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[rock music blaring]
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[stage announcer]
Let's hear it for Bush.
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[crowd cheers]
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[Rossdale] Thank you!
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[stage announcer]
Woodstock '99, day one. Pow!
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If you can't sleep tonight, there's a rave
right over there in the hangar.
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Party all night.
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Friday the 23rd was my 29th birthday.
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[all] ♪ Happy birthday, dear Colin... ♪
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I decided to go to the rave hangar
with a bunch of our production crew.
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[indistinct chatter]
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[woman] Oh, babe. Oh!
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♪ Here we go ♪
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[Speir] We were so excited.
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You could fucking feel the energy
as you approached the hangar.
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♪ Here we go ♪
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[dance beat music plays]
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There was just the crush of 60,000 people.
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It was kind of like
looking into the first ring of hell
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if the first ring of hell were fun.
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It was just unhinged.
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Everybody in various states of undress
and just high as balls.
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♪ Here we go ♪
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We're a little high.
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At one point,
this cute little hippie chick
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in fairy wings came up to me.
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She was like,
"Hey, do you want some ecstasy?"
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And even though I knew
that I had to work the next day,
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I was like,
"Sure, I'm turning 29. Let's do this."
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♪ Here we go ♪
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[drunken yelling]
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Everyone was enjoying themselves,
but you could feel it.
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Like, there was no control.
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Fuck you.
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[techno music playing]
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[Srybnik] There was no one to tell you,
"Hey, you're taking it too far."
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You know, you have hundreds
of thousands of people on the site,
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and most of them are naked.
It's an invitation for trouble.
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[drunken yelling]
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It was the train off the tracks.
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You did not know
what was gonna happen next.
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[distant crowd chatter]
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- [alarm clock beeping]
- [Speir] I woke up at 8:00 a.m.
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I kind of feel weird.
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And I'm like, "What is wrong with me?"
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And I take a look in the mirror,
and my eyeballs are the size of cue balls.
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They're just... Pwong. Like so dilated.
And I realize, "Holy shit,
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that ecstasy that I took
four hours ago is now kicking in."
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"And now I'm in for a ride."
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I tried to go back to bed for an hour
to try and kind of sleep it off.
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But I was just vibrating like,
"Oh my God."
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"Just breathe. Just breathe."
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- "You've got to get going."
- [man] You're late.
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[laughter]
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So, I strapped on all my gear
and my walkie-talkie, and like,
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"Okay, let's go.
We're going back into the festival."
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[mariachi music plays]
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[Speir] It was just such a surreal thing
to walk into.
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I mean, Friday,
it had been very beautiful.
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But then today, we're living in filth.
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Can we get your reaction this morning
on the outhouse facilities?
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It is just nasty.
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- How nasty?
- Can I curse on...?
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- Oh! Smell that.
- [laughs]
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Oh!
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- Nastiest thing I've ever seen.
- [reporter] Has anyone used the bathroom?
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It's like going into a bathroom
and not flushing it for a whole year
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and stepping into it. It's disgusting.
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We gotta close the door, man.
Thanks a lot. Oh, I'm gonna be sick.
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[Lewis] Saturday was supposed to be
the greatest day
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of the greatest rock festival
of the decade.
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Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, Fatboy Slim.
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[man]
Let's go, guys! Let's go!
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[Lewis] But that's not what any of us
who were actually there remember it for.
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Saturday was the day
everything started to fall apart.
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Hello?
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[Speir] The porta-potties
were just the tip of the iceberg.
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In the production office,
we started hearing tales
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of multiple breakdowns
in the infrastructure around the festival.
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[crowd cheering distantly]
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[Kyle] We show up Saturday
to work security,
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and we had to walk, you know,
probably a good half-mile down the runway.
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It was just almost like a layer of trash
that you had to shuffle through
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to get to the stage.
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Okay, fine, you're not going
to get every piece of trash.
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But this was literally
like they did nothing.
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[Heather] The place was disgusting.
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Garbage cans were few
and far between, it seemed,
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and overflowing if there were any.
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Like all departments,
the Sanitation Department had budget cuts.
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Trash services and the sewage services
were all farmed out.
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So we're relying
on all these subcontractors.
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And whether it was
not having enough people, or just like,
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"Hey, it's a festival.
Let's go and have fun."
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Unfortunately, they did not do their jobs.
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[stage announcer]
Woodstock, day number two. Have fun.
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Turn my guitar up loud, loud, loud.
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You are free to throw your plastic bottles
when I start this record.
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[playing "Star-Spangled Banner" on guitar]
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[Lisa Law] I was up in the tower,
looking down at the stage,
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and I could see trash every place.
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And I said, "That is gonna be the downfall
of Woodstock '99,
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what you're looking at right there."
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"Because these kids
are not gonna be happy."
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"We're not taking
good enough care of them."
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They wanted the Woodstock spirit
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from Woodstock '69.
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["Get Together"
by the Youngbloods playing]
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I was 27 at the original Woodstock,
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and it was one
of the most important events of my life.
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I mean, it was peace and love.
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[Pilar Law]
My mom was a huge part of Woodstock '69.
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She was instrumental in getting
all the food for the free kitchens.
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[Lisa Law] To see that many people
get along with each other
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and take care of each other,
it changed my life.
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So, I wanted to keep
Woodstock '99 beautiful.
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And I knew that we were looking
at a disaster
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if we left the trash on the ground.
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Where's Waste Management?
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So, I took it upon myself
to get a bunch of trash bags
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and go out and hand them out.
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She didn't know. She didn't know
what she was gonna get into.
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[laughs]
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Trash bags for your area.
Trash bags for your area.
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Come on. Everybody, help out.
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One person said to me,
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"I paid $150 to be here.
You should clean it up."
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And I said, "Well, this is a different
kind of Woodstock."
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Maybe these kids don't have enough love.
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Maybe they're acting this way...
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- [loud crash]
- [drunken cheering]
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[man laughs]
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["Star-Spangled Banner"
playing on guitar]
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[Lisa Law] Okay, this is a piece of art.
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This is a piece of art.
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Come on. Back up on its end.
On its end. This way.
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[Kyle] When you're in
an environment like this,
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and you don't have enough infrastructure
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to support
the number of people that are there...
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[crowd cheering]
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...then it starts to cause things
to unravel.
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I mean, if it looks like the venue
doesn't care, then why should you care?
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[crowd cheering]
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Behind the scenes, the producers
of this event were disorganized.
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I mean, there was so much
happening on-site,
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and Michael and John,
they were not really paying attention
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to the logistical problems.
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[rock theme playing]
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We are backstage
at Woodstock '99 with three,
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what look like very happy dudes,
three kingpins.
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You got Ossie Kilkenny,
Michael Lang, John Scher.
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How's it going? You look all happy.
Things must be going very well.
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Well, things are going very nicely.
We're about halfway through.
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We were having fun.
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We had worked a year to plan this.
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And it was working.
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It seems so well organized.
It's so well put together.
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There is no festival
like Woodstock in the world.
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Yes, issues existed,
but they were isolated.
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I mean, nobody came
thinking they were gonna stay
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at the Ritz-Carlton.
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[Kilkenny] It's been a great success.
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Everything has come to expectations.
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And what's most important
for everybody here,
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everyone's enjoying it.
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You don't see anybody out there
saying anything negative.
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- Assholes!
- [man] It's fucked up, man.
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- It's not good.
- [man] It is fucked up, man.
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They're just sitting there
with blinders on.
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Like, "Hey, it's all good."
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[Jay] How about pleasant surprises?
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Things you might have not expected
to go as well as they did.
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Well, I think the weather
turned out to work very much in our favor.
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[Scott] Day one was hot,
but day two, it was like a furnace.
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I mean, there was a lot of concrete.
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Hot, beating, like,
Lawrence of Arabia-type sun beating down.
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[stage announcer]
All right, you wanna rock?
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[crowd] Yeah!
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[stage announcer] All right.
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From Detroit... Kid Rock!
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[crowd cheering]
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[Scott] By now,
everybody's getting hyped up for Kid Rock.
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And it's the hottest part
of the hottest day of the year.
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Kid Rock comes out in this big fur coat.
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First thing I'm thinking
is, like, "Holy shit. He's insane."
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And he throws it off,
and it was like James Brown-type stuff.
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And he just goes, "My name is Kid!"
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[crowd cheering]
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♪ Rock ♪
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[band playing]
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♪ Come on ♪
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[Scott] I was off to the side
of the crowd.
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The band was going crazy,
and the crowd was going crazy.
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It was hot where I was standing,
and I didn't have anybody next to me,
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so I can only imagine
the temperature within the pit.
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It must have been a fucking toaster oven.
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I was assigned to a tent
that was right next to the stage.
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The sun was burning,
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and the humidity and the heat
were so high that standing still,
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you would just literally
be drenched in your own perspiration.
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People were being brought out
who were unconscious due to heatstroke,
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and their skin
was literally dry to the touch.
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[man] Do you see how hot it is, folks?
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Look at his face.
You can just see how hot it is.
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I can't feel my legs anymore.
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[news anchor]
More than 1,000 people have been treated
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for heat exhaustion and dehydration
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at the Woodstock '99
music festival in Upstate New York.
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This was not a walk in the park.
I completely underestimated this event.
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I said to myself, "We're fucked."
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[laughs] "We're fucked."
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[crowd, chanting]
Water! Water! Water! Water!
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[stage announcer]
Give them some water, goddamn it.
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[crowd]
Water! Water! Water! Water!
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People were trying desperately
to find shade wherever they could.
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It was like the scarcest thing
on the planet,
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and people were seeking it out everywhere.
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There was really no place for you
to get out of this situation, okay?
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They hadn't provided it.
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What does that say about the producers
to a kid who's coming, paying their money
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and wanting to have
this wonderful "Woodstock" experience?
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Okay? It says
they don't give a fuck about you.
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This little octagon here will get me a lot
of places here at Woodstock '99.
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Right behind me, past those
heavily fortified gates you see,
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that's the artists' compound.
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[Scher] Backstage,
the atmosphere was great.
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We had tons and tons
of dressing-room trailers
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that were well-appointed, we had chefs.
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And at one point,
we had a big barbecue going.
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The acts got treated great.
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[man laughs]
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- [man] How are you?
- Cool.
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I arrived on the Saturday
in a stretch limo.
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I remember there was a really big thing
that we all had to sign.
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It sort of felt a little bit
more like walking down a red carpet
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at an awards ceremony
than arriving at a festival.
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Everything was sponsored out of its mind.
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Budweiser beer.
You're watching Woodstock '99!
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Whoo!
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There's a place giving away Converse gear
if you wanna blag some stuff.
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[man] Absolutely.
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You guys are cool to hook us up.
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Peace and love
equals capitalistic venture.
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There you go.
Let's call a spade a spade. Come on.
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It didn't have that "peace and love,"
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and "we're all in it, this, together,"
sense of community.
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[Healy] We were really spoiled
at Woodstock.
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But you went over that wall and...
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it's a hundred degrees.
They're standing on tarmac.
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They're paying, like,
eight dollars for a burrito.
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The kids are just getting gouged
left and right.
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And come Saturday, they were pissed.
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And that was when they started
to throw stuff at us for the first time.
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[crowd shouting]
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Suddenly, concertgoers
were taking aim at us.
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At MTV.
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People are now throwing hats
and other things.
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They knew that we were live on air.
They were fucking with us.
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Awesome. This right here
is Woodstock '99 at its finest.
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You would hear
a handful of change, or a battery,
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you know, kind of like
ricochet off the set.
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I have to be looking at the tower.
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I can't be looking at the crowd
to see a rock that's coming at my head.
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It was, like, really terrifying.
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[crowd shouting and booing]
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We're starting to feel like a target.
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Like, we represented something
to them that they resented.
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I'm sick of the Backstreet Boys
on MTV Live. I'm sick of that [no audio].
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- You know, it's [no audio] bull...
- Don't hold back on me.
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I'm not holding back. I hate that sh...
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There you go.
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- Welcome the Backstreet Boys.
- [girls shriek]
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In the late '90s, MTV was the embodiment
of what the music industry became
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from Woodstock '69 to Woodstock '99.
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[girls screaming]
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It was no longer about revolution.
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It was more about, "Buy my T-shirt."
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Joey McIntyre, "Stay the Same."
You'd better go pick it up.
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To the rock fan,
MTV VJs do not seem like one of them.
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I mean, they were the face
of this corporate monolith
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that was bastardizing their music.
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"You guys are selling out,"
or "Corporate's trying to come in
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and ruin our fun. We wanna be free."
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Suck a fucking dick.
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I don't know
if it was just a generational shift
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in youth culture, but they were done.
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[stage announcer] The Backstreet Boys.
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[crowd boos]
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[Lewis] People were mad.
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This guy came up behind me
and tried to burn my ass with a cigar.
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And there's not enough security here
to stop it.
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Honestly, there was not enough security
for 250,000 people.
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Security at Woodstock '99
was kind of a joke.
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It was like, you know,
kids with yellow T-shirts.
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In 1999, I was still 18 at that point.
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I ran graffiti, chasing after girls,
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nightclubs, and all the festivities
that came along with it.
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This guy said,
"Hey, I need to sign people up
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for security detail for Woodstock '99."
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"We'll be paying you $500 to come."
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You know, it was pretty much,
"Sign this form, and you're security."
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We almost had to take a look
behind our shoulders twice and go,
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"Us? Really?" You know, "You sure?"
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We didn't want anybody uniformed,
or anybody carrying a gun.
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We didn't want the influences
of the government
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or of the, you know,
police state or whatever.
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So the security that we hired,
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they were not armed.
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They were peace patrol.
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[no audio]
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What's Woodstock mean to you guys?
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For me, it's money, and sex, and bitches,
truthfully.
313
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Wow. These guys have really captured
the spirit of Woodstock.
314
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We met people from local neighborhoods
in Brooklyn that we knew.
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And I was like,
"Who has a joint? Let's smoke."
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None of these people were doing
what they were supposed to from day one.
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At some point, someone approached me
and asked what did that T-shirt do for me.
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So being an opportunist, I said,
"This T-shirt does anything you want."
319
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Knowing it didn't do that.
"Oh, does it get me backstage?"
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"Yeah, it gets you backstage."
"You wanna sell it?"
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"Four hundred dollars."
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I'll take it.
I have another shirt in my bag.
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It was laughable, you know?
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Like, "Look at this. What a joke this is."
325
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We could see how this is gonna go.
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Come on! Yeah!
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[man] Show it. Show it.
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[Speir] By midway through the festival,
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a lot of the crowd realized
they could do whatever they wanted
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without fear of repercussions
or consequences.
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- [reporter] Nice butterfly.
- Thank you very much.
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- [man] Hey, that girl needs a rub.
- [giggling]
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[Speir] I started seeing large groups
of dudes hanging out, surrounding women,
334
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you know, chanting in their faces
to take off their bikini tops.
335
00:20:40,072 --> 00:20:43,116
[reporter] Mob psychology is getting
maybe a little dangerous here.
336
00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,535
Hey, guys, give her some room.
You're getting scary here.
337
00:20:45,619 --> 00:20:48,779
- [woman] Can you guys give me some room?
- [reporter] Please. She'll suffocate.
338
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[Lewis] One young woman
had just body-surfed over the crowd.
339
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And I said, "How was it?"
I'm thinking it was great.
340
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You know, she's body-surfing.
341
00:20:58,548 --> 00:21:01,927
Um, and she goes,
"Well, I hate all men now."
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00:21:04,888 --> 00:21:07,724
[Heather] There's the people
that are legit trying to carry you
343
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and actually move you along
like they're supposed to be.
344
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But there's equally as many dudes,
like, grabbing your boob
345
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and, you know, getting a squeeze
on your butt as they're passing you along.
346
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And, you know, I was young. I was 14.
347
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Like, I had never had those kind of hands,
you know, in those places.
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[Scher] I think from Saturday on,
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I heard some reports
that the women were pushed around.
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But there were a lot of women
who voluntarily had their tops off.
351
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And then you get into a mosh pit,
and you get crowd-surfed.
352
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Could somebody have touched their breasts?
353
00:21:47,597 --> 00:21:49,224
Yes. I'm sure they did.
354
00:21:50,517 --> 00:21:52,144
What could I have done about it?
355
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,355
I'm not sure I could have done anything.
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[crowd cheering]
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[Heather] Looking back on it,
it's sad that in the '90s
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those things were just kind of
the way that it was,
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00:22:03,989 --> 00:22:05,240
and it was accepted.
360
00:22:07,659 --> 00:22:10,329
The whole weekend,
there was a lack of respect.
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[rhythmic drumming]
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Lack of respect from the promoters to us.
363
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Lack of respect
from the attendees to the grounds.
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Lack of respect of men to women.
365
00:22:24,676 --> 00:22:28,680
So, there was a lot of anger
and hostility building up.
366
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It was, like, the wildest thing.
367
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- [rhythmic drumming continuous]
- [drunken yelling]
368
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[reporter] We got Limp Bizkit tonight.
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00:22:45,322 --> 00:22:47,991
Best of luck to everyone here
for no serious injuries tonight.
370
00:22:48,075 --> 00:22:49,201
Although, I don't know.
371
00:22:49,284 --> 00:22:52,204
I hope they've stocked up
on their stretchers and their bandages.
372
00:22:52,996 --> 00:22:57,209
I was a huge fan of Limp Bizkit,
and we were super excited to see them.
373
00:22:57,292 --> 00:22:59,628
I think they're happy
to see Limp Bizkit here.
374
00:23:00,212 --> 00:23:02,881
At that moment, they were one
of the biggest bands in the world.
375
00:23:02,964 --> 00:23:06,218
Are you gonna be able to tear things up,
drive them nuts, just go wild?
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00:23:06,301 --> 00:23:08,011
[Lewis] This was really their moment.
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00:23:08,095 --> 00:23:10,764
And, to me,
Limp Bizkit were the biggest draw
378
00:23:10,847 --> 00:23:14,267
in terms of why the young people
were making this pilgrimage
379
00:23:14,351 --> 00:23:15,936
to the middle of New York.
380
00:23:16,603 --> 00:23:19,940
The fans of Limp Bizkit
did not come from any elitist groups.
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This was your average rock fan.
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00:23:23,693 --> 00:23:27,406
And they were champions
to the underdogs of the world.
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[man] It's all about the nookie!
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- It's all about the nookie!
- [all] Yeah!
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[Heather] Their big song was "Nookie."
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And if I need to get pumped?
Absolutely I rock out to that.
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- ♪ I did it all for the nookie ♪
- ♪ Come on ♪
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00:23:39,418 --> 00:23:44,339
"Nookie" took over the summer,
and everybody was constantly singing it.
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00:23:44,423 --> 00:23:45,423
♪ Stick it up your... ♪
390
00:23:45,465 --> 00:23:46,675
♪ Stick it up your... ♪
391
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Fred Durst wasn't like a famous rock star.
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He was like one of us. He wore DC shirts.
393
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He wore a baseball hat backwards.
And you could relate to him so much.
394
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I loved how, just,
they didn't give a fuck. Period.
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See you in jail.
396
00:24:02,691 --> 00:24:04,067
[crowd shouting]
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00:24:04,776 --> 00:24:07,404
[Davis] He was just like the ringleader.
He'd always just get...
398
00:24:08,155 --> 00:24:10,115
He would get people
to do the craziest shit.
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00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,035
[crowd cheering]
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00:24:14,995 --> 00:24:18,081
[stage announcer] Well, Woodstock,
it's been a pretty mellow afternoon.
401
00:24:18,165 --> 00:24:20,459
But you know what? That shit is over.
402
00:24:21,877 --> 00:24:23,077
We're at the barricade, right?
403
00:24:23,628 --> 00:24:26,256
After what we had been through
with Korn the night before...
404
00:24:28,258 --> 00:24:30,969
you know, there was a little bit
of, like, apprehension.
405
00:24:31,052 --> 00:24:37,058
Okay, now people might be on day two
of their multiday no-sleep bender.
406
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Lots more drugs. Lots more alcohol.
407
00:24:41,897 --> 00:24:42,897
What's coming up?
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The one, the only...
409
00:24:48,069 --> 00:24:50,530
Limp Bizkit!
410
00:24:50,614 --> 00:24:52,365
[crowd cheers]
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00:25:04,544 --> 00:25:08,173
[Lewis] When you walk out on stage,
and 250,000 people
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are looking back at you,
413
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.
414
00:25:15,096 --> 00:25:17,140
Are you ready
to get this motherfucker going?
415
00:25:17,224 --> 00:25:18,975
[Lewis] And they are your orchestra.
416
00:25:19,476 --> 00:25:24,022
All right, y'all.
From the front to the back like this.
417
00:25:24,105 --> 00:25:27,192
And that's what Fred did.
Like, he was out there moving them.
418
00:25:27,275 --> 00:25:28,985
Just like this.
419
00:25:30,237 --> 00:25:32,239
Now, everybody, get up!
420
00:25:32,739 --> 00:25:34,699
[band playing heavy metal]
421
00:25:36,076 --> 00:25:39,287
The mosh pit was just like nothing
I'd ever seen before.
422
00:25:40,956 --> 00:25:43,083
As a hungry young reporter,
423
00:25:43,166 --> 00:25:45,877
I saw this as being
a really great opportunity.
424
00:25:46,461 --> 00:25:47,546
♪ Bring it ♪
425
00:25:48,755 --> 00:25:50,340
♪ Limp Bizkit's in the house ♪
426
00:25:50,423 --> 00:25:52,509
There's not another reporter here
427
00:25:52,592 --> 00:25:54,553
that's going to venture
into that mosh pit.
428
00:25:54,636 --> 00:25:56,805
♪ Bring that beat back ♪
429
00:25:57,472 --> 00:25:59,391
I am going in.
430
00:25:59,474 --> 00:26:01,685
♪ Just like this ♪
431
00:26:02,852 --> 00:26:05,188
♪ Are you ready?
Then get up ♪
432
00:26:06,565 --> 00:26:09,442
I am in this pit
speaking into my microphone,
433
00:26:09,526 --> 00:26:12,279
pushing people off of me,
ducking out of the way.
434
00:26:12,862 --> 00:26:15,991
I'm in the pit
about 100 feet away from the stage.
435
00:26:16,074 --> 00:26:19,369
I've been hit in the head
with a Frisbee, a shoe.
436
00:26:19,452 --> 00:26:21,079
Dave Blaustein, ABC News.
437
00:26:22,497 --> 00:26:26,418
The crowd was, like, undulating.
They were almost one organism.
438
00:26:29,379 --> 00:26:31,381
- [song ends]
- [crowd cheers]
439
00:26:32,173 --> 00:26:34,634
Bunch of crazy motherfuckers out there.
440
00:26:35,135 --> 00:26:38,763
[Kyle] When you look at the tension
that had been building up with the crowd,
441
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it was a hand grenade.
442
00:26:40,015 --> 00:26:41,975
[Durst] This shit looks fucking insane.
443
00:26:42,642 --> 00:26:46,396
During "Break Stuff" is when
that hand grenade actually exploded.
444
00:26:46,479 --> 00:26:48,481
[Durst] I'm gonna ask you
a personal question.
445
00:26:48,565 --> 00:26:52,902
There's this little preamble.
"How many of you people like NSYNC?"
446
00:26:52,986 --> 00:26:54,446
And then you hear, "Boo!"
447
00:26:54,529 --> 00:26:55,822
[crowd booing]
448
00:26:58,074 --> 00:27:01,119
How many of you people here
ever woke up one morning
449
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and just decided
it wasn't one of those days,
450
00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:05,749
and you're gonna break some shit?
451
00:27:06,541 --> 00:27:08,543
[all cheer]
452
00:27:09,961 --> 00:27:13,965
"Well, this is one of them days, y'all,
where everything's fucked."
453
00:27:14,049 --> 00:27:15,967
[Durst] ...where everything's fucked up.
454
00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:18,511
"And you just wanna break some shit."
455
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,725
♪ It's just one of those days
When you don't wanna wake up ♪
456
00:27:23,808 --> 00:27:26,061
♪ Everything is fucked, everybody sucks ♪
457
00:27:26,144 --> 00:27:28,855
♪ You don't really know why
But you wanna justify ♪
458
00:27:28,938 --> 00:27:30,690
♪ Rippin' someone's head off... ♪
459
00:27:30,774 --> 00:27:34,069
You could see Fred Durst's id, ego,
460
00:27:34,152 --> 00:27:37,822
and superego battling it out on stage.
461
00:27:37,906 --> 00:27:39,282
♪ So, come and get it ♪
462
00:27:39,366 --> 00:27:42,202
[Blaustein] You see the look
on his face, like,
463
00:27:42,786 --> 00:27:44,829
"Holy shit."
464
00:27:44,913 --> 00:27:46,706
You have a superego.
465
00:27:46,790 --> 00:27:51,294
"All right, calm down, Fred.
Just be good. Don't do anything crazy."
466
00:27:52,045 --> 00:27:56,800
But then you have the id going,
"Fuck, yeah! Let's do this!"
467
00:27:58,259 --> 00:28:00,303
[Durst] Time to reach deep down inside.
468
00:28:01,846 --> 00:28:04,182
"Take all that negative energy..."
469
00:28:06,476 --> 00:28:09,145
...and let that shit
out of your fucking system.
470
00:28:10,730 --> 00:28:14,109
You got girl problems?
You got boy problems?
471
00:28:14,609 --> 00:28:18,321
You got parent problems?
You got boss problems?
472
00:28:18,405 --> 00:28:20,031
You got job problems?
473
00:28:20,115 --> 00:28:24,327
It was kind of like Fred understood
what we were all going through
474
00:28:24,411 --> 00:28:28,623
and spoke to each person
in that crowd at that moment.
475
00:28:30,417 --> 00:28:32,043
You feel me, Woodstock?
476
00:28:32,127 --> 00:28:33,837
[crowd cheers]
477
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,380
All right. Let's bring it out.
478
00:28:35,463 --> 00:28:37,048
[Blaustein] Then he has to add,
479
00:28:37,132 --> 00:28:41,094
"Now, when this song kicks in,
I want you to fucking kick in."
480
00:28:42,887 --> 00:28:43,887
And that's it.
481
00:28:45,223 --> 00:28:48,226
Kerosene, match. Boom.
482
00:28:48,309 --> 00:28:49,978
♪ Give me something to break ♪
483
00:28:52,814 --> 00:28:54,983
♪ Give me something to break ♪
484
00:28:55,066 --> 00:28:58,069
It went from,
"Oh, we're having a nice day."
485
00:28:58,153 --> 00:29:01,948
"Oh, we're going to fucking destroy shit.
We're gonna go crazy."
486
00:29:02,031 --> 00:29:03,742
♪ How about your fucking face? ♪
487
00:29:03,825 --> 00:29:05,744
[Scott] And they're diving
all over each other.
488
00:29:05,827 --> 00:29:07,579
People are getting trampled,
bloody heads.
489
00:29:07,662 --> 00:29:10,540
I mean, this is like triage.
This is like warfare.
490
00:29:10,623 --> 00:29:12,459
♪ A motherfucking chain saw ♪
491
00:29:14,335 --> 00:29:15,754
♪ So come and get it ♪
492
00:29:15,837 --> 00:29:17,797
[all cheer]
493
00:29:18,673 --> 00:29:22,093
[Kyle] So, I'm standing on the barricade,
there to try to protect the stage,
494
00:29:22,594 --> 00:29:23,887
when it flashed into my head
495
00:29:23,970 --> 00:29:26,222
that my good friend Chris
was at the sound tower.
496
00:29:28,099 --> 00:29:30,393
[Chris] So at that point,
I was working the sound tower
497
00:29:30,477 --> 00:29:32,317
and sort of feeling
all those people around us.
498
00:29:33,104 --> 00:29:34,522
It was definitely intimidating.
499
00:29:35,190 --> 00:29:37,442
We were, I don't know,
ten guys on an island, right?
500
00:29:38,318 --> 00:29:42,113
We were just surrounded by a crowd
that's completely off the rails.
501
00:29:42,197 --> 00:29:43,615
[crowd shouting]
502
00:29:48,745 --> 00:29:51,122
So the sound guys,
they had actually hung a sign out there
503
00:29:51,206 --> 00:29:53,126
that basically said, you know,
"The Alamo" on it.
504
00:29:57,796 --> 00:30:00,882
We start noticing people
start banging against the plywood planks.
505
00:30:01,382 --> 00:30:04,511
Then the next thing you know,
you start getting some hands on top.
506
00:30:05,303 --> 00:30:08,303
Then you start seeing heads, you know,
people sort of pushing each other up.
507
00:30:09,474 --> 00:30:12,268
That's when my heart rate
started pumping. I mean, it was scary.
508
00:30:13,394 --> 00:30:16,481
It's like a scene where zombies
are coming over the castle walls.
509
00:30:17,273 --> 00:30:19,033
[Heather]
People were rocking back and forth,
510
00:30:19,067 --> 00:30:21,277
and there was plywood,
and they're trying to rip it off.
511
00:30:26,074 --> 00:30:27,992
I was like, "Holy shit."
512
00:30:28,868 --> 00:30:30,954
You could see the sound stage
is, like, shaking.
513
00:30:31,037 --> 00:30:32,539
[all shouting]
514
00:30:37,961 --> 00:30:40,046
[Chris] At that point,
it was like a mayday.
515
00:30:40,129 --> 00:30:43,091
It was like, an SOS went out
from the sound tower guys.
516
00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:48,096
[man] I need some backup.
Pull your people out of there.
517
00:30:49,180 --> 00:30:51,850
I, and many of the other security guards,
518
00:30:51,933 --> 00:30:55,562
jumped over the barricade
to try to get to them to help them.
519
00:30:56,145 --> 00:30:58,314
Those guys from the barricade came.
They saw us.
520
00:30:58,398 --> 00:31:01,734
They said, "Let's go. We're evacuating."
And then, yup, we just hauled ass.
521
00:31:02,777 --> 00:31:07,156
[Kyle] I don't have much memory of this,
other than just diving over the barricade
522
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,326
as the sea sort of swallowed us up
behind me.
523
00:31:10,410 --> 00:31:12,120
[band playing]
524
00:31:12,203 --> 00:31:14,205
[Durst] Let me hear some fucking noise!
525
00:31:15,039 --> 00:31:17,458
[Scher] I watched it
from the side of the stage.
526
00:31:17,542 --> 00:31:20,753
Fred was riling up the crowd.
527
00:31:20,837 --> 00:31:24,799
And I saw it get increasingly
528
00:31:25,925 --> 00:31:28,595
rambunctious and then out of hand.
529
00:31:28,678 --> 00:31:31,115
[Ed the Sock] You know what?
It would probably be a lot easier
530
00:31:31,139 --> 00:31:33,600
if they just showed us their penises,
just get over with it.
531
00:31:34,350 --> 00:31:37,937
I feel like we're watching a documentary
on the Discovery Channel or something.
532
00:31:38,021 --> 00:31:40,899
Let's just hope that some of them
get hit between the legs,
533
00:31:40,982 --> 00:31:42,692
and they don't breed.
534
00:31:45,486 --> 00:31:46,863
[Keith] It was fun at first.
535
00:31:46,946 --> 00:31:50,241
And then it turned out to be,
like, I got to get out of here.
536
00:31:50,325 --> 00:31:52,118
I'm, like, not having fun no more.
537
00:31:53,119 --> 00:31:56,205
I really thought, like,
I was gonna die there at one point.
538
00:31:56,289 --> 00:32:00,001
Like, my mom's gonna see me
on the news, dead at Woodstock.
539
00:32:00,084 --> 00:32:03,421
I saw a girl get hit in the head
with a glass bottle.
540
00:32:03,504 --> 00:32:07,842
Security, to their credit,
they grab her and they bring her out.
541
00:32:07,926 --> 00:32:10,678
I follow them into the medical area,
542
00:32:11,387 --> 00:32:15,141
and what I saw
was incredibly frightening and shocking.
543
00:32:17,518 --> 00:32:22,190
I saw blood on the ground. I saw somebody
getting staples in their head.
544
00:32:22,273 --> 00:32:24,275
I saw people getting IVs.
545
00:32:25,026 --> 00:32:27,403
Somebody looked like
they had a broken leg.
546
00:32:27,487 --> 00:32:32,784
I saw several people just laying on cots,
and their bodies almost looked lifeless.
547
00:32:33,868 --> 00:32:36,621
[Pena] I was treating six,
seven patients at a time.
548
00:32:36,704 --> 00:32:41,334
It took everything from us, our equipment,
our materials, our supplies.
549
00:32:41,417 --> 00:32:43,169
Everything was gone.
550
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."
551
00:32:46,506 --> 00:32:48,716
♪ But I'm showing you that door ♪
552
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,551
♪ I gotta have faith ♪
553
00:32:51,511 --> 00:32:52,971
♪ Gotta have faith ♪
554
00:32:53,721 --> 00:32:56,766
[Durst] Hey, yo, Woodstock.
Get the fuck up!
555
00:32:57,558 --> 00:32:59,620
[Scott] Fred Durst wasn't trying
to get them to stop.
556
00:32:59,644 --> 00:33:00,853
He was joining in.
557
00:33:01,521 --> 00:33:04,816
He got up on one board,
and he was trying to crowd-surf himself.
558
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,568
He's gyrating
like Jack Sparrow with fleas.
559
00:33:07,652 --> 00:33:10,488
You know, he's just like...
And I'm like, "What is he doing?"
560
00:33:10,571 --> 00:33:13,616
♪ Gotta have faith ♪
561
00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:14,700
♪ Faith... ♪
562
00:33:16,369 --> 00:33:19,998
I'd never pulled the plug
in my life for any act ever.
563
00:33:23,167 --> 00:33:24,919
- [song ends]
- [crowd cheers]
564
00:33:26,004 --> 00:33:28,923
[Durst] Woodstock 1999!
565
00:33:29,465 --> 00:33:33,678
I went over to the production manager
and said, "Fred, end of set."
566
00:33:35,555 --> 00:33:37,932
[stage announcer]
Let's chill, catch our breath.
567
00:33:38,474 --> 00:33:41,686
There's hurt people here,
and they're your brothers and sisters.
568
00:33:43,021 --> 00:33:44,480
Limp Bizkit has gone offstage.
569
00:33:44,564 --> 00:33:47,233
Fred, have you ever seen
anything like that in your life?
570
00:33:47,316 --> 00:33:50,153
I can tell you, I've never done
anything like that in my life.
571
00:33:50,236 --> 00:33:53,196
How scary was it for you up there
when they started ripping the place apart
572
00:33:53,239 --> 00:33:55,158
and started taking the plywood
off the towers?
573
00:33:55,241 --> 00:33:57,869
Oh my God. Dude, it's not our fault.
574
00:33:57,952 --> 00:34:01,831
That's all I can say.
It was amazing, man. It was phat.
575
00:34:02,582 --> 00:34:07,295
I didn't take into account
what a jerk Fred Durst is.
576
00:34:08,171 --> 00:34:09,297
He was enjoying it.
577
00:34:10,214 --> 00:34:13,760
Fred could have quieted them down
in a minute.
578
00:34:13,843 --> 00:34:16,304
But instead, he was riling up the crowd.
579
00:34:17,138 --> 00:34:20,767
Pointing the finger at Fred
is about the last thing anybody should do.
580
00:34:20,850 --> 00:34:24,896
There really isn't a way
to control 300,000 people.
581
00:34:25,813 --> 00:34:29,609
The best thing he could do
is put on the best show possible.
582
00:34:29,692 --> 00:34:30,943
And that's what he did.
583
00:34:32,403 --> 00:34:35,490
I don't think you can blame Limp Bizkit
for being Limp Bizkit.
584
00:34:35,573 --> 00:34:37,742
It's like blaming a bear for being a bear.
585
00:34:37,825 --> 00:34:40,578
I mean, you know, it's...
Limp Bizkit is what it is.
586
00:34:40,661 --> 00:34:42,663
[crowd cheering and shouting]
587
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,837
[Lewis] Saturday night
was the first time I really felt unsafe.
588
00:34:52,465 --> 00:34:56,177
It felt like we were building up
to something serious happening.
589
00:34:56,260 --> 00:35:01,182
And then the only question became,
like, what? When? Where?
590
00:35:06,687 --> 00:35:10,149
There was really only one place
you could go to keep the party going.
591
00:35:11,484 --> 00:35:12,985
And that was the rave hangar.
592
00:35:14,028 --> 00:35:15,905
[woman] Whoo!
593
00:35:20,952 --> 00:35:22,954
[all yelling and shouting]
594
00:35:26,999 --> 00:35:28,960
[Srybnik] There was this ominous feeling.
595
00:35:30,253 --> 00:35:33,381
I kept hearing how fans
had been tearing walls apart.
596
00:35:35,466 --> 00:35:37,760
Now all of these people
were coming to my facility
597
00:35:37,844 --> 00:35:39,720
to spend the evening with me.
598
00:35:40,972 --> 00:35:43,099
We're talking tens of thousands of people.
599
00:35:43,975 --> 00:35:46,644
And for every person
you had inside the building,
600
00:35:46,727 --> 00:35:49,230
you had four people
that want outside the building.
601
00:35:50,356 --> 00:35:54,527
So you can just imagine in your mind
how dangerous of a situation this was.
602
00:35:54,610 --> 00:35:56,154
[woman] Let's go. Let's go.
603
00:35:57,780 --> 00:35:59,991
[Srybnik] The headlining act
was Fatboy Slim.
604
00:36:01,284 --> 00:36:02,702
[laughs]
605
00:36:02,785 --> 00:36:06,372
I'd been closeted in my dressing room
all afternoon with people just going,
606
00:36:06,455 --> 00:36:08,374
"Oh, it's a bit chaotic out there."
607
00:36:08,457 --> 00:36:11,252
But no one had told me
that there'd been any damage,
608
00:36:11,335 --> 00:36:12,795
that there'd been any violence.
609
00:36:14,463 --> 00:36:18,926
Walking up on stage,
all I can think of is,
610
00:36:19,010 --> 00:36:20,636
"This is a big moment."
611
00:36:21,345 --> 00:36:25,016
"Try and keep the energy up
to match that of the crowd."
612
00:36:26,184 --> 00:36:28,287
[computerized voice]
Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven.
613
00:36:28,311 --> 00:36:31,772
Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven.
Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven.
614
00:36:31,856 --> 00:36:33,316
Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven.
615
00:36:33,399 --> 00:36:36,027
[Fatboy Slim] Starting with
"Fatboy Slim is Fucking in Heaven."
616
00:36:36,110 --> 00:36:38,029
It was kind of a bold statement...
617
00:36:38,112 --> 00:36:41,949
Fatboy Slim is fucking-fucking-fucking...
618
00:36:42,033 --> 00:36:44,035
...just to grab everyone's attention.
619
00:36:45,119 --> 00:36:47,121
[electronic music playing]
620
00:36:49,832 --> 00:36:51,542
[crowd cheering]
621
00:36:53,085 --> 00:36:55,814
One minute everyone's standing around
waiting for something to happen,
622
00:36:55,838 --> 00:36:57,398
the next minute, everyone's in the air.
623
00:36:57,423 --> 00:36:59,425
[electronic music playing continuous]
624
00:37:04,639 --> 00:37:07,600
I like chaos,
and I like being at the heart of chaos.
625
00:37:07,683 --> 00:37:09,185
And there was definitely chaos.
626
00:37:11,354 --> 00:37:12,772
[Sadovsky] At Woodstock '99,
627
00:37:13,272 --> 00:37:17,610
the rave probably established
what the reality was of the audience,
628
00:37:17,693 --> 00:37:19,403
and what the real desires were.
629
00:37:21,656 --> 00:37:23,658
[Cody] People were just out of control.
630
00:37:24,617 --> 00:37:28,329
You know, dancing their asses off,
walking around like zombies.
631
00:37:29,664 --> 00:37:33,376
I remember seeing people
banging their heads on the floor
632
00:37:33,459 --> 00:37:34,585
until they were bleeding,
633
00:37:34,669 --> 00:37:38,339
because of whatever hallucinogenic
or narcotics they were on.
634
00:37:39,173 --> 00:37:43,219
You were openly seeing people walk around
and just sort of hand out hits of ecstasy.
635
00:37:45,846 --> 00:37:49,308
I remember shining my flashlight
into the corners,
636
00:37:49,392 --> 00:37:52,687
literally seeing people
on all fours, having sex.
637
00:37:54,397 --> 00:37:56,065
Totally pagan experience.
638
00:37:58,401 --> 00:38:02,446
I saw from the stage
on one wall of the hangar,
639
00:38:02,530 --> 00:38:05,866
several naked people lined up
with their hands up against the wall
640
00:38:05,950 --> 00:38:08,035
and a line of people behind them.
641
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:10,480
[interviewer]
What were they doing?
642
00:38:11,289 --> 00:38:12,289
Um...
643
00:38:12,707 --> 00:38:15,251
Which Biblical word would you like for it?
644
00:38:15,334 --> 00:38:16,877
- [music blaring]
- [crowd screaming]
645
00:38:25,803 --> 00:38:26,963
[Katsis] There were no rules.
646
00:38:27,930 --> 00:38:30,266
You know, laws, security
647
00:38:31,225 --> 00:38:32,727
didn't mean much.
648
00:38:32,810 --> 00:38:34,979
Woodstock '99!
649
00:38:35,062 --> 00:38:37,648
Now, this is the point in your documentary
650
00:38:37,732 --> 00:38:40,026
where the low drone
comes in, and it's like...
651
00:38:40,109 --> 00:38:41,360
[imitating drone humming]
652
00:38:41,444 --> 00:38:43,404
At this point, things started going wrong.
653
00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:51,620
I remember hearing someone say,
"Oh fuck. What is that?"
654
00:38:52,747 --> 00:38:55,583
And I remember
looking out of the office window
655
00:38:55,666 --> 00:38:58,461
and seeing what looked like
a couple of lights
656
00:38:58,544 --> 00:39:01,130
that were making its way into the rave.
657
00:39:03,215 --> 00:39:04,967
And I knew we had a problem.
658
00:39:10,556 --> 00:39:12,558
[man] They've commandeered a vehicle.
659
00:39:12,641 --> 00:39:15,061
We gotta stop this.
This is massively dangerous
660
00:39:16,687 --> 00:39:19,398
So I became aware of what I thought
661
00:39:19,482 --> 00:39:22,318
was a kind of sort of
floating dance platform,
662
00:39:22,401 --> 00:39:27,740
like a podium,
with about 20 or 30 people on it.
663
00:39:27,823 --> 00:39:29,617
Which turned out to be a van.
664
00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:30,910
[van horn blaring]
665
00:39:31,577 --> 00:39:33,287
We made our way down to the floor,
666
00:39:33,913 --> 00:39:37,041
and we literally met the vehicle
as it got halfway into the building.
667
00:39:37,124 --> 00:39:39,126
- [crowd whooping]
- [man] Holy shit!
668
00:39:40,044 --> 00:39:42,644
[Fatboy Slim] And then I started getting
the taps on the shoulder.
669
00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:45,883
And it's like, "We gotta stop the music.
The van's gotta go."
670
00:39:46,717 --> 00:39:49,929
"Aw, not tonight.
You know, this is Woodstock."
671
00:39:50,012 --> 00:39:52,098
"This is all..." It was all going so well.
672
00:39:52,807 --> 00:39:54,683
Disappointed!
673
00:39:55,893 --> 00:39:59,647
We have to move the truck
out of the venue,
674
00:39:59,730 --> 00:40:02,400
or else Fatboy cannot continue.
675
00:40:03,401 --> 00:40:05,403
[crowd cheering]
676
00:40:06,987 --> 00:40:10,199
And people started throwing things
at him and at me.
677
00:40:13,953 --> 00:40:16,372
It's not my fault. It's not my fault.
678
00:40:17,415 --> 00:40:18,874
That was literally the moment
679
00:40:18,958 --> 00:40:23,212
when everything
started to look a little less fun.
680
00:40:24,255 --> 00:40:26,632
Fucking hell. What a shambles.
681
00:40:28,968 --> 00:40:32,513
I, uh, came up on
the passenger side of the van,
682
00:40:32,596 --> 00:40:34,640
and I could see a guy was driving.
683
00:40:34,723 --> 00:40:37,184
And you could just see his eyes,
they were glazed.
684
00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:39,895
He was... He really wasn't present.
685
00:40:39,979 --> 00:40:42,314
Supervisor security command.
686
00:40:42,398 --> 00:40:45,192
I remember somebody screaming
that there was a weapon.
687
00:40:45,943 --> 00:40:48,904
It was one of those old, rusty machetes.
688
00:40:49,655 --> 00:40:53,284
So, I went for the side door,
slid the door open. It just opened.
689
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,
690
00:40:58,747 --> 00:41:01,876
who was...
Literally had her shirt over her breasts,
691
00:41:01,959 --> 00:41:03,752
and her pants were down to her ankles.
692
00:41:04,503 --> 00:41:05,588
She was passed out.
693
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.
694
00:41:10,593 --> 00:41:13,304
I was floored.
It just took the life out of me.
695
00:41:14,722 --> 00:41:16,849
The stagehand took her
straight through the backstage,
696
00:41:16,932 --> 00:41:18,476
and she went away in an ambulance.
697
00:41:18,559 --> 00:41:19,643
[siren chirping]
698
00:41:19,727 --> 00:41:21,967
I'm not sure what happened
to the guy in back of the van,
699
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.
700
00:41:28,444 --> 00:41:30,905
Everybody was oblivious
to what had just happened.
701
00:41:33,032 --> 00:41:34,492
That is just hideous to think
702
00:41:34,575 --> 00:41:37,786
that in the midst
of all those people having fun
703
00:41:37,870 --> 00:41:40,748
and me wanting to make everybody
love each other,
704
00:41:40,831 --> 00:41:43,292
that that was going on
literally under our noses.
705
00:41:48,506 --> 00:41:50,591
All my crew and the people
from the record company,
706
00:41:50,674 --> 00:41:52,092
they were properly rattled.
707
00:41:52,176 --> 00:41:55,221
I could see in their eyes.
They weren't being overdramatic.
708
00:41:55,304 --> 00:41:58,807
Shit's kicking off,
and it's kind of not safe.
709
00:41:58,891 --> 00:42:00,893
- [angry shouting]
- [car alarm blaring]
710
00:42:05,272 --> 00:42:08,692
"There's a car just over there.
Don't worry about your records."
711
00:42:08,776 --> 00:42:11,028
"We'll take your records.
You just get in that car."
712
00:42:11,111 --> 00:42:12,738
"We need to get out of here."
713
00:42:13,405 --> 00:42:15,991
There's just adrenaline
coming out of my ears.
714
00:42:16,075 --> 00:42:19,537
I did exactly as I was told and ran.
715
00:42:22,831 --> 00:42:24,458
We drove straight to an airport
716
00:42:24,542 --> 00:42:28,212
and slept at the airport
until our flight the next day.
717
00:42:28,295 --> 00:42:29,588
[man] Woodstock '99!
718
00:42:29,672 --> 00:42:30,839
[shrieking]
719
00:42:30,923 --> 00:42:32,550
[all shouting]
720
00:42:34,552 --> 00:42:36,762
Seeing that girl in the van,
that was a byproduct
721
00:42:36,845 --> 00:42:40,182
of what was allowed to play out
the entire time we were there.
722
00:42:40,266 --> 00:42:41,767
[rhythmically banging trash cans]
723
00:42:41,850 --> 00:42:43,852
It was supposed to be Woodstock. Um...
724
00:42:44,728 --> 00:42:48,607
I think by that time,
we all realized it wasn't Woodstock.
725
00:42:48,691 --> 00:42:51,193
It was... You know, what it was.
It was just chaos.
726
00:42:51,277 --> 00:42:52,987
[man] Woodstock!
727
00:42:53,070 --> 00:42:54,989
Whoo!
728
00:42:55,072 --> 00:42:57,324
[Pilar Law]
It is really out of control now.
729
00:42:58,701 --> 00:43:00,869
Now it's dangerous. And that's scary.
730
00:43:00,953 --> 00:43:03,539
Saturday night
is when all hell really broke loose.
731
00:43:03,622 --> 00:43:07,418
Shit got crazy.
And so, I mean, here comes Sunday.
732
00:43:09,253 --> 00:43:10,629
[women screaming]
733
00:43:12,006 --> 00:43:13,507
[yelling and shouting]
734
00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:15,718
[man] Whoo-hoo!
735
00:43:22,224 --> 00:43:24,101
[sirens wailing]
736
00:43:24,184 --> 00:43:26,395
[riotous yelling]
737
00:43:26,478 --> 00:43:28,397
[Loder]
We are going to get out of here.
738
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:29,840
- I think we're going to go.
- Yes.
739
00:43:30,774 --> 00:43:32,776
[dramatic music]