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Are there any other Woodstock veterans here ('69, '94 or '99)? I've met a handful of '94 and '99ers at roos and at least one '69er, was wondering how you thought 'roo compared to 'stock. I broke my fest cherry at '94 and it was one of the most amazing times of my life. Not nearly as well coordinated as 'roo and crazy packed, but still a indescribable good vibe, everyone just got along. Given the number of Inforooers we have, I'm sure there's at least a couple of others out there. What's your story?
I still have some of the woodstock tokens you used like cash.
Wow, I completely forgot about that 'stock script they made you use. Where were you camped? We were in the "Surreal Field" near the scary dinosaur with red eyes (still have a pic around here somewhere).
in new york i lived like 20 minutes from rome (woodstock '99). i didn't go (i was like 12 or something), and everyone talks about it like it was a complete disaster... was it really that bad?
in new york i lived like 20 minutes from rome (woodstock '99). i didn't go (i was like 12 or something), and everyone talks about it like it was a complete disaster... was it really that bad?
mucho carnage from what i saw on tv, no thnx to fred duuuuhhhrst
haha fred dunce... I loved the dvd of '69 but was like 20+ year late being born haha. didn't even know about 94 and 99 ....still kinda young when they came around
when metallica came to PR for the 1st time was right after WS 94 and it was a rainy day needles to say we all thought we were at WS with the mud people Metallica canceld on the spot never took stage and we rioted great noshow
I still have some of the woodstock tokens you used like cash.
Wow, I completely forgot about that 'stock script they made you use. Where were you camped? We were in the "Surreal Field" near the scary dinosaur with red eyes (still have a pic around here somewhere).
If you were facing the main stage were off to the right by a little creek. I remember running to stake your spot like that Tom Cruise movie (far and away I think ) and all the idiots put their tents on the concert field. Yeah I have several different denomination tokens. When we returned to my truck monday morning somebody had a barbeque on my truck and left the grill with chicken breasts in the bed of my truck. Quite an experience
Post by lordrockinhood on May 24, 2007 8:56:23 GMT -5
Woodstock '94... I could go on and on about that one, but long story short, one of the numero uno best times of my life, until Roo that is Woodstock '94 was HUGE, 3 times as many people. Bonnaroo took what Woodstock presented, removed everything that made it a mess, and kept everything that made it a blast... even improved upon it by MANY exponential degrees. Basically the people behind Roo perfected what the 1st Woodstock reunion created for the American modern rock festival generation of today. That's what I think about it all... ROOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by canexplain on May 24, 2007 17:24:27 GMT -5
boy if you are really really bored lol, here is an answer to a question i had to give a reply to on the coachella board since in was the BMOTW .....
ok, here is my story of a concert that I went to and made a great memory for me ... I, as most of you know, went to the original Woodstock in 69 .... when the 25 year anniversary came about, I was married and had obligations and couldn't go .... when Woodstock 99 came about I was single and decided I couldn't pass up the 30th year anniversary ... I already had plans to go to san Francisco the week before so I did that trip .... after a week there I was to go back home and head out there .. I didn't want to drive so I went to the ws board and tried to get a ride from Denver to new York ... I met this one dude and he said, for sure I could hitch a ride with him/them ... he and two of his buddies were driving from los Angeles to the show .... I said great .. as we talked , he said they called themselves the rainbow guys ... humm , I said to myself ... I really wanted a ride but to me, a rainbow bunch meant a bunch of gay dudes .. now is don't care how you feel about that, it didn't bother me but I wasn't sure if I could go all that way with a bunch of gay dudes .. so I asked them straight out, so what's up with that ... they had no clue as to what I was talking about ... I figured 3 dudes from LA that called themselves the rainbow guys, but I was so wrong .. what they were was three guys, one white, one Hispanic, and one black ... I felt kind of foolish to say the least .... so we all agreed on meeting at my house as they drove from LA ... so I went out to san Francisco for a week of vacation and had a great time ... maybe too great of a time ... as I was waiting for my place at SFO, I feel asleep .. only for about an hour, but I missed my plane ... the airline was nice and put me on the next plane , but it was the next morning ... I didn't have their phone number, before cell phones really , I thought they would leave a message on my phone answering machine ... so I got home 4 hours after I was suppose to be here at home ... I jumped out of the cab, and ran to open my door so I could check my machine ... my daughter always watched my home when I was gone, and we had a key hidden if I got home and she wasn't there ... so I looked where it should have been, but it wasn't there .. yikes .... I got out a garden hoe to try and break one of my downstairs window to check the phone .. I hit that sucker so hard but I couldn't break it ... yikes what I was to do ... just about then my daughter pulled up with a key ... well I checked my machine and yes they had left a message .. they were gone, but if I could meet them in Chicago, I could get a ride the rest of the way ... so I threw my stuff together, and walked to the interstate that is not far away ... I was so lucky, I hitched hiked a ride from a truck driver that took me all the way to a suburb of Chicago .. I called the guys and they came and picked me up ... we drove to the uncle of one of the guys .. it was really in a nice neighborhood and I was impressed .. we spent the night here and left the next day ... interesting thing about the house, in the basement no less, there was a gold record ... the uncle of one of the guys was the producer of milli vannilles gold record ... it was on a wall and to this day, I forget what the name of that song was ... so off to woodstock ... these guys were so funny, two were 20 and one 21 and they had never been outside of metro LA ... they had rented a brand new Lincoln mountaineer I think it was so we had plenty of room ... with never being in the country at all, they wanted to stop at every farm and every silo we saw on the road to take pictures ... I chuckled a little, but I guess I understood ... we arrived there on Thursday night and was ready to camp and go into the venue on Friday .... cont part one of three **** cr***
Post by canexplain on May 24, 2007 17:26:06 GMT -5
since we had got there the night before, we headed straight in a missed a lot of the traffic ... they said they sold 200,000 tics, so there sure was a lot of people there ahead of us ... since I didn't really know they guys, I said I would meet them at the SUV after the show .. off I went with my little tent and my Woodstock (peanuts) flag ... I picked a pretty nice place to camp, no shade but on the grass ..... the venue was at an old SAC Air Force base ... Griffiss AFB ... I had to look these stats up because I forgot ..245 acres inside the venue .. a fence surrounding the entire base of over 6 miles long ... to surround the actual venue of the stages, the fence was said to be over 3 miles ... from the east stage to the west stage, was about 3/4 of a mile, but if you were in a hurry, you had to walk around the crowd, so it was a mile and a half or so ... you had to plan what stage you wanted to be at, but most of the time I hung at the east stage or the hanger that had an actual plane in it .. they used it for the raves after the main stage was finished .... I wanted to see the opening band for the show, and it was James brown ... I guess that was the last time I saw him .. at that point there might have been 100k or so, so it was crowded but not super packed ... he came on about noon, and the crowd went crazy because it was the opening act for the entire event .... that early day saw jamiroquai, live and Sheryl crow, but that was just the start of the day .. I went back to see what was up with my tent and make sure all was fine, and no one had touched any of my stuff .. hung there a while and walked back to the east stage ... then it all went off .. first the offspring, which was big at the time ... empty bottles were flying everywhere and it looked like snow was coming down ... then korn came on .. say what you will about korn, they rocked the house .. i have always liked Bush and they were the closing band .. they put on a great show ... never hit the west stage that day .. ah, but now it was off to the hanger for an all night show with Moby ... I got some "stuff" so sleep was not in the picture ... after raving till the sun came up, I walked back to my tent .... day two ....that was a day not to be forgotten ... first nice and slow with the counting crows, then Dave Matthews band, alanis and then a short reprieve .. then all hell broke loose.. Fred hit the stage with limp bizkit .. it was during that show that a couple of girls were said to have been raped up close to the front ... the crowd slowed down a bit only to make way for Rage Against the Machine ... Bulls on Parade, Bullet in the Head, they were ready for us ... zack burned an American flag which set off a mini riot .... so the crowd was so pumped up and then Metallica hit the stage .. all of the hits as it were .. we all had a great time, albeit ready to riot ..... so it was off to a late night rave with fatboy slim .. always like that guy .. I didn't stay as late that night because I was so tired ... off to the last day ... at ws 69 we had the mud people, at 99 there were the mud people, but the mud they had was made from the portiie potties that had overrun, so guess what they had all over them ... the camping was tight but fun ... there was a lake close by but most people used it for relief so it was called the pee lake ... there was also the trees by there, that everyone went to meet and greet lol .. next day ...at that point a lot of people were done .. done with burritos that cost 10 bucks, plenty of water but you had to wade thru the filth to get to it .. the trip between the east and west stage, was all concrete because it was a runway ... the people , me, who got up early saw Elvis Costello, jewel, creed but then it came to the closer .. the red hot chili peppers closed out the show .... well someone that wasn't thinking decided that it would be cool to give everyone a candle for peace ... sure didn't work ... a small group started the fires .. it was sometime before rhcp played jimi's cover of Fire, but all of the sudden, the vendor booths were on fire ... people were stealing the t shirts and everything they could take. then they set fire to some of the semi trucks that were there ... well I didn't want to participate, so I just walked to my little Woodstock tent .. the next day I hooked up with the rainbow guys ... one last small part .. cr***** ...
Post by canexplain on May 24, 2007 17:28:03 GMT -5
me and the rainbow guys headed back west .. they wanted to go to Niagara falls because they had never seen it .. and of course all of those damn farms, silos, and cows ... we got home a few days later and they took off ... it was one hell of a trip ... and that is then end of my story .. some times and days might be a bit wrong, but as the BMOTW, I hope you got most of it cr*****
peace and good karma to you all ... colorado ron *****
went to '94. very cool fest. great music. great people. it totally sucked that it was sponsored by pepsi and mtv though. also the ws $$ they made you use was absolutely stupid.
i went to ws99 when i was 15! My best friend shramirs' mom and this other chick shannons' dad took us. don't know why they'd wanna take 8 15 year olds but it was the best time i've ever had. that was a hell of a good time. and i'm so glad i was 15, still too young and innocent to really grasp all the bullshit that was going on. i mean i was 15, i got to see more boobs, dicks, drukqs, everything and it was the first time i was introduced to that sweet sweet something. tool should've been there but oh yea there gonna be at bonnaroo...WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW!!!!
went to '94. very cool fest. great music. great people. it totally sucked that it was sponsored by pepsi and mtv though. also the ws $$ they made you use was absolutely stupid.
I won' argue MTV , And I thought the same thing about the tokens but now I am glad to have them.
more power to you if you had a good time in 94 or 99, but there was ONE woodstock. trying to recreate it years later was a silly idea. bonnaroo is much more like the original woodstock than either of the woodstock "sequels".
I don't mean to knock the 94 and 99 'stockies (please don't smite me!) , but comparisons of the first Woodstock with the second and third just pain me. I wasn't at any of them, but have long held Woodstock 69 on a pedestal several heavens high... and have often daydreamt of being there, whilst I have zero regrets on missing the other two... call me crazy, but I'd take a sampling of the 69 lineup over ANYTHING, anyday.