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[dramatic music]
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[reporter] Woodstock '99
wrapping up today.
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Quarter of a million sweaty,
sunburned folks,
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and they're all battling the elements.
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[Scher] Uh, welcome to day three
of Woodstock '99.
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We had a, uh, satisfying
and eventful day yesterday.
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I know you've got a lot of questions.
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[crowd cheering and yelling]
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[reporter] Last night, fans starting
to break off pieces of a production tower.
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Woodstock officials are actually
downplaying that mess,
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but I can tell you that many people
were treated for injuries.
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[Blaustein] Woodstock '99
was coming to an end,
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and the press conference on Sunday morning
is where it got most testy.
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John, where were you
during Limp Bizkit's set?
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What sort of setup do you have
for accountability?
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How many security guards
do you have onsite?
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We had about 200,000 kids on that field
last night, having a great time.
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[Blaustein] John Scher was trying to paint
this rosy picture
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of what was happening on the ground.
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When he went up there, he knew
that he needed to control the narrative.
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[Scher] We had some amazing music.
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You know, you've got knuckleheads,
maybe 50 of them, causing the trouble.
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So let's try to focus
on the overwhelming positiveness...
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But the press had now seen enough
to know that things were going wrong.
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[reporter] I saw everything
that was going on.
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I had a bird's-eye view,
and it was violent,
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it was dangerous, it was hostile,
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and there was a sea of kids
causing trouble.
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[Blaustein] There were people
being mistreated.
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There were people getting maimed.
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They were glossing over all of that,
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and it was only going to get worse.
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- [firecrackers popping]
- [crowd shouting]
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Sunday, day three. Final day.
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[laughs] Oh gosh.
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[sighs]
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Walking back onto site was like waking up
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from a drunken night in bed
with a total stranger who's unattractive.
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You're like,
"What the hell have I just done?"
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♪ Amazing grace ♪
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♪ How sweet the sound ♪
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♪ That saved a wretch ♪
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♪ Like me... ♪
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[Scher] I wanted Willie Nelson
opening Sunday morning,
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almost as a religious experience.
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I was in heaven.
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♪ But now I'm found... ♪
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[woman] Wrong house.
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♪ Was blind ♪
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♪ But now ♪
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♪ I see ♪
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[Lewis] People I encountered on Sunday
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just seemed exhausted and burned out.
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[reporter] Let's just share
in this moment with them.
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By Sunday, it was like a refugee camp.
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I mean, it looked like what you would see
on the news,
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with just tent city, garbage,
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and it was disgusting.
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It smelled so bad,
and there's, like, nowhere to wash off,
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because by that point,
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the shower station line
was so freaking long.
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People just got mad enough,
but they smashed the pipes.
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So, it was just, like, this river.
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A mix of the showers
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and nasty runoff from the porta-potties.
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[crowd cheering]
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Most people didn't realize
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it was shit mud.
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You wanna come to Woodstock?
Get in the mud!
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[all] Yeah!
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We were supposed to have places
to refill our water bottles,
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but either the water was gross
and running brown, or they were broken.
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Turn on the water!
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So, all the water out of the faucets
is... Are not...
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It's tinted. I wouldn't say it's brown.
That's an exaggeration. But it's tinted.
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[Patterson] My job
in the health department
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was making sure that our water supplies
are safe for the public.
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As the event was going on,
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we went out and took samples
of drinking water from around the site,
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that we submitted to the lab.
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Sunday morning, I went up to the lab.
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We opened up the door to the incubator.
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The smell nearly knocked you over.
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They looked at the samples,
and most all of them were contaminated.
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Any free drinking water
that had been available
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was soiled from feces.
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[Patterson] The thought that
people are out there,
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drinking this, exposing themselves,
bathing in this stuff...
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It was like the worst nightmare.
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Yeah! This is the life! Yeah!
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So I wake up Sunday morning.
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I have a very sore throat.
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Cold sores all over my lips.
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I had ulcers all over my tongue
and my gums and in my mouth.
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And I can't eat.
I can't drink. I can hardly talk.
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I found out
that I had something called trench mouth,
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basically from drinking unsanitary water.
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This isn't what Woodstock
was supposed to be.
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We thought it was gonna be
this beautiful thing.
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We packed up our shit, and I think by,
like, 1:00 in the afternoon,
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we were out of there.
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[man] There are a lot of people leaving.
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Everybody is tired, wore out,
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totally just incapacitated.
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Hey, Carson here,
right outside Woodstock '99,
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and the concert's not quite over.
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And as you can see,
there's a steady stream of cars,
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and people, and tow trucks
making their way out of the concert.
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Where are you guys going?
The show's not over yet.
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- We're leaving.
- Why?
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- It stinks in there.
- Too dirty.
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We're exhausted, man.
The heat totally drove us to the ground.
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♪ On the road again ♪
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♪ I just can't wait
To get on the road again ♪
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♪ The life I love
Is making music with my friends ♪
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♪ And I can't wait
To get on the road again ♪
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[Heather] So, by Sunday,
people were fed up.
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I don't think anybody
had any money left over,
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and then the price gouging
on top of that was ridiculous.
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A lot of the vendors were out of stock,
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so the few that seemed to be left
could charge whatever they wanted.
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Everything's ridiculously overpriced,
but you pay it everywhere.
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That's what you gotta do.
But we're in stock.
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[Heather] It went from
four or five for a bottle of water to,
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I want to say, 12 bucks
a bottle of water by the third day.
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[crowd cheering]
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- [song ends]
- [crowd cheers]
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[rhythmic banging on trash cans]
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[Blaustein] There was just
that negative energy
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that was really starting to run through
the crowd on Sunday.
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The only thing anyone had a sense
of optimism about
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was that there was a rumor that had
been going around for a couple of days
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that there was gonna be
some special end-of-Woodstock event.
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[reporter] Have you confirmed
the closing act?
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[Scher laughs]
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[Scher] The Red Hot Chili Peppers
are the last official act
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that are going to close on Sunday night.
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And we're still cooking up
a little something for the end.
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It's gonna stay a surprise
for the time being.
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That was the chatter,
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that somebody's coming on
after the Chili Peppers.
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And I remember asking around,
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and the big rumor
was that Prince was going to play.
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I heard Guns N' Roses
was coming out of retirement, apparently.
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Even the staff in the office
had theories about who was gonna turn up.
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One rumor was Bob Dylan.
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[woman] A rumor is Bob Dylan's coming?
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[Speir]
You know, the Grateful Dead.
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The Rolling Stones.
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We had heard rumblings of Michael Jackson.
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It was a good reason to kind of hang on
'til the bitter end.
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[crowd cheering]
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[Scher] Sunday afternoon, the crowds...
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They were pretty jumped up.
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So, we tried to stay reasonably mellow,
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and Jewel fit that slot just perfectly.
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Here we are at Woodstock, everyone.
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Being backstage, I was reading the crowd,
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trying to figure out
what the set list might be like.
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[man] This is 13 songs.
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[Jewel] Going, all right, what combination
of things on Earth possibly can begin
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to attempt to try
and get people to focus?
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[man] They tell you about the mud?
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Everybody's been getting pelted.
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Sheryl Crow got totally pelted.
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- So, anyway, don't take it personally.
- She always does.
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I know.
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[stage announcer] Please welcome
Atlantic recording artist, Jewel!
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[crowd cheering]
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♪ If I could tell the world
Just one thing ♪
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♪ It would be we're all okay ♪
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We get back to the barricade,
and I think by that point,
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I was close to, like, my breaking point,
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just looking for the moment we could
get back on the bus and go back home.
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By the time Jewel came on,
the tone had definitely changed.
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[crowd cheering]
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[Jewel] The environment
was starting to really shift,
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and it was hard to put your finger on,
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but it felt like a crowd
that could turn at any time.
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There was a real unpredictable,
weird energy.
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[crowd shouting]
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Things are going south,
and we need to get out of here.
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[stage announcer] That was Jewel!
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Jewel!
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[Jewel] We just went straight
to the bus right behind the stage.
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Keep stepping up, guys.
Keep it moving. Come on.
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[man] You need to give her some space.
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You know, you were just like,
"Whoa," you know? "That was different."
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And we left.
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[Speir] There was definitely
a palpable sense of anger,
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and it wasn't just the overstimulated
testosterone young males at this point.
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I think everybody was pissed off.
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[Lisa Law] The kids are getting agitated.
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They had about had it with the trash,
with the heat, with the expenses,
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and they're gonna do something about it.
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[man] Entrance to the gates of hell.
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In today's world,
we would be tearing this festival apart
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on TikTok and Snapchat and Instagram,
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but that didn't exist back then.
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There was nothing else the kids could do
besides turn on the staff and the venue.
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[banging]
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[man] They're tearing the wall down, man.
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This is un-freaking-real!
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[all cheering]
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Tear down the wall!
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Tear it down!
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Tear it down! Bring it all down!
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Whoo-hoo!
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This is fucking history, folks!
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This is history.
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Whoo-hoo!
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[Lisa Law] They had had enough.
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The kids had had enough.
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[Eannace] You know, there were some
naysayers out there,
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and they said that we couldn't handle
the traffic, and we did.
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And they said that the security
wouldn't work, and it did.
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And now some of them are saying
we can't clean it up.
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And we will.
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Sunday night was a great press conference.
Don't know if you can get the footage.
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This was fabulous. These kids are great.
It's unbelievable. Perfect.
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We're happy. All is well.
We haven't had any tough incidents.
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[reporter] Yes, are you aware that parts
of the wall has been torn down now?
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I think the exterior wall
just makes an amazing souvenir,
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and people just couldn't resist it.
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They were breaking it up
into small pieces, I guess,
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just to have a piece of Woodstock.
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I saw what was going on.
I had spoken to enough people.
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I knew that they were full of shit.
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Uh, there are, we estimate, anyway,
about 150,000 people still on site
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um, that are having a good time.
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The mayor was there.
They're slapping each other on the back.
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[applause]
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[Griffo] I was feeling phenomenal
at that point.
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We were declaring a premature success.
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I think it's been a memorable,
exciting concert for all those involved
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and all those who have covered it,
and the community as a whole, so...
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And I remember one question said,
"Well, how do you feel? You got it done."
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I said, "Not yet.
We got three more hours."
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I'm so confident that things will go well.
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I'd like to, at this point in time,
Michael, to extend an invitation
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to come back to our area again.
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We'd be more than happy to host you,
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and rock and roll in central New York.
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And all these, you know, officials
just couldn't wait to invite us back.
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[laughs] It was the most amazing event.
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Thanks, you guys have been great
for the most part,
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and we really appreciate it.
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I walked out of there feeling just great.
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[man 1] Party.
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[man 2] Get a shot of this kid
smoking some pot.
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Whoo! Woodstock '99,
there's a storm coming.
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[man laughs]
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[crowd shouting and whooping]
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[Rowland] Michael and John are optimists.
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So, for them, it was kind of,
it's all positive, it's all positive.
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But, you know, we were all on edge,
because we'd seen the face of a disaster
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in the night before.
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But the show was gonna go on.
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So, we hoped for the best
and that calmer heads would prevail.
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- [bass solo playing]
- [crowd cheering]
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- The Chili Peppers are doing their thing.
- Awesome.
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Wild and crazy.
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We're about to get out of here.
The finish line is in sight.
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We just got to get through
the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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[crowd cheering]
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[band playing]
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Flea is butt-ass naked,
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and if I remember correctly,
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very many people in the audience
were also butt-ass naked.
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♪ All around the world, we can make time
Rompin' and a stompin' ♪
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♪ 'Cause I'm in my prime
Born in the north ♪
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♪ And sworn to entertain ya... ♪
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[Cody] Chili Peppers?
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It was kind of a blur.
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It almost felt like you went to war
by that point.
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It was like,
"Oh man, we've been through the wringer."
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[Pilar Law] So, Sunday night,
I'm in the production office.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
were still performing.
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[no audio]
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We had gotten collectively
probably four hours of sleep.
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So, we were exhausted.
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[woman] They're all just passed out.
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They've worked too hard for too long.
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I'm exhausted,
and I'm in my office with all the radios.
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All of a sudden,
I hear the producer's channel,
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and that's the channel with Michael Lang,
John Scher.
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[man, over radio]
Everybody on stage, do you copy?
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And they were going
to hand out 100,000 candles.
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[man] Oh man.
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Wow.
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My boss and I
looked at each other and just like...
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Yeah, Michael's the candle guy,
all right?
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You know, Michael's the candle guy.
I mean, I knew very little about it.
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So, we planned for this candlelight vigil
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to occur toward the end
of the Chili Peppers' set.
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[Speir] Columbine had just happened
a few months before.
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The issue of gun violence
was really starting to come to focus
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in American society.
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And there was this thought
that anti-gun violence could be our cause.
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The idea was that we would
light up the night at the end,
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the culmination of the festival,
with these candles,
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and that that was going to be
a big visual demonstration
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of this generation
speaking out about gun violence.
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I knew nothing about plans
for a candlelit vigil.
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[crowd shouting]
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Immediately I started screaming
into the radio,
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"You can't do this.
It's not approved by the fire marshal."
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[Rosenblatt]
I don't know what's going on...
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And John Scher just tells me to shut up
and get off the channel.
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[Scher, over radio] Villagers are calm.
Everything's okay. Don't worry about us.
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The joke was, you had taken
everybody's flammable items for days,
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and now you're gonna do
the total opposite
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and ask people to light candles up.
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- ["Under the Bridge" playing]
- [crowd cheers]
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[Gross] So I'm standing
on the side of the stage.
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Like, Flea's naked butt
is ten feet away from me,
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like, literally ten feet away from me.
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They started playing "Under the Bridge."
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♪ Sometimes I feel like
I don't have a partner... ♪
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[Gross] Then all of a sudden,
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there's just a vast sea of candles.
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♪ I don't ever wanna feel ♪
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♪ Like I did that day ♪
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♪ Take me to the place I love ♪
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♪ Take me all the way ♪
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♪ I don't ever wanna feel... ♪
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[Gross] It was one of the most
beautiful things I've ever seen.
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The light spread through the whole crowd
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of hundreds of thousands of people.
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♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
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♪ Hold me, no-no, yeah, yeah... ♪
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[Heather]
And it was very original Woodstock,
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because it was supposed to be a peaceful,
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you know, like, happy thing,
bringing everybody together.
335
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[crowd cheering]
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Peace, baby. Peace.
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But that's not how it turned out.
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[Rosenblatt] To give flames to an audience
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that is three days
into being treated like animals...
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It was not a very smart decision.
341
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[ominous music]
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I saw off in the distance
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what looked like a fire.
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[crowd cheering]
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We turned to each other,
and it's like, "Well, this isn't good."
346
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[man, over radio]
This is security at the East Stage.
347
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You better stop the concert.
348
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[Scher] I'm on the side of the stage.
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I was very concerned.
350
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First of all, I was afraid
somebody was gonna get hurt.
351
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Secondly, I knew this was gonna be,
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you know, a newsworthy issue.
353
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[reporter 1] All right,
welcome back to Fifteen-Fifteen Live.
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[reporter 2]
A fire has broken out by the main stage.
355
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The concert was stopped moments ago.
Heaven knows what's happening here.
356
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This has been a festival of extremes
all the way from day one.
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[man, over radio]
We need a fire truck out here fast.
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[Lang] It was this main fire
that was my concern.
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Things like that that go uncontrolled
can lead to more chaos.
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- [Scher] Calm down, we don't want any...
- [man] Whoo!
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[Scher] We had a fire department on site.
362
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Michael hopped off the stage
to go to the firehouse.
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I decided to go on stage.
364
00:20:12,628 --> 00:20:16,924
As you can see, it's not part of the show.
It really is a problem.
365
00:20:17,966 --> 00:20:22,638
So the fire department's
gonna have to come in with a fire truck
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to put the fire out.
If everybody could cooperate...
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00:20:26,350 --> 00:20:30,812
Michael radioed me and, you know,
said they won't go out. They're scared.
368
00:20:31,521 --> 00:20:33,440
[man, on radio]
Get your ass back here.
369
00:20:33,523 --> 00:20:36,944
I couldn't believe that these guys
were not willing to go out.
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00:20:37,027 --> 00:20:38,667
I mean, I told them I'd go out with them.
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Basically tell them to go fuck themselves.
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You know? This is your job.
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There's a fire there.
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Go out there and put the fire out.
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00:20:48,789 --> 00:20:50,499
[crowd shouting]
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I then have a conversation
backstage with Anthony Kiedis.
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I said to him, "We need you
to be helpful, to quell the crowd."
378
00:21:00,717 --> 00:21:03,553
But his response was,
"They're not gonna listen to me."
379
00:21:03,637 --> 00:21:05,847
"I don't have anything
I can say to add to this."
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00:21:09,268 --> 00:21:12,771
Holy shit, it's Apocalypse Now out there.
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[Chad Smith] You wanna do it?
You wanna do it?
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[Kiedis] Fuck yeah!
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The first song he played on the encore
was a tribute to Jimi Hendrix.
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"Fire."
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[band playing "Fire"]
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[Kiedis grunting]
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♪ Okay, let me stand next to your fire... ♪
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♪ Let me stand next to your fire ♪
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♪ Let me stand next to your fire ♪
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[Kyle] As the Chili Peppers are playing,
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you start to see
more of these fires start to pop up.
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♪ Oh girl, let me slip it into your fire ♪
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♪ Let me stand next to your fire ♪
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♪ Let me stand next to your fire ♪
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Then another one pops up,
and then another one.
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♪ Come on ♪
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♪ Now dig this ♪
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- [song ends]
- [crowd cheers]
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[stage announcer]
Red Hot Chili Peppers!
400
00:22:02,654 --> 00:22:04,323
[crowd cheering]
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[Rosenblatt] The Red Hot Chili Peppers
finished their set,
402
00:22:07,242 --> 00:22:10,662
and everyone was anticipating,
like, some type of special artist.
403
00:22:10,746 --> 00:22:14,583
[crowd, chanting]
We want more! We want more! We want more!
404
00:22:14,666 --> 00:22:16,710
Oh, we were, like, super excited.
405
00:22:23,675 --> 00:22:26,803
But, boom, the show is over.
406
00:22:27,763 --> 00:22:29,243
[Lang] Hope you all had a great time.
407
00:22:29,306 --> 00:22:31,475
We sure did, and it was great
having you with us.
408
00:22:31,975 --> 00:22:34,061
Be safe and careful going home.
409
00:22:35,228 --> 00:22:36,480
We'll see you again soon.
410
00:22:37,272 --> 00:22:39,107
[crowd booing]
411
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So, you now have all these pent-up people
with all this energy, and disappointed.
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The only thing that they did
is they showed Jimi Hendrix
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up on the big video screens.
414
00:22:56,875 --> 00:23:03,465
I think that was like the final match
on the gasoline pyre
415
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that just set everyone off.
416
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[guitar solo playing onscreen]
417
00:23:13,392 --> 00:23:19,147
The crowd certainly took it as a signal
to go and just burn down the place.
418
00:23:19,981 --> 00:23:22,025
[man 1] Burn, motherfucker!
419
00:23:22,109 --> 00:23:23,109
[man 2] Whoo!
420
00:23:24,403 --> 00:23:25,946
Just light it on fire!
421
00:23:26,905 --> 00:23:31,159
Anything they could get their hands on,
they were throwing into the fire.
422
00:23:32,285 --> 00:23:34,496
More wood! More wood!
423
00:23:34,579 --> 00:23:39,584
It was scary, because I could see people
becoming infected with this, like,
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angry mob mentality
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where people that would never do this
in their normal everyday life,
426
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they just went with it
and gave their all into mass destruction.
427
00:23:50,262 --> 00:23:53,265
And it just spread like wildfire.
428
00:23:55,183 --> 00:23:56,351
[Cody] The sky turned orange.
429
00:23:57,102 --> 00:24:00,021
There was fires everywhere.
Everywhere you look, there was fires.
430
00:24:01,565 --> 00:24:02,607
It was mayhem after that.
431
00:24:02,691 --> 00:24:05,402
[crowd] ♪ The roof, the roof is on fire ♪
432
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♪ We don't need no water ♪
433
00:24:06,903 --> 00:24:09,197
♪ Let the motherfucker burn ♪
434
00:24:10,365 --> 00:24:12,033
[all whooping and yelling]
435
00:24:18,832 --> 00:24:21,543
- [man] Hendrix plays while Rome burns.
- [Lewis] Oh my God.
436
00:24:21,626 --> 00:24:24,796
I don't know if you can see behind us,
the sky is kind of orange, lots of smoke.
437
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,048
- [man] Right.
- [Lewis] It's crazy out there.
438
00:24:28,008 --> 00:24:29,718
[guitar solo warbling]
439
00:24:33,388 --> 00:24:34,848
[Healy] It felt like panic.
440
00:24:34,931 --> 00:24:38,643
And I remember seeing PAs
coming out of the production trailer
441
00:24:38,727 --> 00:24:42,481
and just throwing the monitors
and the towers into a 15-passenger van.
442
00:24:43,064 --> 00:24:45,859
It kind of felt like
the fall of Hanoi or something.
443
00:24:45,942 --> 00:24:47,694
[crowd shouting]
444
00:24:51,198 --> 00:24:53,408
- [man] We are going to get out of here.
- [woman] Yes.
445
00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:55,094
- I think we're going to go.
- Time to go.
446
00:24:55,118 --> 00:24:56,220
It's getting pretty inten...
447
00:24:56,244 --> 00:24:58,497
They were like, we're done, we're out.
448
00:24:58,580 --> 00:25:00,582
And they loaded us onto the bus.
449
00:25:01,082 --> 00:25:03,960
Everyone, now move. Let's go.
450
00:25:04,044 --> 00:25:05,295
Move out.
451
00:25:05,378 --> 00:25:07,607
[Lewis] There was more
to be covered, but they were like,
452
00:25:07,631 --> 00:25:11,968
"We're not gonna risk your safety
or anybody else's. We are outta here."
453
00:25:12,636 --> 00:25:15,555
[reporter] Woodstock '99, goodbye,
and maybe good riddance.
454
00:25:18,767 --> 00:25:22,229
[Scott] We were on one of the roads
that leave the festival site.
455
00:25:23,063 --> 00:25:24,689
Just go a little further!
456
00:25:24,773 --> 00:25:28,276
I was looking out the window,
and we start to see as we're driving...
457
00:25:28,860 --> 00:25:30,487
Holy shit!
458
00:25:30,570 --> 00:25:33,573
- [man 1] Dude, this is... Oh my God!
- [man 2] You getting this on video?
459
00:25:33,657 --> 00:25:37,452
I'm like, shit, something's gonna
happen here, and we need to get this.
460
00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:39,579
I was out of the car
like Dukes of Hazzard.
461
00:25:41,581 --> 00:25:44,376
We're moving in.
We got fires everywhere. Look at this!
462
00:25:44,459 --> 00:25:45,460
We're getting closer now.
463
00:25:46,378 --> 00:25:48,129
I started running towards the action.
464
00:25:48,213 --> 00:25:50,715
Everybody else is coming out.
We're trying to get back in.
465
00:25:50,799 --> 00:25:52,717
I didn't know what was gonna transpire.
466
00:25:54,135 --> 00:25:55,135
Yo, get this.
467
00:25:57,472 --> 00:25:59,516
Things are just getting out of control!
468
00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:01,434
What the hell happened?
469
00:26:01,518 --> 00:26:02,978
[rhythmic clanging]
470
00:26:04,771 --> 00:26:05,981
[grunting and yelling]
471
00:26:06,064 --> 00:26:09,568
This is just fucking, I don't know,
Lord of the Flies, man, I guess.
472
00:26:12,487 --> 00:26:14,364
[rhythmic drumming]
473
00:26:16,283 --> 00:26:17,993
[crowd cheering]
474
00:26:20,161 --> 00:26:21,955
[woman] People pushing the tower.
475
00:26:24,374 --> 00:26:28,545
It is very clear that they're trying
to tear down this tower.
476
00:26:29,254 --> 00:26:31,339
[reporter] I think the tower
is about to fall.
477
00:26:33,717 --> 00:26:35,594
[Blaustein]
You can start hearing it creak.
478
00:26:36,219 --> 00:26:37,554
[metal squealing]
479
00:26:38,430 --> 00:26:40,765
[man, on radio]
Be advised the tower's gonna go down.
480
00:26:41,766 --> 00:26:42,766
[woman] No!
481
00:26:43,602 --> 00:26:44,603
Oh my God!
482
00:26:45,312 --> 00:26:46,896
[all cheer]
483
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,590
[Scott] There were people hanging
from the speaker towers.
484
00:26:55,614 --> 00:26:57,490
It was like Planet of the Apes.
485
00:27:02,746 --> 00:27:04,664
[Blaustein]
Once you become part of a herd,
486
00:27:05,498 --> 00:27:07,042
you become like animals.
487
00:27:10,337 --> 00:27:11,963
And all of these people
488
00:27:13,006 --> 00:27:16,426
were acting like animals.
489
00:27:17,010 --> 00:27:19,012
[riotous yelling]
490
00:27:22,474 --> 00:27:26,645
They're all about making money
off us, and we're pissed.
491
00:27:26,728 --> 00:27:28,980
[man] You can't stop
fucking a riot in the '90s.
492
00:27:31,149 --> 00:27:33,234
[Flynn, on radio]
Get the helicopter out of here.
493
00:27:33,318 --> 00:27:34,861
You're causing a riot.
494
00:27:35,779 --> 00:27:39,532
We were monitoring
from the air traffic control tower.
495
00:27:41,034 --> 00:27:42,410
Pull your people out of there.
496
00:27:42,911 --> 00:27:46,831
[man] Well, you have to secure the area
before we send medical personnel in.
497
00:27:48,750 --> 00:27:50,835
At this point, it was an emergency.
498
00:27:50,919 --> 00:27:55,799
I expected deaths,
people trampled, or assaulted and killed.
499
00:27:56,925 --> 00:27:58,093
Lives were at stake.
500
00:27:58,593 --> 00:28:00,053
[crowd yelling]
501
00:28:00,136 --> 00:28:01,846
[Flynn] I need some backup.
502
00:28:01,930 --> 00:28:03,848
[man] I'm being hit with shit up here!
503
00:28:03,932 --> 00:28:05,433
[Flynn] Get over here!
504
00:28:08,603 --> 00:28:10,563
[Speir] So we started getting calls
over the radio
505
00:28:10,605 --> 00:28:13,983
from the production office saying,
"Be prepared for the worst."
506
00:28:14,067 --> 00:28:16,194
Um, "Get ready
to batten down the hatches."
507
00:28:18,321 --> 00:28:22,575
This unruly mob of kids got bored
with dancing around the bonfires
508
00:28:22,659 --> 00:28:24,035
in front of the East Stage
509
00:28:24,577 --> 00:28:28,248
and decided to extend
their carnage and rage
510
00:28:28,331 --> 00:28:30,041
to the rest of the festival grounds,
511
00:28:30,542 --> 00:28:34,337
which unfortunately put
our vendor village right in their path.
512
00:28:35,130 --> 00:28:37,191
[man, on radio]
We're gonna stay here, stay for sure.
513
00:28:37,215 --> 00:28:40,844
[Speir] So as we started hearing more
and more frantic calls over the radios,
514
00:28:40,927 --> 00:28:45,598
my team and I went around
to the two big vendor tents.
515
00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:51,020
Some of them had 60, $70,000
worth of cash on them.
516
00:28:51,896 --> 00:28:53,231
[man] How you guys doing?
517
00:28:53,314 --> 00:28:55,194
- [Speir] You all right over here?
- [man] Yeah.
518
00:28:56,276 --> 00:28:58,462
[Speir] We told all the vendors
to shut out their lights
519
00:28:58,486 --> 00:29:01,573
and pull down their tent flaps
in front of their stalls,
520
00:29:01,656 --> 00:29:05,160
and just to lay low, that we were
shutting down the vendor village.
521
00:29:09,831 --> 00:29:12,208
Of course, trying to do this
as calmly as possible
522
00:29:12,292 --> 00:29:16,963
to not spread any sense of panic or fear,
whereas inside, I was crapping myself.
523
00:29:17,046 --> 00:29:19,174
[crowd shouting and whooping]
524
00:29:23,219 --> 00:29:26,890
We started hearing
sort of a chanting noise,
525
00:29:27,390 --> 00:29:31,811
and it looked like a black cloud
was rolling down the tarmac towards us.
526
00:29:31,895 --> 00:29:33,980
[crowd cheering]
527
00:29:34,063 --> 00:29:35,815
It was a giant mob.
528
00:29:35,899 --> 00:29:37,901
They were singing
Rage Against the Machine.
529
00:29:37,984 --> 00:29:39,903
"Fuck you. I won't do what you tell me."
530
00:29:39,986 --> 00:29:41,863
"Fuck you. I won't do what you tell me!"
531
00:29:41,946 --> 00:29:45,366
[crowd] ♪ Fuck you
I won't do what you tell me! ♪
532
00:29:45,450 --> 00:29:47,577
♪ Fuck you
I won't do what you tell me! ♪
533
00:29:48,870 --> 00:29:49,746
Holy shit!
534
00:29:49,829 --> 00:29:52,081
[riotous shouting]
535
00:29:53,041 --> 00:29:54,959
[man] Free! Free!
536
00:29:55,460 --> 00:30:01,508
At this point, it's kind of like anarchy,
and chaos, and mob mentality.
537
00:30:01,591 --> 00:30:04,969
["The Biggest Band in the World"
by Renegade playing]
538
00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:09,390
People are just grabbing
these boxes of CDs.
539
00:30:09,474 --> 00:30:11,184
[indistinct shouting]
540
00:30:13,728 --> 00:30:17,065
Obviously, I'm gonna go in there.
Like, everyone else is doing it.
541
00:30:21,027 --> 00:30:25,573
In the middle of our vendor tents,
we had a bank of six ATM machines.
542
00:30:26,491 --> 00:30:30,703
Somebody in the crowd spotted it,
and it was like a record scratch.
543
00:30:30,787 --> 00:30:35,583
Someone screamed out, "ATMs!"
And immediately, the whole crowd charged.
544
00:30:36,084 --> 00:30:37,126
♪ Renegades ♪
545
00:30:39,671 --> 00:30:41,047
[man] Money!
546
00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:44,592
[security guard, on radio] Hold on.
Now they're tearing the ATMs apart.
547
00:30:45,885 --> 00:30:47,512
[woman] Oh my God!
548
00:30:48,012 --> 00:30:49,639
[all yelling]
549
00:30:51,724 --> 00:30:55,103
[Rosenblatt] At that point,
anything that was Woodstock-related
550
00:30:55,645 --> 00:30:58,857
was on these people's destroy list.
551
00:31:00,942 --> 00:31:03,462
[security guard] Okay, I got through.
I'm on my way over to you.
552
00:31:03,486 --> 00:31:05,238
[indistinct shouting]
553
00:31:05,321 --> 00:31:08,825
Pretty much anyone who had a laminate
or anyone we knew was showing up,
554
00:31:08,908 --> 00:31:10,410
and wanting to hide in the office.
555
00:31:10,493 --> 00:31:12,787
[angry shouting]
556
00:31:14,497 --> 00:31:18,042
My four radios
were just going off like crazy.
557
00:31:18,126 --> 00:31:20,128
[indistinct radio chatter]
558
00:31:22,046 --> 00:31:25,508
One of the guys that worked in our office
just got to the main doors
559
00:31:25,592 --> 00:31:27,427
and just started barricading them.
560
00:31:29,304 --> 00:31:31,890
Everyone's wondering,
"How the fuck is this going to end?"
561
00:31:38,229 --> 00:31:41,024
I remember hearing like an explosion.
562
00:31:41,107 --> 00:31:42,233
[loud bang]
563
00:31:43,693 --> 00:31:46,070
[reporter] Several trailers are on fire
down there.
564
00:31:46,821 --> 00:31:48,501
[Scott]
We saw there were trailers on fire.
565
00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:51,451
So we were like, "We gotta get that."
So we're running over.
566
00:31:55,705 --> 00:31:58,124
There was a row of trucks,
and each truck had a gas tank
567
00:31:58,207 --> 00:31:59,626
or a propane tank as part of it.
568
00:32:00,793 --> 00:32:03,393
[man, on radio] This thing blows,
it's gonna hurt a lot of people.
569
00:32:04,172 --> 00:32:06,341
We're, like, front and center.
I'm like, this is it.
570
00:32:07,592 --> 00:32:08,672
And then all of a sudden...
571
00:32:10,094 --> 00:32:11,095
[loud bang]
572
00:32:11,179 --> 00:32:12,639
...holy shit.
573
00:32:13,181 --> 00:32:14,015
[imitating explosion]
574
00:32:14,098 --> 00:32:15,308
Boom, went like, whoa!
575
00:32:15,391 --> 00:32:17,060
[emergency sirens honking]
576
00:32:17,143 --> 00:32:18,143
Boom!
577
00:32:19,270 --> 00:32:22,857
It was like a bomb going off
in the middle of the festival grounds,
578
00:32:23,441 --> 00:32:24,984
and another bomb goes off.
579
00:32:25,068 --> 00:32:26,235
[explosion]
580
00:32:26,319 --> 00:32:27,570
[all cheer]
581
00:32:29,822 --> 00:32:32,992
Fuck. This is not good.
582
00:32:33,076 --> 00:32:36,454
We definitely made a lot of noise,
motherfuckers!
583
00:32:36,537 --> 00:32:39,183
[man, on radio] Let's get a head count
and get the hell out of here.
584
00:32:39,207 --> 00:32:40,333
This ain't worth this shit.
585
00:32:41,084 --> 00:32:43,836
It was like the walls
of Jericho had fallen, right?
586
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,798
That was the moment where we said,
"Okay, we need to get out."
587
00:32:49,968 --> 00:32:51,511
I just hear an explosion.
588
00:32:51,594 --> 00:32:53,304
[crowd yelling]
589
00:32:56,975 --> 00:33:00,395
And people just running.
Running, like, for real this time.
590
00:33:01,187 --> 00:33:05,483
Next thing I know, boom,
get billy-clubbed right in the stomach,
591
00:33:05,984 --> 00:33:08,653
and I look up,
and it's a dude with a mask on.
592
00:33:09,529 --> 00:33:10,529
[officer] Move it!
593
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,700
[man] Go back. Here we go. We're here.
594
00:33:14,367 --> 00:33:16,367
[man, on radio]
Guys, the state troopers have come.
595
00:33:16,411 --> 00:33:18,871
Pull out.
Let the state troopers handle it.
596
00:33:19,497 --> 00:33:21,624
[Scott] I mean, they were like
storm troopers in a row
597
00:33:21,708 --> 00:33:23,751
with the big giant batons and the shields.
598
00:33:23,835 --> 00:33:25,044
I'm like, "Oh shit."
599
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,386
[man, on radio]
The state troopers are wrapping stuff up.
600
00:33:33,469 --> 00:33:35,972
Let's regroup
and get the hell out of here.
601
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:40,768
Michael was...
602
00:33:42,353 --> 00:33:44,522
never going to show his alarm.
603
00:33:45,064 --> 00:33:47,859
Um, I'm sure he was very alarmed
at what was going on.
604
00:33:49,527 --> 00:33:53,156
I just followed him out,
and I imagine he was going to check
605
00:33:53,239 --> 00:33:55,450
on what was going on
with the National Guard.
606
00:33:56,743 --> 00:33:59,620
[Lang] I went out into the middle of it,
to get a feel for it.
607
00:34:00,496 --> 00:34:04,959
I thought it was a terrible ending
for a decent weekend.
608
00:34:05,543 --> 00:34:06,836
And I thought...
609
00:34:08,921 --> 00:34:10,548
this is gonna be a huge cleanup.
610
00:34:10,631 --> 00:34:11,631
[chuckles]
611
00:34:13,259 --> 00:34:15,428
[Speir] So, he walked
into our vendor village,
612
00:34:15,511 --> 00:34:18,931
and I hadn't seen him at all
in the weeks that we'd been up there.
613
00:34:19,474 --> 00:34:22,185
And I'm thinking, "Oh my God.
You're Michael Lang. I'm Colin Speir,
614
00:34:22,268 --> 00:34:25,063
and this is...
You know, I've always wanted to meet you."
615
00:34:26,898 --> 00:34:30,109
But he just walked around
the remains, and that was it.
616
00:34:30,193 --> 00:34:34,947
He didn't address us, you know,
much at all about, like, "You guys okay?"
617
00:34:35,990 --> 00:34:38,493
It didn't really seem like
he gave that much of a shit.
618
00:34:39,994 --> 00:34:41,996
[Lang] It was disappointing
that it ended that way.
619
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:43,831
Um, very.
620
00:34:44,415 --> 00:34:46,459
But that's what it was, you go on.
621
00:34:48,336 --> 00:34:53,925
It was just... It was kind of sad.
It really felt like this is it.
622
00:34:54,008 --> 00:34:57,929
Like, there is never gonna be
another Woodstock after this.
623
00:34:58,638 --> 00:35:00,098
[Pilar Law] Michael. Michael.
624
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:03,726
Pilar, go away.
625
00:35:06,062 --> 00:35:08,773
[Pilar Law] It's the most peaceful way
to deal with it.
626
00:35:09,398 --> 00:35:10,398
It's great.
627
00:35:10,858 --> 00:35:12,485
I think that was kind of like...
628
00:35:13,027 --> 00:35:14,027
Yeah, that was...
629
00:35:14,695 --> 00:35:15,780
that was the end.
630
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:17,949
[sirens wailing]
631
00:35:27,458 --> 00:35:28,918
[Lisa Law] 6:30 in the morning.
632
00:35:29,418 --> 00:35:34,173
Pilar goes, "Mom, Mom,
you gotta see this."
633
00:35:34,257 --> 00:35:37,301
And we get in her car,
and we drive around.
634
00:35:37,927 --> 00:35:39,345
Oh my Lord.
635
00:35:45,101 --> 00:35:46,727
[Pilar Law] It looked like a war zone.
636
00:35:46,811 --> 00:35:49,897
Trash and smoking fires everywhere.
637
00:35:56,487 --> 00:36:00,950
[Lisa Law] And we come upon
the 12 semi tractor-trailers,
638
00:36:01,033 --> 00:36:06,789
and I said, "Pilar that was Woodstock '99
639
00:36:06,873 --> 00:36:09,208
burnt to the ground."
640
00:36:18,301 --> 00:36:22,430
[reporter] Here we have Duke Devlin,
who's been with the festival since '69.
641
00:36:23,097 --> 00:36:24,390
How are you doing this morning?
642
00:36:25,933 --> 00:36:28,394
[Devlin] There was ugliness involved
in a lot of stuff here.
643
00:36:29,937 --> 00:36:33,232
And when this is all over and done with,
I think Woodstock is done.
644
00:36:34,984 --> 00:36:38,696
It's just sad, that's all.
I can't say too much.
645
00:36:40,907 --> 00:36:44,410
[Heather] Monday morning,
shit was blown up everywhere.
646
00:36:44,994 --> 00:36:47,079
So, there was news camera crews.
647
00:36:47,872 --> 00:36:50,124
And because there were no cell phones,
648
00:36:50,208 --> 00:36:53,920
we knew our parents would be bugging out
because they had seen shit went down.
649
00:36:54,003 --> 00:36:56,255
There was riots, and it was nuts.
650
00:36:56,839 --> 00:37:00,760
We saw a lot of people blowing stuff up,
and bonfires.
651
00:37:00,843 --> 00:37:04,347
People jumping over bonfires
and throwing stuff.
652
00:37:04,430 --> 00:37:06,557
And it was wild. It was...
653
00:37:06,641 --> 00:37:07,975
A lot of crazy people.
654
00:37:08,476 --> 00:37:11,020
[reporter] If there's another Woodstock,
would you come again?
655
00:37:11,103 --> 00:37:13,397
Oh yeah, definitely. For sure.
656
00:37:13,481 --> 00:37:14,398
[laughs]
657
00:37:14,482 --> 00:37:15,942
No questions asked.
658
00:37:16,025 --> 00:37:20,613
It sounds ridiculous, but although
I had kind of a scary experience,
659
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:22,615
it was a blast.
660
00:37:23,699 --> 00:37:28,079
I saw the bands that, I mean, I loved.
661
00:37:28,162 --> 00:37:31,958
It was an experience of a lifetime.
662
00:37:33,459 --> 00:37:39,548
It was the best time I've ever had,
and 22 years later,
663
00:37:39,632 --> 00:37:42,426
it's still probably
the best time I've ever had.
664
00:37:43,761 --> 00:37:45,805
[Tom] There were no rules.
665
00:37:45,888 --> 00:37:48,766
I could just kind of do whatever I want.
666
00:37:48,849 --> 00:37:52,144
You know, complete anarchy, it felt like.
667
00:37:52,228 --> 00:37:55,648
I had the time of my life, you know,
at that moment is like, wow, that's like,
668
00:37:56,482 --> 00:37:59,735
I'm glad I got to experience that.
What a story, what a ride.
669
00:38:02,196 --> 00:38:06,325
[Blaustein] It was complete freedom
with no responsibility,
670
00:38:07,243 --> 00:38:09,745
and that felt like
a dangerous combination.
671
00:38:10,621 --> 00:38:13,374
I think we were all pretty much expecting
just to wrap our stuff up,
672
00:38:13,457 --> 00:38:16,544
feed whoever we had to feed,
write the stories we had to write,
673
00:38:17,044 --> 00:38:19,797
and, uh, then this happened.
674
00:38:23,592 --> 00:38:29,265
The entire planet now knew that it became
a total and complete shit show.
675
00:38:29,765 --> 00:38:31,851
The images were everywhere.
676
00:38:31,934 --> 00:38:35,479
Woodstock '99, a weekend of rock and roll
in Upstate New York...
677
00:38:35,563 --> 00:38:39,317
...turned sour last night.
Fans attacked tents, concert equipment,
678
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:40,484
and food trailers...
679
00:38:40,568 --> 00:38:43,821
[reporter, in French]
Woodstock '99, hidden in a cloud of smoke...
680
00:38:43,904 --> 00:38:47,074
[news anchor] Vending stalls were looted
and light towers toppled.
681
00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:50,703
...as the celebration
of rock and roll turned into a riot.
682
00:38:50,786 --> 00:38:52,788
[indistinct chatter]
683
00:38:55,708 --> 00:38:57,501
[Speir] We went into the office
the next day
684
00:38:57,585 --> 00:39:00,004
and, yeah, we had
all these non-disclosure agreements
685
00:39:00,087 --> 00:39:02,967
that we had to sign, nobody was allowed
to speak to the media after that.
686
00:39:04,925 --> 00:39:08,512
[woman] "Okay, what started out as peace,
love, and music festival ended in a riot
687
00:39:08,596 --> 00:39:09,764
at Woodstock '99."
688
00:39:10,931 --> 00:39:14,477
[Speir] What is anybody going to tell you
that's worse than what people saw?
689
00:39:16,062 --> 00:39:20,316
Everybody had their own theories
as to what happened and why.
690
00:39:20,816 --> 00:39:23,444
Rumors were circulating like wildfire.
691
00:39:26,489 --> 00:39:28,908
I often wonder, did the producers
692
00:39:29,825 --> 00:39:34,663
get all the way until Sunday and say,
693
00:39:35,373 --> 00:39:38,667
"All we've really had here is a big,
694
00:39:40,044 --> 00:39:42,630
fairly well-controlled rock festival."
695
00:39:42,713 --> 00:39:44,423
"We didn't have a Woodstock."
696
00:39:45,049 --> 00:39:48,427
And then all of a sudden,
these things happen Sunday night
697
00:39:48,511 --> 00:39:51,514
to make it a Woodstock pandemonium,
698
00:39:52,181 --> 00:39:56,018
possibly to enhance sales
of the merchandising
699
00:39:56,102 --> 00:39:57,853
that goes on after the event.
700
00:40:00,231 --> 00:40:03,984
That's absurd. It's absurd, I mean, uh...
701
00:40:05,236 --> 00:40:07,405
It's just not true, you know?
702
00:40:10,908 --> 00:40:14,078
In the interest of keeping this
press conference in this millennium...
703
00:40:14,161 --> 00:40:17,123
[Blaustein] On Monday morning,
they called the final press conference.
704
00:40:17,206 --> 00:40:18,874
...our promoter Michael Lang.
705
00:40:20,751 --> 00:40:21,751
Hi.
706
00:40:22,253 --> 00:40:24,922
There was not supposed to be
a press conference Monday morning.
707
00:40:25,005 --> 00:40:26,005
Obviously.
708
00:40:26,966 --> 00:40:29,176
The stakes couldn't have been higher.
709
00:40:30,761 --> 00:40:34,932
The Woodstock brand
was in serious trouble.
710
00:40:35,766 --> 00:40:38,602
I was out in it 'til 5:30 this morning.
711
00:40:39,770 --> 00:40:41,981
I saw a very small group of people.
712
00:40:42,523 --> 00:40:46,068
They went from place to place,
setting fires, inciting people.
713
00:40:46,152 --> 00:40:50,406
But I certainly would not condemn
this crowd for the fuck-up
714
00:40:50,489 --> 00:40:53,075
of, excuse the language,
of a few assholes.
715
00:40:55,578 --> 00:40:58,914
Essentially,
they took zero responsibility.
716
00:40:59,415 --> 00:41:02,376
Their take was that this was
just a few bad apples.
717
00:41:05,337 --> 00:41:11,385
Anybody with eyes, who saw the footage,
knows that there were thousands of kids
718
00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:16,307
looting, rioting,
doing property damage, setting fires.
719
00:41:16,891 --> 00:41:18,350
Rome burned.
720
00:41:21,604 --> 00:41:24,148
[Lewis] But the real issue
wasn't who was rioting, right?
721
00:41:24,648 --> 00:41:27,193
The question was, why were they rioting?
722
00:41:29,737 --> 00:41:32,382
[Lang] I think it's just a cultural thing.
There are some anarchists
723
00:41:32,406 --> 00:41:35,126
among us always, and some are
a little bit more strident than others,
724
00:41:35,159 --> 00:41:38,913
and we just have to get
some of the more strident ones.
725
00:41:39,997 --> 00:41:44,251
I don't think it was about issues.
I think it was just about energy.
726
00:41:44,877 --> 00:41:48,797
They were so amped up from the weekend
that they just weren't ready to stop.
727
00:41:50,341 --> 00:41:52,885
You know, they wanted more of anything,
728
00:41:52,968 --> 00:41:54,845
more of the experience.
729
00:41:54,929 --> 00:41:58,349
And I think it was that,
they weren't ready to put it to bed.
730
00:42:00,392 --> 00:42:01,792
[Scher] They're the lunatic fringe.
731
00:42:02,269 --> 00:42:06,565
That segment of the population
was both entitled
732
00:42:07,858 --> 00:42:11,320
and, uh, fearful of growing up,
733
00:42:12,029 --> 00:42:13,280
of having to have a real job
734
00:42:13,364 --> 00:42:16,617
and, you know,
have a family and stuff like that.
735
00:42:17,451 --> 00:42:20,246
And they had lots of angst.
Lots and lots of angst.
736
00:42:20,913 --> 00:42:22,831
[man] Get out!
737
00:42:23,791 --> 00:42:26,669
[Rosenblatt] What do you sum up
went wrong with this festival?
738
00:42:27,336 --> 00:42:28,963
I can say it in one word: greed.
739
00:42:31,549 --> 00:42:34,969
The user experience
740
00:42:35,803 --> 00:42:37,680
was totally thrown out the window.
741
00:42:37,763 --> 00:42:41,141
I mean,
these kids were taken advantage of.
742
00:42:42,810 --> 00:42:46,188
They treated people like dogs
once they got their money. Dogs.
743
00:42:47,648 --> 00:42:52,611
[Heather] The riots were the culmination
of everybody being angry over the prices,
744
00:42:52,695 --> 00:42:57,616
and it was hot, and we smelled,
and we were tired and hungover.
745
00:42:58,951 --> 00:43:01,412
And I think that people had had enough,
746
00:43:02,246 --> 00:43:06,917
and they gave in to,
you know, their worse nature.
747
00:43:08,586 --> 00:43:10,087
[camera shutters clicking]
748
00:43:10,838 --> 00:43:14,133
[Blaustein] That press conference
just left a bad taste in my mouth
749
00:43:14,216 --> 00:43:15,926
and everybody else who was there too.
750
00:43:17,177 --> 00:43:19,972
[man] Saying goodbye to Woodstock '99.
751
00:43:20,931 --> 00:43:22,850
Good riddance, you piece of shit.
752
00:43:25,185 --> 00:43:27,646
But then things got even worse.
753
00:43:32,026 --> 00:43:33,569
[inhales deeply]
754
00:43:33,652 --> 00:43:37,406
So, after the festival, um,
755
00:43:37,906 --> 00:43:41,243
when I got back into the office,
I started getting phone calls.
756
00:43:41,327 --> 00:43:43,329
It was a hysterical mother
757
00:43:45,247 --> 00:43:47,625
talking about
how her daughter had been raped.
758
00:43:52,212 --> 00:43:53,505
[sighs]
759
00:43:54,131 --> 00:43:56,925
New York State Police
are reportedly investigating allegations
760
00:43:57,009 --> 00:43:58,552
that four women were raped
761
00:43:58,636 --> 00:44:00,929
at last weekend's
Woodstock Music Festival.
762
00:44:01,013 --> 00:44:03,015
The Washington Post
reports today that detectives
763
00:44:03,098 --> 00:44:05,059
are looking into the rape reports,
764
00:44:05,142 --> 00:44:06,810
and that crisis intervention workers
765
00:44:06,894 --> 00:44:09,271
say they witnessed
many more sexual assaults,
766
00:44:09,355 --> 00:44:11,106
some right in front of the stage.
767
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,780
[Lewis] In the aftermath,
all the stories that I've heard
768
00:44:17,863 --> 00:44:20,741
of women being molested, even raped.
769
00:44:21,867 --> 00:44:25,537
Given the climate of the guys there,
I'm not surprised by it.
770
00:44:27,498 --> 00:44:30,167
You know, it's like this
pervasive entitlement.
771
00:44:30,250 --> 00:44:32,795
We see that with race,
we see that with sexism,
772
00:44:32,878 --> 00:44:34,088
we see that with classism.
773
00:44:34,171 --> 00:44:36,006
It's that idea that I'm better than you,
774
00:44:36,090 --> 00:44:38,676
so I can subject you to anything,
and you gotta take it.
775
00:44:41,095 --> 00:44:44,098
Back then, you were supposed to just
deal with what you had to deal with
776
00:44:44,181 --> 00:44:45,181
and suck it up.
777
00:44:48,435 --> 00:44:52,231
So, I didn't hear
about any of the allegations for rape, um...
778
00:44:53,273 --> 00:44:57,194
or attacks on women
until after the festival was over.
779
00:44:57,277 --> 00:45:00,989
And the way women were treated
was really horrible.
780
00:45:01,073 --> 00:45:06,078
I thought, um, we were responsible
for everybody on site.
781
00:45:06,787 --> 00:45:11,166
And so, we bear responsibility
for, you know, what happened to the women.
782
00:45:11,250 --> 00:45:12,793
But, you know,
783
00:45:12,876 --> 00:45:13,961
it happened in secret.
784
00:45:14,044 --> 00:45:16,547
It happened in tents and...
785
00:45:16,630 --> 00:45:19,350
Somebody said it happened in the mosh pit.
I can't even imagine that.
786
00:45:21,385 --> 00:45:25,556
[Scher] Woodstock was actually
like a small city, you know?
787
00:45:26,432 --> 00:45:31,270
All things considered,
I'd say that there would probably be
788
00:45:31,353 --> 00:45:35,649
as many or more rapes
in any sized city of that.
789
00:45:35,733 --> 00:45:38,318
I'm not condoning it.
It was wrong. It was horrible.
790
00:45:38,402 --> 00:45:41,697
I wish we caught everybody.
I'd put 'em all in jail.
791
00:45:41,780 --> 00:45:42,614
Um...
792
00:45:42,698 --> 00:45:47,077
But considering
there were 200,000 people there, um...
793
00:45:47,870 --> 00:45:49,079
[stammers]
794
00:45:49,872 --> 00:45:53,417
...it wasn't something
that gained enough momentum
795
00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:58,422
so that it caused any on-site issues,
796
00:45:58,964 --> 00:46:01,467
other than, of course,
to the women it happened to.
797
00:46:03,635 --> 00:46:04,845
[Speir] That's bullshit.
798
00:46:05,971 --> 00:46:11,393
Woodstock '99
did not have enough proper security.
799
00:46:12,311 --> 00:46:13,854
They tried to cheap out on it.
800
00:46:16,398 --> 00:46:19,651
[Davis] As a promoter,
if you're going to put on an event,
801
00:46:19,735 --> 00:46:22,696
your first responsibility
is the safety of the crowd.
802
00:46:22,780 --> 00:46:25,157
But they were completely unprepared.
803
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,077
It was like, let's just get
a quarter-million people together,
804
00:46:29,161 --> 00:46:30,579
and let's see what happens.
805
00:46:33,332 --> 00:46:36,752
For anyone to get hurt,
there's no excuse for that.
806
00:46:38,170 --> 00:46:42,257
Girls should be able to fucking have fun,
just like a guy.
807
00:46:47,179 --> 00:46:52,184
[Lewis] Movements like "Me Too"
really evolved as a direct response
808
00:46:52,267 --> 00:46:56,814
to the kind of horrible behaviors
we saw at Woodstock '99.
809
00:46:58,774 --> 00:47:01,693
[Heather] You know, a lot of people
complain about woke culture,
810
00:47:01,777 --> 00:47:03,529
but looking back,
811
00:47:03,612 --> 00:47:07,366
I'm glad that we don't accept
what happened anymore.
812
00:47:09,076 --> 00:47:11,328
In '99, we were the kids.
813
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,623
But we're the adults now.
We're the parents now.
814
00:47:15,707 --> 00:47:19,211
I'm glad that my daughters
will never have to walk around
815
00:47:19,294 --> 00:47:20,128
and see that
816
00:47:20,212 --> 00:47:22,506
and think that it's just the way it is.
817
00:47:24,132 --> 00:47:26,426
[Lewis] It's like we learned
who we don't want to be.
818
00:47:27,010 --> 00:47:33,225
And we've put in place boundaries
and things that will prevent us
819
00:47:33,308 --> 00:47:36,186
from devolving back into that madness.
820
00:47:41,108 --> 00:47:43,110
[dramatic music]
821
00:47:45,404 --> 00:47:48,323
[Lang] The way Woodstock '99
sort of sits in my memory
822
00:47:49,324 --> 00:47:50,826
is a lost opportunity.
823
00:47:51,952 --> 00:47:53,328
I think in the '90s,
824
00:47:54,079 --> 00:47:57,499
kids were in a different headspace.
825
00:47:58,959 --> 00:48:00,335
They were there for the music.
826
00:48:01,128 --> 00:48:05,132
I don't think they were able
to embrace the social issues of the day.
827
00:48:06,049 --> 00:48:08,886
And there was an element
that just was, you know.
828
00:48:10,721 --> 00:48:12,431
There were assholes in the crowd.
829
00:48:13,098 --> 00:48:15,350
You can't vet the people
that buy your tickets.
830
00:48:16,101 --> 00:48:17,101
You just can't.
831
00:48:21,523 --> 00:48:23,066
Woodstock will never go away.
832
00:48:23,942 --> 00:48:28,906
Woodstock '69 was its own thing
and its own kind of magic. Um...
833
00:48:30,282 --> 00:48:32,075
Did '99 damage that?
834
00:48:32,576 --> 00:48:33,576
Maybe a bit.
835
00:48:37,664 --> 00:48:39,666
[acoustic music]
836
00:48:43,879 --> 00:48:44,879
Okay.
837
00:48:45,547 --> 00:48:46,547
Thank you.