WEBVTT FILE 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) ♪