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1. In 1999, a third major music 'Woodstock' festival took place in New York State and featured many artists who were not in the business at the time of the original. Which singer who was not even born when the original 1969 festival took place wowed the 1999 audience with her vocals and the song "Down So Long"?

Answer: Jewel

Let's get the messy actuality out of the way early on, the first 'Woodstock' festival took place on a farm at Bethel, New York State, about 40 miles from the town of Woodstock. Woodstock '99 took place near Rome, New York.

Jewel, meanwhile, was born in 1974. "Down So Long" was on her second album and hit number 59 on the Billboard 200. The festival probably did not do her career any harm, she went own to sell more than 30 million records.

2. It was not just the music that was hot at Woodstock '99, so was the weather. Which band played a cover of The Doors' "Roadhouse Blues" and were joined by an original Doors' band member in temperatures of over 80 degrees Fahrenheit?

Answer: Creed

As 'Rolling Stone' noted, Creed were famously (notoriously?) voted "the worst band of the nineties" by readers of the magazine. Doors guitarist Robby Krieger was on hand for what the magazine called "a brutal rendition of "Roadhouse Blues".

The festival took place at Griffiss Air Force Base near Rome, NY, and the combination of high temperatures and hot tarmac runways took their toll. Two people died from heat exhaustion.

3. More than 700 people had to be treated for heat exhaustion and dehydration at Woodstock '99. Some felt it took a super human ability just to be there, but which Canadian band played their song "Superman's Dead"?

Answer: Our Lady Peace

The festival was policed by about State Troopers and the local police department, but volunteer security staff recruited in NYC simply abandoned their tasks and joined the crowd. By the end of the weekend, any chances of good public order had faded. With reports of assaults and looting, 700 State Trooper were called in to deal with what 'Ranker' called "30,000+ Rioting Concertgoers ".

OLP got together in Toronto, Ontario, in 1992 and were multi-winners of Canadian awards. "Superman's Dead" reached number 17 in Canada in 1997 and a number 11 on the US alternative rock charts. "Clumsy" was a number one that same year.

4. One band that had played at Woodstock in 1994 returned for the 1999 festival and played their hit "Mr. Jones" at both fronted by lead singer Adam Duritz. Who were they?

Answer: Counting Crows

Woodstock 1999 became noted for a host of sexual assaults and even the official website took the time to show underdressed festival-goers.

"Mr Jones" was a hit single from Counting Crows' 1993 debut album "August and Everything After". It reached number two on several of Billboard's affiliated charts.

5. Water was precious at Woodstock' 99 - some festival goers paid $4 a bottle - but one act, Kid Rock, urged the crowd that the kids pelt the stage with plastic water bottles,

Answer: True

In July 2021, 'Rolling Stone' featured Kid Rock's antics among the "19 Worst Things About Woodstock '99". Writing in 'Esquire' magazine in July 2021, Dave Holmes noted "The audience at the festival...was massive and largely male. These guys were mostly white, and these white guys were mostly angry. Angry at the mid-summer heat, angry at the lack of shade on the festival grounds, angry at the absence of tap water and the price of bottled water." He added "...despite it all, a lot of people still had a pretty good time."

Kid Rock, 'Rolling Stone' felt had fuelled some of the anger. The artist born Robert James Ritchie in 1971 was more noted for his albums than singles. He had eight albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200, but only one single reached the top 10 of the Hot 100. Quite apart from the Woodstock 99 performance, controversy followed Kid Rock around - too many to include here - but 'Billboard' produced "A Timeline of Kid Rock's Controversies" that you can search for online.

6. If you had booked early you could have got into the Woodstock 1999 festival for $157 - and that shot up to $180 for the weekend but one veteran of 1969 shrugged it off singing "If It Makes You Happy". Who was she?

Answer: Sheryl Crow

Accommodation throughout the area was booked out by those attending the Baseball Hall of Fame ceremony in nearby Cooperstown.

Sheryl Crow was aged just seven when the first Woodstock took place in 1969 and her performing carer did not start until 1987, when she was teaching music by day and playing in a band by night

7. One band created mayhem at Woodstock '99 by throwing $100 bills into the crowd while the lead singer of another was relaxed enough to surf over the crowd on a piece of plywood as his band played their near-hit "Faith". Who were that band?

Answer: Limp Bizkit

The generous band were Insane Clown Posse and their giveaways on the East Stage was reported by the 'San Francisco Examiner'.

Limp Bizkit, meanwhile got together in 1994. "Faith "hit number 33 on the US Mainstream Rock charts. The song was a cover of the original by English singer George Michael. Despite having two chart-topping albums in the USA, singles success eluded the band, perhaps because they found it difficult to get radio airplay. As 'songfacts.com' noted: "They were playlist poison, since for every fervent Limp Bizkit fan there were many listeners who couldn't stand them. Their sound didn't play well alongside the traditional hits, so only the most daring rock stations gave them any love."

8. Woodstock 1999 was not a financial sell-out, even though 250,000 tickets were printed and 220,000 people turned up. It is thought that many people sneaked in without paying and perhaps a few jagged little pills were in circulation. Hardly the behaviour that a Canadian artist was singing about in "So Pure". Who was she

Answer: Alanis Morissette

Rumour has it that so booked-out were hotels and other accommodation venues close to the site that a hotel at Rome, New York, turned Morissette away.

Alanis Morissette was another performer not born at the time of the original 1969 festival. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1974. Her debut album was released in 1991, but it was 1995 third LP "Jagged Little Pill" that brought her to widespread attention. It was to be a chart-topper across the world and produced four Canadian number one singles and two Grammy wins.

9. Perhaps appropriately for some of a crowd that liked to get high on more things than music, the song "Block Rockin' Beats" went down well. Who were the singers?

Answer: Chemical Brothers

The British duo Chemical Brothers won a Grammy for "Block Rockin' Beats", which had topped the UK singles charts in 1997. They also had five successive UK number one albums.

10. British in origin but sharing a name with a US president, which band sang "Everything Zen" at Woodstock '99?

Answer: Bush

Hailing out of London, the band got together as part of the grunge movement in 1992. The name came from the area they lived in, Shepherd's Bush.

Their debut album "Sixteen Stone" was not a big hit in the UK, but reached number four the Billboard 200 and reached the top five in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Their second album, Razorblade Suitcase, reached number one in the US and number four on the UK albums charts in 1996.

Source: Author darksplash

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