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It was overflow … I looked at it in the daylight the next day and was like, Ugh, that's definitely got piss and shit in it.”Ĭaleb Followill of Kings Of Leon performs at Madison Square Garden, 2010. “We found out later that the mud pit was right next to all the Porta Potties. Band photographer Joseph Cultice told Revolver magazine in 2018 “it was this big cathartic thing”, but also revealed the reality of the muddy ceremony. Finding “a mud pit” near the edge of the stage, the five band members rolled about in the filth before their performance. For Woodstock, they went one better with their pre-gig ritualism. Fresh from releasing their 1994 opus The Downward Spiral, Trent Reznor and his cronies had already built a reputation of covering each other in corn starch prior to hitting the stage. Featuring the era’s biggest names in music including Metallica, Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers, it was Nine Inch Nails’ set that pulled one of the largest crowds. A quarter-century after the original Woodstock festival was held on Max Yasgur’s property in Bethel, New York, 1994’s Woodstock event was staged 100 kilometres down the road on Winston Farm. Woodstock 1994 might not have captured the peace and love vibe of the original 1969 festival, but both events shared one thing: an excess of mud.
Rock can be a dirty business, as these 10 gross turd tales reveal. Think the life of a rock star is all limousines, groupies and presidential suites? Think again. Trent Reznor performs with Nine Inch Nails at the Woodstock '94 festival, 1994.
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