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{{Short description|1994 music festival in New York, United States}}
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{{Infobox music festival
| music_festival_name = Woodstock '94
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| location            = [[Saugerties, New York]], U.S.
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| attendance          = approximately 350,000 (164,000 paid)
| founders            = [[Michael Lang (producer)|Michael Lang]], [[John P. Roberts]],<br >[[Joel Rosenman]],<br>(Woodstock ventures)
| dates               = August 12–14, 1994
| genre               = {{cslist|[[Rock music|Rock]]|[[Hip Hop music|hip hop]]|[[Folk music|folk]]|[[grunge]]|[[alternative rock]]|[[Heavy metal music|metal]]|[[blues rock]]|[[folk rock]]|[[jazz fusion]]|[[hard rock]]|[[world music]]|[[Chicano rock|latin rock]]|[[punk rock]]}}
| website             = [http://www.woodstock.com The Woodstock Festivals]
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'''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>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-tVWAAAAIBAJ&pg=6841%2C3141031|work=[[The Register-Guard]]|publication-place=Eugene, Oregon|location=[[Saugerties, New York]]|author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.-->|agency=[[Los Angeles Times]]|title=Nonstop party consumes Woodstock nation|date=August 14, 1994|page=5A}}</ref><ref name=erglatslog>{{Cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-9VWAAAAIBAJ&pg=1634%2C3466281|work=The Register-Guard|publication-place=Eugene, Oregon|location=Saugerties, New York|agency=Los Angeles Times|last1=Braun|first1=Stephen|last2=Goldman|first2=John|title=Woodstock revelers slog home|date=August 15, 1994|page=1A}}</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 (company)|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>{{cite magazine|title=Woodstock Revisited?|magazine=[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]]|issue=59|publisher=EGM Media, LLC|date=June 1994|page=212}}</ref> with a third day (Friday, August 12) added later. Tickets to the festival cost $135 each.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XggEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA78|last=Newman|first=Melinda|title=Expensive Tickets Don't Hinder Sales for Woodstock '94 : Big Ticket Sales for Woodstock '94|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=July 9, 1994|access-date=December 25, 2018|page=78}}</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 {{convert|100|mi}} north of [[New York City]] and {{convert|70|mi}} northeast of the original 1969 festival site near [[Bethel, New York|Bethel]].

Elsewhere, 12,000 people who had attended the original Woodstock festival celebrated its silver anniversary at the 1969 site.<ref name=revisit>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-tVWAAAAIBAJ&pg=4705%2C3140128|work=The Register-Guard|publication-place=Eugene, Oregon|location=Bethel, New York|agency=Associated Press|title=12,000 revisit Woodstock|date=August 14, 1994|page=5A}}</ref>

Though only 164,000 tickets were sold,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mAgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA80|title=POST-WOODSTOCK ACTIVITY ON TRACK|last=Flick|first=Larry|author-link=Larry Flick|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=July 7, 1999|access-date=December 25, 2018}}</ref> the crowd at Woodstock '94 was estimated at 350,000.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hill|first=Michael|title=Getting Back To the Garden in Bethel|place=Bethel, N.Y.|publisher=Associated Press|date=February 23, 1997|url=http://www.woodstocknation.org/ap.htm|access-date=August 15, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508094056/http://www.woodstocknation.org/ap.htm|archive-date=May 8, 2009}} (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>{{cite news|last=Hughes|first=John |date=August 15, 1994 |title=MUDSTOCK|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1994-08-15-9408150053-story.html |work=South Florida Sun-Sentinel|location=Saugerties, New York|publication-place=[[Fort Lauderdale, Florida]]|via=newspapers.com|access-date=June 26, 2021}}</ref>

The festival was followed by [[Woodstock '99]], also in New York at [[Rome, New York|Rome]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Hill |first=David |date=July 27, 2019|title=Woodstock 1999: When Rome was on the world's biggest stage|url=https://romesentinel.com/stories/woodstock-1999-when-rome-was-on-the-worlds-biggest-stage,80096|work=Rome Sentinel|location=[[Rome, New York]]|access-date=June 26, 2021}}</ref>

==Performers and notable events during the festival==
===Friday, August 12===
====North Stage====
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*Roguish Armament with Rekk<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P2-32888484/peace-love-roguish-armament-oh-well-woodstock |title=Peace, Love, Roguish Armament? Oh, Well, Woodstock '94 Is Open Nudity and Drugs Bring Back the Past at Festival |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|location=St. Louis, Missouri|date=August 13, 1994|quote=About 75,000 people had arrived by the noon opening act at Woodstock '94 - a local heavy metal band called Roguish Armament with Rekk.}}</ref>
*Master of None
*[[3 (American band)|3]]
*Futu Futu
*Abba Rage
*Lunchmeat
*The Paul Luke Band
*Peacebomb
*[[The Goats]]
*[[Huffamoose]]
*[[Orleans (band)|Orleans]]
*[[Blues Traveler]]
*[[Jackyl]]
*[[Del Amitri]]
*[[Live (band)|Live]]
*[[James (band)|James]]
*[[King's X]]
*[[Sheryl Crow]]
*[[Collective Soul]]
*[[Candlebox]]
*[[Violent Femmes]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-08-10-1994222016-story.html|title=This Woodstock, promoters say, all bases are covered WOODSTOCK -- THE TRIP BACK|first=J. D.|last=Considine|website=Baltimoresun.com|date=August 10, 1994 }}</ref>
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====Ravestock====
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*[[Aphex Twin]]
*[[Deee-Lite]]
*[[DJ Spooky]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.musicandart.net/images/dj_spooky/press/Some.pdf|title=Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid – Some Career Highlights|access-date=August 24, 2010|website=musicandart.net|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723213030/http://www.musicandart.net/images/dj_spooky/press/Some.pdf|archive-date=July 23, 2011 |url-status=dead |page=4 |quote=Performed at Woodstock '94: set turntables on fire at climax of Hendrix's National Anthem}}</ref>
*Doc Martin
*[[Frankie Bones]]
*[[Kevin Saunderson]]
*[[Little Louie Vega]]
*[[The Orb]]
*[[Orbital (band)|Orbital]]
* Soul Slinger
*DJ Scotto
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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 [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] and on a close up he [[wikt:shotgun#Verb|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>{{cite magazine|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=August 26, 1994|title=Woodstock '94: Day of the Jackyl|url=https://ew.com/article/1994/08/26/woodstock-94-day-jackyl/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=June 26, 2021}}</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>{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.livefastdieyoungbook.com/rollingstoneravestock.htm|last=Weisel|first=Al|date=September 22, 1994|title=Ravestock|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|author-link=Al Weisel|issue=691|page=64|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100126003032/http://www.livefastdieyoungbook.com/rollingstoneravestock.htm|archive-date=January 26, 2010|via=web.archive.org}}</ref>

===Saturday, August 13===
====North Stage====
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*[[Joe Cocker]]
*[[Blind Melon]]
*[[Cypress Hill]]
*[[Rollins Band]]
*[[Melissa Etheridge]]
*[[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young|Crosby, Stills, & Nash]]
*[[Nine Inch Nails]]
*[[Metallica]]
*[[Aerosmith]]
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====South Stage====
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*[[Nenad Bach]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nenadbach.blogspot.com/2010/02/memory-lane-woodstock-festival.html|last=Bach|first=Nenad|work=Everything Is Forever - Nenad Bach|title=Memory Lane - Woodstock Festival|via=Nenadbach.blogspot.com|date=February 28, 2010|access-date=June 26, 2021}}</ref>
*[[The Cranberries]]
*[[Zucchero Fornaciari|Zucchero]]
*[[Youssou N'Dour]]
*[[The Band]] featuring [[Hot Tuna]], [[Bruce Hornsby]], [[Roger McGuinn]], [[Rob Wasserman]], and [[Bob Weir]]
*[[Primus (band)|Primus]] featuring [[Jerry Cantrell]]
*[[Salt-N-Pepa]]
*[[Vinx De'Jon Parrette|Vinx]]
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===Notable Events: Day 2===
*Blind Melon frontman [[Shannon Hoon]] took the stage in his girlfriend's dress and appeared to be tripping on acid during the band's performance and post-show interview with MTV.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/10-classic-drugged-out-performances-from-santana-to-green-day-20130606/3-blind-melon-at-woodstock-1994-lsd-0894598|title=Dazed and Confused: 10 Classic Drugged-Out Shows, Blind Melon at Woodstock, 1994 – LSD|last=Greene|first=Andy|date=June 6, 2013|via=rollingstone.com|access-date=October 21, 2015|publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/xo_KLa052Bg Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130515040428/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo_KLa052Bg&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite interview|subject=Shannon Hoon|subject-link=Shannon Hoon|subject2=Rogers Stevens|subject-link2=Rogers Stevens|interviewer=[[Chris Connelly (journalist)|Chris Connelly]]|title=Blind Melon Woodstock '94 Interview|work=MTV|date=August 13, 1994|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo_KLa052Bg|via=YouTube|access-date=June 26, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[Nine Inch Nails]] had the largest crowd density at the event, overshadowing many of the other performers. Just before going on stage, they wrestled each other in the mud and went on to perform completely wet and covered in mud.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.revolvermag.com/culture/mud-piss-catharsis-inside-nine-inch-nails-iconic-performance-woodstock-94|title=MUD, PISS, CATHARSIS: INSIDE NINE INCH NAILS' ICONIC PERFORMANCE AT WOODSTOCK '94|author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.-->|subject=[[Joseph Cultice|Cultice, Joseph]]|date=March 5, 2019 |website=revolver.com|access-date=June 26, 2021|quote=I remember saying to the guys, it would be great if you guys were like the mud men, like all the crazy kids out there covered in mud. So time passes, and then the stage manager was like, How do we get these guys muddy? They started getting these [ice buckets] and filling them up with mud from around the dressing room trailers. Sitting right across from us while they were doing that were like Henry Rollins and the guys from Alice in Chains. And [Nine Inch Nails] were all like, "Those guys are gonna totally know what we are doing." So in between all that someone found a mud pit at the edge of the stage. So we all got in a sixteen-passenger van and went down to the stage and the band jumped in the mud. It was this big cathartic thing, and then they went onstage.}}</ref> In the post-performance interview, Nine Inch Nails frontman [[Trent Reznor]] claimed he thought his band's performance was "terrible" due to technical difficulties on stage.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/-E18UfiILuE Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130718070819/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E18UfiILuE Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E18UfiILuE|title=NIN – woodstock 1994 interview|via=YouTube|work=MTV|last=Reznor|first=Trent|date=February 19, 2007 |interviewer=Juliette Hohnen}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Reznor admitted that while he disliked playing at such a large show, it was done for the money: "To be quite frank, it's basically to offset the cost of the tour we're doing right now."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.9inchnails.com/articles/articles.php?id=8|title=Love It To Death: Trent Reznor Of Nine Inch Nails Preaches The Dark Gospel Of Sex, Pain, And Rock & Roll|author=[[Jonathan Gold|Gold, Jonathan]]|date=September 8, 1994|publisher=[[Rolling Stone]] Issue #690, archived on Painful Convictions|access-date=March 31, 2007}}</ref> Their performance of "[[Happiness in Slavery]]" at the festival won the [[Grammy Awards|Grammy Award]] for [[Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance|Best Metal Performance]] in 1996.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/38th-annual-grammy-awards-1995|title=1995 Grammy Winners - 38th Annual GRAMMY Awards|date=November 28, 2017|website=Grammy.com|quote=GRAMMY winners ranged from distinguished musical veterans including Frank Sinatra (who won Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance for Duets II, his first win in GRAMMY competition since the 9th Annual GRAMMY Awards in 1966) to edgier acts like Nine Inch Nails (Best Metal Performance for "Happiness In Slavery" from Woodstock 94) and Nirvana (Best Alternative Music Performance for MTV Unplugged In New York).}}</ref>
*[[Aerosmith]]'s [[Joey Kramer]], [[Joe Perry (musician)|Joe Perry]], and [[Steven Tyler]] were all attendees at the original Woodstock festival in 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/08/26/aerosmith-dreams-on/55326a8d-0515-4f68-ae7b-9ca8799f442e/|title=AEROSMITH DREAMS ON|last=Harrington|first=Richard|date=August 26, 1994|website=washingtonpost.com|access-date=June 26, 2021|quote=Aerosmith was still a year away -- Tyler was still in Top 40 New York City club bands like the Chain Reaction and William Proud -- and it's at Woodstock he met Joey Kramer, who would become the band's drummer.}}</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/bpBtnNr0HcU Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200121160450/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpBtnNr0HcU Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite interview|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpBtnNr0HcU&t=2s|title=Steven Tyler Remembers Meeting His Aerosmith Bandmate at Woodstock (2016)|last=Tyler|first=Steven|subject-link=Steven Tyler|interviewer=Howard Stern|via=YouTube|date=August 17, 2019|access-date=June 26, 2021|quote=I met Joey Kramer walking down the path.}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Aerosmith performed around 3 to 4 a.m., right after an extensive fireworks display from Metallica. Tyler said on the liner notes for the album during their set: "It rained like a cow pissing on a flat rock".
*During [[Primus (band)|Primus]]' performance of the song "[[My Name Is Mud]]", the audience responded by pelting the band with mud, which singer and bassist [[Les Claypool]] ended by telling the crowd that "when you throw things on stage, it's a sign of small and insignificant genitalia".  Twenty years after the show, Claypool claimed to still have some of the mud stuck in the bass cabinets he used at the event.<ref>{{cite interview|last=Claypool|first=Les|subject-link=Les Claypool|interviewer=Joe Lynch|title=Exclusive: Primus' Les Claypool talks Woodstock 94' 20 years later|work=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6221688/exclusive-primus-les-claypool-talks-woodstock-94-20-years-later|access-date=June 26, 2021}}</ref> Another memorable moment from Primus' set at Woodstock '94 was when [[Jerry Cantrell]], the guitarist and vocalist of [[Alice in Chains]], joined Primus onstage during their performance of the song "Harold of the Rocks".

===Sunday, August 14===
====North Stage====
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*[[Country Joe McDonald]]
*[[Sisters of Glory]] featuring [[Thelma Houston]], [[CeCe Peniston]], [[Phoebe Snow]], [[Mavis Staples]], and [[Lois Walden]]
*[[Arrested Development (group)|Arrested Development]]
*[[The Allman Brothers Band]]
*[[Traffic (band)|Traffic]]
*[[Spin Doctors]]
*[[Porno for Pyros]]
*[[Bob Dylan]]
*[[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]
*[[Peter Gabriel]]
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====South Stage====
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*[[John Sebastian]] and the J-Band
*[[Country Joe McDonald]]
*[[Gil Scott-Heron]]
*[[World of Music, Arts and Dance|WOMAD]]
**[[Samite (musician)|Samite]]
**[[Xalam (band)|Xalam]]
**The [[Justin Vali]] Trio
**[[Geoffrey Oryema]]
**[[Hassan Hakmoun]] & Zahar
*[[Green Day]]
*[[Paul Rodgers]] Rock and Blues Revue featuring [[Slash (musician)|Slash]], [[Neal Schon]], [[Andy Fraser]], and [[Jason Bonham]]
*[[The Neville Brothers]]
*[[Santana (band)|Santana]] featuring [[Eric Gales]]
*[[Jimmy Cliff]]'s All Star Reggae Jam featuring [[Rita Marley]], [[Eek-A-Mouse]] and [[Shabba Ranks]]
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===Notable Events: Day 3===
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*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 ''[[Behind the Music|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<!--against who? for what?--> regarding this incident. Due to the now-infamous mudfight and Dirnt's injury, Woodstock quickly propelled Green Day's then recently released album ''[[Dookie (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 1969|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>{{cite web|website=veoh.com|url=http://www.veoh.com/collection/classicsrock/watch/v17133221JTTxdhTn|title=Bob Dylan Woodstock '94]}}</ref> Although he was an hour and a half late to his performance,<ref>{{cite web|last=Samudrala|first=Ram|url=http://www.ram.org/music/woodstock/woodstock.html|website=ram.org|title=Woodstock '94|date=August 15, 1994|access-date=July 13, 2021|quote=Bob Dylan was simply amazing! He was 1.5 hours late but it was worth the wait.}}</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.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}} 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 Cafe#Casinos and hotels|Hard Rock Hotel & Casino]] in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]].
*[[Peter Gabriel]] headlined the North Stage on the last night and closed Woodstock '94.<ref>{{cite web|last=Samudrala|first=Ram|url=http://www.ram.org/music/woodstock/woodstock.html|website=ram.org|title=Woodstock 1994|date=August 15, 1994|access-date=June 26, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/08/14/chaos-rains-at-woodstock/938ab2b7-1386-491a-a8f8-b769c2cd7549/|title=CHAOS RAINS AT WOODSTOCK|last=Fisher|first=Marc|date=August 14, 1994|website=washingtonpost.com|access-date=June 26, 2021|quote=State police spokesman Lt. James O'Donnell said it will take at least 20 to 25 hours to clear the site after Peter Gabriel's last song sometime after midnight Monday morning.}}</ref>

===Other notes on performers===
*Several of the artists including [[Green Day]] and [[Cypress Hill]] skipped at least one [[Lollapalooza]] tour date in order to appear at Woodstock '94.
*Performers from the original [[Woodstock]] appearing at Woodstock '94 were [[the Band]], [[Santana (band)|Santana]], [[Joe Cocker]], [[Country Joe McDonald]], [[John Sebastian]], the surviving members of [[Sweetwater (band)|Sweetwater]], and [[Crosby, Stills, & Nash]].  Additionally, [[Jorma Kaukonen]] and [[Jack Casady]] of [[Jefferson Airplane]]/[[Hot Tuna]] and [[Bob Weir]] of the [[Grateful Dead]], all Woodstock alumni, also appeared, performing with the Band on guitar, bass, and guitar and vocals, respectively.
*Six local unsigned bands performed at Woodstock '94,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Goggin|first1=David |last2=Stone|first2=Chris |date=November 1, 2012 |title=Audio Recording for Profit|chapter=Epilogue: Woodstock '94—A Major Pro Audio Case History|chapter-url=https://ebookreading.net/view/book/EB9780240803869_62.html|location= Burlington, Massachusetts|publisher=Focal Press|isbn=9780240803869|quote=Friday morning, everybody got up shaking because the downbeat of the festival was at 11 AM. It was like going into battle—very detailed preparations had been made, and now we had to do it. All working personnel were delivered early to the site because the first act was due to start that morning on the North Stage. Twenty acts followed, including unsigned local bands and a "rave" that began at midnight and continued until 6:30 AM the next morning.}}</ref> including Futu Futu and Lunch Meat of [[Saugerties, New York|Saugerties]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Spevak|first=Jeff|date=August 12, 1994|title=Revolving stage set to rock 'n' roll|work=Democrat and Chronicle|location=Rochester, New York|via=newspapers.com|quote=Mostly unsigned, unknown bands from the Saugerties area open at 11 a.m., bearing names such as Lunch Meat and Futu Futu.}}</ref> and Straight Wired  of [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Leopold|first=Jason|date=August 11, 1994|title=Local band to be part of Woodstock '94|work=The Daily Item|location=Port Chester, New York|page=3|via=Newspapers.com|quote=The ignored: Six unsigned bands - one of them from Westchester. They call themselves Straight Wired, and they're a group of unknowns who only last week played for 100 people in a Hoboken bar.}}</ref>

===Declined invitations or missed connections===
*[[Guns N' Roses]] were asked to appear at the festival but the band declined due to internal problems, as well as feeling the concert was too "commercial." However, lead guitarist [[Slash (musician)|Slash]] made an appearance with Paul Rodgers.
*[[Johnny Cash]] (the only living person at that time to be inducted into both the [[Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum#The Country Music Hall of Fame|Country Music Hall of Fame]] and the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]]) was also invited to perform on the last day of Woodstock '94, but declined  after learning that he would not be performing on the main stage.<ref>{{cite press release|author=[[Associated Press]]|date=August 7, 1994|title=Johnny Cash Says He's Out|newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/07/nyregion/johnny-cash-says-he-s-out.html|access-date=July 12, 2021|agency=[[The New York Times]]|quote=Johnny Cash, the country and western singer, says he has decided to withdraw from Woodstock '94 next weekend because of disagreements with the festival's promoters.}}</ref>
*[[Alice in Chains]] were on the festival’s initial bill. However, the band pulled out due to lead singer [[Layne Staley]]'s continuing drug problems.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/1994/08/05/alice-chains-no-more/|title=Alice in Chains No More? Rumors of the band's breakup continue to spread|last1=Hajari|first1=Nisid|last2=Appelo|first2=Tim|date=August 4, 1994|website=ew.com|access-date=June 26, 2021|quote=Buzz on Alice in Chains' withdrawal from their Metallica tour and Woodstock '94 dates has it that the multiplatinum Seattle act is riven by internal strife and by frontman Layne Staley's reported heroin habit.}}</ref>
*[[Todd Rundgren]] had a multimedia performance in the festival's "Surreal Field" several times during the course of the entire festival.<ref>{{cite press release|author=<!--Not stated-->|date=July 20, 1994|title=Philips Media celebrates music and multimedia at Woodstock '94|url=http://trconnection.com/trwood.html|access-date=June 26, 2021|agency=[[PR Newswire]]|via=trconnection.com|quote=The Philips Multimedia Village will feature a variety of interactive experiences, including a multiple-screen, multimedia show that highlights Philips Media's hot new software titles; a 90-station CD-i play tent where visitors can experience those titles hands-on, guided by cyberpunk arcade "gamers"; and the "Todd Pod," where multimedia musician Todd Rundgren will perform five live shows daily.}}</ref>
*[[Soundgarden]] were asked to play at the festival, but the band declined the invitation. [[Chris Cornell]] said at the time: "I think we've spent enough time playing in situations like that. It isn't our show."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/15/arts/the-pop-life-402060.html|title=The Pop Life|first=Neil|last=Strauss|work=The New York Times|page=12|date=June 15, 1994}}</ref>
*Promoters initially pursued [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] to perform at the festival. At the time, the band pulled out of [[Lollapalooza]] due to singer [[Kurt Cobain]]'s health.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/1994/04/15/woodstock-1994/|title=Woodstock in 1994|last=Seidenberg|first=Robert|website=EW.com|language=en|access-date=April 15, 2019|date=April 15, 1994}}</ref> By the time the festival was set to take place, [[Suicide of Kurt Cobain|Cobain's death]] and the band's disbanding eliminated the idea.

==Broadcast and recordings==
The Woodstock '94 festival was shot using the early analog [[High-definition television|HD]] 1125-line [[Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding|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>{{cite tech report|first=C.R|last=Caillouet|author2=Charles Pantuso|title="WOODSTOCK '94": A LIVE MULTI-FORMAT PRODUCTION|institution=NHK Enterprises, USA and NHK (Japan Broadcast Corporation). New York, NY and Tokyo, Japan|year=1995}}</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 [[Woodstock 94 (album)|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 [[bootleg recording|bootlegs]]. In 2019, [[Woodstock 1994 (Green Day album)|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====
*{{IMDb title|id=0162772}} – a film directed by [[Bruce Gowers]] with the highlights of performances
*''[[Woodstock 94 (album)|Woodstock 94]]'' – a live album released by [[A&M Records]]
*''[[Woodstock 1994 (Green Day album)|Woodstock 1994]]'' - Green Day (587282-1) - a 2019 Record Store Day vinyl release of their set.

==See also==
{{Portal|1990s}}
*[[Woodstock]] (1969)
*[[Woodstock '79]] (1979)
*[[Woodstock '89]] (1989)
*[[Pol'and'Rock Festival|Przystanek Woodstock]] (1995– )
*[[Woodstock '99]] (1999)
*[[Heroes of Woodstock Tour|Woodstock '09]] (2009)

==References==
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==External links==
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/woodstock94festival
Woodstock Summer of 94 Documentary

*[http://www.woodstockmuseum.com/ Woodstock Museum]
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