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Woodstock 99 took place when I was a junior at Iowa State and I remember the coverage of the riots and how bad it was. But the new documentary on HBO Max called Woodstock 99…holy sh!t what a disaster and ****** up event full of angry white males in their late teens and early 20s.

 
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That was just before my senior year of high school...talk about not getting the point of the festival.

The '94 reunion iirc was great...'99 turned into a celebration of rap metal angry about a break up music.

I take some blame though: I listened to Limp Bizkit and all that **** that was really stupid. Fred Durst style backwards fitted baseball cap and the works*.

*still a popular look in Iowa.
 
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I was a freshman at ISU. Remember I had a HS friend that went to it. Totally forgot about they chaos until I watched this preview.
 
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The organizers were just not prepared. The heat, the security was sh!t, the outrageous cost for simple bottled water, then lineups in a row that consisted of Limp Bizket, Korn, and Metallica? What I didn't remember at all was that there were 100 acts...THREE were female. TOTAL. Sheryl Crow, Jewel and Alanis Morrisette. Then they added a 24 hour rave section of the area to boot. The interviews with Moby were very interesting to me. I also didn't remember how some big name acts really egged it or didn't do anything to say 'hey...this is about music and peace and love'. When Limp Bizkit came on and did 'Break Stuff' all hell broke loose. Then on the third night the mayor of the town went up to Red Hot Chili Peppers once the fires started and told them hey we need you to say something and get the crowd calmed down. They instead went right to performing the song 'Fire'. Lost a **** ton of respect for them with that. Then there's a band like The Offspring who I didn't like at all but at least their lead singer was like 'i'm seeing women getting assaulted by asshats so if you see this happen just beat the **** out of them'.
 
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dahliaclone said:
The organizers were just not prepared. The heat, the security was sh!t, the outrageous cost for simple bottled water, then lineups in a row that consisted of Limp Bizket, Korn, and Metallica? What I didn't remember at all was that there were 100 acts...THREE were female. TOTAL. Sheryl Crow, Jewel and Alanis Morrisette. Then they added a 24 hour rave section of the area to boot. The interviews with Moby were very interesting to me. I also didn't remember how some big name acts really egged it or didn't do anything to say 'hey...this is about music and peace and love'. When Limp Bizkit came on and did 'Break Stuff' all hell broke loose. Then on the third night the mayor of the town went up to Red Hot Chili Peppers once the fires started and told them hey we need you to say something and get the crowd calmed down. They instead went right to performing the song 'Fire'. Lost a **** ton of respect for them with that. Then there's a band like The Offspring who I didn't like at all but at least their lead singer was like 'i'm seeing women getting assaulted by asshats so if you see this happen just beat the **** out of them'.
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Saw a clip of Jewel when she went out and things were very unsettled.
 
The 1:26 mark of this video makes me so anxious I can't describe it. They showed this in the documentary and I couldn't breathe. I cannot imagine, even in my 20s, wanting to be anywhere near that. And being in a crowd of 350,000 in general no matter what the event is just a hard ******* pass for me.

 
My buddy went for the whole festival and he can tell stories about it for days and that’s just the stuff he remembers. Nobody was prepared for how expensive things were or the lack of facilities. It was a complete disaster.
 
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The 1:26 mark of this video makes me so anxious I can't describe it. They showed this in the documentary and I couldn't breathe. I cannot imagine, even in my 20s, wanting to be anywhere near that. And being in a crowd of 350,000 in general no matter what the event is just a hard ******* pass for me.

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That type of stuff is great. It was the rest of the stuff that is disturbing. The rape, Sexual assaults, fires and all of that. The bands jamming and mosh pits and all of that stuff are fine and still happen today. The offspring lead singer had it spot on. Kick someones ass if you see them assaulting a women.

The people who organized it had no idea what they were doing. Much like the first Woodstock. However, the first Woodstock didn't have the aggressive music that we have now.
 
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That type of stuff is great. It was the rest of the stuff that is disturbing. The rape, Sexual assaults, fires and all of that. The bands jamming and mosh pits and all of that stuff are fine and still happen today. The offspring lead singer had it spot on. Kick someones ass if you see them assaulting a women.

The people who organized it had no idea what they were doing. Much like the first Woodstock. However, the first Woodstock didn't have the aggressive music that we have now.
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Agreed. I am not saying mosh pits are bad, it's just something I could never do. Too scary lol.
 
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That type of stuff is great. It was the rest of the stuff that is disturbing. The rape, Sexual assaults, fires and all of that. The bands jamming and mosh pits and all of that stuff are fine and still happen today. The offspring lead singer had it spot on. Kick someones ass if you see them assaulting a women.

The people who organized it had no idea what they were doing. Much like the first Woodstock. However, the first Woodstock didn't have the aggressive music that we have now.
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Dexter Holland, Offspring singer, has a PhD in molecular biology.
 
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I’ve been in plenty of mosh pits, but not with 350,000 people. I’ve seen people bloody in the face laughing their asses off running head first into 40 other people. The crowd at warped tour is pretty big, but it wasn’t that big.
 
Drew0311 said:
That type of stuff is great. It was the rest of the stuff that is disturbing. The rape, Sexual assaults, fires and all of that. The bands jamming and mosh pits and all of that stuff are fine and still happen today. The offspring lead singer had it spot on. Kick someones ass if you see them assaulting a women.

The people who organized it had no idea what they were doing. Much like the first Woodstock. However, the first Woodstock didn't have the aggressive music that we have now.
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Said it earlier but that aggressive music was 'the thing' at the time as well.

Bad mix for a concert series known for the theme of 'peace and love' and skinny dipping.

If it were done today I'd bet it would be more like Glastonbury or something....plenty of great, popular live acts mixed with older classics.
 
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this explains about 90% of gen x people i've ever worked it.

pissed off about something with nothing to complain about
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Describes how it would feel when I would go out to bars a few years ago in Cedar Rapids. Just this weird angry 'haze' in the air and these were in pretty casual spots.
 
Drew0311 said:
That type of stuff is great. It was the rest of the stuff that is disturbing. The rape, Sexual assaults, fires and all of that. The bands jamming and mosh pits and all of that stuff are fine and still happen today. The offspring lead singer had it spot on. Kick someones ass if you see them assaulting a women.

The people who organized it had no idea what they were doing. Much like the first Woodstock. However, the first Woodstock didn't have the aggressive music that we have now.
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69 was heavy with weed, most tokers don’t get physical, just goofy and hungry to my knowledge.
 
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