![]() I jumped down off the stage and I go out in the crowd, tell them to bring the plywood over here and I get up on it and I just start rockin' on the plywood." "I thought that's f**ing amazing, how cool is that?," Durst recalled in 2012. Having spotted more pieces of plywood sailing across the heads of the crowd, Durst decided he too wanted to go surfing. That doesn't mean start raping and burning the place down. "I meant, OK let's get rid of all that negativity so we can bring positive in. However, as Durst recalled, he didn't think the crowd got the message. Let's put out some positive vibes in this motherf**ker and have a big ass party." It's time to let go because there are no rules out there. It's time to reach down and bring that positive energy to this motherf**ker. Limp Bizkit - Live at Woodstock 1999 - Full Show - Official Pro Shot *AAC #Remasteredĭuring the breakdown in the song Nookie, Durst told the crowd: "We already let all the negative energy out. "That's some tight sh*t there," Durst said in admiration, although his microphone had stopped working for a while. The crowd were already doing just that - they began to dismantle the barriers that surrounded the stage and the audio towers and some reckless souls began to surf across the crowd's outstretched arms on huge pieces of plywood. He went on: "This one of them days y'all. How many people ever woke up one morning and just decided it wasn’t one of those days, and you’re gonna break some shit?” He announced their hit Break Stuff by saying: "Hey man, let me ask you a personal question. Take your Birkenstocks and stick them up your f**kin' ass!" Limp Bizkit followed this with a cover of Ministry's decidedly un-mellow Thieves.Īfter the band's seventh song, Re-Arranged, Durst was riding the wave of energy from the audience. Mellowing out - that's what Alanis Morissette just had you motherf**kers do. They say too many people are getting hurt. Halfway through the set, Durst announced: "They wanna ask us to ask you to mellow out a little bit. Members of the crowd go plywood surfing during Limp Bizkit's set at Woodstock '00. I was so amped and ready to rock and we just did what we do." It was the most amazing, adrenalin-pumping moment that I've ever experienced. "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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