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[crowd shouting]
which unfortunately put our vendor village right in their path.
…our promoter Michael Lang.
But he just walked around the remains, and that was it.
of hundreds of thousands of people.
♪ All around the world, we can make time Rompin' and a stompin' ♪
but it felt like a crowd that could turn at any time.
[Lewis] There was more to be covered, but they were like,
Whoo-hoo!
[Scher] The Red Hot Chili Peppers are the last official act
this is gonna be a huge cleanup.
[man] Money!
[Lisa Law] The kids are getting agitated.
[crowd cheering]
It was an experience of a lifetime.
All of a sudden, I hear the producer's channel,
[imitating explosion]
[Scher] We had a fire department on site.
You know, Michael's the candle guy. I mean, I knew very little about it.
It kind of felt like the fall of Hanoi or something.
at Woodstock '99."
I'm so confident that things will go well.
[sirens wailing]
or attacks on women until after the festival was over.
you start to see more of these fires start to pop up.
Yeah, Michael's the candle guy, all right?
[Speir] We told all the vendors to shut out their lights
and, uh, then this happened.
Um…
I could just kind of do whatever I want.
It was mayhem after that.
and it was only going to get worse.
and everyone was anticipating, like, some type of special artist.
[Gross] So I'm standing on the side of the stage.
[Jewel] The environment was starting to really shift,
[Lang] I went out into the middle of it, to get a feel for it.
burnt to the ground."
[loud bang]
We started hearing sort of a chanting noise,
I don't think they were able to embrace the social issues of the day.
I couldn't believe that these guys were not willing to go out.
It was a giant mob.
I wish we caught everybody. I'd put 'em all in jail.
I'm like, shit, something's gonna happen here, and we need to get this.
from the production office saying, "Be prepared for the worst."
We're moving in. We got fires everywhere. Look at this!
Girls should be able to fucking have fun, just like a guy.
Flea is butt-ass naked,
and everybody else who was there too.
-I think we're going to go. -Time to go.
[acoustic music]
I just hear an explosion.
I then have a conversation backstage with Anthony Kiedis.
But, you know, we were all on edge, because we'd seen the face of a disaster
Everybody else is coming out. We're trying to get back in.
Turn on the water!
They were so amped up from the weekend that they just weren't ready to stop.
[crowd, chanting] We want more! We want more! We want more!
People are just grabbing these boxes of CDs.
In the middle of our vendor tents, we had a bank of six ATM machines.
Oh yeah, definitely. For sure.
[no audio]