Posted by J.P. on July 30, 1999 at 14:19:48:
I WENT TO THE FESTIVAL IN 1994 AND THE ONE IN 1999. LET ME SAY THAT IN 1994 THE FESTIVAL SITE WAS A LOT SMALLER THAN THE LAST ONE AND THERE WERE TWICE AS MANY PEOPLE! 99 WAS BULLSHIT PEOPLE HAD TO WALK MILES TO GET TO THE OTHER STAGE OR THEIR TENTS. INSIDE THE FESTIVAL THERE WERE FENCES AND WALKWAYS RESTRICTING YOU, AND FORCING PEOPLE INTO WALKING THE LONG WAY SO YOU WOULD GET SUCKERED INTO SPENDING MONEY AT THE VENDORS WHO WERE STRATEGICALLY SETUP TO CON PEOPLE. IT WAS LIKE, WALK A MILE AND A HALF TO YOUR TENT TO EAT AND DRINK FOOD YOU BROUGHT FROM HOME, AND MISS PARTS OF THE SHOWS OR WALK A HALF A MILE AND SPEND 4 DOLLARS ON A TWENTY OUNCE WATER, STALE SOGGY PRETZEL OR A 10 DOLLAR GYRO. THE BEST WAS THE 15 DOLLAR BAGS OF ICE, OR WHEN THE WATER STATIONS WERE ALL SHUT OFF AROUND THE EAST STAGE AND DEHYDRATED PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY FORCED TO BUY 4 DOLLAR WATERS TO SURVIVE. FUCK THAT SHIT I'M SO GLAD THE VENDORS GOT LOOTED UNFORTUNATLY I LEFT SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND MISSED THE RIOTS. I HOPE THE COST IN DAMAGES WAS GREATER THAN WHAT THOSE BASTARDS MADE IN PROFITS. I REMEMBER IN 1994 IT TOOK TWENTY MINUTES TO WALK FROM THE NORTH STAGE TO MY TENT, PRICES WERE STILL HIGH BUT NOT AS RIDICULOUS AS THIS WOODSTOCK. I WAS ALSO ABLE TO GET WATER WHENEVER I WANTED, FOR FREE! THERE WERE NO OBSTACLE COURSES TO GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B. THE SHOCK OF BEING 17 YEARS OLD AND SEEING TITS AND ASS EVERYWHERE ALONG WITH PEOPLE FUCKED UP OR GETTING HIGH EVERYWHERE OUT IN THE OPEN WITH NO AUTHORITY PEOPLE AROUND IS WHAT MADE 94 THAT MUCH BETTER FOR ME. AT THIS ONE I KIND OF KNEW WHAT TO EXPECT SO THE SHOCK ASPECT WAS NOT THERE. ASIDE FROM THE SCAM ASPECT BULLSHIT OF 99 I HAD A GREAT TIME. LIMP BIZCUIT, KID ROCK RAGE AND OFFSPRING KICKED ASS!