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What happened during Limp Bizkit Woodstock 99?

9 August 2022, 15:28 | Updated: 9 August 2022, 16:56 Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit at the 1999 Woodstock Festival. Picture: Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect/Getty Images The Limp Bizkit frontman doesn’t appear in the new Netflix documentary about the disastrous festival from 1999, but he’s spoken in the past about whether he was to blame for all the trouble.

• Here’s what he had to say.
• Netflix’s new documentary Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 has shocked viewers with its hard-hitting story of the ill-fated US festival.
• Designed to follow up the “three days of peace and music” ethos of the original event in 1969, the 1999 version was marred by poor conditions and unbearably hot weather.

As the new three-part film shows, tensions in the huge 400,000-plus crowd led to riots, arson, multiple cases of sexual assault and even three (accidental) deaths. Watch the trailer for Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage For over 20 years, blame for the Woodstock ’99 disaster has been laid at the door of Limp Bizkit, most notably by the festival’s organiser John Scher, CNN reported at the time that during the band’s set on the Saturday evening “more than two hundred people threw bottles, smashed a barricade and nearly trampled sound-system components.

What was the reason for Woodstock 99?

What happened at Woodstock ’99? – Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 Netflix Woodstock 1999 was the third Woodstock event – however, it was the least successful of the three, with Rolling Stone describing it as “one of the most calamitous festivals of all time”. While it was meant to commemorate 30 years of peace, love and happiness, various problems with water availability, the weather and episodes of violence resulted in Woodstock ’99 going down in history as “the day the Nineties died”.

1. One of the main problems was the lack of water and the ridiculously high temperatures over the weekend.
2. With few tap water stations and bottled water being sold for $4 on site when the temperatures were hitting the late 30s in celsius, festivalgoers were both dehydrated and displeased with the situation.

And to make matters worse the festival was held on tarmac, meaning the heat wasn’t being absorbed and people were walking for miles across scorching hot concrete. According to Syracuse.com, at least 700 people were treated for heat exhaustion and dehydration at the festival.

1. With huge crowds, very few female artists playing the festival and reports of festival goers shouting “show your t**s” at some women on stage, there were also reports of misogynistic behaviour at Woodstock ’99, as well as instances of sexual assault and rape.
2. Rehabilitation counsellor David Schneider told MTV at the time, “At one point I saw this girl, a very petite girl, maybe 100 pounds, who was body-surfing above the crowd and either fell in or was pulled into a circle in the mosh pit.” He added: “These gentlemen, probably in the 25–32 age range, looked as though they were holding her down.

They were holding her arms; you could see she was struggling.” Even the Woodstock website was allegedly publishing photographs of topless festivalgoers without their consent, while New York State Police troopers were also accused of misconduct, with one allegedly encouraging women to take off their clothes and another saying “show us some ” to a female attendee (according to the MTV report).

During the Red Hot Chili Peppers festival-closing set, attendees took their cover of Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Fire’ quite literally, with bonfires breaking out throughout the crowd, cars being flipped and booths being torched. State troopers stormed through the crowds in riot gear and managed to diminish the riots.

Various people came away from the festival injured and at least three people died, according to Pitchfork, with one – David DeRosia – collapsing in the mosh put during Metallica’s performance and dying of heat stroke.

Who was the surprise act at Woodstock 99?

A Music Festival That Ended on a Bad Note A still from ‘Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99’ Music Festival on July 25 1999 On July 25, 1999, a few hours before the Woodstock ’99 festival ended, American band Red Hot Chili Peppers came on stage. The event had already witnessed a number of disasters, and the organizers thought it would be great to have a peaceful candle-light vigil to protest against gun violence in the U.S.

The band played “UnderThe Bridge,” and all looked good. Suddenly, a fire broke out and within seconds, there was chaos. More fires popped up, and strangely enough, the Peppers had chosen a cover of the Jimi Hendrix song “Fire” as an encore. Things didn’t end there, as hundreds of agitators rioted, brought down a speaker tower, attacked food vendors and smashed ATM machines.

It was animal behavior everywhere. Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99, a three-part docu-series premiered recently on Netflix, is about a doomed music festival. Held three decades after the original Woodstock, a symbol of peace, love and music, and five years after the commercially-disastrous Woodstock ‘94, the 1999 gig was remembered for rioting, arson, mismanagement, cases of sexual assault, brazen nudity, terrible heat conditions, sickness caused by dehydration, people high on ecstasy, heaps of garbage, unreasonable pricing, alleged corporate greed and three deaths.

The film captures the three main days, dedicating an episode to each. There’s nothing about the pre-show concert on July 22, 1999. However, if you’re looking for a rock documentary featuring great appearances by Rage Against The Machine, Metallica, Live, Alanis Morissette and Creed, all of who were part of the lineup, you won’t find them here.

There’s nothing remotely close to the performances of Ten Years After, Joe Cocker, Santana and Jimi Hendrix, all highlights of the 1969 festival. In short, this is more about the mayhem than the music. More about shock value than songwriting. Director Jamie Crawford’s aim seems to be clear – to highlight all the mishaps that took place at the festival.

He has used bytes, taken a few years after the festival, of participating musicians like Korn frontman Jonathan Davis, Gavin Rossdale of Bush, singer Jewel Kilcher and Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim, besides audience members, journalists, TV news presenters, MTV’s celebrity VJ Ananda Lewis, and the main organizers Michael Lang and John Scher.

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett disappeared before one could blink. Depending on which side they were on, the interviewees said more or less the same thing. Press conferences were filled with hogwash. Both Lang and Scher refused to take responsibility for the fiasco, with the latter even saying, “We’re happy, all is well, we haven’t had any tough incidents.” When questioned about the demolition of an art wall by angry protesters, Lang quipped, “The exterior wall makes an amazing souvenir, and people just couldn’t resist it a piece of Woodstock.” Even Joe Griffo, former Mayor of Rome, New York, gave the fest a thumbs-up, and invited the organizers back for a repeat.

The series has showtime tidbits showing how soul and funk superstar James Brown refused to get on stage till his sudden demand for more money was met, how Jewel walked away after seeing the crowd get impatient, and how Sheryl Crow patiently handled obscene demands by some men with placards. However, many of the performances have been badly edited, and one rarely gets a taste of the actual music.

Those days, ‘nu metal’ was in vogue, and youngsters wanted music that was loud, angry and rebellious. We are talking of a time much before Linkin Park had burst on to the scene with the album Hybrid Theory in 2000. Even the Seattle grunge biggies of the early 1990s weren’t part of the line-up.

Most people identified with Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name” and Limp Bizkit’s “Break Stuff.” And if acts like James Brown and country star Willie Nelson were included, it was probably as a symbolic association with the 1969 sound. The film’s focus is on three groups – besides concluding act Red Hot Chili Peppers, there was Korn on the opening day and Limp Bizkit on the second night.

The Korn appearance is a classic example of the kind of music that was in demand at that time. The entire crowd seemed like one big unit, with headbanging and crowdsurfing everywhere. A lot of sexual misconduct was also reported when women were carried over the crowd.

If Korn set the pace for mob frenzy, Kid Rock asked the crowd to throw water bottles around. But the Limp Bizkit show was seen as the tipping point, and the song “Break Stuff” had people doing just that. Front man Fred Durst kept egging the audience, and many organizers, including Scher, blame him for making the crowd go out of control.

Durst began by asking. “How many of you people here ever woke up one morning and just decided it wasn’t one of those days, and you’re gonna break some sh*t?” The more the crowd reacted, the more he persisted, asking them to “reach deep down inside and let it all out.” He even took a dig at Alanis Morissette, who appeared earlier.

• Crawford’s docu-series lists all the things that went wrong, but it doesn’t attribute the crowd’s anger and behavior to any specific reason.
• There are references to the generational shift and how MTV had taken over youth tastes, but these are only through passing quotes.
• One of the comments talked about how today’s generation might vent out their feelings on social media platforms, but in the late 1990s, the chief option was physical violence and destruction, mainly resorted to by ‘frat boys.’ Thus, the viewer has to draw his own conclusions for the debacle.

One of the reasons for the outbursts could be the high pricing – those days, a bottle of water cost 65 cents outside. At the festival, the price began at $4 and even went up to $12 on the final day. The heat was terrible too, almost a 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and there was barely any place to get shade.

It was felt that for an event that had an estimated 220,000 people as maximum attendance at a given time, security measures were pathetic, with inexperienced “kids in yellow shirts” being hired. On the second morning, the whole area was covered in trash, from food packs to liquor bottles to used tissues.

The toilets were terribly managed too, the stench was unbearable and the showering stations were inadequate in number. It was no surprise then that many people decided to leave after day two, tired and disgruntled. Some music lovers hung around till the end, believing rumours that a big surprise act was lined up after Red Hot Chili Peppers.

• The buzz was that it could be Prince, Guns N’ Roses, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones or even Michael Jackson.
• But none of them came.
• All the crowd got to see was Peppers bassist Flea prance about naked on stage, and a video of the late guitar god Jimi Hendrix on the giant screen.
• Even for OTT viewers, the film doesn’t end with any earworm material, which is surprising because the Woodstock ’99 double album released by Epic Records three months after the event had some great songs.

Maybe the idea was to make viewers go back to the original Woodstock 1969 film for some actual music, peace and love. As Joni Mitchell wrote, “We’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.” : A Music Festival That Ended on a Bad Note

Did Woodstock stop after 99?

How many Woodstocks were there? – There were three Woodstock festivals in total: 1969, 1994 and and 1999, The first is the version of Woodstock most are familiar with, which was billed as ‘An Aquarian Experience: 3 Days of Peace and Music’. The original festival emulated the counterculture movement of the 60s.

The two lesser-known editions of Woodstock tried to capture the spirit of the first, and there were also plans for a ‘Woodstock 50’ in 2019, which would have marked the 50th anniversary of the original festival. However, it was plagued by financial and venue trouble, and on July 31 2019, Woodstock co-creator Michael Lang said to Variety “We are saddened that a series of unforeseen setbacks has made it impossible to put on the festival we imagined with the great line-up we had booked,” adding “Due to conflicting radius issues in the DC area many acts were unable to participate and others passed for their own reasons.” Lang sadly died from cancer in January 2022 at the age of 77.

Though he was best known for co-creating Woodstock, he also owned Just Sunshine Records, which produced and released more than 40 albums, and managed singer Joe Cocker, who performed at the original Woodstock.

Is Fred Durst sorry for Woodstock?

What Has Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst Said About Woodstock ’99 In The Past? A new three-part Netflix documentary called, dives deep into the chaos that ensued during the 30th-anniversary celebration of the iconic 1969 music festival. Over the course of the series, viewers will see riots, destruction, and instances of sexual assault, which, for several years, had been attributed to the performers.

• Of was one of the infamous acts on the bill.
• Specifically, Limp Bizkit’s song “Break Stuff,” which contains the lyrics, “It’s just one of those days when you don’t wanna wake up / Everything is f*cked, everybody sucks / You don’t really know why, but you wanna justify / Rippin’ someone’s head off,” is often referenced when people talk about Woodstock ’99.

One moment of Limp Bizkit’s performance that often goes overlooked is when Durst says, “We already let all the negative energy out. It’s time to bring some positive energy into this motherfucker.” In a, Durst reflected on this statement, saying, “I don’t think understood what I meant.

1. OK, let’s get rid of all that negative energy so we can bring positive in.
2. That means start jumping — jumping and singing.
3. It doesn’t mean start raping and burning the place down.” Over the years, Durst has maintained that the destruction that took place was neither his fault, nor that of the other performers, but rather the festival organizers.

A 50th-anniversary celebration of Woodstock was planned for 2019, but eventually cancelled. That year, Durst spoke with, saying “It’s easy to point the finger and blame, but they hired us for what we do — and all we did is what we do. I would turn the finger and point it back to the people that hired us.” Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 is now streaming on Netflix.

Was the tragically hip at Woodstock 99?

The Tragically Hip Concert Setlist at Woodstock ’99 on July 24, 1999 | setlist.fm.

Who calmed down Woodstock 99?

Many in the audience infamously used the candles to start giant, raging fires. And, according to the Netflix doc, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were asked to calm the crowd down before their encore.

Who turned down Woodstock 99?

Jeff Beck Group – Frank Micelotta/Getty Images Musician Jeff Beck performs at the MusiCares 2005 Person of the Year Tribute to Brian Wilson at the Palladium on Feb.11, 2005, in Hollywood, Calif. The Jeff Beck Group was on the schedule, but never made it to Woodstock. Beck decided to disband the group the night before they were scheduled to take the stage.

How much did it cost to clean up Woodstock 99?

Woodstock ’99: Mega MSW Management Imagine how you’d clean up a city spanning 1,300 acres – including an event fairway covered by a sea of people, a 280-acre campground, two massive food courts, three stages, a village, numerous catering tents to feed 7,000 workers and parking lots to handle more than 80,000 vehicles – if it were cluttered with garbage.

Welcome to the challenge Upstate New York faced when it became home to a city-sized event – Woodstock ’99. Cleaning up this mega-sized rock concert required water, power, wastewater collection and a comprehensive solid waste management plan – just from one end of the parking lot to the other was a distance of nearly three miles.

What’s more, the Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority, Utica, N.Y., also had to cope with the garbage when solid waste plans went awry. In addition, Woodstock ’99 became famous for fires and looting, which made cleanup even more difficult. Here’s what the Authority learned, in hindsight, that can be applied to future mega-sized events.

• A Plan in Place Last July, more than 225,000 people from all over the world were expected to converge on Rome, N.Y., for the four-day Woodstock ’99.
• Rome was an attractive location for the concert because Griffiss Park, the former Griffiss Air Force Base, provided more than 1,300 acres to event planners for the new “city’s” development.

To handle the 1,200 tons of solid waste that was expected to be generated at the event, Woodstock ’99 planners established a waste management group consisting of three separate organizations. Woodstock ’99 Waste Management was in charge of overall planning, on-site management and some cleaning/ collection.

Clifton Property Services, Syracuse, N.Y., primarily was responsible for litter pick-up, cleaning, collection and movement of bagged waste from small containers (55 gallon drums) to large containers, and mechanized sweeping. The Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority, a public benefit corporation established to provide solid waste management services to 320,000 residents of central New York, was responsible for the solid waste management plan review, placement and service of large collection containers, and disposal of all waste generated at the festival.

The Authority, based on a competitive proposal, also was awarded a sub-contract to provide specified solid waste management services. To insure its own financial integrity, the Authority obtained money for solid waste services up front because the vast majority of promoters were not local businesses with known credit.

1. Thus, the Authority negotiated with Woodstock ’99 to create a series of escrow accounts held at a local bank in the Authority’s name.
2. The accounts, based on mutually agreed upon estimates, covered waste disposal, event collection and post-event collection.
3. Waste disposal costs were estimated at $111,949; event collection costs were estimated at $90,139; and post collection costs were estimated to be $34,728.

This arrangement was a nonnegotiable policy established by the Authority Board of Directors. “We were very comfortable undertaking the Woodstock project from a financial perspective thanks to the escrow accounts,” says Brenda Mahaffy, Authority comptroller.

Once finances were established, the Authority insisted on specific service routes to be used by waste collection trucks because the concert-goer’s health and safety were a primary concern. It provided input on collection container locations and communicated with the key decision makers in both the public and private sectors so that problems could be resolved quickly.

For example, after some persuasion, the Woodstock ’99 promoters agreed to the Authority’s higher estimate of 1,200 tons to be generated at the event. Based on its experience in solid waste event handling, the Authority thought the promoters’ original estimate was too low.

And obviously, it is better to be slightly over the estimated waste quantities and corresponding collection containers than to be stuck with too few containers during the event, the Authority noted. The Authority also established a positive working relationship with the promoters to ensure work was done in a cooperative, efficient and quick manner.

Woodstock ’99 recognized that the Authority consisted of solid waste professionals, and valued its opinions and recommendations throughout the six-month project. Essential Equipment Once the Authority made its estimates and established routes, it worked with Woodstock ’99 to secure the necessary 10 35-cubic-yard compactors, 27 8-cubic-yard front-end-load containers and 21 open-top roll-off containers that would collect the event’s waste.

• In addition to sub-contracting with two local solid waste haulers for the majority of the containers and some trucking, the Authority also placed the remaining containers and hauled all compactor waste.
• Using compactors alone, 150 tons of capacity was available at any given time.
• Compactors were located behind each food court, front-end-load containers were primarily placed at the catering tents and roll-off containers were set at various high waste generation areas.

Trucking was done with four roll-off trucks and one front-end-loader. Once a container was filled, trash was hauled to the Authority’s transfer station located approximately 1 mile from the concert area. To make access to the disposal site easier, Woodstock ’99 con- structed a road directly to the transfer station, which allowed haulers to bypass the transfer station main gate where potential traffic problems could occur.

• Additionally, because of the transfer station’s proximity, solid waste could be hauled 24 hours a day during the festival – a great advantage over direct haul to distant landfills, according to the Authority.
• Event Operations While the Authority was not responsible for providing or servicing the “points-of-entry” – the small waste receptacles, Clifton Property Services and Woodstock ’99 personnel distributed nearly 3,000 55-gallon barrels and waxed corrugated boxes throughout the event area.

Each receptacle was lined with a plastic bag. Crews were assigned to collect full bags from the receptacles, replace them and transport the waste to the large containers. The front-end loader serviced each of the 27 containers located near the catering tents three times a day, after breakfast, lunch and dinner.

While this system worked well at the catering site, cleanup of the main event areas basically was limited to between 4 a.m. to 9 a.m. each concert day. This was the only time during the event that concert goers were out of the venue areas because nearly all were sleeping at the campground. And although 30-yard roll-off containers were placed near piles of bagged trash to speed up the process, there wasn’t enough time to pick up all the bags, and they began to pile up.

At this point, the Authority intensified its efforts to cleanup during the last night of the concert. Then, the unforeseen happened – fires, looting and bedlam – none of it conducive to solid waste management, let alone public safety. Only after the site was under control could the teams cleanup the mess.

• According to the Authority, the majority of the waste never made it to the large containers during Woodstock ’99.
• Only 134 tons of waste were removed from the site during the four days – much less than what was expected.
• Post-Event Cleanup After assessing the monumental task of cleaning the piled up refuse, the Authority concluded that much of the work needed to be done by hand – heavy equipment would damage the park’s grassy areas and create even more restoration work.

Directed by Woodstock ’99 management, hundreds of workers literally picked up each piece of paper, plastic bottle, discarded shoe, unwanted tent and torn sleeping bag and placed those items into one of three packer trucks brought in for post-event cleanup.

• Street sweepers also were used to clean the runways to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) standards – absolutely no litter, not even a cigarette butt was to remain on site, according to the Authority.
• Wheel loaders also were employed to quickly clean piles of waste laying on hard surfaces.
• The entire post-event clean-up took about four weeks to complete and concluded on August 27, 1999.

Workers cleaned more than 300 acres per week to restore Griffiss Park to its pre-event condition. The final tally for solid waste collected at the event was 1,261 tons. In addition there were 92 tons of construction and demolition debris and 44 tons of greenwaste generated for a total of 1,433 tons, or just more than 3 pounds of waste per person per day.

About 90 percent of the waste was removed from the site when the concert was over. Each truck load averaged 3.5 tons post event compared to 1.4 tons per truck during the event. This occurred because event waste was almost solely non-compacted, bagged waste, which had a high volume and low weight. Woodstock ’99 paid the Authority $285,977 for its collection and disposal services – approximately $49,000 over budget.

Woodstock ’99 made an early commitment to recycling. Through the Authority’s integrated system approach, about 40 tons of recyclable corrugated cardboard, plastic bottles and scrap metal were recovered at no charge to the event planners. Nearly all the recyclables were collected at food court areas in dedicated recycling containers.

Recyclables were processed at the Authority’s recycling center located in Utica, New York. However, recycling efforts were thwarted by contamination (recyclable materials mixed with trash) and low participation by concert-goers. An ordering glitch, which resulted in delivery of black plastic bags instead of clear plastic bags, did not allow for visual inspection to insure against contamination.

Additionally, the actual amount of recycling at Woodstock ’99 was impossible to fully quantify because many individuals scavenged tens of thousands of returnable plastic and aluminum beverage containers to redeem the deposit. For example, The Rome Little League benefited from approximately 40,000 returnable containers it collected.

1. Secure adequate funding up front.
2. Don’t think because you’ve managed waste at a stadium or county fair that a mega-sized concert will be similar.
3. They are two completely different audiences with different priorities and habits.
4. Remember people live at a rock concert event for a number of days – they don’t go home after six hours.

* Recycling is a challenge. Frankly, not all concert-goers will recycle. But to capture the recyclables, use drop off areas. These staffed sites should be well placed, preferably near food courts and highly visible areas. Contamination can be minimized and recycling rates boosted if this recycling service method is employed.

• Be creative; it is essential to clean the event grounds during the day.
• Use utility vehicles with trailers to get waste out of congested areas where traditional trucks won’t fit.
• This job is labor intensive, so make sure you have plenty of workers.
• About 150 people per shift would be sufficient for large events.

And, note that most machines don’t mix well with huge crowds. * Be smart with equipment. Bring packer trucks with four-person crews for late night cleaning of bagged waste. This is more efficient than non-compactor collection vehicles. * Compactors work well if you place them properly.

Was anyone held accountable for Woodstock 99?

Find out here Although the figures differ, reportedly 42 to 44 people were arrested during the festival, while ten state troopers and two state police supervisors were also believed to be demoted or suspended for their behaviour at the festival, and one prison guard was charged with sexual assault.

Did Metallica play Woodstock 99?

After that, things got weird. Limp Bizkit.

What’s the biggest concert in history?

Jean Michel Jarre, 1997–3.5 million – The king of big gigs is undoubtedly Jean Michel Jarre, performing a grand total of four concerts with an audience of over a million people each. Back in 1979 he set the world record for the biggest gig ever — his performance in Paris attracted a million fans.

Is Woodstock still a thing 2023?

During his 2023 State of the City Address on Friday, Woodstock Mayor Michael Caldwell announced the lineup for the 2023 Season of Woodstock Summer Concert Series. “I hope you were able to join us last year for the Summer Concert Series. From Sister Hazel to Scotty McCreery, Woodstock, you showed up to play,’ said Mayor Caldwell.

“It’s not unexpected to find our concerts yielding thousands in attendance, and this year is shaping up to be the biggest ever.” The season opens on Saturday, May 13th with chart-topping country singer-songwriter Craig Morgan. Hits like “Redneck Yacht Club” and “International Harvester” will have downtown Woodstock rocking.

Saturday, June 10th, Rick Springfield takes the stage at the Northside Hospital-Cherokee Amphitheater. It will be a moment to remember when the Australian-born musician and actor sings his Grammy-winning number one hit “Jessie’s Girl”. Bruno Mars Tribute, Uptown Funk, will bring that twenty-four-carat magic to the July 8th concert.

Concertgoers will want to jump when another great tribute act, Completely Unchained, performs Van Halen’s greatest hits on August 12th. The season ends on September 9th as southern rock icons Drivin N Cryin rock the stage with original hits like “Fly Me Courageous” and “Straight to Hell”. “Woodstock Parks and Rec is adding a lot of value to already great sponsorship packages this year,” Mayor Caldwell stated.

“If you’ve been thinking about partnering as a sponsor on this outstanding event series, this is the year to commit.” For information on sponsorship, contact City of Woodstock Special Events Coordinator Marybeth Stockdale at 770-592-6000 ext.1952. Additional details will be announced online at woodstockconcertseries.com in the coming weeks.

Why was Woodstock 69 so important?

In 1969, the country was deep into the controversial Vietnam War, a conflict that many young people vehemently opposed. It was also the era of the civil rights movement, a period of great unrest and protest. Woodstock was an opportunity for people to escape into music and spread a message of unity and peace.

How much money did Woodstock 99 make?

Finances and promotion – Woodstock 1999 was conceived and executed as a commercial venture with dozens of corporate sponsors and included the presence of vendor “malls” and modern accoutrements such as ATMs and email stations. Scher hoped to avoid the large losses that Woodstock ’94 had incurred, planning for the 1999 event to turn a profit; this resulted in numerous cost-cutting measures such as the extensive subcontracting of onsite amenities.

1. Advance tickets for the event were priced at $150 (equivalent to $260 in 2022) plus service charges, at the time considered costly for a festival of this type.
2. Tickets purchased at the gate cost $180.
3. There were about 400,000 attendees.
4. A total of 186,983 tickets were sold according to reports shortly after the festival, “a gross take of $28,864,748” at the time.

Ticket sales were advertised as being capped at 250,000, the capacity of the venue. It has been estimated that ticket sales were worth $60 million in revenue, but that number appears to have been based on believing there were 400,000 paid attendees. Ticket sales may have been underreported to avoid extra payouts to Rome and Oneida County : Perhaps the discrepancy stems from the deal between Woodstock 1999 promoters and the Griffiss Local Development Corporation (GLDC).

MTV cites that the GLDC, the city of Rome, and Oneida County were expected to receive $1 million to host the festival and an additional $250,000 if ticket sales topped 200,000. Any tickets sold beyond 200,000 would then result in an additional $5 (per ticket) paid to all parties. While it’s clear more than 186,983 people attended Woodstock 1999, on paper, only that many tickets had been recorded being sold.

Based on that figure, the promoters wouldn’t have been required to dish out the extra money it had promised the GLDC. The promoters stated a figure of $38 million in original production costs, not including damages, fees, or emergency costs. Promoters had originally budgeted the festival at $30 million.

Rome itself became a draw for attendees, who patronized its bars, restaurants, and stores, and stayed in its hotels for the concert’s duration. The Oneida County Convention and Visitors Bureau estimated that festival attendees spent as much as $40 million in Rome over the weekend. Woodstock 1999 was simulcast on pay-per-view television, with early reports of 500,000 purchases.

In addition to documenting the performers, MTV’s pay-per-view coverage included coverage of the site and vox pop interviews with attendees, which some reporters later considered to resemble gonzo journalism, With 500,000 purchases of $59.95 simulcast passes, revenues could have been as high as $30 million.

Did people enjoy Woodstock 99?

With a new HBO documentary revisiting the infamous Woodstock ’99, a new generation is learning about one of the most calamitous festivals of all time. Woodstock ’99 was supposed to celebrate the 30th anniversary of “peace, love and happiness.” Instead, the Rome, New York festival earned the infamous distinction of “the day the Nineties died.” There were tons of contributing factors that made the fest the anti-Woodstock: Organizers trying to wring every last dollar from festivalgoers from exorbitant ticket prices to costly water bottles, a festival site built atop hot tarmac in late-July heat, a poorly curated and scheduled lineup and an angry, aggressive crowd that left a charred festival site and sexual assaults in its wake.

What did Limp Bizkit say at Woodstock?

In the footage, Fred appears to be responding to the chaos in the audience, including crowd surfing on a piece of plywood torn from the sound tower, performing Break Stuff which includes the lyrics: ‘You don’t really know why, but you wanna justify rippin’ someone’s head off,’ then telling the crowd: ‘We already let

Where is the Woodstock 99 today?

Where Was Woodstock ’99 Held? – Over the weekend of July 23 to 25, 1999, a quarter-million people headed to the Woodstock musical festival. The weekend was set to be a millennium-defining celebration of peace, love and music just like the famous 1969 original.

In the end, however, Woodstock ’99 turned out to be a far cry from flower-power. The festival was held at the former Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, upstate New York. The air base was in use between 1942 and 1995, and was particularly active during World War II, often the base of repairing, modifying and maintaining aircraft.

In 1984, Griffiss was added to the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List after hazardous chemicals were found in the soil and water as a result of base operations. Four men at Woodstock ’99. Netflix A report by EPA found that solvents, lead and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) had been disposed of in landfills and dry wells, contaminating the water of Three Mile Creek and Six Mile Creek, as well as groundwater beneath portions of the base, leading to a cleanup operation.

The base closed in 1995, just four years before Woodstock would later call it home. The new location was roughly 100 miles from the site of the 1969 festival. Ahead of Woodstock ’99, the festival’s co-creator Michael Lang told New York Daily News he “loved the idea” of having the festival take place at Griffiss.

“I loved the idea of having it on a military base, but I didn’t want a place that was just vast and flat and covered with concrete. Fortunately, this isn’t,” he said. “I can’t tell you how many people over the years have told me Woodstock changed their lives and it’s because of how you live while you’re here—in total freedom. Fires were set at Woodstock ’99 by the crowd. Netflix There were massive airplane hangers no longer in use; a large runway also cut through the festival grounds. Additionally, due to the vast space, the two main stages were a 2-mile walk from one another.

1. However, when chaos ensued, the wall also prevented people from escaping to safety.
2. Marketed as a “peace wall”, the gate was manned by 500 New York police troopers for additionally security.
3. During the chaos of Woodstock ’99, which saw a scorching heatwave, violence, sexual assault, looting, vandalism and arson, the base assets at Griffiss were not harmed.

There was also very little access to water, even as the tarmac on the ground became unbearably hot. The site was also seriously overcrowded and overpriced. Today the airfield is now Griffiss International Airport, owned by Oneida County, and the site is home to Griffiss Business and Technology Park and the Rome Research Site of the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Was Woodstock really in Woodstock?

5 Things You Might Not Know About Woodstock | University of Central Florida News In August 1969, the original Woodstock Festival brought together nearly half a million people in a celebration of peace, music and love. The organizers—Michael Lang, John P.

• Roberts, Joel Rosenman and Artie Kornfeld—had no way of knowing their festival would become the cultural phenomenon of the century with lasting effects rippling through pop culture and the political landscape.
• Fifty years later, anniversary celebrations, films, music and books about Woodstock demonstrate that the spirit of the festival is alive and flourishing.

George Weremchuk, a saxophonist and associate professor of music in the School of Performing Arts, teaches UCF’s popular “Survey of Rock Music” course, which includes Woodstock in its curriculum. “The festival came at a time when the young people of America needed that musical outlet,” he says.

How did he become such an expert? “I’m a fan of the music,” Weremchuk says with a smile. “It was a once-in-a-lifetime event,” Weremchuk says. “They try to duplicate it, and you just can’t fabricate it. Everything just kind of came into balance.” The location was ideal, the lineup was incredible and it was strikingly peaceful for such a massively attended event.

Although plans for an official three-day anniversary concert this month have been cancelled, you can embrace the spirit of Woodstock this week alongside the global community with these little-known facts about the festival from Weremchuk.1. Though the festival was named for the town of Woodstock, New York, it actually took place on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 60 miles southeast of Woodstock.

The festival had a couple different names: Bethel Rock Festival, the Aquarian Music Festival, but the name Woodstock came from the town of Woodstock, New York, where there was a community of artists and musicians who lived there—artists like Bob Dylan. “Two of the organizers of the event had the idea of opening a recording studio in Woodstock,” Weremchuk says, “so the first idea was to have a concert to help fundraise for this recording studio.” The site where the festival was held, a dairy farm belonging to Max Yasgur, was the organizers’ fourth attempt at a venue: they had struck out in Woodstock, Saugerties and Wallkill before finally finding their location in Bethel.2.

At the time, Woodstock was the largest outdoor music festival, and it’s still one of the largest music festivals in the world to date. Especially in an age without digital communication, it was a miraculous feat to gather that many people from all over the world and to accomplish such a crowd.

Organizers posted advertisements in free press and newspapers all over the country, along with a few in a little magazine called Rolling Stone, then only two years old. It was listed as $7 a day for admission. “The fact that everything aligned so perfectly and the festival actually happened is a miracle.” — George Weremchuk, associate professor of music “They thought maybe 150,000 people, 50,000 a day.

They had no idea how many people would come,” Weremchuk says. “During that weekend of the festival, it actually became the second or third largest city in New York.” The small rural area didn’t have the infrastructure to support 400,000 people. “The locals didn’t want hippies there,” he says.

There had already been festivals in previous years and the locals didn’t want that many people invading their little bucolic towns.” Due to this pushback, organizers barely obtained permits by Aug.2. “The fact that everything aligned so perfectly and the festival actually happened is a miracle.” 3. Before plans for Woodstock took shape, two of the event organizers had placed an ad in the Wall Street Journal that read: “Young Men with Unlimited Capitol Looking for Interesting and Legitimate Ideas.” Several events in the late 1960s served as a catalyst for the festival’s massive draw, such as America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.

“Many of the people who attended the festival were against the war and protested it,” Weremchuk says. The Civil Rights Movement was also heavy in the minds of people that age. “The two people who could have changed things were assassinated: Martin Luther King Jr., and a few months later, Robert Kennedy,” Weremchuk adds.

• Young people became disillusioned with government and what they thought America stood for, and a counterculture evolved.
• Some attendees felt they were the only people in their town that believed what they believed in and looked the way they did, and all of a sudden, you have hundreds of thousands of like-minded people together and there was a community that many of these people didn’t know existed.” 4.

Woodstock was scheduled to end in the evening of Sunday, Aug.18, but due to rainy conditions, it concluded on the following morning, with Jimi Hendrix playing the last set at 9 am. Although Jimi Hendrix had become popular before Woodstock, his rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner was his breakout performance.

1. People who heard it were dismayed and thought he was unpatriotic, this American who had served in the Army.
2. They didn’t realize the sounds and feedback he could create with his guitar evoked the sounds of bombs exploding and machine-gun fire.” The festival was a starting point for many of the bands, like Santana; Sly and Family Stone; and Crosby, Stills and Nash.

“Many of these bands were from San Francisco and didn’t have any exposure anywhere else, and they went on to become internationally recognized and established.” 5. Even with such a large audience, event organizers lost more than $1 million hosting the festival.

1. Because the organizers ran out of time, the builders had to triage between building necessities like ticket booths, fencing or the stage.
2. They couldn’t get the fences built in time to be able to charge admission,” Weremchuk comments.
3. There were already tens of thousands of people there a few days before the start of the festival.

Some people had paid for tickets in their hometowns, but the vast majority just showed up and walked in.” George-Weremchuck, associate professor of music, includes lessons about Woodstock in his course, “Survey of Rock Music,” which still has openings for the Fall 2019 semester. (Photo by Hannah Estes ’17) Weremchuk was invited to present on the by the Orange County Library System.

Join him to learn more about the history of the festival at the downtown branch of the Orlando Public Library on Thursday, Aug.15, at 6:30 p.m. in the Albertson Room. Registration is encouraged. If you are interested in the course “Survey of Rock Music” enrollment is still open for the fall semester. Learn more about the courses and other music electives on the,

: 5 Things You Might Not Know About Woodstock | University of Central Florida News

Why did Limp Bizkit get blamed for Woodstock 99?

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1. Whereas 1969 saw the likes of Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix perform, Woodstock ’99 saw a lineup consisting of mainly heavy-metal and nu-metal acts from Korn to Limp Bizkit, Rush, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more.
2. As heard in Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99, some people believed the heavy music may have contributed to the chaos that unfolded over the weekend as it captured the spirit of the increasingly angry audience.
3. For example, before performing “Break Stuff,” Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst encouraged the crowd to do exactly that.
4. Moments later, people began crowd surfing using plywood from the fences, while others started climbing up sound towers and the behavior in the mosh pits became aggressive.

On the Sunday, as the Red Hot Chili Peppers performed a cover version of Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire,” people began starting real bonfires amid a candlelit vigil. Looting and rioting began shortly after. Fires burned at Woodstock ’99 as The Red Hot Chili Peppers played. Netflix In the end, Crawford believes there isn’t a single factor that can explain what triggered the events at Woodstock ’99. He shared: “The very intriguing thing about this is that we didn’t set out to give you the answers.

We set out to offer up the evidence and for you draw your own conclusions from what happened because what’s fascinating is that everything that ever happens everybody has their own unique perspective and opinion about it all of our memories.” As for the candlelight vigil that went horribly wrong, leading to full-on bonfires burning on the grounds of Woodstock ’99, Crawford believes the ordeal is “hilariously representative” of the whole event in many ways.

Set up by an anti-gun group to honor the victims of the Columbine school shooting and usher in a new decade of peace, things completely backfired when the candles were used as kindling to start major fires. Crawford said: “I think the candles are sort of hilariously representative of the whole event in many ways.

The intention behind them was was was honorable. They were trying to highlight a social ill of the time and they had successfully had this candlelit vigil moment in the original Woodstock and also in Woodstock’ 94 and so as many people pointed out, you still need a lighter to light a candle. So there are other ways of setting fire to things.

However, despite the best intentions it landed at precisely the wrong minute of the wrong hour of the wrong day.” To mak e Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99, Crawford was determined to only speak with people who were at the event, including festivalgoers, Woodstock staff, journalists and even the musicians to ensure the documentary gave as clear a picture as it could. Four men at Woodstock ’99. Netflix However, one famous face that Crawford would have loved to have included in Woodstock ’99 was Limp Bizkit’s frontman, Fred Durst. Crawford shared: “The one person we would really have loved to have talked to, but didn’t get to do in the end is Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit.

• John Schur and the organizers of Woodstock ’99 have not accepted any responsibility for the failures of the festival and over the years, have placed the blame on Limp Bizkit and the crowd in attendance.
• Discussing the role of the organizers in Woodstock ’99, Crawford reflected: “Talking to the producers about it because as you will have seen they have their own very distinct memories of it partly I think because they are responsible for the gig and they will inevitably remember it with slightly rose-tinted glasses and also because they saw their own limited view of the events they weren’t camping half a mile away from the action or drinking from the dodgy pipes so so I don’t think they could have as a visceral memory of those elements as the people who actually experienced them.
• “So I think on in some respects they made valid arguments and in other respects, they deflect it wherever possible the problems that had occurred.”

Will Woodstock re-emerge? Let’s just say for Crawford, it was “perhaps for the best” that in 2019, Woodstock didn’t return to celebrate 50 years since the 1969 festival. Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 is streaming on now. : What Went Wrong at Woodstock ’99? ‘Perfect Cocktail of Unfortunate Events’

Did anything bad happen at Woodstock 99?

Woodstock 1999
Genre	Hard rock post-grunge rap rock rap metal nu metal hip hop
Dates	July 22–25, 1999
Location(s)	Griffiss Air Force Base ( Rome, New York, U.S.)
Coordinates	43°14′N 75°25′W  /  43.23°N 75.41°W
Founded by	Michael Lang, John Scher
Attendance	400,000+
Website	https://www.woodstock1999.com/

Location in the United States Woodstock 1999 (also called Woodstock ’99 ) was a music festival held from July 22 to July 25, 1999, in Rome, New York, United States. After Woodstock ’94, it was the second large-scale music festival that attempted to emulate the original 1969 Woodstock festival,

Like the previous festivals, it was held in upstate New York, this time at the former Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, roughly 100 miles (160 km) northwest of the original Woodstock site in Bethel, Approximately 220,000 people attended the festival over the four days. MTV covered the festival extensively, and live coverage was available on pay-per-view,

Westwood One held its radio rights. Excerpts were released on CD and DVD. The festival was marred by difficult environmental conditions, overpriced food and water, poor sanitation, sexual harassment and rapes, rioting, looting, vandalism, arson, violence, and several deaths, leading to media attention and controversy that vastly overshadowed coverage of the musical performances.

What did Rage Against the Machine play at Woodstock 99?

Rage Against The Machine perform live at Woodstock during 1999

Revisiting RATM’s iconic headline set of protest music. In 1999, Rage Against The Machine took to the stage at Woodstock Festival for a headline set. The hour-long performance was comprised of songs from their eponymous debut, Evil Empire, and The Battle of Los Angeles, including: ‘Bulls On Parade’, ‘Wake Up’, ‘Know Your Enemy’, and ‘People Of The Sun’.The band ended the performance by burning the American flag on stage whilst performing ‘Killing In The Name Of’.Watch the performance in full above, and check out the setlist below. Setlist

1. No Shelter 2. People Of The Sun 3. Know Your Enemy 4. Born Of A Broken Man 5. Vietnow 6. Bullet In The Head 7. The Ghost Of Tom Joad 8. Bombtrack 9. Wake Up 10. Bulls On Parade 11. Freedom 12. Township Rebellion 13. Killing In The Name Of : Rage Against The Machine perform live at Woodstock during 1999

What happened to Limp Bizkit?

Limp Bizkit Cancels Touring Indefinitely Due to Frontman Fred Durst’s Health Issues Limp Bizkit has been forced to cancel their upcoming European tour citing “personal health concerns” related to frontman Fred Durst. “For personal health concerns and based on medical advice given by my personal physician to take an immediate break from touring, LimpBizkit will sadly have to postpone their 2022 UK and European tour,” read a statement by Durst on the band’s social media pages.

1. We truly apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to our loyal fans, promoters, and support staff.
2. Stand by for further news.” The singer also on the band’s official website, elaborating on the reason behind the tour postponement.
3. In preparation for the 2022 summer tour in U.K.
4. And Europe, I have decided to do some tests to make sure I’m in good physical condition and everything’s okay, and to my surprise, my doctor has decided to send me a letter telling me he would not like me to tour at this time and to stay close by to do some more tests,” shared Durst.

“And that being said, this was very unexpected news and I’m so sorry and I look forward to making it up to you as soon as possible. I can only thank you so much for your support, and I truly am grateful for everyone who was going to take their time out of their busy lives and come see Limp Bizkit perform this summer.

And I look forward to making that up to you as soon as possible and I’m definitely already trying to think of ways to do that.” Durst added, “I regrettably have to tell you that we’re not gonna be able to make it at this moment, but I’m only wishing for the best and I know everything is going to be okay.

And again, thank you so much for your support as we do love and cherish our connection with you more than anything on this planet. And we are really looking forward to seeing you and doing what we do, and you know what that is.” In 2021, Limp Bizkit released their sixth album Still Sucks— their first release since Gold Cobra in 2011—just two months after canceling all of their previously announced shows for fall 2021, including festival appearances at Blue Ridge, Aftershock, Rebel Rock and Rocklahoma.