Scott Madin

Oh, wow. It looked so nightmarish.

it was…quite an experience. from my worm's-eye view, it had a lot of great shows, horribly hot weather, incredibly bad mismanagement, nakedly cynical cash grabs, and (to me, at least) merely occasional spikes of awful people being shitty, until the final night's fires.

honestly there was a lot of tedium, too, long stretches where we just sat around in the darkest places we could find because it was so hot.

but in hindsight, and from a perspective of seeing how the whole thing unfolded, I can't argue with "nightmarish," either. it just didn't feel that way, most of the time, while I was in it.

I am very glad I didn't go.

I wanted to, vaguely, as someone who was into hippie stuff and romanticized the 60s, but I was 16 and that would have been a terrible idea lol

I was 19, and yeah... I wouldn't have fared much better.

I was 20 and my brother, who I'd persuaded my parents to let come with me, was 16.