Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

It kind of felt like the fall of Hanoi or something.

Everybody else is coming out. We're trying to get back in.

from the production office saying, "Be prepared for the worst."

[Lisa Law] The kids are getting agitated.

Yeah, Michael's the candle guy, all right?

It was an experience of a lifetime.

[Jewel] The environment was starting to really shift,

but it felt like a crowd that could turn at any time.

Flea is butt-ass naked,

We're moving in. We got fires everywhere. Look at this!

this is gonna be a huge cleanup.

♪ All around the world, we can make time Rompin' and a stompin' ♪

[imitating explosion]

I wish we caught everybody. I'd put 'em all in jail.

and everyone was anticipating, like, some type of special artist.

…our promoter Michael Lang.

Turn on the water!

I'm so confident that things will go well.

It was mayhem after that.

They were so amped up from the weekend that they just weren't ready to stop.

I just hear an explosion.

of hundreds of thousands of people.

You know, Michael's the candle guy. I mean, I knew very little about it.

or attacks on women until after the festival was over.

But he just walked around the remains, and that was it.

I don't think they were able to embrace the social issues of the day.

[Lang] I went out into the middle of it, to get a feel for it.

and, uh, then this happened.

I could just kind of do whatever I want.

[crowd cheering]

-I think we're going to go. -Time to go.

at Woodstock '99."

burnt to the ground."

I couldn't believe that these guys were not willing to go out.

Girls should be able to fucking have fun, just like a guy.

and everybody else who was there too.

which unfortunately put our vendor village right in their path.

[Scher] The Red Hot Chili Peppers are the last official act

It was a giant mob.

I then have a conversation backstage with Anthony Kiedis.

[crowd, chanting] We want more! We want more! We want more!

We started hearing sort of a chanting noise,

All of a sudden, I hear the producer's channel,

[Scher] We had a fire department on site.

Oh yeah, definitely. For sure.

[sirens wailing]

[Speir] We told all the vendors to shut out their lights

you start to see more of these fires start to pop up.

[acoustic music]

[crowd shouting]

[Lewis] There was more to be covered, but they were like,

People are just grabbing these boxes of CDs.

and it was only going to get worse.

In the middle of our vendor tents, we had a bank of six ATM machines.

But, you know, we were all on edge, because we'd seen the face of a disaster

[Gross] So I'm standing on the side of the stage.

I'm like, shit, something's gonna happen here, and we need to get this.