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Woodstock ’94
Performer List
Friday, August 12
North Stage
• Blues Traveler
• Candlebox
• Collective Soul
• Jackyl
• James
• King’s X
• Live
• Orleans
• Sheryl Crow
• Violent Femmes
South Stage
• 3
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• Del Amitri
• Futu Futu
’94,
Woodstock ’94 often called the "commercial Woodstock"
• The Goats
or "Mudstock", was a music festival organized to com-
• Huffamoose
memorate the 25th anniversary of the original Wood-
• Lunchmeat
stock Festival of 1969. It was promoted as "2 More Days
• The Paul Luke Band
of Peace and Music." The famous poster used to promote
• Peacebomb
the first concert was revised to feature two birds perched
• Rekk
on a guitar (instead of one).
• Roguish Armament
The concert was scheduled for August 13 and 14 of
1994, but a third day (August 12) was added. Ravestock
The event took place on a large field in Saugerties, • Aphex Twin
New York, about 100 miles (160 km) north of New York • Deee-Lite
City. The site is only 10 miles (16 km) from Woodstock, • DJ Spooky[2]
New York and it was originally proposed as the location • Doc Martin
for the 1969 concert[citation needed]. Permission to use the • Frankie Bones
property was not granted the first time around, so the • Kevin Saunderson
first concert was instead held in Sullivan County, much • Little Louie Vega
farther from the namesake town of Woodstock.[citation • The Orb
needed] • Orbital
The crowd at Woodstock ’94 was estimated at • Scotto
350,000.[1] A smaller crowd, estimated at 130,000, attend- • Soul Slinger
ed a competing ’unofficial’ but free concert at the site of
the original Woodstock Festival in Bethel, NY. In 1994 the Saturday, August 13
weather was similar to that in 1969: rainy. By Saturday
much of the entire field had turned into mud. The Bethel North Stage
festival was produced by Richie Havens, Ken Lauber, • Joe Cocker
Bernard Fox and Gene Perla and all the contributing • Blind Melon
artists. • Cypress Hill
The festival was followed by Woodstock 1999. • Rollins Band
• Melissa Etheridge
• Crosby, Stills, & Nash featuring John Sebastian
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• Nine Inch Nails the Grateful Dead, all Woodstock alumni, also
• Metallica appeared at the latter festival, performing with the
• Aerosmith Band on guitar; bass; and guitar and vocals,
respectively.
South Stage • Nine Inch Nails were considered to have the largest
• Nenad Bach[3] crowd density at the event, overshadowing many of
• The Cranberries the more mainstream bands of the time.[citation needed]
• Zucchero Just before going on stage they had wrestled each
• Youssou N’Dour other in the mud and they went on to perform
• The Band featuring Hot Tuna, Bruce Hornsby, Roger completely wet and covered in mud as can be seen in
McGuinn, Rob Wasserman, and Bob Weir the video.
• Primus featuring Jerry Cantrell • Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of Kiss were offered
• Salt ’N Pepa 1 million dollars to reunite with Peter Criss and Ace
Frehley to headline the show, but they
Sunday, August 14 declined.[citation needed]
• The Red Hot Chili Peppers performed in lightbulb
North Stage costumes for the first few songs of their set. Later in
• Country Joe McDonald the set they would all dress up as Jimi Hendrix had at
• Sisters of Glory featuring Thelma Houston, CeCe the original Woodstock. The lightbulb costumes are
Peniston, Phoebe Snow, Mavis Staples, and Lois now on display at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in
Walden Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Arrested Development • Surviving Nirvana members were offered a large
• Allman Brothers Band sum of money to get back together, with a new
• Traffic singer to replace Kurt Cobain, but turned it
• Spin Doctors down.[citation needed]
• Porno For Pyros • Several of the artists, including Green Day and
• Bob Dylan Cypress Hill, skipped at least one Lollapalooza tour
• Red Hot Chili Peppers date in order to appear at Woodstock ’94.
• Peter Gabriel • Peter Gabriel headlined the North Stage on the last
night and closed Woodstock ’94.[4]
South Stage • Pepsi was the presenting sponsor, distributing
• John Sebastian and the J-Band millions of free Woodstock ’94 guides nationwide.
• Country Joe McDonald • Blind Melon frontman Shannon Hoon played
• Gil Scott-Heron Woodstock in his girlfriend’s dress, while completely
• WOMAD inebriated.[citation needed]
• Xalam • In the interview after their performance, Nine Inch
• The Justin Trio Nails frontman Trent Reznor claimed he thought his
• Geoffrey Oryema band’s performance was "terrible".[5] Reznor
• Hassan Hakmoun & Zahar admitted that while he disliked playing at such a
• Nenad Bach large show, it was done for the money: "To be quite
• Green Day frank, it’s basically to offset the cost of the tour we’re
• Paul Rodgers Rock and Blues Revue featuring Slash, doing right now."[6]
Neal Schon, Andy Fraser, and Jason Bonham • Aphex Twin’s performance was cut short when
• Neville Brothers promoters "disconnected" him mid-show for signing
• Santana a fake name on a contract, which would forfeit
• Eric Gales PolyGram’s rights to his performance.[7]
• Jimmy Cliff’s All Star Reggae Jam featuring Rita • Aerosmith’s Joey Kramer, Joe Perry and Steven Tyler
Marley, Eek A Mouse and Shabba Ranks were at the original Woodstock festival in
1969.[citation needed]
Notes on performers • After being injured in a traffic accident in 1966, and
his subsequent disappearance from the popular
• Performers from the original Woodstock appearing music scene, Bob Dylan declined to go to the original
at Woodstock ’94 were the Band, Santana, Joe Cocker, Woodstock Festival of 1969, even though he lived in
Country Joe McDonald, John Sebastian, and Crosby, the area at the time and the festival had been put in
Stills, & Nash. Additionally, Jorma Kaukonen and his backyard to try and get him to come out and
Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane, and Bob Weir of play. He set off for the Isle of Wight Festival the day
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the Woodstock festival started, and performed at
Woodside Bay on 31 August 69. Dylan, however, did
Recordings
accept an invitation to perform at Woodstock ’94, • Woodstock ’94 at the Internet Movie Database - a film
and was introduced with the phrase: "We waited directed by Bruce Gowers with the highlights of
twenty-five years to hear this. Ladies and gentlemen, performances
Mr. Bob Dylan".[8] According to various critics,
Dylan’s performance was one of the greater
moments of the festival, and represented the
References
beginning of another one of the new phases in his [1] Hill, Michael (1997-02-23). "Getting Back To the
lengthy career.[citation needed] Garden in Bethel". Bethel, N.Y.: Associated Press.
• During Primus’ performance of the song "My Name http://www.woodstocknation.org/ap.htm.
Is Mud" the audience responded by pelting the band Retrieved 2009-08-15. (Article archived on
with mud, which singer /bassist Les Claypool ended Woodstock Nation Web site.)
by informing the crowd that "You know, when you [2] Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid –
throw things on stage, it’s a sign of small and Some Career Highlights
insignificant genitalia." Claypool claims that he still [3] Everything Is Forever - Nenad Bach
has mud in his bass cabinets to this day.[citation needed] [4] ram.org: Woodstock 1994 concert review
• Rumors circulated during the festival that The [5] "YouTube - NIN - woodstock 1994 interview".
Rolling Stones were to make a surprise appearance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E18UfiILuE.
because they were scheduled to play a concert in [6] Jonathan Gold (1994-09-08). "Love It To Death:
New York that weekend.[citation needed] Trent Reznor Of Nine Inch Nails Preaches The Dark
• Woodstock ’94 has also been referred to as Mudstock, Gospel Of Sex, Pain, And Rock & Roll". Rolling Stone
or Mudstock ’94, partly due to Green Day’s Issue #690, archived on Painful Convictions.
performance, during which guitarist and lead http://www.9inchnails.com/articles/
vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong started a mudfight with articles.php?id=8. Retrieved 2007-03-31.
the crowd. The situation quickly spiraled out of [7] "Al Weisel - Ravestock at Woodstock ’94".
control, with many fans jumping onstage. This http://www.livefastdieyoungbook.com/
resulted in the security team mistaking bassist Mike rollingstoneravestock.htm.
Dirnt for a fan and tackling him, resulting in Dirnt [8] veoh.com: Bob Dylan Woodstock ’94
requiring emergency orthodontia. [9] TR at Woodstock ’94
• Johnny Cash, the only living person at that time to
be inducted into both the Country Music Hall of
Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, was also
See also
invited to perform but, after learning that he would • Woodstock Festival (1969)
not be performing on the main stage, declined to • Woodstock ’79 (1979)
appear.[citation needed] • Woodstock ’89 (1989)
• Alice in Chains were on the initial bill of the festival. • Woodstock ’99 (1999)
However, the band pulled out due to the continuing
drug problems of lead singer Layne Staley.[citation
needed] Guitarist Jerry Cantrell made a special guest
External links
appearance with Primus on the song "Harold Of The • Woodstock Summer of 94 documentary
Rocks". • Woodstock ’94 @ The WELL Notes and messages
• Todd Rundgren had a multimedia performance in from festival attendees, generated on-site in 1994.
the festival’s "Surreal Field" several times during the • Woodstock Museum
course of the entire festival.[9] • [1]
• Saugerties, NY - Town where Woodstock ’94 was held
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