37:11,282
And then
I specifically remember,
2062
01:37:11,365 --> 01:37:13,615
like, one of the trucks
I went into
2063
01:37:13,699 --> 01:37:15,073
had frozen pretzels,
2064
01:37:15,157 --> 01:37:18,073
so we're flinging
frozen pretzels
2065
01:37:18,157 --> 01:37:20,449
through the fire like a bunch
of idiots.
2066
01:37:20,532 --> 01:37:22,490
MAN: It's free! Let's go!
2067
01:37:24,032 --> 01:37:25,991
KEN: I had more water
Sunday night during the riots
2068
01:37:26,073 --> 01:37:27,991
than I probably had the rest
of the weekend combined.
2069
01:37:28,073 --> 01:37:30,240
Because we finally
had access to all this stuff.
2070
01:37:30,323 --> 01:37:31,824
(PEOPLE CHEERING, SCREAMING)
2071
01:37:41,157 --> 01:37:42,407
KEN: And that night, you know,
2072
01:37:42,490 --> 01:37:44,490
from the Chili Peppers' set
onward,
2073
01:37:44,574 --> 01:37:47,240
like, we had the power
at that point,
2074
01:37:47,323 --> 01:37:49,490
like, we controlled everything
that was happening
2075
01:37:49,574 --> 01:37:51,115
from that point forward.
2076
01:37:53,115 --> 01:37:55,699
It did feel like
this unifying force,
2077
01:37:55,782 --> 01:37:59,574
like these are my people now,
and we're gonna go crazy.
2078
01:37:59,657 --> 01:38:01,699
-(EXCLAIMS)
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
2079
01:38:09,198 --> 01:38:12,115
KEN: And I don't know,
I'm not a guy,
I never in a million years
2080
01:38:12,198 --> 01:38:14,615
would have thought I'd somehow
gotten drawn into a riot,
2081
01:38:14,699 --> 01:38:19,115
but, man, it just-- it was just
kind of-- it just happened.
2082
01:38:19,198 --> 01:38:21,198
-(CROWD CHEERING)
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
2083
01:38:46,490 --> 01:38:49,157
It's like a 20-dollar
fucking value box.
2084
01:38:49,240 --> 01:38:51,240
-MAN: How much did you pay
for 'em?
-Free!
2085
01:38:51,323 --> 01:38:52,866
-And jackets.
-Free!
2086
01:38:52,949 --> 01:38:54,991
MAUREEN: When kids
are ripping open ATM machines
2087
01:38:55,073 --> 01:38:56,365
with their bare hands
2088
01:38:56,449 --> 01:38:59,699
and lighting Mercedes-Benzes
on fire,
2089
01:38:59,782 --> 01:39:03,657
I mean, they're telling you
what they think of your greed.
2090
01:39:03,741 --> 01:39:05,240
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
2091
01:39:23,991 --> 01:39:25,323
(MAN WHISTLING)
2092
01:39:28,115 --> 01:39:29,615
KEN: I mean,
it's a little concerning
2093
01:39:29,699 --> 01:39:32,657
that I could go from, like,
a pretty mild-mannered kid
2094
01:39:32,741 --> 01:39:36,198
on day one and then
by midnight on Sunday,
2095
01:39:36,282 --> 01:39:38,699
it is straight Lord of the Flies
out there,
2096
01:39:38,782 --> 01:39:41,532
and I'm losing my damn mind
like an idiot.
2097
01:39:41,615 --> 01:39:43,657
When in Rome, I guess,
I don't know.
2098
01:39:46,866 --> 01:39:48,574
GUARD OVER RADIO:
2099
01:39:52,198 --> 01:39:53,615
GUARD 2 OVER RADIO:
2100
01:39:58,198 --> 01:40:00,240
MAN: Turn
that fucking camera off.
2101
01:40:00,323 --> 01:40:02,449
MAN 2: They've got
the cops here now.
2102
01:40:02,532 --> 01:40:04,115
GUARD OVER RADIO:
2103
01:40:06,157 --> 01:40:08,949
MAN: Fucking you better
be worried, guy.
2104
01:40:09,991 --> 01:40:12,198
GUARD OVER RADIO:
2105
01:40:15,115 --> 01:40:17,240
JAKE: When things started
to get really bad,
2106
01:40:17,323 --> 01:40:19,866
I had everybody turn
their shirts inside out
2107
01:40:19,949 --> 01:40:22,574
and put their credentials
down inside their shirts
2108
01:40:22,657 --> 01:40:25,824
because I didn't know if,
you know,
2109
01:40:25,907 --> 01:40:28,365
we were all of a sudden
gonna become targets maybe.
2110
01:40:28,449 --> 01:40:30,615
-(SIREN WAILING)
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
2111
01:40:35,657 --> 01:40:37,741
JAKE: When the police
finally did roll in,
2112
01:40:37,824 --> 01:40:39,365
you know, it was like hats
and bats
2113
01:40:39,449 --> 01:40:42,282
and shields and, you know,
here they came.
2114
01:40:42,365 --> 01:40:45,699
-Here we go.
-Party's over.
2115
01:40:45,782 --> 01:40:47,532
POLICE OFFICER:
This is outta control!
2116
01:40:51,282 --> 01:40:54,991
KEN: You know, we're a bunch
of 20-year-old white kids,
2117
01:40:55,073 --> 01:40:56,949
so when we start burning
a bunch of stuff down
2118
01:40:57,032 --> 01:40:58,782
and, like, stealing from ATMs
2119
01:40:58,866 --> 01:41:01,282
and just burning
this whole thing down,
2120
01:41:01,365 --> 01:41:03,991
the riot police,
they come in very polite,
2121
01:41:04,073 --> 01:41:05,449
you know,
and just move people out.
2122
01:41:05,532 --> 01:41:08,907
Man, they talk
about white privileges
like, Jesus Christ,
2123
01:41:08,991 --> 01:41:11,824
like if this
was a hip-hop festival in 2020
2124
01:41:11,907 --> 01:41:13,282
and people started burning
it down,
2125
01:41:13,365 --> 01:41:15,198
-it would not go so nicely.
-♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
2126
01:41:19,115 --> 01:41:20,866
Yeah, dude, you're the man.
2127
01:41:23,282 --> 01:41:25,699
JAKE: There was a sense
of all the people
2128
01:41:25,782 --> 01:41:28,365
who were rioting
for lack of a better term,
2129
01:41:28,449 --> 01:41:31,949
at that point,
were kind of like together
2130
01:41:32,032 --> 01:41:33,907
in that rioting, you know.
It was like,
2131
01:41:33,991 --> 01:41:36,115
they finally all had
a sense of purpose.
2132
01:41:36,198 --> 01:41:39,365
Listen, look right there.
See the little yellow light?
2133
01:41:39,449 --> 01:41:41,073
That means
we've got five minutes left
2134
01:41:41,157 --> 01:41:43,490
till the end of Woodstock 1999.
2135
01:41:43,574 --> 01:41:44,532
(CROWD CHEERING)
2136
01:41:44,615 --> 01:41:47,615
Okay, so we have a time
for one more song.
2137
01:41:47,699 --> 01:41:49,282
SCOTT STAPP: And then
it just couldn't have been
2138
01:41:49,365 --> 01:41:52,532
planned better, you know,
with Megadeth closing.
2139
01:41:52,615 --> 01:41:56,323
And closing with their tune
"Peace Sells...
but Who's Buying?"
2140
01:41:56,407 --> 01:41:59,282
♪ Peace sells
But who's buying? ♪
2141
01:41:59,365 --> 01:42:01,741
♪ Peace sells
But who's buying? ♪
2142
01:42:01,824 --> 01:42:03,866
DAVE MUSTAINE:
We are in a service business.
2143
01:42:03,949 --> 01:42:06,157
Those of us who are troubadours.
2144
01:42:06,240 --> 01:42:09,198
And what's happened
is along the way
2145
01:42:09,282 --> 01:42:11,699
the tax collector came in.
2146
01:42:11,782 --> 01:42:14,240
MAN 1: People are sick
of being ripped off.
2147
01:42:14,323 --> 01:42:16,949
This was a great time,
but there's no way
2148
01:42:17,032 --> 01:42:20,073
it was worth paying four dollars
for a water.
2149
01:42:20,157 --> 01:42:23,699
I mean, they were all
about making money off us
2150
01:42:23,782 --> 01:42:26,323
and we're all about getting
wasted and partying.
2151
01:42:26,407 --> 01:42:29,615
I mean, it's just not cool
and we're pissed.
2152
01:42:29,699 --> 01:42:32,699
You know, the question really
very quickly
2153
01:42:32,782 --> 01:42:37,198
became, not "How could this
have happened?"
2154
01:42:37,282 --> 01:42:38,907
But "How could it not?"
2155
01:42:41,490 --> 01:42:42,782
JOURNALIST: John,
there was a kind
2156
01:42:42,866 --> 01:42:47,240
of gradual breakdown
of the whole infrastructure
2157
01:42:47,323 --> 01:42:48,949
and as the day went on
2158
01:42:49,032 --> 01:42:51,449
I didn't really see much
of a presence at all
2159
01:42:51,532 --> 01:42:52,907
of the security guards
except maybe
2160
01:42:52,991 --> 01:42:54,574
at some of the gates.
2161
01:42:54,657 --> 01:42:55,949
Can you speak to that?
2162
01:42:56,032 --> 01:42:59,032
Where were the guards
when the fires were being set?
2163
01:42:59,115 --> 01:43:01,907
JOHN: You know,
I think I used this term then,
2164
01:43:01,991 --> 01:43:03,949
there were a bunch
of knuckleheads.
2165
01:43:04,991 --> 01:43:07,365
You know? A bunch
of knuckleheads
2166
01:43:07,449 --> 01:43:10,407
that caused those problems
2167
01:43:10,490 --> 01:43:12,699
and despite those problems,
2168
01:43:12,782 --> 01:43:14,866
the overwhelming number
of people
2169
01:43:14,949 --> 01:43:18,282
that attended had a great time.
2170
01:43:18,365 --> 01:43:23,240
Really the biggest problem
was that MTV set the tone
2171
01:43:23,323 --> 01:43:26,198
so we got killed in the press
2172
01:43:26,282 --> 01:43:32,991
and I didn't figure
on Fred Durst inciting a riot.
2173
01:43:33,073 --> 01:43:34,907
-(CHUCKLES)
-♪ (MILD-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
2174
01:43:36,699 --> 01:43:39,365
STEVEN: About three months
after Woodstock '99,
2175
01:43:39,449 --> 01:43:42,657
the first iteration
of Coachella debuts.
2176
01:43:42,741 --> 01:43:45,657
And you couldn't ask
for a more stark
2177
01:43:45,741 --> 01:43:49,532
like Goofus and Gallant version
of music festivals at this time.
2178
01:43:51,407 --> 01:43:54,699
MOBY: It was in Palm Springs,
and it was balmy.
2179
01:43:54,782 --> 01:43:56,115
There's Bjork performing
2180
01:43:56,198 --> 01:43:58,449
and there's enlightened,
progressive hip-hop.
2181
01:43:58,532 --> 01:44:01,073
Coachella '99 really
was everything
2182
01:44:01,157 --> 01:44:04,198
Woodstock '99 should have been.
2183
01:44:05,574 --> 01:44:07,240
STEVEN: When people
were walking in,
2184
01:44:07,323 --> 01:44:09,157
they were handed
a free water bottle.
2185
01:44:09,240 --> 01:44:10,657
There was free parking. I mean,
2186
01:44:10,741 --> 01:44:13,741
those two things seemed like
they were in direct response
2187
01:44:13,824 --> 01:44:16,741
to the excesses
at Woodstock '99.
2188
01:44:17,949 --> 01:44:21,365
I will say, however,
that as Coachella progresses,
2189
01:44:21,449 --> 01:44:24,323
and this is also true
of all the big festivals now,
2190
01:44:24,407 --> 01:44:27,157
it's pretty clear
that the power dynamics
2191
01:44:27,240 --> 01:44:28,365
that come into play
2192
01:44:28,449 --> 01:44:31,490
haven't really changed,
it's just that they're cleaner.
2193
01:44:31,574 --> 01:44:33,657
And if you wanna assert
your power,
2194
01:44:33,741 --> 01:44:36,157
you just have to be
a really wealthy person
2195
01:44:36,240 --> 01:44:38,615
who can afford to be backstage
and look
2196
01:44:38,699 --> 01:44:42,657
at all the people out there
who aren't as lucky as you are.
2197
01:44:42,741 --> 01:44:44,824
And then you're gonna be able
to take photos of yourself
2198
01:44:44,907 --> 01:44:47,824
and show the world
that you are someone
2199
01:44:47,907 --> 01:44:49,699
who literally has a badge
on themselves
2200
01:44:49,782 --> 01:44:52,365
that says,
"Very Important Person."
2201
01:44:52,449 --> 01:44:54,782
MAUREEN: I think progress
is all fits and starts, right?
2202
01:44:54,866 --> 01:44:58,907
It's never one direction,
it's never completely linear.
2203
01:44:58,991 --> 01:45:02,449
And with the explosion
that was Woodstock '99,
2204
01:45:02,532 --> 01:45:05,198
there is a definite
umbilical cord
2205
01:45:05,282 --> 01:45:08,741
between the dark,
sexual, cultural,
2206
01:45:08,824 --> 01:45:12,032
political underbelly
in the country at that time
2207
01:45:12,115 --> 01:45:14,866
to where we are now.
2208
01:45:14,949 --> 01:45:18,407
WESLEY: A lot of that energy
that was permeating
that crowd that day,
2209
01:45:18,490 --> 01:45:21,532
it just wound up in chatrooms
and Reddit boards,
2210
01:45:21,615 --> 01:45:24,198
and it's just fascinating
to think about
2211
01:45:24,282 --> 01:45:26,365
because I don't know
if it's possible to get
2212
01:45:26,449 --> 01:45:28,991
that collection
of people together
2213
01:45:29,073 --> 01:45:33,490
in 2021 without it
being a cause for concern.
2214
01:45:33,574 --> 01:45:34,907
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
2215
01:45:34,991 --> 01:45:37,490
STEVEN: To me,
the ultimate tragedy
of Woodstock '99,
2216
01:45:37,574 --> 01:45:40,866
is that almost all the problems
that occurred that weekend
2217
01:45:40,949 --> 01:45:44,949
were foreseeable ahead of time,
and therefore preventable.
2218
01:45:45,032 --> 01:45:47,699
This again speaks
to the mythology of Woodstock.
2219
01:45:47,782 --> 01:45:49,949
That this was almost like
magic fairy pixie dust
2220
01:45:50,032 --> 01:45:52,073
or something that you could just
sprinkle...
2221
01:45:52,157 --> 01:45:54,157
(CHUCKLES) ...over all
this poor planning
2222
01:45:54,240 --> 01:45:56,574
and because it was Woodstock,
it would work.
2223
01:45:56,657 --> 01:45:59,574
But, when you take off
the rose-colored glasses,
2224
01:45:59,657 --> 01:46:01,907
and look at Woodstock
and what it actually was,
2225
01:46:01,991 --> 01:46:04,073
it was about sequestering
yourself from society
2226
01:46:04,157 --> 01:46:05,824
and really living the kind
of life
2227
01:46:05,907 --> 01:46:09,240
that wouldn't be sustained,
like if we all did that.
2228
01:46:09,323 --> 01:46:11,699
Like if we all went into a field
with no police,
2229
01:46:11,782 --> 01:46:16,323
do a lot of drugs and listen
to rock music all day long,
2230
01:46:16,407 --> 01:46:18,741
I mean, things would fall apart,
I think, pretty quickly.
2231
01:46:18,824 --> 01:46:20,991
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
2232
01:46:25,490 --> 01:46:28,157
NEWS REPORTER 1:
At the Woodstock '99 concert
2233
01:46:28,240 --> 01:46:30,782
in Central New York,
what was supposed
2234
01:46:30,866 --> 01:46:34,032
to be three days
of peace, love and music,
2235
01:46:34,115 --> 01:46:35,949
ended in a night of looting--
2236
01:46:36,032 --> 01:46:37,323
NEWS REPORTER 2:
Commercialism,
2237
01:46:37,407 --> 01:46:39,782
that's what some people say led
to the fall of Woodstock '99.
2238
01:46:39,866 --> 01:46:41,949
I mean, the kids were hungry,
they were thirsty, they were--
2239
01:46:42,032 --> 01:46:45,157
NEWS REPORTER 3: The fires
were put out this morning
and most festival goers
2240
01:46:45,240 --> 01:46:48,615
had left the site by 9:00 a.m.,
but the Woodstock name
2241
01:46:48,699 --> 01:46:50,115
may have sustained
lasting damage.
2242
01:46:50,198 --> 01:46:52,157
NEWS REPORTER 4: First person
charged with sexual violence
2243
01:46:52,240 --> 01:46:54,157
at last weekend's
Woodstock festival
2244
01:46:54,240 --> 01:46:56,782
turns out to be
a New York state prison guard.
2245
01:46:56,866 --> 01:46:58,115
The prison guard was charged
2246
01:46:58,198 --> 01:47:00,574
with sexually assaulting
a 15-year-old girl.
2247
01:47:00,657 --> 01:47:03,866
NEWS REPORTER 5:
Here's another horror story
from Woodstock '99 today.
2248
01:47:03,949 --> 01:47:07,449
The police are now investigating
four cases of women
2249
01:47:07,532 --> 01:47:09,157
alleging they were raped.
2250
01:47:09,240 --> 01:47:12,073
One woman says she was attacked
right in front of the stage
2251
01:47:12,157 --> 01:47:15,991
as the band played on
and a lot of people stood by.
2252
01:47:16,073 --> 01:47:18,115
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
2253
01:47:20,449 --> 01:47:22,657
MICHAEL: Had we programmed
this more
2254
01:47:22,741 --> 01:47:26,657
along the lines of '94 or '69,
2255
01:47:26,741 --> 01:47:28,615
it would have been
a different event
2256
01:47:28,699 --> 01:47:30,615
and attracted
a different audience.
2257
01:47:32,365 --> 01:47:34,782
But the intention here
was to do something
2258
01:47:34,866 --> 01:47:36,574
very contemporary,
2259
01:47:36,657 --> 01:47:39,907
and that's what
contemporary was.
2260
01:47:41,365 --> 01:47:43,824
GARRET: Do you think there'll
ever be another Woodstock?
2261
01:47:47,323 --> 01:47:49,490
There always
could be another Woodstock.
2262
01:47:49,574 --> 01:47:52,741
I mean, I've just learned
never to say never about that.
2263
01:47:57,615 --> 01:48:01,449
♪ ("THE KIDS AREN'T ALRIGHT"
BY THE OFFSPRING PLAYING) ♪
2264
01:48:34,657 --> 01:48:36,490
MICHAEL: We're taking steps
to protect everybody.
2265
01:48:36,574 --> 01:48:39,240
We want it to be
a completely safe event.
2266
01:48:39,323 --> 01:48:42,032
You know, there will be
zero tolerance for anything,
2267
01:48:42,115 --> 01:48:45,949
you know, other than, you know,
proper behavior.
2268
01:48:53,574 --> 01:48:55,782
♪ When we were young
The future was so bright ♪
2269
01:48:55,866 --> 01:48:58,157
♪ The old neighborhood
Was so alive ♪
2270
01:48:58,240 --> 01:49:00,699
♪ And every kid
On the whole damn street ♪
2271
01:49:00,782 --> 01:49:03,115
♪ Was gonna make it big
And not be beat ♪
2272
01:49:03,198 --> 01:49:05,323
♪ Now the neighborhood's cracked
And torn ♪
2273
01:49:05,407 --> 01:49:07,615
♪ The kids are grown up
But their lives are worn ♪
2274
01:49:07,699 --> 01:49:11,824
♪ How can one little street
Swallow so many lives? ♪
2275
01:49:11,907 --> 01:49:16,866
♪ Chances thrown
Nothing's free ♪
2276
01:49:16,949 --> 01:49:21,449
♪ Longing for used to be ♪
2277
01:49:21,532 --> 01:49:26,323
♪ Still it's hard, hard to see ♪
2278
01:49:26,407 --> 01:49:31,615
♪ Fragile lives
Shattered dreams ♪
2279
01:49:31,699 --> 01:49:32,991
♪ Go! ♪
2280
01:49:50,574 --> 01:49:55,407
♪ Chances thrown
Nothing's free ♪
2281
01:49:55,490 --> 01:49:59,991
♪ Longing for, used to be ♪
2282
01:50:00,073 --> 01:50:04,907
♪ Still it's hard, hard to see ♪
2283
01:50:04,991 --> 01:50:09,949
♪ Fragile lives
Shattered dreams ♪
2284
01:50:12,782 --> 01:50:15,115
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
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