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    Exclamation Woodstock 99 - How Limp Bizkit, rioting fans, and a candle handout led to a fiasco

    How Limp Bizkit, rioting fans, and a huge candle handout led to a music festival fiasco...

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    Netflix’s Fyre festival documentary was one of those out-of-the-blue hits that seemed to dominate conversation for months when it was released in 2019. A film about a woefully organised festival that spiralled out of control with alarming ferocity, it was the sort of thing you had to watch through the cracks in your fingers. But something tells me that Fyre festival is going to be superseded, because Netflix is about to release a series about Woodstock 99.

    Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99, as it is aptly titled, is a three-part, chronologically told series about one of the most appallingly assembled music festivals in history. Held to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the original Woodstock, which has come to be seen as a benign force of positivity, Woodstock 99 became renowned for the consequences of its spectacularly bad decision-making. The original Woodstock? Held on a dairy farm. This one? An abandoned military base. The original Woodstock had free food kitchens. This one sold plastic water bottles at $4 a pop. The original Woodstock’s lineup included Ravi Shankar and Joan Baez. This one was a celebration of mindlessly aggressive nu-metal. No wonder it ended in flames.


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    Now that is a real riot. Fires and everything!
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    How Limp Bizkit, rioting fans, and a huge candle handout led to a music festival fiasco...

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    Netflix’s Fyre festival documentary was one of those out-of-the-blue hits that seemed to dominate conversation for months when it was released in 2019. A film about a woefully organised festival that spiralled out of control with alarming ferocity, it was the sort of thing you had to watch through the cracks in your fingers. But something tells me that Fyre festival is going to be superseded, because Netflix is about to release a series about Woodstock 99.

    Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99, as it is aptly titled, is a three-part, chronologically told series about one of the most appallingly assembled music festivals in history. Held to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the original Woodstock, which has come to be seen as a benign force of positivity, Woodstock 99 became renowned for the consequences of its spectacularly bad decision-making. The original Woodstock? Held on a dairy farm. This one? An abandoned military base. The original Woodstock had free food kitchens. This one sold plastic water bottles at $4 a pop. The original Woodstock’s lineup included Ravi Shankar and Joan Baez. This one was a celebration of mindlessly aggressive nu-metal. No wonder it ended in flames.


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    Say what, the lineup was filled top to freaking bottom with great acts! All kinds of genres too, not just Nu Metal as you said but considering at the time it was huge, bands like Limp Bizkit and Korn were of course and rightfully placed as end of the night main event acts. What turned the weekend south was when as you said after 3 days of 4 dollar bottles of water in 100 degree heat the people had enough of the price gouging.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Now that is a real riot. Fires and everything!
    Mostly peaceful...
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