Woodstock '99
Including My Personal Coverage Of The Riots
Article By Steven R. Rochlin
This web page shows photos and commentary of
the Woodstock riot that happened during the final hours of Woodstock 1999. A full Woodstock '99 show
report, including backstage photos and much more, are also online at the links
below. Don't forget to tell your friends about us as we are
independent media and refuse to allow the "spin doctors" their way.
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Enjoy the Music.com's Woodstock 1999 show coverage. As most of you might know by now, a huge riot broke out at the end of the
Woodstock 1999. There was already a very small fire burning during the last scheduled
band, the Red Hot Chili Peppers. This fire was located in the rear part of the audience
grounds of the East stage. The promoters did briefly stop the band to ask for the
200,000+ person crowd cooperation to move as they wanted to get firemen and their trucks
to extinguish the small fire. Fortunately, the music began about four minutes later. Unfortunately, the
crowd not only did not allow the fire team access to the fire and, in fact, more fires were
set!
During their performance, the lead singer from the Red Hot Chili Peppers
commented how it looked like Apocalypse Now in the audience as there were multiple fires
by this time. The Red Hot Chili Peppers left the stage ending their normal performance for
shows (but added the Hendrix song "Fire" to the scheduled encore due to the
fires according to a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers employees).
In fact the promoters still allowed the laser light show tribute
to Jimi Hendrix to go on, though it was very short and did not include and live
performances as was planned.
Click
here for full coverage of the Woodstock '99 show
(backstage photos
and much more).
The
Riots And Aftermath
Click here for the July
25-26 1999 article
Click here for the July
27, 1999 article
Click here for
the July 28 high-resolution panorama
(WARNING: 452kb files size).
Click here for the July
30, 1999 article.
Click here to go back to the
main Enjoy the Music.com Woodstock '99 page.
