Break Stuff explores the riots, mosh pits, and misplaced nostalgia of Woodstock ’99

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Break Stuff explores the riots, mosh pits, and misplaced nostalgia of Woodstock ’99

Bleeped
There’s No Sin In Cincinnati

In 1990, a groundbreaking exhibit by artist Robert Mapplethorpe arrived at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and practically turned the city upside down. “The Perfect Moment” was a collection of 175 black-and-white photographs shot in Mapplethorpe’s signature style, including explicit depictions of BDSM acts between men, as well as images of nude children. Listeners at work will probably want to grab their headphones for this episode—Bleeped host Matthew Billy gives frank descriptions of the transgressive, homoerotic works that sparked a media firestorm and shook squeaky-clean Cincinnati to its core. Billy also takes a look back at the sociocultural climate of the late 1980s that fueled swift local backlash to the exhibit and culminated in a highly publicized obscenity trial. This new documentary series explores the battles with censorship that have shaped American law and culture, and the historic debate sparked by Mapplethorpe’s controversial exhibit offers an example of the power of individuals and communities to protect freedom of artistic expression. Throughout the episode, Billy touches on the legacy of those who fought the Cincinnati officials trying to shut down the exhibit, raising larger cultural questions about the nature of art, pornography, and who should get to define those categories. [Sofia Barrett-Ibarria]


Break Stuff: The Story Of Woodstock ’99
Just One Of Those Days

With the 20th anniversary of Woodstock ’99 upon us, it’s a good time to dig into the factors that made that festival the illegitimate child of the Woodstock legacy. Music journalist and former A.V. Club editor Steven Hyden guides us through the premiere episode of this investigative podcast series, trying to make sense of what went wrong. Featuring observations from promoter John Scher, Korn lead singer Jonathan Davis, writer Maureen Callahan, and former MTV VJ Dave Holmes, the series title is borrowed from a Limp Bizkit song, and some have claimed that the quintessential dude-bro band was responsible for inciting the riots that took place. While Scher has no problems laying blame squarely at Fred Durst’s feet, archival interview footage and a retracing of the festival’s timeline place the band’s live set and the riots a day apart. Beyond snippets and personal accounts of Limp Bizkit’s performance (which included mosh pits that turned the medical tent into an intensive care unit), the phenomenon of cultural mythology is explored, examining how nostalgia can distort reality, particularly where perception of the original Woodstock festival is concerned. Hyden poses a question worth considering: “Why were we trying to recreate the ’60s in the ’90s in the first place?” [Jason Randall Smith]


Daddy Issues
Tony And Chaz Rodgers Talk First Time Fatherhood

African American comics Tony Baker and Keon Polee must have had people kvetching to them about their podcast’s very popular name. It turns out there are several podcasts with the same title, including another one where comedians joke about fatherhood. This one is still highly entertaining and enlightening, as Baker and Polee share the pluses and minuses of being, as Baker calls them, “known fathers.” In this episode, Baker holds down the fort while Polee takes that much-derided stand-up gig: a cruise ship. Fellow stand-up and former roommate Chaz Rodgers steps in as a co-host, and he and Baker do a fair amount of reminiscing, riffing (they start the show recalling good and bad times they’ve had consuming meat), and ball-busting as they compare notes on being stand-up dads. Baker gets into such things as “milkneck,” which babies get when milk spills into their neck creases and builds up an unsavory odor, while Rodgers laments feeding his baby girl organic foods he doesn’t know anything about. Whether you have kids, are about to have kids, or just don’t want to deal with those little bastards and prefer to observe from afar, the Daddy Issues these guys serve up are worth the time. [Craig D. Lindsey]


Filling The Void
Roller Coasters With Diablo Cody

In the world of podcasting, there is certainly no shortage of shows featuring professional creatives talking about their projects, their craft, and the things they’ve accomplished over the course of their career. Filling The Void, a new podcast from the recently debuted Earios network, is distinctly and purposefully not about those things. Hosted by author and co-creator of Netflix’s Love, Lesley Arfin, each episode features a guest talking about the hobbies and little joys that fill whatever time they’re not spending on work. How does a successful screenwriter and producer like Diablo Cody fill that time, you may ask? Traveling around the country riding roller coasters, of course. Listen and enjoy as Cody gives you the lowdown on her anxiety-filled history with these thrilling theme-park rides and explains how she evolved into the kind of person that takes bus tours of regional coasters, makes snide remarks about snobby enthusiast cliques, and shares hard opinions about roller-coaster names. Filling The Void is a breezy joy and a reminder that people are more than the things they create. [Dan Neilan]


Hollywood Crime Scene
John And Max Landis

Desi Jedeikin, co-host of Hollywood Crime Scene, sums up her feelings about father and son filmmakers John and Max Landis early in the latest episode when she says, “The piece-of-shit apple doesn’t fall far from the piece-of-shit tree.” Jedeiken supports this thesis by recounting to co-host Rachel Fisher both John Landis’ culpability in the horrific events on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie (which cost three people their lives) and the allegations of sexual abuse against Max. The first half includes a dutiful retelling of the chain of events that led to one of the worst on-set accidents in film history. But the main focus is on John Landis’ self-pitying lamentations on how he was just as much a victim as anyone else. The second half dealing with Max Landis feels less like a history lesson, not only because the story is still unfolding, but because of the hosts’ visceral antipathy toward the junior Landis. They know men like Max Landis. His kind are all too common in the entertainment industry. Hollywood itself is the biggest piece-of-shit tree there is, and Hollywood Crime Scene is collecting all the apples. [Anthony D. Herrera]


Larger Than Life
Becoming Big Willie

The Los Angeles Times appears to have ramped up its prestige podcast output nearly two years after the runaway success of Dirty John. Last month brought a detailed look at the accused Golden State Killer; this month, the focus moves away from true crime to profile a forgotten folk hero. Big Willie Robinson returned home from Vietnam in the mid-’60s, leaving his native New Orleans to settle in L.A. He found a community gutted by the Watts Riots and still roiling with animosity between the black community and the police. Robinson wasn’t looking to solve the city’s issues; he just wanted to drag race. But the 6-foot-6 black veteran was a natural peacemaker, and in time he was running the underground racing circuit. The cops took notice, and rather than bust everything up, they recruited him to organize unsanctioned but tacitly authorized events to rehab their shaky public relations. Robinson quickly began to move in celebrity circles while cultivating his own image, becoming a media sensation. However, the episode concludes with Robinson’s time as an establishment darling ending in 1970 after he backs a losing mayoral candidate. [Zach Brooke]


Queery With Cameron Esposito
Ryan O’Connell

Cameron Esposito is known for being a stellar comedian and advocate for the queer community, and with her podcast, she continues to give voice to the experiences of LGBTQ+ people. Ryan O’Connell is one such person: a writer from Ventura, California who recently created and starred in his own show, Special, on Netflix. O’Connell started as a blogger for Thought Catalog before publishing his memoir, I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves, in 2015. The book, which details his experience as a gay man living with cerebral palsy and his career writing for television, was immediately optioned for TV, though its small-screen adaptation just debuted this year. As O’Connell explains to Esposito, 2015 Hollywood was less than eager for narratives centered around queer individuals, let alone one living with a disability. Esposito and O’Connell have a compelling and in-depth conversation about the struggles and triumphs of being queer artists/entertainers and the ways in which our current cultural moment feels starkly different, even if we do still have a long way to go. [Jose Nateras]


Single Smart Female
Big Warning Signs When Dating

Every woman needs a romantic fairy godmomma, and Jenn Burton should be yours. The self-professed relationship guru sits down every week to help single women everywhere find the romantic life of their dreams. On this week’s episode, Burton answers the email of a 28-year-old single mother in the midst of a relationship dilemma. The listener shares her experience of dating a man who claims he’s not ready to be a father and how she’s not entirely sure of his faithfulness in their relationship. We can all relate to overlooking many red flags because we think we’ve found “the one,” but Burton provides her expert take on the importance of establishing trust, and why no relationship can truly work without it. She gives stern advice and a rare acknowledgment that it might be time to take a step back and reevaluate this relationship. Luckily, Burton never leaves listeners hopeless, and always leads with the reminder that there is a great, big romantic world just waiting for all of us. Plus, she offers three exclusive tips and warning signs for never settling in a relationship. It’s what every single smart female needs to find her next great love. [Vannessa Jackson]


Spectacular Failures
A Funeral Industry Giant Keels Over

People die all the time. It’s one of the things human beings do best. So how could a cornerstone of the funeral industry fail so, well, spectacularly? Spectacular Failures is the newest podcast to American Public Media’s slate of greats, this one hosted by audio darling Lauren Ober. The podcast aims to look at endeavors that somehow went wildly wrong. Ober is a fantastic and funny host, and paired with cheesy ’80s-inspired bed music, she creates a great contrast with the macabre subject matter of the funeral industry. This week’s episode looks into The Loewen Group, a “funeral home consolidator” that secretly ran tons of seemingly local funeral homes. Imagine if Starbucks owned your local Bean Bois or what have you—and then, imagine that somehow, they were taken down by a true mom-and-pop shop. It’s a story of classic capitalist greed, of hubris and comeuppance, and a bunch of caskets that, no, Lauren Ober would really not like to give a test drive, thank you. [Wil Williams]


Stuff To Blow Your Mind
Psychedelics: The Manifested Mind, Part 3

A useful tool for some, a terrifying, mind-altering, moral-challenging drug for others. Psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, mescaline—all of these psychedelics can have a profound impact upon a user’s life by way of hallucinations, intense euphoria, a distortion of perception and time, and maybe even an out-of-body experience. Fittingly, Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick of Stuff To Blow Your Mind have opened the floodgates on the subject with their latest series. “The Manifested Mind” is still rolling out episodes, and part three sees the two hosts discussing psychedelics as the subject of scientific studies in the ’50s and ’60s, from LSD aiding sufferers of alcoholism, to psilocybin being a catalyst for many churchgoers’ cosmic religious experiences, to psychedelics’ role in ’60s counterculture and their portrayal as drugs used solely by radical leftists. Informed by books like Food Of The Gods by Terence McKenna and Michael Pollan’s How To Change Your Mind, Lamb and McCormick introduce and (hopefully) demystify psychedelics for all interested. [Kevin Cortez]


Teen Creeps
A Summit On YA Fiction With Grady Hendrix (Episode #150)

There have already been 150 episodes of Teen Creeps! For this milestone episode, Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai are joined by Grady Hendrix, author of Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History Of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction. The three of them analyze YA pulp fiction and how it has evolved over the decades, exploring how the genre was often full of cautionary tales about how drugs are in everything from soda to apples. They also discuss how there seems to be a lack of minority representation done well, if at all. Through the whole episode, they revisit the books they loved most, like My Sweet Audrina featuring iconic villain Vera, who inspired the Teen Creeps hashtag and inside joke #ALLCAPSVERA with her pure, unparalleled evil. Listeners also get to hear Hendrix describe what inspired his own YA novel, My Best Friend’s Exorcism. They go on to cover the wildest tropes of the genre, including dressing up as a dead person to kill people, jump-scare fake-outs, and falling in love in hospital beds. Hearing these three discuss pulp with so much appreciation, thoughtful criticism, and genuine love is a delight that will make listeners excited for Teen Creeps’ next 150 episodes and beyond. [Nichole Williams]


UnStyled
Jenny Slate On Not Allowing Relationships To Define You

UnStyled, hosted by Refinery29 editor-in-chief and co-founder Christene Barberich, has a tendency to reveal some unexpected things about your favorite actors, designers, and artists. This installment featuring actor and writer Jenny Slate does it again, confirming why Slate is one of the most exciting voices in comedy today. Her conversation with Barberich reveals the tender, mindful human behind her many various characters, from Mona-Lisa Saperstein on Parks And Rec to Marcel The Shell With Shoes On. Slate doesn’t shy away from unpacking the challenges of the last five years, from her divorce, a high profile breakup, and a debilitating case of stage fright. This sprawling interview touches on bell hooks, the normalization of abortion, and how maybe saying “fuck” on air wasn’t the real reason behind the comedian’s dismissal from Saturday Night Live. Wildly self-aware, Slate discusses the disorienting and harmful nature of internal and external misogyny, especially in the world of entertainment, and how much work needs to be done in the industry to create actual parity. [Morgan McNaught]

68 Comments

  • plies2-av says:

    Cum Town: It’s good again, yall

  • boggardlurch-av says:

    Let’s be fair.How many of society’s ills CAN’T be blamed on Limp Bizkit in some way? I’m pretty sure I saw Fred Durst telling a pigeon to shit on my car.

    • joestammer-av says:

      That’s weird because legend has it Fred Durst is actually pigeon shit brought to life by an old witch’s curse.

      • westerosironswanson-av says:

        Some people say he still wanders the back roads, looking to return to the windshield from which he spawned.

      • hallofreallygood-av says:

        You know what the white stuff in pigeon shit is, right?Fred Durst.

    • extraordinarylandmine55-av says:

      Fags

    • robertaxel6-av says:

      I am OK with blaming Limp Bizkit with everything from fires all the way up to the rise of Trumpmania…

    • kag25-av says:

      Really, the one bad thing that came out of Fred Durst was the backwards red cap, I still see people rocking it.

    • jasonr77-av says:

      “I’m gonna do to you what Limp Bizkit did to music in the mid-90’s” I think is the perfect line that reflects Fred Durst’s attempt to bludgeon the entire country with his bullshit, as there are so many ways to take that line, and all of them make sense.

    • doctuar-av says:

      It’s all about the he said/she said bullshit.

    • ubrute-av says:

      If you look into a mirror and say “Limp Bizkit” three times you get pigeon shit on your face,

    • cordingly-av says:

      For all the sneering and jeering we direct at All Star, there’s the Hot Dog Flavored Water right there, and it seems like we don’t even want to admit that it happened.

  • sarahkaygee1123-av says:

    Been seeing a lot of praise for Spectacular Failures, I’ll check it out.
    Really liked the first episode of Noble Blood, it took something we all knew about in broad strokes (the execution of Marie Antoinette) and focuses on some interesting details. It was pretty grisly and in some places really sad—whatever you think of Marie Antoinette, I hope it doesn’t include being okay with her being forced to listen to her son being beaten, brainwashed, and forced into testifying that she’d molested him—but really interesting and well done.

  • greatgodglycon-av says:

    I was a 19 year old at Woodstock 99 and I think a major part of the problem was that alcohol was being served to minors without identification. I drank 8 dollar beers all weekend.

    • elrond-hubbard-elven-scientologist-av says:

      I was there as well (although I did not stay overnight on-site, I had a friend who lived nearby in Rome, NY). Add to that the terrible portable toilets, the pipes for the free water were broken, and overcharging for food and drink.  All that gave you a lot of drunk and pissed off people.  

      • greatgodglycon-av says:

        I ate maybe twice the whole weekend. People were literally shitting where they stood. It was absolutely bizarre.

    • secondcopy-av says:

      IIRC Woodstock 99 was on a former Air Force base? Take it from an idiot who forgot his sunscreen at an airshow: there’s not a lot of shade on an airfield.

  • blastprocessing-av says:

    Glad to see Hollywood Crime Scene get some love. 

  • tap-dancin-av says:

    “Break Stuff:..” LOVE that title.

  • extraordinarylandmine55-av says:

    Niggwrs

  • jfcrist-av says:

    “Why were we trying to recreate the ’60s in the ’90s in the first place?”

    Because Boomers spent literally the entirety of the 1990’s screeching about the 1960’s. It’s an actual no-brainer.

    • hasselt-av says:

      I’d almost forgotten about all that 1990s Boomer nostalgia and how smug much of it was.

      • calebros-av says:

        “We were the generation that changed everything!”Yeah, you fucks voted in Reagan. Changed everything alright. 

        • themechanicsofroadbeef-av says:

          I work in an apartment complex. Boomers are, hands down, the WORST people to deal with. They’re picky, complain every time the wind blows, and have no problem letting any and all employees have it with both barrels when they’re the least bit upset. 

    • SquidEatinDough-av says:

      Well, the music of the 60s was fucking great.

    • cordingly-av says:

      Forrest Gump was a hit.

  • hasselt-av says:

    “Why were we trying to recreate the ’60s in the ’90s in the first place?” Answer: Nostalgia can be easily monetized.

    • graymangames-av says:

      The dumb part though was trying to sell nostalgia to a different generation than the one who experienced the original. 

      • clickbaitandswitch-av says:

        It gets even dumber: The press advertised this event as a “the 60’s and the 90’s joining together in unity” thing. The Woodstock 99 producers expected half the audience to be 90’s teens and the other half to be old farts from the original Woodstock era. One MTV commercial said it would be a family event for “the really cool” families.

        I don’t know which is dumber: Thinking a bunch of drunken 90’s teen punks would want to hang out with the parents they just rebelled against, or thinking a bunch of over-the-hill yuppies would want to spend three days standing in a hot, muddy, crowded festival with no water or bathrooms.

        • graymangames-av says:

          How much more nightmarish would the show have been if a bunch of kids and families got trampled in the mosh pit for Limp Bizkit’s set after starving, getting sun-burned, and going without water?

      • thekingorderedit2000-av says:

        What they were selling was something that the new generation could eventually be nostalgic about. And why bother coming up with something new when you could just repackage something that did the trick the first time. 

      • frankwalkerbarr-av says:

        Well, I’m GenX and understandably feel warm fuzzies watching Stranger Things and while it ran, The Americans. Their 1980s settings spoke to me of my childhood and teenage years. And yet, I bet a lot of people who enjoy those shows weren’t even alive in the era when they were set. And while I enjoy complaining about Boomers as much as anyone younger than that generation, despite my relative age, I wasn’t around for any of the time period depicted on Mad Men, although I enjoyed that show as many others have. It isn’t dumb trying to sell nostalgia to younger generations — the trick is that the nostalgia actually has to be worthwhile.

  • gmemmoli-av says:

    I have this distinct memory of VH1 interviewing a guy from prison who was nabbed at Woodstock ‘99 for vandalism. He was a lanky guy from Boston, had his yellow prison jumpsuit on, and spoke eloquently about the dire conditions that led to the riots, ending with something along the lines of “I know what I did was the right thing.” What I’m saying is – I hope they interviewed him for the podcast.

  • graymangames-av says:

    “Why were we trying to recreate the ’60s in the ’90s in the first place?”

    That’s the rub, now isn’t it? If you get a chance, look up an interview with Soundgarden from Rolling Stone, June 1994. They were on tour in Europe when they got news Kurt Cobain killed himself, and Woodstock ‘94 was going to be held later that summer. Kim Thayil really resented the press stomping on what the alternative scene was trying to do at the time, and hated Woodstock ‘94 basically being a nostalgic cash-grab by the promoters.

    “Why are they so freaked out about Kurt Cobain? Because they don’t understand his music, and they don’t know who Kurt spoke to. It’s just something they missed. It just went right by ‘em. They thought they had a monopoly on rock & roll, and all of a sudden they realize they don’t. It belongs to someone else now. But they just won’t let it go.”So the Woodstock promoters were basically trying to sell a different generation’s nostalgia to kids, emphasis on sell. Woodstock was always about making money. The original being a cultural moment was completely by accident. Really, Woodstock ‘99 was the bottom falling out and exposing the cynicism underneath the entire event.

    Figures it took Limp Bizkit to expose that.

    • yummsh-av says:

      If anything is ever said or shown about music/rock n’ roll that isn’t just old footage of Vietnam with Jimi Hendrix’s ‘All Along The Watchtower’ playing over it, baby boomers by default want absolutely nothing to do with it.

      • graymangames-av says:

        Or “Fortunate Son” by CCR. Don’t forget that. 

        • tmontgomery-av says:

          That’s a big reason I love the drop-and-roll scene in The Big Lebowski; another CCR-Vietnam standard “Run Through The Jungle” soundtracks what is essentially a moment of pointless-yet-self-important idiocy.

    • anotherburnersorry-av says:

      Good on Thayll. Woodstock 94 has gotten a pass, I think, because people liked the Green Day and NIN performances and because it wasn’t a disaster like Woodstock 99, but it was just as much corporatized Boomer bullshit.I imagine Hyden’s podcast will talk about this, but sadly I won’t get to hear it because I’m not subscribing to Luminary for one podcast. (Write another book, Hyden!)

      • graymangames-av says:

        I just looked this up after your comment: apparently Woodstock ‘94 had an attendance of 500,000 (just like the original), but only sold somewhere around 150,000 tickets. Apparently the security was so lax (just ordinary chain link fences) that it was extremely easy for people to not only sneak in and bring a lot of booze/drugs with them.

        Really, it’s amazing they even made it to three concerts, because every Woodstock was a poorly-managed disaster waiting to happen. They got lucky with the first two, not with ‘99.

        • anotherburnersorry-av says:

          It’s been awhile but I have it in my head that the lax entry security was done on purpose in ‘94 because they were really aiming for a simulacrum of the 1969 festival. (I remember someone doing a version of the ‘don’t eat the brown acid’ announcement onstage in ‘94.) Both of the 90s Woodstocks were cultural embarrassments.

          • graymangames-av says:

            If that’s true, then that’s dumb. If you’re a concert promoter, you’re in the business of selling tickets and keeping patrons safe. Lax security means lost revenue and no guarantees of audience safety.

  • themudthebloodthebeer-av says:

    Any chance we could get a note added to the podcast description that it’s behind a paywall? I spent five minutes getting mad I couldn’t find the Break Stuff podcast on my regular podcast app. Duh, it’s on Luminary which I don’t subscribe too. I’ll have to remember Limp Biscuits ‘N Gravy unfondly without the podcast.

  • powell014-av says:

    I can never throw a stone at Limp Bizkit/nu-metal because 15 year old me was so very into that shit. For years I would say out loud that one of the best shows I ever went to was a Limp Bizkit/Papa Roach bill. What’s worse was by ‘02 I would proclaim that I’d grown out of that shit cause I was listening to important music like System Of A Down like it was my own Walden Pond. 

  • gato-fantasma-av says:

    So excited to hear Jenny Slate – a cool, funny lady who went through a very public breakup – open up about relationships and womanhood.

  • bashbash99-av says:

    I mostly remember lots of Pepsi commercials promoting Woodstock ‘99. That was a pretty clear sign that it would be a disaster. Altho on further reflection, i believe i’m thinking of woodstock ‘94.

    • SquidEatinDough-av says:

      I remember MTV literally selling a box of “memorabilia” for Woodstock ‘94, QVC-style, while the event was happening. It was funny/terrible and totally summed up the whole thing.

  • cinecraf-av says:

    I plan on listening to the Landis podcast tonight.  I’m not sure if they delve into this, but one of the biggest controversies of that night, is whether or not producer Steven Spielberg was present on the set at the time of the accident.  Spielberg has always denied he was there, but there are members of the crew who insist he was.  For such a typically handson producer (see Poltergeist for example) it is curiously odd he would happen to be absent during one of the most crucial setpieces of the film shoot.  And after the event, Spielberg was quick to distance himself from a filmmaker with whom he was once close friends.

    • mifrochi-av says:

      As an aside, have you looked at the Wikipedia page on that accident? It has a paragraph detailing the injuries that killed the two kids and Morrow. With a reference. That shit is just ghoulish. Anyway, Spielberg obviously has a reason to lie, but it’s also not unreasonable for a producer to skip a night shoot, of all things. I sometimes go full armchair psychoanalyst and wonder if his all-out embrace of CGI was related to that accident.  

      • cinecraf-av says:

        A third, perhaps most sinister possibility is that Spielberg, controlling producer that he is, was aware of was Landis was up to, using child actors paid under the table for a dangerous stunt, and made sure to be away from set that night, so he’d have plausible deniability in case something happened.
        I definitely think Spielberg knew more about the circumstances leading up to that night than he let on.  

        • mifrochi-av says:

          Probably. In fairness, though, the danger of that shot is obvious in hindsight, but no one expects a film shoot to end in the deaths of three people. That doesn’t excuse the cornucopia of horrible decisions that led to those deaths, but it’s easier (for me) to believe that those decisions were based on shortsightedness and cockiness (Landis had directed plenty of big setpieces in the past). Which is to say that they let Morrow and those kids onto that set because they believed it was safe. Anyway, the description of the podcast seems on-point to me. Landis was (at best) an above-average director whose career was dealt a serious blow when three fucking people died on his set. He fucked up, he suffered the consequences, and his take on it has historically been that those consequences were hard, dude, so lay off. Fuck that. Spielberg, for his part, probably could have exerted some kind of pressure to improve safety conditions on the Twilight Zone set, but his own sets have historically been pretty safe (give or take Harrison Ford’s back). And at least publicly, his takeaway seems to be that movies aren’t worth risking people’s lives, which is the kind of no-shit thinking that sounds radical coming from a 70s director.

          • cinecraf-av says:

            And I get so frustrated with Landis because he likes to say he paid a price, but he didn’t because he continued to work through the eighties, and his decline wasn’t a consequence of his action that night, it was because he was washed up as a director.

            Personally he should’ve been punished like they did the director of that film where the PA was hit and killed by a train..he was sentenced to prison, and barred from a film set for a decade. That would been a fitting punishment.  Landis should not have been allowed any kind of role on a film set. I’d happily sacrifice the few (minor) classics he made afterwards in exchange for him being held to account

    • egghog-av says:

      Rumors have it that Spielberg and Frank Marshall were a little too conveniently out of the country for most of the next year working on Temple of Doom, perhaps purposely until after the trial was finished so they couldn’t testify or be subpoenaed.

  • sr337-av says:

    It’s refreshing to see someone finally recognize that LBs set and the riots didn’t even happen on the same day, and actually hit a fever pitch during the RHCPs performance of “Fire” closing out the festival on Sunday.  

  • wondercles-av says:

    Woodstock ’99 was a disaster, and some ghastly things happened there. But at the time the story broke, it was really, really tough not to relish the old hippies’ anguish.

  • Mr-John-av says:

    I’m struggling to see the link between the horrifying deaths on The Twilight Zone Movie,  and Max Landis being rapist scum?

  • thecaptainstubing-av says:

    I tried to write a parody screenplay that was basically Almost Famous if the young lad was enchanted by Limp Bizkit, ICP, etc. Their Haight-Ashbury was Detroit, and Woodstock ‘99 was satirized as the Altamont ‘99 Festival.

  • daisuash2-av says:

    Well, as a 90’2 teen, i was really pumped about the Woodstock podcast. Too bad it’s exclusive to a damn service that’s not available in my country. Thanks a lot.

  • dripad-av says:

    When I look at that picture you put up, I couldn’t tell if that was Woodstock ‘99 or a Trump  white supremacist rally at first glance.

  • rusting-av says:

    Glad to see Teen Creeps here. Tony Baker is awesome too, his movie reviews on youtube are great.

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