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A Music Festival That Ended on a Bad Note

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“From The Rolling Stone – India Magazine Website – A Music Festival That Ended on a Bad Note “

A still from ‘Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99’ Music Festival on July 25 1999

On July 25, 1999, a few hours before the Woodstock ’99 festival ended, American band Red Hot Chili Peppers came on stage. The event had already witnessed a number of disasters, and the organizers thought it would be great to have a peaceful candle-light vigil to protest against gun violence in the U.S. The band played “UnderThe Bridge,” and all looked good. Suddenly, a fire broke out and within seconds, there was chaos. More fires popped up, and strangely enough, the Peppers had chosen a cover of the Jimi Hendrix song “Fire” as an encore. Things didn’t end there, as hundreds of agitators rioted, brought down a speaker tower, attacked food vendors and smashed ATM machines. It was animal behavior everywhere.

Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99, a three-part docu-series premiered recently on Netflix, is about a doomed music festival. Held three decades after the original Woodstock, a symbol of peace, love and music, and five years after the commercially-disastrous Woodstock ‘94, the 1999 gig was remembered for rioting, arson, mismanagement, cases of sexual assault, brazen nudity, terrible heat conditions, sickness caused by dehydration, people high on ecstasy, heaps of garbage, unreasonable pricing, alleged corporate greed and three deaths.

A Music Festival That Ended on a Bad Note

The film captures the three main days, dedicating an episode to each. There’s nothing about the pre-show concert on July 22, 1999. However, if you’re looking for a rock documentary featuring great appearances by Rage Against The Machine, Metallica, Live, Alanis Morissette and Creed, all of who were part of the lineup, you won’t find them here. There’s nothing remotely close to the performances of Ten Years After, Joe Cocker, Santana and Jimi Hendrix, all highlights of the 1969 festival. In short, this is more about the mayhem than the music. More about shock value than songwriting.

Director Jamie Crawford’s aim seems to be clear – to highlight all the mishaps that took place at the festival. He has used bytes, taken a few years after the festival, of participating musicians like Korn frontman Jonathan Davis, Gavin Rossdale of Bush, singer Jewel Kilcher and Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim, besides audience members, journalists, TV news presenters, MTV’s celebrity VJ Ananda Lewis, and the main organizers Michael Lang and John Scher. Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett disappeared before one could blink. Depending on which side they were on, the interviewees said more or less the same thing.

Press conferences were filled with hogwash. Both Lang and Scher refused to take responsibility for the fiasco, with the latter even saying, “We’re happy, all is well, we haven’t had any tough incidents.” When questioned about the demolition of an art wall by angry protesters, Lang quipped, “The exterior wall makes an amazing souvenir, and people just couldn’t resist it… [they wanted] a piece of Woodstock.” Even Joe Griffo, former Mayor of Rome, New York, gave the fest a thumbs-up, and invited the organizers back for a repeat.

The series has showtime tidbits showing how soul and funk superstar James Brown refused to get on stage till his sudden demand for more money was met, how Jewel walked away after seeing the crowd get impatient, and how Sheryl Crow patiently handled obscene demands by some men with placards. However, many of the performances have been badly edited, and one rarely gets a taste of the actual music.

Those days, ‘nu metal’ was in vogue, and youngsters wanted music that was loud, angry and rebellious. We are talking of a time much before Linkin Park had burst on to the scene with the album Hybrid Theory in 2000. Even the Seattle grunge biggies of the early 1990s weren’t part of the line-up. Most people identified with Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name” and Limp Bizkit’s “Break Stuff.” And if acts like James Brown and country star Willie Nelson were included, it was probably as a symbolic association with the 1969 sound.

The film’s focus is on three groups – besides concluding act Red Hot Chili Peppers, there was Korn on the opening day and Limp Bizkit on the second night. The Korn appearance is a classic example of the kind of music that was in demand at that time. The entire crowd seemed like one big unit, with headbanging and crowdsurfing everywhere. A lot of sexual misconduct was also reported when women were carried over the crowd.

If Korn set the pace for mob frenzy, Kid Rock asked the crowd to throw water bottles around. But the Limp Bizkit show was seen as the tipping point, and the song “Break Stuff” had people doing just that. Front man Fred Durst kept egging the audience, and many organizers, including Scher, blame him for making…….

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Ananda Lewis — October 1999 (day unknown)

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“Sometimes, the worst is when you forget the words to a song. You're starting to sing a song...”

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The Ananda Lewis Show (2001-2002)

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Ananda Lewis in 1999 at a VH1 Award show.

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W’sup? My name is GOLDIE. Ya’ might see me on ya’ TV everyday on BET from 5 o’clock to 6 o’clock, dishing on the latest trends, pop culture tea and running my mouth about issues I experience personally while livin’ in SC. But anyways, this is my introduction post. Here’s all that you need to know about me and what I’m lookin’ for! Msg me if you have anything for me or see anything you’d like to fill. I’m cool with freestyling as well.

━━ 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐀𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 ...

𝙵𝚄𝙻𝙻 𝙽𝙰𝙼𝙴: Kelis Iesha Forde.

𝙽𝙸𝙲𝙺𝙽𝙰𝙼𝙴: Goldie.

𝚁𝙴𝙰𝚂𝙾𝙽 𝙵𝙾𝚁 𝙽𝙸𝙲𝙺𝙽𝙰𝙼𝙴: Mother constantly found her playing around with her gold jewelry as a child.

𝙰𝙶𝙴: Twenty-seven.

𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙴 𝙾𝙵 𝙱𝙸𝚁𝚃𝙷: June 23rd, 1994.

𝙾𝙲𝙲𝚄𝙿𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: Talk show host.

𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙴𝚁 𝙾𝙲𝙲𝚄𝙿𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝚂: Radio Host for KPWR 97.

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙲𝙴 𝙾𝙵 𝙱𝙸𝚁𝚃𝙷: Inglewood, CA.

𝙲𝚄𝚁𝚁𝙴𝙽𝚃 𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙸𝙳𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙸𝙰𝙻 𝙰𝚁𝙴𝙰: Westchester, Los Angeles.

𝙱𝙸𝙶 𝚃𝙷𝚁𝙴𝙴: Cancer sun, capricorn moon, capricorn rising.

𝚂𝙴𝚇𝚄𝙰𝙻𝙸𝚃𝚈: Pansexual.

𝙲𝙷𝙸𝙻𝙳𝚁𝙴𝙽: One son named Zion.

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𝚅𝙸𝙲𝙴𝚂 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝚅𝙸𝚁𝚃𝚄𝙴: Hope & Envy.

𝚁𝙴𝙻𝙸𝙶𝙸𝙾𝙽: Nondenominational.

𝚃𝚁𝙾𝙿𝙴/𝙰𝚁𝙲𝙷𝙴𝚃𝚈𝙿𝙴: The Around The Way Girl.

𝙸𝙽𝚃𝙴𝙻𝙻𝙸𝙶𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴: Linguistic intelligence.

𝙸𝙽𝙵𝙻𝚄𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴: Ananda Lewis, Arsenio Hall.

━━ 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 ...

𝙼𝙴𝙳𝙸𝙰 𝚁𝙸𝚅𝙰𝙻 / 𝙴𝙽𝙴𝙼𝚈. ⎛ f. ⎠This person would know all of Goldie’s dirty secrets that she hid about how she got to where she is. Many viewers claim that the two talk show hosts are peers and could be possibly friends without knowing the deep rooted and soured history that they have with each other. Though the both of them vowed to keep things cordial for the sake of their careers, the tension between them has reached its peak due to the slick comments in the media. At any given moment, everything could come to a blow.

𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙴𝚁 𝙵𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶. ⎛ m/f/nb. ⎠After their sexual relationship ended, this person always pops up in Kelis’ life during the most vulnerable times for her. Despite her not wanting a relationship with them, they are always there for her to lean on and vent to about the rough times in her life. They help her in any way that they can as a close friend and confidant.

𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺 𝚂𝙷𝙾𝚆 𝙶𝚄𝙴𝚂𝚃𝚂.⎛ m/f/nb. ⎠For her talk show, she interviews everyone from SC locals to locals turned celebrities. Bringing new artists and creatives on the show to promote their work is what she is known for. With the success she’s been given, she wants nothing more to share it with everyone around her.

𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙴𝚁 𝙲𝙾𝙻𝙻𝙴𝙶𝙴 𝙵𝚁𝙸𝙴𝙽𝙳𝚂.⎛ m/f/nb. ⎠Friendship and community is what keeps this woman going. Now being in an industry that she isn’t too familiar with, she leans on her friends to keep her grounded. These individuals keep her connected with her roots, up to date on the latest functions, and watch her son when she needs the assistance.

𝙼𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙴𝙴 𝙵𝚁𝙾𝙼 𝚄𝚂𝙲.⎛ m/f/nb. ⎠Even years after being out of college, Kelis is still big on Trojan pride. understanding the lack of opportunities and obstacles that one might run into while attending her alma mater, she decided to reach out to the black students of USC to offer her assistance for anyone who needed it.

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Why Ananda Lewis Traded a Microphone for a Tool Belt

The TV personality and former VJ proves it’s never too late to follow your passion.

Known for her outspokenness and captivating personality, TV host and carpenter extraordinaire Ananda Lewis has been a powerful voice and advocate for teenagers and women for decades. A familiar face on television from the mid-90s through 2004, Lewis was the host of some of TV’s most popular shows, including BET’s "Teen Summit," and MTV’s "TRL" and "Hot Zone." In 1997, she won the NAACP Image Award for an interview she did with Hillary Clinton. Eventually, she even went on to host her own daytime talk show, "The Ananda Lewis Show."

Then, without warning, Lewis disappeared from the spotlight — leaving many wondering where the popular television host disappeared to.

But she hasn’t gone anywhere: These days, Lewis is in the construction business; tearing down walls, painting, and renovating homes in her new career as a carpenter. "For me, this is the only work I’ll ever do in my life," Lewis says. And prior to her TV career, she was actually on a very different path. Lewis grew up in San Diego; and after her parents divorced when she was 2 years old, she was raised by her mother and grandmother, along with an aunt that lived in Los Angeles. "I had this tribe of very powerful women," she says.

Lewis then majored in history at Howard University and wanted to become a teacher. But thanks to her students’ encouragement, she ended up auditioning for "Teen Summit," which set her on the fast track to fame.

The powerhouse recently sat down with Shondaland to talk about finding and following her passion — and why she traded in a microphone for a hard hat and tool belt.

Shameika Rhymes: How did you end up on "Teen Summit"? Was TV something you were always interested in?

Ananda Lewis: I was working with a summer program with kids, and the audition came up through a friend of a friend at BET… I actually had a speech impediment until I was 8, and I had three years of speech therapy. So, I was used to reading and had built up my confidence in talking in front of people, [and with "Teen Summit,"] everything came together. I started loving that it combined the work I was already doing with teenagers. That was always in my heart — to help people.

SR: How did you go from that to working as a VJ to hosting your own talk show? That’s quite the journey.

AL: I felt like I needed to keep changing. Evolution and metamorphosis are important to me as a person, so that you’re not stuck somewhere as a person, and you continue to grow. If that means giving things up that you are comfortable with, then that’s what it means. The great part of that is you continue to grow and progress. The down part of that is, in hindsight, for me, I didn’t get to stand in the moment that I was in and really soak it in and appreciate it. I was always looking for the next thing. Oprah said it best, about how the gratitude piece is where the magic is. When you can stand in a moment and be grateful, the moment expands. Then you take that expanded moment and turn it into something else. I missed doing that.

I [also] wish I had stopped the people that wanted me to do the [talk] show and said, "Not yet, it’s a little too early to do this" It was overkill for me. I had so many issues with stalkers, and negative energy coming towards me from the attention; it was too much for me. I broke in certain ways and I went into self-survival mode and said, “This has to go.”

SR: Is that why you disappeared from the spotlight? Because you needed that break?

AL: I wasn’t happy with the show itself so I felt like my performance was impacted by that. There were some good [episodes], there were some highlights, but for me, it wasn’t what I felt like I signed up for.

Three months before the show shut down, my grandma was having a personal emergency and I was 3,000 miles away. She was in her 80s at that time and needed help. So, I felt like this woman who sacrificed for me to have a childhood that was stable and full of happiness and love — I wasn’t going to let her just be left hanging.

I was completely unhappy with this talk show. I felt like I was drowning, so I packed everything and went to my grandma’s home and took care of her for the last two years of her life.

SR: When did you decide to go back to school to become a contractor?

AL: My grandmother was the first person to put a drill in my hand. It was because she said, “When you broke something in the house, then you fix it.” There wasn’t some man fixing stuff, it was my mom and grandmother. When I saw things fixed, I saw things fixed by women, and that was the norm. These women of that generation were badasses, and that’s who raised me.

After my grandma passed, I came back to work because I needed to. I was trying to build a shoe rack and I just could not get this board to fit. I was so frustrated, so I said, "I need to take a class." I started to search and I ended up on Los Angeles Trade Technical College’s website and felt this swelling in my heart. I don’t know how to describe it, my heart filled up with gold. I started registering for classes and before I knew it, I was on my way to getting a degree in carpentry. I graduated two years later with an Associate in Science degree with a 4.0 GPA.

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Nicole Mitsch from The Real World featured on The Ananda Lewis Show.

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Here is a rare image of young Ananda Lewis, Aaliyah and Kidada Jones at a MTV event afterparty in 97'. THIS just goes to show that there are SO MANY MORE unreleased photos of babygirl out there attending events we never heard of!

This image will be shared (in Color, along with the source of the image) on January 16th 2023.

I released this as a promo for the petition after making a promise that if we hit 4K by a target date and time, I would share it. NOW, the new promise is to share 3 more rare Aaliyah images if we reach 5K petition signatures before January 1st 2023.

I made this agreement when the petition was at 4200. TODAY and today I saw it was 50 signatures shy of that goal (and the week hadn't even ended yet). So, GREAT JOB Team Aaliyah. And keep a look out for those new rare images I will be sharing soon ;)

If YOU would like to participate, please sign the petition to get Aaliyah Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!

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Ananda Lewis (2001)

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Ananda Lewis

Ananda Lewis (born March 21, 1973) is an American television personality, model and social activist. She was an MTV veejay from the late 1990s until 2001, when she left the network to host her own broadcast syndicated television talk show, The Ananda Lewis Show.

Biography

Early life

Lewis was born on March 21, 1973, in Los Angeles, California. She is of African American and Native American descent, specifically of the Creek and Blackfoot tribes. Her name means "bliss" in Sanskrit. Lewis's mother worked as an account manager for Pacific Bell, and her father as a computer-animation specialist. Her sister, Lakshmi, is a physician. Lewis's parents divorced when Ananda was two years old, and her mother moved with her daughters to San Diego, California, to be near her own mother. Her mother took an extended trip to Europe to escape the pain of her failed marriage, leaving Ananda and Lakshmi with their grandmother. During her absence, which lasted less than a year, Lewis felt abandoned. She states:

It was like she nurtured me and carried me in her womb and then completely left."

Lewis often fought with her mother while growing up and rarely saw her father, who had remarried. Lewis and her grandmother also frequently "locked horns" while she was growing up.

Lewis struggled with a speech impediment, stuttering until she was eight years old. In grade school she earned a reputation for outspokenness; her comments provoked her teachers' ire or, less often, their amusement. In 1981 Lewis entered herself in the Little Miss San Diego Contest, a beauty pageant, and won. During the talent portion of the competition, Lewis performed a dance routine, which she had choreographed herself, to Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney's ballad "Ebony and Ivory." After her win, Lewis attracted the attention of a talent agent and began working in local theater productions and on television. In fourth grade she enrolled at the San Diego School of Creative and Performance Arts (SCPA), a public magnet school, where she remained for nine years. At the age of thirteen, Lewis began volunteering as a tutor and counselor at a Head Start facility. Lewis was inspired by the work and decided to become a teacher or a psychologist, with the goal of helping young people. However, Lewis's family urged her to follow a more lucrative career path specifically law. She majored in history at Howard University, in Washington, D.C., from which she graduated, cum laude, in 1995.

Personal life

Lewis has credited her mother, grandmother, and sister for providing her with a positive, supportive environment. By her own account, as she grew older she felt increasingly upset by her parents' divorce. In adulthood, Lewis has healed her rifts with both parents. Lewis was a good friend of singer and actress Aaliyah before her accidental death. She has six godchildren. In 2011, Lewis gave birth to a boy, her first child. She currently resides in the San Fernando Valley.

Career

Early career

Throughout college Lewis had volunteered as a mentor with the group Youth at Risk and at the Youth Leadership Institute. She was considering attending graduate school to pursue a master's degree in education when she learned that auditions were going to be held for the job of on-screen host of BET's Teen Summit. She states that the children she was working with that summer were the main ones pushing her to go to the auditions. She states:

The kids said, "You better go audition for that show. You don't have a job, and this job is almost over."

Lewis's audition would be a success and she became the host of Teen Summit. For three seasons she discussed serious issues affecting teenagers for a television audience of several million. The show's topical, debate-driven format enabled Lewis to follow her passion for helping young people, and use her skills she had acquired at the performing-arts school in San Diego. Lewis is known for having the courage to openly discuss taboo subjects without flinching. Her executives knew that this kind of gumption was the right stuff for a live show host," In 1996, on an installment of the show entitled "It Takes a Village," Lewis interviewed then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, whose book with that title had been published earlier in the year. Also in 1996 Teen Summit was nominated for a CableACE Award, and the next year the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) presented Lewis with an Image Award for her work on Black Entertainment Television (BET). Soon afterward the cable network MTV offered Lewis a position as a program host and video jockey. The thought of leaving Teen Summit was painful for her; indeed, several sources quoted her as recalling that she "cried for three weeks" while pondering her choices. In opting to move to MTV, the deciding factor was the possibility of greatly increasing the size of her viewing audience and, therefore, her potential for influencing America's youth.

Lewis hosted and VJed a variety of shows includingTotal Request Live, a daily top ten video-countdown show, and Hot Zone, which offered both music videos and Lewis's interviews of musicians and others. On one notable installment of The Hot Zone, she berated the rapper Q-Tip about the number of scantily clad dancers in one of his videos. In a reference to Lewis's broadcasting savvy, Bob Kusbit, MTV's senior vice president for production, told Douglas Century for the New York Times on November 21, 1999, "In the past our talent was sometimes just pretty people who could read cue cards. But when we brought Ananda to MTV, we decided we were going to do a lot more live television." MTV also called upon Lewis to host other, topical programs, including two MTV forums on violence in schools, which aired after the Columbine High School massacre and several memorial tributes for the singer Aaliyah, who perished in a plane crash in 2001. In 2001 Lewis earned another NAACP Image Award, for her hosting of the MTV special True Life: I Am Driving While Black.

In 1998, Lewis made headlines while at MTV when she announced, that she intended to remain abstinent for at least six months. She states:

I made the decision for selfish reasons, but I'm going public here because I realized I might be able to help other girls, too. I know the kind of drama that being sexually active brings to your life. I felt that if it was good for me to take a break, it might be good for other young girls, too. You see, I think I would be a whole different person if I hadn't had sex so early. Everybody was saying, "Do it!" but nobody ever said, "You don't have to do it". I think hearing that would have made a huge difference in my life.

Also during that period Lewis became a familiar presence at celebrity-attended events in and around New York City. "If you don't recognize the name Ananda Lewis, it may be because you're older than 23, or not a hip-hop star, or not a regular supplicant in the land of the velvet ropes," Century wrote at the height of Lewis's fame. "In the last year, Ms. Lewis has emerged as the hip-hop generation's reigning 'It Girl,' meaning she is not just an MTV personality but a woman whose looks and attitudes have made her perpetually in demand."

Later career

In 2000 People included Lewis on its list of the world's "50 Most Beautiful People." In 2001, Lewis decided to leave MTV in order to start her own talk show. The Ananda Lewis Show debuted on September 10, 2001, after much advance press in which Lewis was compared to Oprah Winfrey, the wildly popular talk-show host long considered to be one of the most powerful women of African American descent in television. Lewis continued to do special presentations for MTV after her show had begun. Lewis's series, which was syndicated by King World Productions, targeted women between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four by addressing such issues as domestic violence and breast cancer; it was billed as an alternative to the sensationalism and provocative offerings of Jerry Springer and Ricki Lake, whose talk shows were then dominating daytime ratings. Lewis's show aired on some WB and NBC stations before being canceled after one season. Her show's producers stated: "We started on a Monday and then there was the World Trade Center bombing the next day, and everything has become a mess since then," Roger King, the chairman and CEO of King World Productions and CBS Enterprises. Lewis then worked briefly for BET.

In 2004 Lewis became the chief correspondent on celebrity subjects for the nationally syndicated, nightly entertainment program The Insider, a spin-off of the popular Entertainment Tonight. In the spring of 2005, she interviewed Paris Hilton, Dylan Ryder, Don Cheadle and Ryan Phillippe (two of the stars of Paul Haggis's ensemble film Crash), and actress Dyan Cannon. Lewis herself has made guest appearances on several sitcoms.

In 2004 Ms. Lewis also appeared on the ABC network's reality show called Celebrity Mole: Yucatán. This reality series won an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement for Enhanced Television.

An avid animal lover, Lewis has served as co-host of the A&E television-network show America's Top Dog and as a spokesperson for the Humane Society. She has been known to frequently introduce her two pet chihuahuas to interviewers. She has also been a spokesperson for Reading Is Fundamental, a nonprofit literacy group.

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