1 00:00:14,472 --> 00:00:15,472 [man] Good God. 2 00:00:18,643 --> 00:00:20,061 [woman] Oh, my Lord. 3 00:00:23,231 --> 00:00:24,691 [man] Is this fucking Bosnia? 4 00:00:25,483 --> 00:00:28,403 [somber music playing] 5 00:00:31,823 --> 00:00:32,823 [woman] Look at this. 6 00:00:33,950 --> 00:00:35,150 [Blaustein] Slow down, please. 7 00:00:40,206 --> 00:00:41,624 Oh, boy. 8 00:00:43,626 --> 00:00:46,087 [Blaustein] At that time, I was 26 years old. 9 00:00:46,171 --> 00:00:50,550 I was a rookie journalist covering this high-profile festival. 10 00:00:50,633 --> 00:00:53,845 I was spending a lot of time in the press compound, 11 00:00:54,387 --> 00:00:56,306 reporting back to New York City. 12 00:00:56,890 --> 00:00:58,725 And it was a lot of fun... 13 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:01,770 until this happened. 14 00:01:02,979 --> 00:01:06,107 And I'm looking around at all of this damage. 15 00:01:06,191 --> 00:01:07,609 Carnage, if you will. 16 00:01:08,151 --> 00:01:11,529 And I'm thinking, how the fuck did this happen? 17 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,866 [stage announcer] Woodstock '99! 18 00:01:14,949 --> 00:01:16,743 [crowd cheering] 19 00:01:16,826 --> 00:01:19,287 Woodstock '99, baby! Yeah! 20 00:01:20,789 --> 00:01:21,956 [Scott] It was amazing. 21 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:24,000 I'd never seen anything like it. 22 00:01:24,084 --> 00:01:26,086 [crowd cheering] 23 00:01:27,378 --> 00:01:32,217 It was a history-making moment. Like, I can't believe I'm part of this. 24 00:01:32,300 --> 00:01:33,718 Whoo! Hi, guys. 25 00:01:33,802 --> 00:01:36,137 [Sara] It really felt like it was flower power 26 00:01:36,221 --> 00:01:38,348 and love and music and coming together in harmony. 27 00:01:40,141 --> 00:01:42,268 [Heather] There was not a doubt in my mind. 28 00:01:42,352 --> 00:01:44,604 This was gonna be an experience of a lifetime. 29 00:01:46,022 --> 00:01:47,782 [Scott] In the beginning, everyone was happy. 30 00:01:47,816 --> 00:01:48,858 The music was good. 31 00:01:48,942 --> 00:01:50,735 Put your hands up in the air. 32 00:01:50,819 --> 00:01:54,697 And of course, everyone just high as balls. 33 00:01:54,781 --> 00:01:56,241 [girl] Yeah, baby! 34 00:01:56,324 --> 00:01:57,992 [girl laughs] 35 00:01:58,076 --> 00:02:01,162 [man] Woodstock. Woodstock. 36 00:02:01,246 --> 00:02:02,080 Yeah! 37 00:02:02,163 --> 00:02:05,667 There was this ominous feeling. There was no control. 38 00:02:05,750 --> 00:02:07,752 [boos and jeers] 39 00:02:08,545 --> 00:02:12,507 This was not a walk in the park. We'd completely underestimated this. 40 00:02:12,590 --> 00:02:15,635 Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Whoo! 41 00:02:15,718 --> 00:02:19,013 It was like this perfect storm had started to form. 42 00:02:19,097 --> 00:02:20,849 [man cackling] 43 00:02:22,058 --> 00:02:24,769 These kids were getting pissed off. 44 00:02:24,853 --> 00:02:26,020 Yeah! 45 00:02:26,604 --> 00:02:28,564 [reporter] Things are just getting out of control. 46 00:02:28,606 --> 00:02:29,858 [crowd shouting] 47 00:02:32,193 --> 00:02:33,486 [Kyle] Holy shit. 48 00:02:33,570 --> 00:02:36,406 Some very, very bad things could happen. 49 00:02:36,489 --> 00:02:40,702 [man] It's not part of the show. It really is a problem. 50 00:02:40,785 --> 00:02:42,425 - [Blaustein] And that's it. - [man] Shit! 51 00:02:42,453 --> 00:02:44,747 Kerosene, match. 52 00:02:44,831 --> 00:02:45,831 Boom. 53 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:49,252 Holy shit. What the fuck? 54 00:02:51,796 --> 00:02:55,300 It's like a scene with zombies coming over the castle walls. 55 00:02:55,383 --> 00:02:57,677 [emergency sirens wailing] 56 00:02:58,887 --> 00:03:03,099 It spiraled deeper and deeper into the worst demons of human nature. 57 00:03:04,058 --> 00:03:07,395 This is fucking... I don't know, Lord of The Flies, man, I guess. 58 00:03:08,438 --> 00:03:10,982 [Blaustein] There is no other way to describe it. 59 00:03:11,065 --> 00:03:11,900 [man] Yeah! 60 00:03:11,983 --> 00:03:15,820 It became a total and complete trainwreck. 61 00:03:16,321 --> 00:03:18,198 [woman] Oh, my God. 62 00:03:30,126 --> 00:03:32,128 [birds tweeting] 63 00:03:33,296 --> 00:03:35,298 [rooster caws] 64 00:03:35,381 --> 00:03:36,591 [cows low] 65 00:03:37,717 --> 00:03:39,437 [reporter] The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, 66 00:03:39,469 --> 00:03:42,013 the three-day exposition at White Lake and Bethel, New York, 67 00:03:42,096 --> 00:03:46,059 will give you uncomplicated, unhurried, calm days of peace and music. 68 00:03:47,518 --> 00:03:49,354 There are over 600 acres to roam, 69 00:03:49,437 --> 00:03:51,773 bazaars to browse. Heavy traffic is anticipated. 70 00:03:51,856 --> 00:03:53,983 So leave early to arrive on time. 71 00:03:54,067 --> 00:03:57,612 ♪ I came upon a child of God ♪ 72 00:03:57,695 --> 00:04:00,990 ♪ He was walking along the road ♪ 73 00:04:01,741 --> 00:04:03,409 ♪ When I asked him where... 74 00:04:03,493 --> 00:04:06,746 [Lewis] Woodstock is the original counterculture music festival, right? 75 00:04:06,829 --> 00:04:09,999 I mean, it's basically that, and maybe the moon landing 76 00:04:10,083 --> 00:04:12,502 is what you think of first when you think of the '60s. 77 00:04:13,002 --> 00:04:14,337 [crowd cheering] 78 00:04:16,005 --> 00:04:17,966 [inaudible] 79 00:04:19,175 --> 00:04:22,845 It was the ultimate gathering of the best musicians 80 00:04:23,513 --> 00:04:25,473 during the best era of music. 81 00:04:25,556 --> 00:04:28,935 ♪ We are stardust ♪ 82 00:04:29,018 --> 00:04:32,355 ♪ We are golden ♪ 83 00:04:33,022 --> 00:04:35,191 [Rossdale] Woodstock's one of those events 84 00:04:35,275 --> 00:04:37,485 that's just part of culture and part of your DNA. 85 00:04:39,237 --> 00:04:40,280 [reporter] Oh, boy. 86 00:04:40,989 --> 00:04:43,449 I've never seen anything like this, man. 87 00:04:45,493 --> 00:04:49,455 So, this whole Woodstock story really begins with one man. 88 00:04:52,208 --> 00:04:53,208 Michael Lang. 89 00:04:54,961 --> 00:04:57,171 Are you in charge of the whole thing? 90 00:04:57,880 --> 00:04:58,880 Yeah. 91 00:05:02,844 --> 00:05:04,304 [Lang] Woodstock was amazing. 92 00:05:05,596 --> 00:05:08,933 Hate to use "vibes," but there was amazing vibes in The Valley. [chuckles] 93 00:05:10,226 --> 00:05:12,186 Obviously, the Vietnam War was a big thing. 94 00:05:12,895 --> 00:05:14,063 We were so against it. 95 00:05:16,691 --> 00:05:19,235 - You think you're gonna do another one? - If it works. 96 00:05:21,237 --> 00:05:23,117 You know, for years, I didn't want to revive it. 97 00:05:23,656 --> 00:05:25,867 I mean, I never thought we could have the same impact 98 00:05:25,950 --> 00:05:28,119 of peace and love and flower power. 99 00:05:30,496 --> 00:05:34,459 But in the '90s, I started thinking about Woodstock for my kids' generation. 100 00:05:34,542 --> 00:05:36,252 They were teenagers at the time. 101 00:05:36,336 --> 00:05:39,922 When gun violence became an issue for all of us. 102 00:05:40,673 --> 00:05:43,384 [reporter] Two teenagers went on a five-hour rampage 103 00:05:43,468 --> 00:05:44,802 inside Columbine High School, 104 00:05:44,886 --> 00:05:48,973 killing 12 fellow students and a teacher, and wounding some 30 other people. 105 00:05:49,807 --> 00:05:52,727 [Lang] The idea was to engage people in the issue 106 00:05:52,810 --> 00:05:56,522 and to give that generation an idea of what Woodstock was about. 107 00:05:57,190 --> 00:05:58,900 Which is counterculture. 108 00:05:59,817 --> 00:06:00,817 No violence. 109 00:06:01,611 --> 00:06:03,154 Just peace and love and music. 110 00:06:03,696 --> 00:06:04,696 That was it. 111 00:06:05,698 --> 00:06:06,824 You know, let's do it. 112 00:06:07,492 --> 00:06:09,172 ["All the Small Things" by Blink-182 plays] 113 00:06:09,202 --> 00:06:11,829 [radio announcer] Experience Woodstock '99 for three days. 114 00:06:11,913 --> 00:06:15,833 Over 40 of today's top bands and 250,000 people. 115 00:06:15,917 --> 00:06:17,293 [man] Let's go! 116 00:06:17,377 --> 00:06:20,922 Woodstock '99, the trip of your life. 117 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,008 [laughing] 118 00:06:26,636 --> 00:06:29,764 [Tom] At the time, Keith and I, we were only 16. 119 00:06:29,847 --> 00:06:31,349 - Love you, Mom. - [laughs] 120 00:06:31,432 --> 00:06:33,559 [Tom] Never been to a concert before. 121 00:06:33,643 --> 00:06:37,563 Whoa, I was like, "Korn's gonna be there, Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine." 122 00:06:37,647 --> 00:06:40,108 I was like, "Oh, my gosh. We gotta go." 123 00:06:40,191 --> 00:06:44,737 Tom said, "You wanna go to Woodstock?" "Hell yeah, I wanna go to Woodstock." 124 00:06:44,821 --> 00:06:46,114 Whoo-hoo! Tickets! 125 00:06:46,781 --> 00:06:49,826 When I got my Woodstock ticket finally, I felt on top of the world. 126 00:06:49,909 --> 00:06:53,329 Like, wow, this is gonna be probably the best time of my life. 127 00:06:53,413 --> 00:06:57,917 We're going to see girls our own age and talk to them and possibly have sex. 128 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:59,919 [both laugh] 129 00:07:00,002 --> 00:07:01,921 [car horn blares] 130 00:07:02,755 --> 00:07:05,516 [Sara] I was very lucky that my parents didn't know anything about it. 131 00:07:06,467 --> 00:07:09,095 I grew up in a very conservative, Christian home, 132 00:07:09,178 --> 00:07:11,222 so I was not allowed to watch MTV. 133 00:07:11,973 --> 00:07:15,476 So, it was kind of a rebellious move to actually have a ticket to Woodstock. 134 00:07:15,977 --> 00:07:17,395 [man 1] Whoo! 135 00:07:17,478 --> 00:07:18,855 [man 2] Whoo! We made it! 136 00:07:19,439 --> 00:07:22,150 [Sara] My parents knew about 1969 peace and love, 137 00:07:22,233 --> 00:07:25,445 and they're like, "That's a great opportunity for our kid," 138 00:07:25,528 --> 00:07:29,031 you know, just finding music and harmony. 139 00:07:30,158 --> 00:07:34,245 My hope was to get as fucked up as possible. 140 00:07:35,288 --> 00:07:37,206 [car horn blaring] 141 00:07:39,542 --> 00:07:42,628 Orillia, Ontario! Fucking Ontario! 142 00:07:42,712 --> 00:07:44,088 Whoo! 143 00:07:44,172 --> 00:07:45,256 What's up? 144 00:07:45,339 --> 00:07:47,216 [man whooping] 145 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:49,594 Woodstock '99! 146 00:07:54,015 --> 00:07:57,977 So, that summer of '99, we were doing Isle of MTV, 147 00:07:58,060 --> 00:08:00,646 and that was in Nassau, Bahamas, Paradise Island. 148 00:08:00,730 --> 00:08:02,773 You're gonna get to see some of the famous faces 149 00:08:02,857 --> 00:08:04,775 I got to hang out with, here on the Isle of MTV. 150 00:08:04,859 --> 00:08:06,235 Lots of cool people... 151 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:10,698 But MTV said, "We're gonna send you back to New York for Woodstock '99." 152 00:08:10,781 --> 00:08:13,367 And I was like, "Back to New York?" [laughs] 153 00:08:13,451 --> 00:08:15,995 "I'm in the Bahamas. I don't wanna go back to New York." 154 00:08:16,078 --> 00:08:18,581 [crowd cheers] 155 00:08:22,335 --> 00:08:25,004 [Lewis] But it was gonna be the biggest party on the planet. 156 00:08:25,838 --> 00:08:28,049 A quarter of a million young people, 157 00:08:28,132 --> 00:08:33,054 for three days of incredible music and nonstop partying. 158 00:08:34,847 --> 00:08:36,724 This was massive. 159 00:08:36,807 --> 00:08:38,851 - [man 1] Right here? - [man 2] Yeah, just drop it. 160 00:08:38,935 --> 00:08:40,811 [man 3] Have your tickets ready. 161 00:08:40,895 --> 00:08:43,856 [guard] Once you get through, your bags will be checked, okay? 162 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,110 [Heather] I was 14. It was my freshman year of high school. 163 00:08:48,194 --> 00:08:51,656 Um, and, you know, I was kind of a tomboy. I had like a bandanna on my head. 164 00:08:51,739 --> 00:08:53,491 I had a full mouth of braces, right? 165 00:08:53,574 --> 00:08:57,370 Like, I was young. I was a virgin, and then some. 166 00:09:00,581 --> 00:09:02,124 I'd been to concerts before, 167 00:09:02,208 --> 00:09:06,128 but never like an overnight... Never like, a festival of this scale. 168 00:09:06,212 --> 00:09:07,713 It was huge. 169 00:09:08,422 --> 00:09:11,217 [guard] Ladies and gentlemen, open your bags to speed up the process. 170 00:09:12,218 --> 00:09:13,928 [Sara] Security went through my entire bag. 171 00:09:14,637 --> 00:09:18,724 Any food was taken from us. Any drinks, actually, were taken from us. 172 00:09:19,850 --> 00:09:21,410 [Heather] Most of the people that came, 173 00:09:21,435 --> 00:09:22,812 they took their water, 174 00:09:22,895 --> 00:09:26,607 which is so ridiculous, because it's freaking water. 175 00:09:26,691 --> 00:09:29,193 [whooping and indistinct shouting] 176 00:09:31,696 --> 00:09:33,656 [Scott] Obviously seeing footage from like, '69, 177 00:09:33,739 --> 00:09:37,702 and peace and love, I was picturing like, a big open field. 178 00:09:38,369 --> 00:09:40,529 Kind of undulating hills almost like Lord of the Rings, 179 00:09:40,580 --> 00:09:43,499 hobbit-type stuff, and we get there, and I'm like, 180 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:45,500 "Oh shit." 181 00:09:48,129 --> 00:09:49,297 This is a base. 182 00:09:50,798 --> 00:09:52,508 [man] Ooh. 183 00:09:53,593 --> 00:09:54,844 This is some shit. 184 00:09:56,887 --> 00:09:59,658 [Scott] Like, now I'm wondering, like, are men in black gonna come out? 185 00:09:59,682 --> 00:10:03,311 Is there a UFO in the hangar? I mean, what am I walking into here? 186 00:10:03,811 --> 00:10:07,315 I mean, it literally couldn't be any further away from the original Woodstock. 187 00:10:09,567 --> 00:10:11,110 What the hell happened? 188 00:10:14,113 --> 00:10:16,157 [dramatic music plays] 189 00:10:22,788 --> 00:10:25,249 So the elements that you need if you want to put on a festival 190 00:10:25,333 --> 00:10:30,087 of this kind of scope and size are money, tens of millions of dollars, 191 00:10:30,671 --> 00:10:33,716 a facility that can house that kind of event, 192 00:10:34,675 --> 00:10:36,093 and a powerful partner. 193 00:10:38,179 --> 00:10:40,514 And at that time, one of the biggest players 194 00:10:40,598 --> 00:10:43,142 was John Scher from Metropolitan Entertainment. 195 00:10:43,225 --> 00:10:45,519 You know, I was a pretty successful promoter. 196 00:10:45,603 --> 00:10:47,563 Promoted a lot of big shows. 197 00:10:48,189 --> 00:10:51,859 The Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, and The Who. 198 00:10:52,485 --> 00:10:55,446 There's never been an event, ever, 199 00:10:55,988 --> 00:10:59,200 in the history of the music business that's cost anything like this. 200 00:11:01,827 --> 00:11:04,038 [Lang] John Scher is a very feisty guy. 201 00:11:04,121 --> 00:11:08,417 Very tough, and to me, the right kind of partner. 202 00:11:10,002 --> 00:11:12,672 So, I started discussing it with my team. 203 00:11:13,881 --> 00:11:15,007 [phone ringing] 204 00:11:15,841 --> 00:11:19,637 When I first learned of 1999, I burst out laughing. 205 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,139 "Come on. What is it, April Fool's Day?" 206 00:11:22,223 --> 00:11:24,433 Surely we're not gonna do that again. 207 00:11:30,898 --> 00:11:35,027 We had tried to revive Woodstock in 1994. 208 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:40,074 '94 Woodstock had its problems. 209 00:11:40,157 --> 00:11:41,242 [man] How are things going? 210 00:11:41,325 --> 00:11:43,885 Things are going well, except it's starting to rain a little bit. 211 00:11:45,204 --> 00:11:48,457 It poured rain. The fence came down. 212 00:11:48,541 --> 00:11:51,502 [announcer] Push down the fences and join the party. 213 00:11:51,585 --> 00:11:55,089 At least half of the total audience got in for free. 214 00:11:55,172 --> 00:11:56,932 It's not a free concert. It's a paid concert. 215 00:11:57,007 --> 00:11:58,050 [cheering] 216 00:11:58,134 --> 00:12:02,096 The music was absolutely amazing, but it didn't make any money. 217 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,810 [laughing] And then along comes Woodstock '99. 218 00:12:09,478 --> 00:12:11,856 I mean, we absolutely had to make a profit. 219 00:12:14,692 --> 00:12:18,571 [Rowland] Michael had found a decommissioned 350-acre Air Force base. 220 00:12:20,114 --> 00:12:21,991 And he thought that meant we could make money. 221 00:12:23,242 --> 00:12:26,996 They had housing for 15,000 people. They had all the roads. 222 00:12:27,079 --> 00:12:29,081 They had security, they had a hospital. 223 00:12:29,165 --> 00:12:32,710 They had all the stuff that we'd spent millions of dollars to build in '94. 224 00:12:33,919 --> 00:12:37,673 John got totally enthused and energized about doing it again. 225 00:12:37,757 --> 00:12:41,719 Quite honestly, I thought that, you know, it would make a lot of profit. 226 00:12:41,802 --> 00:12:43,512 [laughing] 227 00:12:44,096 --> 00:12:47,641 And I think everybody was excited. 228 00:12:47,725 --> 00:12:50,603 Everyone said, "No fucking way." 229 00:12:50,686 --> 00:12:52,313 "That's a bad idea." 230 00:12:53,355 --> 00:12:56,150 But John stepped in to overrule the entire board 231 00:12:56,233 --> 00:12:58,778 and saying, "Well, I'm the CEO. We're doing this." 232 00:12:59,987 --> 00:13:02,323 So, we were left doing Woodstock again. 233 00:13:04,950 --> 00:13:06,994 [reporter] History is going to repeat itself, 234 00:13:07,077 --> 00:13:09,872 this time at Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome. 235 00:13:11,373 --> 00:13:13,709 [Lang] I know what we're going to bring to this area 236 00:13:13,793 --> 00:13:17,588 is going to be the greatest show that anybody has ever experienced. 237 00:13:17,671 --> 00:13:19,924 This wasn't as tough a decision for me. 238 00:13:20,007 --> 00:13:21,383 Like, a lot of people think, 239 00:13:21,467 --> 00:13:25,137 "Well, why would you put everything at risk politically?" 240 00:13:25,971 --> 00:13:28,766 I thought it was a good thing for the community at the time, 241 00:13:28,849 --> 00:13:32,686 particularly after what had happened with the closure of the base. 242 00:13:33,187 --> 00:13:37,942 So I said, "If we could pull this off, this is gonna be remarkable." 243 00:13:40,903 --> 00:13:43,447 This will be something that is long remembered in the area. 244 00:13:43,531 --> 00:13:45,991 I know for sure that Rome, New York, 245 00:13:46,075 --> 00:13:48,244 will be known around the world after this summer. 246 00:13:52,289 --> 00:13:54,291 [Scher] To make sure we could sell the tickets, 247 00:13:54,375 --> 00:13:57,336 we booked some of the biggest acts in the world. 248 00:13:57,419 --> 00:13:58,963 Red Hot Chili Peppers, 249 00:13:59,046 --> 00:14:00,840 Sheryl Crow, Korn, 250 00:14:00,923 --> 00:14:02,341 Limp Bizkit. 251 00:14:03,217 --> 00:14:06,262 So everybody felt, I don't want to exaggerate too much, 252 00:14:06,345 --> 00:14:08,681 but that it was maybe gonna be historical. 253 00:14:08,764 --> 00:14:11,475 - Come on, let's go. - You've been working out for a reason. 254 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,311 [Griffo] I remember we decided we were gonna christen the stage 255 00:14:14,395 --> 00:14:15,395 in a traditional way. 256 00:14:15,437 --> 00:14:18,524 So, we got a tie-dye shirt and a champagne bottle. 257 00:14:18,607 --> 00:14:21,277 One, two, three. 258 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:23,070 - [loud clang] - [woman laughs] 259 00:14:24,655 --> 00:14:26,115 The bottle would just not break. 260 00:14:26,699 --> 00:14:27,992 [man 1] You can do it. 261 00:14:28,075 --> 00:14:29,535 - Harder! - [man 2] That's it. 262 00:14:30,286 --> 00:14:31,537 [man 3] Smash it! 263 00:14:33,831 --> 00:14:35,833 - [man 4] It's gonna go! - [man 5] Here it goes! 264 00:14:36,876 --> 00:14:39,336 Why don't you just pop the damn thing? 265 00:14:39,420 --> 00:14:41,171 - [glass shatters] - [crowd cheers] 266 00:14:42,548 --> 00:14:44,508 [Griffo] Looking back on that champagne bottle, 267 00:14:45,134 --> 00:14:46,927 I now realize, uh, 268 00:14:47,011 --> 00:14:49,221 maybe in a lot of ways, it was foreshadowing. 269 00:14:50,848 --> 00:14:52,933 [stage announcer] Woodstock '99! 270 00:14:53,017 --> 00:14:54,894 [crowd cheers] 271 00:14:57,146 --> 00:14:59,231 [stage announcer] There you go! Ha-ha! 272 00:14:59,315 --> 00:15:00,566 Holy shit! 273 00:15:01,066 --> 00:15:02,776 Let's get ready to have a good time. 274 00:15:02,860 --> 00:15:07,865 Have fun, party, and go fucking wild! 275 00:15:07,948 --> 00:15:09,742 [crowd cheers] 276 00:15:14,496 --> 00:15:16,749 I was like, "Wow, we're at Woodstock." 277 00:15:16,832 --> 00:15:19,084 "This is happening, don't pinch me." 278 00:15:19,168 --> 00:15:21,378 "I don't want to wake up. This is awesome." 279 00:15:23,297 --> 00:15:26,592 [stage announcer] Woodstock '99 proudly presents 280 00:15:27,092 --> 00:15:31,430 James Brown. 281 00:15:31,513 --> 00:15:33,432 [crowd cheers] 282 00:15:34,642 --> 00:15:36,894 [Scher] So James Brown was supposed to open the festival, 283 00:15:37,436 --> 00:15:39,396 but I didn't have a signed contract. 284 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:41,815 It's the only act that I didn't have. 285 00:15:44,068 --> 00:15:45,945 His agent kept calling me. 286 00:15:46,028 --> 00:15:48,030 James was very insistent 287 00:15:48,113 --> 00:15:51,617 on getting paid full before he went on for most shows. 288 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,121 "Mr. Brown's not going on stage unless you pay the rest of the money." 289 00:15:56,205 --> 00:15:58,415 "Mr. Brown's not going on stage. Believe me." 290 00:16:00,125 --> 00:16:02,169 You know, "You're gonna have big trouble here." 291 00:16:08,550 --> 00:16:12,012 So I said to him, "There's 200,000 people here." 292 00:16:12,096 --> 00:16:14,473 "They're not gonna go home if James doesn't play." 293 00:16:14,556 --> 00:16:15,766 "I'd love him to play." 294 00:16:16,976 --> 00:16:18,644 "I'm not giving you any more money." 295 00:16:25,442 --> 00:16:27,236 So this guy's screaming at me, saying, 296 00:16:27,319 --> 00:16:31,115 "This is your last chance. Either pay him, or he's not going on." 297 00:16:31,198 --> 00:16:34,910 [man 1] James Brown! James Brown! James Brown! 298 00:16:37,246 --> 00:16:38,330 [man 2] Boo! 299 00:16:40,249 --> 00:16:41,249 And I said, 300 00:16:42,126 --> 00:16:43,126 "Do me a favor." 301 00:16:43,877 --> 00:16:46,797 "Just hold on just a minute. I want you to hear something." 302 00:16:48,215 --> 00:16:50,009 "One, two, three." 303 00:16:50,092 --> 00:16:51,844 [band plays] 304 00:16:51,927 --> 00:16:53,804 - ♪ Get up ♪ - ♪ Get-get-get-get ♪ 305 00:16:53,887 --> 00:16:55,047 - ♪ Get up ♪ - ♪ Get on up ♪ 306 00:16:55,848 --> 00:16:57,683 I said, "Go fuck yourself." 307 00:16:57,766 --> 00:16:59,059 [laughs] 308 00:16:59,601 --> 00:17:01,395 - ♪ Get up ♪ - ♪ Get-get-get-get ♪ 309 00:17:01,478 --> 00:17:03,188 - ♪ Ge up ♪ - ♪ Get on up ♪ 310 00:17:03,272 --> 00:17:04,857 ♪ Stay on the scene Get on up ♪ 311 00:17:04,940 --> 00:17:06,150 ♪ Get-get-get-get Get on up ♪ 312 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:08,527 ♪ Get up ♪ 313 00:17:08,610 --> 00:17:10,487 [Scher] James realized the moment. 314 00:17:12,114 --> 00:17:13,991 He knew this wasn't most shows. 315 00:17:16,368 --> 00:17:18,662 This was Woodstock. 316 00:17:19,872 --> 00:17:21,290 - [song ends] - [crowd cheers] 317 00:17:22,875 --> 00:17:24,209 Yeah! 318 00:17:25,127 --> 00:17:25,961 Yeah! 319 00:17:26,045 --> 00:17:27,504 [band playing] 320 00:17:29,006 --> 00:17:30,006 ♪ Make it ♪ 321 00:17:31,008 --> 00:17:35,012 It's the biggest party ever. Like, I've never seen this many people. 322 00:17:35,095 --> 00:17:36,722 [all] Whoo! 323 00:17:37,222 --> 00:17:39,850 [Heather] I was super excited. Bouncing off the walls. 324 00:17:39,933 --> 00:17:41,935 Just head-banging, getting pumped. 325 00:17:43,145 --> 00:17:44,855 Day one, man. Day one. 326 00:17:47,024 --> 00:17:48,692 [man] It's time to find some beer. 327 00:17:50,819 --> 00:17:54,114 They had this big beer garden. 328 00:17:54,198 --> 00:17:56,241 [all cheering] 329 00:17:56,325 --> 00:17:59,703 [Lewis] People had, like, three or four beers by like, 11:00. 330 00:17:59,787 --> 00:18:02,456 I was like, "You're probably not even old enough to drink." 331 00:18:02,539 --> 00:18:06,043 [man] Woodstock Beer Garden. Everyone's wasted. 332 00:18:08,128 --> 00:18:09,546 Whoo! 333 00:18:10,339 --> 00:18:12,132 [man] What's up, Woodstock? 334 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:16,762 It was pretty free spirit for the drugs. 335 00:18:16,845 --> 00:18:19,598 People are just selling them out in the open. 336 00:18:19,681 --> 00:18:21,767 They're just holding up bags of whatever 337 00:18:21,850 --> 00:18:23,393 and shouting out what they have. 338 00:18:24,144 --> 00:18:26,980 [Keith] I noticed this dude, like, hunched over, 339 00:18:27,064 --> 00:18:29,274 he got a backpack on, and he's like, 340 00:18:29,358 --> 00:18:33,487 "I got these mushrooms." I'm like, "Well, I'll try them." 341 00:18:33,570 --> 00:18:35,239 I don't know, I've never done them before. 342 00:18:35,322 --> 00:18:39,076 And so, I'm laying on my back, tripping balls on these mushrooms, 343 00:18:39,159 --> 00:18:42,871 and I look up to the sky, I'm like, "Is that a fucking UFO up there?" 344 00:18:42,955 --> 00:18:44,456 [laughs] 345 00:18:45,249 --> 00:18:48,210 I called my mom because she says, "Call me when everything's settled 346 00:18:48,293 --> 00:18:51,755 and let me know that you're okay." But I had just dropped acid. 347 00:18:51,839 --> 00:18:54,675 I'm like, "Hey, Mom, this is such a great time." 348 00:18:54,758 --> 00:18:57,278 "I am having the best time." And she goes, "Yeah? What's there?" 349 00:18:57,302 --> 00:18:59,596 I go, "Naked people, everywhere. It's so great." 350 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,683 And she goes, "What'd you say?" And I said, "Oh, I gotta go." 351 00:19:02,766 --> 00:19:03,809 [busy line] 352 00:19:03,892 --> 00:19:04,726 And I clicked. 353 00:19:04,810 --> 00:19:06,353 [busy line fades] 354 00:19:08,564 --> 00:19:11,650 The nudity. Yeah, it was everywhere. 355 00:19:12,818 --> 00:19:14,736 - Boobs. - Pretty cheerleader. 356 00:19:14,820 --> 00:19:18,991 There were women with notes on their breasts. 357 00:19:19,074 --> 00:19:21,076 Looks good, right? Feels good. 358 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,246 Big, fat, naked dudes. Don't wanna see that. 359 00:19:24,746 --> 00:19:27,249 Nudity is definitely unity. 360 00:19:27,332 --> 00:19:28,917 [all cheer] 361 00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:34,923 [stage announcer] Ten dollars, you can get the Woodstock '99 airbrush tattoo 362 00:19:35,007 --> 00:19:36,842 anywhere you like on your body. 363 00:19:36,925 --> 00:19:39,365 [Sara] I think that everybody wants to feel part of something, 364 00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:41,597 and seeing so many women get naked 365 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,932 and having such a good time was liberating. 366 00:19:44,016 --> 00:19:46,310 It was just kind of this free moment 367 00:19:46,393 --> 00:19:50,147 for everybody to just be who they wanted to be. 368 00:19:55,235 --> 00:19:59,990 At that point, it reeked of possibility and optimism. 369 00:20:00,657 --> 00:20:03,827 And we, as the production crew, were just super excited. 370 00:20:04,369 --> 00:20:06,455 I mean, we were young kids in our 20s 371 00:20:06,538 --> 00:20:08,999 trying to pull together something extraordinary. 372 00:20:12,502 --> 00:20:14,463 It was the end of the millennium, 373 00:20:14,546 --> 00:20:16,586 so it felt like it was gonna be this enormous event, 374 00:20:16,632 --> 00:20:19,051 and I didn't really care, really, what I was doing 375 00:20:19,134 --> 00:20:21,428 as long as it wasn't cleaning the porta-potties. 376 00:20:21,511 --> 00:20:23,347 Can you see everybody in the back row? 377 00:20:24,473 --> 00:20:26,473 [Rosenblatt] For me, it was like a dream come true. 378 00:20:27,351 --> 00:20:31,188 I was working with what seemed to be an unlimited budget 379 00:20:31,271 --> 00:20:34,524 and many of the top people in their field. 380 00:20:35,651 --> 00:20:38,070 [Speir] It was amazing to be able to work with Michael Lang, 381 00:20:38,153 --> 00:20:41,865 the OG organizer of the original Woodstock. 382 00:20:42,866 --> 00:20:44,701 [Law] I was Michael Lang's assistant. 383 00:20:45,827 --> 00:20:49,957 I just was fascinated about how his mind worked, you know? 384 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,459 He's always super calm. 385 00:20:52,542 --> 00:20:58,423 There's always this feeling that Michael has it all under control. 386 00:20:58,507 --> 00:20:59,633 Back row, hands up. 387 00:20:59,716 --> 00:21:01,510 [crowd cheers] 388 00:21:01,593 --> 00:21:03,178 [camera shutters click] 389 00:21:08,642 --> 00:21:11,270 [Law] I wanted to capture my experience. 390 00:21:11,353 --> 00:21:16,316 So, I brought a video camera, and, um, I documented as much as I could. 391 00:21:17,609 --> 00:21:19,111 [woman] What are you doing there? 392 00:21:19,194 --> 00:21:23,365 I was just displaying the site à la the shopping channel. 393 00:21:24,950 --> 00:21:27,160 [man] This is a picnic area here in front of us. 394 00:21:27,828 --> 00:21:32,291 The first impression I had was, "Oh my God, there is a lot of asphalt." 395 00:21:32,374 --> 00:21:34,209 [Speir] It definitely was not what I expected. 396 00:21:34,293 --> 00:21:37,504 Here was this military, industrial complex 397 00:21:37,587 --> 00:21:40,299 that was being converted into a Woodstock site. 398 00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:42,676 It was these massive airplane hangars 399 00:21:42,759 --> 00:21:46,847 and this incredibly long tarmac landing strip. 400 00:21:48,265 --> 00:21:49,891 It didn't really feel like... 401 00:21:51,643 --> 00:21:52,561 This is Woodstock. 402 00:21:52,644 --> 00:21:55,480 We've developed the master plan of the site here. 403 00:21:56,273 --> 00:21:58,525 We've got about 5,000 acres on the map. 404 00:21:58,608 --> 00:22:01,611 [Rosenblat] Looking down on the site, kind of looks like a big triangle. 405 00:22:02,946 --> 00:22:05,657 On this side of the tarmac is the second stage. 406 00:22:05,741 --> 00:22:07,868 Over here was the main stage. 407 00:22:07,951 --> 00:22:12,831 Um, up here was the camping area, and down here was the rave hangar 408 00:22:12,914 --> 00:22:14,791 and where our offices were, 409 00:22:14,875 --> 00:22:18,003 and it was pretty much just all tarmac in between, 410 00:22:18,503 --> 00:22:22,215 with this impenetrable eight-mile wall around the entire site 411 00:22:22,716 --> 00:22:24,634 so that no one could get in for free. 412 00:22:26,803 --> 00:22:31,058 And the whole plan was to, like, turn it into a Woodstock dreamland. 413 00:22:31,141 --> 00:22:33,268 ["What I Got" by Sublime plays] 414 00:22:37,189 --> 00:22:38,189 Ready? 415 00:22:39,232 --> 00:22:43,111 This is the drum. It's called a lollipop drum. 416 00:22:43,195 --> 00:22:46,365 There were a lot of people coming in with a lot of great ideas. 417 00:22:46,448 --> 00:22:49,993 And it's a communal, interactive event, 418 00:22:50,077 --> 00:22:53,330 it's the kind of thing we need around here, I think. 419 00:22:54,373 --> 00:22:56,375 [Rosenblatt] The plans were just amazing. 420 00:22:57,084 --> 00:23:00,462 They had this just beautiful drawings of what they'd do throughout the site. 421 00:23:01,046 --> 00:23:02,839 Man, it was like a dream come true. 422 00:23:04,341 --> 00:23:07,677 Because the perimeter wall was gonna be profoundly ugly, 423 00:23:07,761 --> 00:23:12,933 we decided to create a peace wall so that it could be beautiful. 424 00:23:14,726 --> 00:23:16,311 I photographed every inch of it. 425 00:23:18,397 --> 00:23:19,689 Yeah, it was gorgeous. 426 00:23:19,773 --> 00:23:21,024 [laughing] 427 00:23:21,108 --> 00:23:25,278 Despite the challenges, uh, we crammed a bunch of amazing things 428 00:23:25,362 --> 00:23:29,449 into that festival, from having the Tibetan monks, 429 00:23:29,533 --> 00:23:33,370 to having the action park, to the movie hangar, 430 00:23:33,453 --> 00:23:35,330 to the giant rave hangar. 431 00:23:36,415 --> 00:23:38,415 [Law] We had high hopes for being able to integrate 432 00:23:38,458 --> 00:23:42,129 some of the original values of '69 into '99. 433 00:23:43,338 --> 00:23:44,798 I think that was kind of naive. 434 00:23:44,881 --> 00:23:47,968 [laughs] 435 00:23:53,056 --> 00:23:54,099 [crowd cheering] 436 00:23:54,182 --> 00:23:55,702 [stage announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, 437 00:23:55,767 --> 00:23:58,645 this year's candidate for the heart and soul of Woodstock, 438 00:23:58,728 --> 00:24:00,647 please welcome Miss Sheryl Crow! 439 00:24:00,730 --> 00:24:01,731 [crowd cheering] 440 00:24:01,815 --> 00:24:04,443 How you doing, all you beautiful naked people? 441 00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:10,115 So, Sheryl Crow, she was booked for the softer rock people. 442 00:24:10,198 --> 00:24:12,117 [band playing] 443 00:24:16,705 --> 00:24:19,833 ♪ I think a change ♪ 444 00:24:19,916 --> 00:24:21,209 ♪ Would do you good ♪ 445 00:24:21,877 --> 00:24:23,211 ♪ Change ♪ 446 00:24:23,295 --> 00:24:25,630 ♪ Oh, I think a change ♪ 447 00:24:25,714 --> 00:24:27,007 ♪ Change ♪ 448 00:24:27,090 --> 00:24:30,135 ♪ Would do me good Would do me good ♪ 449 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:31,803 ♪ Hey ♪ 450 00:24:34,806 --> 00:24:36,349 [crowd cheering] 451 00:24:37,142 --> 00:24:38,894 [Scher] Sheryl's set was fabulous. 452 00:24:38,977 --> 00:24:42,898 But, you know, there were more than a few catcalls. 453 00:24:45,025 --> 00:24:46,234 "Show us your tits!" 454 00:24:47,819 --> 00:24:48,862 Show my tits? 455 00:24:54,242 --> 00:24:57,746 You'd have to pay way more than you paid to get in to see my tits. 456 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,376 She's a beautiful woman, and these guys thought they'd get lucky. 457 00:25:03,460 --> 00:25:05,462 [crowd cheering] 458 00:25:06,630 --> 00:25:08,590 But it was completely inappropriate. 459 00:25:08,673 --> 00:25:11,676 - And it's a pretty cool... - [man] Nice rack, Sheryl! 460 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,053 [both laugh] 461 00:25:13,136 --> 00:25:15,347 - What? - Have you made your peace with the mud? 462 00:25:15,430 --> 00:25:18,493 As soon as I leave, I'm gonna haul my ass out there to the middle of that crowd 463 00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:21,019 and introduce myself to a couple of those f****. 464 00:25:21,102 --> 00:25:23,522 [drunken shouting] 465 00:25:23,605 --> 00:25:25,982 [Scher] And it was sort of the very beginning of us saying, 466 00:25:26,066 --> 00:25:28,735 "Hmm, there's an element in this crowd 467 00:25:28,818 --> 00:25:31,363 that is here for more than just great music." 468 00:25:31,863 --> 00:25:35,283 ♪ And all the girlies say I'm pretty fly For a white guy ♪ 469 00:25:35,867 --> 00:25:38,267 [Holland] Noodles, would you look at all the people out here. 470 00:25:38,870 --> 00:25:42,207 All these goddamn kids being drunk and unruly. 471 00:25:42,832 --> 00:25:44,834 Are you guys proud of yourselves? 472 00:25:44,918 --> 00:25:46,336 [all cheer] 473 00:25:48,588 --> 00:25:51,591 What's up '99, man! Whoo! 474 00:25:51,675 --> 00:25:57,180 The environment was just very male ego, like, beat on your chest. 475 00:25:57,264 --> 00:26:02,060 White college dudes with their shirts off, screaming, "Show me your tits!" 476 00:26:02,143 --> 00:26:04,145 [yelling] 477 00:26:05,689 --> 00:26:07,774 [drunken shouting] 478 00:26:07,857 --> 00:26:09,859 - [chimes dinging] - [spiritual chanting] 479 00:26:12,112 --> 00:26:14,781 [Speir] On that first day, we had the Tibetan monks 480 00:26:14,864 --> 00:26:19,160 blessing the event, just providing a sense of peace and calm. 481 00:26:19,244 --> 00:26:21,162 [indistinct shouting] 482 00:26:21,246 --> 00:26:25,875 But there were these frat boy types destroying the peacefulness of it, 483 00:26:25,959 --> 00:26:28,962 who are just there to be dicks. 484 00:26:29,045 --> 00:26:30,130 Peace, brother! 485 00:26:30,213 --> 00:26:31,673 [all] Whoo! 486 00:26:33,717 --> 00:26:35,635 ♪ Let's get some more wannabes ♪ 487 00:26:35,719 --> 00:26:38,638 ♪ Oh, hey, hey Do that brand-new thing ♪ 488 00:26:38,722 --> 00:26:40,724 [all shouting] 489 00:26:46,980 --> 00:26:49,232 You know, the '90s, especially the late '90s, 490 00:26:49,316 --> 00:26:51,318 were a very different time. 491 00:26:51,901 --> 00:26:53,987 We're talking about the Bill Clinton scandal. 492 00:26:54,070 --> 00:26:55,071 We're talking about... 493 00:26:55,155 --> 00:27:00,243 American Pie was the most successful R-rated comedy that we had ever had. 494 00:27:01,328 --> 00:27:05,457 It is brimming with sexuality 495 00:27:05,540 --> 00:27:07,834 from a male perspective. 496 00:27:08,752 --> 00:27:10,587 Then you have Fight Club 497 00:27:10,670 --> 00:27:14,758 with a very interesting take on masculinity, consumerism. 498 00:27:14,841 --> 00:27:16,986 We've all been raised on television to believe one day, 499 00:27:17,010 --> 00:27:20,263 we'd all be movie gods and rock stars, but we won't. 500 00:27:20,347 --> 00:27:23,266 But most importantly, violence. 501 00:27:25,352 --> 00:27:30,148 It's a good snapshot of where the psychology may have been 502 00:27:30,231 --> 00:27:33,109 of a lot of the kids who attended Woodstock '99. 503 00:27:39,449 --> 00:27:42,285 [Scher] We want everybody to try to remember it's gonna be hot. 504 00:27:42,369 --> 00:27:43,953 It's gonna be near 90 today. 505 00:27:44,663 --> 00:27:47,957 Very important to keep drinking and try to keep cool. 506 00:27:51,461 --> 00:27:55,382 It was so insanely hot. It was like, 100 degrees. 507 00:27:56,341 --> 00:27:58,885 So obviously, you're dying of thirst 508 00:27:59,594 --> 00:28:01,179 and feeling kind of crazy. 509 00:28:01,262 --> 00:28:02,806 - Whoo! - Yeah! 510 00:28:03,890 --> 00:28:07,602 [Sara] It was so hot that you literally needed to drink a gallon of water an hour 511 00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:09,688 yourself to stay hydrated. 512 00:28:11,272 --> 00:28:12,941 There were definitely fountains there. 513 00:28:13,692 --> 00:28:15,652 But there was at least a 25-minute wait, 514 00:28:15,735 --> 00:28:17,654 because they didn't let us bring anything in. 515 00:28:19,030 --> 00:28:22,200 So, we went to get just a simple bottle of water. 516 00:28:23,201 --> 00:28:24,869 Nobody could afford that water. 517 00:28:26,788 --> 00:28:30,500 Back then, a bottle of water was probably 65 cents. 518 00:28:31,126 --> 00:28:34,838 But at Woodstock, a bottle of water was a stupid four dollars, 519 00:28:34,921 --> 00:28:36,923 and it pissed people off. 520 00:28:37,006 --> 00:28:40,093 - Is it more expensive than you thought? - Big, fat rip-off. 521 00:28:40,677 --> 00:28:42,595 Between this and this was nine bucks. 522 00:28:43,263 --> 00:28:45,849 And I was like, "Why the hell is everything, 523 00:28:45,932 --> 00:28:48,601 everything so ridiculously expensive?" 524 00:28:50,770 --> 00:28:51,770 [man] Hey, lady. 525 00:28:54,607 --> 00:28:57,694 [Speir] Initially, we all felt we were pulling the same direction, 526 00:28:57,777 --> 00:29:00,488 putting together this amazing festival no matter the cost. 527 00:29:00,572 --> 00:29:03,867 Why don't you just give me a list of the things you need? 528 00:29:03,950 --> 00:29:08,621 [man, over phone] What I need is at least $250,000. 529 00:29:10,248 --> 00:29:12,792 But then, we all started to get the feeling 530 00:29:12,876 --> 00:29:14,377 that corners were being cut. 531 00:29:15,545 --> 00:29:18,882 So, sincerely as I could possibly be, I really want to thank everybody. 532 00:29:18,965 --> 00:29:21,009 I mean, you guys have been unbelievable. 533 00:29:21,092 --> 00:29:22,719 You've done a fantastic job. 534 00:29:23,303 --> 00:29:25,805 You know, this is an extraordinary experience. 535 00:29:25,889 --> 00:29:30,351 There is nothing like this that happens anywhere in the world. 536 00:29:30,977 --> 00:29:35,273 That being said, um, this is a money-making venture, all right? 537 00:29:35,857 --> 00:29:40,111 And that was the moment for me where it stopped becoming 538 00:29:40,195 --> 00:29:43,406 about the concert-goer or the festival-goer experience. 539 00:29:43,490 --> 00:29:45,867 It was just cutting budgets, cutting budgets. 540 00:29:45,950 --> 00:29:48,077 We need to make changes. We're not making profits. 541 00:29:48,661 --> 00:29:50,371 Their goal was to make money. 542 00:29:51,164 --> 00:29:54,876 And what they ended up doing was selling the food rights. 543 00:29:54,959 --> 00:29:57,796 Well, wonderful. Coca-Cola. 544 00:29:58,505 --> 00:30:01,049 [Rosenblatt] And unfortunately, when they did that deal, 545 00:30:01,132 --> 00:30:05,804 the group that ran that for them had complete control over the pricing, 546 00:30:06,679 --> 00:30:08,264 and we could do nothing about it. 547 00:30:10,642 --> 00:30:15,313 All hopes and dreams of Peace, Love, and Understanding 1969 548 00:30:15,396 --> 00:30:16,689 went out the window. 549 00:30:18,274 --> 00:30:21,361 [Rowland] The underpinning reason of why there was '99 was to make money. 550 00:30:21,444 --> 00:30:25,365 So, I think absolutely some of the sensibilities fell away 551 00:30:25,448 --> 00:30:29,452 for the big, you know... the big payday. 552 00:30:29,536 --> 00:30:32,539 - You're watching Woodstock '99! - You're watching Woodstock '99! 553 00:30:32,622 --> 00:30:34,249 [crowd] Whoo! 554 00:30:34,916 --> 00:30:35,959 Rolling four. 555 00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:39,212 I mean, we also wanted to do pay-per-view. 556 00:30:39,295 --> 00:30:42,382 So people who weren't there could still participate. 557 00:30:43,091 --> 00:30:46,344 [announcer] Stay home for the trip of your life on pay-per-view. 558 00:30:46,928 --> 00:30:49,889 It was a package price of $59.95 for all three days. 559 00:30:50,473 --> 00:30:52,433 And that yielded a lot of money. 560 00:30:52,934 --> 00:30:54,435 Whoo! What's up? 561 00:30:54,519 --> 00:30:57,522 My name is Aaron Sadovsky, the segment producer with pay-per-view. 562 00:30:58,273 --> 00:31:03,027 I was given, essentially, no rules or limits or definitions. 563 00:31:04,237 --> 00:31:07,073 I'm shooting the people who came here to screw, 564 00:31:08,533 --> 00:31:10,785 the people who came here to do drugs, 565 00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:14,789 and the people who came here to live the life of Woodstock. 566 00:31:14,873 --> 00:31:16,457 [man] Show him some nipple! 567 00:31:16,541 --> 00:31:18,221 [Sadovsky] So, crazy footage was the goal. 568 00:31:18,293 --> 00:31:19,294 [woman] Whoo! Yeah! 569 00:31:19,377 --> 00:31:20,670 I would just push the crew 570 00:31:20,753 --> 00:31:23,131 and keep coming back with beta tapes full of stuff. 571 00:31:23,214 --> 00:31:25,216 [crowd cheering] 572 00:31:28,219 --> 00:31:32,348 Traditionally, the TV coverage of a festival is all about the music, 573 00:31:32,432 --> 00:31:35,310 but the pay-per-view element really turned that on its head. 574 00:31:35,393 --> 00:31:36,436 [man] There you go! 575 00:31:36,519 --> 00:31:38,559 [Blaustein] The presence of the pay-per-view cameras 576 00:31:38,605 --> 00:31:40,690 encouraged festival-goers to show off 577 00:31:40,773 --> 00:31:43,568 with increasingly wild behavior. 578 00:31:44,277 --> 00:31:45,278 [laughs] 579 00:31:45,361 --> 00:31:49,240 It just became like this crazy human zoo. 580 00:31:49,324 --> 00:31:51,826 Pay-per-view! Whoo! 581 00:31:51,910 --> 00:31:54,746 I told you I'd get on TV, motherfuckers! 582 00:31:54,829 --> 00:31:57,832 Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! You want some of this? 583 00:31:57,916 --> 00:31:59,417 - Yeah! - [all cheer] 584 00:32:00,460 --> 00:32:01,460 Yeah! 585 00:32:08,676 --> 00:32:11,137 [stage announcer] Whoa baby, how about this fucking show, 586 00:32:11,220 --> 00:32:12,889 and it's only Friday! 587 00:32:12,972 --> 00:32:14,307 [crowd cheers] 588 00:32:17,185 --> 00:32:19,479 I remember the kids on the floor saying, 589 00:32:19,562 --> 00:32:23,358 "I'm here for..." and the answer was usually... 590 00:32:23,441 --> 00:32:24,441 - Korn. - Korn. 591 00:32:24,484 --> 00:32:25,818 - Korn. - Korn. 592 00:32:25,902 --> 00:32:27,195 "I'm here for Korn." 593 00:32:29,113 --> 00:32:31,073 [stage announcer] How many motherfucking Korn fans 594 00:32:31,115 --> 00:32:32,617 are in the house tonight? 595 00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:33,868 [all cheer] 596 00:32:34,994 --> 00:32:41,125 At the time, most of the biggest bands, current biggest bands, were hard rock. 597 00:32:41,209 --> 00:32:44,045 Limp Bizkit, Korn, Rage Against the Machine. 598 00:32:44,754 --> 00:32:49,175 I mean, this was not the hippie-dippie Woodstock '69 lineup. 599 00:32:49,717 --> 00:32:51,636 This music has a lot of rage. 600 00:32:51,719 --> 00:32:53,638 [band playing] 601 00:32:56,557 --> 00:32:59,936 These acts were part of the nü-metal scene. 602 00:33:00,019 --> 00:33:02,271 [heavy metal music playing] 603 00:33:02,355 --> 00:33:08,736 The aggressiveness of the audience really embodied the rock-and-roll spirit. 604 00:33:12,115 --> 00:33:15,868 We'd seen mosh pits, but now we were talking about mosh pits 605 00:33:15,952 --> 00:33:17,203 on a whole 'nother level. 606 00:33:18,955 --> 00:33:24,794 You had no idea how the crowd was possibly gonna stay in control. 607 00:33:29,590 --> 00:33:32,301 So a couple of days before the festival starts, 608 00:33:32,385 --> 00:33:37,890 we're in a meeting, you know, with all the department heads, 609 00:33:37,974 --> 00:33:40,476 and the 22-year-old me raises my hand, 610 00:33:41,102 --> 00:33:44,355 and I try to bring to everybody's attention 611 00:33:44,439 --> 00:33:47,775 that they need to really look at this lineup of artists. 612 00:33:48,359 --> 00:33:52,989 The bands that John booked, at least the more intense bands, 613 00:33:53,072 --> 00:33:54,532 were not bands I was familiar with. 614 00:33:55,199 --> 00:33:56,639 I had no idea who these people were. 615 00:33:57,243 --> 00:34:00,288 You know, for the most part, although I ran everything by Michael, 616 00:34:00,371 --> 00:34:02,790 we never booked an act that he didn't agree with. 617 00:34:03,374 --> 00:34:07,462 So, I was the, you know, the young kid trying to bring some sense 618 00:34:07,545 --> 00:34:12,925 to a room full of adults that had really no idea 619 00:34:13,009 --> 00:34:16,179 of, I think, the lineup that they put together. 620 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,932 And Michael Lang and everyone just looked at me 621 00:34:20,016 --> 00:34:21,476 like I should not open my mouth. 622 00:34:27,815 --> 00:34:29,859 [stage announcer] There you go! Ha-ha! 623 00:34:29,942 --> 00:34:31,110 Holy shit! 624 00:34:32,945 --> 00:34:36,783 In all the shows I have worked, I don't think I have ever seen 625 00:34:36,866 --> 00:34:40,703 the intensity of the crowd before a band came on 626 00:34:40,787 --> 00:34:42,038 like I did with Korn. 627 00:34:45,208 --> 00:34:47,210 We're all sort of looking at each other, saying, 628 00:34:47,794 --> 00:34:51,005 "Holy shit, what is about to happen here?" 629 00:34:51,714 --> 00:34:53,966 [man] Little more high-hat left in the ears. 630 00:34:55,635 --> 00:34:58,888 The atmosphere backstage was just kind of electric. I was excited. 631 00:34:59,722 --> 00:35:01,766 I remember going right to my dressing room 632 00:35:01,849 --> 00:35:05,186 and looking in the mirror, going, "Oh my God, holy fuck." 633 00:35:05,269 --> 00:35:07,230 [all cheering] 634 00:35:07,313 --> 00:35:08,606 This is massive. 635 00:35:17,490 --> 00:35:21,119 Me and Tom are like, "We gotta get up to the front of this Korn show." 636 00:35:21,994 --> 00:35:24,163 We're getting up there, and then we hear the guitar. 637 00:35:24,247 --> 00:35:26,415 [chords being played] 638 00:35:27,542 --> 00:35:30,378 There's that guitar riff, that like, dun-nan-nan. 639 00:35:36,634 --> 00:35:40,555 The song starts to build up, build up, and people are starting to go more crazy. 640 00:35:43,683 --> 00:35:46,060 I remembered the intro. We're walking out. 641 00:35:47,228 --> 00:35:49,397 I come walking out and I see that fucking crowd. 642 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,023 I'm like, "What the flying fuck?" 643 00:35:51,107 --> 00:35:52,817 [firecrackers popping] 644 00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:58,906 When you see it with your own eyes, 645 00:36:00,283 --> 00:36:02,702 it's just ten times more shocking. 646 00:36:09,792 --> 00:36:12,336 He came out and was like, "Are..." 647 00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:13,880 "...you ready?" 648 00:36:13,963 --> 00:36:15,965 [band playing] 649 00:36:21,387 --> 00:36:24,974 The crowd went ballistic. 650 00:36:29,228 --> 00:36:33,316 And I look over, and I see just waves 651 00:36:33,399 --> 00:36:35,484 as the sound traveled all the way to the back. 652 00:36:42,909 --> 00:36:44,535 It was like this unleashing... 653 00:36:44,619 --> 00:36:46,829 [grunts] ...of all this energy. 654 00:36:46,913 --> 00:36:48,456 [grunting] 655 00:36:56,088 --> 00:36:58,716 There's no drug. There's no nothing on this planet 656 00:36:58,799 --> 00:37:03,721 that can give you that fucking feeling of having a crowd in your hand like that. 657 00:37:05,056 --> 00:37:07,183 [singing indistinctly] 658 00:37:11,187 --> 00:37:14,607 [Katsis] Korn had them whipped up into a frenzy. 659 00:37:15,274 --> 00:37:16,901 You kept thinking to yourself, 660 00:37:17,860 --> 00:37:20,947 something's gonna go wrong. What is it? When is it? 661 00:37:21,864 --> 00:37:23,491 They need to calm down. 662 00:37:25,117 --> 00:37:28,204 Come on, Woodstock! 663 00:37:32,124 --> 00:37:34,502 ♪ I can see I can see I've gone blind ♪ 664 00:37:34,585 --> 00:37:36,837 ♪ I can see I can see I've gone blind ♪ 665 00:37:36,921 --> 00:37:39,507 ♪ I can see I can see I've gone blind ♪ 666 00:37:39,590 --> 00:37:41,217 ♪ I can see, I can see... ♪ 667 00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:44,178 I saw things happen that are unexplainable. 668 00:37:45,054 --> 00:37:47,348 I mean, an entire section of the crowd 669 00:37:47,431 --> 00:37:50,393 just instantly moved about six feet to the right. 670 00:37:51,811 --> 00:37:54,647 You can't fall down. Just don't fall down. 671 00:37:54,730 --> 00:37:56,607 Like, you're gonna be forgotten about. 672 00:37:56,691 --> 00:37:58,901 [crowd shouting] 673 00:38:05,658 --> 00:38:08,703 [Kyle] The number of people just coming over the barricade. 674 00:38:09,203 --> 00:38:11,831 It was, you know, a waterfall of bodies. 675 00:38:12,331 --> 00:38:15,668 We needed way more security than we actually had. 676 00:38:18,629 --> 00:38:21,215 It's like the scene from Jaws. I think we need a bigger boat. 677 00:38:21,299 --> 00:38:23,426 Come on! 678 00:38:23,926 --> 00:38:25,928 [crowd cheering] 679 00:38:27,221 --> 00:38:29,700 Jeff, I understand you got knocked in your head getting passed. 680 00:38:29,724 --> 00:38:31,524 - You're a big guy. Did they drop you? - Yeah. 681 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,227 - And you lost your camera. - Yeah. 682 00:38:33,311 --> 00:38:34,729 - Would you do it again? - Yeah. 683 00:38:34,812 --> 00:38:37,857 People were breaking their arms, like, "Woodstock '99 is the greatest." 684 00:38:37,940 --> 00:38:39,942 [singing indistinctly] 685 00:38:44,739 --> 00:38:47,533 I felt like I did something really incredible. 686 00:38:49,452 --> 00:38:51,287 We kicked that ass. 687 00:38:51,829 --> 00:38:53,831 [wailing] 688 00:38:55,624 --> 00:39:00,004 [Lewis] Korn has just tore up the stage. They were amazing. Bush is next. 689 00:39:01,005 --> 00:39:04,800 And that's only a problem, because where's all this energy gonna go? 690 00:39:04,884 --> 00:39:06,719 [all cheering] 691 00:39:06,802 --> 00:39:09,597 I felt bad for Bush, going on after that, because shit was crazy. 692 00:39:10,431 --> 00:39:13,142 [stage announcer] Let's hear it for Korn one more time. 693 00:39:17,146 --> 00:39:20,358 I saw the Korn set from video monitors. 694 00:39:21,817 --> 00:39:23,819 And it was quite scary down there. 695 00:39:25,738 --> 00:39:27,740 I mean, it's a potential runaway train. 696 00:39:28,908 --> 00:39:30,618 [all shouting] 697 00:39:31,535 --> 00:39:36,040 Once the crowd gets that amped up, winding them down is very difficult. 698 00:39:36,123 --> 00:39:38,000 [stage announcer] It's Friday, one more band. 699 00:39:38,834 --> 00:39:39,877 Bush. 700 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:41,337 [crowd boos] 701 00:39:42,797 --> 00:39:45,237 [Rossdale] This is like, "Now show us what you've got," and... 702 00:39:46,592 --> 00:39:49,637 and that, um, makes you nervous. 703 00:39:55,643 --> 00:39:57,853 I'm fully aware that half the people, 704 00:39:57,937 --> 00:40:01,440 maybe, were kind of more enamored by watching Korn. 705 00:40:01,524 --> 00:40:03,044 You don't know what's going to happen. 706 00:40:04,318 --> 00:40:05,528 If you can imagine, like, 707 00:40:06,737 --> 00:40:09,365 just jumping off a ship into the darkest ocean. 708 00:40:10,324 --> 00:40:11,325 You know, that's it. 709 00:40:16,414 --> 00:40:19,834 And when that happens, you got to change people's emotion 710 00:40:22,253 --> 00:40:26,382 ♪ Warm sun feed me up ♪ 711 00:40:26,465 --> 00:40:28,759 ♪ And I'm leery ♪ 712 00:40:29,510 --> 00:40:31,804 ♪ Loaded up ♪ 713 00:40:31,887 --> 00:40:33,681 ♪ Loathing... ♪ 714 00:40:33,764 --> 00:40:37,059 [Rossdale] We were rather more arm-in-arm than bashing the shit out of each other. 715 00:40:37,143 --> 00:40:40,312 That's what we promote. It's what we like, you know. 716 00:40:42,606 --> 00:40:43,899 ♪ Swallowed ♪ 717 00:40:44,942 --> 00:40:46,485 ♪ Sorrowed ♪ 718 00:40:47,570 --> 00:40:51,323 ♪ Heavy about everything but my love ♪ 719 00:40:51,407 --> 00:40:56,912 He was, you know, like, peace and love and, "I love you, and I love everybody." 720 00:40:58,205 --> 00:40:59,540 He was like the heartthrob. 721 00:41:03,836 --> 00:41:05,171 [Rossdale] Is everybody happy? 722 00:41:05,254 --> 00:41:07,256 [crowd cheers] 723 00:41:09,508 --> 00:41:12,470 [Scher] Gavin understood the folklore 724 00:41:13,012 --> 00:41:14,847 associated with Woodstock. 725 00:41:14,930 --> 00:41:18,809 They sort of brought it back to, you know, 726 00:41:18,893 --> 00:41:21,687 the hippies versus the hard rock fans. 727 00:41:22,730 --> 00:41:24,732 [Kyle] The crowd was still very lively, 728 00:41:25,232 --> 00:41:27,109 but compared to what had just happened, 729 00:41:27,193 --> 00:41:29,862 it was a little bit calmer. 730 00:41:30,404 --> 00:41:34,575 ♪ You're the wave, you're the wave You're the wave ♪ 731 00:41:37,411 --> 00:41:40,372 [crowd cheers] 732 00:41:42,791 --> 00:41:45,753 [Rossdale] I'm proud of that fact we were bringing the crowd back around 733 00:41:45,836 --> 00:41:49,048 to what maybe everyone hoped the event to be, 734 00:41:49,632 --> 00:41:52,301 you know, as opposed to what it deteriorated into. 735 00:41:53,177 --> 00:41:56,555 I think we need to see a whole hell of a lot more! 736 00:41:57,389 --> 00:41:59,266 [crowd yelling] 737 00:42:01,894 --> 00:42:03,479 Woodstock! Whoo! 738 00:42:03,562 --> 00:42:05,314 Woodstock, baby! 739 00:42:08,150 --> 00:42:09,818 [sirens wailing] 740 00:42:12,112 --> 00:42:14,114 [drunken screaming] 741 00:42:14,782 --> 00:42:17,451 [stage announcer] Woodstock '99 day one! 742 00:42:17,535 --> 00:42:18,535 Pow! 743 00:42:22,706 --> 00:42:24,708 [closing theme music plays]