"We walked onstage and it was that wave of people bouncing as far as you could see, hundreds of thousands of people. "I remember getting there and just going Oh my God just look at this place, this is Woodstock. In the 2012 interview, Durst was taken aback by the response the band received. "Let's see if we can't get this motherf**kin' place stirred up a bit," exclaimed Durst. Taking to the East Stage around 8pm on the Saturday of the festival after the comparatively sedate run of Counting Crows, the Dave Matthews Band and Alanis Morissette, the huge crowd went wild. After these living conditions, are they gonna burn it down? They're gonna burn it down."Īndrew Lichtenstein/Sygma via Getty Images I bet everybody's gonna light them and hold them up'. They're not going to put it on the dumb-ass who handed out candles to everybody and said, 'Lets' capture a moment. But, as Durst explained: "They needed someone to point the finger at. The festival ended on the Sunday night with a number of fires that were started after a group of peace campaigners gave out candles that were intended to be held aloft during headliner Red Hot Chili Peppers' song Under The Bridge. When you’re looking out on a sea of people and the stage is twenty feet in the air and you’re performing, and you’re feeling your music, how do they expect us to see something bad going on?" He also told the Washington Post: "I didn’t see anybody getting hurt. But I guess to this day, it's going to be something that Limp Bizkit f**ked up." I had no idea that the finger would be pointed at me as a guy starting a riot. In a 2012 interview about Woodstock '99, Durst claimed: "When we were onstage, it was the greatest concert of all time. Durst notably doesn't appear in the new Netflix documentary, but he has spoken about Woodstock '99 in the past.įred Durst surveys the massive Woodstock '99 crowd. The main accusation centres around the band's performance of the song Break Stuff, during which it's claimed the frontman "incited" the crowd to riot.
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