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Watched an interesting documentary last night on Woodstock 99

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  1. Antstrat

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    Music Box: Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage

    It's on HBO and maybe Netflix.

    It made Altamont look like a love fest.

    Interesting perspectives from some artists that played there and attendees.

    I like music history and how they interact with the culture at the time.

    It's not always pretty.
     
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    Yes, that account of the event didn't leave me wishing I had been there.
     
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    The promoters should have done some jail time.
     
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    I saw the same documentary and it is an eye opener. Limp Bizkit/Wes Borland was probably my first "guitar hero". I remember trying to play Breakstuff and not understanding why my Epiphone didn't make the same noise when I detuned it and put on the "heavy" effect via my Digitech RP300. Def worth a watch!
     
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    You mean Corporatestock 99? No surprise that turned into a sh!tshow. Had nothing in common with Woodstock. Just more merchandizing of the counterculture.
     
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    I watched that one a couple of weeks ago. Yeah...that was a complete **** show! Then again, every Woodstock festival seemed to be a disaster on some level. This one went into the stratosphere.
     
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    The only thing I know about Woodstock '99 is that I've seen footage of the audience covered in mud while RHCP was completely nude on stage. :confused:
     
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    That was actually Woodstock '94. I was at that festival - front and center for that RHCP set, in fact - and it was awesome!
     
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    Ebidis Providing the world with flat bends since 1985

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    How many freakin' Woodstocks have there been?

    I could definitely do without the mud and naked dudes on stage.
     
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    While '94 was dubbed "Mudstock" because of all the rain, in '99 there were a large population of the crowd also covered in "mud". I typed that in quotes because it seems the "mud" wasn't mud at all but the overflow from the porta-potties so yeah...there was that at Woodstock '99. :confused:

    (and Flea unfortunately did play naked as well :()
     
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    More than mud, the porta potties were overflowing and the mud was mixed with raw sewage.
     
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    Now there's a fun time.

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    It was the only comical part of the doc, watching hundreds of idiots sliding and rolling around in the muck. And the porta potties were right there!
     
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    Woodstock or not, 1999 was so much different than 1994. Everything was better before Korn, Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock came on the scene.
     
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    Just one. The rest were just using the name to generate sales.
     
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    Ant, if you watched it it must've been Woodstock 1899.... :D
     
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    The lesson learned should have been to never try to recreate what cannot be recreated. :rolleyes:
     
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    Some things are meant to only happen once.
     
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    And that right there is why they have the saying "hindsight is 20/20".

    Its easy to say that now, knowing what happened in the past.
     
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