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Ffdp mosh pit6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() 'It was not your parents Woodstock,' one man explained in the trailer for the documentary, which features interviews with attendees, journalists who covered the event, and musicians who performed. Held 30 years later, it was billed as another three days of peace, love, and music - it was anything but. Woodstock '99 was an attempt to pay homage to the counterculture idealism that made the 1969 festival a pivotal moment in musical history. The nightmarish musical festival kicked off on July 22, 1999, with about 220,000 music fans arriving at a former Air Force base outside of Rome, New York, which was roughly 100 miles from the site of the original Woodstock. Published: 00:18 BST, 24 July 2021 | Updated: 00:55 BST, 24 July 2021Īfter a long weekend of violence, vandals lit fires on the last night of the show Roughly 10,000 people needed medical treatment, 44 were arrested, and two died at Woodstock '99.The violence came to a head on the last night when rioters lit bonfires, flipped cars, and tore down booths.There were countless sexual assaults and eight reported rapes, with one body-surfer allegedly being gang-raped in the mosh pit.Concertgoers rolled around in puddles of human feces they thought was mud.People were passing out because of heat exhaustion and dehydration, while the porta-potties quickly became clogged and overflowing with waste.Temperatures soared to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and festivalgoers were left to bake on the tarmac with bottles of water costing $4 apiece.Woodstock '99 kicked off on July 22, 1999, with hundreds of thousands of music fans arriving at a former Air Force base outside of Rome, New York.The music festival was an attempt to pay homage to the counterculture idealism that made the original Woodstock in 1969 a pivotal moment in musical history.HBO's Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage takes an in-depth look at the carnage from the three-day event with interviews and archival footage.Order your copy here.The day the '90s died: Horrific footage from new Woodstock '99 documentary shows how the music festival erupted into chaos - with mosh pit gang rapes, riots, and fans rolling around in FECES Read the full interview with Five Finger Death Punch in the brand new issue of Metal Hammer, out now. ![]() And now punk music and rock music is the soundtrack to the establishment all of a sudden? But it’s like, ‘OK, we’ll just play music and create concerts.’ People are educated by clickbait headlines, but there’s so much else to talk about.” “It’s crazy, because music was a cultural weapon. ![]() You can do this, but the population can’t! As a band, we sort of withdrew from politics and that was the last political commentary, but it flew over people’s heads and we were accused of the craziest shit. “But it was about the blatant hypocrisy of what was happening. “Obviously, that video created a lot of dust, and I really don’t want to kick up another shitstorm about it,” says the guitarist, who was born and raised in communist-era Hungary before emigrating to America. In the same interview, which runs ahead of FFDP’s upcoming new album AfterLife, Zoltan defends the video, while acknowledging that it cause a huge amount of controversy. I love Zoltan to death, that’s his opinion, but it won’t ever be done with my name on it again.” And for those who didn’t, I’m sorry, I didn’t agree with it either. That’s what he visualised, but it’s not what I had in mind when I wrote it. “There was the mask thing and the awkwardness of the whole thing. Then when he released it, I called him, like, ‘You implemented your own platform into Five Finger Death Punch, and now I’m gonna have to answer for it, because I’m the singer.’ And it ended up going down like a fart in church! Speaking to Metal Hammer, Ivan says he gave Zoltan free reign on the video’s concept: “I showed up for two days and Zo told me to run across the grass, screaming and holding the American flag, so I was curious to see it. The video was widely perceived to be an anti-mask statement, seemingly depicting mask-wearers as communists. The Living The Dream video, released during the height of the pandemic, featured an authority figure wearing an ‘exempt’ badge, who pins a hammer-and-sickle-emblazoned badge reading ‘compliant’ on people who don masks.Īfter leading a group of mask-wearing ‘slaves’ around on chains, she orders them to smash up an ice cream van displaying the American flag. Interviewed in the brand new issue of Metal Hammer, featuring the Las Vegas band on the cover, Moody says the video “went down like a fart in a church” and that “it won’t ever be done in my name again.” Five Finger Death Punch singer Ivan Moody has revealed that the controversial video for 2020’s Living The Dream single caused tension between him and guitarist Zoltan Bathory. ![]()
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