cannabisnews.com: Woodstock Puts Locals' Fears to Rest! Woodstock Puts Locals' Fears to Rest! Posted by FoM on July 20, 1999 at 08:21:34 PT Source: The Record Online ROME, N.Y. -- Seeing the colossal concert complex that will be home to Woodstock '99 has been an eye-opening experience for local residents. Some have even grown less anxious about the rockfest about to happen in their hometown. To help ease their minds, community leaders and residents were invited to a series of pre-Woodstock events over the past few days, including tours of the temporary city built to host Woodstock '99. The three-day festival begins Friday."It's awesome," said Diane Fielding, one of 300 Rome Area Chamber of Commerce members who saw the sprawling festival grounds at the former Griffiss Air Force Base."I was a little apprehensive before, but now I just hope it's a huge success," she said."This is great. I'm impressed by the organization and how fast it's going together," said Mike Mayhew, owner of MJM Computer Enterprises in Rome.Up to 250,000 people are expected for the megaconcert, which features more than 50 groups and performers. Organizers say they are ready. The concert complex includes two stages, a vendor village, an 8-acre extreme sports park, a sculpture park, three beer gardens, two hangars converted for dancing and movies, an 80-bed hospital, a post office, and a 245-acre campground. Parking is available for more than 100,000 vehicles."There were so many questions, but it looks like things are going together. We should look at the concert in a positive way," said Carol Zaleski, who owns Darkroom Unlimited with her husband.Organizers plan more events during the week topped by a welcome-to-Woodstock concert on Thursday featuring more than two dozen local bands.The Woodstock concert will use 1,000 of the 3,000-plus acres at Griffiss. The entire 1994 site in Saugerties would fit inside the 245-acre campgrounds. The original Woodstock was held 30 years ago on 90 acres of Max Yasgur's farm.Tuesday, July 20, 1999The Associated PressCopyright © 1999 Bergen Record Corp.Woodstock Related Articles:Woodstock '99 Boasts a Bundle of Contradictions - 7/18/99 http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread2102.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #3 posted by FoM on July 20, 1999 at 21:31:06 PT: Woodstock Fans Circle Virtual Tents! By César G. Soriano, USA TODAYhttp://www.usatoday.com/From 'hotties' to 'old' folks, Internet assists festival plans The Pot Heads and Dead Heads will be there. So will the clean-and-sober folks, the 30-plus crowd, families and Canadians. The 30th anniversary Woodstock '99 concert is attracting thousands of fans from every special-interest sector imaginable, and they're using the Internet to connect.Through message boards and personal Web sites, cybersavvy music fans are finding folks with similar interests, then making plans to camp together in "tent circles" at the three-day concert, beginning Friday in Rome, N.Y."Woodstock is still about the same things: music, love, drugs and sex. Just the way it's done is a little different," says Chris Myden, 20, a University of Calgary student who created the Woodstock Registry Web site. Myden's site, registry99.cjb.net, is receiving about 800 visitors a day, and it allows users to post biographies and photos of themselves to find friends.Myden also is joining the most organized group of Woodstock Websters, the Milwaukee Party Swingers. "We've formulated into the good-looking, 18-to-25, single partying-type group, but not so much in the hippie area," organizer Steve Julius says. He adds, "You don't have to be a hottie to join, but it'd be nice."About 205 people have joined the Swingers, run by Julius, 23, and his roommates, Mike Hobolich, 20, and Jerry Stuckart, 23. The three work on their Web site (accessible through the Woodstock Registry site) every night, answering e-mail, sending a newsletter and adding images of group members to the site.As for his group's name, Julius says, "I wanted something that told people where I was from but also let them know I was a partying, social guy." But not everyone is turning on at Woodstock."I don't drink or do drugs, I don't want young kids puking on my tent, so I wanted to find other people like me," says 25-year-old Laura Baker, who is organizing an alcohol-free, drug-free tent circle, also accessible from the Woodstock Registry site.After logging on to www.woodstock.com, the office administrator and bartender from Port Chester, N.Y., noticed Woodstock-goers discussing hard-partying plans. Not her style, she says. "I told people how much fun I have when I'm sober, definitely more fun than when I used to drink." At first she was teased. Now 130 people have joined her circle of friends. Most are teen-agers, but many are parents coming to the concert with children. Safety in numbers is another draw to her circle."It just shows how Woodstock at the dawn of the 21st century is so different than in 1969 or even 1994," when the 25th anniversary show was held, Baker says.There are two tent circles for the older crowd -- by Woodstock standards: age 25-plus. One of them, the Over-25 Road Warriors, requested to camp "near our circle," Baker says, "because they figured we'd be a less rowdy bunch."Another group, the 175-member Lizard King Circle, touts itself as "a place where everyone can experience and celebrate the freedom of their soul. Egos will not exist here."All the circles are spinoffs of the official woodstock.com's message board and chat rooms, ideas that fans incorporated into their own sites."People are using my message board as an alternative to woodstock.com because there's quite a few losers there ruining it for everybody, talking garbage like racist and sexist remarks," says Myden, who moderates his message boards to keep out the "losers." Meanwhile, woodstock.com is a flashy, high-tech love-in that will provide audio and video Webcasts of concerts and interviews. Thanks to improving audio and video Internet technologies, music festivals could quickly find themselves obsolete, Myden says. In a few years, he says, "we won't need things like Woodstock to meet people.""With just a click of a mouse," he says, "you can just sit at home and meet people."And the best thing about a virtual Woodstock: no mud. © Copyright 1999 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. Woodstock Fans Circle Virtual Tents! 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[ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by FoM on July 20, 1999 at 15:19:24 PT: Big Acts Booked for Woodstock ’99 Big acts booked for Woodstock ’99 Weekend bash to celebrate 30th anniversary of first festival Fans in the 'mosh pit' awaited the start of a performance by NIne Inch Nails at Woodstoock '94 in Saugerties, N.Y. That festival drew about 350,000 people. By Jay LustigNEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE http://www.msnbc.com/ SULLY ERNA, singer for the group Godsmack, isn’t sure what to expect from Woodstock ’99, where his band will perform along with 50 others, including the high-profile Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Dave Matthews Band. “They’re anticipating a quarter of a million people,” the singer says, repeating the promoters’ target figure. “I’ll have to see it to believe it.” Click the link to read more! 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