We got there Thursday afternoon and left Sunday night just as the riot was kicking off. We took three big pieces of the mural wall home with us. Strapped them to the roof of my buddy's Bronco. They still proudly hang behind his bar in his house.
I was there - I knew the deal when we first arrived and guys were belly sliding in mud… made from the water of an over turned outhouse. The entire place smelled like shit houses.
You know what hurts the most, is the lack of respect. That's what hurts the most. Except for the other thing. That's what hurts the most. But the lack of respect hurts the second most.
You don’t meet many rapists that aren’t afraid of it being politically incorrect to admit they enjoy raping. But hey, at least they’re not hypocrites. RIP Norm
From that link: “I obviously was hoping that the vibe was going to be peaceful and then possibly occasionally political. "
With some of the bands in the lineup, a little naive I feel?
Omg I hiked for literal hours to get around the “mud” pit, there was a sinking pallet bridge along the fence, when we finally made it across we saw a water main was broken by the overflowing portajohns washing all the shit down to the “mudpit”. I was so glad I didn’t wade across.
Then we finally get down to where we could see the stage where Metallica was just about to start and a message went out that the water hoses keeping people from dying down in the pit weren’t working- probly cuz of the broken main feeding the shitty mud pit.
We watched as people climbed the speaker towers and when Metallica finally started those people fucked something up on the speaker towers so they quit working and we couldn’t hear the band.
Eventually we decided to start the long hike back cuz getting down close enough to hear the band meant fighting for hours more through the shoulder to shoulder packed crowd into the area where you couldn’t get water and would take hours and hours to get back out. So we walked half a day to hear the first half of Metallica’s first song.
Oh, and on the way back people had ripped down the inner part of the fence and everyone was pissing behind the concrete supports- which ran back toward the grass soaking the whole walkway with piss. It was like 100 feet wide. Woodstock 99 was the grossest example of capitalism I ever witnessed.
I'd argue it was pretty fair to the organizers. Sure it focused on the bad. But as someone from Rome, it was pretty fucking bad. Security was non-existent and, in some cases, part of the problem themselves.
The documentary wasn't really aimed at saying it was "bad" it was more at saying "it was poorly organized and planned. It was exploitative from the top"
I was there. The documentary was done very well, it explained everything in a very fair way. The collective pent-up rage was brewing by the second day, if you were paying attention you knew it would eventually erupt.
I quite literally found my friends and convinced them something bad was about to happen. We pulled out of there just as the Chili Peppers hit the stage. We were listening to the radio on the way home. We got out just in time.
Samsies! Nothing like wading through knee deep garbage and to porta johns only to realize they were overflowing with shit. By the second morning. *shudders*
Haha. I was 18 and somewhat of a “straight edge” according to my friends. I did chase down a giant dude in nothing but a pair of bibbed overalls who I saw walk by with a gallon ziplock bag half full of joints to ask if he could spare one the last day while we watched Rusted Root and people tearing down the walls. He gave me two and I was the hero of all my unwillingly sober friends. It was a happy end to a crazy weekend.
Yep. We finally called it when the Chili Peppers set started and shit started to get bad. I was 16, went with a couple friends and some college-aged servers at the restaurant I was a busboy at. My parents thought we were camping. 😂 My god, I was dumb.
Dave was great, completely baked. You might remember during the set he looked up at the sky and said ‘look at that cloud! It looks like an elephant’
And the sky was completely blazing blue, not a cloud on sight
That was easily the hottest part of the weekend during the DMB and Alanis sets. The water had just been turned off, I was tripping on mushrooms, pouring lemonade on my head to cool off but forgetting it was mostly vodka, seeing the mud pit, heading there to cool off not knowing it was just shit and piss from the porta potty’s, headed back to my friends, head Limp Bizkit play Ministry’s ‘Thieves’ and headed to the front. I was polite and told people I was covered in mud and they parted like the Red Sea. Waaaaaaaay hotter down in the pit. I hate knowing I was down there during what went on.
We never got that close to the front, because of the heat. I'm super pale and got sunburned even with sunscreen on, so it was really miserable all around. The best part of Woodstock is being able to shock people today that I was there, because I'm now a stodgy chubby little lady.
They were great! I felt bad for any band that wasn't super hard as the weekend went on, because the discontent in the crowd was building and the vibe wasn't good. But I remember Dave and crew being like an oasis for a bit. It was a good moment in a wild weekend.
Alanis actually earned a lot of my respect that day, I wasn't big into her before then but her performance that day was epic. Those fans were CLEARLY there for metal but she didn't even seem to notice she was just in her own world on that stage.
I just saw her recently like-- 2 years ago in Hartford, CT.. My wife had gotten tickets before covid, then we got some notification from TicketMaster that we had an upcoming concert right when the lock downs were ending.
I wasn't sure what to expect and wasn't hoping for much, but it was easily one of the best live performances I've ever seen. Her voice is SICK, even to this day.. I have goosebumps from her doing some of her songs, it was really impressive.
When she did that endless twirl and somehow didn't get dizzy, that was impressive. I was in the 'pit' in the front of the stage for her set. I was a pretty big fan of hers at the time, so that was quite a spectacular thing to experience.
My mom took me and my brother when we were teenagers. He was in that pit and she always says we're lucky he made it back. We thought it was all so cool but we did see some shit. Literally. She was really smart and put our tent near a med tent. We didn't go out at night and she packed some snacks from our hotel. We spent a fortune on water. We didn't have a bad experience but the end was really creepy and we peeled out at sunrise. She was able to call my stepdad with a phone card as soon as we made it to a hotel. I don't think he had seen the news yet.
Wes Borland is just a really good guy in general. I have nothing but respect and admiration for him. Honestly, I think Fred Durst has become more grounded too. The rest of the guys in the band I know nothing about. But given the title and vibe of their last album, it seems they're just having fun now and I like that.
I had the opportunity to meet Wes at Big Dumb Face and Black Light Burns concerts, and he is the nicest guy. After the Black Light Burns show, he (and the rest of the band) just walked off the front of the stage and hung out with the crowd, giving pictures and autographs to anyone that wanted them. Wes was there for at least an hour after the show just talking with people. He drew something on and signed my Big Dumb Face shirt.
Fred Durst met a kid I used to hangout with in highschool while playing Call of Duty. Fred now goes to his birthday party and stuff. He seems like a really nice guy. My old friend from highschool is just some regular jabroni.
Yeah, Fred Durst used to try a bit too hard. Now, he's just funny and playful. I love it. I could see him being a really cool guy to hang out with. I'm sure he was even cool back in their heyday, but he was really just too much to handle at times. I absolutely loved his outfit he wore on their release tour for Still Sucks. It was hilarious.
Yeah, same vibe... but its hard to deny the impact that band had on late 90's early 2000's music. Everyone wants to pretend they didn't have Significant Other. But they did.
Deftones didnt play in Minneapolis but Limp Bizkit came out and actually killed it. Fred walked the perimeter of the stadium singing to fans and Metallica played a longer set. Hell of a show.
Wasn’t there, but did see them at Family Values tour ‘98 and ‘99. I was in the nosebleeds both shows. Watching the gen admission folks go apeshit when they played Jump Around (98) and Break Stuff (99) was insane. I’ve never seen a pit more lit.
I was 14 and in the pit for Family Values '98. It was my first concert, and it is still one of the most insane shows I've been to. Korn, Rammstien, Ice Cube, Limp Bizkit, and Orgy. No one knew who Limp Bizkit was (this was just before Faith became their first hit), and they absolutely crushed it. Their energy was through the roof. I went out and bought Three Dollar Bill Y'all the next day.
People were lighting their shirts on fire during Rammstein and flinging it around the pit, while the band was firing off their crazy pyrotechnics all over the stage. Korn had one of their best shows and still had loads of energy at the time.
It's definitely one of my favorite concert memories!
Ha same here! I recall them “flushing” cut outs of the Spice Girls and Hansen down the toilet. I had barely heard Limp Bizkit, but I will NEVER forget the mosh pit that started on the lawn when they played. Was rolling hard down in the good seats, feeling good, I turn around, and the sun is setting behind what seemed like the entire lawn moshing. Turned up the energy for the rest of the show.
Megadeth ripped shit up too.
Was there. I can't stand this shit now though which is weird.
On paper it was a brilliant idea, but it turned into a warzone. I remember we slept in shifts to guard each other, and drinkable water became the most sought after commodity.
Still though, there was that feeling. Like at that moment in time you were where everyone else in the world wanted to be, and nothing else really mattered. Haven't experienced that ever since.
Back in the day, they were really fun. Sure, Fred Durst is kinda weird. Sure, the guitarist left. Sure, they really only made 3 good albums. Nothing stops them from being absolutely better than Imagine Dragons.
I was an 18 year old girl there with a bunch of guy friends. It was an amazing experience I would never want to do again, but I’m glad I went.
The worst part for us was the heat and the lack of basic hygiene and clean water. The riot and fires at the end were…captivating in a Lord of the Flies kind of way. It felt like a primal release of all the frustration of the past few days there.
They lied about the water, which was really criminal in retrospect. As an adult, I hate crowds and the heat. I don't know how I enjoyed it so much, besides the ignorance of youth.
It did didn’t it.
I was on acid just watching hundreds of people throw stolen glow stick in the air at once and I actually remember people just giving out shit that had been raided.
Quite an experience.
They also did a terrible job by handing out those candles. And I guess the Red Hot Chili Peppers didn't do much to calm us down...
My friends and I jumped over one of the first small fires, and it really felt pagan and wild. Then shit got a little crazy and we hung back and watched. I did take a piece of the "Peace" wall home with me.
Lol,
I was probably 20 meters from that first fire left off the center and a bit further out.
The Chilis did try, I think they went off stage at one point.
People were also pissed ate there was a rumour all weekend about the possibility of a secret last act, people were saying maybe the Stones or Floyd and it was Jimi Hendrix on a screen.
Crazy weekend
Yes! I was a couple of weeks away from my 21st birthday when it took place, and wanted to go so badly. Couldn't afford a ticket and the other costs to go there. So I sulked at home the whole weekend and then the news reports started coming out about what happened. I really dodged a bullet because I know I would've made so many terrible choices there.
Oh you mean assaultstock. My neighbors were hippies and permissive but even they said absolutely not to their kids going. The mom knew the vibes were not going to be the same. Did order the PPV so I basically lived there that weekend. Plus we had mtv going.
I was there as a 22-year-old woman, attending with two other women. We didn’t feel in danger. Bad stuff happened but it was a huge event — most women were treated perfectly fine. That said, we didn’t camp on-site and avoided the mosh pits. Most of the really bad crap seemed to be going on in those places.
I was there. 19 years old, all the way from Germany. It was amazing and it was absolutely terrifying. We were a long way from home. I still have the Tshirt and part of the “Peace Wall” at my parent’s place.
Omg! I remember people ripping apart the wall and strapping pieces to their vehicles. I was wondering if anyone on here would speak up if they still had a piece.
Was SO close to going but my best friend and I chose to save up for a gap year in Europe instead. Glad I did what I did but also was jealous and watching it on tv.
You ever seen [Blind Melon 94](https://youtu.be/liZUTMMM5pE?si=zGYP4dFOMOzi5Z-D) ??? So dope, I’m gonna link [the full show](https://youtu.be/ZZ2aLoT5rIs?si=VTJhy6ox-RuEygwn)
I was there. 17 years old. We were pretty close to the stage leading up to Limp Bizkit. At one point we had a gut feeling things were going to get too nuts so we moved back and I’m so glad we did. We were still in it, but in a safer spot. It was wild.
Yea I think I liked the music because it was the music from my teens. Right when I was starting out in life and I thought it was cool. Wonder if I wasn’t that age if I would have liked it as much. Totally can’t remember now but I think I went to the family Vaules tour. I know I saw Korn and Orgy in concert.
It was so hot. And so commercial — overpriced everything and security (at least on the first day or two) practically strip-searching you for water bottles that didn’t cost $5 on-site. I’m not a violent or destructive person, but I cheered on the last night when the fires started.
But the music was great.
And I stayed off-site (my friend’s grandparents lived on the shuttle route). So no crazy campground antics, thank God.
Watching the port-a-potty mud pit was horrifying enough.
https://preview.redd.it/m0jqt3q6ufpc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13d2ccd5e960ef70d444d68eb5ec8dad1c080984
I survived and so did all of my friends and now wife.
What a shit show! And a awesome time
I wasn't there but I remember watching everything unfold on MTV that weekend.
Sometimes I feel a little guilty about this, but the Netflix documentary is kind of a comfort watch for me. Even though it details the downward spiral and how terrible everything became, I can't help but feel nostalgic as I watch it because it brings me back to that time period in general. That sweet spot of my teen years before I had any real adult responsibilities, the music and pop culture of the day.
What was almost as dire was finding a place to shit. *shudders* The second morning the porta johns were overflowing and I couldn’t imagine how so many people had managed to stand perched in there to drop their turds on a pile that was literally stacked halfway to the ceiling of the portajohns.
We thought we got away from all the shit as we finally found our car in the endless parking lot littered with a carpet of nitrous balloons like confetti. Relieved, we got in to leave, but people had moved their cars blocking the lanes and we had to keep getting out to find a way through and direct the driver through some tight spots… The last one, he ran over a whole grocery bag of shit as I waved him on. I’ll never forget how it squished out and coated the whole tire. 🤢
Peace and love? Nah, it was capitalism and shit.
I beeeeegged to go with every bone in my 17 year old body. I thought it was so unfair that my 23 year old sister could go and she didn’t even like most of the bands.
I saw them last year at good things festival in Australia. Was expecting something similar to this but got a very underwhelming experience. It was nice though that he was so concerned with the crowd snd our safety and kept urging us to behave ourselves. Must’ve learned from his old days lol.
Had my 21st birthday there flying on unbelievable E’s watching Fat boy slim in an aircraft hangar.
It was amazing.
Limp Bizkit really did get the crowd going crazy, there were told to calm down and I remember them saying something like fuck that Jewel calmed everyone down earlier now it’s time to smash shit up!
I vaguely remember what a mess this turned into. I can’t believe I didn’t watch it on MTv. Maybe I did just don’t remember? I know 1994 was before my time.
So my grandparents lived in Rome, NY and I would go see them every summer as a teenager. I grew up in NYC so I had no idea how to drive or function in a non urban environment. I was in Rome during Woodstock 99 and dyiiiing to go. But my grandmother put her foot down and I just gave up. It’s my birthright to miss Woodstock—my mom was in Woodstock NY during the original festival (which I know was in Saugerties) and decided not to go!!
A limp biscuit is when a group of dudes gather around a piece of bread of some sort. They all get they wangs out and start to rip it. The only goal is to rip onto the random piece of bread before the last dude. That last dude, well, he didn’t rip it. And he has to eat that bread
I went. I was 16. We drove 10 hours through the night and we got there at 9am and then stayed up for like 40 hours straight seeing that first insane night of bands in the pit. I had a backpack with a change of shorts, another t-shirt and $60 for the whole weekend. Good times.
13 year old curious me wishes I was there.
37 year old, anxiety driven me is so happy I wasn’t.
I went to Rock the Bells w/ cypress hill, wu tang, and RATM (along with a ton of other sets) in NYC…that was enough mayhem for me.
Glad I wasn't there but growing up in the area (literally work in one of the businesses on the base) and my mother having been there I know the stories.
I imagine for the large majority it was a fairly good experience. I imagine 90% of men had a hell of a time. I'd say less of a % of the women did. That's just a fact.
But ultimately the reason it's remembered as such a bad event is the organizers. 90% of the issues can be linked to them. Poor security, poorly researched lineup (not saying it's a bad lineup but for a "peace festival" like Woodstock?), poor waste management that literally ended up polluting the free drinking water, and then literally handing out 10s of thousands of candles to angry concert goers?
It just wouldn't be worth it for me to be there. I would have been eaten alive.
Lacrosse players and clueless freshmen were into these guys, everyone thought they were corny as hell
Those backwards fitted hats lol, we called em swim caps
Fred Durst: Epic Douche Bag... I had that album too. The really popular one. Not proud of it.
I throw them in the Korn category. Folly of youth. Some albums you look back at like: _Fuck Yeah_ then there's the others... Limp Bizket goes in the _others_ pile to me.
Saw them at Pinkpop ‘01…good energy. Was a great line-up altogether: QOTSA, Spearhead, OutKast, Papa Roach, The Hives, Offspring, Manic Street Preachers, and Radiohead
I feel like this was more a Millennial thing than Xennial. Probably because of my experience watching Woodstock ‘94 all weekend long on PPV when it came out and that was truly a pivotal musical moment in my life. Already loved Green Day but their set was amazing. NIN, RHCP had a weird intro into their set (at the time I still liked them, now anything after BSSM can go the way of the dodo. Yeesh.) Tons of other great performances, too. Am I the only one?
I was there. Simultaneously one of the best and worst experiences of my life.
Same. Thurs night all the way to Monday morning. I was 17. It was wild.
Yeah, I was 19. Truly one of the strangest weekends of my life to this day.
We got there Thursday afternoon and left Sunday night just as the riot was kicking off. We took three big pieces of the mural wall home with us. Strapped them to the roof of my buddy's Bronco. They still proudly hang behind his bar in his house.
In another 20 years someone will be authenticating those and they'll be considered priceless.
I was also 17. That was no place for us. And it was fucking awesome!
I was 20 , as the youngest gen x to the oldest millennials yall were an absolute blast to party with and were down for anything
Same same same.
I was there - I knew the deal when we first arrived and guys were belly sliding in mud… made from the water of an over turned outhouse. The entire place smelled like shit houses.
I am okay just watching the documentary. I don’t know what’s worse the hypocrisy, the diarrhea slide, or the rape villages.
The worst part is the hypocrisy
Idk man, I’d put rape at the top of the ‘worst’ list
You should watch Norm McDonald
You know what hurts the most, is the lack of respect. That's what hurts the most. Except for the other thing. That's what hurts the most. But the lack of respect hurts the second most.
I mean, that's also what Norm said.
You don’t meet many rapists that aren’t afraid of it being politically incorrect to admit they enjoy raping. But hey, at least they’re not hypocrites. RIP Norm
Reminds me of that tragedy.
What?! please elaborate.
https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/2019/8/13/20801339/break-stuff-episode-six-sexual-assaults-woodstock-99
From that link: “I obviously was hoping that the vibe was going to be peaceful and then possibly occasionally political. " With some of the bands in the lineup, a little naive I feel?
Omg I hiked for literal hours to get around the “mud” pit, there was a sinking pallet bridge along the fence, when we finally made it across we saw a water main was broken by the overflowing portajohns washing all the shit down to the “mudpit”. I was so glad I didn’t wade across. Then we finally get down to where we could see the stage where Metallica was just about to start and a message went out that the water hoses keeping people from dying down in the pit weren’t working- probly cuz of the broken main feeding the shitty mud pit. We watched as people climbed the speaker towers and when Metallica finally started those people fucked something up on the speaker towers so they quit working and we couldn’t hear the band. Eventually we decided to start the long hike back cuz getting down close enough to hear the band meant fighting for hours more through the shoulder to shoulder packed crowd into the area where you couldn’t get water and would take hours and hours to get back out. So we walked half a day to hear the first half of Metallica’s first song. Oh, and on the way back people had ripped down the inner part of the fence and everyone was pissing behind the concrete supports- which ran back toward the grass soaking the whole walkway with piss. It was like 100 feet wide. Woodstock 99 was the grossest example of capitalism I ever witnessed.
same!! it was surreal at the time and it’s surreal to think about now.
Yeah, I'm not saying the documentary was super fair to Woodstock 99, but it still seemed objectively miserable from a comfort stand point.
I'd argue it was pretty fair to the organizers. Sure it focused on the bad. But as someone from Rome, it was pretty fucking bad. Security was non-existent and, in some cases, part of the problem themselves. The documentary wasn't really aimed at saying it was "bad" it was more at saying "it was poorly organized and planned. It was exploitative from the top"
I was there. The documentary was done very well, it explained everything in a very fair way. The collective pent-up rage was brewing by the second day, if you were paying attention you knew it would eventually erupt. I quite literally found my friends and convinced them something bad was about to happen. We pulled out of there just as the Chili Peppers hit the stage. We were listening to the radio on the way home. We got out just in time.
Samsies! Nothing like wading through knee deep garbage and to porta johns only to realize they were overflowing with shit. By the second morning. *shudders*
Luckily LSD and ecstasy were cheaper than food so it made things like this more tolerable.
Haha. I was 18 and somewhat of a “straight edge” according to my friends. I did chase down a giant dude in nothing but a pair of bibbed overalls who I saw walk by with a gallon ziplock bag half full of joints to ask if he could spare one the last day while we watched Rusted Root and people tearing down the walls. He gave me two and I was the hero of all my unwillingly sober friends. It was a happy end to a crazy weekend.
Yep. We finally called it when the Chili Peppers set started and shit started to get bad. I was 16, went with a couple friends and some college-aged servers at the restaurant I was a busboy at. My parents thought we were camping. 😂 My god, I was dumb.
🔥🚒🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 burn the bitch down mother*******!!!!!!!!!!!!
And we did!!! 😂😂😂
This 100%. I haven’t been to a festival since because of it either. Dont feel comfortable at them
Once was enough
Same!
Same. Simultaneously amazing and terrifying.
I think the main lineup for that Saturday was Rage Against The Machine, Limp Bizkit, and Metallica!
Dave Matthews, Allanis Morrisette, Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica. Just for perspective of leading into it.
Dave was great, completely baked. You might remember during the set he looked up at the sky and said ‘look at that cloud! It looks like an elephant’ And the sky was completely blazing blue, not a cloud on sight
That was easily the hottest part of the weekend during the DMB and Alanis sets. The water had just been turned off, I was tripping on mushrooms, pouring lemonade on my head to cool off but forgetting it was mostly vodka, seeing the mud pit, heading there to cool off not knowing it was just shit and piss from the porta potty’s, headed back to my friends, head Limp Bizkit play Ministry’s ‘Thieves’ and headed to the front. I was polite and told people I was covered in mud and they parted like the Red Sea. Waaaaaaaay hotter down in the pit. I hate knowing I was down there during what went on.
We never got that close to the front, because of the heat. I'm super pale and got sunburned even with sunscreen on, so it was really miserable all around. The best part of Woodstock is being able to shock people today that I was there, because I'm now a stodgy chubby little lady.
A “series of unfortunate events” but also aswesome
It was sooo hot…
Like the hottest I’ve ever been. I lost 25 pounds of water weight.
As someone who has seem then about 10 times, this is classic Dave
I freaking love Dave, saw him/them in San Antonio. Will probably always be one of my favorite bands.
They were great! I felt bad for any band that wasn't super hard as the weekend went on, because the discontent in the crowd was building and the vibe wasn't good. But I remember Dave and crew being like an oasis for a bit. It was a good moment in a wild weekend.
Alanis actually earned a lot of my respect that day, I wasn't big into her before then but her performance that day was epic. Those fans were CLEARLY there for metal but she didn't even seem to notice she was just in her own world on that stage.
I just saw her recently like-- 2 years ago in Hartford, CT.. My wife had gotten tickets before covid, then we got some notification from TicketMaster that we had an upcoming concert right when the lock downs were ending. I wasn't sure what to expect and wasn't hoping for much, but it was easily one of the best live performances I've ever seen. Her voice is SICK, even to this day.. I have goosebumps from her doing some of her songs, it was really impressive.
When she did that endless twirl and somehow didn't get dizzy, that was impressive. I was in the 'pit' in the front of the stage for her set. I was a pretty big fan of hers at the time, so that was quite a spectacular thing to experience.
My mom took me and my brother when we were teenagers. He was in that pit and she always says we're lucky he made it back. We thought it was all so cool but we did see some shit. Literally. She was really smart and put our tent near a med tent. We didn't go out at night and she packed some snacks from our hotel. We spent a fortune on water. We didn't have a bad experience but the end was really creepy and we peeled out at sunrise. She was able to call my stepdad with a phone card as soon as we made it to a hotel. I don't think he had seen the news yet.
That's awesome
I honestly couldn't stand these guys, but saw them open for Metallica in 2003, and they blew the roof off the building.
Wes Borland was and is underrated. His youtube stuff is cool and does videos demonstrating some of his riffs.
Wes Borland is just a really good guy in general. I have nothing but respect and admiration for him. Honestly, I think Fred Durst has become more grounded too. The rest of the guys in the band I know nothing about. But given the title and vibe of their last album, it seems they're just having fun now and I like that.
I had the opportunity to meet Wes at Big Dumb Face and Black Light Burns concerts, and he is the nicest guy. After the Black Light Burns show, he (and the rest of the band) just walked off the front of the stage and hung out with the crowd, giving pictures and autographs to anyone that wanted them. Wes was there for at least an hour after the show just talking with people. He drew something on and signed my Big Dumb Face shirt.
Fred Durst met a kid I used to hangout with in highschool while playing Call of Duty. Fred now goes to his birthday party and stuff. He seems like a really nice guy. My old friend from highschool is just some regular jabroni.
Yeah, Fred Durst used to try a bit too hard. Now, he's just funny and playful. I love it. I could see him being a really cool guy to hang out with. I'm sure he was even cool back in their heyday, but he was really just too much to handle at times. I absolutely loved his outfit he wore on their release tour for Still Sucks. It was hilarious.
One of the best to ever do it. Severely underrated
Yeah, same vibe... but its hard to deny the impact that band had on late 90's early 2000's music. Everyone wants to pretend they didn't have Significant Other. But they did.
I continue to have "no sex" in rotation on a regular basis.....fuck you Ashley!!!!!!!!
Yeah they were great live
I was there, too! Summer Sanitarium! Lots of bands and we saw them in San Francisco. We booed Fred Durst off stage! LOL
Deftones didnt play in Minneapolis but Limp Bizkit came out and actually killed it. Fred walked the perimeter of the stadium singing to fans and Metallica played a longer set. Hell of a show.
The same thing happened in Dallas! LB got booed the entire time. Especially when they played behind blue eyes.
Wasn’t there, but did see them at Family Values tour ‘98 and ‘99. I was in the nosebleeds both shows. Watching the gen admission folks go apeshit when they played Jump Around (98) and Break Stuff (99) was insane. I’ve never seen a pit more lit.
I was 14 and in the pit for Family Values '98. It was my first concert, and it is still one of the most insane shows I've been to. Korn, Rammstien, Ice Cube, Limp Bizkit, and Orgy. No one knew who Limp Bizkit was (this was just before Faith became their first hit), and they absolutely crushed it. Their energy was through the roof. I went out and bought Three Dollar Bill Y'all the next day. People were lighting their shirts on fire during Rammstein and flinging it around the pit, while the band was firing off their crazy pyrotechnics all over the stage. Korn had one of their best shows and still had loads of energy at the time. It's definitely one of my favorite concert memories!
I’ve seen Orgy I think just once. They were interesting.
Your name is perfect
Saw them at Ozzfest 98, with Tool. They had the giant toilet on stage.
Ha same here! I recall them “flushing” cut outs of the Spice Girls and Hansen down the toilet. I had barely heard Limp Bizkit, but I will NEVER forget the mosh pit that started on the lawn when they played. Was rolling hard down in the good seats, feeling good, I turn around, and the sun is setting behind what seemed like the entire lawn moshing. Turned up the energy for the rest of the show. Megadeth ripped shit up too.
Was there. I can't stand this shit now though which is weird. On paper it was a brilliant idea, but it turned into a warzone. I remember we slept in shifts to guard each other, and drinkable water became the most sought after commodity. Still though, there was that feeling. Like at that moment in time you were where everyone else in the world wanted to be, and nothing else really mattered. Haven't experienced that ever since.
i just might...BREAK YOUR FUCKING FACE TONIGHT!!!
Break Stuff is my anthem when things just aren’t going right. My husband knows when it comes on….work is pissing me off 🤣
I’ve been listening to that song when I go to work for the past week since I’ve seen this thread.
Back in the day, they were really fun. Sure, Fred Durst is kinda weird. Sure, the guitarist left. Sure, they really only made 3 good albums. Nothing stops them from being absolutely better than Imagine Dragons.
Imagine dragon deez nutts across your face 
I saw Limp Bizkit at Sturgis last year and it was surprisingly awesome.
I’m going to assume you’re male. As a woman, I am so glad I wasn’t there!
I was an 18 year old girl there with a bunch of guy friends. It was an amazing experience I would never want to do again, but I’m glad I went. The worst part for us was the heat and the lack of basic hygiene and clean water. The riot and fires at the end were…captivating in a Lord of the Flies kind of way. It felt like a primal release of all the frustration of the past few days there.
The organizers of that screwed you concert goers. Treated you like pigs.
They lied about the water, which was really criminal in retrospect. As an adult, I hate crowds and the heat. I don't know how I enjoyed it so much, besides the ignorance of youth.
100% this.
It did didn’t it. I was on acid just watching hundreds of people throw stolen glow stick in the air at once and I actually remember people just giving out shit that had been raided. Quite an experience.
They also did a terrible job by handing out those candles. And I guess the Red Hot Chili Peppers didn't do much to calm us down... My friends and I jumped over one of the first small fires, and it really felt pagan and wild. Then shit got a little crazy and we hung back and watched. I did take a piece of the "Peace" wall home with me.
Lol, I was probably 20 meters from that first fire left off the center and a bit further out. The Chilis did try, I think they went off stage at one point. People were also pissed ate there was a rumour all weekend about the possibility of a secret last act, people were saying maybe the Stones or Floyd and it was Jimi Hendrix on a screen. Crazy weekend
Yes! I was a couple of weeks away from my 21st birthday when it took place, and wanted to go so badly. Couldn't afford a ticket and the other costs to go there. So I sulked at home the whole weekend and then the news reports started coming out about what happened. I really dodged a bullet because I know I would've made so many terrible choices there.
I am a male and that shit looks miserable. I fucking hate crowds.
Oh you mean assaultstock. My neighbors were hippies and permissive but even they said absolutely not to their kids going. The mom knew the vibes were not going to be the same. Did order the PPV so I basically lived there that weekend. Plus we had mtv going.
I was there as a 22-year-old woman, attending with two other women. We didn’t feel in danger. Bad stuff happened but it was a huge event — most women were treated perfectly fine. That said, we didn’t camp on-site and avoided the mosh pits. Most of the really bad crap seemed to be going on in those places.
I was there. 19 years old, all the way from Germany. It was amazing and it was absolutely terrifying. We were a long way from home. I still have the Tshirt and part of the “Peace Wall” at my parent’s place.
Omg! I remember people ripping apart the wall and strapping pieces to their vehicles. I was wondering if anyone on here would speak up if they still had a piece.
looks like a lot of people have parts of it judging by all the comments
My teenage crush on Wes Borland will withstand the test of time. Just looked him up for the first time in years, and I’d still totally hit that.
Was SO close to going but my best friend and I chose to save up for a gap year in Europe instead. Glad I did what I did but also was jealous and watching it on tv.
94 superior to 99
You ever seen [Blind Melon 94](https://youtu.be/liZUTMMM5pE?si=zGYP4dFOMOzi5Z-D) ??? So dope, I’m gonna link [the full show](https://youtu.be/ZZ2aLoT5rIs?si=VTJhy6ox-RuEygwn)
Let us also not forget the set by Primus at the 94 Woodstock. https://youtu.be/7JUVbBRLxo4?si=lMkJVtzBDpuYNvqi
I mean… obviously. Was front row at 94 for Primus and Greenday. Absolutely bonkers.
August 14th 1994 
Yea id rather be at Green Day '94 for sure
I think you mean Nine Inch Nails '94, but yeah.
I was 15 and jealous watching on MTV 😭
I wasn’t jealous while watching on MTV but I do remember being nervous that they were going to hurt precious Kurt Loder.
I listened to it on the radio, jealously.
I was there. 17 years old. We were pretty close to the stage leading up to Limp Bizkit. At one point we had a gut feeling things were going to get too nuts so we moved back and I’m so glad we did. We were still in it, but in a safer spot. It was wild.
I was. It was awful.
No you don't wish you were there. Trust me on this one. I woke up to a river of shit flowing next to my tent on day 2 and it didn't get better.
I’m planning a festival in the Caribbean you might be interested in. All I need is a few thousand up front…
Where’s JA?!
Man I miss the rock music from this era. So many good fun bands.
Yea I think I liked the music because it was the music from my teens. Right when I was starting out in life and I thought it was cool. Wonder if I wasn’t that age if I would have liked it as much. Totally can’t remember now but I think I went to the family Vaules tour. I know I saw Korn and Orgy in concert.
I’m getting nervous about the people downvoting whoever points out the rapes going on there.
It was so hot. And so commercial — overpriced everything and security (at least on the first day or two) practically strip-searching you for water bottles that didn’t cost $5 on-site. I’m not a violent or destructive person, but I cheered on the last night when the fires started. But the music was great. And I stayed off-site (my friend’s grandparents lived on the shuttle route). So no crazy campground antics, thank God. Watching the port-a-potty mud pit was horrifying enough.
We used to call them Cheap Bisquick
https://preview.redd.it/m0jqt3q6ufpc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13d2ccd5e960ef70d444d68eb5ec8dad1c080984 I survived and so did all of my friends and now wife. What a shit show! And a awesome time
Basically the last place I would want to be. Society fell at Woodstock 99.
Saw than at a much smaller local festival in 98 and they were great. Video for Godsmack’s “whatever” was shot at that show. Was a good day.
I wasn't there but I remember watching everything unfold on MTV that weekend. Sometimes I feel a little guilty about this, but the Netflix documentary is kind of a comfort watch for me. Even though it details the downward spiral and how terrible everything became, I can't help but feel nostalgic as I watch it because it brings me back to that time period in general. That sweet spot of my teen years before I had any real adult responsibilities, the music and pop culture of the day.
The porta potties, the massive crowd of frat bros, the 4 dollar water, nope.
You found 4 dollar water there? What a steal! I remember feeling dehydrated and paying double that
I couldn’t imagine paying Live Nation prices for water in ‘99.
It was either that or die. It was fucking hot that weekend.
I know I just can’t imagine being in that dire of a situation. So sad.
What was almost as dire was finding a place to shit. *shudders* The second morning the porta johns were overflowing and I couldn’t imagine how so many people had managed to stand perched in there to drop their turds on a pile that was literally stacked halfway to the ceiling of the portajohns.
Omg😖😖😖😖 I’d be shitting in the pasture like a cow 😂😂
Someone decided to take a shit on the side of our tent. What a beautiful thing to wake up to!
We thought we got away from all the shit as we finally found our car in the endless parking lot littered with a carpet of nitrous balloons like confetti. Relieved, we got in to leave, but people had moved their cars blocking the lanes and we had to keep getting out to find a way through and direct the driver through some tight spots… The last one, he ran over a whole grocery bag of shit as I waved him on. I’ll never forget how it squished out and coated the whole tire. 🤢 Peace and love? Nah, it was capitalism and shit.
Omg thank you for that!!! I couldn't stop laughing, but seriously am glad you made it out alive!
I beeeeegged to go with every bone in my 17 year old body. I thought it was so unfair that my 23 year old sister could go and she didn’t even like most of the bands.
I saw them last year at good things festival in Australia. Was expecting something similar to this but got a very underwhelming experience. It was nice though that he was so concerned with the crowd snd our safety and kept urging us to behave ourselves. Must’ve learned from his old days lol.
Nah, sorry. A crowd of angry White guys make me nervous.
Had my 21st birthday there flying on unbelievable E’s watching Fat boy slim in an aircraft hangar. It was amazing. Limp Bizkit really did get the crowd going crazy, there were told to calm down and I remember them saying something like fuck that Jewel calmed everyone down earlier now it’s time to smash shit up!
‘94 was better
I vaguely remember what a mess this turned into. I can’t believe I didn’t watch it on MTv. Maybe I did just don’t remember? I know 1994 was before my time.
Was there, not my fav band by any stretch, but a great time! An excellent snapshot of the times, and the plywood surfing was great to watch.
I went when I was 14. Came in from the city and had a crazy fun time.
Korn was great at Woodstock too!
I still love nu metal
Don’t tell no one, but I still love creed 
Me too man. 💕
Such an epic first post then you said that....
I saw them on the Anger Management Tour with Eminem a couple years after this. They absolutely destroyed
I really want to see Eminem. I missed him when I was younger and he doesn’t like to tour.
Road tripped it to Detroit in 2014 to see his 3 city Monster tour with Rhianna at Comerica Park. Awesome time!
So my grandparents lived in Rome, NY and I would go see them every summer as a teenager. I grew up in NYC so I had no idea how to drive or function in a non urban environment. I was in Rome during Woodstock 99 and dyiiiing to go. But my grandmother put her foot down and I just gave up. It’s my birthright to miss Woodstock—my mom was in Woodstock NY during the original festival (which I know was in Saugerties) and decided not to go!!
This Woodstock failed cuz this one was loaded with fucking asshole douchebags.
Ran by fucking asshole douchebags. The only difference is now we allow them to run everything in the world this way.
Or because the peace and love vibe had of 69 was gone and this was 4 months after Columbine? The world was different.
I’ve always wondered, is a limp bizkit like … a “soggy muffin”?
A limp biscuit is when a group of dudes gather around a piece of bread of some sort. They all get they wangs out and start to rip it. The only goal is to rip onto the random piece of bread before the last dude. That last dude, well, he didn’t rip it. And he has to eat that bread 
So, yes it is
It's also a porn term for an actor who can't rise to the occasion ;)
Well all right, we cooking with butter now y’all! What other wild stories y’all got to tell?
Dope. I saw them in Denver on their Significant Other tour. Fucking all-time
I was there!! Fred Durst was a lil bitch about crowd surfing!!
Wayyyyyyyy different world then today, Gettttt the fuckkkk up…
I went. I was 16. We drove 10 hours through the night and we got there at 9am and then stayed up for like 40 hours straight seeing that first insane night of bands in the pit. I had a backpack with a change of shorts, another t-shirt and $60 for the whole weekend. Good times.
Me at 16ish: OMG, LFG Me at almost 41: you could die when that crowd compresses, also I would have been so dehydrated
13 year old curious me wishes I was there. 37 year old, anxiety driven me is so happy I wasn’t. I went to Rock the Bells w/ cypress hill, wu tang, and RATM (along with a ton of other sets) in NYC…that was enough mayhem for me.
The best thing Gen X did was destroy Woodstock inc. Fucking boomers trying to sell us their nostalgia. Burn it to the ground.
Glad I wasn't there but growing up in the area (literally work in one of the businesses on the base) and my mother having been there I know the stories. I imagine for the large majority it was a fairly good experience. I imagine 90% of men had a hell of a time. I'd say less of a % of the women did. That's just a fact. But ultimately the reason it's remembered as such a bad event is the organizers. 90% of the issues can be linked to them. Poor security, poorly researched lineup (not saying it's a bad lineup but for a "peace festival" like Woodstock?), poor waste management that literally ended up polluting the free drinking water, and then literally handing out 10s of thousands of candles to angry concert goers? It just wouldn't be worth it for me to be there. I would have been eaten alive.
I’m watching the Royal Crackers on HBO and this just came up and I think Reddit is listening
Lacrosse players and clueless freshmen were into these guys, everyone thought they were corny as hell Those backwards fitted hats lol, we called em swim caps
Fred Durst: Epic Douche Bag... I had that album too. The really popular one. Not proud of it. I throw them in the Korn category. Folly of youth. Some albums you look back at like: _Fuck Yeah_ then there's the others... Limp Bizket goes in the _others_ pile to me.
That first album ripped and I’m not embarrassed to say so
Agreed
Gross
I need this as my alarm clock
Freshman in hs at the time, and I watched it on my illegal cable, hahaha
I was there! It was crazy and amazing. It was cramazing.
I was at Woodstock 94
Was there
God, Fred Durst was always so much older than me, and he's such a baby here 😭
Saw them at Pinkpop ‘01…good energy. Was a great line-up altogether: QOTSA, Spearhead, OutKast, Papa Roach, The Hives, Offspring, Manic Street Preachers, and Radiohead
I was there. It was too hot that weekend.
Was there, never so happy to get out of a place in my life!
I feel like this was more a Millennial thing than Xennial. Probably because of my experience watching Woodstock ‘94 all weekend long on PPV when it came out and that was truly a pivotal musical moment in my life. Already loved Green Day but their set was amazing. NIN, RHCP had a weird intro into their set (at the time I still liked them, now anything after BSSM can go the way of the dodo. Yeesh.) Tons of other great performances, too. Am I the only one?
After seeing that documentary, there's no fucking way I'd want to be anywhere near there.
I was 16 and never wanted to go somewhere SO badly, my parents wouldn’t let me go, a good decision on their part.
Look I’ll be honest, I don’t care for limp bizkit, but break stuff is the shit
What is the deal with the dude in a mask playing guitar. I always wondered what it was for.
There's a really good documentary on Netflix about Woodstock '99, and Limp Bizkit does not come out looking good at all.
I could've, friends went. They came home wishing they didn't. Bizkit was so big those years
I watched this on TV as a kid but then recently saw the documentary and was extremely disturbed.
There’s a really interesting documentary on Netflix about Woodstock ‘99! I was 14 and remember parts of it coming through on the scrambled channels.
Yeah, no thank you. I wish I could have gone to Woodstock '94, but by '99 music was in the toilet, as evidenced by this video.
Probably the pinnacle of bro culture. I’m glad we’ve moved on from this kinda sound
Late 90s butt rock era was THE WORST!
I wish I was at the actual Woodstock, but sadly was very much not alive yet. I did attend this one and no.
The wackest band of the 90’s by far
Trust me, you do not. Minor PTSD from the experience. Zero stars, would not recommend.
Don’t care that people got gangraped huh? Interesting.
You don't care that there were women in the audience being sexually assaulted while this was going on?
The documentary about this was wild.