The chaotic and violent occasions at Woodstock's 1999 music pageant are again underneath scrutiny following the discharge of a brand new Netflix documentary "Trainwreck: Woodstock '99."
The summer time music pageant was presupposed to be a revival of the famed 1969 pageant, billed as three days of "peace and music" — besides the late 90's reboot was something however. "As an alternative, the pageant degenerated into an epic trainwreck of fires, riots and destruction," in accordance with the documentary.
Like different variations of Woodstock, the 1999 pageant was hosted in upstate New York, however in contrast to the unique and the Twenty fifth-anniversary 1994 Woodstock, which have been each held on grassy pastoral grounds, the '99 model was set behind the concrete partitions of the previous Griffiss Air Drive Base in Rome, New York, greater than 140 miles from the unique location, the place organizers hoped to keep away from a whole bunch of 1000's of attendees sneaking in, as occurred through the 1994 model.
An estimated 400,000 individuals have been in attendance and roughly 250,000 individuals have been there on the notorious Saturday night time when "a whole bunch of state troopers in riot gear moved in to guard different distributors' cubicles" because the scene unraveled into pure destruction," in accordance with AP.
"I have been getting requested about #woodstock99 a ton just lately because of the @netflix doc that is out. All I can say is I assumed I used to be going to die," wrote TV character Carson Daly in an Instagram publish. Then host of MTV's in style video countdown present "Complete Request Stay," also called "TRL," Daly, now 49, was there to cowl the pageant.
"It began off nice, TRL dwell from the aspect of fundamental stage interviewing all of the bands (like Jay from Jamiroquai)," he wrote. However then, issues began to go improper. He "began getting pelted with bottles, rocks, lighters, all of it. It obtained insane, quick. Dusk, Limp performs 'Break Stuff' & the prisoners have been formally working the jail," he wrote.
His boss instructed him that he and the crew wanted to depart, saying, "We are able to not assure your security, it is time to go!" Daly wrote.
"I bear in mind being in a manufacturing van driving recklessly by means of corn fields to get to security. It was so loopy & a blur now. I simply bear in mind feeling like I used to be out of the country throughout army battle," he wrote.
And Daly mentioned he hasn't been again to Rome, New York. "I've so many enjoyable recollections from that period, this was not certainly one of them," he mentioned.
The primary Woodstock had a lineup that included The Grateful Lifeless, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. The '99 model included many heavy steel and heavy rock bands reminiscent of Limp Bizkit, Korn, Child Rock, Metallica and Creed –– whom critics within the Netflix documentary say helped gasoline the gang's aggressive power.
HBO additionally launched a documentary concerning the notorious pageant in 2021, which detailed the occasion and sought to reply how an iconic celebration of concord descended into mayhem.