Word: woodstocker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...riot needs no reason at all. It was hard to put one's finger on what exactly touched off the messy end last week of Woodstock '99, the three-day rock festival held in sweltering heat on an inhospitable decommissioned Air Force base in upstate New York. The overflowing Port-o-Sans that no one bothered to empty? The formidable mounds of garbage that no one collected? The rip-off prices--$4 for a bottle of water, $7.50 for a chicken sandwich? In retrospect, it seems odd that rock fans would travel halfway across the country...
...addition to Inspector Gadget, Dick is in this fall's animated TV show Sammy, will appear in Picking Up the Pieces with Woody Allen and Sharon Stone, and performed last Friday at Woodstock with his band, the Bitches of the Century. He is two months sober, goes daily to support groups and, despite the mountain incident, insists he wants to live. "There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one," he says. "If you set me in front of anything, I will do it until I ram it into the ground and it's done working...
Point one: I was disturbed at the possibility that the fine line of person-on-person damage would be left behind by the rioting fans, opting instead for person-to-person damage. Not to mention the fact that, as the only legitimate CD store at Woodstock, it would only take one jackass to head our way. Part of me wanted to overturn our tables and defend our gear and merchandise. The other part of me to go to hell and get my things...
...when half of the security forces quit after the first day on the job. We should have known that a $12 pizza wouldn't go over too well. We should have known that the fans that misunderstood hip-hop and metal artists were likely to misunderstand the point of Woodstock. And we should have known better and left Woodstock alone...
Paul Gutman '00 is working for AWARE Records this summer in Chicago, and attended Woodstock '99 as part of a 6-person crew selling compact discs to the festival-goers. The awaremusic.com tent lost $76,000 of merchandise and personal property during an event of supposed love and peace that ended in mayhem...