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Woodstock '94 poster design

Woodstock '94 was a music festival organized in order to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival of 1969. It was promoted as "2 More Days of Peace and Music." The famous poster used to promote the first concert was revised to feature two birds perched on a guitar (instead of one).

The concert was scheduled for August 13 and 14 of 1994, but a third day (August 12) was added.

The event took place on a large field in Saugerties, New York, about 100 miles (160 km) north of New York City. The site is only 10 miles (16 km) from Woodstock, New York and it was originally proposed as an ideal location for the 1969 concert. But permission to use the property was not granted the first time around, so the first concert was instead held in Sullivan County, much further from the namesake town of Woodstock.

Green Day, who had just made major label success, destroyed the Woodstock 94 Stage after starting a major mud fight while performing the song Paper Lanterns.[1]. Mike Dirnt, the band's bassist, was mistaken for a mud-covered audience member and was tackled by security, knocking out several of his teeth.

The festival was followed by Woodstock 1999.

Performer List

Friday, August 12

Saturday, August 13

Sunday, August 14

Notes on Performers

  • The only performers from the original Woodstock were The Band, Santana, Joe Cocker, Country Joe McDonald, John Sebastian and Crosby, Stills, & Nash. Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, another Woodstock alumnus, also appeared with The Band on guitar and vocals.
  • Nine Inch Nails were considered to have the largest crowd density at the event, overshadowing many of the more mainstream bands of the time.
  • Irish group The Cranberries proved very popular at the event.
  • Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of Kiss were offered 1 million dollars to reunite with Peter Criss and Ace Frehley to headline the show, but they declined.
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers performed in lightbulb costumes for the first few songs 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.
  • Surviving Nirvana members were offered a large sum of money to get back together, with a new singer to replace Kurt Cobain, but turned it down.
  • Several of the artists, including Green Day and Cypress Hill, skipped at least one Lollapalooza tour date in order to appear at Woodstock '94.
  • Peter Gabriel headlined and closed Woodstock '94.
  • Pepsi was the presenting sponsor, distributing millions of free Woodstock '94 guides nationwide.
  • Blind Melon frontman Shannon Hoon played Woodstock in his girlfriend's dress and was wearing makeup.
  • In the interview after their performance, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor claimed he thought it was a horrible performance.[2]
  • 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."[3]
  • Aphex Twin's performance was cut short when promoters 'disconnected' him midshow for forging his signature on a contract, which would forfeit the rights to his performance.[4]
  • Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joey Kramer were actually concert attendees at the original Woodstock festival in 1969.
  • 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. 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 gentleman, Mr. Bob Dylan”. According to various critics, Dylan's performance was one of the greater moments of the festival, and represented the beginning of another one of the new phases in his lengthy career.
  • During Primus's performance of the song My Name Is Mud the audience responded suitably by pelting the band with mud, which singer /bassist Les Claypool ended by informing the crowd that whoever threw mud had small genitalia. Les claims that he still has mud in his bass cabinets to this day.
  • Rumors circulated during the festival that The Rolling Stones were to make a surprise appearance because they were scheduled to play a concert in New York that weekend.
  • Woodstock '94 is also called Mudstock '94, because of Green Day's performance. Green Day started a massive mud fight, and after their time on stage was over, people continued to throw mud and screamed "GREEN DAY, GREEN DAY!" and had to be told to respect the other bands.

Recordings

References

  1. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h275pulfwHE
  2. ^ "YouTube - NIN - woodstock 1994 interview".
  3. ^ Jonathan Gold (1994-09-08). "Love It To Death: Trent Reznor Of Nine Inch Nails Preaches The Dark Gospel Of Sex, Pain, And Rock & Roll". Rolling Stone Issue #690, archived on Painful Convictions. Retrieved 2007-03-31. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ "Al Weisel - Ravestock at Woodstock '94".

Also the movie by Barbara Kopple named My Generation which was a documentary about all three woodstocks

See also

Template:Notable Concerts

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