“Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99” is a must-watch… Ali says so!

After watching “Trainwreck: Woodstock 99” I am 110% certain I would’ve left after day one. The original festival in 1969 was about community. Everyone was preaching about ‘peace’ and ‘love.’ Woodstock was a movement. It defined a generation. Some of the same organizers banded together again in the 90’s, along with new corporate promoters, hoping the festival would bring a new generation together in a similar way. Unfortunately, greed, the utter lack of concern for festival-goers, and poor planning caused absolute mayhem for the entirety of the festival. “Trainwreck” gives first-hand accounts of what the debacle was like from the perspective of the artist, fan, production team, and security. I watched every episode back-to-back because I couldn’t believe it actually happened that way. In 1999, when I saw it on TV as a teenager, I remember MTV VJ’s getting garbage hurled at them on live television from the crowd below. It seemed more funny to me at the time, to watch Carson Daly dodge pop bottles, but this Netflix documentary made me realize that it was all a part of the nightmare that was happening on the ground, and the people, they were revolting. And you thought Fyre Festival was bad… watch this!! -Ali