Rage, hyperthermia, dehydration, and the festival organisers’ apathy were a toxic mix. It remains the only live music event from which I have been evacuated
This article was originally written for Esquire US in 2021 to mark the release of HBO'sTrainwreck: Woodstock ‘99.
, was massive and largely male. These guys were mostly white, and these white guys were mostly angry. Angry at the August heat, angry at the lack of shade on the festival grounds, angry at the absence of tap water and the price of bottled water. They were also angry at MTV for leaning briefly away from rock music and toward boy bands and Britney Spears, this being 1999. I know this, because I was there covering the festival for MTV, so I served as an unofficial complaints department.
“I watched it on pay-per-view,” Price says of the three-day rock festival that will almost definitely be the last to capitalise on the Woodstock brand. He was in college at the time, consuming all the Limp Bizkit he could handle. “At the time, I had more of a sense of FOMO. It was all my favourite bands, and on TV, it looked like controlled chaos.” His assessment was half right. And then he started reading up about the event.
“The worst part was waking up at 7 a.m. in 100-degree weather, realising we have no water, realising how expensive it would be to get water, having no access to shade, music is blasting already,” Mike Elling, a concertgoer who appears in the documentary, tells me. “The situation exacerbated hangovers that were bad already.” He’s lucky he escaped with just an enhanced hangover: “I think this happened in multiple areas, but someone burst a pipe in our bathroom area, so the sinks weren’t working.
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