Let's get White boy Wasted and Riot, Woodstock '99, The ITWAN of ITWANS HBO, JULY 23

[daemonova]

Friday night at 9pm eastern

 

[mastermind]

It was nuts to see this shyt back in 1999.

but the people who created Woodstock are liars. THat shyt was not peace and love.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts...assault-maybe-woodstock-was-always-nightmare/

The event was rife with problems: Bands performed hours after they were scheduled (the Who went on at 5 a.m.); an anarchist group tore down the fencing so fans could attend free; two people died (one was run over by a tractor). And there were the near-misses: At one point, the main feeder cable supplying the fest with electricity became worn and exposed. With pools of rain drowning Woodstock, it opened the possibility for “mass electrocution.” Although the founders managed to avoid a catastrophe, the festival was one spark away from being remembered in a much darker light.

Yet it gained the reputation of being a joyous, blissful experience, a myth that Andy Zax, who produced the upcoming, 38-disc “Woodstock — Back to the Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive,” called a “fairy tale.”

That misconception largely comes from Wadleigh’s 1970 documentary, which permanently embedded an idealized version of Woodstock in the cultural consciousness and possibly led to decades’ worth of attempts to re-create it. “Everything we consider to be a real, canonical Woodstock moment … is from the film,” Zax said. “It’s a very constructed version of Woodstock.”

“I don’t think there would be a ’94 or a ’99 without the movie,” Hyden added. “A lot of people felt like because they saw the movie, they felt they were there. … It sold a version of that festival that was only partially true, but people took it as fact.”

Perhaps no anecdote better encapsulates the illusion of ’69 vs. its reality than John Fogerty’s experience. He arrived by helicopter for Creedence Clearwater Revival’s set and remembers seeing the sea of attendees from the air. “It was overwhelming,” Fogerty told The Washington Post, adding that it took his “breath away."

Things, though, felt different on the ground. “As soon as the chopper landed, I went and walked out among the people to see what this feels like,” Forgerty said. “I noticed somebody selling water … the idea that somebody was selling water really triggered something in my own mind. I thought, ‘That kind of sucks.’ It seemed so commercial.”

Make no mistake: He and his fellow musicians fondly remembered the festival; Fogerty’s former bandmate Stu Cook called it “one of the high points of my generation.” But it wasn’t just an idyllic, hippie wonderland.

“That festival was declared a disaster area by the government, but that’s been papered over by all this mythology that’s been created over the years,” Hyden said. “There was this idea that if you put together a festival at the last minute with not a great infrastructure and sort of a chaotic environment that you’re actually gonna have a beautiful event. That it’s going to be this generation-defining sort of epoch for people that they’re gonna remember for years after. And at Woodstock ’99, we saw the faultiness of that thinking. If you don’t plan very well, unless you’re extremely lucky, things will go wrong. And that’s what happened.”

 

[daemonova]

Y'all ready to party!!!!

 

[YaThreadTrashB!]

That dmx set

 

[daemonova]

N/m

 

[Bud Bundy]

it was good. just like I remember it.

 

[Ku$h Parker]

I remember visiting My Sis that Summer in NY and I asked her to go on the Strength of DMX being there plus I remember watching the 94 Woodstock and thought it was Cool,she said No and after reading the Paper on the fukkery that went down on Sunday Night during and after The Chili Peppers set,Kinda Glad I didnt go

 

[avon barksdale]

Up a link

 

[manyfaces]

I really don't remember this. I must have had too much other shyt going on around this time for it not to even register.

 

[daemonova]

 

[daemonova]

 

[NSSVO]

Yo WHAT THE fukk

 

[BXKingPin82]

Im on the DMX part.
That sea of white X's!!!

Yikes!




And they played THAT song!

A-YOOOOOO!!

 

[BXKingPin82]

The Carnival was a criminally underrated album.

"Everytime i make a ryhme, girl you turn around and cry..."

 

[BXKingPin82]

DOO-DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!