This isn't the shit-show that was "WoodStock '94" (TM). This is the family reunion style event that took place in Bethel, NY that summer. Totally different beast. I'm certain this fucker was there & not anyplace where he would be heard or seen. I doubt the stage amounted to much more than a picnic table.
According to the Washington Post, the 1994 event in Bethel never even happened. (So, M*****l standing on a picnic table might not be far from wrong.)
The article below is from the Washington Post in 1994. It’s about both of the competing 1994 events, but the Bethel one is in bold:
NOSTALGIA TRIP TO WOODSTOCK RUNS OUT OF GAS
By Marc Fisher
August 2, 1994
The Woodstock Generation would rather stay home and watch cable.
The Reunion at Yasgur's Farm, a re-creation of the 1969 Woodstock concert at the original site, was scratched yesterday. Promoters hoped for a crowd of 50,000 at $95 a pop. They had sold precisely 1,657 tickets.
At the same time ticket sales for the Woodstock '94 rock marathon are lagging far behind expectations, although pay-per-view subscription sales are likely to be brisk.
"Interest did not materialize," said a statement by Harry Rhulen, promoter of the Bethel, N.Y., Reunion concert, which was to have featured Woodstock originals such as Richie Havens and John Sebastian. Rhulen said he has lost more than $2 million on the abortive venture. Ticket holders will get refunds, Rhulen said.
Nor do the young people of Generation X seem quite as keen to commune in the fields with a quarter-million grungy strangers as their boomer parents were. Sales for the other big 25th anniversary concert -- Woodstock '94, the rock extravaganza being staged by the same folks who created the 1969 festival -- are nearly 100,000 tickets behind projections.
From the start, Woodstock '94, which aims to gather 250,000 rock fans for 28 1/2 hours of music Aug. 13-14, has not targeted those nostalgic for the original counterculture event. Instead, it has tried to woo kids by offering hot alternative bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Spin Doctors, Arrested Development and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, supplemented by yellowed acts such as Aerosmith and Bob Dylan.
The organizers -- Joel Rosenman, producer of both the original Woodstock and this year's show in Saugerties, N.Y., and partner venture capitalist John Roberts, joining with Polygram, the music conglomerate -- have sold 150,000 tickets, but yesterday they extended ticket sales and relaxed parking rules to spark interest in the festival. Instead of a minimum four-ticket package, rock fans now may buy tickets in pairs.
"An impediment has been that kids have been perplexed about how to be their own travel agents," said Rosenman.
Cost is another problem: A ticket to Woodstock I cost $18. This time, tickets run $135. A Ticketmaster package including admission and bus service from Baltimore costs $252. (Bring your own tent, but no stakes. Promoters fear they could be wielded as weapons.)
Area hotels are charging $200 and up per night for the festival weekend. The press rate at the Holiday Inn in Kingston, N.Y., is $338.85 per night, check payable to Polygram Diversified Ventures.
Rosenman said he targeted young rock fans rather than the generation that recalls the 1969 concert because "we're not in the business of doing re-creations. Woodstock is not a museum piece. This generation can only be offered a great rock-and-roll party. It's not about politics."
The canceled concert was the one pitched at wilted flower children. It was to have been held at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, N.Y., about 60 miles from the Woodstock '94 site. Organized by Sid Bernstein -- the New York promoter who brought the Beatles to Shea Stadium and later promised the reunion that never happened -- the Bethel show billed itself as the real 25th anniversary tribute.
But its audience was 25 years older than it had been in 1969. "I wouldn't go back unless someone paid my way and flew me in a helicopter," said John Kohut, 37, a Washington writer who attended the original festival with his older brother and wound up with a bad cold.
Woodstock '94 organizers say they are not yet worried about falling short of a sellout. Concert tickets often don't sell until the final days, Rosenman said.
But some young people say they'd rather skip the live experience and watch the big show on pay-per-view (PPV) TV. For $49.95, the 23 million American homes connected to the PPV system can watch all 28-plus hours of the concert -- no mud, no traffic.
"No one to set your hair on fire, no one to spill Pepsi on you," said Jim English, senior vice president for programming of Viewer's Choice, the company marketing the cablecast. English expects to surpass the PPV concert record, now held by "The Judds' Farewell Concert," which drew 250,000 homes.
"Young people are technology-minded and they don't mind paying for television," English said.
Bill Ennis, a 21-year-old chemical engineering student at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said he and his fraternity friends plan to take up a collection and take a trip to Woodstock -- by calling their cable company. "The reason we watch on PPV is we can get a group together to pitch in and it'll be less than a dollar each. We'll have all the conveniences. We can get AC if it's hot. We can order out for food. And the show is just as good on TV."
Ennis said he knows no one who is actually going to Woodstock. Objections range from cost and convenience to a lurking suspicion that this festival is an effort by materialistic boomer promoters to force-feed young people a warmed-over Woodstock.
The event's commercialism also drew the ire of Michael Wadleigh, director of the 1970 documentary "Woodstock." "This new one will be put on by the Establishment, for the Establishment," Wadleigh said in a recent Q&A session with users of the Prodigy on-line service. "I might as well go to a mall."
Neil Young, who played the '69 festival, is so turned off by the corporate ethos of the anniversary concert that he's designed "Wood$tock" hats featuring a vulture posed on a guitar neck. Young spurned a "high six-figure" offer to reunite with his former band-mates, Crosby, Stills & Nash, for Woodstock II, his manager, Elliot Roberts, said yesterday. "The whole affair is something Neil doesn't believe in," Roberts said.
Groove or bummer, Woodstock '94 will be different. "Our insurance premiums alone cost more than the entire concert did in 1969," Rosenman said. The site will have 1,000 security guards and a "secured area," where unruly types can be held until police arrive. At the original Woodstock, police simply cordoned off the area and let it be.
Staff writer Richard Leiby contributed to this article.