Maybe it's because those bands — although they did indeed play at Woodstock — did not get featured in the documentary film Woodstock. Meanwhile, would-be festival-goers looked for places to camp along the road, which sometimes ended up being people's backyards. 19 Worst Things About Woodstock ’99 1. Electrical problems and ankle-deep water on stage cause Grateful Dead to get shocked when they touch their microphones and electric guitar strings. Die sorgfältig geplanten Foto- und Filmaufnahmen gingen um die Welt und trugen viel zum Mythos Woodstock bei. Let's just start with the single most messed up thing that happened at Woodstock and then work our way backward. As the decades wear on, the Woodstock festival of 1969 becomes less of a rock concert and more of an emblem, a gold star pressed firmly into the hippie generation’s forehead; a proud, beaming moment in a rolling sea of bad trips, bloody protests and war-on-everybody. According to History, Hendrix had a clause in his contract that virtually guaranteed most fans would miss his performance. It might be the most famous rock concert and festival ever held. That might have at least saved them something on the cleanup. Happily, or maybe unhappily, depending on if you were the one who stood to lose a million dollars, a dairy farmer in Bethel offered up some land. Woodstock was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Woodstock. The situation was so bad that, after the festival, lawyers for some festivalgoers threatened to sue organizers for negligence. No VacancyAnyone looking for an escape from the relentless heat and the riots and the overpriced water were shit out of luck: Virtually every hotel room in upstate New York was booked months before Woodstock ’99 — but not by festivalgoers. The Baltimore Sun reported that halfway through the weekend, “More than 700 had been treated for heat exhaustion and dehydration.” Deactivated hangars provided some of the only shade, so huge crowds gathered at the “Emerging Artists” stage and had to endure sets by artists like Bijou Phillips simply to escape the sun. Of the 44 people arrested at Woodstock ’99, only one was charged with sexual assault. In This Article: Sign up for our newsletter. According to reports, even more sexual assaults took place during Limp Bizkit, after Fred Durst infamously incited the crowd with “Break Stuff.” A police investigator told the Washington Post that two men cornered a 24-year-old woman from Pittsburgh in the mosh pit, “assaulting her with their fingers and ‘some type of foreign object’ before one of them raped her.” The police report read: “Due to the congestion of the crowd, she felt that if she yelled for help or fought, she feared she was going to be beaten.” The men were never apprehended. People weren't just selling drugs, they were putting them in stuff that they then handed out for free, which was probably awesome if you were looking to get high but was extraordinarily sucky if you weren't. Creed Let It Roll, Baby RollOf all the lame musical moments at Woodstock ’99, this had to be the low point. A music festival requires infrastructure, security, and regulation — and Woodstock struggled with all three. At Woodstock drugs were technically illegal, but nothing was done to stop people from doing them unlike today. (Okay, that was a nod to Jimi’s famed Monterey gig, not Woodstock, but still.) Jeden z największych zlotów młodzieżowych końca lat 60. Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it … Bathrooms, concession stands, and a pavilion for the professional performers were likewise utterly lacking before showtime. Today, everyone knows there's no better way to make a few thousand bucks in a weekend than to make people wait in ridiculously long lines for crappy, overpriced food. After all, the memories of 500,000 stoned hippies may fade, but film is forever. Because of that, people experiencing drug-related side effects weren't afraid to seek help, which meant they would get the care they needed, but also helped prevent any widespread panic that would have definitely gotten in the way of all the mud-soaked peace and music. The Hog Farm provided 85 people who were all experienced in running "trip tents" at similar festivals. Because lacerated feet, heat exhaustion, and people getting run over by tractors just wasn't enough to keep them all busy, the medical team also had to set up separate tents just to treat people who were having bad trips. Remarkably, only two people died — the 17-year-old who was killed by the sewage-toting tractor and a Marine who died from a heroin overdose. © Copyright 2021 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. They were all in their 20s, and the only real qualifications they had were green with pictures of presidents on them. Some people even abandoned their cars and walked in, turning the freeway into a parking lot. Verne TroyerWhere Woodstock ’69 had Abbie Hoffman and Wavy Gravy, Woodstock ’99 had Austin Powers‘ “Mini-Me” serving as emcee on Saturday. Unless they maybe just didn't think of Max Yasgur's dairy farm as "Mother Earth," necessarily. (The weekend pass ballooned to $180 the day before Woodstock ’99 began.) And then a bunch of peace-loving hippies burned down two of their concession stands because they were annoyed about the long lines and outrageous prices. It was billed as "three days of peace and music," but it's probably more accurate to say that it was "three days of mud, rain, and food shortages." We want to hear from you! They didn't really realize that they'd created arguably the most popular music event in history. But for organizers, it pretty much sucked. The traffic wasn't just a problem for people who really, really wanted to get to the festival — it was also a problem for emergency services. However, many of those volunteers unceremoniously walked off the job by wandering off into the audience, leaving the police severely shorthanded when things got out of hand. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, nieformalnie Woodstock Festival lub Woodstock – festiwal muzyczny odbywający się 15-18 sierpnia 1969 w miejscowości Bethel w stanie Nowy Jork. Woodstock.com Goes WildThe official website took a break from peace, love and rock & roll to post photos of topless festivalgoers. 7. 43. Meanwhile, the medical teams were super busy. 13. Not everyone who went to Woodstock actually wanted to do drugs, though. (You could say Woodstock actually was a little bit like a scene from the zombie apocalypse, what with all the filth-covered people in altered states staggering around being hungry all the time.) Now, it's definitely annoying to wait two hours for a taco made from canned beans and beef that's been sitting in a warm ice chest for half a day, but a dollar for a hot dog seems like a bargain compared to nine and a half dollars for a couple tacos. They had other things on their mind, the foremost of which was the incredible debt (over $1 million) they'd incurred and the 70 lawsuits that had been filed against them. According to the Huffington Post, during The Who's performance, a political activist named Abbie Hoffman got on stage and took the microphone, and started ranting about brothers and sisters and persecution and blah, blah, blah, or at least that's what The Who's Pete Townshend was thinking because he only tolerated a few seconds of insolence before he hit Hoffman in the head with his guitar. Woodstock ’99 was full of odd casting, and it also served as a master class in how to not schedule a festival lineup. When people went to purchase water, they were met with a $4 price tag per bottle. According to the image caption, he was "thrown from the trunk of a car," but an ambulance wasn't able to get to him because there was just no way through the traffic. In addition to performing a “Jailhouse Rock”-like improv about Woodstock, Wyclef also spent much of his 35-minute set doing a really awful Jimi Hendrix impression, from noodling with a guitar behind his head to trying to light that guitar on fire. Of course by today's standards, even one preventable death at a festival would be considered outrageous, but for a team that got 10 times more than they'd planned for, two dead out of half a million really isn't that terrible. But really, if you add that little incident in with the burned down concession stands and maybe an argument or two about who could stare at the Sun the longest, there just wasn't a lot of violence anywhere in that throng of 500,000 people, which is perhaps one of Woodstock's most remarkable legacies. Let's say that you were at work doing whatever it is that you do, whether it's singing, waiting tables, or writing articles about overrated musical festivals that happened before you were born. Festival-goers might have been super enthusiastic on Friday, but on Sunday, a lot of them had pretty much had it. Politico calls Woodstock one of the top 10 worst traffic jams ever — the traffic was jammed up for 10 miles on the New York Thruway for the entire three days of the festival. The original stories about burned eyeballs appeared a couple years before Woodstock and were debunked in a book called The Pleasure Seekers, which was published just after the festival. Some were smashed in frustration, causing minor flooding in the area. But the fact that there was no way in for emergency services just sort of highlights the miracle of Woodstock — that there weren't considerably more deaths and/or serious injuries. Instead of being remembered as a generation-defining, epic historical moment, Woodstock could have been remembered as one of the great tragedies of the 20th century. In hindsight, most people fail to recognize just how important the medical services were, and how equally important it was for doctors and nurses to remain non-judgmental in the face of so much recreational drug use. Dave Matthews: HornballThe amount of flashing in the audience during the Dave Matthews Band’s set inspired their namesake singer to remark, “Today, there’s an abundance of titties.” Yes, Dave Matthews said that out loud, into a microphone, in front of thousands and thousands of people. When you drink something that's cold because you're thirsty, that's different. There was no security, so it was easy to bring drugs to the festival. By the end of the festival, medical staff reported they had treated 797 bad trips, 23 epileptic seizures, 57 cases of heat exposure, and 176 asthma attacks. Wait, you mean you don't remember those last two? Insane Clown Posse’s Money GiveawayInsane Clown Posse created a little mayhem during their set at Woodstock ’99. Even the captions — “Nice pair” and “Show your tits” to name a few — were tasteless. It was promoted as "2 More Days of Peace and Music". 2. People were told to be cautious in taking anything that they did not open themselves. The Hog Farmers had developed a technique for talking down bad trips, which was remarkably successful and also saved them from having to use Thorazine, a seriously hard-core tranquilizer and anti-psychotic drug commonly used to treat bad trips in emergency rooms. 4. They were holding her arms; you could see she was struggling.” That gang rape occurred during Korn’s set. Creed, voted by our readers as The Worst Band of the Nineties, played the festival’s penultimate set on Sunday night. Some people would lace food and drinks with drugs and hand it out for free. Considering how rife the festival was with sexual assaults, it was downright grotesque that the Woodstock site would post photos of females without their consent. The Woodstock Music and Art Festival was a rock music festival at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 km²) dairy farm in the town of Bethel, New York from 15–18 August 1969. "Now, when kids take a tab of acid, they know what they're getting into. But there was one notable instance of violence involving a guitar and someone's head. But, you know, peace and music. It was three days of peace and music, and also mud, drugs, burned eyeballs, traffic jams, and overflowing toilets. The event was rife with problems: Bands performed hours after they were scheduled (the Who went on at 5 a.m.); an anarchist group tore down the fencing so … "Outside [the tent] they were giving out electric Kool-Aid laced with whatever," a nurse told the Times Herald-Record. According to the Smithsonian, the established food vendors didn't want to have anything to do with the festival, mostly because of its projected size. 3. Woodstock '94 was an American music festival held in 1994 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock festival of 1969. Hot Tarmac If the late-July heat was absorbed by greenery like at most fests, the temperature wouldn’t have been as... 3. Now this sounds like gross negligence, but in the driver's defense, Mizsak wasn't exactly in an obvious place. So just in case you think all those rats in mazes experiments prove that electric shock improves performance, well, The Grateful Dead begs to differ. According to the Journal of Emergency Medical Services, the local practitioner who'd been hired to oversee them declared the event had the potential to become "the greatest medical tragedy of our times." Eventually, the New York State Troopers and local law enforcement were able to diffuse the riots, but Griffiss Air Force Base still ended up looking like a bomb hit it. CNN reported that a woman also fell from stage scaffolding and broke her back. No one got punched for trying to buy their way to the front of the porta-potty line. But it does seem strange that a random nurse would make up a similar story, unless she was so horrified by the drug use that she felt a little extra fictionalized horror might dissuade future "travelers.". 17. According to Today, the Grateful Dead's sound engineer remembered Bob Weir "jumping back five feet from electrical shock when he went up to touch the microphone the first time." Now, there were a lot of positives, and not just the unforgettable musical performances (provided you were close enough to the stage to actually see and hear them) but also the part where the world found out that it's actually possible for half a million people to get together without a single fistfight, at least not as far as anyone can remember. There were a ton of people who said the Grateful Dead was one of the worst acts at the festival — even Jerry Garcia's friend Phil Ciganer couldn't be charitable, later declaring, "It was the worst show of theirs I'd ever seen." The poster used to promote the first concert was revised to feature two doves perched on the neck of an electric guitar, instead of the original acoustic one. If you were doing that job while standing in water, and the tools of your trade — whether it's your computer keyboard or plates full of food — were actually giving you an electric shock every time you touched them, it'd probably be the worst job performance of your career, too. So, organizers convinced a local bank to front them an emergency midnight loan, using a personal trust fund as collateral. A 1995 article in the Times Herald-Record said the hill where the teen was sleeping was covered in a "pile of soaked garbage and sleeping bags." And some of the artists who gave kind of patchy performances — like the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin — got excluded from the original film but were acknowledged in later releases, which gave them a sort of belated publicity bump. Now, let's just ignore the part where he was "thrown from the trunk of a car," because we're not really sure how that actually happens unless the trunk latch is broken and you're a bag of groceries. Unfortunately the Woodstock medical team wasn't really that experienced with LSD "freakouts," so they enlisted the help of the Hog Farm, yes, the same people who passed out all the granola. Ultimately, it's pretty clear that the major cause of the festival's woes was just pure lack of organization. Woodstock… On top of that, there was a 1.5-mile walk between the festival’s two main stages, so festivalgoers had to trek across these boiling runways in upper-80s weather. The nurse did say there were "five or six or seven [patients] at a time," so it was either a very big made-up story or a very minor epidemic. Even though the crowd wildly outnumbered the law enforcement presence — roughly 500 New York State Troopers plus local PD — the authorities were supposed to have a little more support courtesy of volunteer security recruited from New York City. ", On the other hand, there was a nurse at Woodstock who reported that burned eyeballs were actually a thing at the festival, and that they appear to have resulted from kids on LSD who would "lie down on their backs and just stare. Please, help the medical team get them out of there. Conclusion 19. There were also 938 foot lacerations, 135 foot punctures, and 346 random other foot injuries, all of which basically just served to prove that hippies really ought to wear shoes. Woodstock Ventures, the company that helped fund and organize the event, was founded by four men, one of whom, Michael Lang, had helped promote the successful Miami Pop Festival … 11. And that's not an exaggerated figure, by the way. At any rate, the people who went to Woodstock did not, for the most part, seem to give an actual crap about the environment at the festival. Sandwiched between slots by the Tragically Hip and Wyclef Jean, Kid Rock took to the stage and, according to the San Francisco Examiner, “demanded that the kids pelt the stage with plastic water bottles,” perhaps making a statement about the high price of hydration. In the late sixties, hippies were mostly just about the first two items on the list, and not so much about the third. “These gentlemen, probably in the 25–32 age range, looked as though they were holding her down. Impreza, która odbyła się na jednym z pól w stanie Nowy Jork … According to one account, a motel in Rome, New York was forced to turn away Alanis Morissette, Howard Stern and George Clinton because there were no vacancies. Some people even abandoned their cars and walked in, turning the freeway into a parking lot. There was lots of crap at Woodstock, and some of it was even literal crap. Politico calls Woodstock one of the top 10 worst traffic jams ever — the traffic was jammed up for 10 miles on the New York Thruway for the entire three days of the festival. Woodstock organizer Michael Lang recalled being extra careful about everything he consumed at the festival, because laced food and drink was everywhere. XX wieku. Crowd-SurfingThere are few more un-self-aware breaches of crowd etiquette worse than crowd-surfing during Alanis Morisette’s performance of “Ironic.”. 14. OvercrowdingMany problems plagued Woodstock ’99, and some severe overcrowding exacerbated them all. But then, traffic became such a problem that they had to contract helicopters to fly in food, supplies, and their very expensive performers. Now imagine turning off that city’s water supply. Multiple Sexual Assaults“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,” volunteer David Schneider told MTV. Not only was his death tragic and senseless, but on the list of totally sucky ways to die, getting run over by a porta-potty tanker in a pile of garbage is probably right up there with getting eaten by a hyena and impaling yourself on a baguette as one of the suckiest ways to die ever. The Woodstock festival of 1969 remains one of the most iconic events in music history, and as the decades pass those who were there start to see it all through stardust-sparkly lenses, or something, while totally forgetting about the fact that it was mostly not really very much fun. That means that they braved the mud and the electrically-charged sound equipment and ended up with very little name recognition for their troubles. Considering how expensive water was at the fest, and how personal pan pizzas were $12, it’s not surprising those Benjamins created such a ruckus. 9. Unlike Woodstock, where journalists flocked to cover a growing crisis from lack of water and food, the Harlem event, Ludevig said, came off smoothly, with few problems… In fact, essentials like ticket booths, gates, and fencing to cordon off the grounds were nowhere near completed when the masses began trickling in. According to the Syracuse Post-Standard, “Security guards said they were confiscating fake passes at the rate of 50 an hour at just one gate.” Although the festival didn’t sell out — the amount of tickets sold were capped at 250,000 — it’s impossible to know how many festivalgoers snuck in and how that tampered with what organizers planned logistically. Hendrix’ durch den Fleischwolf gedrehte Version der US-Hymne wurde zum „legendären Woodstock-Moment“, wie Lang sagt. 2 Skinnee J’s, 3, American Pearl, Big Sugar, Cyclefly, DDT, Gary Durdin & The Clay Pinps, Mike Errico, F.o.N., Full Devil Jacket, Gargantua Soul, Chris Glenn, Beth Hart Band, Immoral Fibres, Indigenous, Sherri Jackson, Liars Inc., Moe Loughran, Chris McDermott, Old Pike, John Oszajca ,Chris Pérez Band, Bijou Phillips, Pound, Pushmonkey, Johnny Rushmore, Linda Rutherford & Celtic Fire, Serial Joe, Simmi, Sticky Pistil, Stormy Mondays or Sugar Daddy? Perhaps the only recorded incident happened on-stage, as Abbie Hoffman rushed the stage during a break in The Who’s set. They are under the towers. For many, it showed the counterculture of the 1960s and the "hippie era". Kid Rock’s Recycling ProgramWhile much of the chaos at Woodstock ’99 came on Saturday evening, Kid Rock planted some seeds of aggression during his early-afternoon set. But separating myth fr Drugs and nudity were rampant, food was scarce and traffic was hell. W przypadającym dziś Światowym Dniu Recyklingu podsumowujemy ekologiczne działania na … By mid-Saturday, they were running out of food, so they did what any self-respecting capitalists would do — they quadrupled their hot dog prices from 25¢ to $1. 18. Perhaps if organizers had just asked themselves, "What are the top money-losing mistakes we might make? Woodstock is popularly known as the music festival that involved a lot of drug use. Post Woodstock . Woodstock mostly was peaceful, even though there were plenty of reasons for it not to be. Runaway CopsWho watches the watchmen? Somehow he topped the ridiculousness of the “Too Much” lyrics: “Ooh, traffic jam, got more cars than a beach got sand.”. That wasn't just because the medical team was only set up for a crowd of roughly 50,000 people and 500,000 showed up, but also because the clogged roads meant they wouldn't be able to get any ambulances to or from the site if all the peace and love ran out and people started rioting. Some of the big performers had to be flown in via helicopter because they couldn't get in by land. WOODSTOCK 1969. No one fought anyone over the last outrageously overpriced $1 hot dog. For no other reason than singer Scott Stapp’s obsession with Jim Morrison, Creed brought out the Doors guitarist Robby Krieger for a brutal rendition of “Roadhouse Blues.” Maybe it was an attempt to bridge the gap to the 1969 fest — only Krieger and the Doors didn’t play at the original Woodstock. When long-running Canadian alt-rockers Tragically Hip started singing “O Canada,” the same crowd that cheered when Rage Against the Machine lit an American flag on fire was somehow patriotic enough to shout back with “The Star Spangled Banner” (and also, according to SPIN, throw rocks and bottles). It kind of comes down to the failure of concert organizers to get pretty much anything right — the schedule was so badly mucked up by Sunday that performers were taking the stage literally hours after they were scheduled to appear. Performing on the East Stage on Friday night before George Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic, ICP was the first act to incite the crowd “by throwing $100 bills into the audience and watching gleefully while a melee ensued,” the San Francisco Examiner reported. Happily, the day was saved by a group called The Hog Farm Collective, who passed out thousands of cups of granola and saved everyone from starving to death. Want more Rolling Stone? It's probably safe to say that the four guys who put the festival together really had no idea what they were getting themselves into. Jerry [Garcia] and Bob [Weir] were getting shocked at the microphones." The experience at the Woodstock Festival indicates that organized, supportive therapy can effectively manage such a situation, even for hundreds of patients. DMX, Rapper Who Blended Aggressive Menace With Emotional Sincerity, Dead at 50, How Young Is Too Young on OnlyFans? Wyclef’s Horrible Hendrix ImpersonationPerhaps no one tried to conjure up the spirit of Woodstock ’69 as much as Wyclef Jean. From the horrific to the just-plain-lame, the most terrible things about one of modern concert-going’s biggest debacles. It was raining. Not only does it remain the most famous festival … "I didn't drink anything that didn't come from a bottle I didn't wash or open myself," he later said. According to ThoughtCo, the wait for a toilet could take up to an hour, and by the time you got there you were probably wondering if it would be better to just go find a quiet bush somewhere, since the toilets were all overflowing and raw sewage was collecting in puddles, mingling with all the mud and running downhill. there was one toilet for every 833 people, According to the Journal of Emergency Medical Services, According to a 1969 article in The Village Voice. According to the Journal of Emergency Medical Services, one newspaper estimated there were around "25 freakouts each hour," and since freakouts could last several hours, these patients started filling up the tents pretty quickly. The Woodstock Fleece Festival is an annual event held the Saturday following Thanksgiving. The organizers of Woodstock were dazed when the festival ended. Woodstock was a music festival for the ages, featuring legendary bands such as Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Who, and legendary artists such as Santana and Jimi Hendrix. They didn't have any choice." osób. Hot TarmacIf the late-July heat was absorbed by greenery like at most fests, the temperature wouldn’t have been as much of an issue, but much of the Griffiss Air Force Base was tarmac and concrete — materials the sun’s rays just bounce off of. A helicopter was called in to transport Mizsak to a hospital, but when it showed up he was already dead. So maybe dealers thought they were being charitable with all the free drugs — peace and music, man — but when you're just a thirsty kid who can't even pronounce "lysergic acid diethylamide," getting a surprise dose of LSD is pretty unspeakably cruel. Woodstock, Woodstock 99. According to ThoughtCo, the festival was originally supposed to take place in Wallkill, New York. Evidently it was enough of a problem that there was a whole medical area devoted to treating burned eyeballs, though no one says whether the damage was permanent. 5. But at Woodstock, would-be vendors just didn't have the foresight to recognize how much money there was to be made. Less than two years after the festival, Yasgur sold the farm. The scene on the roads leading to the festival was roughly similar to that long shot they used to play in the opening credits of The Walking Dead, with lines of abandoned cars clogging the freeway out of Atlanta. ", Now whether this is also part of the great hoax against hallucinogenic travelers is still in question.

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