re: Woodstock '99: Were You There?

No,but a friend of mine paid for it on ppv and taped the entire thing.

I watched it. The music and imagery was awesome and brought back memories. The narrative was very contrived.

It’s funny to hear certain interviewees talking about how horrible it was over the imagery of hundreds of thousands of people having the time of their lives.

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music might be better or worse now, but rock and roll certainly feels less “dangerous” these days compared to back then.

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Rock is complete shite now. The 90s and early 2000s had such a great variety. Watching this doc really hammered that home.

Kids today really missed out on a great time of music. I feel sorry for them And I’ll say the 70s and 80s had great stuff too which was before my time. Today’s music just seems so bland.

Getting into the exploitation of women thing now.

I thought it was their body their choice? But now it’s exploitation???

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watched it. The music and imagery was awesome and brought back memories. The narrative was very contrived.

It’s funny to hear certain interviewees talking about how horrible it was over the imagery of hundreds of thousands of people having the time of their lives

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I’m seeing that exact thing.

Starting to focus on “young white males” a lot.

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RATM is another band that doesn’t fit the documentary’s narrative. An avowed Marxist band with an Afro-Mexican lead singer and black guitarist who were playing aggressive music calling for the audience to “rage against the machine” doesn’t quite fit the narrative that this was a riot resulting from privileged white kids look to loot, rape, and burn shite down for no particular reason.

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lol. Is that what they’re saying? Seemed like what happened was obvious: extortion + squalor = uprising.

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Getting into the exploitation of women thing now.

I thought it was their body their choice? But now it’s exploitation???

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I loved how they kept blaming white males while showing footage of women willingly flashing and walking around wearing literally nothing but body paint.

It's almost like the editor found the chick from Spin magazine intolerable too and wanted to show how full of shite she was as she was talking.

It’s a shame because it was very well done up until that point. It did a great job of laying out the history, context and planning, and the beginning of the event.

And having Moby as a chief voice of criticism after he was relegated to the “Emerging Artists” stage (LOL) clearly having an axe to grind. Or a butter knife.

I’m just surprised they didn’t mention Trump (maybe they did after I stopped watching) because it was the exact same mindset as muh OMB.

I was thinking Woodstock '94, that's why I was all thrown off. The Nine Inch Nails set with the mud flying. That was '94.

Well, I think Cobain and Vedder were indeed pretty big into what we now call “social justice” these days. So that part was accurate.

But the part about DMX made absolutely no sense. The interviewees alleged the audience was “a little too ready” to say the word. Even though they clearly show DMX priming the audience for the call-and-response nature of the song.

I think the interviewees were projecting their own prejudices onto the attendees of Woodstock 99.