{"id":2446715,"date":"2019-07-24T10:59:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/uncategorized\/uncategorized-news\/flashback-rage-against-the-machine-burn-an-american-flag-at-woodstock-99-242004\/"},"modified":"2019-07-24T10:59:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:59:43","slug":"flashback-rage-against-the-machine-burn-an-american-flag-at-woodstock-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/flashback-rage-against-the-machine-burn-an-american-flag-at-woodstock-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Rage Against the Machine Burn an American Flag at Woodstock \u201999"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Woodstock<\/a> \u201999 was a shameful disaster. Promotors brought 200,000 young rock fans to a former Air Force base in Rome, New York, but failed to provide them with nearly enough toilets or free water. It was held on a scorching hot weekend in late July with temperatures above 100 degrees, and there was little shade. Bottled water was $4. Some sort of violent eruption was practically inevitable.<\/p>\n

This was the height of the \u201cnu metal\u201d movement, and Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock<\/a>, Korn<\/a> and Rage Against the Machine<\/a> were all on the bill along with Insane Clown Posse, Creed, DMX and many others stars of the day. The only returning acts from the original 1969 festival were Who<\/a> bassist John Entwistle and Grateful Dead<\/a> drummer Mickey Hart. Both of them were relegated to side stages.<\/p>\n

Rage Against the Machine performed near the end of the second night, sandwiched between Limp Bizkit and Metallica<\/a>. Fred Durst was widely blamed with whipping the crowd into a violent frenzy. \u201cPeople are getting hurt,\u201d he said. \u201cDon\u2019t let anybody get hurt. But I don\u2019t think you should mellow out. That\u2019s what Alanis Morissette<\/a> had you motherfuckers do. If someone falls, pick \u2019em up. We already let the negative energy out. Now we wanna let out the positive energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

There weren\u2019t a ton of musical highlights at Woodstock \u201999, but Rage delivered an amazing set on July 24th, 1999. They wrapped it up by burning an American flag while performing \u201cKilling in the Name.\u201d It wasn\u2019t the last fire of the weekend.<\/p>\n

Rage guitarist Tom Morello<\/a> defended the festival in 2000 interview<\/a> with Addicted to Noise. \u201cI think that the sexual assaults that occurred were horrific and inexcusable,\u201d he said. \u201cBut in general, I thought the media coverage was grossly unfair and youth-bashing and tried to vilify an entire generation because of a couple of idiots there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morello has a very different take on the matter these days. \u201cFor me, Woodstock \u201999 was the low point of nu metal,\u201d he says in the heavy metal oral history Louder Than Hell<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThe rapes in the pit, the trashing of the sites. It just seemed like it distilled the worst elements of metal \u2014 the misogynist jock buggery \u2014 and the message wasn\u2019t announced as \u2018This is a horrible thing.\u2019 It was more like, \u2018This is our new Woodstock generation \u2014 [a] bunch of idiots.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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Woodstock \u201999 was a shameful disaster. Promotors brought 200,000 young rock fans to a former Air Force base in Rome, New York, but failed to provide them with nearly enough toilets or free water. It was held on a scorching hot weekend in late July with temperatures above 100 degrees, and there was little shade. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 04:49:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}