It's no wonder Woodstock 50 is in shambles, considering what happened in 1999. A reporter on the ground remembers the chaos
The planned 30th anniversary of the most famous music festival in history started with good intentions, but quickly descended into chaos as an angst-ridden generation was pushed to the limit.
The first day of the event was considered a “Pre-show” with the likes of The String Cheese Incident, Vertical Horizon, G. Love and Special Sauce and 3rd Bass performing only on the West Stage and the Emerging Artists stage. The main stage wouldn’t host an act until day two. Kid Rock tapped into the crowd’s frustration over the conditions and high prices during his early afternoon set. Towards the end of his final song “3 Sheets to the Wind ,” Rock told the unruly crowd: “Now when we kick this beat in for the last time, I want to see every possible thing flying through the f–ing air, but nothing that can hurt each other. Plastic bottles, let’s have some fucking fun.” When the band kicked in plastic bottles began flying above the crowd.
We were just to the left of the main soundboard and lighting controls. About halfway through their set, Bizkit covered Ministry’s “Thieves.” It was then that fans began to tear sheets of plywood off of the many delay and production towers scattered across the former Air Force Base. By the time they launched into the next song “Stuck,” there were sheets of plywood being passed over the crowd and fans began dangerously climbing up and surfing and jumping off back into the masses.
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