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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...
...other hand, what happened at Woodstock '99 (arson, pillaging, freelance mayhem) was much in the spirit of the music and of the occasion itself, which, for all the tie-dyed shirts, peace signs, long hair and dope, was only a venal shadow of an irrecoverable ghost...
Savagery and innocence commingled oddly. The spectacle had tabloids the next day writing about Woodstock '99 as if it were a sort of sock hop for the Children of the Corn. And that, mind you, was before the papers learned about the rapes...
...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...
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...