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🗓️ ON THIS DAY IN METAL 🗓️ Limp Bizkit performed at Woodstock Festival in 1999...and all hell broke loose.

TW. Woodstock ’99 was meant to be the greatest festival of its generation. A quarter of a million people gathering in a disused air base in Rome, New York, for three days to watch the era’s biggest bands and artists. The idea was to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original Woodstock, arguably the most famous music festival ever. But today, this car-crash of an event is remembered as one of the most disastrous festivals ever.

On paper, Woodstock ’99 looked epic. The line-up was stacked with some of music’s biggest names, with the likes of Metallica, Rage Against The Machine, Megadeth and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers repping rock and metal on a bill that also featured James Brown, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow and Alanis Morissette. But a lot of eyes were on Korn and Limp Bizkit, two bands whose respective career trajectories were on a serious upswing at that point. This was as much a coronation for nu metal as it was a celebration of Woodstock‘s original spirit.

The peace-and-love vibes of the original event were in short supply in 1999. Food and drink were overpriced and understocked, and the festival infrastructure – including toilets and showers – were poorly planned, a situation that agitated the crowd. But that wasn’t the worst of it.

The four-day festival descended into chaos and violence, blighted by riots, arson, sexual assaults and rapes. By the end of the weekend, three people had died.

Limp Bizkit’s Saturday night set marked the point when Woodstock ’99’s problems erupted. By the time the band took to the stage, the crowd had been baking in the sun without shade for two days and forced to pay ridiculously inflated prices for basic food and drink. Bizkit shows usually acted as a cathartic release for their audiences. Here, their hour-long set became the spark that set off the powderkeg. By the time they unleashed Break Stuff, the crowd was in the mood to go crazy. Obeying that song‘s instruction, audience members began tearing down the stage and the sound tower. More disturbingly, women were sexually assaulted in the mosh pit by male fans.

Fred Durst tried to calm things down during Limp Bizkit’s set. “Don’t let anybody get hurt, but I don’t think you should mellow out,” he said. “That’s what Alanis Morissette had you motherf**kers do. If someone falls, pick ’em up.”

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