By now, you may have heard of Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 on Netflix. The documentary that takes a deep dive into the culture in 1999 as it relates to Woodstock and all of the mayhem that took place there.
MTV posted up next to the largest main stage and brought out every major VJ from the crew to upstate New York for the event.
Carson Daly, probably its most recognizable face at the time, soon became a target of the boy band haters in the crowd:
There’s no doubt that this crowd was NOT there to remain calm under any circumstances.
As Daly recalls:
All I can say is I thought I was going to die. It started off great, TRL live from the side of main stage interviewing all the bands (like Jay from Jamiroquai) & then started getting pelted with bottles, rocks, lighters, all of it. It got insane, fast. Nightfall, Limp plays ‘Break Stuff’ & the prisoners were officially running the prison. My boss at MTV, Dave, says to our staff/crew backstage, ‘We can no longer guarantee your safety, it’s time to go!’ I remember being in a production van driving recklessly through corn fields to get to safety. It was so crazy & a blur now. I just remember feeling like I was in another country during military conflict. I have so many fun memories from that era, this was not one of them. Needless to say, I haven’t taken the fam back to Rome, NY for a vacation.”
Whoever you blame for the wildness that was Woodstock ’99 this moment is no doubt one of the… gnarliest in the rap-metal era:
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