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Clips from Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 - You Can't Stop a Riot in the 90s (S01E01)

"to come back to our area again."
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"We'd be more than happy to host you,"
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"and rock and roll in central New York."
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"And all these, you know, officials just couldn't wait to invite us back."
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"[laughs] It was the most amazing event."
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"Thanks, you guys have been great for the most part,"
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"and we really appreciate it."
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"I walked out of there feeling just great."
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"[man 1] Party."
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"[man 2] Get a shot of this kid smoking some pot."
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"Whoo! Woodstock '99, there's a storm coming."
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"[man laughs]"
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"[crowd shouting and whooping]"
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"[Rowland] Michael and John are optimists."
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"So, for them, it was kind of, it's all positive, it's all positive."
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"But, you know, we were all on edge, because we'd seen the face of a disaster"
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"in the night before."
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"But the show was gonna go on."
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"So, we hoped for the best and that calmer heads would prevail."
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"-[bass solo playing] -[crowd cheering]"
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"-The Chili Peppers are doing their thing. -Awesome."
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"Wild and crazy."
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"We're about to get out of here. The finish line is in sight."
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"We just got to get through the Red Hot Chili Peppers."
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"[crowd cheering]"
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"[band playing]"
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"Flea is butt-ass naked,"
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"and if I remember correctly,"
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"very many people in the audience were also butt-ass naked."
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"♪ All around the world, we can make time Rompin' and a stompin' ♪"
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"♪ 'Cause I'm in my prime Born in the north ♪"
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"♪ And sworn to entertain ya… ♪"
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"[Cody] Chili Peppers?"
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"It was kind of a blur."
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"It almost felt like you went to war by that point."
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"It was like, "Oh man, we've been through the wringer.""
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"[Pilar Law] So, Sunday night, I'm in the production office."
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"Red Hot Chili Peppers were still performing."
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"[no audio]"
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"We had gotten collectively probably four hours of sleep."
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"So, we were exhausted."
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"[woman] They're all just passed out."
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"They've worked too hard for too long."
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"I'm exhausted, and I'm in my office with all the radios."
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"All of a sudden, I hear the producer's channel,"
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"and that's the channel with Michael Lang, John Scher."
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"[man, over radio] Everybody on stage, do you copy?"
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"And they were going to hand out 100,000 candles."
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"[man] Oh man."
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"Wow."
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"My boss and I looked at each other and just like…"
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"Yeah, Michael's the candle guy, all right?"
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"You know, Michael's the candle guy. I mean, I knew very little about it."
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"So, we planned for this candlelight vigil"
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"to occur toward the end of the Chili Peppers' set."
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"[Speir] Columbine had just happened a few months before."
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"The issue of gun violence was really starting to come to focus"
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"in American society."
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"And there was this thought that anti-gun violence could be our cause."
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"The idea was that we would light up the night at the end,"
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"the culmination of the festival, with these candles,"
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"and that that was going to be a big visual demonstration"
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"of this generation speaking out about gun violence."
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"I knew nothing about plans for a candlelit vigil."
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"[crowd shouting]"
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"Immediately I started screaming into the radio,"
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""You can't do this. It's not approved by the fire marshal.""
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"[Rosenblatt] I don't know what's going on…"
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"And John Scher just tells me to shut up and get off the channel."
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"[Scher, over radio] Villagers are calm. Everything's okay. Don't worry about us."
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"The joke was, you had taken everybody's flammable items for days,"
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"and now you're gonna do the total opposite"
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"and ask people to light candles up."
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"-["Under the Bridge" playing] -[crowd cheers]"
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"[Gross] So I'm standing on the side of the stage."
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"Like, Flea's naked butt is ten feet away from me,"
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"like, literally ten feet away from me."
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"They started playing "Under the Bridge.""
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"♪ Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner… ♪"
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"[Gross] Then all of a sudden,"
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"there's just a vast sea of candles."
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"♪ I don't ever wanna feel ♪"
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"♪ Like I did that day ♪"
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"♪ Take me to the place I love ♪"
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"♪ Take me all the way ♪"
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"♪ I don't ever wanna feel… ♪"
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"[Gross] It was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen."
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"The light spread through the whole crowd"
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"of hundreds of thousands of people."
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"♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪"
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"♪ Hold me, no-no, yeah, yeah… ♪"
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"[Heather] And it was very original Woodstock,"
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"because it was supposed to be a peaceful,"
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"you know, like, happy thing, bringing everybody together."
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"[crowd cheering]"
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"Peace, baby. Peace."
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"But that's not how it turned out."
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"[Rosenblatt] To give flames to an audience"
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"that is three days into being treated like animals…"
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"It was not a very smart decision."
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"[ominous music]"
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"I saw off in the distance"
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"what looked like a fire."
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"[crowd cheering]"
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"We turned to each other, and it's like, "Well, this isn't good.""
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"[man, over radio] This is security at the East Stage."
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"You better stop the concert."
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"[Scher] I'm on the side of the stage."
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"I was very concerned."
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"First of all, I was afraid somebody was gonna get hurt."
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"Secondly, I knew this was gonna be,"
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"you know, a newsworthy issue."
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"[reporter 1] All right, welcome back to Fifteen-Fifteen Live."
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"[reporter 2] A fire has broken out by the main stage."
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"The concert was stopped moments ago. Heaven knows what's happening here."
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"This has been a festival of extremes all the way from day one."
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"[man, over radio] We need a fire truck out here fast."
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"[Lang] It was this main fire that was my concern."
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"Things like that that go uncontrolled can lead to more chaos."
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"-[Scher] Calm down, we don't want any… -[man] Whoo!"
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