Woodstock ’99 was fucking insane. The rampant commercialism was just one aspect that didn’t resemble the original. The lineup? Absolutely stacked. Rage Against The Machine. Metallica. Korn. Red Hot Chili Peppers. And a little band called Limp Bizkit, whose popularity after their performance at Woodstock catapulted them into selling millions of copies of Significant Other, which dropped a few weeks before their Woodstock set.
Their performance wasn’t without controversy, to be sure. But it’s near impossible to not be in awe of the way Limp Bizkit simply commanded the crowd. Could you imagine the reactions to Woodstock ’99 if social media had been more advanced? Ironic, since the memes about X (formerly Twitter) would’ve made things go absolutely ballistic. Few bands of that era could truly pull this off. Truly the concert for the end of the millennium. And you can’t beat fans in the crowd surfing on boards. It was, to say the least, a different era.
According to legend and folklore, Wes Borland can spin around an infinite number of times while playing guitar, and still not get dizzy.
