1 00:00:15,724 --> 00:00:17,267 Let's hear it for Bush. 2 00:00:22,897 --> 00:00:24,024 Thank you! 3 00:00:29,654 --> 00:00:33,241 Woodstock '99, day one. Pow! 4 00:00:41,875 --> 00:00:46,880 If you can't sleep tonight, there's a rave right over there in the hangar. 5 00:00:47,714 --> 00:00:48,798 Party all night. 6 00:00:50,175 --> 00:00:53,970 Friday the 23rd was my 29th birthday. 7 00:01:01,311 --> 00:01:06,149 I decided to go to the rave hangar with a bunch of our production crew. 8 00:01:09,861 --> 00:01:11,529 Oh, babe. Oh! 9 00:01:14,783 --> 00:01:16,493 We were so excited. 10 00:01:16,576 --> 00:01:20,246 You could fucking feel the energy as you approached the hangar. 11 00:01:23,708 --> 00:01:26,252 There was just the crush of 60,000 people. 12 00:01:27,295 --> 00:01:30,090 It was kind of like looking into the first ring of hell 13 00:01:30,173 --> 00:01:32,133 if the first ring of hell were fun. 14 00:01:33,885 --> 00:01:36,137 It was just unhinged. 15 00:01:37,847 --> 00:01:42,811 Everybody in various states of undress and just high as balls. 16 00:01:44,562 --> 00:01:46,189 We're a little high. 17 00:01:47,023 --> 00:01:49,692 At one point, this cute little hippie chick 18 00:01:49,776 --> 00:01:52,403 in fairy wings came up to me. 19 00:01:53,071 --> 00:01:55,156 She was like, "Hey, do you want some ecstasy?" 20 00:01:56,699 --> 00:01:59,661 And even though I knew that I had to work the next day, 21 00:01:59,744 --> 00:02:02,622 I was like, "Sure, I'm turning 29. Let's do this." 22 00:02:09,838 --> 00:02:12,799 Everyone was enjoying themselves, but you could feel it. 23 00:02:12,882 --> 00:02:14,425 Like, there was no control. 24 00:02:14,509 --> 00:02:15,343 Fuck you. 25 00:02:18,429 --> 00:02:21,850 There was no one to tell you, "Hey, you're taking it too far." 26 00:02:21,933 --> 00:02:24,435 You know, you have hundreds of thousands of people on the site, 27 00:02:24,519 --> 00:02:27,230 and most of them are naked. It's an invitation for trouble. 28 00:02:29,232 --> 00:02:31,276 It was the train off the tracks. 29 00:02:32,277 --> 00:02:34,279 You did not know what was gonna happen next. 30 00:02:51,796 --> 00:02:54,257 -I woke up at00 a.m. 31 00:02:55,091 --> 00:02:56,593 I kind of feel weird. 32 00:02:56,676 --> 00:02:58,678 And I'm like, "What is wrong with me?" 33 00:02:58,761 --> 00:03:03,016 And I take a look in the mirror, and my eyeballs are the size of cue balls. 34 00:03:03,099 --> 00:03:07,645 They're just… Pwong. Like so dilated. And I realize, "Holy shit, 35 00:03:07,729 --> 00:03:11,733 that ecstasy that I took four hours ago is now kicking in." 36 00:03:11,816 --> 00:03:13,651 "And now I'm in for a ride." 37 00:03:16,487 --> 00:03:20,241 I tried to go back to bed for an hour to try and kind of sleep it off. 38 00:03:20,325 --> 00:03:22,994 But I was just vibrating like, "Oh my God." 39 00:03:23,077 --> 00:03:24,329 "Just breathe. Just breathe." 40 00:03:24,412 --> 00:03:26,206 -"You've got to get going." -You're late. 41 00:03:28,750 --> 00:03:31,753 So, I strapped on all my gear and my walkie-talkie, and like, 42 00:03:31,836 --> 00:03:34,714 "Okay, let's go. We're going back into the festival." 43 00:03:46,100 --> 00:03:48,853 It was just such a surreal thing to walk into. 44 00:03:51,648 --> 00:03:53,566 I mean, Friday, it had been very beautiful. 45 00:03:54,943 --> 00:03:57,779 But then today, we're living in filth. 46 00:03:59,822 --> 00:04:02,992 Can we get your reaction this morning on the outhouse facilities? 47 00:04:03,076 --> 00:04:04,744 It is just nasty. 48 00:04:05,286 --> 00:04:07,205 -How nasty? -Can I curse on…? 49 00:04:07,288 --> 00:04:09,040 -Oh! Smell that. 50 00:04:09,707 --> 00:04:11,626 Oh! 51 00:04:11,709 --> 00:04:14,879 -Nastiest thing I've ever seen. -Has anyone used the bathroom? 52 00:04:14,963 --> 00:04:18,299 It's like going into a bathroom and not flushing it for a whole year 53 00:04:18,383 --> 00:04:20,551 and stepping into it. It's disgusting. 54 00:04:20,635 --> 00:04:24,555 We gotta close the door, man. Thanks a lot. Oh, I'm gonna be sick. 55 00:04:27,767 --> 00:04:30,728 Saturday was supposed to be the greatest day 56 00:04:30,812 --> 00:04:34,315 of the greatest rock festival of the decade. 57 00:04:35,024 --> 00:04:38,736 Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, Fatboy Slim. 58 00:04:39,404 --> 00:04:41,030 Let's go, guys! Let's go! 59 00:04:41,114 --> 00:04:45,785 But that's not what any of us who were actually there remember it for. 60 00:04:48,079 --> 00:04:50,498 Saturday was the day everything started to fall apart. 61 00:04:53,334 --> 00:04:54,168 Hello? 62 00:04:54,669 --> 00:04:57,422 The porta-potties were just the tip of the iceberg. 63 00:04:57,505 --> 00:05:00,842 In the production office, we started hearing tales 64 00:05:00,925 --> 00:05:05,054 of multiple breakdowns in the infrastructure around the festival. 65 00:05:08,057 --> 00:05:10,852 We show up Saturday to work security, 66 00:05:10,935 --> 00:05:15,398 and we had to walk, you know, probably a good half-mile down the runway. 67 00:05:18,651 --> 00:05:24,198 It was just almost like a layer of trash that you had to shuffle through 68 00:05:24,282 --> 00:05:25,491 to get to the stage. 69 00:05:26,534 --> 00:05:28,703 Okay, fine, you're not going to get every piece of trash. 70 00:05:28,786 --> 00:05:31,539 But this was literally like they did nothing. 71 00:05:32,999 --> 00:05:34,500 The place was disgusting. 72 00:05:35,293 --> 00:05:38,546 Garbage cans were few and far between, it seemed, 73 00:05:38,629 --> 00:05:40,715 and overflowing if there were any. 74 00:05:41,549 --> 00:05:45,219 Like all departments, the Sanitation Department had budget cuts. 75 00:05:45,303 --> 00:05:49,390 Trash services and the sewage services were all farmed out. 76 00:05:51,684 --> 00:05:54,562 So we're relying on all these subcontractors. 77 00:05:54,645 --> 00:05:59,692 And whether it was not having enough people, or just like, 78 00:05:59,776 --> 00:06:01,736 "Hey, it's a festival. Let's go and have fun." 79 00:06:02,737 --> 00:06:05,365 Unfortunately, they did not do their jobs. 80 00:06:06,741 --> 00:06:09,494 Woodstock, day number two. Have fun. 81 00:06:10,119 --> 00:06:13,998 Turn my guitar up loud, loud, loud. 82 00:06:16,042 --> 00:06:20,046 You are free to throw your plastic bottles when I start this record. 83 00:06:34,352 --> 00:06:37,897 I was up in the tower, looking down at the stage, 84 00:06:38,398 --> 00:06:41,359 and I could see trash every place. 85 00:06:42,902 --> 00:06:48,699 And I said, "That is gonna be the downfall of Woodstock '99, 86 00:06:49,700 --> 00:06:51,744 what you're looking at right there." 87 00:06:52,495 --> 00:06:55,706 "Because these kids are not gonna be happy." 88 00:06:55,790 --> 00:06:58,334 "We're not taking good enough care of them." 89 00:06:59,168 --> 00:07:01,254 They wanted the Woodstock spirit 90 00:07:02,255 --> 00:07:04,215 from Woodstock '69. 91 00:07:09,679 --> 00:07:12,306 I was 27 at the original Woodstock, 92 00:07:13,015 --> 00:07:15,935 and it was one of the most important events of my life. 93 00:07:17,061 --> 00:07:19,230 I mean, it was peace and love. 94 00:07:20,982 --> 00:07:24,318 My mom was a huge part of Woodstock '69. 95 00:07:24,402 --> 00:07:28,448 She was instrumental in getting all the food for the free kitchens. 96 00:07:31,534 --> 00:07:35,455 To see that many people get along with each other 97 00:07:35,538 --> 00:07:37,999 and take care of each other, it changed my life. 98 00:07:42,545 --> 00:07:46,507 So, I wanted to keep Woodstock '99 beautiful. 99 00:07:47,550 --> 00:07:51,429 And I knew that we were looking at a disaster 100 00:07:51,512 --> 00:07:53,848 if we left the trash on the ground. 101 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,101 Where's Waste Management? 102 00:07:59,979 --> 00:08:04,400 So, I took it upon myself to get a bunch of trash bags 103 00:08:04,484 --> 00:08:06,402 and go out and hand them out. 104 00:08:07,904 --> 00:08:10,531 She didn't know. She didn't know what she was gonna get into. 105 00:08:14,619 --> 00:08:19,457 Trash bags for your area. Trash bags for your area. 106 00:08:20,374 --> 00:08:22,376 Come on. Everybody, help out. 107 00:08:23,044 --> 00:08:24,420 One person said to me, 108 00:08:24,504 --> 00:08:28,508 "I paid $150 to be here. You should clean it up." 109 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:32,136 And I said, "Well, this is a different kind of Woodstock." 110 00:08:32,637 --> 00:08:34,972 Maybe these kids don't have enough love. 111 00:08:36,349 --> 00:08:37,808 Maybe they're acting this way-- 112 00:08:49,904 --> 00:08:52,114 Okay, this is a piece of art. 113 00:08:52,198 --> 00:08:54,200 This is a piece of art. 114 00:08:56,536 --> 00:09:00,790 Come on. Back up on its end. On its end. This way. 115 00:09:02,458 --> 00:09:04,877 When you're in an environment like this, 116 00:09:04,961 --> 00:09:06,629 and you don't have enough infrastructure 117 00:09:06,712 --> 00:09:09,131 to support the number of people that are there… 118 00:09:11,050 --> 00:09:13,636 …then it starts to cause things to unravel. 119 00:09:15,012 --> 00:09:19,308 I mean, if it looks like the venue doesn't care, then why should you care? 120 00:09:31,112 --> 00:09:35,616 Behind the scenes, the producers of this event were disorganized. 121 00:09:36,909 --> 00:09:39,412 I mean, there was so much happening on-site, 122 00:09:39,495 --> 00:09:42,748 and Michael and John, they were not really paying attention 123 00:09:42,832 --> 00:09:44,750 to the logistical problems. 124 00:09:49,130 --> 00:09:52,008 We are backstage at Woodstock '99 with three, 125 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,094 what look like very happy dudes, three kingpins. 126 00:09:55,177 --> 00:09:58,097 You got Ossie Kilkenny, Michael Lang, John Scher. 127 00:09:58,889 --> 00:10:01,892 How's it going? You look all happy. Things must be going very well. 128 00:10:01,976 --> 00:10:05,187 Well, things are going very nicely. We're about halfway through. 129 00:10:05,730 --> 00:10:07,315 We were having fun. 130 00:10:07,398 --> 00:10:10,818 We had worked a year to plan this. 131 00:10:11,402 --> 00:10:12,737 And it was working. 132 00:10:12,820 --> 00:10:16,073 It seems so well organized. It's so well put together. 133 00:10:16,157 --> 00:10:19,410 There is no festival like Woodstock in the world. 134 00:10:19,493 --> 00:10:23,289 Yes, issues existed, but they were isolated. 135 00:10:26,042 --> 00:10:29,128 I mean, nobody came thinking they were gonna stay 136 00:10:29,211 --> 00:10:30,463 at the Ritz-Carlton. 137 00:10:32,131 --> 00:10:33,966 It's been a great success. 138 00:10:34,050 --> 00:10:35,676 Everything has come to expectations. 139 00:10:37,136 --> 00:10:38,846 And what's most important for everybody here, 140 00:10:38,929 --> 00:10:39,930 everyone's enjoying it. 141 00:10:40,014 --> 00:10:42,975 You don't see anybody out there saying anything negative. 142 00:10:43,059 --> 00:10:44,727 -Assholes! -It's fucked up, man. 143 00:10:44,810 --> 00:10:47,104 -It's not good. -It is fucked up, man. 144 00:10:47,188 --> 00:10:48,898 They're just sitting there with blinders on. 145 00:10:48,981 --> 00:10:50,608 Like, "Hey, it's all good." 146 00:10:51,609 --> 00:10:53,194 How about pleasant surprises? 147 00:10:53,277 --> 00:10:57,823 Things you might have not expected to go as well as they did. 148 00:10:58,783 --> 00:11:02,953 Well, I think the weather turned out to work very much in our favor. 149 00:11:14,590 --> 00:11:17,760 Day one was hot, but day two, it was like a furnace. 150 00:11:18,719 --> 00:11:20,262 I mean, there was a lot of concrete. 151 00:11:21,430 --> 00:11:25,017 Hot, beating, like, Lawrence of Arabia-type sun beating down. 152 00:11:25,601 --> 00:11:27,436 All right, you wanna rock? 153 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:28,604 Yeah! 154 00:11:28,688 --> 00:11:30,022 All right. 155 00:11:31,107 --> 00:11:33,484 From Detroit… Kid Rock! 156 00:11:36,487 --> 00:11:39,198 By now, everybody's getting hyped up for Kid Rock. 157 00:11:39,281 --> 00:11:42,660 And it's the hottest part of the hottest day of the year. 158 00:11:42,743 --> 00:11:44,995 Kid Rock comes out in this big fur coat. 159 00:11:47,790 --> 00:11:51,460 First thing I'm thinking is, like, "Holy shit. He's insane." 160 00:11:53,337 --> 00:11:56,757 And he throws it off, and it was like James Brown-type stuff. 161 00:11:58,426 --> 00:12:01,053 And he just goes, "My name is Kid!" 162 00:12:10,771 --> 00:12:13,149 I was off to the side of the crowd. 163 00:12:14,233 --> 00:12:17,319 The band was going crazy, and the crowd was going crazy. 164 00:12:17,403 --> 00:12:20,865 It was hot where I was standing, and I didn't have anybody next to me, 165 00:12:20,948 --> 00:12:23,909 so I can only imagine the temperature within the pit. 166 00:12:25,202 --> 00:12:27,288 It must have been a fucking toaster oven. 167 00:12:29,248 --> 00:12:33,335 I was assigned to a tent that was right next to the stage. 168 00:12:36,881 --> 00:12:38,466 The sun was burning, 169 00:12:39,884 --> 00:12:43,804 and the humidity and the heat were so high that standing still, 170 00:12:43,888 --> 00:12:47,683 you would just literally be drenched in your own perspiration. 171 00:12:49,435 --> 00:12:52,980 People were being brought out who were unconscious due to heatstroke, 172 00:12:53,063 --> 00:12:56,692 and their skin was literally dry to the touch. 173 00:12:56,776 --> 00:12:58,527 Do you see how hot it is, folks? 174 00:12:58,611 --> 00:13:01,030 Look at his face. You can just see how hot it is. 175 00:13:01,906 --> 00:13:03,824 I can't feel my legs anymore. 176 00:13:04,533 --> 00:13:06,619 More than 1,000 people have been treated 177 00:13:06,702 --> 00:13:08,245 for heat exhaustion and dehydration 178 00:13:08,329 --> 00:13:11,665 at the Woodstock '99 music festival in Upstate New York. 179 00:13:12,374 --> 00:13:16,796 This was not a walk in the park. I completely underestimated this event. 180 00:13:19,381 --> 00:13:21,217 I said to myself, "We're fucked." 181 00:13:21,300 --> 00:13:22,593 "We're fucked." 182 00:13:22,676 --> 00:13:26,597 Water! Water! Water! Water! 183 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:28,682 Give them some water, goddamn it. 184 00:13:28,766 --> 00:13:32,728 Water! Water! Water! Water! 185 00:13:32,812 --> 00:13:36,190 People were trying desperately to find shade wherever they could. 186 00:13:37,983 --> 00:13:41,153 It was like the scarcest thing on the planet, 187 00:13:41,946 --> 00:13:44,448 and people were seeking it out everywhere. 188 00:13:46,450 --> 00:13:50,329 There was really no place for you to get out of this situation, okay? 189 00:13:50,412 --> 00:13:52,331 They hadn't provided it. 190 00:13:53,207 --> 00:13:57,586 What does that say about the producers to a kid who's coming, paying their money 191 00:13:57,670 --> 00:14:01,674 and wanting to have this wonderful "Woodstock" experience? 192 00:14:02,258 --> 00:14:06,220 Okay? It says they don't give a fuck about you. 193 00:14:12,059 --> 00:14:15,145 This little octagon here will get me a lot of places here at Woodstock '99. 194 00:14:15,729 --> 00:14:18,983 Right behind me, past those heavily fortified gates you see, 195 00:14:19,066 --> 00:14:20,442 that's the artists' compound. 196 00:14:23,487 --> 00:14:25,573 Backstage, the atmosphere was great. 197 00:14:25,656 --> 00:14:28,158 We had tons and tons of dressing-room trailers 198 00:14:28,242 --> 00:14:31,453 that were well-appointed, we had chefs. 199 00:14:31,537 --> 00:14:35,499 And at one point, we had a big barbecue going. 200 00:14:35,583 --> 00:14:37,042 The acts got treated great. 201 00:14:39,712 --> 00:14:41,213 -How are you? -Cool. 202 00:14:41,964 --> 00:14:45,926 I arrived on the Saturday in a stretch limo. 203 00:14:46,010 --> 00:14:49,221 I remember there was a really big thing that we all had to sign. 204 00:14:50,389 --> 00:14:53,851 It sort of felt a little bit more like walking down a red carpet 205 00:14:53,934 --> 00:14:56,645 at an awards ceremony than arriving at a festival. 206 00:14:58,439 --> 00:15:00,482 Everything was sponsored out of its mind. 207 00:15:00,566 --> 00:15:04,653 Budweiser beer. You're watching Woodstock '99! 208 00:15:04,737 --> 00:15:05,905 Whoo! 209 00:15:05,988 --> 00:15:09,950 There's a place giving away Converse gear if you wanna blag some stuff. 210 00:15:10,034 --> 00:15:10,868 Absolutely. 211 00:15:12,328 --> 00:15:14,246 You guys are cool to hook us up. 212 00:15:14,788 --> 00:15:18,250 Peace and love equals capitalistic venture. 213 00:15:18,334 --> 00:15:21,337 There you go. Let's call a spade a spade. Come on. 214 00:15:21,837 --> 00:15:25,424 It didn't have that "peace and love," 215 00:15:25,507 --> 00:15:29,887 and "we're all in it, this, together," sense of community. 216 00:15:30,804 --> 00:15:32,556 We were really spoiled at Woodstock. 217 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,435 But you went over that wall and… 218 00:15:38,354 --> 00:15:41,482 it's a hundred degrees. They're standing on tarmac. 219 00:15:41,982 --> 00:15:44,068 They're paying, like, eight dollars for a burrito. 220 00:15:44,151 --> 00:15:46,820 The kids are just getting gouged left and right. 221 00:15:47,404 --> 00:15:49,573 And come Saturday, they were pissed. 222 00:15:50,824 --> 00:15:54,411 And that was when they started to throw stuff at us for the first time. 223 00:15:59,750 --> 00:16:02,670 Suddenly, concertgoers were taking aim at us. 224 00:16:02,753 --> 00:16:03,921 At MTV. 225 00:16:04,588 --> 00:16:07,591 People are now throwing hats and other things. 226 00:16:08,217 --> 00:16:11,470 They knew that we were live on air. They were fucking with us. 227 00:16:13,263 --> 00:16:17,518 Awesome. This right here is Woodstock '99 at its finest. 228 00:16:18,143 --> 00:16:20,980 You would hear a handful of change, or a battery, 229 00:16:21,063 --> 00:16:22,982 you know, kind of like ricochet off the set. 230 00:16:24,858 --> 00:16:26,986 I have to be looking at the tower. 231 00:16:27,069 --> 00:16:31,323 I can't be looking at the crowd to see a rock that's coming at my head. 232 00:16:31,407 --> 00:16:32,658 It was, like, really terrifying. 233 00:16:35,119 --> 00:16:36,870 We're starting to feel like a target. 234 00:16:36,954 --> 00:16:42,626 Like, we represented something to them that they resented. 235 00:16:42,710 --> 00:16:46,088 I'm sick of the Backstreet Boys on MTV Live. I'm sick of that . 236 00:16:46,630 --> 00:16:49,049 -You know, it's bull-- -Don't hold back on me. 237 00:16:49,133 --> 00:16:50,884 I'm not holding back. I hate that sh-- 238 00:16:50,968 --> 00:16:52,219 There you go. 239 00:16:52,302 --> 00:16:54,096 -Welcome the Backstreet Boys. 240 00:16:56,765 --> 00:17:02,438 In the late '90s, MTV was the embodiment of what the music industry became 241 00:17:02,521 --> 00:17:06,567 from Woodstock '69 to Woodstock '99. 242 00:17:09,403 --> 00:17:12,406 It was no longer about revolution. 243 00:17:12,489 --> 00:17:14,616 It was more about, "Buy my T-shirt." 244 00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:17,703 Joey McIntyre, "Stay the Same." You'd better go pick it up. 245 00:17:18,287 --> 00:17:22,666 To the rock fan, MTV VJs do not seem like one of them. 246 00:17:23,250 --> 00:17:25,836 I mean, they were the face of this corporate monolith 247 00:17:25,919 --> 00:17:29,048 that was bastardizing their music. 248 00:17:29,131 --> 00:17:31,633 "You guys are selling out," or "Corporate's trying to come in 249 00:17:31,717 --> 00:17:33,469 and ruin our fun. We wanna be free." 250 00:17:36,013 --> 00:17:37,806 Suck a fucking dick. 251 00:17:38,432 --> 00:17:41,852 I don't know if it was just a generational shift 252 00:17:42,478 --> 00:17:45,272 in youth culture, but they were done. 253 00:17:46,190 --> 00:17:48,400 The Backstreet Boys. 254 00:17:58,494 --> 00:17:59,703 People were mad. 255 00:18:00,329 --> 00:18:03,624 This guy came up behind me and tried to burn my ass with a cigar. 256 00:18:03,707 --> 00:18:06,251 And there's not enough security here to stop it. 257 00:18:07,336 --> 00:18:10,255 Honestly, there was not enough security for 250,000 people. 258 00:18:11,715 --> 00:18:13,842 Security at Woodstock '99 was kind of a joke. 259 00:18:13,926 --> 00:18:16,720 It was like, you know, kids with yellow T-shirts. 260 00:18:19,848 --> 00:18:23,727 In 1999, I was still 18 at that point. 261 00:18:24,686 --> 00:18:27,564 I ran graffiti, chasing after girls, 262 00:18:27,648 --> 00:18:32,027 nightclubs, and all the festivities that came along with it. 263 00:18:33,195 --> 00:18:35,823 This guy said, "Hey, I need to sign people up 264 00:18:35,906 --> 00:18:38,951 for security detail for Woodstock '99." 265 00:18:39,034 --> 00:18:41,120 "We'll be paying you $500 to come." 266 00:18:41,203 --> 00:18:45,207 You know, it was pretty much, "Sign this form, and you're security." 267 00:18:45,707 --> 00:18:48,877 We almost had to take a look behind our shoulders twice and go, 268 00:18:49,545 --> 00:18:53,507 "Us? Really?" You know, "You sure?" 269 00:18:54,466 --> 00:18:57,177 We didn't want anybody uniformed, or anybody carrying a gun. 270 00:18:57,261 --> 00:19:00,556 We didn't want the influences of the government 271 00:19:00,639 --> 00:19:03,183 or of the, you know, police state or whatever. 272 00:19:03,267 --> 00:19:05,978 So the security that we hired, 273 00:19:06,061 --> 00:19:07,062 they were not armed. 274 00:19:07,938 --> 00:19:09,231 They were peace patrol. 275 00:19:15,904 --> 00:19:17,489 What's Woodstock mean to you guys? 276 00:19:17,573 --> 00:19:20,576 For me, it's money, and sex, and bitches, truthfully. 277 00:19:20,659 --> 00:19:23,537 Wow. These guys have really captured the spirit of Woodstock. 278 00:19:23,620 --> 00:19:27,207 We met people from local neighborhoods in Brooklyn that we knew. 279 00:19:28,625 --> 00:19:31,670 And I was like, "Who has a joint? Let's smoke." 280 00:19:31,753 --> 00:19:35,090 None of these people were doing what they were supposed to from day one. 281 00:19:37,050 --> 00:19:41,013 At some point, someone approached me and asked what did that T-shirt do for me. 282 00:19:41,096 --> 00:19:45,225 So being an opportunist, I said, "This T-shirt does anything you want." 283 00:19:45,309 --> 00:19:48,270 Knowing it didn't do that. "Oh, does it get me backstage?" 284 00:19:48,353 --> 00:19:50,981 "Yeah, it gets you backstage." "You wanna sell it?" 285 00:19:51,064 --> 00:19:52,316 "Four hundred dollars." 286 00:19:53,567 --> 00:19:55,360 I'll take it. I have another shirt in my bag. 287 00:19:57,905 --> 00:19:59,656 It was laughable, you know? 288 00:19:59,740 --> 00:20:01,533 Like, "Look at this. What a joke this is." 289 00:20:01,617 --> 00:20:03,410 We could see how this is gonna go. 290 00:20:14,087 --> 00:20:16,006 Come on! Yeah! 291 00:20:16,089 --> 00:20:17,424 Show it. Show it. 292 00:20:17,507 --> 00:20:19,092 By midway through the festival, 293 00:20:19,176 --> 00:20:22,137 a lot of the crowd realized they could do whatever they wanted 294 00:20:22,221 --> 00:20:25,432 without fear of repercussions or consequences. 295 00:20:25,515 --> 00:20:28,143 -Nice butterfly. -Thank you very much. 296 00:20:28,227 --> 00:20:30,437 -Hey, that girl needs a rub. 297 00:20:31,605 --> 00:20:35,734 I started seeing large groups of dudes hanging out, surrounding women, 298 00:20:35,817 --> 00:20:39,404 you know, chanting in their faces to take off their bikini tops. 299 00:20:40,072 --> 00:20:43,116 Mob psychology is getting maybe a little dangerous here. 300 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,535 Hey, guys, give her some room. You're getting scary here. 301 00:20:45,619 --> 00:20:48,664 -Can you guys give me some room? -Please. She'll suffocate. 302 00:20:50,207 --> 00:20:53,835 One young woman had just body-surfed over the crowd. 303 00:20:54,670 --> 00:20:56,797 And I said, "How was it?" I'm thinking it was great. 304 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:58,465 You know, she's body-surfing. 305 00:20:58,548 --> 00:21:01,927 Um, and she goes, "Well, I hate all men now." 306 00:21:04,888 --> 00:21:07,724 There's the people that are legit trying to carry you 307 00:21:07,808 --> 00:21:10,185 and actually move you along like they're supposed to be. 308 00:21:10,269 --> 00:21:14,898 But there's equally as many dudes, like, grabbing your boob 309 00:21:14,982 --> 00:21:18,902 and, you know, getting a squeeze on your butt as they're passing you along. 310 00:21:18,986 --> 00:21:21,780 And, you know, I was young. I was 14. 311 00:21:21,863 --> 00:21:27,244 Like, I had never had those kind of hands, you know, in those places. 312 00:21:28,829 --> 00:21:31,456 I think from Saturday on, 313 00:21:31,540 --> 00:21:35,544 I heard some reports that the women were pushed around. 314 00:21:36,211 --> 00:21:40,424 But there were a lot of women who voluntarily had their tops off. 315 00:21:41,049 --> 00:21:44,052 And then you get into a mosh pit, and you get crowd-surfed. 316 00:21:44,636 --> 00:21:46,722 Could somebody have touched their breasts? 317 00:21:47,597 --> 00:21:49,224 Yes. I'm sure they did. 318 00:21:50,517 --> 00:21:52,144 What could I have done about it? 319 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,355 I'm not sure I could have done anything. 320 00:21:58,233 --> 00:22:01,528 Looking back on it, it's sad that in the '90s 321 00:22:01,611 --> 00:22:03,905 those things were just kind of the way that it was, 322 00:22:03,989 --> 00:22:05,240 and it was accepted. 323 00:22:07,659 --> 00:22:10,329 The whole weekend, there was a lack of respect. 324 00:22:12,205 --> 00:22:14,916 Lack of respect from the promoters to us. 325 00:22:15,959 --> 00:22:19,796 Lack of respect from the attendees to the grounds. 326 00:22:20,380 --> 00:22:23,300 Lack of respect of men to women. 327 00:22:24,676 --> 00:22:28,680 So, there was a lot of anger and hostility building up. 328 00:22:31,016 --> 00:22:32,726 It was, like, the wildest thing. 329 00:22:43,737 --> 00:22:45,238 We got Limp Bizkit tonight. 330 00:22:45,322 --> 00:22:47,991 Best of luck to everyone here for no serious injuries tonight. 331 00:22:48,075 --> 00:22:49,201 Although, I don't know. 332 00:22:49,284 --> 00:22:52,204 I hope they've stocked up on their stretchers and their bandages. 333 00:22:52,996 --> 00:22:57,209 I was a huge fan of Limp Bizkit, and we were super excited to see them. 334 00:22:57,292 --> 00:22:59,628 I think they're happy to see Limp Bizkit here. 335 00:23:00,212 --> 00:23:02,881 At that moment, they were one of the biggest bands in the world. 336 00:23:02,964 --> 00:23:06,218 Are you gonna be able to tear things up, drive them nuts, just go wild? 337 00:23:06,301 --> 00:23:08,011 This was really their moment. 338 00:23:08,095 --> 00:23:10,764 And, to me, Limp Bizkit were the biggest draw 339 00:23:10,847 --> 00:23:14,267 in terms of why the young people were making this pilgrimage 340 00:23:14,351 --> 00:23:15,936 to the middle of New York. 341 00:23:16,603 --> 00:23:19,940 The fans of Limp Bizkit did not come from any elitist groups. 342 00:23:20,023 --> 00:23:22,901 This was your average rock fan. 343 00:23:23,693 --> 00:23:27,406 And they were champions to the underdogs of the world. 344 00:23:27,489 --> 00:23:29,074 It's all about the nookie! 345 00:23:29,157 --> 00:23:31,201 -It's all about the nookie! -Yeah! 346 00:23:31,284 --> 00:23:33,370 Their big song was "Nookie." 347 00:23:33,453 --> 00:23:36,748 And if I need to get pumped? Absolutely I rock out to that. 348 00:23:39,418 --> 00:23:44,339 "Nookie" took over the summer, and everybody was constantly singing it. 349 00:23:46,758 --> 00:23:49,219 Fred Durst wasn't like a famous rock star. 350 00:23:49,302 --> 00:23:51,930 He was like one of us. He wore DC shirts. 351 00:23:52,013 --> 00:23:57,185 He wore a baseball hat backwards. And you could relate to him so much. 352 00:23:57,269 --> 00:23:59,980 I loved how, just, they didn't give a fuck. Period. 353 00:24:01,022 --> 00:24:01,857 See you in jail. 354 00:24:04,776 --> 00:24:07,404 He was just like the ringleader. He'd always just get… 355 00:24:08,155 --> 00:24:10,115 He would get people to do the craziest shit. 356 00:24:14,995 --> 00:24:18,081 Well, Woodstock, it's been a pretty mellow afternoon. 357 00:24:18,165 --> 00:24:20,459 But you know what? That shit is over. 358 00:24:21,877 --> 00:24:23,044 We're at the barricade, right? 359 00:24:23,628 --> 00:24:26,256 After what we had been through with Korn the night before… 360 00:24:28,258 --> 00:24:30,969 you know, there was a little bit of, like, apprehension. 361 00:24:31,052 --> 00:24:37,058 Okay, now people might be on day two of their multiday no-sleep bender. 362 00:24:37,851 --> 00:24:40,353 Lots more drugs. Lots more alcohol. 363 00:24:41,897 --> 00:24:42,772 What's coming up? 364 00:24:43,565 --> 00:24:46,318 The one, the only… 365 00:24:48,069 --> 00:24:50,530 Limp Bizkit! 366 00:25:04,544 --> 00:25:08,173 When you walk out on stage, and 250,000 people 367 00:25:08,715 --> 00:25:09,883 are looking back at you, 368 00:25:09,966 --> 00:25:14,095 and you can go like this, and they all… It's like you're an orchestra conductor. 369 00:25:15,096 --> 00:25:17,140 Are you ready to get this motherfucker going? 370 00:25:17,224 --> 00:25:18,975 And they are your orchestra. 371 00:25:19,476 --> 00:25:24,022 All right, y'all. From the front to the back like this. 372 00:25:24,105 --> 00:25:27,192 And that's what Fred did. Like, he was out there moving them. 373 00:25:27,275 --> 00:25:28,985 Just like this. 374 00:25:30,237 --> 00:25:32,239 Now, everybody, get up! 375 00:25:36,076 --> 00:25:39,287 The mosh pit was just like nothing I'd ever seen before. 376 00:25:40,956 --> 00:25:43,083 As a hungry young reporter, 377 00:25:43,166 --> 00:25:45,877 I saw this as being a really great opportunity. 378 00:25:50,423 --> 00:25:52,509 There's not another reporter here 379 00:25:52,592 --> 00:25:54,553 that's going to venture into that mosh pit. 380 00:25:57,472 --> 00:25:59,391 I am going in. 381 00:26:06,565 --> 00:26:09,442 I am in this pit speaking into my microphone, 382 00:26:09,526 --> 00:26:12,279 pushing people off of me, ducking out of the way. 383 00:26:12,862 --> 00:26:15,991 I'm in the pit about 100 feet away from the stage. 384 00:26:16,074 --> 00:26:19,369 I've been hit in the head with a Frisbee, a shoe. 385 00:26:19,452 --> 00:26:21,079 Dave Blaustein, ABC News. 386 00:26:22,497 --> 00:26:26,418 The crowd was, like, undulating. They were almost one organism. 387 00:26:32,173 --> 00:26:34,634 Bunch of crazy motherfuckers out there. 388 00:26:35,135 --> 00:26:38,763 When you look at the tension that had been building up with the crowd, 389 00:26:38,847 --> 00:26:39,931 it was a hand grenade. 390 00:26:40,015 --> 00:26:41,975 This shit looks fucking insane. 391 00:26:42,642 --> 00:26:46,396 During "Break Stuff" is when that hand grenade actually exploded. 392 00:26:46,479 --> 00:26:48,481 I'm gonna ask you a personal question. 393 00:26:48,565 --> 00:26:52,902 There's this little preamble. "How many of you people like NSYNC?" 394 00:26:52,986 --> 00:26:54,446 And then you hear, "Boo!" 395 00:26:58,074 --> 00:27:01,119 How many of you people here ever woke up one morning 396 00:27:01,202 --> 00:27:03,955 and just decided it wasn't one of those days, 397 00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:05,749 and you're gonna break some shit? 398 00:27:09,961 --> 00:27:13,965 "Well, this is one of them days, y'all, where everything's fucked." 399 00:27:14,049 --> 00:27:15,967 …where everything's fucked up. 400 00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:18,511 "And you just wanna break some shit." 401 00:27:30,774 --> 00:27:34,069 You could see Fred Durst's id, ego, 402 00:27:34,152 --> 00:27:37,822 and superego battling it out on stage. 403 00:27:39,366 --> 00:27:42,202 You see the look on his face, like, 404 00:27:42,786 --> 00:27:44,829 "Holy shit." 405 00:27:44,913 --> 00:27:46,706 You have a superego. 406 00:27:46,790 --> 00:27:51,294 "All right, calm down, Fred. Just be good. Don't do anything crazy." 407 00:27:52,045 --> 00:27:56,800 But then you have the id going, "Fuck, yeah! Let's do this!" 408 00:27:58,259 --> 00:28:00,303 Time to reach deep down inside. 409 00:28:01,846 --> 00:28:04,182 "Take all that negative energy…" 410 00:28:06,476 --> 00:28:09,145 …and let that shit out of your fucking system. 411 00:28:10,730 --> 00:28:14,109 You got girl problems? You got boy problems? 412 00:28:14,609 --> 00:28:18,321 You got parent problems? You got boss problems? 413 00:28:18,405 --> 00:28:20,031 You got job problems? 414 00:28:20,115 --> 00:28:24,327 It was kind of like Fred understood what we were all going through 415 00:28:24,411 --> 00:28:28,623 and spoke to each person in that crowd at that moment. 416 00:28:30,417 --> 00:28:32,043 You feel me, Woodstock? 417 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,380 All right. Let's bring it out. 418 00:28:35,463 --> 00:28:37,048 Then he has to add, 419 00:28:37,132 --> 00:28:41,094 "Now, when this song kicks in, I want you to fucking kick in." 420 00:28:42,887 --> 00:28:43,805 And that's it. 421 00:28:45,223 --> 00:28:48,226 Kerosene, match. Boom. 422 00:28:55,066 --> 00:28:58,069 It went from, "Oh, we're having a nice day." 423 00:28:58,153 --> 00:29:01,948 "Oh, we're going to fucking destroy shit. We're gonna go crazy." 424 00:29:03,825 --> 00:29:05,744 And they're diving all over each other. 425 00:29:05,827 --> 00:29:07,579 People are getting trampled, bloody heads. 426 00:29:07,662 --> 00:29:10,540 I mean, this is like triage. This is like warfare. 427 00:29:18,673 --> 00:29:22,093 So, I'm standing on the barricade, there to try to protect the stage, 428 00:29:22,594 --> 00:29:23,887 when it flashed into my head 429 00:29:23,970 --> 00:29:26,222 that my good friend Chris was at the sound tower. 430 00:29:28,099 --> 00:29:30,393 So at that point, I was working the sound tower 431 00:29:30,477 --> 00:29:32,270 and sort of feeling all those people around us. 432 00:29:33,104 --> 00:29:34,522 It was definitely intimidating. 433 00:29:35,190 --> 00:29:37,442 We were, I don't know, ten guys on an island, right? 434 00:29:38,318 --> 00:29:42,113 We were just surrounded by a crowd that's completely off the rails. 435 00:29:48,745 --> 00:29:51,122 So the sound guys, they had actually hung a sign out there 436 00:29:51,206 --> 00:29:53,082 that basically said, you know, "The Alamo" on it. 437 00:29:57,796 --> 00:30:00,882 We start noticing people start banging against the plywood planks. 438 00:30:01,382 --> 00:30:04,511 Then the next thing you know, you start getting some hands on top. 439 00:30:05,303 --> 00:30:08,223 Then you start seeing heads, you know, people sort of pushing each other up. 440 00:30:09,474 --> 00:30:12,268 That's when my heart rate started pumping. I mean, it was scary. 441 00:30:13,394 --> 00:30:16,481 It's like a scene where zombies are coming over the castle walls. 442 00:30:17,273 --> 00:30:18,983 People were rocking back and forth, 443 00:30:19,067 --> 00:30:21,277 and there was plywood, and they're trying to rip it off. 444 00:30:26,074 --> 00:30:27,992 I was like, "Holy shit." 445 00:30:28,868 --> 00:30:30,954 You could see the sound stage is, like, shaking. 446 00:30:37,961 --> 00:30:40,046 At that point, it was like a mayday. 447 00:30:40,129 --> 00:30:43,091 It was like, an SOS went out from the sound tower guys. 448 00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:48,096 I need some backup. Pull your people out of there. 449 00:30:49,180 --> 00:30:51,850 I, and many of the other security guards, 450 00:30:51,933 --> 00:30:55,562 jumped over the barricade to try to get to them to help them. 451 00:30:56,145 --> 00:30:58,314 Those guys from the barricade came. They saw us. 452 00:30:58,398 --> 00:31:01,734 They said, "Let's go. We're evacuating." And then, yup, we just hauled ass. 453 00:31:02,777 --> 00:31:07,156 I don't have much memory of this, other than just diving over the barricade 454 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,326 as the sea sort of swallowed us up behind me. 455 00:31:12,203 --> 00:31:14,205 Let me hear some fucking noise! 456 00:31:15,039 --> 00:31:17,458 I watched it from the side of the stage. 457 00:31:17,542 --> 00:31:20,753 Fred was riling up the crowd. 458 00:31:20,837 --> 00:31:24,799 And I saw it get increasingly 459 00:31:25,925 --> 00:31:28,595 rambunctious and then out of hand. 460 00:31:28,678 --> 00:31:31,055 You know what? It would probably be a lot easier 461 00:31:31,139 --> 00:31:33,600 if they just showed us their penises, just get over with it. 462 00:31:34,350 --> 00:31:37,937 I feel like we're watching a documentary on the Discovery Channel or something. 463 00:31:38,021 --> 00:31:40,899 Let's just hope that some of them get hit between the legs, 464 00:31:40,982 --> 00:31:42,692 and they don't breed. 465 00:31:45,486 --> 00:31:46,863 It was fun at first. 466 00:31:46,946 --> 00:31:50,241 And then it turned out to be, like, I got to get out of here. 467 00:31:50,325 --> 00:31:52,118 I'm, like, not having fun no more. 468 00:31:53,119 --> 00:31:56,205 I really thought, like, I was gonna die there at one point. 469 00:31:56,289 --> 00:32:00,001 Like, my mom's gonna see me on the news, dead at Woodstock. 470 00:32:00,084 --> 00:32:03,421 I saw a girl get hit in the head with a glass bottle. 471 00:32:03,504 --> 00:32:07,842 Security, to their credit, they grab her and they bring her out. 472 00:32:07,926 --> 00:32:10,678 I follow them into the medical area, 473 00:32:11,387 --> 00:32:15,141 and what I saw was incredibly frightening and shocking. 474 00:32:17,518 --> 00:32:22,190 I saw blood on the ground. I saw somebody getting staples in their head. 475 00:32:22,273 --> 00:32:24,275 I saw people getting IVs. 476 00:32:25,026 --> 00:32:27,403 Somebody looked like they had a broken leg. 477 00:32:27,487 --> 00:32:32,784 I saw several people just laying on cots, and their bodies almost looked lifeless. 478 00:32:33,868 --> 00:32:36,621 I was treating six, seven patients at a time. 479 00:32:36,704 --> 00:32:41,334 It took everything from us, our equipment, our materials, our supplies. 480 00:32:41,417 --> 00:32:43,169 Everything was gone. 481 00:32:43,252 --> 00:32:46,422 I said to myself, "Oh man, I'm done. I want to go home. I'm quitting." 482 00:32:53,721 --> 00:32:56,766 Hey, yo, Woodstock. Get the fuck up! 483 00:32:57,558 --> 00:32:59,560 Fred Durst wasn't trying to get them to stop. 484 00:32:59,644 --> 00:33:00,853 He was joining in. 485 00:33:01,521 --> 00:33:04,816 He got up on one board, and he was trying to crowd-surf himself. 486 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,568 He's gyrating like Jack Sparrow with fleas. 487 00:33:07,652 --> 00:33:10,488 You know, he's just like… And I'm like, "What is he doing?" 488 00:33:16,369 --> 00:33:19,998 I'd never pulled the plug in my life for any act ever. 489 00:33:26,004 --> 00:33:28,923 Woodstock 1999! 490 00:33:29,465 --> 00:33:33,678 I went over to the production manager and said, "Fred, end of set." 491 00:33:35,555 --> 00:33:37,932 Let's chill, catch our breath. 492 00:33:38,474 --> 00:33:41,686 There's hurt people here, and they're your brothers and sisters. 493 00:33:43,021 --> 00:33:44,480 Limp Bizkit has gone offstage. 494 00:33:44,564 --> 00:33:47,233 Fred, have you ever seen anything like that in your life? 495 00:33:47,316 --> 00:33:50,153 I can tell you, I've never done anything like that in my life. 496 00:33:50,236 --> 00:33:53,156 How scary was it for you up there when they started ripping the place apart 497 00:33:53,239 --> 00:33:55,158 and started taking the plywood off the towers? 498 00:33:55,241 --> 00:33:57,869 Oh my God. Dude, it's not our fault. 499 00:33:57,952 --> 00:34:01,831 That's all I can say. It was amazing, man. It was phat. 500 00:34:02,582 --> 00:34:07,295 I didn't take into account what a jerk Fred Durst is. 501 00:34:08,171 --> 00:34:09,297 He was enjoying it. 502 00:34:10,214 --> 00:34:13,760 Fred could have quieted them down in a minute. 503 00:34:13,843 --> 00:34:16,304 But instead, he was riling up the crowd. 504 00:34:17,138 --> 00:34:20,767 Pointing the finger at Fred is about the last thing anybody should do. 505 00:34:20,850 --> 00:34:24,896 There really isn't a way to control 300,000 people. 506 00:34:25,813 --> 00:34:29,609 The best thing he could do is put on the best show possible. 507 00:34:29,692 --> 00:34:30,943 And that's what he did. 508 00:34:32,403 --> 00:34:35,490 I don't think you can blame Limp Bizkit for being Limp Bizkit. 509 00:34:35,573 --> 00:34:37,742 It's like blaming a bear for being a bear. 510 00:34:37,825 --> 00:34:40,578 I mean, you know, it's-- Limp Bizkit is what it is. 511 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,837 Saturday night was the first time I really felt unsafe. 512 00:34:52,465 --> 00:34:56,177 It felt like we were building up to something serious happening. 513 00:34:56,260 --> 00:35:01,182 And then the only question became, like, what? When? Where? 514 00:35:06,687 --> 00:35:10,149 There was really only one place you could go to keep the party going. 515 00:35:11,484 --> 00:35:12,985 And that was the rave hangar. 516 00:35:14,028 --> 00:35:15,905 Whoo! 517 00:35:26,999 --> 00:35:28,960 There was this ominous feeling. 518 00:35:30,253 --> 00:35:33,381 I kept hearing how fans had been tearing walls apart. 519 00:35:35,466 --> 00:35:37,760 Now all of these people were coming to my facility 520 00:35:37,844 --> 00:35:39,720 to spend the evening with me. 521 00:35:40,972 --> 00:35:43,099 We're talking tens of thousands of people. 522 00:35:43,975 --> 00:35:46,644 And for every person you had inside the building, 523 00:35:46,727 --> 00:35:49,230 you had four people that want outside the building. 524 00:35:50,356 --> 00:35:54,527 So you can just imagine in your mind how dangerous of a situation this was. 525 00:35:54,610 --> 00:35:56,154 Let's go. Let's go. 526 00:35:57,780 --> 00:35:59,991 The headlining act was Fatboy Slim. 527 00:36:02,785 --> 00:36:06,372 I'd been closeted in my dressing room all afternoon with people just going, 528 00:36:06,455 --> 00:36:08,374 "Oh, it's a bit chaotic out there." 529 00:36:08,457 --> 00:36:11,252 But no one had told me that there'd been any damage, 530 00:36:11,335 --> 00:36:12,795 that there'd been any violence. 531 00:36:14,463 --> 00:36:18,926 Walking up on stage, all I can think of is, 532 00:36:19,010 --> 00:36:20,636 "This is a big moment." 533 00:36:21,345 --> 00:36:25,016 "Try and keep the energy up to match that of the crowd." 534 00:36:26,184 --> 00:36:28,227 Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven. 535 00:36:28,311 --> 00:36:31,772 Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven. Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven. 536 00:36:31,856 --> 00:36:33,316 Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven. 537 00:36:33,399 --> 00:36:36,027 Starting with "Fatboy Slim is Fucking in Heaven." 538 00:36:36,110 --> 00:36:38,029 It was kind of a bold statement… 539 00:36:38,112 --> 00:36:41,949 Fatboy Slim is fucking-fucking-fucking… 540 00:36:42,033 --> 00:36:44,035 …just to grab everyone's attention. 541 00:36:53,085 --> 00:36:55,755 One minute everyone's standing around waiting for something to happen, 542 00:36:55,838 --> 00:36:57,340 the next minute, everyone's in the air. 543 00:37:04,639 --> 00:37:07,600 I like chaos, and I like being at the heart of chaos. 544 00:37:07,683 --> 00:37:09,185 And there was definitely chaos. 545 00:37:11,354 --> 00:37:12,772 At Woodstock '99, 546 00:37:13,272 --> 00:37:17,610 the rave probably established what the reality was of the audience, 547 00:37:17,693 --> 00:37:19,403 and what the real desires were. 548 00:37:21,656 --> 00:37:23,658 People were just out of control. 549 00:37:24,617 --> 00:37:28,329 You know, dancing their asses off, walking around like zombies. 550 00:37:29,664 --> 00:37:33,376 I remember seeing people banging their heads on the floor 551 00:37:33,459 --> 00:37:34,585 until they were bleeding, 552 00:37:34,669 --> 00:37:38,339 because of whatever hallucinogenic or narcotics they were on. 553 00:37:39,173 --> 00:37:43,219 You were openly seeing people walk around and just sort of hand out hits of ecstasy. 554 00:37:45,846 --> 00:37:49,308 I remember shining my flashlight into the corners, 555 00:37:49,392 --> 00:37:52,687 literally seeing people on all fours, having sex. 556 00:37:54,397 --> 00:37:56,065 Totally pagan experience. 557 00:37:58,401 --> 00:38:02,446 I saw from the stage on one wall of the hangar, 558 00:38:02,530 --> 00:38:05,866 several naked people lined up with their hands up against the wall 559 00:38:05,950 --> 00:38:08,035 and a line of people behind them. 560 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:10,454 What were they doing? 561 00:38:11,289 --> 00:38:12,123 Um… 562 00:38:12,707 --> 00:38:15,251 Which Biblical word would you like for it? 563 00:38:25,803 --> 00:38:26,929 There were no rules. 564 00:38:27,930 --> 00:38:30,266 You know, laws, security 565 00:38:31,225 --> 00:38:32,727 didn't mean much. 566 00:38:32,810 --> 00:38:34,979 Woodstock '99! 567 00:38:35,062 --> 00:38:37,648 Now, this is the point in your documentary 568 00:38:37,732 --> 00:38:40,026 where the low drone comes in, and it's like… 569 00:38:41,444 --> 00:38:43,404 At this point, things started going wrong. 570 00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:51,620 I remember hearing someone say, "Oh fuck. What is that?" 571 00:38:52,747 --> 00:38:55,583 And I remember looking out of the office window 572 00:38:55,666 --> 00:38:58,461 and seeing what looked like a couple of lights 573 00:38:58,544 --> 00:39:01,130 that were making its way into the rave. 574 00:39:03,215 --> 00:39:04,967 And I knew we had a problem. 575 00:39:10,556 --> 00:39:12,558 They've commandeered a vehicle. 576 00:39:12,641 --> 00:39:15,061 We gotta stop this. This is massively dangerous 577 00:39:16,687 --> 00:39:19,398 So I became aware of what I thought 578 00:39:19,482 --> 00:39:22,318 was a kind of sort of floating dance platform, 579 00:39:22,401 --> 00:39:27,740 like a podium, with about 20 or 30 people on it. 580 00:39:27,823 --> 00:39:29,617 Which turned out to be a van. 581 00:39:31,577 --> 00:39:33,287 We made our way down to the floor, 582 00:39:33,913 --> 00:39:37,041 and we literally met the vehicle as it got halfway into the building. 583 00:39:37,124 --> 00:39:39,126 -Holy shit! 584 00:39:40,044 --> 00:39:42,546 And then I started getting the taps on the shoulder. 585 00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:45,883 And it's like, "We gotta stop the music. The van's gotta go." 586 00:39:46,717 --> 00:39:49,929 "Aw, not tonight. You know, this is Woodstock." 587 00:39:50,012 --> 00:39:52,098 "This is all…" It was all going so well. 588 00:39:52,807 --> 00:39:54,683 Disappointed! 589 00:39:55,893 --> 00:39:59,647 We have to move the truck out of the venue, 590 00:39:59,730 --> 00:40:02,400 or else Fatboy cannot continue. 591 00:40:06,987 --> 00:40:10,199 And people started throwing things at him and at me. 592 00:40:13,953 --> 00:40:16,372 It's not my fault. It's not my fault. 593 00:40:17,415 --> 00:40:18,874 That was literally the moment 594 00:40:18,958 --> 00:40:23,212 when everything started to look a little less fun. 595 00:40:24,255 --> 00:40:26,632 Fucking hell. What a shambles. 596 00:40:28,968 --> 00:40:32,513 I, uh, came up on the passenger side of the van, 597 00:40:32,596 --> 00:40:34,640 and I could see a guy was driving. 598 00:40:34,723 --> 00:40:37,184 And you could just see his eyes, they were glazed. 599 00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:39,895 He was… He really wasn't present. 600 00:40:39,979 --> 00:40:42,314 Supervisor security command. 601 00:40:42,398 --> 00:40:45,192 I remember somebody screaming that there was a weapon. 602 00:40:45,943 --> 00:40:48,904 It was one of those old, rusty machetes. 603 00:40:49,655 --> 00:40:53,284 So, I went for the side door, slid the door open. It just opened. 604 00:40:53,367 --> 00:40:58,664 And the first thing I saw was a girl that looked maybe 15 or 16 years old, 605 00:40:58,747 --> 00:41:01,876 who was… Literally had her shirt over her breasts, 606 00:41:01,959 --> 00:41:03,752 and her pants were down to her ankles. 607 00:41:04,503 --> 00:41:05,588 She was passed out. 608 00:41:05,671 --> 00:41:10,009 And there was a guy in the back with her, who was putting his shorts back on. 609 00:41:10,593 --> 00:41:13,304 I was floored. It just took the life out of me. 610 00:41:14,722 --> 00:41:16,849 The stagehand took her straight through the backstage, 611 00:41:16,932 --> 00:41:18,476 and she went away in an ambulance. 612 00:41:19,727 --> 00:41:21,937 I'm not sure what happened to the guy in back of the van, 613 00:41:22,021 --> 00:41:27,151 but we just tried to put the van in neutral and get it out of the rave. 614 00:41:28,444 --> 00:41:30,905 Everybody was oblivious to what had just happened. 615 00:41:33,032 --> 00:41:34,492 That is just hideous to think 616 00:41:34,575 --> 00:41:37,786 that in the midst of all those people having fun 617 00:41:37,870 --> 00:41:40,748 and me wanting to make everybody love each other, 618 00:41:40,831 --> 00:41:43,292 that that was going on literally under our noses. 619 00:41:48,506 --> 00:41:50,591 All my crew and the people from the record company, 620 00:41:50,674 --> 00:41:52,092 they were properly rattled. 621 00:41:52,176 --> 00:41:55,221 I could see in their eyes. They weren't being overdramatic. 622 00:41:55,304 --> 00:41:58,807 Shit's kicking off, and it's kind of not safe. 623 00:42:05,272 --> 00:42:08,692 "There's a car just over there. Don't worry about your records." 624 00:42:08,776 --> 00:42:11,028 "We'll take your records. You just get in that car." 625 00:42:11,111 --> 00:42:12,738 "We need to get out of here." 626 00:42:13,405 --> 00:42:15,991 There's just adrenaline coming out of my ears. 627 00:42:16,075 --> 00:42:19,537 I did exactly as I was told and ran. 628 00:42:22,831 --> 00:42:24,458 We drove straight to an airport 629 00:42:24,542 --> 00:42:28,212 and slept at the airport until our flight the next day. 630 00:42:28,295 --> 00:42:29,588 Woodstock '99! 631 00:42:34,552 --> 00:42:36,762 Seeing that girl in the van, that was a byproduct 632 00:42:36,845 --> 00:42:40,182 of what was allowed to play out the entire time we were there. 633 00:42:41,850 --> 00:42:43,852 It was supposed to be Woodstock. Um… 634 00:42:44,728 --> 00:42:48,607 I think by that time, we all realized it wasn't Woodstock. 635 00:42:48,691 --> 00:42:51,193 It was… You know, what it was. It was just chaos. 636 00:42:51,277 --> 00:42:52,987 Woodstock! 637 00:42:53,070 --> 00:42:54,989 Whoo! 638 00:42:55,072 --> 00:42:57,324 It is really out of control now. 639 00:42:58,701 --> 00:43:00,869 Now it's dangerous. And that's scary. 640 00:43:00,953 --> 00:43:03,539 Saturday night is when all hell really broke loose. 641 00:43:03,622 --> 00:43:07,418 Shit got crazy. And so, I mean, here comes Sunday. 642 00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:15,718 Whoo-hoo! 643 00:43:26,478 --> 00:43:28,397 We are going to get out of here. 644 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:29,815 -I think we're going to go. -Yes.