Watched the Woodstock 99 documentary on HBOMax today…

That music was made for douchebags. I was 29 at the time and already a couple of years into feeling like popular music was really starting to suck arse.

This lineup epitomized it...rap, Moby, and other female artists included.

Well, the documentary is pretty bad in the sense that they obviously started with the narrative that white culture/White privilege was at the heart of the riots and attempted to make the facts fit their narrative.

I mean, it’s almost worth watching the documentary just to see how fast the narrative falls apart based on a cursory review of the very evidence they present in the doc.

It’s pretty embarrassing some of the reaches they make in their conclusions based on the fact that the audience appeared to be all white.

The festival was pretty much wall-to-wall bands on the polar opposite end of the “angry” spectrum from Limp Bizkit.

Sheryl Crow
Alanis Morrissette
Jewel
Collective Soul
Dave Matthews Band
Creed
Red Hot Chili Peppers

The notion that the music itself had much of anything to do with the riot/arsons/looting/rapes is spurious.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers

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You find out that one of the members was on stage completely naked with a flopping dick while playing guitar.

It's pretty much well known that sequels don't come close to the originals.

Woodstock in 69 can never be duplicated as a cultural/counter-cultural event. To try is a lesson in futility.

How about when they were retroactively trying to tell the small number of black concert goers to rethink being there, or trying to blame the crowd for saying N***A when DMX literally led them in a chant of it, or that chicks getting drunk and flashing their tits was the fault of young white males because of 1AM commercials for Girls Gone Wild. It was yet another propaganda piece under the guise of a music documentary

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How about when they were retroactively trying to tell the small number of black concert goers to rethink being there, or trying to blame the crowd for saying N***A when DMX literally led them in a chant of it, or that chicks getting drunk and flashing their tits was the fault of young white males because of 1AM commercials for Girls Gone Wild. It was yet another propaganda piece under the guise of a music documentary

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I’m watching it now and on that part right now. These cucks being triggered and shocked by a bunch of who’re people enjoying and singing back DMX’s song is laughable. I really hope none of these losers ever go to Bourbon st. They’ll be ‘shocked’ by the titties

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The festival was pretty much wall-to-wall bands on the polar opposite end of the “angry” spectrum from Limp Bizkit

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Dude, after Limp Bizkit was Rage Against the Machine and then Metallica, that was the closing 3 bands on that night, that's some pretty aggressive music back to back to back.

Please note I'm not saying the music was to blame, but that's some pretty amped up music for an already bad situation.

There were 50 performers across the 3 days of the festival.

Of those 50, the really aggressive ones were

Korn
Limp Bizkit
RATM
Kid Rock
Metallica

And maybe one or two others. But that’s still leaves 40 or so bands that were relatively “chill.” (Note: I consider RHCP to be a relatively chill band. Though they did do a cover of Hendrix’s “Fire” right as the arsons started up.)

Also, I don’t know how RATM’s political ideology fits into the documentary’s narrative that these were a bunch of angry white frat boys amped up by macho cock rock.