Woodstock `99

Web posted July 20, 1999

From Staff and Wire Reports

Woodstock '99

WHEN:

Friday through Sunday

WHERE:

The decommissioned Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, N.Y.

WHO:

This year's roster of performers includes Elvis Costello, the Dave Matthews Band, Jewel, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Metallica, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sheryl Crow, Korn, Insane Clown Posse, Al Green, Megadeth, a Parliament-Funkadelic reunion with George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell, Social Distortion, the Deftones, Buckcherry, Oleander and Moe, DMX and dozens of others.

By the numbers

30:

Years since the original Woodstock

3:

Age of Stephen Carpenter of the Deftones, one of this year's bands, at the time of the first Woodstock

50:

The number of bands performing

3,600:

The number of acres at the site

250,000:

The number of fans expected

2,500:

The number of portable toilets

Pay-per-view

If you're willing to shell out the bucks, pay-per-view will let you enjoy 60 hours of Woodstock '99 from the comfort of your own home.

The price for the pay-per-view event is $29.95 per day, or $59.95 for all three days, and is being offered by Knology (364-1000), Jones Intercable (733-7712) and Charter Communications (860-1580). Northland Cable (803 648-8361) will offer the event for $29.95 per day.

Free TV

If you don't feel like shelling out the pay-per-view fee, fret not. MTV will be providing a fairly constant supply of Woodstock and concert tidbits throughout next week.

Today through Friday, MTV will feature a series of specials looking at the concert tours of such recording artists as 'N Sync (today), Method Man (Wednesday), Whitney Houston (Thursday), the artists who performed at Atlanta's Rockfest, including Sugar Ray, Third Eye Blind, Collective Soul, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Offspring (Thursday) and Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock (Friday).

Friday through Sunday, MTV will offer All Access Weekend: Woodstock '99, including videos by artists performing at the music festival and news reports from the concert site. Coverage winds up with a Sunday-night edition of MTV News.

On the Web

Starting at noon Friday and ending at 2 a.m. Monday, Woodstock.com will deliver 62 continuous hours of documentary programming, including performance highlights, backstage interviews with superstar artists, action shots from the extreme sports park and original comedy and lifestyle segments.

Audio channels will provide sounds ranging from artists' comments as they come offstage to the wild raves blasting through the wee hours of the morning.

-- From Staff and Wire Reports