Woodstock 99: Why The Festival Was Such a Disaster

0:00 - Poor Planning
4:37 - Extreme Heat/Price Gouging
7:18 - Trouble Ahead
9:20 - Limp Bizkit's Performance/Sanitation Issues
11:37 - Things Fall Apart



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With netflix premiering their own documentary about Woodstock 99, we thought it would be a perfect time to take a look back at the festival. Dubbed by some as and i quote ‘the day the 90’s died’, the 1999 iteration of Woodstock was meant to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original festival which was full of peace, love and happiness. That wouldn’t be the case with Woodstock 99, whicht left behind was a trail of destruction, violence, death, litigation and bad memories


While Woodstock 99 is mostly remembered for what happened on the final day of the festival, there were problems from the beginning, starting with the planning of the whole festival. Woodstock 99 happened over four days from Thursday July 22nd to Sunday July 25th. The original woodstock was held on a farm with lots of foliage and greenery which offered protection to attendees from the elements and those who wanted to camp. Woodstock 99 was held at a decommissioned airforce base in Rome, New York, In fact with nearly a quarter of a million attendees, Rome would be the third largest city in the state for that one weekend. The airforce base proved to be an awful location to hold the festival Music Journalist Steven Hyden would tell RNZ music what went wrong with the location revealing

“The idea of having it in a military base was so that people didn’t gate crash like they did at Woodstock ’69 … where people showed up, didn't pay and just barged their way in,” But the site was a flat, open space with no trees, providing very little shade from the burning July heat. It was basically just asphalt and barbed wire, and it was really hot that weekend, people were really uncomfortable.” On top of that you also had attendees having to walk 1.5 miles between the two main stages. Given the lack of shade, the walk between the stages was unbearable on the hot tarmac. Many cases of dehydration and heat exhaustion would be treated at the medical tents.

Also unknown to the attendees was that the airforce base was a superfund or toxic wastesite including having groundwater and soil contmaintion. However there was one article we found that indicated the concert goers weren’t on the part of the site that was contaminated.
Even weeks before the festival was set to take place there was trouble with security preparations. Spin would report that weeks before the festival happened the promoters were in violation of a 1970 law that was passed after the first woodstock to avert any repeat of the chaos that took place. The original woodstock saw a lack of toilets, food, water and medical facilities. The County as reported by the new york times were looking to levy fines in upwards of 1.5 million against the promoters. The New York Times would report a few weeks before the festival took place and i quote “The County Executive, R said yesterday that most of the violations were not serious, but concerned late submissions of engineering plans, parking plans and a payment to New York State for repairs it had made to the Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Thruway for the anticipated influx of 200,000 to 300,000 people.” the article would state that unless the fines were paid woodstock 99 could have been cancelled, but Spin would report that the promoters skirted the fines and promised to hire, 1,200 security guards. The guards hired by the festival themselves would be paid $12/hour while the sub-contracted security guards would be paid $6-8/hr. They would be promised two meals a day and a living quarters for the weekend, but the promoters were so short on time to find security they hired mostly from a nearby unemployment office. The security on site which was known as the peace patrol was about as effective as the afghan army. No joking. One peace patrol officer told a syracuse newspaper and i quote ‘it was like sign the sheet and you’re c issues amongst the security guards thsemselves with reports of some security guards intimidating other staff and stealing their belongings.

The first night of the festival saw nearly 100 members of the peace patrol quit in disgust. The next night the peace patrol officers w

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