i really enjoyed this writeup and the av club one too!
i haven't watched the woodstock 99 docs yet but, the comparison to ozzfest and warped tour is apples and oranges. i didn't go to woodstock but i've been to both ozzfest and warped tour. those were typical tours spread across the country with many different dates and locations. not a single multi-day destination festival where people came from all over to essentially live there for three days. it was just a concert - you went, saw some bands, went home. they also both had distinct themes and bands to match, there weren't such disparate groups of fans like woodstock 99. water (and everything else) absolutely was outrageously expensive as it always is, and it was HOT. i have a distinct memory of laying underneath a bus with friends at one point at one of them because they held it at a racetrack and there wasn't shade anywhere, at all. and it was 100+ degrees. but it was just a handful of hours in one day. if we had been stuck there for days on end, you know, who knows.
basically, it seemed to me like the planning of woodstock 99 didn't go beyond what you would do for a regular one day affair full of mostly locals and people with similar interests. it was a terrible, terrible mistake and negligent oversight from the jump.
i also hate when people try to say things like sexual assault are just ~bound to happen.~ my whole young life was going to shows, when i was young and cute and smashed in nutt to butt with countless strangers and i never, not once, got groped or hit or grabbed or worse. people after all this time need to take some responsibility for the shit show they created and the specific circumstances that made it that way.
i really enjoyed this writeup and the av club one too!
i haven't watched the woodstock 99 docs yet but, the comparison to ozzfest and warped tour is apples and oranges. i didn't go to woodstock but i've been to both ozzfest and warped tour. those were typical tours spread across the country with many different dates and locations. not a single multi-day destination festival where people came from all over to essentially live there for three days. it was just a concert - you went, saw some bands, went home. they also both had distinct themes and bands to match, there weren't such disparate groups of fans like woodstock 99. water (and everything else) absolutely was outrageously expensive as it always is, and it was HOT. i have a distinct memory of laying underneath a bus with friends at one point at one of them because they held it at a racetrack and there wasn't shade anywhere, at all. and it was 100+ degrees. but it was just a handful of hours in one day. if we had been stuck there for days on end, you know, who knows.
basically, it seemed to me like the planning of woodstock 99 didn't go beyond what you would do for a regular one day affair full of mostly locals and people with similar interests. it was a terrible, terrible mistake and negligent oversight from the jump.
i also hate when people try to say things like sexual assault are just ~bound to happen.~ my whole young life was going to shows, when i was young and cute and smashed in nutt to butt with countless strangers and i never, not once, got groped or hit or grabbed or worse. people after all this time need to take some responsibility for the shit show they created and the specific circumstances that made it that way.