Woodstock '94

The twenty-fifth anniversary in Saugerties. Two days of rain and mud again, Green Day's mud fight, Nine Inch Nails covered in it, Peter Gabriel closing, pay-per-view, and a crowd of a quarter of a million that mostly went well.

Part of Woodstock

21 moments in this segment.

1. 1994 - Trent Reznor at Woodstock '94. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails at Woodstock '94 in Saugerties, New York. This is the 1994 anniversary festival, not the 1969 event.
2. 1994 - BBC News at Woodstock '94. BBC News footage from the 1994 Saugerties festival.
3. 1994 - Woodstock '94 in the news. A compilation of contemporaneous 1994 broadcast news reports on the Saugerties festival.
4. 1994 - The Woodstock '94 footage that never aired. A WABC-TV Eyewitness News cameraman assembles the material he shot at Saugerties that his newsroom declined to broadcast.
5. 1994 - Mud and merchandise, a CBC report. A CBC reporter at Woodstock '94 measures the commercial anniversary event against the 1969 original.
6. 1994 - The Goods on MTV, Woodstock '94. MTV's on-site 1994 programme from Saugerties.
7. 1994 - MTV's Best of Woodstock '94 special. The MTV television special broadcast after the 1994 festival, collecting performance highlights and VJ segments.
8. 1994 - NBC and local coverage of Woodstock '94. NBC network and local station reports on the 1994 festival, transferred from the original master tape.
9. 1994 - A muddy mess at Woodstock '94. Rochester station archive reel of its August 1994 reporting from Saugerties, where crowds outran the ticketing and the field turned to mud.
10. 1994 - Week in Rock at Woodstock '94. MTV News' Week in Rock report from the 1994 festival.
11. 1994-08-12 - Woodstock '94 opens at Saugerties. AP archive report marking the opening of Woodstock '94 at Winston Farm in Saugerties on 12 August 1994.
12. 1994-08-12 - MTV live from Saugerties, 12 August 1994. MTV's live coverage from the opening day of Woodstock '94.
13. 1994-08-13 - Nine Inch Nails: Happiness Is Slavery, Woodstock '94. Official recording from Nine Inch Nails' 13 August 1994 Woodstock set.
14. 1994-08-13 - Nine Inch Nails: Burn, Woodstock '94. Official recording from the band's 13 August 1994 Saugerties set.
15. 1994-08-13 - Nine Inch Nails: Suck, Woodstock '94. Official recording of Nine Inch Nails at Saugerties on 13 August 1994, the mud-covered set that became the festival's defining image.
16. 1994-08-13 - Nine Inch Nails: Wish, Woodstock '94. Official recording from the band's 13 August 1994 Saugerties performance.
17. 1994-08-14 - Green Day at Woodstock '94. Official Music Vault recording of Green Day performing at Saugerties on 14 August 1994, the set that ended in the crowd's mud fight.
18. 2009-07-10 - The Woodstock '94 signed guitar. An acoustic guitar signed by the performers at the 1994 Woodstock revival, displayed at the Hard Rock Cafe in St. Louis. A modern photograph of a 1994 artifact.
19. 2009-08-28 - The Forgotten: filming the 25th anniversary. Promotional film for an unfinished documentary shot with eight synchronised cameras across the three days of the 1994 anniversary concert.
20. 2024-08-01 - Two attendees, twenty-five years on. Bryan Stone and Elizabeth Thorpe give first-hand accounts of the heat, the performances and the breakdown at Woodstock '99, a quarter-century later.
21. 2026-02-05 - Green Day remember the mud fight. Billie Joe Armstrong and Green Day recall their breakout Woodstock '94 performance in a 2024 radio interview.