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Michael Wadleigh’s “Woodstock” is an archeological study of that nation, which existed for three days a year ago. Because of this movie, the Woodstock state of mind now has its own history, folklore, myth. In terms of evoking the style and feel of a mass historical event, “Woodstock” may be the best documentary ever made in America.
Aug 15, 2024 · Ten Years After drummer Ric Lee has good reason to be clear in his recollections; not only is it a significant chapter in his 2019 memoir From Headstocks To Woodstock, but on Friday (Aug. 16) the...
- Having It at An Air Force Base Was A Terrible Idea
- There Were Way Too Many People
- The Mud People Were to Be Avoided at All Costs
- The Attendees Were Treated Like Cattle with Bank Accounts
- The Showers Were Horrifying
- The "Security" Guards Were Literally Just Kids Like Us
- Fred Durst Refused to Stop His Set to Let Medical Evac People in The Pit
- James Hetfield Tried to Calm Things Down But It Was Too Late
- It Was Like Escaping A War Zone
Festival organizers had hyped up Woodstock '99 as the event of the decade, and as a result, hundreds of thousands of tickets had been purchased. Organizers needed to find a place that was huge, relatively cheap, and not in use. They settled on Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, NY, a defunct military base that had shut down in 1995. It was 3,689 acre...
When Woodstock '99 began, it had been estimated that about 250,000 people would attend over the weekend based on the number of ticket sales–a quarter of a million people. It was more people than I had ever seen in one place in my life. Except the actual number of people ended up being closer to 400,000. Piping, plywood, and chain link fences don't ...
Aside from the fires, some of the most iconic images from Woodstock '99 are the hordes of mud-covered people who roamed the grounds between the vendor section and the main stage. We quickly learned to avoid them. They weren't a problem on the first night. The first night of Woodstock '99 was great. It hadn't yet grown scorching, the place hadn't ye...
Shelling out $150 for a ticket was painful, but worth it if one considered it was really more like $50/day for a history-making event. Naively, I assumed that the expensive nature of the ticket meant that prices could be kept down at the actual event. The opposite was the case. The first Woodstock in 1969 had free food, open kitchens for all. As Tr...
One thing Trainwreck: Woodstock '99glossed over was the terrible condition of the showers–if you could even call them that. The shower area was a huge, makeshift stall hastily constructed with plywood: one side for the guys, one side for the girls. The "showers" consisted of long pipes with holes in them every few feet, out of which would come a ti...
As for that security–which Woodstock '99 organizers had optimistically named the "Peace Patrol"–it was as much of a disaster as the rest of the festival. It's not that there weren't actual trained security forces there–there were–but they had their hands full trying to keep people in the mosh pit mostly alive and the talent from being assaulted by ...
Woodstock '99 can be marked in two ages: B.L.B. and A.L.B: before Limp Bizkit and after Limp Bizkit. Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit are the clear point at which Woodstock '99 took a turn for the worse, but to lay the blame squarely at their feet would be to ignore all the other ways festival organizers had skinflinted Woodstock '99 into disaster. It wo...
While Trainwreck: Woodstock '99certainly focuses on the crowd turning to violence during Limp Bizkit's set, what it skipped are the bands that came after Limp Bizkit on Saturday night. After Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine took the stage. While Rage and LB harnessed the same rage against injustice, it was different. Rage Against the Machine s...
Trainwreck: Woodstock '99did a great job of capturing just how chaotic and dangerous the Sunday night riots were. However, most of it was told from the perspective of the staff, rather than the attendees themselves. For my friends and I, it started out as a distant threat. We were far up in the crowd, watching Red Hot Chili Peppers do their thing a...
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Aug 12, 1994 · 5 min read. Jimi Hendrix. The movies are of course a time capsule, and I have rarely felt that more sharply than while watching the 25th anniversary edition of “Woodstock.” What other generation has so completely captured its youth on film, for better and worse, than the Woodstock Nation?
Featuring never-before-seen footage, filmmaker Barak Goodman examines the cultural, political and social ramifications of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival in upstate New York.
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Mar 26, 1995 · Michael Wadleigh’s “Woodstock” is an archaeological study of that nation, which existed for three days in 1969. Because of this movie, the Woodstock state of mind now has its own history, folklore, myth.
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By documenting arguably the most renowned music festival in history, Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music achieves the rare feat of capturing the unique spirit of its time. Read Critics Reviews ...
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