by Steven R. Rochlin
This web page shows photos and commentary of
the riots that happened during the final hours of Woodstock '99. A full Woodstock '99 show
report, including backstage photos and much more, now appears also. 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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here for our F.A.Q.
Welcome to the Enjoy the Music.com Woodstock
Show coverage. As most of you might know by now, a huge riot broke out at the end of the
Woodstock '99. 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. The music began about four minutes later. Unfortunately, the
crowd not only did not allow the fire team access to the fire, 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 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 for our full coverage of the Woodstock '99 show including backstage photos
and much more.
