Carson Daly remembers effectively his harrowing expertise at Woodstock ’99. Due to the brand new Netflix documentary “Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99,” which chronicles the competition, the notorious occasion has been on the previous discuss present host’s thoughts greater than standard.
“I’ve been getting requested about #woodstock99 a ton just lately,” he wrote in an Aug. 12 Instagram submit. “All I can say is I believed I used to be going to die. It began off nice, TRL stay from the aspect of the primary stage the place we interviewed all of the bands (like Jay from Jamiroquai) and began getting thrown bottles, rocks , lighters, all that. It bought loopy, quick. Dusk, Limp [Bizkit] performs ‘Break Stuff’ and the prisoners formally ran the jail.”
Lastly, he and his crew determined to flee. “My boss @MTV Dave tells our workers/crew backstage, ‘We are able to not assure your security, it’s time to go!’ I bear in mind being in a manufacturing truck driving recklessly via cornfields to get to security,” he wrote. “It was so loopy and a blur now. I simply bear in mind feeling like I used to be abroad throughout army battle. I’ve so many humorous reminiscences from that period, that wasn’t certainly one of them. It Evidently, I haven’t taken the household again to Rome, NY for a trip.”
Daly, then host of MTV’s video countdown present “Whole Request Dwell,” also called “TRL,” coated the competition for the channel earlier than he needed to flee. In contrast to the 1969 celebration of peace and love that it tried to emulate, because the Netflix documentary reveals, Woodstock ’99 concerned fires, destruction of property, contaminated and poisonous water, and extra. One other HBO documentary, “Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage,” which aired in 2021, additionally detailed the catastrophe, which noticed officers in riot gear descend on festival-goers whereas smashing a vendor’s village amongst tons of different mayhem.