1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:09,282 --> 00:00:12,657 ♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 4 00:00:23,866 --> 00:00:25,615 In telling the story of Woodstock '99, 5 00:00:25,699 --> 00:00:28,240 it would have been really easy to structure this as a comedy, 6 00:00:28,323 --> 00:00:30,741 poking fun of all things late 1990s. 7 00:00:30,824 --> 00:00:33,657 The way people dressed, the music they listen to. 8 00:00:33,741 --> 00:00:36,282 But, in reality, as that weekend unfolded, 9 00:00:36,365 --> 00:00:38,365 it played out much more like a horror film. 10 00:00:50,365 --> 00:00:52,574 (BIRDS CHIRPING) 11 00:00:54,782 --> 00:00:56,115 INTERVIEWER: Mike, what's the worst part 12 00:00:56,198 --> 00:00:57,866 of running one of these things? 13 00:00:59,115 --> 00:01:00,866 -The worst part? -INTERVIEWER: What's the worst part 14 00:01:00,949 --> 00:01:02,198 about running one of them? 15 00:01:03,032 --> 00:01:04,073 MICHAEL LANG: I don't know. 16 00:01:04,157 --> 00:01:05,449 -INTERVIEWER: Huh? -I don't know. 17 00:01:05,532 --> 00:01:06,991 -Do you dig it all? -Yeah. 18 00:01:10,699 --> 00:01:12,365 I guess the biggest hassle 19 00:01:12,449 --> 00:01:14,240 is dealing with the politics, you know. 20 00:01:14,323 --> 00:01:15,490 There are a lot of politics involved, 21 00:01:15,574 --> 00:01:17,490 -you mean with the cities? -MICHAEL: Yeah. 22 00:01:17,574 --> 00:01:18,991 And you got that solved? 23 00:01:19,073 --> 00:01:21,157 -Well, looks that way. -INTERVIEWER: Looks that way. 24 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:22,824 -Where are you gonna go from here? -(EXHALES) 25 00:01:22,907 --> 00:01:24,449 -I mean-- -You gonna do another one? 26 00:01:24,532 --> 00:01:26,323 -If it works. -(BIKE ENGINE REVVING) 27 00:01:26,407 --> 00:01:30,073 ♪ (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 28 00:01:36,866 --> 00:01:38,699 RADIO HOST: Okay, guys. It is hot out there. 29 00:01:38,782 --> 00:01:40,741 The National Weather Service has already issued 30 00:01:40,824 --> 00:01:42,323 a heat advisory for your day tomorrow. 31 00:01:42,407 --> 00:01:44,157 Which's gonna feel like it's a hundred degrees. 32 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:45,657 RADIO HOST 2: How's the traffic coming in? 33 00:01:45,741 --> 00:01:49,032 MAN: It's bad. It's just backed up everywhere. 34 00:01:49,115 --> 00:01:50,949 REPORTER: When the ball drops on the year 2000, 35 00:01:51,032 --> 00:01:53,157 it will be a momentous event for the world 36 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:54,866 and for the US economy, 37 00:01:54,949 --> 00:01:57,866 which is closing in on on its longest expansion ever. 38 00:01:57,949 --> 00:02:00,490 The decade has been marked by strong growth, 39 00:02:00,574 --> 00:02:03,032 the lowest unemployment in a generation. 40 00:02:03,115 --> 00:02:05,615 And yet remarkably, little inflation. 41 00:02:05,699 --> 00:02:07,198 MAN 2: How you guys doing today, welcome to Woodstock. 42 00:02:07,282 --> 00:02:09,490 Where you wanna go, East Stage, West Stage, Center Stage? 43 00:02:09,574 --> 00:02:10,991 -MAN 3: Center stage. -MAN 2: You wanna stay straight-- 44 00:02:11,073 --> 00:02:12,323 Straight ahead, okay? Straight ahead. 45 00:02:12,407 --> 00:02:14,073 Okay, there you go. Yup, just leave him up here. 46 00:02:14,157 --> 00:02:15,282 So have fun, okay, guys? 47 00:02:15,365 --> 00:02:17,032 -You guys okay? You got your toilet paper? -Yes. 48 00:02:17,115 --> 00:02:20,032 REPORTER 2: A senate panel describes Y2K 49 00:02:20,115 --> 00:02:22,157 as a worldwide crisis. 50 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:25,866 -Welcome to 1999 on MTV. -Whoo! 51 00:02:25,949 --> 00:02:28,490 -CARSON DALY: Limp Bizkit! -MAN: Woodstock '99. 52 00:02:28,574 --> 00:02:31,991 Stay home for the trip of your life on pay per view. 53 00:02:32,073 --> 00:02:33,157 INTERVIEWER: And what's the town like? 54 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,032 WOMAN: It's pretty cool. They're all nice. 55 00:02:35,115 --> 00:02:37,198 Like, this is the first, like, concert I've been to 56 00:02:37,282 --> 00:02:39,907 where everybody that you'll meet is really nice to you. 57 00:02:39,991 --> 00:02:41,741 REPORTER 3: The biggest news, shortly before 1:30 58 00:02:41,824 --> 00:02:44,407 this afternoon, President Clinton was impeached. 59 00:02:44,490 --> 00:02:45,782 BILL CLINTON: I'm gonna say this again. 60 00:02:45,866 --> 00:02:50,157 I did not have sexual relations with that woman. 61 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,032 REPORTER 4: So this is the night before, the night before 62 00:02:52,115 --> 00:02:53,991 the big day kicking off, Woodstock '99. 63 00:02:54,073 --> 00:02:56,699 And right here is a little bit of a party going on. 64 00:02:56,782 --> 00:02:59,574 What's happening is 350,000 people 65 00:02:59,657 --> 00:03:02,073 are gonna be taken care of, 66 00:03:02,157 --> 00:03:04,449 by about 10,000 staff people, 67 00:03:04,532 --> 00:03:07,073 all looking over the 350,000 people. 68 00:03:07,157 --> 00:03:10,157 ♪ (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 69 00:03:16,866 --> 00:03:20,699 -♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪ -(CROWD CHEERING) 70 00:03:25,657 --> 00:03:30,115 ♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 71 00:03:30,198 --> 00:03:33,073 The biggest concert of the year was Woodstock '94 72 00:03:33,157 --> 00:03:34,157 in Saugerties, New York. 73 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,741 The fans not only wore the mud at the festival, 74 00:03:36,824 --> 00:03:37,907 but they also ate it. 75 00:03:37,991 --> 00:03:39,949 What was initially predicted to be an overhyped, 76 00:03:40,032 --> 00:03:43,407 commercial disaster turned out to be nothing of the sort. 77 00:03:43,490 --> 00:03:47,073 ♪ ("DREAMS" BY THE CRANBERRIES PLAYING) ♪ 78 00:03:55,866 --> 00:03:59,115 ♪ Oh, my life ♪ 79 00:03:59,198 --> 00:04:02,657 ♪ Is changing everyday ♪ 80 00:04:02,741 --> 00:04:06,073 ♪ In every possible way... ♪ 81 00:04:07,490 --> 00:04:09,449 JOHN SCHER: I get stopped all the time 82 00:04:09,532 --> 00:04:12,282 by people who had the time of their life 83 00:04:12,365 --> 00:04:14,115 at Woodstock '94. 84 00:04:14,198 --> 00:04:17,741 There was a tone that was set, an expectation 85 00:04:17,824 --> 00:04:20,991 not only of the artists that were performing 86 00:04:21,073 --> 00:04:22,532 but an expectation 87 00:04:22,615 --> 00:04:24,574 of how the audience would perform. 88 00:04:25,449 --> 00:04:26,657 We had probably 89 00:04:26,741 --> 00:04:29,824 three or four hundred thousand people at the festival. 90 00:04:29,907 --> 00:04:32,991 Its biggest problem was the fences came down, 91 00:04:33,073 --> 00:04:35,282 so we lost money. 92 00:04:35,365 --> 00:04:37,157 Also, you know, it was raining. 93 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:39,532 It rained on and off all weekend, 94 00:04:39,615 --> 00:04:41,490 it was an absolute mud pit. 95 00:04:41,574 --> 00:04:45,198 People helped each other, loved each other, 96 00:04:45,282 --> 00:04:47,323 no violence. 97 00:04:47,407 --> 00:04:50,907 It was sort of, probably, the last hurrah 98 00:04:50,991 --> 00:04:53,365 for the baby boomers and their kids. 99 00:04:53,449 --> 00:04:56,657 -Welcome to Woodstock 1994! -Welcome to Woodstock 1994! 100 00:04:56,741 --> 00:04:58,574 MICHAEL: When we did Woodstock '94, 101 00:04:58,657 --> 00:05:01,782 the idea was to function as a bridge 102 00:05:01,866 --> 00:05:04,741 between the music that we generated in the '60s 103 00:05:04,824 --> 00:05:06,907 and what was contemporary in the '90s. 104 00:05:06,991 --> 00:05:12,198 And it worked really well. The weekend was amazing. 105 00:05:12,282 --> 00:05:16,240 JOHN: We replicated a lineup that was reasonably close 106 00:05:16,323 --> 00:05:17,615 to what '69 was. 107 00:05:17,699 --> 00:05:21,323 You know, the general peace, love, and harmony thing 108 00:05:21,407 --> 00:05:24,115 -worked still. -♪ (DOLORES VOCALIZING) ♪ 109 00:05:24,198 --> 00:05:25,365 JOHN: After the festival, 110 00:05:25,449 --> 00:05:27,490 Michael and I looked at each other and said, 111 00:05:27,574 --> 00:05:30,699 "Okay, let's do it again in like five years." 112 00:05:30,782 --> 00:05:36,240 -♪ (VOCALIZING) ♪ -(CROWD CHEERING) 113 00:05:36,323 --> 00:05:39,615 MICHAEL: Woodstock seems to remain the American festival. 114 00:05:39,699 --> 00:05:41,907 And I think we should do it every five years or so, 115 00:05:41,991 --> 00:05:43,657 so a new generation of college 116 00:05:43,741 --> 00:05:46,991 and graduating high school kids get to experience it. 117 00:05:51,657 --> 00:05:54,198 JOHN: In '99 we found a perfect site 118 00:05:54,282 --> 00:05:55,323 in Rome, New York. 119 00:05:55,407 --> 00:05:57,407 They've got this retired air force base 120 00:05:57,490 --> 00:05:59,365 that they don't know what to do with. 121 00:05:59,449 --> 00:06:00,907 JOHN GRIFFO: When Woodstock Ventures 122 00:06:00,991 --> 00:06:02,198 first approached us, 123 00:06:02,282 --> 00:06:04,741 I recognized and realized that this was an opportunity 124 00:06:04,824 --> 00:06:07,365 for the big event that a community 125 00:06:07,449 --> 00:06:08,991 could put their arms around. 126 00:06:09,073 --> 00:06:11,198 Bottom line is, we wanna encourage people 127 00:06:11,282 --> 00:06:13,615 to buy some tickets and come to Rome, NY 128 00:06:13,699 --> 00:06:15,198 the weekend of the 22nd. 129 00:06:15,282 --> 00:06:17,949 It's gonna be a memorable, exciting experience. 130 00:06:18,032 --> 00:06:21,365 Five years earlier, we lost the air force base here 131 00:06:21,449 --> 00:06:24,032 which obviously had an enormous impact 132 00:06:24,115 --> 00:06:26,073 on this community emotionally. 133 00:06:26,157 --> 00:06:27,949 It was akin to economic Armageddon 134 00:06:28,032 --> 00:06:30,157 because we lost thousands of jobs 135 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:31,824 and thousands of people. 136 00:06:32,532 --> 00:06:34,449 JOHN: The base was ideal 137 00:06:34,532 --> 00:06:36,991 because it had a lot of infrastructure things 138 00:06:37,073 --> 00:06:40,449 that we would've otherwise needed to build. 139 00:06:40,532 --> 00:06:43,449 JOHN: Also being a former military installation, 140 00:06:43,532 --> 00:06:44,866 it was enclosed. 141 00:06:46,323 --> 00:06:48,907 Griffiss was well-suited to make sure 142 00:06:48,991 --> 00:06:51,115 that people came with tickets, 143 00:06:51,907 --> 00:06:53,282 for a change. 144 00:06:53,365 --> 00:06:55,699 JOHN: And then from a philosophic perspective, 145 00:06:55,782 --> 00:06:59,323 if you look at Isaiah and the old beating swords 146 00:06:59,407 --> 00:07:00,490 into plow shares, 147 00:07:00,574 --> 00:07:02,574 well this was planes into plow shares. 148 00:07:08,407 --> 00:07:10,365 NICK RIZZO: I can sure remember the lead up to it, 149 00:07:10,449 --> 00:07:12,782 and it was really all anybody could talk about. 150 00:07:12,866 --> 00:07:14,157 (PEOPLE CHEERING) 151 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,657 NICK: There was a local bar that was called Stockyard Inn 152 00:07:16,741 --> 00:07:19,407 and then they changed their name to The Woodstock Inn. 153 00:07:19,490 --> 00:07:21,532 So, you know, everybody was sort of trying 154 00:07:21,615 --> 00:07:24,824 to get involved and kind of capitalize on the excitement. 155 00:07:24,907 --> 00:07:26,657 MATEO: Hi, I'm Mateo. I'm from Rome, New York. 156 00:07:26,741 --> 00:07:28,365 Here at wonderful Griffiss Air Force Base 157 00:07:28,449 --> 00:07:30,490 with a bunch of other talented artists here 158 00:07:30,574 --> 00:07:32,699 who are working on the mural. Two miles long, 159 00:07:32,782 --> 00:07:34,741 going all the way around this entire park. 160 00:07:34,824 --> 00:07:36,699 ARTIST: These kids right here helped me create 161 00:07:36,782 --> 00:07:39,323 a 500-foot mural 162 00:07:39,407 --> 00:07:42,824 that's kind of a celebrated, happy version of a mosh pit. 163 00:07:44,282 --> 00:07:46,365 MICHAEL: It was always our intention 164 00:07:46,449 --> 00:07:49,532 to do something that was not your parents' Woodstock. 165 00:07:49,615 --> 00:07:52,532 It was definitely something for the kids. 166 00:07:52,615 --> 00:07:54,157 DAVID VADNAIS: You know, I had just graduated 167 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:56,282 so once I got my money for graduation 168 00:07:56,365 --> 00:07:59,115 I didn't really have much of an excuse. 169 00:07:59,198 --> 00:08:02,032 It was expensive, but I'm gonna see 170 00:08:02,115 --> 00:08:04,907 all these bands, so it seemed like a no-brainer. 171 00:08:04,991 --> 00:08:07,532 My friend Dave De Rosia was the guy 172 00:08:07,615 --> 00:08:09,323 who was like, "Let's go to Woodstock." 173 00:08:09,407 --> 00:08:11,699 My older brother Rob was next in line 174 00:08:11,782 --> 00:08:13,407 to join in and then my younger brother 175 00:08:13,490 --> 00:08:16,490 and the girl he was dating at the time wanted to go, too. 176 00:08:17,157 --> 00:08:19,949 It was gonna be awesome. 177 00:08:20,032 --> 00:08:21,949 MIKE ELLING: When I saw the lineup, I was like, 178 00:08:22,032 --> 00:08:23,073 "Dude, I am going to this." 179 00:08:23,157 --> 00:08:25,907 Like, I can't imagine a better lineup 180 00:08:25,991 --> 00:08:27,824 for the music that I love right now 181 00:08:27,907 --> 00:08:29,741 and they're all in one place 182 00:08:29,824 --> 00:08:32,240 and it's called Woodstock and I get to go. 183 00:08:32,323 --> 00:08:34,073 DAVID: Everybody wanted to see Kid Rock. 184 00:08:34,157 --> 00:08:36,782 -KEN HINELY: DMX. -MIKE: Korn. Metallica. 185 00:08:36,866 --> 00:08:38,032 KEN: Insane Clown Posse? 186 00:08:38,115 --> 00:08:39,574 JESSICA LEVIN: Oh! Rage Against the Machine! 187 00:08:39,657 --> 00:08:40,866 KEN: And Limp Bizkit. 188 00:08:40,949 --> 00:08:44,365 In 1999, those guys were massive. 189 00:08:44,449 --> 00:08:46,115 JESSICA: I remember I had to beg my parents. 190 00:08:46,198 --> 00:08:47,699 I was working at a pizzeria and I remember 191 00:08:47,782 --> 00:08:48,907 being on the phone with him and being like, 192 00:08:48,991 --> 00:08:50,198 "Dad, I'll go for you. I mean 193 00:08:50,282 --> 00:08:52,240 you didn't get to go to '69, I'll go to '99." 194 00:08:52,323 --> 00:08:54,949 I mean I'm graduating like let's just go do this, 195 00:08:55,032 --> 00:08:57,449 this is gonna be... (BLOWS) ...like the big send off, 196 00:08:57,532 --> 00:08:59,699 you know? It's Woodstock. 197 00:09:00,198 --> 00:09:04,657 (CROWD CHEERING) 198 00:09:06,115 --> 00:09:07,365 JAMES BROWN: One, two, three, four 199 00:09:07,449 --> 00:09:09,032 ♪ ("GET ON UP" BY JAMES BROWN PLAYING) ♪ 200 00:09:09,115 --> 00:09:12,657 -♪ Get up, get on up ♪ -♪ Get on up ♪ 201 00:09:12,741 --> 00:09:14,032 ♪ Stay on the scene ♪ 202 00:09:14,115 --> 00:09:16,490 -♪ Get on up, get on up ♪ -♪ Like a sex machine ♪ 203 00:09:17,073 --> 00:09:18,282 ♪ Get up ♪ 204 00:09:18,365 --> 00:09:20,532 DAVID: I remember vividly like coming up over the hill, 205 00:09:20,615 --> 00:09:22,282 and you're just-- you're blown away, right? 206 00:09:22,365 --> 00:09:25,365 The thing is huge and there's people everywhere. 207 00:09:25,449 --> 00:09:27,615 There's people dressed ridiculously 208 00:09:27,699 --> 00:09:29,323 or not dressed at all. 209 00:09:29,407 --> 00:09:30,741 And I was thinking like, 210 00:09:30,824 --> 00:09:33,782 "How did this many people already get in here?" 211 00:09:33,866 --> 00:09:36,407 -Two lanes, two lanes! -MAN: We got a founder. 212 00:09:36,490 --> 00:09:37,532 Let's go! 213 00:09:37,615 --> 00:09:39,282 One day this is gonna be on some sort of documentary. 214 00:09:39,365 --> 00:09:40,824 MAN 2: Hey Vince, you got it all? 215 00:09:40,907 --> 00:09:43,157 Motherfucking Woodstock, baby. 216 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,407 BEN ABT: Security was relatively minimal. 217 00:09:45,490 --> 00:09:47,866 Especially compared to the TSA days of today. 218 00:09:47,949 --> 00:09:49,782 MAN 3: Our friend Andy wound up making friends 219 00:09:49,866 --> 00:09:51,532 with the security guards up front. 220 00:09:51,615 --> 00:09:54,032 And all the beer that they were taking away from people 221 00:09:54,115 --> 00:09:55,824 and all the chairs that they were taking away 222 00:09:55,907 --> 00:09:59,073 from people, are right here right now. 223 00:09:59,157 --> 00:10:02,157 BEN: The peace patrol, who were monitoring the gates, 224 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:03,907 they just kinda looked in your stuff, 225 00:10:03,991 --> 00:10:05,323 said, "All right, you're good to go." 226 00:10:05,407 --> 00:10:06,657 Which immediately made me think, 227 00:10:06,741 --> 00:10:09,449 "Wow, I think a bunch of people have a lot of drugs here." 228 00:10:09,532 --> 00:10:13,449 JOHN: We expanded Woodstock '99 by the pay-per-view 229 00:10:13,532 --> 00:10:15,240 and the MTV coverage. 230 00:10:15,323 --> 00:10:17,032 People running around topless and... 231 00:10:17,115 --> 00:10:19,365 JOHN: In those days, MTV held the heartbeat 232 00:10:19,449 --> 00:10:22,282 of the younger generation in their palm. 233 00:10:22,365 --> 00:10:23,532 TARIQ TROTTER: When we performed, 234 00:10:23,615 --> 00:10:25,365 it was like 1000 degrees. 235 00:10:25,449 --> 00:10:28,407 Somehow, the way my mind worked, was that 236 00:10:28,490 --> 00:10:31,907 the fact that the sweater I had on didn't have sleeves 237 00:10:31,991 --> 00:10:33,365 was going to... (CHUCKLES) 238 00:10:33,449 --> 00:10:34,991 ...like that was gonna make a difference 239 00:10:35,073 --> 00:10:37,699 in the temperature on stage. 240 00:10:37,782 --> 00:10:39,574 LIZ POLAY-WETTENGEL: I remember it being really hot 241 00:10:39,657 --> 00:10:43,866 and I remember a lot of chaos, a lot of confusion. 242 00:10:43,949 --> 00:10:46,991 People didn't know where they were supposed to go 243 00:10:47,073 --> 00:10:49,032 and there was a lot of white men. 244 00:10:49,115 --> 00:10:50,866 A lot of white boys I should say. 245 00:10:50,949 --> 00:10:53,991 It felt really young. Lotta of white boys 246 00:10:54,073 --> 00:10:55,991 wearing backwards baseball caps. 247 00:10:56,073 --> 00:11:00,782 -♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪ -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) 248 00:11:01,532 --> 00:11:03,323 JOURNALIST: (OVER PA) 249 00:11:12,407 --> 00:11:14,949 Our hopes are that people have as good time this weekend 250 00:11:15,032 --> 00:11:16,240 as they did at Saugerties 251 00:11:16,323 --> 00:11:19,282 and as they did in 1969 in Bethel. 252 00:11:19,365 --> 00:11:20,699 I think this is a better facility 253 00:11:20,782 --> 00:11:22,073 than any place we've been. 254 00:11:22,157 --> 00:11:25,741 So we think that this has the potential to be, you know, 255 00:11:25,824 --> 00:11:27,532 one of the best things we've ever done. 256 00:11:27,615 --> 00:11:30,949 And be an incredible weekend for everybody who joins us. 257 00:11:31,032 --> 00:11:33,615 JOURNALIST: So, given the distance between the stages, 258 00:11:33,699 --> 00:11:36,282 any advice for people who are here for the music? 259 00:11:36,365 --> 00:11:37,782 Yeah, yeah. 260 00:11:39,282 --> 00:11:42,115 That's true. It's about two-thirds of a mile. 261 00:11:42,198 --> 00:11:43,866 And in fact we have over a 100 acts, 262 00:11:43,949 --> 00:11:45,699 so you're not gonna be able to see everything. 263 00:11:45,782 --> 00:11:47,032 There's a tremendous amount to do, 264 00:11:47,115 --> 00:11:48,532 you're not gonna run out of things to do. 265 00:11:48,615 --> 00:11:49,699 You can go 24 hours a day, 266 00:11:49,782 --> 00:11:51,240 we're open all day and all night. 267 00:11:51,323 --> 00:11:54,407 We've designed a number of things in addition 268 00:11:54,490 --> 00:11:55,574 to the two main stages. 269 00:11:55,657 --> 00:11:57,449 There's an emerging artist stage, 270 00:11:57,532 --> 00:12:00,657 there's the rave for those who like to stay up all night 271 00:12:00,741 --> 00:12:02,782 and are more nocturnal than I am. 272 00:12:02,866 --> 00:12:05,490 There is the 24-hour-a-day film festival, 273 00:12:05,574 --> 00:12:07,365 there's the sports park, 274 00:12:07,449 --> 00:12:10,032 there are a lot of non-for-profit booths 275 00:12:10,115 --> 00:12:15,407 that political conversation and dialogue can take place. 276 00:12:15,490 --> 00:12:20,449 This is already very much taken shape of its own city. 277 00:12:20,532 --> 00:12:22,490 MAUREEN CALAHAN: I mean, you had two main stages 278 00:12:22,574 --> 00:12:24,115 that were a mile from each other. 279 00:12:24,198 --> 00:12:27,657 They're on a black tarmac in the middle of nowhere. 280 00:12:27,741 --> 00:12:33,323 I mean, think about the irony of Woodstock on a military base. 281 00:12:33,407 --> 00:12:35,657 STEVEN HYDEN: The appeal of Griffiss for the organizers 282 00:12:35,741 --> 00:12:37,198 was that it was a place 283 00:12:37,282 --> 00:12:39,490 that would be really hard to gate-crash 284 00:12:39,574 --> 00:12:40,991 because the peace wall. 285 00:12:41,073 --> 00:12:43,574 And really, I mean, like if we're talking about peace 286 00:12:43,657 --> 00:12:46,615 is a wall, like, a great metaphor for that? 287 00:12:46,699 --> 00:12:48,949 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 288 00:12:49,032 --> 00:12:52,866 ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 289 00:12:52,949 --> 00:12:56,782 MICHAEL: Woodstock '69 was about trying to show 290 00:12:56,866 --> 00:12:59,532 that there was a better way for people to treat each other. 291 00:12:59,615 --> 00:13:01,574 With more compassion and more understanding 292 00:13:01,657 --> 00:13:02,991 and given the opportunity, 293 00:13:03,073 --> 00:13:06,824 people will behave that way, will show their better self. 294 00:13:06,907 --> 00:13:08,657 And then, I mean, what could be better, 295 00:13:08,741 --> 00:13:11,032 just not being hassled by anyone, smoking a joint 296 00:13:11,115 --> 00:13:13,782 under the stars listening to great music? 297 00:13:13,866 --> 00:13:16,365 STEVEN: Michael Lang is who I call 298 00:13:16,449 --> 00:13:18,741 the Willie Wonka of Woodstock. 299 00:13:18,824 --> 00:13:21,782 He's this guy who's eternally boyish, 300 00:13:21,866 --> 00:13:23,532 he's presiding over this fantasy land 301 00:13:23,615 --> 00:13:26,407 that every generation of kids wants to visit. 302 00:13:26,490 --> 00:13:29,741 But if you spend more than a couple minutes 303 00:13:29,824 --> 00:13:31,824 at the chocolate factory, you realize that 304 00:13:31,907 --> 00:13:36,657 it's not the idyllic utopia that it presents itself to be. 305 00:13:38,824 --> 00:13:40,907 WESLEY MORRIS: The thing about the Woodstock mythology is 306 00:13:40,991 --> 00:13:42,699 I feel like people are being selective 307 00:13:42,782 --> 00:13:45,449 about how they're choosing to remember 308 00:13:45,532 --> 00:13:48,157 what happened, to suit their own ends. 309 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,073 And the way in which we choose to romanticize, 310 00:13:51,157 --> 00:13:54,949 it has everything to do with who is telling stories. 311 00:13:56,157 --> 00:13:58,782 MAUREEN: Unlike the prevailing lore 312 00:13:58,866 --> 00:14:01,574 would have it, Woodstock '69 was anything 313 00:14:01,657 --> 00:14:03,615 but peace, love and, you know, three days 314 00:14:03,699 --> 00:14:04,907 of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. 315 00:14:04,991 --> 00:14:07,323 It was a mess, there were riots. 316 00:14:07,407 --> 00:14:09,824 The US Army had to airlift supplies in. 317 00:14:09,907 --> 00:14:11,574 People died. 318 00:14:11,657 --> 00:14:13,282 STEVEN: Really, it's out of sheer luck 319 00:14:13,365 --> 00:14:15,907 that it didn't end up worse than it did. 320 00:14:15,991 --> 00:14:18,407 And there's really some very near disasters 321 00:14:18,490 --> 00:14:20,407 that happened at the original Woodstock 322 00:14:20,490 --> 00:14:22,323 that nobody remembers now. 323 00:14:22,407 --> 00:14:24,323 For instance, there was this group called 324 00:14:24,407 --> 00:14:26,073 the Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, 325 00:14:26,157 --> 00:14:28,866 who were upset about how much was being charged 326 00:14:28,949 --> 00:14:30,282 for food at the festival. 327 00:14:30,365 --> 00:14:34,240 So they set fire to like a dozen food stands. 328 00:14:34,323 --> 00:14:36,615 The problem is that instead of learning 329 00:14:36,699 --> 00:14:38,574 from the mistakes that were made, 330 00:14:38,657 --> 00:14:39,949 we instead created 331 00:14:40,032 --> 00:14:43,198 this romanticized mythology in the form of the documentary. 332 00:14:43,282 --> 00:14:46,073 People watched the film and they chose to believe 333 00:14:46,157 --> 00:14:47,866 that that's the way it really was. 334 00:14:47,949 --> 00:14:49,032 (CROWD CHEERING) 335 00:14:49,115 --> 00:14:50,574 ♪ ("LIVE" BY SELLING THE DRAMA PLAYING) ♪ 336 00:14:50,657 --> 00:14:52,323 ♪ And to love ♪ 337 00:14:52,407 --> 00:14:57,657 ♪ A god and to fear a flame ♪ 338 00:14:57,741 --> 00:15:00,198 -Whoo! -♪ And to burn ♪ 339 00:15:00,282 --> 00:15:03,198 ♪ A crowd that has a name ♪ 340 00:15:05,615 --> 00:15:09,449 ♪ And to right or wrong ♪ 341 00:15:09,532 --> 00:15:13,282 ♪ And to weak or strong ♪ 342 00:15:13,365 --> 00:15:15,365 ♪ It is known ♪ 343 00:15:15,449 --> 00:15:18,240 ♪ Just scream it from the wall ♪ 344 00:15:19,907 --> 00:15:21,782 DAVID: And we ran around just taking it all in, 345 00:15:21,866 --> 00:15:22,991 everybody's fired up. 346 00:15:23,073 --> 00:15:25,574 The music is great. The fans are great. 347 00:15:25,657 --> 00:15:28,824 (PEOPLE CHEERING) 348 00:15:28,907 --> 00:15:31,949 -REPORTER: What band you here to see? -Metallica baby, yeah! 349 00:15:32,032 --> 00:15:34,490 DAVID: My friend Dave wanted to see Metallica. 350 00:15:34,574 --> 00:15:36,532 That was his mission. 351 00:15:36,615 --> 00:15:39,407 And he was keeping a journal the whole weekend. 352 00:15:42,365 --> 00:15:44,198 NARRATOR: "Add Live to the bands seen. 353 00:15:44,282 --> 00:15:47,991 Very good. And Jamiroquai, not good. 354 00:15:48,073 --> 00:15:50,157 I waited for people to get me a coke. 355 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,449 Listened to a horrible set by Andy Dick." 356 00:15:52,532 --> 00:15:54,907 Here's my big fat fucking hit! 357 00:15:54,991 --> 00:15:56,824 NARRATOR: "Also met Mario, 358 00:15:56,907 --> 00:15:59,407 nice guy, but I got the feeling he was beat. 359 00:15:59,490 --> 00:16:02,949 I, on the other hand, am doing okay, but tired. 360 00:16:03,032 --> 00:16:06,282 I think we're going to head back to catch Korn and Bush. 361 00:16:06,365 --> 00:16:07,574 I'll let you know. 362 00:16:07,657 --> 00:16:10,323 Also boob count is too high to keep counting. 363 00:16:10,407 --> 00:16:12,574 I think we're at around 11, or 14." 364 00:16:12,657 --> 00:16:15,782 Make a Woodstock baby, '99! 365 00:16:16,282 --> 00:16:19,949 ♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪ 366 00:16:20,615 --> 00:16:23,574 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 367 00:16:23,657 --> 00:16:24,991 I came here with three guys. 368 00:16:25,073 --> 00:16:26,365 And I didn't remember where the tent was. 369 00:16:26,449 --> 00:16:27,782 I had only been here like an hour. 370 00:16:27,866 --> 00:16:29,949 WOMAN: This section is for anybody 371 00:16:30,032 --> 00:16:31,741 who is lost or is seeking somebody else. 372 00:16:31,824 --> 00:16:33,574 MAN: Hey, I'm looking for a friend of mine. 373 00:16:33,657 --> 00:16:37,615 I brought him here yesterday and lost him, and he's 65. 374 00:16:37,699 --> 00:16:39,574 DAVID: It is crazy to think about it. 375 00:16:39,657 --> 00:16:42,282 Nobody had a cellphone. Like, or if they did, 376 00:16:42,365 --> 00:16:44,574 they were very few and far between. 377 00:16:44,657 --> 00:16:46,824 Back then, you really had no way 378 00:16:46,907 --> 00:16:48,699 of getting in touch with somebody, 379 00:16:48,782 --> 00:16:49,866 finding somebody. 380 00:16:51,157 --> 00:16:57,073 It was massive, so it's not easy to find people if you got lost. 381 00:16:57,157 --> 00:16:59,907 -MAN: Have you got a moment? -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) 382 00:16:59,991 --> 00:17:01,615 -WOMAN 1: We lost her... -WOMAN 2: We lost her... 383 00:17:01,699 --> 00:17:03,866 -...and now, she's found. -...and now, she's found. 384 00:17:04,657 --> 00:17:06,407 I can have fun at Woodstock now. 385 00:17:06,490 --> 00:17:10,490 -(WOMAN 1 CHUCKLES) -(CROWD CHEERING) 386 00:17:12,782 --> 00:17:14,657 ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen of Woodstock, 387 00:17:14,741 --> 00:17:17,449 a special treat for you all. 388 00:17:17,532 --> 00:17:19,615 The Backstreet Boys! 389 00:17:19,699 --> 00:17:21,782 ♪ ("EVERYBODY" BY BACKSTREET BOYS PLAYING) ♪ 390 00:17:21,866 --> 00:17:24,699 ♪ Backstreet's back all right ♪ 391 00:17:24,782 --> 00:17:27,699 DAVE HOLMES: At MTV, there was like a tug of war 392 00:17:27,782 --> 00:17:29,657 for the TRL charts at the time. 393 00:17:29,741 --> 00:17:31,615 It was the Disney teens 394 00:17:31,699 --> 00:17:34,240 versus the filthy boys in cargo shorts. 395 00:17:34,323 --> 00:17:36,240 And it went that way for a couple of years. 396 00:17:36,323 --> 00:17:38,949 And Woodstock '99 was sort of at, 397 00:17:39,032 --> 00:17:40,282 like, the pinnacle of that. 398 00:17:40,365 --> 00:17:42,115 All right, you guys ready for this? 399 00:17:42,198 --> 00:17:44,699 (CROWD CHEERING) 400 00:17:45,157 --> 00:17:46,198 (GRUNTS) 401 00:17:47,073 --> 00:17:49,032 (GRUNTS) 402 00:17:50,866 --> 00:17:53,741 DAVE HOLMES: 1999 was an interesting time 403 00:17:53,824 --> 00:17:57,615 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 00:18:02,157 --> 00:18:05,073 NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys and Britney and Christina 406 00:18:05,157 --> 00:18:08,699 and all of them were, like, at the top of the charts. 407 00:18:08,782 --> 00:18:10,115 And, as a reaction, 408 00:18:10,198 --> 00:18:12,490 there was all this sort of weird, 409 00:18:12,574 --> 00:18:15,741 rap inflected, aggressive rock music. 410 00:18:15,824 --> 00:18:17,323 And now falling out of the number one spot, 411 00:18:17,407 --> 00:18:18,824 back to number three today, here is Korn 412 00:18:18,907 --> 00:18:20,407 -with "Freak on a Leash." -(AUDIENCE CHEERING) 413 00:18:20,490 --> 00:18:22,157 CARSON: In the moment, TRL became 414 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,323 that cultural touch point for teenagers, 415 00:18:24,407 --> 00:18:28,490 it was must-see TV. We had all this inner-genre 416 00:18:28,574 --> 00:18:30,657 of music melding together in an hour 417 00:18:30,741 --> 00:18:31,866 where that would never have happened 418 00:18:31,949 --> 00:18:33,240 even a few years ago. 419 00:18:33,323 --> 00:18:35,323 At the time it felt like it's awesome, 420 00:18:35,407 --> 00:18:37,157 like TRL is a place like the United Nations, 421 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:38,449 like we all come together, 422 00:18:38,532 --> 00:18:40,490 everybody coexisted sort of magically. 423 00:18:40,574 --> 00:18:42,198 But looking back on it now, 424 00:18:42,282 --> 00:18:45,198 you realize that we were really probably playing with fire. 425 00:18:45,282 --> 00:18:47,949 I'm sick of the (BLEEP) Backstreet Boys on MTV Live. 426 00:18:48,032 --> 00:18:49,198 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). 429 00:18:54,657 --> 00:18:56,240 DAVE HOLMES: It was a weird time for MTV 430 00:18:56,323 --> 00:18:57,407 because it seemed like 431 00:18:57,490 --> 00:18:59,907 their reputation changed, their brand changed. 432 00:18:59,991 --> 00:19:01,991 The average viewer, it seemed like, 433 00:19:02,073 --> 00:19:04,198 dropped five years overnight, 434 00:19:04,282 --> 00:19:05,991 where it had once been 435 00:19:06,073 --> 00:19:08,449 kind of a counterculture-y kind of a place, 436 00:19:08,532 --> 00:19:10,532 suddenly it was like, there's Nick Jr. 437 00:19:10,615 --> 00:19:12,198 and Nickelodeon and then MTV. 438 00:19:12,282 --> 00:19:16,449 And Carson definitely got such a combination 439 00:19:16,532 --> 00:19:18,240 of like rage and jealousy 440 00:19:18,323 --> 00:19:20,949 because he was, you know, at the center of it. 441 00:19:21,032 --> 00:19:24,449 So, I've never been more happy to be overshadowed 442 00:19:24,532 --> 00:19:26,282 by someone than I was that weekend. 443 00:19:26,365 --> 00:19:29,407 (CROWD BOOING) 444 00:19:29,490 --> 00:19:31,574 Awesome this right here, 445 00:19:31,657 --> 00:19:34,198 is Woodstock '99 at its finest. 446 00:19:34,282 --> 00:19:37,407 DAVE HOLMES: From the second we got there, 447 00:19:37,490 --> 00:19:39,365 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 451 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:47,282 and gave it to their little sister. 452 00:19:47,365 --> 00:19:49,240 We were in trouble. 453 00:19:49,323 --> 00:19:55,449 ♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 454 00:19:55,532 --> 00:19:58,532 MOBY: Growing up, Woodstock in 1969 455 00:19:58,615 --> 00:20:03,198 figured more prominently as like a cultural touchstone 456 00:20:03,282 --> 00:20:06,615 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 458 00:20:09,365 --> 00:20:10,657 with Woodstock 459 00:20:10,741 --> 00:20:17,032 for cultural significance in the '70s, into the '80s, 460 00:20:17,115 --> 00:20:21,574 which is why when I got asked to perform in '99, 461 00:20:21,657 --> 00:20:22,699 I jumped at the chance 462 00:20:22,782 --> 00:20:25,866 because it was just such an iconic name. 463 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:30,907 I mean, you think of everybody who performed 464 00:20:30,991 --> 00:20:33,782 and like the number of times I've like watched the movies 465 00:20:33,866 --> 00:20:36,615 and listened to the soundtrack recording, 466 00:20:36,699 --> 00:20:39,615 and you realized it made it seem even more magical, 467 00:20:39,699 --> 00:20:41,574 like that it happened at all. 468 00:20:41,657 --> 00:20:44,407 Like, everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. 469 00:20:45,449 --> 00:20:47,615 But somehow it worked... 470 00:20:48,907 --> 00:20:52,657 like it was as idyllic and utopian 471 00:20:52,741 --> 00:20:55,323 as a gathering of 500,000 or more people 472 00:20:55,407 --> 00:20:57,365 has ever been in human history. 473 00:20:57,449 --> 00:20:59,323 And I know that sounds like an exaggeration, 474 00:20:59,407 --> 00:21:00,657 but it really isn't. 475 00:21:00,741 --> 00:21:03,282 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 476 00:21:08,532 --> 00:21:10,824 CAMERA MAN: 477 00:21:10,907 --> 00:21:12,824 MOBY: Problem was, 478 00:21:12,907 --> 00:21:16,198 see there's a little expression of ATD, attention to detail. 479 00:21:16,282 --> 00:21:18,198 My name wasn't on the piece of plywood. 480 00:21:18,282 --> 00:21:19,490 And there's this little piece of plywood 481 00:21:19,574 --> 00:21:21,115 that welcomes you when you come in. 482 00:21:21,198 --> 00:21:22,407 -CAMERA MAN: And all the artists signed-- -And all the artists' names 483 00:21:22,490 --> 00:21:23,657 are on the piece of plywood and my name 484 00:21:23,741 --> 00:21:25,198 wasn't on the piece of plywood and I... 485 00:21:25,282 --> 00:21:26,282 (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) ♪