Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 doc

[bigpern23]

Just started watching this and it looks interesting, but it already strikes me as weird the way they are ignoring Woodstock '94 as if it didn't happen.

I say that because the original creator of Woodstock is interviewed and he talks about how he wanted to do '99 because gun violence (Columbine) was affecting his teenagers and he wanted to show them about Flower Power, Peace, Love, etc.

I was a teenager then and even I remember it being just a blatant cash grab after '94.

Makes me suspect of the rest of this doc.

 

[bigpern23]

OK, nevermind, they're now onto talking about '94.

 

[Machine Head]

I have no memory of either of these but I am going down the google wormhole hold a good thought for me if you will

 

[spikechiquet]

Just finished it.
Wow those two guys behind were just total spin doctors ... or Pollyanna's at best. My roommate's BF went to '99 and I remember her being mad at him because she was convinced he forked around behind her back while there. After watching all 3 episodes, she was probably right.
Some interesting stories in there, for sure. And having it come from so many angles (fans, staff, medical, security (or lack thereof), artists, media, MTV people).

 

[Roscablo]

Didn't HBO or something do one last year or sometime recently? How much is different? Ah, whatever, I'll watch it.

Funny thing, I was going into my senior year of college in 1999. I barely remember this. I should have in a way been the target, and it obviously fell flat on me. Seeing some of the main acts there, I didn't really care for them too much so I suppose that is some of it.

In the first documentary, they had a good deal on how there were few women acts and then all these new metal groups and that it was a recipe for disaster combined with the logistics and everything else. What in the world were they thinking? Or it is exactly what they wanted.

 

[Machine Head]

The '99 theme seems to be fire and human waste upon first google

 

[Twirling Time]

Bigger trainwreck: 99 or 69?

 

[Machine Head]

Bigger trainwreck: 99 or 69?

Fire would seem to have the upper hand, but ymmv

 

[tapintoamerica]

"Woodstock '94, brought to you by Pepsi Cola? Man, hell's gonna freeze over."
-- Mojo Nixon in "Bring Me the Head of David Geffen," one of the greatest songs ever.

 

[Huggy]

I am planning on watching this on the weekend. I remember Rolling Stone's report was headlined Rage Against the Latrines

 

[micropolitan guy]

Bigger trainwreck: 99 or 69?

1969 was not a trainwreck. None of the violence, destruction, ashaults, ripping off the attendees, etc., that I saw in the 1999 documentary. In 1969, nothing worked as planned obviously. But somehow people pulled together, stayed cool, and it all seemed to work out.

 

[Batman]

1969 was not a trainwreck. None of the violence, destruction, ashaults, ripping off the attendees, etc., that I saw in the 1999 documentary. In 1969, nothing worked as planned obviously. But somehow people pulled together, stayed cool, and it all seemed to work out.

I think '94 went pretty smoothly as well. Apparently 1999 was just a toxic mix of Pish-poor organization leading into it, a different and uglier crowd than the previous two editions, and no comprehension of what to do when things got out of hand.
On Chris Jericho's podcast a while back, he had a couple of people who were involved behind the scenes of it in a couple of different capacities. They had a pretty good ground-level view of the entire thing and the multiple levels of clusterforks that all of it was from the time they were setting up all the way through when it devolved into anarchy. It's a good hour to listen to.