re: Woodstock 99 is awesome for 45 minutes, then it takes a hard left turn.

I'm sort of obsessed with Woodstock 99, which is a conflagration of some of the worst decsions ever made in pop culutre. If you were expecting a positive spin in a doc on the most infamous concert outside of Altamont, which killed the Woodstock brand and featured several deaths, mulitple sexual assaults, and a riot then... I don't know what to tell you. It was a disaster.

But y'all must have a different copy of the doc on your app because the one I watched was pretty clear that it was the organizers who were abolsutely at fault, and their attempts to defelct blame onto Limp Bizkit was sort of pathetic. They locked up a bunch of kids on asphalt in searing heat, covered the place in raw sewage, denied them water, prevented them from sleeping, and then provided the angriest music on the planet to amp them up more and... well, it was a pretty toxic mix.

I do think the DMX thing was weird, as he was about the only person who got out of there with his reputation increased. When he died, people referenced that show as one of his high points. That was a star making turn for him.

I do think the doc underplayed just how disastrous a decision it was to have techno going all night long on top of metal all day, as the noise bleed essentially made it impossible for anyone to sleep, even if they could on a literally shite-covered field. It was like being the subject of a psy-op campaign. Of course the kids snapped, everything pointed the to that, and the naked greed of the prmotoers, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone there, was truly appalling.

The funny thing is they pointed to Coachella as the New Way, and if you look at modern Coachella... well, it has a lot more in common with Woodstock 99 than its humble beginnings. Those big festival shows are ruthlessly greedy these days, though they've learned the lesson not to deny people water.