Woodstock '99

IT was billed as a festival of peace and love but the 1999 revival of Woodstock was anything but. Woodstock 99 was held at a former air force base in Rome upstate New York.

Woodstock 99 East Stage Day Three July 25 1999 Retro Rome

If you were anywhere near a TV in the summer of 1999 images from the hellfire that was Woodstock were inescapable.

. It was just a perfect storm she said noting the blazing hot. With a lineup covering. Woodstock 99 features interviews with a number of musicians who played at the festival including Korns Jonathan Davis and Bushs Gavin Rossdale with both.

As temperatures soared to 40C the three-day festival in Rome New York descended into carnage. Woodstock 1969 promised peace and music but its 99 revival delivered days of rage riots and real harm. Hot temperatures and high prices with reports.

The mainly concrete and asphalt space was the worst location for. Woodstock 99 was supposed to celebrate. I stood in the back of a field and watched an ocean of kids bludgeon each other sometimes to.

Woodstock 99 line-up. Woodstock 99 which transpired July 22July 25 uh 1999 was to be both simplistic and generous an attempt to recreate the cultural zeitgeist of the original festival. There was music at Woodstock 99 yeah and not all of it bad.

With a new HBO documentary revisiting the infamous Woodstock 99 a new generation is learning about one of the most calamitous festivals of all time. Woodstock 1999 is a two-CD live album recorded at the Woodstock 99 festival. The set features one song from each of 32 performing artists.

Instead Woodstock 99 turned into violence and riots with women particularly at risk. Why did it go so horribly wrong. Woodstock 99 was the Fyre Festival predecessor that really happened producer Cassie Thornton told The Post.

Peace Love and Rage is a 2021 documentary film about the music festival Woodstock 99. Michael P DohertyAP This tense brisk watch inspires a sense of dread as it lays bare the rape riots and arson that destroyed a. It also features the recording of the speech given when the fires got out of hand and the Red Hot Chili Peppers performance was paused on the.

Watch trailers learn more. It was released via Epic Records in October 1999 about three months after the event took place. The renowned three-day rock n roll festival which once promoted messages of peace and love in its hippie era of 1969 turned into all-out anarchy at the end of the 90s complete with drug-fueled riots arson vandalism and rampant rape.

The film features interviews in which the concert promoters workers performers and attendees share their experiences of the infamous 3-day festival that was marred by intense heat overpricing violence sexual assault looting. This is the official video release with a lot of extra songs to tell the story of Woodstock 1999 in 6 hours of live music with free behaviour a lot of.

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