![]() Three days later, the whole affair flamed out in an orgy of violence, looting and multiple allegations of rape, but you could see it coming. Later that evening, the first thing my friend Josh and I saw when we walked onto the main festival drag was a naked woman being carried out of a beer garden on the shoulders of a bunch of `bangers. Air Force base where nuclear weapons were once stored – and there were "SHOW US YOUR TITS" signs the length of it. ![]() We'd had an endless crawl in traffic through the streets of Rome, N.Y., to get to the site – a former U.S. I remember calling my then girlfriend when Star photographer Bernard Weil and I rolled in the night before the festival started to say as much. Something was a little "off" about Woodstock '99 from the get-go. Karma bit Lang so decisively in the butt 10 years ago at Woodstock '99 that I don't think he'll dare go "back to the garden" until Woodstock reaches the 50-year milestone in 2019, when some sort of commemorative concert will be almost de rigueur. Promoter Michael Lang floated the idea months ago of resurrecting the franchise one more time – with a pair of free shows in New York and, rather bizarrely, Berlin – but that first "trial balloon" was essentially the last word on it. There was a marked lack of enthusiasm for another Woodstock festival to mark the original's 40th anniversary this summer, and with good reason.
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