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