Woodstock '94

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Template:Short description Template:For Template:Redirect Template:Use mdy dates Template:Use American English Template:Infobox music festival Template:Location map Template:Location map Woodstock '94 was an American music festival held in 1994 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock festival of 1969.<ref name=ergnonst>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=erglatslog>Template:Cite news</ref> It was promoted as "2 More Days of Peace and Music". The poster used to promote the first concert was revised to feature two catbirds perched on the neck of a Fender electric guitar, instead of the original one catbird on an acoustic guitar.

The 1994 concert was scheduled for the weekend of August 13–14,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> with a third day (Friday, August 12) added later. Tickets to the festival cost $135 each.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> The weather was hot and dry on Friday but by early Saturday afternoon storms rolled in. The rains turned much of the field into mud.<ref name=ergnonst/><ref name=erglatslog/>

The event took place on Winston Farm, just west of Saugerties, New York-about Template:Convert north of New York City and Template:Convert northeast of the original 1969 festival site near Bethel.

Elsewhere, 12,000 people who had attended the original Woodstock festival celebrated its silver anniversary at the 1969 site.<ref name=revisit>Template:Cite news</ref>

Though only 164,000 tickets were sold,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> the crowd at Woodstock '94 was estimated at 350,000.<ref>Template:Cite news (Article archived on Woodstock Nation Web site.)</ref> The size of the crowd was larger than concert organizers had planned for and by the second night many of the event policies were logistically unenforceable. The major issues related to security, when attendees arrived, left or returned to the site, and the official concert food and beverage vendor policy which initially restricted attendees from entering with supplies of food, drinks, and above all alcohol. With the concert site mostly enclosed by simple chain link fences, there was hardly any difficulty for many attendees to enter freely with beer and other banned items. The security staff, along with the entrance and exit staff, could not continue reasonable monitoring of the increasing number of people entering and exiting while at the same time maintaining safety, security, and a peaceful atmosphere.

Three deaths at the festival were confirmed. An unidentified 45-year-old male died on Saturday of suspected diabetes complications. On Sunday, a 20-year-old died of a ruptured spleen. Organizers also confirmed 5,000 were treated at medical tents and 800 were taken to hospitals.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The festival was followed by Woodstock '99, also in New York at Rome.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Performers and notable events during the festival

Friday, August 12

North Stage

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Ravestock

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Notable Events: Day 1

  • Jackyl took the stage early on Friday. Lead singer Jesse James Dupree took the stage with a bottle of whiskey and poured alcohol onto the crowd. He then started smoking marijuana and on a close up he shotgunned the joint into the camera, with copious amounts of smoke filling the screens and the stage, at which point the crowd cheered. Dupree then lit a stool on fire onstage and cut it up with a chainsaw. He also pulled out a rifle and started firing into the air but cut his hand, which started bleeding. As Dupree wiped his forehead, a streak of blood was left across his head.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
  • Aphex Twin's performance was cut short when promoters "disconnected" him mid-show for signing a fake name on a contract, which would forfeit PolyGram's rights to his performance.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Saturday, August 13

North Stage

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South Stage

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Notable Events: Day 2

Sunday, August 14

North Stage

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South Stage

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Notable Events: Day 3

  • Woodstock '94 has also been referred to as Mudstock or Mudstock '94, partly due to the rainy weather that resulted in mud pits and the aforementioned performances of Nine Inch Nails and Primus. This culminated with Green Day's performance, during which guitarist and lead vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong started a mudfight with the crowd during their song "Paper Lanterns". In the documentary VH1 Behind the Music: Green Day, bassist Mike Dirnt was mistaken for one of the fans jumping on stage and was spear-tackled by a security guard, knocking out one of his teeth. It was this incident that caused Dirnt to need emergency orthodontia. A gag order was put in place regarding this incident. Due to the now-infamous mudfight and Dirnt's injury, Woodstock quickly propelled Green Day's then recently released album Dookie into success.
  • After being injured in a traffic accident in 1966 and his subsequent disappearance from the popular music scene, Bob Dylan declined to go to the original Woodstock Festival of 1969, even though he lived in the area at the time. He set off for the Isle of Wight Festival the day the Woodstock festival started and performed at Woodside Bay on August 31, 1969. Dylan, however, did accept an invitation to perform at Woodstock '94 and was introduced with the phrase: "We waited twenty-five years to hear this. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Bob Dylan".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Although he was an hour and a half late to his performance,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> his set was considered one of the greater moments of the festival by various critics and represented the beginning of another new phase in his lengthy career.Template:Citation needed Uncharacteristically for the time, Dylan played lead guitar in a more rock-oriented electric set.
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers performed in lightbulb costumes for the first song of their set. Later in the set they would all dress up as Jimi Hendrix had at the original Woodstock. The lightbulb costumes are now on display at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • Peter Gabriel headlined the North Stage on the last night and closed Woodstock '94.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Other notes on performers

Declined invitations or missed connections

Broadcast and recordings

The Woodstock '94 festival was shot using the early analog HD 1125-line Hi-Vision system in a 16:9 aspect ratio. The footage would be used for later home packages and a planned theatrical documentary about the event. The HD footage was mixed live into standard definition 4:3 NTSC for cable TV broadcast.<ref>Template:Cite tech report</ref>

The Woodstock '94 festival was broadcast live on MTV via pay-per-view in the U.S. and Canada. In the UK, audio from the event was broadcast on BBC Radio 1.

Commercial releases

Highlights from the concert were later released as a double album set on November 4, 1994 on CD and cassette. The film about the event, directed by Bruce Gowers, was also released direct-to-video the same year on VHS and Laserdisc. Currently, there is no DVD, Blu-ray, or digital media release.

Since the release of the official album, various recordings of songs performed have been released officially; however, complete performances of entire sets have only been released unofficially as bootlegs. In 2019, a limited edition vinyl-only release of Green Day's performance was released for Record Store Day, making this one of the first official releases of an entire Woodstock '94 set.

Video and discography

See also

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References

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https://vimeo.com/ondemand/woodstock94festival Woodstock Summer of 94 Documentary

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