Carson Daly thought he was “going to die” at Woodstock ’99.
The music pageant gone terribly fallacious is the subject of one other documentary. Appropriately titled Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99, the three-part Netflix streamer is concerning the mayhem in Rome, N.Y., now over twenty years in the past. Daly stated for the reason that doc got here out, he is been getting lots of questions on being there, as host of MTV’s TRL in that period, so he was addressing it.
“All I can say is: I believed I used to be going to die,” stated Daly, who’s now masking leisure information on the At the moment present. “It began off nice, TRL Reside from the facet of fundamental stage interviewing all of the bands (like Jay from Jamiroquai) & then began getting pelted with bottles, rocks, lighters, all of it. It bought insane quick.”
Daly, who included pictures of issues being thrown at him, stated at dusk as Limp Bizkit, with Fred Durst, performed “Break Stuff,” “the prisoners have been formally operating the jail,” referring to the indignant crowd. His MTV boss advised the workers and crew backstage, “‘We will now not assure your security, it’s time to go!’ I bear in mind being in a manufacturing van driving recklessly via corn fields to get to security.”
He known as the entire thing “so loopy & a blur now,” saying he felt like he “was out of the country throughout army battle.”
Now a father of 4, Daly ended by writing, “I’ve so many enjoyable reminiscences from that period, this was not certainly one of them. For sure, I haven’t taken the fam again to Rome, NY, for a trip.”
The doc, directed by Jamie Crawford, appears to be like at how the fest was the antithesis of the 1969 authentic with its message of peace on love. It was poisonous on many ranges — from mud on the grounds truly being human waste to many sexual assaults. There was additional violence, looting, vandalism and fires.
Spin reported on the time that festivalgoers, fueled with rage over the situations but in addition simply appearing out, hurled homosexual slurs at Daly and derogatory sexual remarks about his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Love Hewitt. One particular person “threw a cup of water in Daly’s face, and the beleaguered VJ mumbled, ‘Simply inform me, man, that that wasn’t your piss.'” Daly’s face was the goal of many overpriced plastic water bottles.
Earlier this week, WWE wrestler Mike “The Miz” Mizanin confirmed that he was a part of the gang after footage him — shirtless and screaming “Woodstock ‘99, child” into the digicam — was included within the doc.
“Earlier than The Actual World, 18-year-old Mike nonetheless knew the best way to discover the digicam. By no means knew this footage existed, needed to do a double take,” he wrote on Instagram, seemingly as stunned because the eagle-eyed viewers who noticed him.
Daly participated within the 2021 HBO Max documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage final 12 months. He mentioned it on the time on At the moment, saying the pageant has been known as “the day the ’90s died.” He continued, “Earlier than there was the Fyre Competition debacle,” that different colossal mess that landed organizer Billy McFarland in jail, “Woodstock ’99 was often called one of many largest pageant failures of all time.”
