All rights reserved About Us. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Ad Choices. Don't settle for anything less than responsible journalism. Dehydration, disrespect, and violence quickly overshadowed the music. Crowd members trashed the grounds, cavorted in sewage-tainted mud, and set fires.
Four women reported rapes to police, and many more later spoke of being sexually assaulted. Woodstock Peace, Love, and Rage , a riveting visual essay directed by Garret Price and produced by The Ringer , does not complicate the public image of the festival so much as confirm its veracity in disgusting detail.
Footage captures bellowing bros groping female crowd surfers, white audience members rapping along to every N-word DMX shouts onstage, and Carson Daly getting pelted with junk by concertgoers who think of MTV as girly and uncool. LOVE mural. They are under the towers. Please, help the medical team get them out of there.
We all know what happened next: Bonfires broke out throughout the crowd. Vehicles were flipped and set ablaze. Vendor booths and merch tents were destroyed and used as fuel. Eventually, the New York State Troopers and local law enforcement were able to diffuse the riots, but Griffiss Air Force Base still ended up looking like a bomb hit it. Related Stories. Newswire Powered by. Against being sold a four-dollar bottle of water on a sweltering summer weekend? Perhaps it was an overreaction to the resurgence of polished teen pop on MTV and on the radio; at one point, the punk band the Offspring brought out inflatable dummies dressed as the Backstreet Boys and destroyed them with a plastic bat while the crowd cheered.
Sometimes, bad behavior is a contagion. Enmity and resentment can replicate so quickly. After all the tumult and division the U.
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