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Trainwreck: Woodstock '99

Trainwreck: Woodstock '99

  • Status: Ended
  • 03-08-2022
  • Runtime: 52 min
  • Score: 7.2
  • Vote count: 118

Woodstock 1969 promised peace and music, but its '99 revival delivered days of rage, riots and real harm. Why did it go so horribly wrong?

Ananda Lewis

Herself

John Scher

Himself

Michael Lang

Himself

Season 1

03-08-2022

Peter McGinn

This documentary mini-series was well done, as least as far as I watched. I confess I stopped watching it during the second of three episodes, but not due to any quality issue. Like I said, it was fine. But I determined that the subject didn’t interest me as much as I thought it would. It didn’t help that the bands they hired for the festival were almost all of no interest to me. But I will say that if you like band their lineup, were present at the actual event, or if you are a student of musical history you should find it interesting. Certainly anyone who even considers yet another spinoff on the idea of a Woodstock should watch this program and be warned off. Indeed, perhaps Trainwreck can be utilized as a primer on how not to run a music festival.