ITP V.012 EDITORS: Mucho love to the dude whom taught me to find ground scores of food tokens in the dirt and mud and his interesting little make shift tent under a truck, fun times, although I'm NOT a retro nor neo hippie.
As an attendee of WOODSTOCK '94,( to this DATE the biggest show/festival I've EVER been to) in retrospect, wasn't even as well produced or interactive as LOLLAPALOOZA (90's) at the time, and would never compete with the interactive experience of BANNAROO (Manchester, TN), ORION (2012 Atlantic City, NJ.), WACKEN OPEN AIR, (WACKEN, GERMANY) or any 2K EURO METAL or ROCK FESTS.. That lack of "what to do" in between band sets is the cause of some interesting activities (and mischief) at post '69 WOODSTOCK's, including and not limited to mud surfing/slides,drum circles, playing in mud, and the unfortunate WOODSTOCK '99 riot.
I highly recommend WACKEN OPEN AIR (for metal/hard rock) as you will NEVER be bored if no bands interest you for an hour or two as there as so mutch to keep you occupied at WACKEN. Both BANNAROO and WACKEN OPEN AIR, are very well run festivals in both metal and mainstream music with EURO like diveristy.
WOODSTOCK may still have the attendence records here in the USA specifically '69 and '94, despite the economic loss due to gate crashers... However music festivals have progressed for the better with interactive, musical experiences.
WOODSTOCK 2019, maybe?
2009 WOODSTOCK ANNIVERSARY REPOST PART 2:
Kinda weird looking back at WOODSTOCK '94, I was only 24, barely discovered myself, and couldn't believe I survived that show, I was not prepared for WOODSTOCK 94 at all (not tent, no boots, changed my clothes 4 times), my trip upstate was very spontaneous, and if it wasn't for a "little help from my friends", it would have been, kinda not as much fun. My friends said, at WOODSTOCK 94 I would disappear into the crowd for hours and come back with with the weirdest stories. lol. I had no tent, (I stayed in my friends tent) lost my bag of stuff, and somehow made it through.
Looking back and watching WOODSTOCK '94 on video, it looks different compared to being there. I didn't notice Trent Reznor missed at least two versus during "Wish", he was destroying the stage, and I was destroying, everything in my path, and I was told to stop, moshing.
Notice that AMERICANS at big OPEN AIR FESTS love to wave at the cameras and party, EUROPEANS could care less, they are there for the music and the pit.
CYPRESS HILL, (although rap, without a band does not always translate well live) were surprisingly good, HENRY ROLLINS owned at WOODSTOCK '94 as the rains began to fall, and the fans made for a good mud fight during GREEN DAY and PRIMUS's set. NINE INCH NAILS SET WAS NUTS, and I'm not going to say any more, weird experience...Lots of people being brought out of the NIN "pit" on stretchers, as there was no room or footing to mosh in the mud. I hate to say this, but by the time METALLICA came on at WOODSTOCK 94, I was exhausted and drenched but fucking stoked.
WOODSTOCK 99? LMAO, I'm not paying for that mainstream mall core, take half a million asshole WIGGERS, jocks and douches put them on a air force base making them spend $, and piss them off enough to act out in some senseless, violent, rebellion. Let them riot amongst themselves, jocks and wiggers that they are. LIMP BIZCUT SUCK btw.
I don't think what happened at WOODSTOCK '69 will ever happen again. We're a much different society than America was back in the 60's. Technology has changed our society into a cyber or virtual socialization community. In the 60's between political upheaval and social protest, the physicality of being there, and bearing witness to any and all conditions were the only options.
Perhaps FLASH MOBS could pull it off in this digital age, and get everyone to join in on the party, not just virtual but in person.
Of course, music has changed since the 60's too, with rock and rolls evolution to punk, hardcore, and variations of extreme metal, the mosh pit is post 80's musics physicality, an ultimate intimacy in a digital age, where buying music in CD format is obsolete, and with advances in music technology, ravers are your new hippies.
Of course the violence of an inexperienced mosh pit proved too big of a risk for Micheal Lang and John Scher as those who didn't know the etiquette of the pit and didn't find the cultural connection they were looking for rioted instead. However, the artists whom played WOODSTOCK 94 and 99 couldn't do without the culture of the mosh pit, often dipping in for swim in the crowd surf. In fact, most bands and artists whom played WOODSTOCK 94 and 99 were raised on a punk rock, hardcore, rap and metal ethic, and of course the aggression of moshing was in essence, their rebellion against their parents hippie music.
When women burned their bras and danced around a fire naked in the 60's, it was a rebellion against male dominance, and for womens liberation. Naively women took of their clothes at WOODSTOCK '99, and were very vulnerable in a jock infested mosh pit of men whom burned and destroyed the sound tower, and sexually harassed crowd surfing women in the pit. Woodstock '69's happy accident was due to the generosity of MAX YASGUR whom rebelled against his pro establishment, anti hippie neighbors. WOODSTOCK '99 was on a former Air Force base, in complete contrast to WOODSTOCK '69 and that era of social/political protest as kids were either avoiding the draft, and knew of those whom had perished in Vietnam.
However, expect any WOODSTOCK (post 1969) venture to be nostalgic, retro or corporate, mainstream rock crap, the standard fare and guard. There was alot more going on in music back in 1994 and 99 including a rising techno, hardcore and extreme metal scene in Florida, Europe and Scandinavia, as the burning of churches in Norway symbolized far more than the burning of the Woodstock '99 site.
I'll go to any music, and of course extreme metal fest in Europe, but I avoid most mainstream American fests, including OZZFEST like the plague.
WOODSTOCK '99, did not know what to do with the jocks it sold the show to. I tend to avoid jock infested carnivals like the plague. Instead of going to WOODSTOCK '99, my rebellion is extreme metal, although WOODSTOCK was a good time, for what it was in '94.
I am very proud to say that other than transportation I didn't not spend a damn penny at WOODSTOCK '94, and wouldn't have it any other way.
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-
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