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Woodstock 99 documentary on Netflix

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g-dude said:
So I’m just sitting here watching the first episode, and it’s amazing how many memories are flooding back. Funniest part is that even after all these years, I recognized some of the naked people they flashed on the screen.

Definitely one of the more interesting experiences of my life, but man was it unpleasant.
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Interesting...and I remember it on the news...No water...and fires

Watched the first episode on Netflix last night
 
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murphy said:
Interesting...and I remember it on the news...No water...and fires

Watched the first episode on Netflix last night
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Just finished the whole thing.

I developed a visceral hatred of mulch during that event. I felt like I was coated in sweat the entire time, and I must of reeked because I refused to venture into the showers after my friend told me about the condoms that were floating around in there.

Made it into town one day, and you had the bathrooms breaking at the fast food places, and Pizza Hut running out of crust. The Payless shoe store had a five foot pile of discarded shoes outside. It was just weird…

We had to leave early because my friend and his cousin needed to catch a flight, so I avoided the final day’s insanity, but even during Korn’s set on the first full day, there was no way I was willing to go down to the pit - and this was before people started to get angry.

Never had the urge to go to any rock festival where you camped since then.
 
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I stopped going to Glastonbury Festival in England after the Hells Angels starting taking over at the event...
The whole peace and love vibe started to become more sinister...plus the Drug dealer gangs coming down from London....

This was before they started televising the event..
 
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murphy said:
I stopped going to Glastonbury Festival in England after the Hells Angels starting taking over at the event...
The whole peace and love vibe started to become more sinister...plus the Drug dealer gangs coming down from London....

This was before they started to televising the event..
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Hells Angels and a rock festival? What could go wrong?

I mean, besides what happened at Altamont.
 
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I watched that last week. Don't even remember anything about that except maybe that the event happened.

I was horrified to see all of the missteps that occurred because of greed - made even worse by the promoters being in denial and not reacting to the stupidity.

I was also reminded why I don't like the style of music that was really sparking the crowd - it just seems to bring out the rage in you, which is exactly what the event didn't need. I have no problem if some of an artist's set elicits that emotion - just part of rock and roll. But when that's all they got, you wind up with a bunch of crazy people wanting to destroy things and in some cases hurt people. In my world, that's not what music is for.
 
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We just sat thru all three episodes... I was working on a big internet project in NYC at the time and somehow missed all the press on that event - so it was a big dose of DoubleU-Teee-EFFF for me.o_O
"Lord Of The Flies, indeed! Luckily, all of those out-of-control reptile-brain nihilists have 'grown up' now, right? :)
 
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I have a slightly different perspective on Woodstock 99. My first consulting assignment at Oracle Corporation was to be the Database Administrator for some of the IT systems at Griffiss Air Force Base for a year and a half starting in 1989. Back then, all they did there were constant worldwide B-52 sorties. I never would have envisioned a giant rock concert taking place there.

On a vaguely related note ... while I was working there, they mothballed an old B-52 and then put it on display just inside one of the entrances to the base. Before they sealed it up, they let civilians go inside of it. Man, you wanna talk about a serious bomber. Totally austere ... they don't even have a bathroom for the crew. All about bizniz and the bizniz is dropping a $hitload of ordinance. While it was a beast of a plane, it had this cramped little cockpit for five crew members and a crawl space to get to the very back of the plane where they had one, sometimes two tail gunners. I'm not a warmonger, but I do admire things that have stood the test of time. B-52s originally went into service in 1955 and many are still in service today and the Air Force plans to keep using them until 2050 which will be almost a hundred years of service. They are like the Fender Precision of long range bombers. :D
 
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mrcbass said:
I watched that last week. Don't even remember anything about that except maybe that the event happened.

I was horrified to see all of the missteps that occurred because of greed - made even worse by the promoters being in denial and not reacting to the stupidity.

I was also reminded why I don't like the style of music that was really sparking the crowd - it just seems to bring out the rage in you, which is exactly what the event didn't need. I have no problem if some of an artist's set elicits that emotion - just part of rock and roll. But when that's all they got, you wind up with a bunch of crazy people wanting to destroy things and in some cases hurt people. In my world, that's not what music is for.
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Bands with aggressive music play shows all the time without incident. However, I agree that considering the circumstances, it was a really bad idea to book them for Woodstock '99. If the promoters had actually cared about the comfort and safety of the attendees, there could have been much less (or possibly no) violence.

FWIW, the Netflix doc didn't mention the death that occurred, while the HBO doc did.
 
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mrcbass said:
I watched that last week. Don't even remember anything about that except maybe that the event happened.

I was horrified to see all of the missteps that occurred because of greed - made even worse by the promoters being in denial and not reacting to the stupidity.

I was also reminded why I don't like the style of music that was really sparking the crowd - it just seems to bring out the rage in you, which is exactly what the event didn't need. I have no problem if some of an artist's set elicits that emotion - just part of rock and roll. But when that's all they got, you wind up with a bunch of crazy people wanting to destroy things and in some cases hurt people. In my world, that's not what music is for.
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I've been to metal festivals where this sort of stuff didn't happen.

Basically, if they had made this an event that wasn't miserable, none of the bad stuff would have come to pass.

It's hard to articulate the sort of mood the entire thing put you into, but I barely ended up watching many of the shows. The only time I found enjoyable was seeing George Clinton - that was fun, and I'm saying this as someone who wanted to see heavier acts and mosh. One look at the mosh pit, and I noped out immediately.
 
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