Woodstock '94
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Woodstock '94 was a rock concert which was mounted in order to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock concert of 1969. It was announced as "Three more days of peace, love and music".
The concert ran from August 12, 1994 to August 14. The concert was also dubbed "Mudstock" due to a downpour on August 13; punk band Green Day saw their set degenerate into an enormous mud fight between the band and fans. Eventually, the band's bassist, Mike Dirnt, was mistaken for a stage-crashing fan by a bouncer, and in the ensuing fight he lost several front teeth. When Primus performed their hit song "My Name Is Mud" they were pelted in mud (bassist/singer Les Claypool commented before performing the aforementioned song that throwing things on stage was a sign of "small and insignificant genitalia"). In contrast, Nine Inch Nails took the stage already covered completely in mud.
The event took place in Saugerties, New York; 100 miles north of New York City.
Performers
- 3
- Aerosmith
- Allman Brothers Band
- Arrested Development
- The Band
- Blind Melon
- Blues Traveler
- Candlebox
- Jimmy Cliff's All Star Reggae Jam (with Rita Marley & Shabba Ranks)
- Joe Cocker
- Collective Soul
- Counting Crows
- The Cranberries
- Crosby, Stills & Nash
- Sheryl Crow
- Country Joe McDonald (with the Fugs)
- Cypress Hill
- Del Amitri
- Bob Dylan
- Melissa Etheridge
- Peter Gabriel
- Green Day
- Jackyl
- King's X
- Live
- Metallica
- Neville Brothers
- Nine Inch Nails
- Orleans
- Paul Rodgers Band (with Slash Neal Schon and Andy Fraser)
- Porno for Pyros
- Primus (Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell played with them on the song "Harold Of The Rocks")
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Rollins Band
- Todd Rundgren
- Salt-N-Pepa
- Santana
- Sisters of Glory (Thelma Houston, CeCe Peniston, Phoebe Snow, Mavis Staples & Lois Walden)
- Spin Doctors
- Traffic
- W.O.M.A.D.
- Violent Femmes
- Youssou N'Dour
- Zucchero
Trivia
- The only performers from the original Woodstock were The Band, Santana, Joe Cocker, Country Joe McDonald and Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
- Nine Inch Nails were considered to have the largest crowd density at the event, overshadowing Metallica
- 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.