I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is You Can't Make This Up. You can't make this up as the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind your favorite Netflix documentaries and films.

Today we take a sneak peek at next week's episode on the Netflix

documentary series Train Wreck Woodstock 99. Even if it happened before you were born, you probably grew up knowing about Woodstock, that

1969 rock festival where groovy bands played before an audience of anti-war hippies,

creating a psychedelic weekend of peace, love, and understanding.

Over the years, there have been multiple efforts

to recreate the spirit of Woodstock, including an underperforming festival on the silver anniversary.

Original organizer Michael Lang and promoter John Share were determined Woodstock 99 would recapture the communal atmosphere of the original,

but do something the 1969 Festival failed to do, turn a profit.

Everyone said no fucking way.

That's a bad idea.

But John that stepped in to overrule the entire board and saying, well, I'm the CEO, we're

doing this.

So we were left with doing Woodstock again. But the seeds of failure were sown from the beginning.

The site infrastructure was overwhelmed with too few toilets, too much trash,

and not nearly enough clean water.

Vendors price gouged the attendees.

The July Heatwave baked the crowd.

Security was lax.

Women were unsafe.

And instead of legendary classic rock artists,

the headliners were thrash, metal, and alternative bands, the kind that drew mosh pit flailing fans.

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