A friend of my mom was one of the people who died at the Indiana State Fair. It was absolutely tragic. While her family was part of the lawsuit, no amount of money can fix what happened and take away the pain of losing someone you love.
Not only did Blue Ridge turn people away the second day saying it was "canceled", they slapped us all in the face by posting the bands playing throughout the night on their Facebook story!
I just got my notice back from the VA Attorney Generals office, saying they aren't going to peruse this any longer and they couldn't get my refund pushed through.
No one ever dies at metal concerts because they are inherently more violent from the pits and such so people are more careful and take care of one another, you fall in the pit, someone will grab you, put you on your feet and ask if you want out, almost every time
You've just depicted almost every festival/concert in Poland, so it's not about being a metalhead, but rather using the head. Maybe metalheads in the US use it more often due to headbanging?
@@bvcxgdsjsfdsiogfdug well when you have 30+ people moshing in circles pushing each other eventually someone gets a fist to the face and falls down or trips, what kills people is heat stroke and getting trampled and here in the pits people pick you up, make space and make sure you’re good because they don’t want you to die, and because if one person dies there’s a chance the show would be shut down, and that means you’re out all the money you paid to be there.
RIP Nathan Bird. He was a stagehand for IATSE Local 30 that was killed at the Indiana State Fair. He was a loving father, brother and friend and I knew him personally. He loved his job and loved making sure the crowd got as good a show as possible. He had gotten the call the get down about 2 mins before the storm hit and was half way down when the collapse happened. He left behind 3 beautiful babies and a heart broken city. May he and the people in the audience rest in eternal peace.
My mom was 16 when she went to altamont with her sister. The way she told me the story was that she and her sister took acid and got separated pretty quickly, and my mom started to have a bad trip. She recalls stumbling into the hells angels motorcycle camp and knocking one of the bikes over on accident and breaking the side mirror and thought she was toast. She said the guy who owned the bike was surprisingly nice and helped her get back to the venue, where one of his military friends drove my mom back home and lectured her the entire way about how irresponsible she was. My mom kept going to shows in the 70s at the filmore but said that was the last time she tried acid lol. My aunt ended up catching a ride home with some people she met at the show.
HA really are good dudes, unless ur a cop or another MC. but when it comes to civilians, HA dudes will give u the cost off their back, help u change a flat, buy you a beer, etc. I've moshed with HA at Slayer, Motorhead, and local metal/hardcore shows. I definitely hit one of more of em in the pit, which is what happens at HC shows😅 I was scared AF apologized immediately😅 the one HA dude was TRASHED n was like "Aw mane you was hitting EVERYBODY I ain't mad bud!" I was...... relieved..... to say the least😅
@@Broncort1 thanks - my mom and aunt are two of the coolest people in my eyes. They both spent the 60s and 70s going to sick shows in San Francisco, and my aunt actually moved to England for a bit and roomed with some of the musicians from Thin Lizzy. Then she moved to India and followed a guru for like 8 years and then escaped, equating the experience to being brainwashed by a cult. She spent the rest of her life trying to recover from that experience and made a ton of friends with other people who escaped the guru as well. My mom has since denounced her former hippy self and become a right-wing Christian conservative which is pretty unfortunate, but she still fondly talks about the bands she used to watch. She subscribed to a British magazine in the late 60s and early 70s and would find out about up and coming bands from Europe, and would catch them on their first American tour. She saw Led Zeppelin play their first show in California to a crowd of 2-300 people.
I saw limp bizkit last year in Australia at good things and they were the only band to tell the crowd to look after each other and the whole crowd cheered for them
Eddie Vedder paid tribute to the victims of Roskilde in Love Boat Captain off the next album after the tragedy. “Lost nine friends we’ll never know, two years ago today.”
I won't go to the overhyped festivals either, I just wait for my favorite bands to play at my local amphitheater...for me it's just not worth it when I only want to see like 2 or 3 of the bands at the festival. For example, last year Coal Chamber were playing at Inkarceration in Ohio and they were like the only band I wanted to see so I just waited for about 2 months later and saw them on the Mudvayne/Coal Chamber/Nonpoint tour that came to Ohio. I was happy with that decision too. Don't get me wrong though, If a friend were to ask me to go to a festival and they drove and paid for my ticket I would gladly go.
💯🎯👏👏 exactly! He is a self centered , greedy sc*mbag. There were more victims, they just passed at hospital so they aren't included in the figures released. It's the Disney model. Keeps costs down and prevents bad publicity.
Travis was only sorry that he got caught trying to paint himself as the victim shame on him. He is a shitty person who doesn't even care about his fans. Travis and the venue have blood on their hands for this disastrous chain of events. Only people with tickets should've been allowed in full stop.
Honorable mention: The Station Nightclub Fire in Rhode Island, 2003. Technically not a concert/music festival, but basically Jack Russell (of Great White fame) got a new band to do a tour of the Northeast. Pyrotechnics were lit in the small venue night club which was covered in flammable foam, leading to a fire. There was only 1 exit the front door (the other being blocked by a bouncer) which created a human stampede. Over 100 people died and hundreds more injured. An absolute massive fuck up by the night club owners and the fire marshall who failed to point out the violations during his visit.
Watched a doco/video about this and the idea of being trapped underneath a dead body and losing oxygen really fucked me up. I can only imagine how any one directly linked to this tragedy coped.
You are incorrect. There was a side exit by the kitchen and a side exit by the main bar - both were open and used by several people to escape. Everyone either ran to the front entrance which was blocked or the back and the bouncer (like a moron) wouldn't let people pass. But you can check out the facts by googleing the floorplan of the station nightclub and it is plain as day. 4 fully functioning exits. That is why whenever I enter ANY building I immediately locate all the exits including those that are not in the main flow because those will be the ones to use when panic ensues.
Salt in the wound! The retard has encouraged dangerous behavior at shows multiple times. Trap Lord Ross highlighted this and it's sad but hilarious- Travis encourages fans to breach security and come up on stage. When they take his advice, he quickly realizes it's a bad idea and begins yelling at them to get the fuck off the stage. It was poetic. I'm sad any venues let him come after at least 2 similar instances but money talks. I'm pissed people get arrested for simply existing while homeless and Travis is still free afaik.
I used to work for the major labor company that set up festivals across the Nation and it's excessively getting worse and their focus is not on fixing it but on escaping accountability as they continuously fire anybody that speaks out against them and have them shunned by the community. There's actually many accidental deaths and suicides within the worker community of festivals due to the games they play with employee's livelihood and mental health that y'all will never hear about.
@@shaneeroh2213 hey that's the same company that I set up EDC and Amazon for. Let's not name them publicly because I'm currently struggling to get my life on track after being shunned by their community and it's rich owner using the cult mentality of his people to attack my mental health. There's also a bunch of rape culture within that company but you can't point it out with people acting like you're crazy.
@@gingergamer3270 Wow, that's wonderful that you've had that experience!!! Honestly, I've taken my 2 young daughters and 2 of their friends to Def Leppard in concert in the 1990's but I really don't think of that group as Metal. We were indoors (arena) and I did have the drug talk before we went!!! 👍 🇺🇸 Are you familiar with Def Leppard?
@@patriciaroberts308 Ah okay, I live in Melbourne, maybe that's why. I've heard of Def Leppard of course. My dad used to listen to them but I didn't grow up with them as much as guns n roses and kiss etc.
Before of the tragic events at the final Loveparade in Duisburg/Germany, all kinds of experts tried to warn the public about the risk of the kind of accident, that actualy happened. The responsible persons ignored it.
The plywood during limp bizkits set was actually their own idea, the band was trying to create their own "moment" similar to Green Day's mud-fight; but yeah, as time progressed, the audience lost their minds!
I was at Woodstock '99 with some friends, but we left after the first day when we saw a girl being sexually assaulted while 200 other men AND women cheering on her attackers. At least we didn't have to suffer through the 40 terrible bands just to hear the three good ones.
I was at Woodstock 99 too. Never seen anything like that at all. I did see a whole lot of women volunteering to get naked all over the place. But nothing non consensual. And I was there from Thursday til Monday morning. Sorry but I think these stories are way overblown
Altamont Festival was not organized by the Stones, they were just the headline act. The last minute arrangements was due to the original venue being cancelled by local authorities.
Altamont was organized by the Stones. People had complained about the high price of tickets of their American tour. This free festival would shut them up.
Minor correction: Woodstock was actually first resurrected in 1979, then got resurrected again in 1989 & 1994 (the '94 one being most similar to '99 in scope and taste, but nowhere near as disastrous despite having its fair share of problems).
How could you forget the mass shooting of people like they were fish in a barrel at the Las Vegas music festival at the Mandalay Bay!!? Surely that many people shot dead would make your list.
It had less to do with the festival itself and the people attending/running it. All of the entries have something to do with that, but Las Vegas was the result of one guy who targeted the festival, and we do not know why he did it (and probably won't ever know)
Honestly the main reason you see singers/bands make silly demands like a bowl full of only green M&Ms is because it's a way to easily check that the venue actually read their requirements and followed the safety procedures for their equipment. If a venue didn't follow the relatively simple demand for green M&Ms, they likely didn't follow the safety procedures for installing their very dangerous equipment.
not true at all. bands do make stupid requirements - entirely due to ego. roadies ask strange things to check on stuff at the venue though. trust the roadies biography.
@@ElDerpy This is actually a true statement. Some of them are ego-trips, yes, but many other bands have done it to make sure the entire rider was read and followed.
@@fonesrphunny7242 It's more along the lines of if they can't complete the relatively simple task of sorting m&ms then they probably didn't do the frankly more complex task of making sure the stage doesn't collapse or burst into flames.
I think Rock Am Ring 2016 could have gotten an honorable mention as a severe thunderstorm hit the festival and it was cancelled way too late. Someone was struck by lightning and ended up in a wheelchair.
Been there. We were almost knee deep in the water and they had us walk like 2 miles to the cars for shelter due to their fcked up planning. At least Amon Amart was able to finish it‘s set. That was amazing during the upcoming storm.
@@lugenlord6721 been there too, only 100 meter away from the lightning strike. Missed the amon amarth set since i was at school before but was there at tenacious D when everything was cancelled
Kinda surprised Electric Zoo 2023 wasn’t mentioned. EZoo was an EDM festival that took place during Labor Day weekend on Randalls Island in NYC. In 2022, the festival was acquired by the owners of a popular EDM venue in NYC that had a pretty shady history that included overselling shows at said venue. The 2023 festival was the first where they were on their own for organizing the festival, and they were hyping it up real hard. However, things began to turn for the worst when the first day of the festival was cancelled mere hours before the gates were set to open due to construction delays. The organizers tried to blame the delays on “global supply chain issues”, but it turned out that there were a bunch of permit issues, as well as a lack of workers who wanted to work for the festival as the new owners did not pay the contractors who worked for the 2022 festival. While the rest of the festival did happen, it ended up being marred by underwhelming stage designs that were still being worked on even as the festival happened, long lines at Will Call as a bunch of people did not receive their wristbands in advance, and a security guard attacking a festival goer. The climax of all this was on the last day of the festival, when the festival reached capacity and resulted in no one else being allowed in for the rest of the day, which ended up with everyone who was on the island waiting to get in to storm the gates. And while the organizers did promise that everyone would receive refunds for Friday and Sunday, people have still not gotten their money back, with attempts at chargebacks receiving mixed results.
Billy McFarland is out now. He's current hosting Fyre Festival 2 for 12/4/24. First wave of tickets are already sold out. There is currenlty no line up listed on the website. Get ready to update your list next year.
if you're gonna make a second part of this video, an incident definitely worth mentioning is argentina's 2004 cromañón incident (spelled cruh-mah-nee-on) it was mostly caused by bad event organization in a closed space, where all emergency exits were closed and locked. the incident began when the band "callejeros" started their show, in which someone lit up a flare and threw it on-stage, causing the huge flag behind them to burn and emit toxic gasses. 194 people died and 1432 were injured, and (in my opinion) holds up as the worst rock music incident of all time. i'm honestly surprised i don't see that many people talking about it "historias innecesarias" has a very good detailed video on it if you wanna check it out, even though it's in spanish!
I am from Germany and the aftermath from Loveparade Duisburg was a mess. The lawsuit was a joke, dragged over multiple years. I was at a Festival near Duisburg at the same weekend and remember the massive amount of cars on the road to Duisburg and the hours we were stuck in traffic on our way to Cologne. Had a bad feeling from the start and was not the only one. I remember speaking with my friends in our car about how bad the idea sounds to hold an event like Loveparade at a closed area instead of open streets like the years before. At Amphi Festival, a smaller Goth/Rock/EBM Event in a beautiful venue we met many people who were already worried about the situation at Loveparade. Way too many people at a location thats definitely not able to handle a crowd like this. I spoke to some friends who are festival staff and artists and all of them were like "that is unsafe as hell, hope nothing goes wrong". And as it happened we all were shocked. A host who usually announces the bands at main stage informed the audience and regularly kept us informed. Many medical staff from Amphi were sent to Duisburg to help out. I tried to contact a childhood friend who was at the Loveparade, the day after she called and told me what she had been through. She was so scared of the packed crowd that she decided to leave the center early, watch the event from a distance and it was the best decision ever, but she had seen everything and has to deal with ptsd since. Lost a friend and like so many other people she is unable to understand how poorly the whole ordeal was handled by authority after the tragic event. Nobody has faced real justice or was sentenced in an acceptable way. Loveparade should have never been moved away from Berlin without a proper safety concept or venue. Greed and ignorance influenced bad decisions and took the life of too many people who just wanted to enjoy an event and not one actually admitted the wrongdoing in the first place. Official statements and excuses came to late and only after public demand.
I made the decision to invest in Amphi tickets instead of going to Love Parade last minute, best decision ever. Remembering the mood in the Tanzbrunnen when the news from Duisburg came trickling in still gives me the chills. Many friends were at the love parade, they were "lucky", the worst injury was a broken bone and some cracked ribs. The amount of stupid that were both the event planning for the Love Parade and the reaction of the police when things started to get ugly ... just insane.
So weird seeing Love parade mentioned here but it totally makes sense. I am from Duisburg and the "Love Parade Tunnel", which is how we know it in the area, is only a 15 minute walk away from where I used to live. We could hear the music all day and my brother was actually out there to check it out. After some time we started hearing more and more ambulances and helicopters in the area, it was starting to become very eerie and me and my mother ended up huddled in front of the TV once it became news worthy. Nobody could reach anyone due to the phone network being completely overloaded so we had no idea if my brother was safe, or anyone we knew who was there. He eventually came home, apparently he and his friends never even made it onto the festival grounds as things were already escalating by the time. But we still heard sirens all through the night. At this point the staircase that is shown in the video still has a place of remembrance for those that died where candles and flowers are placed. It also has pictures of every person that passed hanging there. Otherwise the tunnel is filled with graffiti of silhouetted humans to remember the tragedy...
Back when the love parade incident happened, our bass player was there... we couldn't reach him for 2 days and really thought he might have died. Even his parents didn't know where he was. We eventually found out that he was doing too many drugs and never entered the festival ground.
One interesting detail of the Indiana state fair collapse is their ballast blocks were sitting on pea gravel which allowed them to slide under the force of the wind and the lean of the structure.
@@shaneeroh2213 Yea, me too. Hade a few scary incidents. Mostly due to stage company owners and organizers cutting corners. But never seen anything comming close to the Indiana State Fair.
@@shaneeroh2213 I think there was too much weight on the rigging. They built the show like it was Rammstein at an indoor venue. Did you see that big round thing hanging from the roof structure?
While i dont have any sympathi for the influencers in fyre festival ,i feel so sorry for the woman who hada restaurant on the island before the influencers were shuttelled to the venue. She worked herself almost to death and lost her entire pension ,she went from quie rich too dirt poor because of all the fires she had to put out with her own money. Hopefully she got some of it back with her engagement in the documentary . And dont forget about the workers on the festival,they did not get payed at all ,so they went full pirates and kidnapped responsible people ,holding them for ransom 😅
I think it ended up ok for her, but not because of Fyre. A Gofundme campaign raiset something like $150k for Maryann Rolle so she was able to pay everyone working for her at least.
My kid almost died at Astroworld. He witnessed most of the deaths, and was on the ground/trampled and begging for his life. I don’t really want to watch the rest of this video because they don’t address it properly
Well the video really isn’t specifically about the victims, as his delivery would then be inappropriate, it’s specifically what went wrong, how they got there, and what happened afterward type of thing. But regardless of that I am so sorry about your kid, but I’m glad he’s alive today.
@@suavequeso5838 Except he specifically mentions Travis Scott encouraging his audience to engage in "hood rat shit," directly inferring that his audience is, at least partly, made up of so-called hood rats. I'm from Houston. I had friends there, one of whom suffered a compound fracture of their leg and was lucky to make it out. It's not appropriate and I can only imagine that the family and friends of people at other festivals mentioned might feel the same. Disclaimer: I like hip-hop but have never cared for Travis Scott's music or the man as an artist in general, so this is not fan bias speaking.
@@terra__incognita Oh i absolutely agree that was wrong of him to say, but what I’m saying tho is that he’s not trying to address the victims or their families, just summarizing what happened in a funny way.
1749 was The first music festival disaster fire. The festival organizers expected 12,000 at the festival to celebrate the end of the war. During one of the rehearsals, the hall erupted into flames and burned to the ground. The music by Handel they were rehearsing has always been known as "The Fireworks" or "music for the Royal Fireworks".
Between the movie clip edits and your Travis Scott jokes you got me dying 😂😂😂😂 Great video Man that 2011 stage collapse one is scary as shit though. I've been working as a stage tech since 2012, and I honestly just can't even imagine that happening and I've worked through some terrible weather I have to assume there was some negligence on the event organizers part tbh
This is what bugs me about this video as well. This youtuber seems quite hateful. Especially against "hippies" as well as "gypsies". His language is extremely derogatory ("dirty hippies", "aggressive gypsies", ...). This coupled with his weird connotations sounding very condescending as if he is the know it all gives this video a very weird vibe. It lacks objectivism and makes them seem stupid and simple minded.
The world owes fred durst an apology. I'm not even a limp bizkit fan and i still think it was rediculous he got any blame for what happened at woodstock 99. He was being paid to perform not to do security. The organizers are the ones who are responsible for how things went down.
Facts. That was just a cop out to try and absolve the responsibility from the negligent parties. They cut as many corners as possible to maximize profits, and it came back to bite them.
Was looking for a comment about this! If I recall correctly, people were climbing onto anything they could to yell for help and for the concert to stop, and security just yelled at them to get down! Nobody did anything!
You'd think one of his assistants or organizers would have come out to tell him what was going on. He claims he had no idea. If that's true, he SHOULD have had an idea, because one of his handlers should have come out on stage. Maybe he's just such an a-hole, everyone was afraid to walk on stage and tell him.
@@jasonhaynes2952He knew. Fans started breaking the barriers around 8am. There was footage out there and the authorities warned him. It should have been shut down once security had been breached. He heard, he saw & he continued. He says he "is all about the rage!", yet played golf with fellow rich celebrities a week later. He is a pathetic selfish brat and still hasn't faced justice. Money talks, murder walks.
These all were NOT “hippies”. Love parade was ELECTRONIC MUSIC. I have YET to meet a hippie who even LIKES electronic music. This was fun to watch but it has lots of inaccuracies.
This is what bugs me about this video as well. This youtuber seems quite hateful. Especially against "hippies" as well as "gypsies". His language is extremely derogatory ("dirty hippies", "aggressive gypsies", ...). This coupled with his weird connotations sounding very condescending as if he is the know it all gives this video a very weird vibe. It lacks objectivism and makes them seem stupid and simple minded.
Metal people are the first to pick you up if you stumble in the pit, and help you clear a path to safety if it gets too violent. More pop/mainstream acts appeal to a lower common denominator, with predictable results. Although, KMFDM/Rammstein at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, OK (1998) will remain the most violent concert I went to, primarily because the dudes with shaved heads and jack boots were about 40% of the crowd and didn't understand the tremendous loathing Rammstein and KMFDM have for that ideology. Some girl got heat exhaustion and wound up with at least one broken bone. It doesn't compare to these events, it's just my personal worst crowd but amazing concert.
@@kdawson020279Lol I was just at a metal concert and someone said "Metalheads are nice people cosplaying as mean people and hippies are mean people cosplaying as nice people"
ayo, shout out to small scale disco/house festivals. always felt sooo safe at those. only did one metal festival ever and felt safe too, loving crowd, would recommend!
Crazy that you posted this after Supernova music festival, yet didn't mention it. None of the disasters you listed were the spark to start a war. Granted, the event itself was just the backdrop, I would still consider it the most disastrous festival ever.
It is hard to explain why I believe he chose not to include it without getting into semantics. The incidents covered in this video are music festivals that were disastrous due to negligence by the organizers. The Supernova music festival was a disaster and a tragedy, but what occurred there was unrelated to the event that was taking place. "According to reports published on 17 November, the police concluded based on interrogations and their own investigations that Hamas did not know about the festival beforehand but came across it by accident and decided to attack it."
like you said the fact that was a music festival was irrelevant. That attack could have happened at any big public gathering just so happened to be a music festival. This video focuses on events relating to the fact of it being a music festival
@@hairbear007it was a music festival which makes it relevant, but I get that the OP was generally focusing on festivals in which the promoter was the root case of the disaster, but his timing was crap.
I know it’s common to hate on people who went to Fyre Fest but I can imagine a couple or someone saving up for a splurge type vacation and then being stranded with barely any money left because they thought their food and accommodations and transportation were taken care of. It was mostly insufferable influencers and rich kids buying private jets to get back home but I’m sure there were some people who were truly scared and screwed over.
99% of the idiots that webtbto FF were spoiled rich kids. It's not right what the pos promoter did, but I chuckle at the spoiled brats that had to see what its like when mommy and daddy dont have servants to wait on the kids lol
It's strange how they love to blame bands like Limp Bizkit and KoRn for what happened at Woodstock 1999 but no one ever mentions Rage Against The Machine who also played there. I think the promoters were just trying to deflect so they blamed the bands when in reality it was their fault for being so damn greedy and caring more about the profit they made rather than the fans!
Not to mention that they were the people who BOOKED THE DAMN BANDS. The audacity of them blaming the bands is truly remarkable. "We organized this whole thing and it went to shit but that's not our fault!" Ridiculous.
Although I did not attend Woodstock ‘99, I knew others who did. The facilities' failure, heat, and location aside, during the days after, into the weeks that followed, the band I recall taking the initial blame in conversation and headlines was the Red Hot Chili Peppers and their decision to cover Jimi Hendrix's Fire amidst the crowd forming a massive candlelight vigil using real candles. This video is a perfect example, as the Chili Peppers weren’t even mentioned; over time, history has chosen other bands like Freddy D & His Limp Biscuits to immortalize the travesty known as Woodstock 1999.
the disaster at the Indiana State Fair led to the end of Sugarland. They completely gave up music after that. It does not matter what kind of music you like or hate, you shouldn't wish something like that on anyone ever.
@Jeff-sp7bg that's not true. The issue is that it was a bad storm that the fair organizers and we knew was going to happen and allowed the show to go on. The stage was collapsible and would be taken down after every fair season.
The Altamont Free concert: the Tanacon of the 60s. Also, in regards to the Hell's Angels, The Stones were led to believe they were like a similarly named nonviolent group that provided security at one of their shows in London in the past.
Donnington 88 is also worth a mention for the kids that got crushed in the crowd surge during GnR’s set . My guitar teacher said they announced it over the PA after Iron Maiden finished . He said it was one of the most depressing endings to what until that point had been an amazing day
Yes this is true I was there and hardly anyone really knew of anything amiss until the announcement after Maiden finished - Donington was cancelled the year after but returned in 90
I was there too. It was scary as shit being lifted off your feet as the crowd surged forward. We knew it was bad, as Axl Rose stopped the show so Security could get the fans out of the mud. But we never knew the poor guys had died until after Iron Maiden had closed the festival and the fireworks had gone off. It was a terrible end to a great music event.
I went the very first Monsters of Rock at Donnington in the early 80’s. I was backstage when Ozzy & his family turned up in a Limo. No problems at that gig ❤️
its crazy how these things happen so often. everyone preaches crowd safety but things like this still happen. its heartbreaking for those who died or were injured at some of these. but then theres the shit fests *cough cough* blue ridge *COUGH* ... that just arent organized correctly. its insane how pretty much anyone with big money can just host a festival, causing people to either lose their life, be injured, or walk away traumatized and down thousands of dollars.
you didn't mention the pukkelpop festival of 2011, where a severe thunderstorm with 100 mph winds tore through it and ended up killing 5 people when a large tent collapsed. thers a ton of videos of the winds tearing the hell out of the place
I was there, man! I was at netsky in the boilerroom and tought for sure i was going to die. The mobile phone masts where also overloaded and it was verry difficult to make phonecalls, and i remember my dad trying to call me to come and get me. I swear that man never shows fear but i could tell on his voice on a voicemail he was worried sick! Man and those constant ambulances driving up and down those streets. I still remember it like it was yesterday!
@@charlottestreet3301 I was also there. No, skunk anansie saved my life that year by playing till she was blown away by the wind. That way I didn't during the dangerous halestorm and I could find shelter under a group poncho.
Yeah, you made the right choice. I went to Blue Ridge and it was the worst decision I ever made. Well, actually I didn't make the decision. I was overridden. I wanted to go to Louder Than Life. Now I'm still fighting to get my money back. In the future I will only attend festivals put on by DWP (Aftershock and Louder Than Life are two of their's).
Aftershocks line up is fucking rad this year dude. I’ve gone every year since 2016 and the only critical issue I experienced there was the first year they didn’t have hydration stations and they shut off drinking fountains so you had no choice but to buy a 12 dollar water and it was 100+ out. There was like a couple hundred posted out front of the med tent. Other then that though it’s a good festival and decent crowds. I highly recommend it
I was at blue ridge rock 2023, went in 2021 and it was incredible. 2023 was a literal nightmare, first day was the tornado warning, I was in the escape the fate crowd when the rain started, we all ran into the “safety” tent, where a man informed us we needed to hold onto the pole in the center of the room while he went outside in the 65 mph wind and hammered the tent back into the ground, shout out to that man for keeping us safe. Never found out his name, I was practically naked so when I noticed rain mostly stopping I ran for it. No one could find where the evacuation buses were, staff didn’t know when I asked them, they just kept pointing me in different directions, so we all huddled in “shelter” under a fucking bridge where the buses were “supposed” to be. After like 30 minutes of fearing for our lives we asked a worker when the buses were coming and he just said, “guess they’re not coming” I don’t blame him, the staff apparently lost all communications with security and other staff so…. Second day was another nightmare, no water, I felt like I was actually going to die of dehydration, bottles of water were $4, which I ended up paying bc I felt like I was gonna DIE Slipknot was apparently the worst of it, some girl came out of the crowd sobbing bc she thought she was actually gonna die, and when I stopped her (I was dressed as barbie it was my duty to make sure the girlies were okay) she said she was lost and she got crushed in the crowd and lost her friends, turns out that was the missing girl, thankfully she’s been found! Nightmare nightmare nightmare! I actually have dreams about being back in this scenario, an hour and a half walk away from my car, waiting for a bus to pick me up in the doom crawl, and hoping a tornado doesn’t touch down while I’m running for my life in platforms. Ruined festivals for me and my partner, thankfully I also got a full refund. I have plenty of pictures for anyone wanting some!
Never forget the bravery of one young boy, a geologist, leopold "butters" stoch's mom, and a black man to sacrifice himself in case anything went wrong, stopped a music festival from consuming the town of south park.
Great compilation. Many of your examples are one-time events, which are prone to becoming a desaster. Long time successful metal festivals like Wacken, Summerbreeze or Hellfest had humble beginnings, where local bands were looking for an opportunity to perform and therefore started a small festival. Over the time they grew organically and learned how to master the ever growing number of fans. They are also regarded as very safe.
Ive been in a really tight crowd, once. It's not only claustrophobic it's also (as this video proves) hard to breathe. There was a point where i got LIFTED off of the ground, and I'm not tall at all. I did get the air pushed out of my lungs more than once. Scary as hell when you think you're going to die just because you wanted to see someone perform live and you got crushed by people wanting to do the same thing.
5:05 - just so people are aware of what is going on with BRRF right now. They still have not refunded the people who got turned away and every time someone emails them about this they come back with some shit like “we will get back to you as soon as possible”. Of course they never do. So it looks like we won’t get refunded, and what’s more insulting. They are selling ticket for next year at ridiculously price, with some VIP price going up to $2000. I will be ranting on this one more time on my channel soon cause this is infuriating. And if people think we are overacting to what happened, trust me we ain’t.
I watched this 'by accident' because auto-play was on... am I ever glad it did!! your narration is totally hilarious, yet well-informed and I especially like the part about hippies killing the cow only to find there were no pre-made hamburgers inside, pure gold dude! lol
And exactly a month and a half before the release of this video, the one that trumps them all, the October 7 music festival disaster / massacre where hundreds died in a terrorist attack
Oct 7th was understood prior and fully allowed to happen/ the site was even moved to be closer to the border. Inside J O B for satanic political effect. IS MILT peeps will attest.
I was at a festival (Rock am Ring 2017) that was evacuated because of a terror attack warning. Fortunately, it turned out to be a false alarm, but all shows for that evening ended up getting cancelled.
I was there too. It really wasn't that bad tbh. Only the festival grounds were evacuated, you could still stay on the camping grounds. Also, all bands expect Rammstein were able to play later, effectively meaning that only Rammstein was really canceled. RaR 2016 was way worse
15:00 The background of Love Parade is misrepresented here. Love Parade traditionally took place in the center of Berlin (where the actual photo of the huge square with the pillar in the center is from), not on an open field or something. The event was moved to a huge empty lot in Duisburg for 2010 mostly to separate it from the city infrastructure which is also why the entrance/exit was restricted to that particular tunnel leading directly to the main train station.
Great video. You have a great sense of humor. If you hadn't heard Billy McFarland announced Fyre Fest 2. Yeah.. after he got out of prison for the first one. As a roadie I have dealt with an insane amount of this kind of shit over the years. Side story for you, The "Route 91" fest in Vegas, I was there the year before the shooting, but a coworker was working Jason Aldean that year. He was there, survived, and after all was said and done they went home early from that leg of the tour. When he entered his apartment his roommate, who wasn't expecting him for another week thought it was someone breaking in and shot him 3 times. Luckily he survived, again. Moral of the story, if you love going to shows, thank a fucking roadie.
The most shocking piece of footage from AstroWorld - when paramedics were finally able to get to victims, there was about eight paramedics on top of about eight dead people doing CPR at the same time next to each other. As an emergency dispatcher, it is the side of Rescue services that I will never face. I can't imagine how to process that situation later.
My friends dad was one of the ones who died in the Indiana state fair one. It's so weird to hear about it all these years later. I remember it so vividly learning about it. We were both so young and just couldn't comprehend it. I hope everyone who lost loved ones are doing good and okay. It's tough to lose someone due to something like this.
Fyre Fest 2 is already on sale and scheduled for December 2024. One ticket type is priced at over $1 million. Can't wait to watch your next video on that one 😂
I'm danish and I remember the pearl jam episode. My then bf was at the concert and I couldn't reach him for like a day. I thought he was one of the people getting stampeeded. Thankfully he wasn't, but he was meters away and saw it all happen. Thankfully it sparked a lot of changes in how Roskilde festival handles their security. Now there are bars preventing too many people accessing the same area and ever since I've felt a lot more secure. I fainted myself I think it was a year or two later at a red hot chili peppers concert. The crowd was pushing on me, but I got to the bars and got carried out of there by security.
Not sure if this counts as a festival since it happened indoors, but the Station night club disaster is a good example, where the band Great White performed. The small nightclub caught fire, plus with it packed and everyone trying to leave, many died after being crushed to death
A friend of mine survived that and still has to live with the mental scars of the incident. To hear him describe it is heartbreaking. He just happened to be at the right place at the right time and got out, but how fast it went up and hearing people burning to death inside - he still can’t sleep at night.
@@michaelaurban4120 that was truly fucked up, i believe there was some kind of decorative styrofoam on the walls and ceilings that were dropping flaming globs of pain on everyone. Maybe one of the scariest crowd situations ever
The Station in New Haven ? God, I remember that. Don't get much worse than that one. God Bless those poor people and their families and friends of the dead. God Bless all who did survive but were burned or injured, and all who suffer the emotional scars. ❤🙏🙏🙏❤
The backstory on Woodstock the original Woodstock was actually pretty bad. The concert promoters barely broke even after having released both a double album of music from Woodstock and releasing a feature film.
Donington Mosters of Rock (later Download) in 1988 was one such disaster. The line-up was incredible: Helloween, Gun n Roses, Megadeth, Dave Lee Roth, Kiss, Iron Maiden. But tragically two fans were trampled to death in the mud in front of the stage during Guns n Roses. And no one knew until after Maiden had finished and the fireworks had gone off, when a policeman came on the stage to break the news. It was horrible. I was there, and my Mum was watching the tragedy on the news, thinking that it might have been me. Remember, no mobile phones in those days to let our parents and loved ones know that we were OK. It was a real disaster.
You got the Stones concert wrong, the town is Altamont, not Alamont. It's on the newspaper you flashed on the video. Also you missed the footage of the person that was stabbed. It was a young black man dressed in a lime green suit with matching hat.
@tweed0929 I think this is a case of "blink and you miss it." You also have to know where to look, as it's not really clear amongst the rest of the chaos.
The Station Nightclub fire occurred on February 20, 2003, in West Warwick, Rhode Island, USA. During a performance by the band Great White, pyrotechnics ignited flammable soundproofing foam on the club's walls. The fire quickly engulfed the venue, leading to panic and chaos among the patrons. Tragically, 100 people lost their lives, and more than 200 others were injured.
Watched the video of that again recently. Horrific. The sound of people screaming as they burn alive, when they should have been enjoying their night. But that wasn't a festival.
I assume most you guys and girls are familiar with the Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany. One of my best friends is a police officer, he always volunteers for duty there when it takes place, as do many of his colleagues. They say there is the most intellectual audience to find, friendly people, no riots, no problems. A very simple task for the police. - Many visitors have a higher education and many are also musicians themselves. The camaraderie, solidarity and willingness to help others is enormous. - There's a funny thing about metal music that many people get a little bit wrong or even don't understand at all. Despite the aggressive attitude there is no trouble. Only having fun and enjoying the music is what counts. It seems that this music is ideal as an outlet for reducing aggression and makes it completely unnecessary to punch others in the face. And over the decades it has reached a level of quality that is no longer comprehensible to stupid people. These are condemned to listen to gangsta rap.
Wacken is with Rock am Ring without doubt the brst Festivals in Europe. We go there since 2013 every year. Our son was 8 and our daugther was nearly 7 in 2013. Never was at a festival so well organised and safe like Wacken and or Rock am Ring. Another nice Festival is HellFest in the South of France,but it is 2 streets behind of the German Festivals. Looking forward to go this year again to Wacken.
This sort of thing seems to be what happens when you gather too many people together without good planning. I went to a music festival once where everyone was on drugs, security was scarce and it felt like the whole thing was going to derail at any moment
This was more a personal disaster but it makes the list for me. I went to Bonnaroo only once and one of the girls i was there with barfed up her okra salad into my sneaker while we were chilling on a blanket. Utter devastation as i had to wear shitty overpriced flip flops for the rest of the festival
Putting on a music festival is no picnic but any time a person complains about a music fest, usually for sound issues or delays, I am thankful none of them have been as chaotic and disastrous as this. That said, the scariest incident I witnessed at a music fest was at Riot Fest 2015 when System of a Down headlined and they had to stop the show twice as people almost got trampled to death in the middle of a pit. Fortunately, me and my friends were so far away and had lots of space where it didn't affect us, but I had some friends that were near it or knew others that literally got trampled on. Fortunately no one died, but it was still scary af. Also, I guess after Riot Fest 2021, the night Smashing Pumpkins played, someone got pushed onto the tracks and died immediately due to electrocution as people were pushing to get on the pink line train in Chicago. Sure it wasn't at the fest itself but it was the crowd from the fest.
I was at Riot Fest 21 and I remember walking past that train station and thinking 'nope, I'll fork over the extra 40 bucks for an uber cuz fuck that' that was really scary and tragic.
OMG the errors in this stanky video just keep coming. @20:30 you said the Woodstock 99 festival was a tribute to the 13th anniversary of the original festival. Well Beavis, the original festival was 1969, can you do the math? It was the thirtieth anniversary. Can you read?
As a Hoosier the state fair collapse was horrifying. I went to the fair grounds to see an offraod four wheel show and to see everything all taped off and knowing that theres where several people passed away was a very eerie feeling.
10:20 just so yall know, the man who got stabbed pulled his gun out to fire on stage. you can see the silver of his revolver moments before an HA stabs him in the shoulder. just gotta correct that ;)
10 worst festivals of all time... posted November 2023... come on bro. People at Fyre Festival: There are no artists here and our beds are wet! This is the biggest festival disaster ever! People at Nova Festival: But did you die???
I was expecting either "Knotfest meets ForceFest" or "Hell & heaven Open air 2023", or both (both in México, both by the same organizers), to be mentioned, they may not have been AS bad as most of these, which I wasn't expecting and was surprised to learn about, but they were bad enough to still be worth being mentioned, check them out.
I've only been to one music festival & it was Lilith Fair. It was really chill. It helps that it was at The Gorge Amphitheater in central Washington state, a venue that is very experienced & good at putting on big shows.
The difference between Woodstock '94 and '99 is amazing. Donington Monsters of Rock 1988 also had 2 fans die during Guns n Roses set. I believe the official cause was a crowd surge and the deep mud due to rainy weather. As an aside, all bootlegs of that GnR set sound bad, and this is because (according to Axl) Iron Maiden (who were headlining that year) took so long doing their sound check that GnR couldn't do one at all. It led to years of animosity between Axl and Maiden, and explains the backhanded quote Axl had in a TV interview conducted that day about Maiden.
Nothing can be worse than the time The Midnight Riders had to cancel a show because of a zombie infection
gotta be the worst
ahh memories. that was my favorite level in the game lolol
now why do i get out of one of the most harrowing playthroughs of Hard Rain to this comment on the first video i pick
@lordpestilencetv Every playthrough of Hard Rain is the most harrowing
This just brought back so many memories
A friend of my mom was one of the people who died at the Indiana State Fair. It was absolutely tragic. While her family was part of the lawsuit, no amount of money can fix what happened and take away the pain of losing someone you love.
It’s terrible to go to be entertained and tragically it didn’t go that way. Just such a sad story. Sorry for your families loss.
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@@robert.m4676 I appreciate that and I showed mom the comment and the love it’s gotten. Thank you 🖤🤍
@@Cyber_Chriis 🖤🤍
I had a friend that suffered major TBI and who's life was altered due to the accident. It was/is absolutely tragic.
You know you’re at a bad festival if you can buy more drugs than fucking water
no one paid for water in 1972. You would be laughed at if you tried to sell water. Wonder what else is false on this.
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@@anthonyfoutch3152shut up
@@anthonyfoutch3152...Perrier was the only bottled water that I can remember from the 1970s.
That's most festivals bro
I think that is awesome festival. Or me thinking 12 years ago. No fucking change i would go to that hell hole again but time goldens memories.
Not only did Blue Ridge turn people away the second day saying it was "canceled", they slapped us all in the face by posting the bands playing throughout the night on their Facebook story!
I just got my notice back from the VA Attorney Generals office, saying they aren't going to peruse this any longer and they couldn't get my refund pushed through.
sounds like Glenn Youngkins cabinet... Never trust a private equity firm alum to run a government.
I'll never forgive anybody involved with planning that show for the way they treated Hanabie
@@RT-qd8ylhow did they treat hanabie ?
I was one of the people that got turned away. I drove almost thirteen hours to get there and again to get back home, and never even got a refund
No one ever dies at metal concerts because they are inherently more violent from the pits and such so people are more careful and take care of one another, you fall in the pit, someone will grab you, put you on your feet and ask if you want out, almost every time
It's cause Metal Heads don't know how to go hard
You've just depicted almost every festival/concert in Poland, so it's not about being a metalhead, but rather using the head. Maybe metalheads in the US use it more often due to headbanging?
@@bvcxgdsjsfdsiogfdug well when you have 30+ people moshing in circles pushing each other eventually someone gets a fist to the face and falls down or trips, what kills people is heat stroke and getting trampled and here in the pits people pick you up, make space and make sure you’re good because they don’t want you to die, and because if one person dies there’s a chance the show would be shut down, and that means you’re out all the money you paid to be there.
@themakerstoolbox9688sounds about right Mr. Mooshy Mosher
2 died down the front during guns n roses set a monsters of rock 1988
RIP Nathan Bird. He was a stagehand for IATSE Local 30 that was killed at the Indiana State Fair. He was a loving father, brother and friend and I knew him personally. He loved his job and loved making sure the crowd got as good a show as possible. He had gotten the call the get down about 2 mins before the storm hit and was half way down when the collapse happened. He left behind 3 beautiful babies and a heart broken city. May he and the people in the audience rest in eternal peace.
My mom was 16 when she went to altamont with her sister. The way she told me the story was that she and her sister took acid and got separated pretty quickly, and my mom started to have a bad trip. She recalls stumbling into the hells angels motorcycle camp and knocking one of the bikes over on accident and breaking the side mirror and thought she was toast. She said the guy who owned the bike was surprisingly nice and helped her get back to the venue, where one of his military friends drove my mom back home and lectured her the entire way about how irresponsible she was. My mom kept going to shows in the 70s at the filmore but said that was the last time she tried acid lol. My aunt ended up catching a ride home with some people she met at the show.
HA really are good dudes, unless ur a cop or another MC.
but when it comes to civilians, HA dudes will give u the cost off their back, help u change a flat, buy you a beer, etc.
I've moshed with HA at Slayer, Motorhead, and local metal/hardcore shows. I definitely hit one of more of em in the pit, which is what happens at HC shows😅 I was scared AF apologized immediately😅 the one HA dude was TRASHED n was like "Aw mane you was hitting EVERYBODY I ain't mad bud!" I was...... relieved..... to say the least😅
Good story….lol
You could turn that into a movie
A good Hells Angel's biker, granted he was probably the only one.
@@Broncort1 thanks - my mom and aunt are two of the coolest people in my eyes. They both spent the 60s and 70s going to sick shows in San Francisco, and my aunt actually moved to England for a bit and roomed with some of the musicians from Thin Lizzy. Then she moved to India and followed a guru for like 8 years and then escaped, equating the experience to being brainwashed by a cult. She spent the rest of her life trying to recover from that experience and made a ton of friends with other people who escaped the guru as well. My mom has since denounced her former hippy self and become a right-wing Christian conservative which is pretty unfortunate, but she still fondly talks about the bands she used to watch. She subscribed to a British magazine in the late 60s and early 70s and would find out about up and coming bands from Europe, and would catch them on their first American tour. She saw Led Zeppelin play their first show in California to a crowd of 2-300 people.
I saw limp bizkit last year in Australia at good things and they were the only band to tell the crowd to look after each other and the whole crowd cheered for them
That's pretty surprising. I would've thought the bands would be more aware at Good Things.
Sounds like lesson learned.. :D
That’s a huge 180 from Woodstock 99. ❤
Yeah because they helped escalate the chaos at Woodstock 99 and caught a bunch of 💩 for it
Im seeing them in the summer
Eddie Vedder paid tribute to the victims of Roskilde in Love Boat Captain off the next album after the tragedy. “Lost nine friends we’ll never know, two years ago today.”
And whenever they play that song live, Vedder changes that lyric to acknowledge the number of years that have passed since 2000
My buddy went to Blue Ridge and he tried talking me into going with him and I refused, and I've never been happier that I refused an invite.
I won't go to the overhyped festivals either, I just wait for my favorite bands to play at my local amphitheater...for me it's just not worth it when I only want to see like 2 or 3 of the bands at the festival. For example, last year Coal Chamber were playing at Inkarceration in Ohio and they were like the only band I wanted to see so I just waited for about 2 months later and saw them on the Mudvayne/Coal Chamber/Nonpoint tour that came to Ohio. I was happy with that decision too. Don't get me wrong though, If a friend were to ask me to go to a festival and they drove and paid for my ticket I would gladly go.
You definitely made the right decision. I went to Blue Ridge and wish I would have stayed home. And I'm still fighting to get my money back.
You definitely made the right decision. I went to Blue Ridge and wish I would have stayed home. And I'm still fighting to get my money back.
Dodged a bullet there mate!
I was happy we got a hotel and didn't get in because afterwards it seemed like a piece of hell.
Travis aint traumatized, he knew, he ddnt care, they died and he felt sorry he got blame and hate for it.
💯🎯👏👏 exactly! He is a self centered , greedy sc*mbag. There were more victims, they just passed at hospital so they aren't included in the figures released. It's the Disney model. Keeps costs down and prevents bad publicity.
He knew. More passed than 10.
💯🎯👏👏 there were more victims, too. He knew, as did his entire team
8am they breached security.
Travis was only sorry that he got caught trying to paint himself as the victim shame on him. He is a shitty person who doesn't even care about his fans. Travis and the venue have blood on their hands for this disastrous chain of events. Only people with tickets should've been allowed in full stop.
Travis Scott = 🗑️
Honorable mention: The Station Nightclub Fire in Rhode Island, 2003. Technically not a concert/music festival, but basically Jack Russell (of Great White fame) got a new band to do a tour of the Northeast. Pyrotechnics were lit in the small venue night club which was covered in flammable foam, leading to a fire. There was only 1 exit the front door (the other being blocked by a bouncer) which created a human stampede. Over 100 people died and hundreds more injured. An absolute massive fuck up by the night club owners and the fire marshall who failed to point out the violations during his visit.
Watched a doco/video about this and the idea of being trapped underneath a dead body and losing oxygen really fucked me up. I can only imagine how any one directly linked to this tragedy coped.
You are incorrect. There was a side exit by the kitchen and a side exit by the main bar - both were open and used by several people to escape. Everyone either ran to the front entrance which was blocked or the back and the bouncer (like a moron) wouldn't let people pass. But you can check out the facts by googleing the floorplan of the station nightclub and it is plain as day. 4 fully functioning exits. That is why whenever I enter ANY building I immediately locate all the exits including those that are not in the main flow because those will be the ones to use when panic ensues.
From what I have heard, Great White actually used the pyrotechnics without permission. Apparently, their contract didn’t even include pyrotechnics.
I was thinking about that
The road manager took full responsibility for the tragedy and reached out to the families of the victims
What an absolute tragedy of having your last earthly sounds be the auto-tuned lyrics of Travis Scott.
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What an amazing reply! Thank you! Cheers
I got a Travis Scott meal last week. It was a soda, fries, and a smash burger.
Before hearing about the deaths on the news,I had ZERO idea who he even was!😮
Salt in the wound! The retard has encouraged dangerous behavior at shows multiple times. Trap Lord Ross highlighted this and it's sad but hilarious- Travis encourages fans to breach security and come up on stage. When they take his advice, he quickly realizes it's a bad idea and begins yelling at them to get the fuck off the stage. It was poetic. I'm sad any venues let him come after at least 2 similar instances but money talks. I'm pissed people get arrested for simply existing while homeless and Travis is still free afaik.
I used to work for the major labor company that set up festivals across the Nation and it's excessively getting worse and their focus is not on fixing it but on escaping accountability as they continuously fire anybody that speaks out against them and have them shunned by the community.
There's actually many accidental deaths and suicides within the worker community of festivals due to the games they play with employee's livelihood and mental health that y'all will never hear about.
The festival Life is Beautiful in Las Vegas has killed someone every year I've been there to set it up and no one talks about it
@@shaneeroh2213 hey that's the same company that I set up EDC and Amazon for. Let's not name them publicly because I'm currently struggling to get my life on track after being shunned by their community and it's rich owner using the cult mentality of his people to attack my mental health.
There's also a bunch of rape culture within that company but you can't point it out with people acting like you're crazy.
Are you talking about Live Nation cause they are total scum
The worst of us ruin it for the rest of us
Misconduct from major entities is a common trend
Metal crowds are actually super lovely and look out for each other.
Oh wait, you're actually serious... 😬 🤦
@@patriciaroberts308 oh sorry ifI misspoke, the ones I've been a part of were surprisingly lovely and supportive.
@@gingergamer3270 Wow, that's wonderful that you've had that experience!!! Honestly, I've taken my 2 young daughters and 2 of their friends to Def Leppard in concert in the 1990's but I really don't think of that group as Metal. We were indoors (arena) and I did have the drug talk before we went!!! 👍 🇺🇸 Are you familiar with Def Leppard?
@@patriciaroberts308 Ah okay, I live in Melbourne, maybe that's why. I've heard of Def Leppard of course. My dad used to listen to them but I didn't grow up with them as much as guns n roses and kiss etc.
@@gingergamer3270 My oldest daughter was obsessed with Gun N Roses. She still attends their concerts. She's in her late 40's.
Eddy Vedder is such a kind soul. Ive seen footage of that show time and again and his reaction always breaks my heart
He actually checked on me at Lollapalooza 92 when I got crushed up against the barrier and carried out on a stretcher. He was very good to me.
Dude is legit for sure. PJ and EV for the win.
Before of the tragic events at the final Loveparade in Duisburg/Germany, all kinds of experts tried to warn the public about the risk of the kind of accident, that actualy happened. The responsible persons ignored it.
Exactly! Many experts said this area wasn't suitable. And it took too long to tear down barriers.
With rare exceptions... they always do.
Is that Chance Wilkies as your profile picture?
@@NotImportant-zl1vb dooWhat???
@@AkronAsylum the goblin of Akron silly!
1:04 "headbang the like-button, stagedive on the subscribe-button and windmill the video to your friends" brooooo i love it
The author is a closeted hippie.
*dirty* hippie.
The author is a closeted "dirty" hippie. 😀
Why all the hippie trash talk? You must not be old enuf to have known a real hippie.
For the author, hippies are the worst.
For most rational people, generalizing with baseless prejudice is the worst.
The plywood during limp bizkits set was actually their own idea, the band was trying to create their own "moment" similar to Green Day's mud-fight; but yeah, as time progressed, the audience lost their minds!
oh they got their moment alright and it made them look like assholes.
No way was LB responsible, things didn’t get out of control with the fires until RHCP finished after the third day.
I was at Woodstock '99 with some friends, but we left after the first day when we saw a girl being sexually assaulted while 200 other men AND women cheering on her attackers. At least we didn't have to suffer through the 40 terrible bands just to hear the three good ones.
The sexual assault at that festival was so atrocious, even while it was still going on people were calling it Rapestock. Horrible.
They were utter degenerates. Too many perverts got away with it, too.
I was at Woodstock 99 too. Never seen anything like that at all. I did see a whole lot of women volunteering to get naked all over the place. But nothing non consensual. And I was there from Thursday til Monday morning. Sorry but I think these stories are way overblown
I was there for more then 3 days, I didn’t see anything like that
@@TheDjcorey19I agree and it didn’t get wild until after RHCP finished
Altamont Festival was not organized by the Stones, they were just the headline act. The last minute arrangements was due to the original venue being cancelled by local authorities.
The original venue was Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma (home of the annual NASCAR road race)
Yes they tried to pin the event on the Stones, primarily Jagger
And if you don’t know how to spell or pronounce Altamont you really shouldn’t be pretending you know the subject.
Altamont was organized by the Stones. People had complained about the high price of tickets of their American tour. This free festival would shut them up.
Minor correction: Woodstock was actually first resurrected in 1979, then got resurrected again in 1989 & 1994 (the '94 one being most similar to '99 in scope and taste, but nowhere near as disastrous despite having its fair share of problems).
True
1969**
@@gigisaldana7222 I was talking about the revival of it (I know the first Woodstock was in 1969).
You've clearly listened to the first episode of podcast 99...
‘94 was superior to ‘99 in every possible way.
How could you forget the mass shooting of people like they were fish in a barrel at the Las Vegas music festival at the Mandalay Bay!!? Surely that many people shot dead would make your list.
Aw come on man, don't you know ANYTHING???
@@howlinsg1968 ???
It had less to do with the festival itself and the people attending/running it. All of the entries have something to do with that, but Las Vegas was the result of one guy who targeted the festival, and we do not know why he did it (and probably won't ever know)
The Vegas 'thing' is associated with a term that is banned here from being mentioned
That was our government to push gun laws
Props to you for making a half hour video feel like 10 minutes, great work.
WTF I JUST FINISHED I THOUGHT IT WAS 10 MINS😭😭😭
Yep... That was good viewing right thar.
Same, I thought this video was shorter
It did fly! That's a good sign
Honestly the main reason you see singers/bands make silly demands like a bowl full of only green M&Ms is because it's a way to easily check that the venue actually read their requirements and followed the safety procedures for their equipment. If a venue didn't follow the relatively simple demand for green M&Ms, they likely didn't follow the safety procedures for installing their very dangerous equipment.
not true at all.
bands do make stupid requirements - entirely due to ego.
roadies ask strange things to check on stuff at the venue though.
trust the roadies biography.
@@ElDerpy This is actually a true statement. Some of them are ego-trips, yes, but many other bands have done it to make sure the entire rider was read and followed.
"oh, these aren't your instruments? I'm sorry, I was busy sorting your sweets and I found exactly 69 green M&Ms"
@@fonesrphunny7242 It's more along the lines of if they can't complete the relatively simple task of sorting m&ms then they probably didn't do the frankly more complex task of making sure the stage doesn't collapse or burst into flames.
I heard the same thing from my friend who is a long time concert organizer - i don't know about the Van Halen story tho, might be the ego with them 😅
I think Rock Am Ring 2016 could have gotten an honorable mention as a severe thunderstorm hit the festival and it was cancelled way too late. Someone was struck by lightning and ended up in a wheelchair.
Been there. We were almost knee deep in the water and they had us walk like 2 miles to the cars for shelter due to their fcked up planning. At least Amon Amart was able to finish it‘s set. That was amazing during the upcoming storm.
@@lugenlord6721 been there too, only 100 meter away from the lightning strike. Missed the amon amarth set since i was at school before but was there at tenacious D when everything was cancelled
Kinda surprised Electric Zoo 2023 wasn’t mentioned.
EZoo was an EDM festival that took place during Labor Day weekend on Randalls Island in NYC. In 2022, the festival was acquired by the owners of a popular EDM venue in NYC that had a pretty shady history that included overselling shows at said venue. The 2023 festival was the first where they were on their own for organizing the festival, and they were hyping it up real hard. However, things began to turn for the worst when the first day of the festival was cancelled mere hours before the gates were set to open due to construction delays. The organizers tried to blame the delays on “global supply chain issues”, but it turned out that there were a bunch of permit issues, as well as a lack of workers who wanted to work for the festival as the new owners did not pay the contractors who worked for the 2022 festival. While the rest of the festival did happen, it ended up being marred by underwhelming stage designs that were still being worked on even as the festival happened, long lines at Will Call as a bunch of people did not receive their wristbands in advance, and a security guard attacking a festival goer. The climax of all this was on the last day of the festival, when the festival reached capacity and resulted in no one else being allowed in for the rest of the day, which ended up with everyone who was on the island waiting to get in to storm the gates. And while the organizers did promise that everyone would receive refunds for Friday and Sunday, people have still not gotten their money back, with attempts at chargebacks receiving mixed results.
Was just coming to mention this.
Seems pretty clear EDM is not his cup of tea.
Billy McFarland is out now. He's current hosting Fyre Festival 2 for 12/4/24. First wave of tickets are already sold out. There is currenlty no line up listed on the website. Get ready to update your list next year.
How are people falling for this?
How are people falling for this?
Wow
Sweet! Can't wait to get my ticket. 😂😂😂
No way 🤣
if you're gonna make a second part of this video, an incident definitely worth mentioning is argentina's 2004 cromañón incident (spelled cruh-mah-nee-on)
it was mostly caused by bad event organization in a closed space, where all emergency exits were closed and locked.
the incident began when the band "callejeros" started their show, in which someone lit up a flare and threw it on-stage, causing the huge flag behind them to burn and emit toxic gasses.
194 people died and 1432 were injured, and (in my opinion) holds up as the worst rock music incident of all time. i'm honestly surprised i don't see that many people talking about it
"historias innecesarias" has a very good detailed video on it if you wanna check it out, even though it's in spanish!
I am from Germany and the aftermath from Loveparade Duisburg was a mess. The lawsuit was a joke, dragged over multiple years.
I was at a Festival near Duisburg at the same weekend and remember the massive amount of cars on the road to Duisburg and the hours we were stuck in traffic on our way to Cologne. Had a bad feeling from the start and was not the only one. I remember speaking with my friends in our car about how bad the idea sounds to hold an event like Loveparade at a closed area instead of open streets like the years before. At Amphi Festival, a smaller Goth/Rock/EBM Event in a beautiful venue we met many people who were already worried about the situation at Loveparade. Way too many people at a location thats definitely not able to handle a crowd like this. I spoke to some friends who are festival staff and artists and all of them were like "that is unsafe as hell, hope nothing goes wrong". And as it happened we all were shocked. A host who usually announces the bands at main stage informed the audience and regularly kept us informed. Many medical staff from Amphi were sent to Duisburg to help out. I tried to contact a childhood friend who was at the Loveparade, the day after she called and told me what she had been through. She was so scared of the packed crowd that she decided to leave the center early, watch the event from a distance and it was the best decision ever, but she had seen everything and has to deal with ptsd since. Lost a friend and like so many other people she is unable to understand how poorly the whole ordeal was handled by authority after the tragic event. Nobody has faced real justice or was sentenced in an acceptable way. Loveparade should have never been moved away from Berlin without a proper safety concept or venue. Greed and ignorance influenced bad decisions and took the life of too many people who just wanted to enjoy an event and not one actually admitted the wrongdoing in the first place. Official statements and excuses came to late and only after public demand.
Yes, disgusting, especially the behavior of Adolf Sauerland. Aggressively pushed the festival and didn‘t want to hear afterwards. What a douchebag.
I made the decision to invest in Amphi tickets instead of going to Love Parade last minute, best decision ever. Remembering the mood in the Tanzbrunnen when the news from Duisburg came trickling in still gives me the chills. Many friends were at the love parade, they were "lucky", the worst injury was a broken bone and some cracked ribs. The amount of stupid that were both the event planning for the Love Parade and the reaction of the police when things started to get ugly ... just insane.
So weird seeing Love parade mentioned here but it totally makes sense. I am from Duisburg and the "Love Parade Tunnel", which is how we know it in the area, is only a 15 minute walk away from where I used to live.
We could hear the music all day and my brother was actually out there to check it out.
After some time we started hearing more and more ambulances and helicopters in the area, it was starting to become very eerie and me and my mother ended up huddled in front of the TV once it became news worthy. Nobody could reach anyone due to the phone network being completely overloaded so we had no idea if my brother was safe, or anyone we knew who was there.
He eventually came home, apparently he and his friends never even made it onto the festival grounds as things were already escalating by the time. But we still heard sirens all through the night.
At this point the staircase that is shown in the video still has a place of remembrance for those that died where candles and flowers are placed. It also has pictures of every person that passed hanging there. Otherwise the tunnel is filled with graffiti of silhouetted humans to remember the tragedy...
Back when the love parade incident happened, our bass player was there... we couldn't reach him for 2 days and really thought he might have died. Even his parents didn't know where he was. We eventually found out that he was doing too many drugs and never entered the festival ground.
One interesting detail of the Indiana state fair collapse is their ballast blocks were sitting on pea gravel which allowed them to slide under the force of the wind and the lean of the structure.
I've set up these stages a number of times, I've seen them shake and creak and bend but never collapse.
whoa,that is unbelievable.sucks.
@@shaneeroh2213 Yea, me too. Hade a few scary incidents. Mostly due to stage company owners and organizers cutting corners. But never seen anything comming close to the Indiana State Fair.
@@shaneeroh2213 I think there was too much weight on the rigging. They built the show like it was Rammstein at an indoor venue. Did you see that big round thing hanging from the roof structure?
Never will I tune in to your bullshit. Go back to the Yuppie club.
While i dont have any sympathi for the influencers in fyre festival ,i feel so sorry for the woman who hada restaurant on the island before the influencers were shuttelled to the venue. She worked herself almost to death and lost her entire pension ,she went from quie rich too dirt poor because of all the fires she had to put out with her own money. Hopefully she got some of it back with her engagement in the documentary . And dont forget about the workers on the festival,they did not get payed at all ,so they went full pirates and kidnapped responsible people ,holding them for ransom 😅
And i also feel sympathy for the people who just came to the festival to just enjoy some music
💩 music taste
The real victims are the island workers and the civilians who all had their money stolen, yeah.
I think it ended up ok for her, but not because of Fyre. A Gofundme campaign raiset something like $150k for Maryann Rolle so she was able to pay everyone working for her at least.
My kid almost died at Astroworld. He witnessed most of the deaths, and was on the ground/trampled and begging for his life. I don’t really want to watch the rest of this video because they don’t address it properly
Well the video really isn’t specifically about the victims, as his delivery would then be inappropriate, it’s specifically what went wrong, how they got there, and what happened afterward type of thing. But regardless of that I am so sorry about your kid, but I’m glad he’s alive today.
@@suavequeso5838 Except he specifically mentions Travis Scott encouraging his audience to engage in "hood rat shit," directly inferring that his audience is, at least partly, made up of so-called hood rats. I'm from Houston. I had friends there, one of whom suffered a compound fracture of their leg and was lucky to make it out. It's not appropriate and I can only imagine that the family and friends of people at other festivals mentioned might feel the same. Disclaimer: I like hip-hop but have never cared for Travis Scott's music or the man as an artist in general, so this is not fan bias speaking.
@@terra__incognita Oh i absolutely agree that was wrong of him to say, but what I’m saying tho is that he’s not trying to address the victims or their families, just summarizing what happened in a funny way.
@@terra__incognitahe wasnt even hiding the racism when he called Scott fans “hood rats”
I feel it was a satanic event...... there are vids on this angle
1749 was The first music festival disaster fire. The festival organizers expected 12,000 at the festival to celebrate the end of the war. During one of the rehearsals, the hall erupted into flames and burned to the ground. The music by Handel they were rehearsing has always been known as "The Fireworks" or "music for the Royal Fireworks".
The end of which war?
Between the movie clip edits and your Travis Scott jokes you got me dying 😂😂😂😂
Great video
Man that 2011 stage collapse one is scary as shit though. I've been working as a stage tech since 2012, and I honestly just can't even imagine that happening and I've worked through some terrible weather
I have to assume there was some negligence on the event organizers part tbh
This guy just blamed hippies when he said hells angels were stabbing and beating people 😂
Seems to have a Cartman-esque hatred of hippies from the videos I've seen so far. Only ever had awesome experiences with hippie types personally
This is what bugs me about this video as well. This youtuber seems quite hateful. Especially against "hippies" as well as "gypsies". His language is extremely derogatory ("dirty hippies", "aggressive gypsies", ...). This coupled with his weird connotations sounding very condescending as if he is the know it all gives this video a very weird vibe. It lacks objectivism and makes them seem stupid and simple minded.
@@niklas5771agreed
So pushing a motorcycle down isn’t starting it?
@@niklas5771 i hope the hippies see this bro
The world owes fred durst an apology. I'm not even a limp bizkit fan and i still think it was rediculous he got any blame for what happened at woodstock 99. He was being paid to perform not to do security. The organizers are the ones who are responsible for how things went down.
Facts. That was just a cop out to try and absolve the responsibility from the negligent parties. They cut as many corners as possible to maximize profits, and it came back to bite them.
Props to Pearl Jam for stopping.
Fuck Travis Scott for continuing.
Was looking for a comment about this! If I recall correctly, people were climbing onto anything they could to yell for help and for the concert to stop, and security just yelled at them to get down! Nobody did anything!
You'd think one of his assistants or organizers would have come out to tell him what was going on. He claims he had no idea. If that's true, he SHOULD have had an idea, because one of his handlers should have come out on stage. Maybe he's just such an a-hole, everyone was afraid to walk on stage and tell him.
@@jasonhaynes2952 I'd likely presume the latter unfortunately.
@@jasonhaynes2952He knew. Fans started breaking the barriers around 8am. There was footage out there and the authorities warned him. It should have been shut down once security had been breached. He heard, he saw & he continued. He says he "is all about the rage!", yet played golf with fellow rich celebrities a week later. He is a pathetic selfish brat and still hasn't faced justice. Money talks, murder walks.
@@Camille_Anderson Nigga probably didn’t even know how to use a golf club - he probably used it as a bong
These all were NOT “hippies”. Love parade was ELECTRONIC MUSIC. I have YET to meet a hippie who even LIKES electronic music. This was fun to watch but it has lots of inaccuracies.
This is what bugs me about this video as well. This youtuber seems quite hateful. Especially against "hippies" as well as "gypsies". His language is extremely derogatory ("dirty hippies", "aggressive gypsies", ...). This coupled with his weird connotations sounding very condescending as if he is the know it all gives this video a very weird vibe. It lacks objectivism and makes them seem stupid and simple minded.
@@niklas5771 ok hippie
if his words are what pass as "condescending" to you then you don't even know what condescension is
@@niklas5771It’s kind of obnoxious. I get that this channel is focused on metal, but it just comes off as smug elitism.
well, Goa was full of Hippies listening to pure electronic music for example
Lmao. Electronica/pop is mainly hipsters. I think he confuses hippies with hipsters.
-> Death metal = safe
-> Hippie stuff = multiple casualties
Metal people are the first to pick you up if you stumble in the pit, and help you clear a path to safety if it gets too violent. More pop/mainstream acts appeal to a lower common denominator, with predictable results. Although, KMFDM/Rammstein at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, OK (1998) will remain the most violent concert I went to, primarily because the dudes with shaved heads and jack boots were about 40% of the crowd and didn't understand the tremendous loathing Rammstein and KMFDM have for that ideology. Some girl got heat exhaustion and wound up with at least one broken bone. It doesn't compare to these events, it's just my personal worst crowd but amazing concert.
@@kdawson020279 Well, to form a pit, you already need teh extra space, which seems to be safer in the first place.
@@kdawson020279Lol I was just at a metal concert and someone said "Metalheads are nice people cosplaying as mean people and hippies are mean people cosplaying as nice people"
@@NPC1921 That's kind of accurate lol
ayo, shout out to small scale disco/house festivals. always felt sooo safe at those. only did one metal festival ever and felt safe too, loving crowd, would recommend!
Crazy that you posted this after Supernova music festival, yet didn't mention it. None of the disasters you listed were the spark to start a war. Granted, the event itself was just the backdrop, I would still consider it the most disastrous festival ever.
Finally someone mentions this. Expected that to be #1 especially bacuse it's so recent and tragic.
Route 91 in Las Vegas, too.
It is hard to explain why I believe he chose not to include it without getting into semantics. The incidents covered in this video are music festivals that were disastrous due to negligence by the organizers. The Supernova music festival was a disaster and a tragedy, but what occurred there was unrelated to the event that was taking place.
"According to reports published on 17 November, the police concluded based on interrogations and their own investigations that Hamas did not know about the festival beforehand but came across it by accident and decided to attack it."
like you said the fact that was a music festival was irrelevant. That attack could have happened at any big public gathering just so happened to be a music festival. This video focuses on events relating to the fact of it being a music festival
@@hairbear007it was a music festival which makes it relevant, but I get that the OP was generally focusing on festivals in which the promoter was the root case of the disaster, but his timing was crap.
I know it’s common to hate on people who went to Fyre Fest but I can imagine a couple or someone saving up for a splurge type vacation and then being stranded with barely any money left because they thought their food and accommodations and transportation were taken care of. It was mostly insufferable influencers and rich kids buying private jets to get back home but I’m sure there were some people who were truly scared and screwed over.
99% of the idiots that webtbto FF were spoiled rich kids. It's not right what the pos promoter did, but I chuckle at the spoiled brats that had to see what its like when mommy and daddy dont have servants to wait on the kids lol
It's ok to have empathy ❤
It's strange how they love to blame bands like Limp Bizkit and KoRn for what happened at Woodstock 1999 but no one ever mentions Rage Against The Machine who also played there. I think the promoters were just trying to deflect so they blamed the bands when in reality it was their fault for being so damn greedy and caring more about the profit they made rather than the fans!
Not to mention that they were the people who BOOKED THE DAMN BANDS. The audacity of them blaming the bands is truly remarkable. "We organized this whole thing and it went to shit but that's not our fault!" Ridiculous.
Although I did not attend Woodstock ‘99, I knew others who did. The facilities' failure, heat, and location aside, during the days after, into the weeks that followed, the band I recall taking the initial blame in conversation and headlines was the Red Hot Chili Peppers and their decision to cover Jimi Hendrix's Fire amidst the crowd forming a massive candlelight vigil using real candles. This video is a perfect example, as the Chili Peppers weren’t even mentioned; over time, history has chosen other bands like Freddy D & His Limp Biscuits to immortalize the travesty known as Woodstock 1999.
the disaster at the Indiana State Fair led to the end of Sugarland. They completely gave up music after that. It does not matter what kind of music you like or hate, you shouldn't wish something like that on anyone ever.
I had no idea that this incident occurred. I really enjoy Sugarland and Jennifer’s voice. So sad indeed.
I heard a couple folks cut the lines that held the ceiling up.
Yeah, you can only blame the bands if they tell people to not listen to security from the stage. Not Sugarlands fault at all.
@Jeff-sp7bg that's not true. The issue is that it was a bad storm that the fair organizers and we knew was going to happen and allowed the show to go on. The stage was collapsible and would be taken down after every fair season.
"Whether it's stage collapses, acts of God, or....HIPPIES." I love it🤣
I don't consider Fyre Fest a Festival.
And spoiled kids getting scammed I consider a great success.
But it’s literally called “Fyre FEST”. It is a festival.
Yesssss! This!
affirmative
It's asinine I tell ya what
@@candiebe3193
You can call a turd a Hershey bar, don't make it chocolate.
The Altamont Free concert: the Tanacon of the 60s.
Also, in regards to the Hell's Angels, The Stones were led to believe they were like a similarly named nonviolent group that provided security at one of their shows in London in the past.
19:53
"Arc" is a song on Pearl Jam's album Riot Act. It is a tribute to those who died at Roskilde 2000.
Donnington 88 is also worth a mention for the kids that got crushed in the crowd surge during GnR’s set . My guitar teacher said they announced it over the PA after Iron Maiden finished . He said it was one of the most depressing endings to what until that point had been an amazing day
Yes this is true I was there and hardly anyone really knew of anything amiss until the announcement after Maiden finished - Donington was cancelled the year after but returned in 90
I was there! I have vivid memories.
I was there too. It was scary as shit being lifted off your feet as the crowd surged forward. We knew it was bad, as Axl Rose stopped the show so Security could get the fans out of the mud. But we never knew the poor guys had died until after Iron Maiden had closed the festival and the fireworks had gone off. It was a terrible end to a great music event.
@@brianparker8352
But that's not Guns and Rose's fault though.
I went the very first Monsters of Rock at Donnington in the early 80’s. I was backstage when Ozzy & his family turned up in a Limo. No problems at that gig ❤️
its crazy how these things happen so often. everyone preaches crowd safety but things like this still happen. its heartbreaking for those who died or were injured at some of these. but then theres the shit fests *cough cough* blue ridge *COUGH* ... that just arent organized correctly. its insane how pretty much anyone with big money can just host a festival, causing people to either lose their life, be injured, or walk away traumatized and down thousands of dollars.
Dude you make tragedy hilarious! Much appreciated
you didn't mention the pukkelpop festival of 2011, where a severe thunderstorm with 100 mph winds tore through it and ended up killing 5 people when a large tent collapsed. thers a ton of videos of the winds tearing the hell out of the place
I was there, man! I was at netsky in the boilerroom and tought for sure i was going to die. The mobile phone masts where also overloaded and it was verry difficult to make phonecalls, and i remember my dad trying to call me to come and get me. I swear that man never shows fear but i could tell on his voice on a voicemail he was worried sick! Man and those constant ambulances driving up and down those streets. I still remember it like it was yesterday!
@@TheBigSmokerthe sound of those ambulances still haunts me to this day. So many peoples life’s changed forever that day.
@@BLACKnDECKERCRUSTYWRECKER Thats fucking terrifying!
@@TheBigSmoker didn't blink 182 play pukkelpop in 2011
@@charlottestreet3301 I was also there. No, skunk anansie saved my life that year by playing till she was blown away by the wind. That way I didn't during the dangerous halestorm and I could find shelter under a group poncho.
Damn and I was debating between tickets for Blue Ridge or Aftershock in Sacramento. Good thing I made the right choice.
Very smart choice!
Yeah, you made the right choice. I went to Blue Ridge and it was the worst decision I ever made. Well, actually I didn't make the decision. I was overridden. I wanted to go to Louder Than Life. Now I'm still fighting to get my money back. In the future I will only attend festivals put on by DWP (Aftershock and Louder Than Life are two of their's).
Aftershocks line up is fucking rad this year dude. I’ve gone every year since 2016 and the only critical issue I experienced there was the first year they didn’t have hydration stations and they shut off drinking fountains so you had no choice but to buy a 12 dollar water and it was 100+ out. There was like a couple hundred posted out front of the med tent. Other then that though it’s a good festival and decent crowds. I highly recommend it
It's just one of those days when you don't wanna wake up...
LMAO!!! "... who looks like they came up with the idea after blowing each other..."
I was at blue ridge rock 2023, went in 2021 and it was incredible. 2023 was a literal nightmare, first day was the tornado warning, I was in the escape the fate crowd when the rain started, we all ran into the “safety” tent, where a man informed us we needed to hold onto the pole in the center of the room while he went outside in the 65 mph wind and hammered the tent back into the ground, shout out to that man for keeping us safe. Never found out his name, I was practically naked so when I noticed rain mostly stopping I ran for it.
No one could find where the evacuation buses were, staff didn’t know when I asked them, they just kept pointing me in different directions, so we all huddled in “shelter” under a fucking bridge where the buses were “supposed” to be. After like 30 minutes of fearing for our lives we asked a worker when the buses were coming and he just said, “guess they’re not coming” I don’t blame him, the staff apparently lost all communications with security and other staff so….
Second day was another nightmare, no water, I felt like I was actually going to die of dehydration, bottles of water were $4, which I ended up paying bc I felt like I was gonna DIE
Slipknot was apparently the worst of it, some girl came out of the crowd sobbing bc she thought she was actually gonna die, and when I stopped her (I was dressed as barbie it was my duty to make sure the girlies were okay) she said she was lost and she got crushed in the crowd and lost her friends, turns out that was the missing girl, thankfully she’s been found!
Nightmare nightmare nightmare!
I actually have dreams about being back in this scenario, an hour and a half walk away from my car, waiting for a bus to pick me up in the doom crawl, and hoping a tornado doesn’t touch down while I’m running for my life in platforms. Ruined festivals for me and my partner, thankfully I also got a full refund.
I have plenty of pictures for anyone wanting some!
Wow! What a crazy story…. Glad you’re okay and can rock your platforms another dayyyyy
Never forget the bravery of one young boy, a geologist, leopold "butters" stoch's mom, and a black man to sacrifice himself in case anything went wrong, stopped a music festival from consuming the town of south park.
When you're so early 720p isn't available yet
Great compilation. Many of your examples are one-time events, which are prone to becoming a desaster. Long time successful metal festivals like Wacken, Summerbreeze or Hellfest had humble beginnings, where local bands were looking for an opportunity to perform and therefore started a small festival. Over the time they grew organically and learned how to master the ever growing number of fans. They are also regarded as very safe.
Ive been in a really tight crowd, once. It's not only claustrophobic it's also (as this video proves) hard to breathe. There was a point where i got LIFTED off of the ground, and I'm not tall at all. I did get the air pushed out of my lungs more than once.
Scary as hell when you think you're going to die just because you wanted to see someone perform live and you got crushed by people wanting to do the same thing.
I still find it so funny that the shit head that ran Blue Ridge’s last name was Sly.
Sly Guy
@@wyattsmetal pretty fly for a sly guy
5:05 - just so people are aware of what is going on with BRRF right now. They still have not refunded the people who got turned away and every time someone emails them about this they come back with some shit like “we will get back to you as soon as possible”. Of course they never do. So it looks like we won’t get refunded, and what’s more insulting. They are selling ticket for next year at ridiculously price, with some VIP price going up to $2000. I will be ranting on this one more time on my channel soon cause this is infuriating. And if people think we are overacting to what happened, trust me we ain’t.
I watched this 'by accident' because auto-play was on... am I ever glad it did!! your narration is totally hilarious, yet well-informed and I especially like the part about hippies killing the cow only to find there were no pre-made hamburgers inside, pure gold dude! lol
And exactly a month and a half before the release of this video, the one that trumps them all, the October 7 music festival disaster / massacre where hundreds died in a terrorist attack
I thought of that, too. Many of the hostages still haven't been released, and thousands are dead on both sides of the conflict. 😭
Oct 7th was understood prior and fully allowed to happen/ the site was even moved to be closer to the border. Inside J O B for satanic political effect. IS MILT peeps will attest.
I was at a festival (Rock am Ring 2017) that was evacuated because of a terror attack warning. Fortunately, it turned out to be a false alarm, but all shows for that evening ended up getting cancelled.
That's terrifying
Always go with the older more experienced festival lol.
I was there too. It really wasn't that bad tbh. Only the festival grounds were evacuated, you could still stay on the camping grounds. Also, all bands expect Rammstein were able to play later, effectively meaning that only Rammstein was really canceled. RaR 2016 was way worse
@@masopechbut that wasn‘t Rammsteins fault. Their show and stage need more preparation.
@@anotheratheist Yes that's correct, they wanted to play but it just wasn't possible due to logistics
15:00 The background of Love Parade is misrepresented here. Love Parade traditionally took place in the center of Berlin (where the actual photo of the huge square with the pillar in the center is from), not on an open field or something. The event was moved to a huge empty lot in Duisburg for 2010 mostly to separate it from the city infrastructure which is also why the entrance/exit was restricted to that particular tunnel leading directly to the main train station.
Great video. You have a great sense of humor. If you hadn't heard Billy McFarland announced Fyre Fest 2. Yeah.. after he got out of prison for the first one.
As a roadie I have dealt with an insane amount of this kind of shit over the years. Side story for you, The "Route 91" fest in Vegas, I was there the year before the shooting, but a coworker was working Jason Aldean that year. He was there, survived, and after all was said and done they went home early from that leg of the tour. When he entered his apartment his roommate, who wasn't expecting him for another week thought it was someone breaking in and shot him 3 times. Luckily he survived, again. Moral of the story, if you love going to shows, thank a fucking roadie.
This is why I don't trust average people having frickin' guns in their house.
Happy to be here while this channel is growing. This, Nick, Tank, and Blegh are my go to metal channels 🤘🏾 keep up the great work Wyatt!
I appreciate that man thank you!
This was incredibly entertaining, subbed my man.
The most shocking piece of footage from AstroWorld - when paramedics were finally able to get to victims, there was about eight paramedics on top of about eight dead people doing CPR at the same time next to each other. As an emergency dispatcher, it is the side of Rescue services that I will never face. I can't imagine how to process that situation later.
My friends dad was one of the ones who died in the Indiana state fair one. It's so weird to hear about it all these years later. I remember it so vividly learning about it. We were both so young and just couldn't comprehend it. I hope everyone who lost loved ones are doing good and okay. It's tough to lose someone due to something like this.
Thanks for the video. Just a note, as a Creative Director in music festival, the orange tile campaign of Fyre Festival (by Jerry Media) was ingenious.
Fyre Fest 2 is already on sale and scheduled for December 2024. One ticket type is priced at over $1 million. Can't wait to watch your next video on that one 😂
I'm danish and I remember the pearl jam episode. My then bf was at the concert and I couldn't reach him for like a day. I thought he was one of the people getting stampeeded. Thankfully he wasn't, but he was meters away and saw it all happen.
Thankfully it sparked a lot of changes in how Roskilde festival handles their security. Now there are bars preventing too many people accessing the same area and ever since I've felt a lot more secure.
I fainted myself I think it was a year or two later at a red hot chili peppers concert. The crowd was pushing on me, but I got to the bars and got carried out of there by security.
Not sure if this counts as a festival since it happened indoors, but the Station night club disaster is a good example, where the band Great White performed. The small nightclub caught fire, plus with it packed and everyone trying to leave, many died after being crushed to death
That's awful, but I think smaller concert "disasters" would be a whole other video idea. The Christina Grimmie tragedy comes to mind too
A friend of mine survived that and still has to live with the mental scars of the incident. To hear him describe it is heartbreaking. He just happened to be at the right place at the right time and got out, but how fast it went up and hearing people burning to death inside - he still can’t sleep at night.
@@michaelaurban4120 that was truly fucked up, i believe there was some kind of decorative styrofoam on the walls and ceilings that were dropping flaming globs of pain on everyone. Maybe one of the scariest crowd situations ever
The Station in New Haven ? God, I remember that. Don't get much worse than that one.
God Bless those poor people and their families and friends of the dead.
God Bless all who did survive but were burned or injured, and all who suffer the emotional scars.
❤🙏🙏🙏❤
Also The Who in Philadelphia (?) where a lot of people where crushed to death.
The backstory on Woodstock the original Woodstock was actually pretty bad. The concert promoters barely broke even after having released both a double album of music from Woodstock and releasing a feature film.
Yeah they lost so much money and it was close to not even running. But they were smart in the end and knew how to turn a profit off the legacy of it.
Donington Mosters of Rock (later Download) in 1988 was one such disaster. The line-up was incredible: Helloween, Gun n Roses, Megadeth, Dave Lee Roth, Kiss, Iron Maiden. But tragically two fans were trampled to death in the mud in front of the stage during Guns n Roses. And no one knew until after Maiden had finished and the fireworks had gone off, when a policeman came on the stage to break the news. It was horrible. I was there, and my Mum was watching the tragedy on the news, thinking that it might have been me. Remember, no mobile phones in those days to let our parents and loved ones know that we were OK. It was a real disaster.
You got the Stones concert wrong, the town is Altamont, not Alamont. It's on the newspaper you flashed on the video. Also you missed the footage of the person that was stabbed. It was a young black man dressed in a lime green suit with matching hat.
If you insert footage of stabbing, UA-cam blocks the video, mate.
@tweed0929 I think this is a case of "blink and you miss it." You also have to know where to look, as it's not really clear amongst the rest of the chaos.
Im so glad i have no idea who tf Travis Scott is
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Always refresing to see a channel like this with actually entertaining commentary.
The Station Nightclub fire occurred on February 20, 2003, in West Warwick, Rhode Island, USA. During a performance by the band Great White, pyrotechnics ignited flammable soundproofing foam on the club's walls. The fire quickly engulfed the venue, leading to panic and chaos among the patrons. Tragically, 100 people lost their lives, and more than 200 others were injured.
Watched the video of that again recently. Horrific. The sound of people screaming as they burn alive, when they should have been enjoying their night. But that wasn't a festival.
Thoroughly entertaining from start to finish, i'd never heard of Fyre Festival so i'm gonna find a documentary now to learn more! Cheers!
Watch the one from internethistorian, that is a really good take on everything from build up until the downfall!
I remember wanting to go to Woodstock, having to settle watching it play out on MTV and becoming quite happy I wasn't there.
I assume most you guys and girls are familiar with the Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany. One of my best friends is a police officer, he always volunteers for duty there when it takes place, as do many of his colleagues. They say there is the most intellectual audience to find, friendly people, no riots, no problems. A very simple task for the police. - Many visitors have a higher education and many are also musicians themselves. The camaraderie, solidarity and willingness to help others is enormous. - There's a funny thing about metal music that many people get a little bit wrong or even don't understand at all. Despite the aggressive attitude there is no trouble. Only having fun and enjoying the music is what counts. It seems that this music is ideal as an outlet for reducing aggression and makes it completely unnecessary to punch others in the face. And over the decades it has reached a level of quality that is no longer comprehensible to stupid people. These are condemned to listen to gangsta rap.
Wacken is with Rock am Ring without doubt the brst Festivals in Europe. We go there since 2013 every year. Our son was 8 and our daugther was nearly 7 in 2013. Never was at a festival so well organised and safe like Wacken and or Rock am Ring. Another nice Festival is HellFest in the South of France,but it is 2 streets behind of the German Festivals. Looking forward to go this year again to Wacken.
This sort of thing seems to be what happens when you gather too many people together without good planning. I went to a music festival once where everyone was on drugs, security was scarce and it felt like the whole thing was going to derail at any moment
This was more a personal disaster but it makes the list for me. I went to Bonnaroo only once and one of the girls i was there with barfed up her okra salad into my sneaker while we were chilling on a blanket. Utter devastation as i had to wear shitty overpriced flip flops for the rest of the festival
Putting on a music festival is no picnic but any time a person complains about a music fest, usually for sound issues or delays, I am thankful none of them have been as chaotic and disastrous as this.
That said, the scariest incident I witnessed at a music fest was at Riot Fest 2015 when System of a Down headlined and they had to stop the show twice as people almost got trampled to death in the middle of a pit. Fortunately, me and my friends were so far away and had lots of space where it didn't affect us, but I had some friends that were near it or knew others that literally got trampled on. Fortunately no one died, but it was still scary af. Also, I guess after Riot Fest 2021, the night Smashing Pumpkins played, someone got pushed onto the tracks and died immediately due to electrocution as people were pushing to get on the pink line train in Chicago. Sure it wasn't at the fest itself but it was the crowd from the fest.
I was at Riot Fest 21 and I remember walking past that train station and thinking 'nope, I'll fork over the extra 40 bucks for an uber cuz fuck that' that was really scary and tragic.
Woodstock 1969 / Woodstock 1999 / 30 years. Narrator says "thirteenth anniversary." You excel at math. Bravo.
OMG the errors in this stanky video just keep coming. @20:30 you said the Woodstock 99 festival was a tribute to the 13th anniversary of the original festival. Well Beavis, the original festival was 1969, can you do the math? It was the thirtieth anniversary. Can you read?
As a Hoosier the state fair collapse was horrifying. I went to the fair grounds to see an offraod four wheel show and to see everything all taped off and knowing that theres where several people passed away was a very eerie feeling.
10:20 just so yall know, the man who got stabbed pulled his gun out to fire on stage. you can see the silver of his revolver moments before an HA stabs him in the shoulder. just gotta correct that ;)
Please do a miniseries on hippies. This commentary is gold.
10 worst festivals of all time... posted November 2023... come on bro.
People at Fyre Festival: There are no artists here and our beds are wet! This is the biggest festival disaster ever!
People at Nova Festival: But did you die???
I was expecting either "Knotfest meets ForceFest" or "Hell & heaven Open air 2023", or both (both in México, both by the same organizers), to be mentioned, they may not have been AS bad as most of these, which I wasn't expecting and was surprised to learn about, but they were bad enough to still be worth being mentioned, check them out.
I've only been to one music festival & it was Lilith Fair. It was really chill. It helps that it was at The Gorge Amphitheater in central Washington state, a venue that is very experienced & good at putting on big shows.
The sound at the travis Scott was so loud the EMTs and firefighters couldn't make or hear radio calls 140dbs
Combines with idiot zoomers and it makes for some good content.
Man, why are music events always too damn loud?
@@k-leb4671 Huh?
The difference between Woodstock '94 and '99 is amazing. Donington Monsters of Rock 1988 also had 2 fans die during Guns n Roses set. I believe the official cause was a crowd surge and the deep mud due to rainy weather. As an aside, all bootlegs of that GnR set sound bad, and this is because (according to Axl) Iron Maiden (who were headlining that year) took so long doing their sound check that GnR couldn't do one at all. It led to years of animosity between Axl and Maiden, and explains the backhanded quote Axl had in a TV interview conducted that day about Maiden.
I was at Monsters of Rock. In 1988.